Week of December 2, 2012 to December 8, 2012

1. Monday, December 3, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm

      Larry Wolff, Professor of History, NYU

      
      Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Child Abuse in Casanova's Venice
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmFlorencia Henshaw, UIUC
      SIP Colloquium -- Florencia Henshaw, UIUC: "Catch my Errors if you Can: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Peer Editing in the Foreign Language Classroom"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 6:00 pmMETA- Study Abroad: You Can Make It Work
      1203 W. Nevada
   4. 8:00 pmMASA Info Night-Study in Israel

2. Tuesday, December 4, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmStefanos Katsikas, Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Islam and Sharia Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923)"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana
   2. 12:00 pm

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

      
      Islam and Sharia Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923)
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Stefanos Katsikas
      Islam and the Sharia Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923)
      Foreign Language Bulding (FLB), Lucy Ellis Lounge (or Room1080)
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmProf. Stefanos Katsikas
      MODERN GREEK STUDIES -- Prof. Stefanos Katsikas: "Islam and the Shariah Law in the Making of Modern Greece (1832-1923"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 3:00 pm - 7:00 pmFall 2012 Student Conference
      126 GSLIS, 501 E. Daniels Street, Champaign IL
   6. 5:00 pmHamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University
      RELIGION -- Hamza Mahmood, Ph.D. candidate, Cornell University: "Communal Ideology and Genealogy in the Quran"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmKPL D.R.E.A.M. Act Workshop
      Lounge/Kitchen
   8. 6:00 pmMETA- Calm Your Anxieties: Self-Esteem in Academics
      1203 W. Nevada
   9. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmTIBS Cooking
      Conference Room

3. Wednesday, December 5, 2012

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

      Tassos Haniotis, Director, Economic Analysis, Perspectives and Evaluations, DG for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission
      

      
      The Role of the Future CAP in Addressing Food Security Concerns
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building
   2. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmRussian Conversation Table
      Courtyard Cafe, Illini Union
   4. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmGreek Movie Night: 'EL Greco' (in English)
      Foreign Language Bulding (FLB), Lucy Ellis Lounge (or Room1080)
   5. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLinguistics Languages Program Film Series -- "El Greco" (Greece, 2007)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

4. Thursday, December 6, 2012

   1. 12:00 pmMarly Cardoso, Public Health Nutritionist, School of Public Health, University of Sao Paulo
      Lemann Lecture Series. Home fortification of complementary foods with multiple micronutrient powders: planning a new strategy to prevent anemia in Brazilian children
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   2. 12:00 pmLunch @ La Casa
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmPhD candidate Adriana Molina Munoz
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Ph.D. candidate Adriana Molina Munoz: "PF-Compounds in Sanskrit and the Architecture of Grammar"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   4. 5:00 pmInfo Session: Stockholm Summer Arctic Program 'Environment and Society in a Changing Arctic'
      Room #106B1 Engineering Hall
   5. 5:00 pmShankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University
      RELIGION -- Shankar Nair, PhD candidate, Harvard University: "Sufism as Medium and Method of Translation'Mughal Translations of Hindu Texts Reconsidered"
      Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   6. 5:00 pmCristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University
      SLAVIC -- Cristina Vatulescu, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, New York University: "A Secret Police Cinematic Ars Poetica: Reenactment (1960) and its Files"
      1060 Lincoln Hall, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana
   7. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmTASC & SYZ Tea Time
      Lounge/Kitchen

5. Friday, December 7, 2012

   1. 2:00 pmCraig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY)
      CLASSIC -- (RESCHEDULED) Craig Williams, Brooklyn College (CUNY): "Animals, Love, and Kinship: Some Greco-Roman and Native American Narratives"
      Levis Center, Music Room 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   2. 4:00 pmInfo Session: Summer Course Abroad in Ecuador
      1080 Foreign Languages Building (Lucy Ellis Lounge)
   3. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

6. Saturday, December 8, 2012

   1. 9:00 amIkebana Workshop
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802
   2. 10:00 am - 12:00 pmTzu Ching Study Group
      Lounge & Kitchen
   3. 12:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time: "The Best Gift of All, the Leyend of La Vieja Belen / El mejor regalo del mundo, la leyenda de la vieja Belen"
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
   4. 2:00 pmBalinese Gamelan Concert
      Music Building Auditorium, 1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana, IL