Week of February 3, 2013 to February 9, 2013

1. Monday, February 4, 2013

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, UIUC
      Modern Greek Studies -- Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, UIUC: "Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 4:30 pmFrancois Proulx, PhD in French, Harvard, 2010; Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
      FRENCH-- Francois Proulx, PhD in French, Harvard, 2010; Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University: "The Novelesque on Trial "
      1024 Lincoln Hall

2. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

   1. 5:00 pmDr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies
      FRENCH -- Dr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies: "Paris Is Still Burning: Rap, Race, and Riots in Postcolonial France"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

3. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLinguistics Language Program Film Series: "A Panther in Africa" (USA. 2004)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

4. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1. 2:00 pmFrench Forum: Dan Brant, 'Traumatic Encounters: The Aftershocks of Testimony in Post-Earthquake Haiti"
      2090B FLB
   2. 3:00 pm"The Frozen Deep:" A Reading of the Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins Play
      The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Heejin Kim (Beckman Institute)
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Dr. Heejin Kim (Beckman Institute): "Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics in Dysarthric Speech: an Overview of General Issues"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   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. Friday, February 8, 2013

   1. All DayKEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University; Abdulekader Sinno, Indiana University
      Mediterranean Studies graduate student conference: "Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

6. Saturday, February 9, 2013

   1. All DayKEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University; Abdulekader Sinno, Indiana University
      Mediterranean Studies graduate student conference: "Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building