Week of December 2, 2012 to December 8, 2012

1. Monday, December 3, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFlorencia Henshaw, UIUC
      SIP Colloquium -- Florencia Henshaw, UIUC: "Catch my Errors if you Can: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Peer Editing in the Foreign Language Classroom"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

2. Tuesday, December 4, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProf. Stefanos Katsikas
      MODERN GREEK STUDIES -- Prof. Stefanos Katsikas: "Islam and the Shariah Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pmHamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
      RELIGION -- Hamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University: "Communal Ideology and Genealogy in the Quran"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 7:30 pmFrench Cineclub presents "La Guerre est declaree"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB

3. Wednesday, December 5, 2012

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   3. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLinguistics Languages Program Film Series -- "El Greco" (Greece, 2007)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

4. Thursday, December 6, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPhD candidate Adriana Molina Munoz
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Ph.D. candidate Adriana Molina Munoz: "PF-Compounds in Sanskrit and the Architecture of Grammar"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pmShankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University
      RELIGION -- Shankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University: "Sufism as Medium and Method of Translation'Mughal Translations of Hindu Texts Reconsidered"
      Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   3. 5:00 pmCristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
      SLAVIC -- Cristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University: "A Secret Police Cinematic Ars Poetica: Reenactment (1960) and its Files"
      1060 Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana
   4. 5:30 pmPause Cafe
      Espresso Royal (Goodwin & Nevada)

5. Friday, December 7, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmCraig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
      CLASSIC -- (RESCHEDULED) Craig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY): "Animals, Love, and Kinship: Some Greco-Roman and Native American Narratives"
      Levis Center, Music Room 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   2. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)