Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Monday, October 29, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProfessor Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis
      SIP Colloquium--Professor Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis: "Alfonso Cuaron, Carlos Reygadas and the End of National Cinema in Mexico"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   4. 5:30 pmJohnpaul Jones, FAIA
      "Indigenous Design: Ancient Gifts/Verbal Gifts/Emerging Gifts"
      Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
   5. 6:00 pmAltar Making Workshop
      1203 W. Nevada
   6. 6:00 pmMETA- College of Business Informational
      1203 W. Nevada
   7. 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmI Journey Workshop
      Resource Room
   8. 7:30 pmSugar Skull Workshop
      1203 W. Nevada

2. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS Info Sessions
      LISB Room 126, 501 E. Daniel Street, Champaign, IL 61820
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProfessor Elabbas Benmamoun, Director, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics; Professor, Department of Linguistics
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Arabic in the Arab World: Is It an Endangered Language?"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmElabbas Benmamoun, Professor of Linguistics, "Arabic in the Arab World: Is It an Endangered Language"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   4. 12:00 pmLilya Kaganovsky, Associate Professor in Comparative & World Literature at Illinois
      Noontime Scholar Lecture - The Homogenous Thinking Subject or Soviet Cinema Learns to Sing
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St, Champaign
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFLAS 13-14 Information Session
      Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Room 126; 501 E. Daniel St, Champaign
   6. 4:00 pmSPANISH -- Study Abroad in Barcelona, Spain, Informational/Recruitment Meeting
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 5:15 pmThe Immature (Immaturi) - Italy, 2011
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   8. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAngela Rola Presentation with APAC
      Lounge & Kitchen
   9. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmI Journey Workshop
      Activities Room
   10. 6:00 pmMETA- Social Networking: How to Get Started
       1203 W. Nevada
   11. 7:30 pmFace Painting Workshop
       1203 W. Nevada
   12. 8:30 pmFiguras de Barro Workshop
       1203 W. Nevada
   13. 8:30 pmSugar Skull Workshop
       1203 W. Nevada

3. Wednesday, October 31, 2012

   1. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmAround the World Wednesdays
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmHalo-Halo-ween
      Lounge & Kitchen
   4. 7:30 pmAltar Making Workshop
      1203 W. Nevada
   5. 8:00 pm - 9:00 pmI Journey Workshop
      Activities Room

4. Thursday, November 1, 2012

   1. 8:00 am - 5:00 pmConference: The Investigation and Definition of Complex Crime
      

      Faculty Lounge and Conference Center, College of Law
   2. 12:00 pmLunch @ La Casa
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   4. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - A Russian in Persia, and Persia in Russian: Translating Yuri Tynyanov's 'The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar'
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   5. 4:00 pmSibelan Forrester, Professor of Russian Language and Literature at Swarthmore College
      Sibelan Forrester, Professor at Swarthmore College: "A Russian in Persia, and Persia in Russian: Translating Yuri Tynyanov's 'The Death of the Vazir-Mukhtar'"
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
   6. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmFrench Pause Cafe
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   7. 6:00 pmEric J. Garcia
      Dia De Los Muertos
      1203 W, Nevada
   8. 6:00 pmEszter Szalczer, Department of Theatre and English,University at Albany
      GERMANIC LANGUAGES & LITERATURES -- Eszter Szalczer, Department of Theatre and English,University at Albany: "Dream Matters: August Strindberg's Dream Play and Constructions of Subjective Space on the Stage"
      3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   9. 6:00 pmShirt Screen Printing Workshop
      1203 W. Nevada
   10. 6:00 pmSugar Skull Decorating Workshop
       1203 W. Nevada

5. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1.  Dr. Caren Kaplan, Professor of American Studies and, affiliated faculty in Cultural Studies, Science & Technology Studies, and Cinema & Technocultural Studies at the University of California at Davis
      "Desert Wars: Virilio and the Limits of 'Genuine Knowledge'"
      TBA
   2. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   3. All DayKeynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
      Friday, Nov. 2 - Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana; Saturday, Nov. 3, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   4. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)
   5. 9:00 amDr. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University
      Lecture: 'Religion and Identity in Egyptian Public Discourse'
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room; 919 W. Illinois St.
   6. 12:00 pm

      Glenda Garelli, Adjunct Lecturer of Urban Planning and Public Affairs, University of Illinois at Chicago

      
      EUC Lecture Series: The Mobility of Politics: A Tunisian Revolution in the European Union. Three Mediterranean Postcards
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 2:00 pmCENTER FOR TRANSLATION STUDIES -- Blood of the Sun: Reading and Conversation with Salgado Maranhao and Alexis Levitin
      Literatures and Languages Library, 200 South Main Library
   8. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmProfessor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University)
      LINGUISTICS--Professor Young Keun Ko (Professor Emeritus, Seoul National University): "Standardization of the Korean language and writing system: A proposal for North-east Asian language-culture union"
      4080A Foreign Languages Building
   9. 7:00 pmTzu Ching Potluck
      Lounge & Kitchen

6. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1. All Day2012 Tinker Pre-Dissertation Summer Field Research Workshop
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. All DayKeynote speakers: Reem Bassiouney, Associate Prof of Arabic Linguistics, Georgetown University; Professor Abbas Benmamoun, UIUC; Usama Soltan, Assistant Professor of Arabic, Middlebury
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics
      Friday, Nov. 2 - Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana; Saturday, Nov. 3, Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. All DayDrs. Reem Bassiouney, Georgetown University; Elabbas Benmamoun, University of Illinois; Usama Soltan, Middlebury College
      Illinois Symposium on Semitic Linguistics (ISSL)