Week of February 3, 2013 to February 9, 2013

1. Sunday, February 3, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmSetsubun (Bean Throwing Festival)
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802
   4. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmBlind Field
      KAM East Gallery
   5. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmCounterpoints: Moshekwa Langa, In and Out of Africa
      KAM Contemporary Gallery
   6. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmEncounters: The Arts of Africa
      KAM African Gallery
   7. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmFashioning Traditions of Japan
      KAM Asian Gallery
   8. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pmJacob Lawrence: Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
      KAM Light Court
   9. 2:00 pm - 6:00 pmResume/Cover Letter Reviews
      Undergraduate Library (UGL)
   10. 5:00 pm - 11:00 pmThe Big Game Viewing Party
       Illini Union Courtyard Cafe

2. Monday, February 4, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3.  I4I (Illinois for Illinois) Scholarship App. Deadline
   4.  IPS (International Programs and Studies) Scholarship Apps Due
   5. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmMock Interviews
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   6. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   7. 12:00 pm

      Stefanos Katsikas, Lingustics, Director of Modern Greek Studies Program, U of I

      
      EUC Lecture Series: Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)
   8. 1:00 pmInfo Session: Africa
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street
   9. 4:00 pmInfo Session: Summer Course Abroad to Jordan "Immigration and Integration"
      1128 Foreign Languages Building
   10. 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
   11. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmResume/Cover Letter Reviews
       Undergraduate Library (UGL)

3. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmMock Interviews
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   4. 10:00 am - 10:50 amCate Kompare, Reference, Research, and Scholarly Services and Katherine Eriksen, Graduate College
      Organizing your job search
      162 Noyes Lab
   5. 10:00 am - 11:00 amKatherine Eriksen, Cate Kompare
      Savvy Job Searcher
      162 Noyes
   6. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   7. 12:00 pmGregory Damhorst: MD/PhD Student, Cepartment of Bioengineering and College of Medicine; Irfan Ahmad: Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology: Research Faculty, Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Rashid Bashir: Director, Nanotechnology Lab; Abel Bliss Professor of Engineering
      "Global Health Initiatives in Soth Asia, the Mekkle East and Africa"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building, Urbana
   8. 12:00 pmWail Hassan, Professor in Comparative and World Literature
      Center for African Studies Brown Bag Lecture" Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Kuwait: The Transnational Trajectory of an African Literary Classic"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building, Urbana
   9. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmHealth Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   10. 2:00 pmLuciano Tosta, Assistant Professor. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, UIUC
       Lemann Lecture Series: O Sublime Serto: Miragens do Brasil em O Sertanejo, Os Sertes e Grande Serto: Veredas
       101 International Studies Building
   11. 4:00 pmInfo Session: Costa Rica
       Lincoln Hall 1065
   12. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmInternational Career Certificate Series - Spring 2013 Information Session
       1022 Lincoln Hall
   13. 4:00 pm - 5:30 pmSandy Finley
       Using Informal Early Feedback (IEF)
       428 Armory
   14. 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
   15. 5:30 pm - 6:20 pmSarah L. Shreeves, Scholarly Commons, sshreeve@illinois.edu
       Your research rights: Ownership awareness to maximize the impact
       Main Library - Library 314
   16. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAAA Social/AAA Discussion
       Lounge/Kitchen
   17. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmPeace Corps Application Workshop
       The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   18. 7:00 pmInterfaith Film Series: Understanding Palestine and Israel
       University YMCA (1001 S. Wright St., Champaign)
   19. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmResume/Cover Letter Reviews
       Undergraduate Library (UGL)

4. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmMock Interviews
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   4. 10:00 am - 12:00 pmResume/Cover Letter Reviews
      Undergraduate Library (UGL)
   5. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   6. 11:00 amDimiter Kenarov
      EUCE Videoconference Lecture Series 2013 with the University of Pittsburgh - Shale Gas in Poland
      507 E Green Street, Room 411
   7. 12:00 pmDiane Grigsby-Toussaint, Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health and Mary J. Christoph, PhD/MPH Student in Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
      Center for African Studies Brown Bag Lecture: Health Data Collection Efforts Targeting Obesity and Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Conditions in Uganda"
      101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
   8. 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmInfo Session: School for Field Studies In Aus/NZ, Costa Rica, Turks and Caicos, and Tanzania
      Morgan Room, ACES Library
   9. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   10. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins, Resume/Cover Letter Reviews
       Weston Residence Hall (WEX) 204 E. Peabody Dr
   11. 3:00 pm - 5:00 pmKatherine Eriksen
       CareerSTART: Maximize your graduate degree
       210 Illini Union
   12. 3:00 pm - 3:50 pmSeth Robbins, Scholarly Commons
       Getting organized with Mendeley
       Main Library - Library 314
   13. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmKatie Trenshaw
       Using Informal Early Feedback (IEF)
       428 Armory
   14. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSuccessful Interviewing
       The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   15. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRusskii stol--Russian conversation table
       Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   16. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAAA Social/AAA Discussion
       Lounge/Kitchen
   17. 6:00 pmHealth Profession Wednesdays - Finding Research Opportunities
       The Career Center Conference Room 143
   18. 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
   19. 7:00 pmAurora Guerrero
       Screening of the film "Mosquita y Mari"
       180 Bevier Hall

5. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmMock Interviews
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   4. 10:00 am - 12:00 pmBetsy Kruger and Angela Waarala, Digital Content Creation
      Digital historian series: Using digital tools for archival research
      Main Library - Library 314
   5. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   6. 12:00 pmAldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of Business Administration. Harvard Business School
      Lecture Series: Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond
      101 International Studies Building
   7. 12:00 pmAurora Guerrero
      Lunch @ La Casa - Aurora Guerrero
      La Casa
   8. 1:00 pm - 1:50 pmKaren Hogenboom, Numeric and Spatial Data Librarian, datagis@library.illinois.edu
      GIS 101: Introducing Geographic Information Systems
      Main Library - Library 314
   9. 3:00 pm"The Frozen Deep:" A Reading of the Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins Play
      The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana
   10. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmAAS Christina Chin Postdoc Talk
       Lounge/Kitchen
   11. 3:00 pmTea ceremony at Japan House
       2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802
   12. 3:30 pmDiana Steele
       Effective Grading: Designing a Useful Rubric
       428 Armory Bldg
   13. 4:00 pmTodd Gitlin, Professor of Journalism and Sociology, Columbia University
       MillerComm2013-Gitlin
       Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
   14. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies - Conversation Table in Modern Greek
       Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   15. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmWinning Resumes and Cover Letters
       The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   16. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmRichard Davis, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature at Ohio State University
       "The Perils of Princesses: Real and Imagined Women in Medieval Persian Literature"
       Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room
   17. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmI-Journey Workshop
       Illini Union Room 209
   18. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmResume/Cover Letter Reviews
       Ikenberry Commons (SDRP)

6. Friday, February 8, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. All Day

      Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghita, History and Italian Studies, New York University;

      Abdulkader Sinno, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

      
      Mediterranean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean
      

      Foreign Language Building
   4. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmMock Interviews
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   5. 10:00 am - 10:50 amErik Radio, Reference, Research, and Scholarly Services
      Personal Information Management
      Main Library - Library 314
   6. 11:00 am - 5:00 pmCareer Drop-Ins
      The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   7. 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmAlternate Jummah
      Basement
   8. 12:00 pm - 2:00 pmAlexis Thompson
      Planning for a Successful Postdoc
      304 Coble Hall
   9. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmYoga
      KAM Collections Resource Laboratory
   10. 1:00 pmInfo Session: Middle East
       101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street
   11. 1:30 pm - 3:00 pmHealth Drop-Ins
       The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
   12. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
       Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)
   13. 5:00 pmFLAS 2013-14 application Deadline
   14. 6:30 pm - 9:00 pmIllinois Japan Performing Arts Network (IJPAN) - Sayonara and I, Worker
       1205 W. Clark Street in Urbana / Broadcast live: http://ijpan.ncsa.illinois.edu
   15. 7:30 pm - 11:30 pmCSSA Karaoke and Board Game Night
       Activities Room & Resource Room

7. Saturday, February 9, 2013

   1.  Exhibit: A World of Shoes
      Campbell Gallery, Spurlock Museum
   2. All DayThe Arab Spring: Ongoing Revolution--An Exhibit from the International & Area Studies Library
      First floor of the Main Library, 1408 Gregory Dr.
   3. All Day

      Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghita, History and Italian Studies, New York University;

      Abdulkader Sinno, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

      
      Mediterranean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean
      

      Foreign Language Building
   4. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmBlind Field
      KAM East Gallery
   5. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmCounterpoints: Moshekwa Langa, In and Out of Africa
      KAM Contemporary Gallery
   6. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmEncounters: The Arts of Africa
      KAM African Gallery
   7. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmFashioning Traditions of Japan
      KAM Asian Gallery
   8. 9:00 am - 5:00 pmJacob Lawrence: Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
      KAM Light Court
   9. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmIkebana Workshop
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802
   10. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time
       Urbana Free Library Children's Department. 210 W Green St, Urbana.
   11. 3:00 pm - 9:00 pmChinese New Year Gathering
       Lounge/Kitchen