Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1. 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

2. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1.  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
   2. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)
   3. 9:00 amDr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
      Lecture: 'Religion and Identity in Egyptian Public Discourse'
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room; 919 W. Illinois St.

3. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)