Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Sunday, October 28, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027

2. Monday, October 29, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2.  OPT Workshop
      

      ISSS Multipurpose Room
      4th floor, Student Services Building
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   4. 4:00 pmArea Studies FLAS Coordinators
      FLAS Fellowship Information Session for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
      Room 126, Library & Information Science Bldg, 501 E. Daniel, Champaign
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820

3. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
   3.  OPT Workshop
      

      ISSS Multipurpose Room
      4th floor, Student Services Building
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProfessor Elabbas Benmamoun, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Professor, Department of Linguistics
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Arabic in the Arab World: Is It an Endangered Language?"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   5. 12:00 pmLilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor in Comparative & World Literature at Illinois
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - The Homogenous Thinking Subject or Soviet Cinema Learns to Sing
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St, Champaign
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   7. 4:00 pmArea Studies FLAS Coordinators
      FLAS Fellowship Information Session for Graduate and Undergraduate Students
      Room 126, Library & Information Science Bldg, 501 E. Daniel, Champaign
   8. 5:15 pmThe Immature (Immaturi) - Italy, 2011
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

4. Wednesday, October 31, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2. 7:00 pmGlobal Lens Film: QARANTINA (Iraq)
      Latzer Hall, University YMCA, Corner of Wright & Chalmers, Champaign

5. Thursday, November 1, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmConference: The Investigation and Definition of Complex Crime
      

      Faculty Lounge and Conference Center, College of Law
   3.  OPT Workshop
      

      ISSS Multipurpose Room
      4th floor, Student Services Building
   4. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - A Russian in Persia, and Persia in Russian: Translating Yuri Tynyanov's 'The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar'
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   5. 5:30 pmGale Summerfield, Ying Chen, Terri Weissman, and Gary Xu
      China Today Gallery Conversation--Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography
      Krannert Art Museum, 500 E. Peabody Dr.

6. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2.  Dr. Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies and, affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Cinema & Technocultural Studies at the University of California at Davis
      "Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge'"
      TBA
   3. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)
   5. 9:00 amDr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
      Lecture: 'Religion and Identity in Egyptian Public Discourse'
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room; 919 W. Illinois St.
   6. 12:00 pm

      Glenda Garelli, Adjunct Lecturer of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

      
      EUC Lecture Series: The Mobility of Politics: A Tunisian Revolution in the European Union. Three Mediterranean Postcards
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 12:00 pmClaudia Lennhoff, Executive Director of Champaign County Healthcare Consumers
      Friday Forum: The Future of the Universal Healthcare Debate
      Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

7. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   2. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   3. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)