Week of September 30, 2012 to October 6, 2012

1. Monday, October 1, 2012

   1. 4:30 pm

      Jean-Philippe Mathy, Department of French, UIUC
      Marcus Keller, Department of French, UIUC
      Emanuel Rota, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, UIUC

      
      Does it matter? The French elections and the European financial crisis
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 FLB, 707 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana, IL (map)
      
   2. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmAAA Trivia Night
      Activites Room

2. Tuesday, October 2, 2012

   1. 8:30 amExtended Deadline for ANTH 445 Fall/Winter Course Abroad to Costa Rica
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProfessor Khaled Adham, Department of Architectural Engineering, United Arab Emirates University
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Notes on the Spatiality of the Egyptian Revolution"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 5:00 pmClarence (Chip) Sheffield, History of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology
      GERMANIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- Clarence (Chip) Sheffield, History of Art, Rochester Institute of Technology
      Music Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   4. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmUK/Ireland Info Session
      Greg Hall 215
   5. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmCUSA Game Night + Oct. General Meeting
      Lounge & Kitchen

3. Wednesday, October 3, 2012

   1. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmVisitor from Stirling, Scotland. Join us!
      103 International Studies Building
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
   3. 4:00 pmThird Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities: "Republican Political Theology in the Age of Hobbes" by Feisal Mohamed (English)
      Levis Faculty Center, 3rd Floor
   4. 5:00 pmPat Mora
      Rolando Hinojosa-Smith, Jr. Lecture Series: "Vistas: Creativity, Inclusivity & Bookjoy/Alegria en los libros" with Pat Mora
      1092 Lincoln Hall
   5. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmAustralia New Zealand Info Session
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street
   6. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   7. 6:00 pmLCASO Meeting
   8. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLINGUISTICS--Languages Program Film Series - "A Touch of Spice" (2003, Greek, with English subtitles)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmModern Greek Movie Evening
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Building
   10. 6:00 pmModern Greek Movie Evening
       Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Language Building
   11. 6:00 pmJohn Troutman, Louisiana State University, Lafayette
       Writing the History of the Hawaiian Guitar: The How and Why of a Global Indigenous Studies Project
       Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada

4. Thursday, October 4, 2012

   1. 8:30 am - 12:00 pmUniversity of Illinois professors Ted Underwood, Diane Harris, Donna Cox, and Mara Wade
      Digital Humanities Symposium 2012 (featuring Mara Wade, Germanic Languages & Literatures)
      Library Scholarly Commons, 306 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana
   2. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmRELIGION -- American Literatures/American Religions
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:30 pmJerry Davila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History
      Lemann Lectures Series: White Skin, Black Masks: Brazilian Performing Africanness in the South Atlantic
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 12:00 pmLunch @ La Casa
   5. 4:00 pmBilbao, Spain Info Session
      Greg Hall 319
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   7. 4:00 pmOngoing Conversation Table in Modern Greek Logos
      Espresso Royale Caffee on Goodwin
   8. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University
      The 2nd Annual Linguistics Club Distinguished Alumni Lecture/1st Annual SLATE Distinguished Alumni Lecture: Professor Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University: "Three problems in language testing for linguists"
      2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   9. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmInter-Connect Dinner Workshop
      Lounge & Kitchen
   10. 7:30 pmMichael Rothberg (Illinois), Brett Kaplan (Illinois), Judith Halberstam (USC), Marianne Hirsch (Columbia) and Karen Engle (UT Austin)
       Recollection, Retribution, Reconciliation: A Roundtable Discussion

5. Friday, October 5, 2012

   1. 9:30 am - 4:00 pmRELIGION -- American Literatures/American Religions
      Center for Advanced Study, 912 W. Illinois Street, Urbana
   2.  Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"
      14th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT): "Inferences and Actions in Language Testing"
      Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   3. 12:00 pm

      Katerina Linos, Assistant Professor of Law, University of California Berkeley

      
      Larry Neal Prize for Excellence in EU Scholarship Lecture: Diffusion through Democracy
      

      Faculty Lounge 215, Law
   4. 1:00 pm - 2:00 pmBoren Scholarship Presentation
      807 S Wright Street, Floor 5 Champaign, IL Room 514 (Illini Union Bookstore bldg)
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmBoren Undergrad Info Session
      807 S Wright Street, Floor 5 Champaign, IL Room 514 (Illini Union Bookstore bldg)
   6. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmBoren Grad Info Session
      807 S Wright Street, Floor 5 Champaign, IL Room 514 (Illini Union Bookstore bldg)
   7. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)
   8. 6:00 pm - 8:30 pmSYZ Fundraising Mystery Dinner
      Lounge & Kitchen

6. Saturday, October 6, 2012

   1.  Plenary talk: Paula Winke, Michigan State University, and current President of MwALT: "Issues in large-scale placement testing: Why placement tests often just don't work and why more innovative tests seem so scary"
      14th Annual Conference of the Midwest Association of Language Testers (MwALT): "Inferences and Actions in Language Testing"
      Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana