Week of January 20, 2013 to January 26, 2013

1. Sunday, January 20, 2013

   1. 3:00 pm - 4:30 pmNew student orientation
      Lounge/Kitchen

2. Monday, January 21, 2013

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmLinguistics Student Organization (LSO) Speaker, Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
      Linguistics Student Organization (LSO) Speaker, Professor Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 6:30 pm - 8:30 pmKPL Cupcake Wars
      Lounge/Kitchen

3. Tuesday, January 22, 2013

   1. 11:00 amStudy Abroad Fair!
      Illini Union Room C and South Lounge
   2. 11:00 amThe Next Member State: Croatia's Path to the European Union
      Room 411 507 E. Green St., Champaign, IL
   3. 11:00 am - 12:30 pmVideoconference Panel Discussion (with U. of Pittsburgh): The Next Member State: Croatia's Path to the European Union
      

      507 E. Green St., Room 411, Champaign, IL (map)
   4. 12:00 pmAntoinette Burton, Professor, Department of History
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Battle Grounds of the Future: Revisiting the First Anglo-Afghan Campaigns, 1839 - 1919"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 3:30 pmLuca Grillo, Amherst College
      CLASSICS -- Luca Grillo, Amherst College: "M. Fulvius Nobilior, Ennius and the Temple of Hercules Musarum, or Politics, Religion and Art in 2nd BCE Rome"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   6. 5:00 pmJohn Walsh, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
      FRENCH -- John Walsh, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC: "Mapping Afropea: The Translation of Black Paris in the Fiction of Alain Mabanckou"
      328 Bevier Hall
   7. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmKPL Rush:GIM Rolling with the Kappas
      Lounge/Kitchen
   8. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmaKDPhi Rush Event
   9. 7:30 pmYasemin Yildiz
      Beyond the Mother Tongue
      Levis Faculty Center (Third Floor)
   10. 7:30 pmYasemin Yildiz, Associate Professor of Germanic Languages and Literatures
       Yasemin Yildiz: "Beyond the Mother Tongue"
       3rd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   11. 9:30 pm - 10:30 pmSculpey Crafts Social
       Lounge/Kitchen

4. Wednesday, January 23, 2013

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSummer Course Abroad in Ecuador
      176 Education Building
   3. 5:00 pmProf. Scott Kiesling, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
      Linguistics Student Organization -- Prof. Scott Kiesling, Univ. of Pittsburgh: "Flirting, Desire and Masculinity"
      Room 314A, Illini Union, 1401 W. Green St., Urbana

5. Thursday, January 24, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmTerry Mc Coy, CLACS Research Affiliated
      Lecture Series: The Latin American Business Environment: Present, Past and Future
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 12:00 pmFaranak Miraftab
      Lunch @ La Casa - Global Capitalism
      La Casa
   3. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmAAS Joyce Mariano Postdoc Talk
      Lounge/Kitchen
   4.  Charity Begins at Home: Philanthropy, Remittances, and Filipino Diaspora
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmAsia Info Session
      Lincoln Hall 1064
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmProf. Scott Kiesling, Dept. of Linguistics, Univ. of Pittsburgh
      Linguistics Student Organization -- Prof. Scott Kiesling, Univ. of Pittsburgh: "Specifying Stance: Affect, Alignmnet and Investment in Interaction"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 4:00 pmLisa Kirschenbaum, Professor at West Chester University
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Individual Lives and the Culture of International Communism
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   8. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmAmong Women
      Resource Room
   9. 5:00 pmMaxime Foerster, PhD French University of Michigan 2012; Post-doctoral lectureship, Dept. of Romance Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan 2012-13
      FRENCH -- Maxime Foerster, PhD French University of Michigan 2012: "French Romanticism and the Rewriting of the Sexual Contract"
      Room 1065, Lincoln Hall
   10. 5:30 pmWayne T. Pitard, Spurlock Museum, UIUC
       CLASSICS -- Wayne T. Pitard, Spurlock Museum, UIUC: "In the Presence of the Aten: Rediscovering the Spurlock Museum's Painted Panel from an el-Amarna Sanctuary"
       Room 62 Krannert Art Museum (Auditorium)
   11. 6:00 pmEurochannel Short Films Tour: Laugh in Europe
       

       Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building (map)

6. Friday, January 25, 2013

   1. 6:00 am - 12:00 pmSSA Lohri Night
      Lounge & Kitchen
   2. All Day

      Keynote speeches by Robert Chatterton Dickson, British Consul General (Chicago), and Graham Paul, French Consul General (Chicago)

      
      Regional Faculty Working Conference
      

      Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle St, Chicago, Illinois (Jan. 25); Illini Center, 200 South Wacker Drive, Chicago (Jan. 26)
   3. 12:00 pmTinker Fellowship. Information Meeting
      200 International Studies Building (CLACS conference room)
   4. 2:00 pmJoseph Day, Professor Emeritus of Wabash College
      CLASSICS -- Joseph Day, Professor Emeritus of Wabash College
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmWendy Hunter, Professor of Government. University of Texas at Austin.
      Lecture Series: Shifting Orientations in Brazilian Social Policy
      101 International Studies Building
   6. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)

7. Saturday, January 26, 2013

   1. All Day

      Keynote speeches by Robert Chatterton Dickson, British Consul General (Chicago), and Graham Paul, French Consul General (Chicago)

      
      Regional Faculty Working Conference
      

      Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, 230 S. LaSalle St, Chicago, Illinois (Jan. 25); Illini Center, 200 South Wacker Drive, Chicago (Jan. 26)
   2. 1:30 pm - 2:30 pmShoe Stories and Dance
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   3. 4:00 pm - 8:00 pmTzu Ching Welcome Meeting
      Lounge/Kitchen