Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Sunday, October 28, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmTango Practica

2. Monday, October 29, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTanisha King-Taylor, Assistant Director, TRiO Student Support Services; Doctoral Student, Educational Policy Studies
      "Unpacking Microagressions and Challenges to Institutional Access: African American Women in the Academy" Feat. Tanisha King-Taylor
      Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL 61820 MC-302
   4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   5. 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
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
   7. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Information Session
      126 | Library Information Science Building, 501 East Daniel Street, Champaign
   8. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis
      SIP Colloquium--Professor Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis: "Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Reygadas and the End of National Cinema in Mexico"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmDaina Kiela & Claire Reynes
      Healing Through Art Workshop
      Murphy Gallery @ the Y | 1001 South Wright Street Champaign, IL 61820
   10. 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmI Journey Workshop
       Resource Room

3. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
   4. 10:00 amEast African Culture Day
      Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
   5. 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
   6. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmElabbas Benmamoun, Professor of Linguistics, "Arabic in the Arab World: Is It an Endangered Language"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 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
   8. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   9. 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
   10. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Information Session
       126 | Library Information Science Building, 501 East Daniel Street, Champaign
   11. 4:00 pmSPANISH -- Study Abroad in Barcelona, Spain, Informational/Recruitment Meeting
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   12. 5:15 pmThe Immature (Immaturi) - Italy, 2011
       

       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   13. 5:30 pmWomen's Support Group
       Asian American Cultural Center (AACC) 1210 W. Nevada Street, Urbana
   14. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAngela Rola Presentation with APAC
       Lounge & Kitchen
   15. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmI Journey Workshop
       Activities Room
   16. 6:00 pmRainbow Coffeehouse
       ETC Cafe
   17. 7:00 pmNational Organization for Women Weekly Meeting
       Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)

4. Wednesday, October 31, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmAround the World Wednesdays
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   4. 12:00 pmBekisizwe Ndimande
      Conducting Qualitative Research with Indigenous Communities: The Case of Post-Apartheid South Africa
      Rm. 101, International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   6. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmLGBTRC HalloQueer Party
      323 Illini Union
   7. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRusskii stol--Russian conversation table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   8. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmHalo-Halo-ween
      Lounge & Kitchen
   9. 7:00 pmGlobal Lens Film: QARANTINA (Iraq)
      Latzer Hall, University YMCA, Corner of Wright & Chalmers, Champaign
   10. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmI Journey Workshop
       Activities Room
   11. 8:00 pmWrit N Rhymed

5. Thursday, November 1, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmConference: The Investigation and Definition of Complex Crime
      

      Faculty Lounge and Conference Center, College of Law
   4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   5. 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
   6. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Swarthmore College
      Sibelan Forrester, Professor at Swarthmore College: "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
   7. 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.
   8. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmFrench Pause Cafe
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   9. 6:00 pmEszter Szalczer, Department of Theatre and English,University at Albany
      GERMANIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES -- Eszter Szalczer, Department of Theatre and English,University at Albany: "Dream Matters: August Strindberg's Dream Play and Constructions of Subjective Space on the Stage"
      3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   10. 6:30 pm - 8:00 pmRev Leah Robberts-Mosser
       Biblical Self-defense
       Second floor Hillel, 503 E. John Street, Champaign IL 61820

6. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3.  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
   4. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   5. All DayKeynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
      Friday, Nov. 2 - Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana; Saturday, Nov. 3, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   6. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)
   7. 9:00 amDr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
      Lecture: 'Religion and Identity in Egyptian Public Discourse'
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room; 919 W. Illinois St.
   8. 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
   9. 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
   10. 2:00 pmCENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES -- Blood of the Sun: Reading and Conversation with Salgado Maranhao and Alexis Levitin
       Literatures and Languages Library, 200 South Main Library
   11. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmProfessor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)
       LINGUISTICS--Professor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University): "Standardization of the Korean language and writing system: A proposal for North-east Asian language-culture union"
       4080A Foreign Languages Building
   12. 7:00 pmTzu Ching Potluck
       Lounge & Kitchen

7. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFirst Steps Info Sessions, every Mon-Thurs while classes are in session
      Lincoln Hall 1027
   3. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. All DayKeynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
      Friday, Nov. 2 - Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana; Saturday, Nov. 3, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)