Week of September 30, 2012 to October 6, 2012

1. Monday, October 1, 2012

   1. 4:30 pm - 6:00 pmDoes it matter? The recent French elections and the European financial crisis
      Lucy Ellis Lounge

2. Tuesday, October 2, 2012

   1. 5:00 pmClarence (Chip) Sheffield, History of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology
      GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- Clarence (Chip) Sheffield, History of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology
      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

3. Wednesday, October 3, 2012

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
   2. 4:00 pmThird Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: "Republican Political Theology in the Age of Hobbes" by Feisal Mohamed (English)
      Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
   3. 4:00 pmThird Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture: Feisal Mohamed (English)
      Third Floor | Levis Faculty Center
   4. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   5. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLINGUISTICS--Languages Program Film Series - "A Touch of Spice" (2003, Greek, with English subtitles)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

4. Thursday, October 4, 2012

   1. 8:30 am - 12:00 pmUniversity of Illinois professors Ted Underwood, Diane Harris, Donna Cox, and Mara Wade
      Digital Humanities Symposium 2012 (featuring Mara Wade, Germanic Languages & Literatures)
      Library Scholarly Commons, 306 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana
   2. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmConference: 'American Religions/American Literatures'
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street
   3. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmRELIGION -- American Literatures/American Religions
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
   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 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University
      The 2nd Annual Linguistics Club Distinguished Alumni Lecture/1st Annual SLATE Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Professor Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University: "Three problems in language testing for linguists"
      2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

5. Friday, October 5, 2012

   1. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmConference: 'American Religions/American Literatures'
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street
   2. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmRELIGION -- American Literatures/American Religions
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
   3.  Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"
      14th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT): "Inferences and Actions in Language Testing"
      Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   4. 2:30 pmDan Brant, doctoral candidate in French
      "The Ghost of Disasters Past: Colonial Apocalypse and Abolitionism in the Nineteenth-Century West Indies"
      4080A Foreign Languages Bldg.
   5. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

6. Saturday, October 6, 2012

   1.  Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"
      14th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT): "Inferences and Actions in Language Testing"
      Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana