Week of January 29, 2012 to February 4, 2012

1. Sunday, January 29, 2012

   1. 1:00 pmProf. Shozo Sato
      Calligraphy Workshop
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL
   2. 1:00 pmKPL Picture Frame
      Lounge & Kitchen
   3. 2:00 pmParticipants include members of the Kobudokan Dojo of Urbana.
      Japanese Martial Arts Demonstration
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana

2. Monday, January 30, 2012

   1.  Study Abroad Advising Sessions
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Darren Tanner, Pennsylvania State University
      Linguistics Seminar - Dr. Darren Tanner, Penn State University: "The not so grand mean: Using individual differences to understand second language grammatical processing"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 6:30 pmTiBs Bible Study
      Whole Second Floor

3. Tuesday, January 31, 2012

   1.  Study Abroad Advising Sessions
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmRajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor, CSAMES
      "Between the Mughals and the Brits: Why Sikhs Ruled Muslim-majority Punjab"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   3. 6:00 pmaKDPhi Potluck
      Lounge & Kitchen

4. Wednesday, February 1, 2012

   1.  Study Abroad Advising Sessions
   2. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmAround the World Wednesdays
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   3. 12:00 pmWill Kyles, Damani Bolden
      Food for the Soul: Blacks in Politics Black History Month Opening Ceremonies
      Main Lounge, Bruce D Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, 708 S Mathews, Urbana
   4. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmJapanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 6:00 pmBryant Terry
      Food Justice: At the Intersection of Food, Politics, Poverty, Public Health, and the Environment
      Multipurpose Room 6, Activities and Recreation Center (ARC), 201 E Peabody Dr. Champaign
   6. 7:00 pmVSA Spring Roll Night
      Lounge & Kitchen
   7. 8:00 pmDr. Vassiliki Tsitsopoulou, visiting lecturer in Modern Greek Studies currently lecturing on "Contemporary Greek culture and film" (GRKM 199 <http://www.moderngreek.illinois.edu/courses/> ), will introduce the film.
      "Ulysses' Gaze"
      Room 160; English Building; 608 South Wright Street; Urbana
   8. 8:00 pmMODERN GREEK STUDIES - Film: "Ulysses' Gaze" (1995)
      160 English Building
   9. 8:00 pmMovie: Ulysses' Gaze (Greece, 1995)
      

      Room 160, English Building, 608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL (map)

5. Thursday, February 2, 2012

   1.  Study Abroad Advising Sessions
   2. 12:00 pmIrene Small, Assistant Professor, Art History
      Lecture Series. Passion of the Same: Cacique de Ramos and the Multitude
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmTranslation in the EU Information Session
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge: Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)
   4. 4:00 pm

      Andrew Kuchins, Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program Center for Strategic and International Studies

      
      Distinguished Speaker Series - Russia's Leadership and U.S.-Russia Relations
      3rd Floor Levis Faculty Center, 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana (reception to follow on 2nd floor)
   5. 6:00 pmRAD for Women
      Activities Room
   6. 8:30 pmBASA General Meeting
      Lounge & Kitchen

6. Friday, February 3, 2012

   1.  Study Abroad Advising Sessions
   2.  IIllinois for Illinois (I4I) and IPS Scholarship Deadlines for Summer Break '12, Fall '12, and AY '12 Applicants
   3. 10:00 am

      Andrew C. Kuchins, Ph.D., Director and Senior Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies

      
      Date Change: WILL Focus Interview -The Russian Presidential Elections
      

      Live on AM 580 - http://will.illinois.edu/focus/ please tune in for this special broadcast
   4. 12:00 pmMSA Friday Prayer
      Basement
   5. 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

      Dr. Andrew Kuchins is a senior fellow and the director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Russia and Eurasia Program. He is an internationally known expert on Russian foreign and domestic policies who publishes widely and is frequently called on by business, government, media, and academic leaders for comment and consulting on Russian and Eurasian affairs. A great deal of his more recent scholarship has been devoted to the Project on the Northern Distribution Network (NDN) and his analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, emphasizing the importance of an economic strategy in conjunction with the U.S. military presence there. His recent publications include The Key to Success in Afghanistan: A Modern Silk Road Strategy, coauthored with S. Fred Starr (Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, May 2010), Russia after the Global Economic Crisis, coedited with Anders Aslund and Sergei Guriev (Peterson Institute, June 2010), "The Speeding Troika" (Russia Beyond the Headlines, September 2010), and "Keep on Truckin'" (Foreign Policy, October 2010).

      From 2000 to 2006, Dr. Kuchins was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he was director of its Russian and Eurasian Program in Washington, D.C., from 2000 to 2003 and again in 2006, and director of the Carnegie Moscow Center in Russia from 2003 to 2005. He has also held senior management and research positions at the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Kuchins currently teaches at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and has also taught at Georgetown and Stanford Universities. He holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins SAIS.

      
      OLLI: Lunchtime Lectures - The Return of Politics to Russia: Can Putinism Survive?
      Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, 1800 Oak Street, Suite 108, Champaign
   6. 2:00 pmRobert Wallace, Northwestern University
      CLASSICS - Robert Wallace, Northwestern University: "Civilizing Democracy: Sophocles and Athens"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmDr. Unn Royneland, University of Oslo/University of Chicago
      LINGUISTICS -- Dr. Unn Royneland (Univ. of Oslo/Univ. of Chicago): "The gender paradox in sociolinguistics - a question of methodology?"
      Room 1022 Foreign Languages Building
   8. 5:00 pmDeeper Roots in Christ Sunday Worship Service
      Whole Second Floor
   9. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmKorean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union, (near Sushi San)

7. Saturday, February 4, 2012

   1. 10:00 amTzu Ching Study Group
      Resource Room
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmGene Tagaban
      Winter Tales American Indian Storytelling Concert
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   3. 6:00 pmCUSA Dessert Night