Week of March 3, 2013 to March 9, 2013

1. Sunday, March 3, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign

2. Monday, March 4, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2. All DayLatin America International Business Conference
      Chicago, IL Recital Hall, Northeastern Illinois University
   3. 12:00 pm

      miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University; Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center

      
      Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
      

      2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana (map)
   4. 12:00 pmMiriam Cooke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
      Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
      2nd Floor; Levis Faculty Center; 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   5. 7:30 pmRichard Pithouse lectures in Politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is a scholar, journalist, and activist with the Durban, South Africa shack dwellers' movement Abahalali baseMjondolo
      Dear Mandela
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

3. Tuesday, March 5, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2. All DayLatin America International Business Conference
      Chicago, IL Recital Hall, Northeastern Illinois University
   3.  The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe
      Levis Faculty Center & Spurlock Museum
   4. 12:00 pmGregory Damhorst, MD/Phd Student, Department of Bioengineering and the College of Medicine; Irfan Ahmad, Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Research Faculty at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Rashid Bahir, Director, Nanotechnology Lab and Abdel Bliss Professor of Engineering
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Global Health Initiatives in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmGlobal Studies Info Session
      Global Studies Conference Room, 703 S Wright Street, 3rd Floor
   6. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmProfessor Terrie Groth, Political Scientist from University of Braslia, Brazil
      Lemann Lecture Series. Kids & Politics: Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Brazil
      Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls, Saunders Lounge, 906 College Ct., Urbana
   7. 7:30 pm

      Timothy Snyder, History, Yale

      
      CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series: Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations
      

      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana (map)

4. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2.  The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe
      Levis Faculty Center & Spurlock Museum
   3. 12:00 pmAnne Namatsi Lutomia, Doctoral Student in the Division of Human Resource Development n the Department of Education Policy, Organization and Leadership
      Center for African Studies Brown Bag Lecture: "Workplace Transitioning Experiences of Internationally Educated Nurses"
      101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
   4. 1:30 pmPhillippe Faucher, Department of Political Science, Universit de Montral
      Lemann Lecture Series: The Challenges Facing the Brazilian Developmental State
      101 International Studies Building
   5. 6:00 pmRichard Pithouse lectures in Politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is a scholar, journalist, and activist with the Durban, South Africa shack dwellers' movement Abahalali baseMjondolo
      Urban and Housing Activism From Below
      313 Gregory Hall

5. Thursday, March 7, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmFlorence Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida
      Lecture Series: Gender, Race, and Tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico
      101 International Studies Building
   3. 4:00 pmSudeshna Banerjee, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
      "Food, frailty and 'fake Brahmins': Bengali middle-class fears of failed hegemony in late colonial Calcutta"
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room
   4. 4:00 pmRichard Pithouse (Political and International Studies, Rhodes University)
      IPRH 'Revolution' Theme Lecture: 'Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa"
      Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum
   5. 4:00 pmYvonne Kleinmann - Head of Research Group at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Legal Histories in Eastern Europe New Foci, Methods and Approaches
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   6. 4:00 pmRichard Pithouse lectures in Politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa.
      Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa
      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
   7. 7:30 pm

      Charles D. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists

      
      CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series: Leveraging Science and Technology to Transform International Security: The Social Responsibility of Engineers and Scientists
      

      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
   8. 7:30 pmBruno Nettl (Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, UIUC); Massoud Rostam-Abadi (Emeritus Professor, UIUC; Principal Chemical Engineer Honorary, Prairie Research Institute)
      Introducing Persian Classical Music: Lecture and Performance
      1201 Music Building; 1114 West Nevada Street; Urbana, IL 61801

6. Friday, March 8, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2. All DayGlobal Fest 2013, A Celebration of World Languages and Cultures
      Bloomington, IL
   3. 12:00 pm

      Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University

      
      Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in the Early Twentieth Century
      

      1002 Lincoln Hall, 201 South Wright St., Urbana (map)
   4. 7:30 pmRichard Pithouse lectures in Politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is a scholar, journalist, and activist with the Durban, South Africa shack dwellers' movement Abahalali baseMjondolo
      Dear Mandela
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St. Champaign

7. Saturday, March 9, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 9:00 pmArt at the Y Exhibit: Garden of Verses
      University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St, Champaign
   2. All DayGlobal Fest 2013, A Celebration of World Languages and Cultures
      Bloomington, IL
   3. All Day2nd Annual Champaign Greek Film Festival
      

      Art Theater, Champaign (map)
   4. 10:00 amRichard Pithouse lectures in Politics at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. He is a scholar, journalist, and activist with the Durban, South Africa shack dwellers' movement Abahalali baseMjondolo
      Dear Mandela and Community Knowledge
      Champaign Public Library, Robeson Rooms
   5. 2:30 pmSpanish Story Time: Hairs/ Pelitos
      The Urbana Free LIbrary