Week of September 23, 2012 to September 29, 2012

1. Monday, September 24, 2012

   1. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmGERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- Reception to celebrate the Stockholm Summer Arctic Program 2012
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

2. Tuesday, September 25, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmRyan McConnell, U. of I.
      CLASSICS -- Ryan McConnell, U. of I.: "The Impact of Mechanical Irrigation on Life in Egypt"
      Room 4080A, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProfessor Amr Elnashai, Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Eathquake Risk in the MIddle East"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   3. 12:00 pm

      Edwin Kreuzer, Professor of Mechanics, Hamburg University of Technology

      
      EUC Lecture with College of Education: Higher Education in Germany: Thirteen Years after the Bologna Declaration
      

      242 Education Building
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

      Professor Amr Elnashai, Head, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering; Bill and Elaine Hall Endowed Professor

      
      Earthquake Risk in the Middle East
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Bldg.
   5. 6:00 pmNutrition Workshop

3. Wednesday, September 26, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm   12 noonLuce Scholars Campus Deadline
      Submit materials to 807 S Wright Street, Floor 5, Champaign, IL 61820
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmCosta Rica Info Session
      Greg Hall 319
   3. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   4. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmShikaripur N. Sridhar, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook
      SLCL -- Braj and Yamuna Kachru Distinguished Lecture in the Linguistics Sciences - Shikaripur N. Sridhar, Professor of Linguistics and India Studies, State University of New York, Stony Brook: "Languages without borders: Models of Multilingualism in Cognitive Science and Sociolinguistics"
      Room 223, Gregory Hall, 810 S. Wright St., Urbana
   5. 8:00 pmRashid Khalidi (Columbia) Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies; Introduction by Feisal Mohamed (English, Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
      Save the Date! RASHID KHALIDI NICHOLSON SCHOLAR VISIT, 9/26: "The United States as an Honest Broker in the Mideast?"
      Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor

4. Thursday, September 27, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmLunch @ La Casa
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 3:30 pm - 5:30 pmRashid Khalidi (Columbia) Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies
      Save the Date! RASHID KHALIDI NICHOLSON SCHOLAR VISIT, 9/27: "Syria's Spring or Autumn?" A Seminar and Conversation with Rashid Kalidi
      TBA
   4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmCourse Approval Workshop
      Lincoln Hall 1092
   5. 4:00 pmLidia Grafova, Chairwoman of the Forum of Migration Organizations
      Distinguished Lecture Series - Migration and Human Rights in the Russian Federation
      Gregory Hall 319
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProf. Torrey Loucks, UIUC Speech and Hearing Science
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Prof. Torrey Loucks, UIUC Speech and Hearing Science
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 5:00 pmProfessor Rini Bhattacharya Mehta
      RELIGION -- Professor Rini Bhattacharya Mehta: "Private Lives, Modern Lives: Religion, Morality and Modernity in Colonial and Postcolonial India"
      Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center
   8. 6:00 pm   8:00 pmKPL Cultural Workshop
      Lounge + Kitchen

5. Friday, September 28, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm

      Joaquin Roy, University of Miami

      
      EUCE Director Lecture Series: Comparative regional integration: the EU and Latin America in the time of crisis
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 4:00 pm - 6:00 pmLatina/Latino Studies Open House
      510 E. Chalmers, Champaign
   3. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

6. Saturday, September 29, 2012

   1. 8:45 am - 1:00 pmCFE's 24th Annual Teachers as Leaders and Learners Workshop
      

      Whitney Young Magnet High School, 1431 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago
   2. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmHispanic Heritage Day / Dia de la Herencia Hispana 2012
      The Urbana Free Library, Children's Services. 210 W Green St, Urbana.
   3. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmCUSA Moon Festival Celebration
      Lounge & Kitchen