Events for week of April 8, 2012

Week of April 8, 2012 to April 14, 2012

1. Monday, April 9, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012
   2. 12:00 pm

      Eleni Manolaraki, Assistant Professor of Classics, Department of World Languages, University of South Florida
      

      
      The River Nile in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Antiquity
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)

2. Tuesday, April 10, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012
   2. 1:30 pm

      Beyazit Akman, Department of English, Illinois State University

      
      "Islam in Europe" Lecture Series: Ottomanism, Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: The Image of the Ottoman Turks and Islam in the Western Discourse from the Late Renaissance to the Post-9/11 Era
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)
   3. 4:30 pmLaila Amine, Postdoctoral Research Associate, African-American Studies
      Algerian Paris: Belonging Beyond Diaspora
      2090B Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana

3. Wednesday, April 11, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012

4. Thursday, April 12, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012

5. Friday, April 13, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012
   2.  Focal Point Graduate Student Conference
      

      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   3. All Day

      Robert Norton (University of Notre Dame)
      Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University)
      Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois)
      Stephanie Hilger (University of Illinois)
      Brad Prager (University of Missouri)
      Ben Robinson (Indiana University)
      Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri)
      Sara Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago).

      A number of guest discussants from each institution and from other universities (including Washington University, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Illinois-Chicago) also will attend.

      
      Midwest Symposium in German Studies 2012
      

      Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street  Urbana, IL (map)
   4. 1:30 pm

      Adrian Favell, Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris

      
      Turkey Today: Between Europe, the Regional, and the Global
      

      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center; 3rd Floor; 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana (map)
   5. 3:00 pm

      David Prytherch, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio

      Josep Vicent Boira, Universitat de València, València, Spain

      
      Urban Sustainability in the EU Speaker Series: "Sustainability, Territoriality, and Trains: The Regional Politics of Trans-European Transport in Mediterranean Spain:"
      

      Davenport 219, 607 S. Matthews Ave., Urbana, IL (map)

6. Saturday, April 14, 2012

   1.  Illinois International Week 2012
   2.  Focal Point Graduate Student Conference
      

      University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
   3. All Day

      Robert Norton (University of Notre Dame)
      Brigitta Wagner (Indiana University)
      Craig Koslofsky (University of Illinois)
      Stephanie Hilger (University of Illinois)
      Brad Prager (University of Missouri)
      Ben Robinson (Indiana University)
      Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri)
      Sara Hall (University of Illinois at Chicago).

      A number of guest discussants from each institution and from other universities (including Washington University, Case Western Reserve, and the University of Illinois-Chicago) also will attend.

      
      Midwest Symposium in German Studies 2012
      

      Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street  Urbana, IL (map)