Week of January 20, 2013 to January 26, 2013

1. Monday, January 21, 2013

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLinguistics Student Organization (LSO) Speaker, Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
      Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) Speaker, Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

2. Tuesday, January 22, 2013

   1. 3:30 pmLuca Grillo, Amherst College
      CLASSICS -- Luca Grillo, Amherst College: "M. Fulvius Nobilior, Ennius and the Temple of Hercules Musarum, or Politics, Religion and Art in 2nd BCE Rome"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pmJohn Walsh, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
      FRENCH -- John Walsh, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC: "Mapping Afropea: The Translation of Black Paris in the Fiction of Alain Mabanckou"
      328 Bevier Hall
   3. 7:30 pmYasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
      Yasemin Yildiz: "Beyond the Mother Tongue"
      3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

3. Wednesday, January 23, 2013

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pmProf. Scott Kiesling, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
      Linguistics Student Organization -- Prof. Scott Kiesling, Univ. of Pittsburgh: "Flirting, Desire and Masculinity"
      Room 314A, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

4. Thursday, January 24, 2013

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProf. Scott Kiesling, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
      Linguistics Student Organization -- Prof. Scott Kiesling, Univ. of Pittsburgh: "Specifying Stance: Affect, Alignmnet and Investment in Interaction"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pmMaxime Foerster, PhD French University of Michigan 2012; Post-doctoral lectureship, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan 2012-13
      FRENCH -- Maxime Foerster, PhD French University of Michigan 2012: "French Romanticism and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract"
      Room 1065, Lincoln Hall
   3. 5:30 pmWayne T. Pitard, Spurlock Museum, UIUC
      CLASSICS -- Wayne T. Pitard, Spurlock Museum, UIUC: "In the Presence of the Aten: Rediscovering the Spurlock Museum's Painted Panel from an el-Amarna Sanctuary"
      Room 62 Krannert Art Museum (Auditorium)

5. Friday, January 25, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmJoseph Day, Professor Emeritus of Wabash College
      CLASSICS -- Joseph Day, Professor Emeritus of Wabash College
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 3:00 pmGillen Wood
      "The Icemen Cometh: Forgotten Pioneers of British Arctic Exploration:" An Opening Lecture by Gillen Wood
      The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library
   3. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)