Week of February 3, 2013 to February 9, 2013

1. Sunday, February 3, 2013

   1. 1:00 pm - 3:00 pmSetsubun (Bean Throwing Festival)
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802

2. Monday, February 4, 2013

   1.  I4I (Illinois for Illinois) Scholarship App. Deadline
   2.  IPS (International Programs and Studies) Scholarship Apps Due
   3. 12:00 pmStefanos Katsikas, Linguistics, Director of Modern Greek Studies Program, U of I
      EUC Lecture Series: Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?
      Lucy Ellis Lounge 1080 Foreign Languages Bldg. 707 S. Mathews Urbana, IL
   4. 12:00 pm

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

      
      EUC Lecture Series: Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?
      

      Lucy Ellis Lounge, Room 1080, Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews, Urbana (map)
   5. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, UIUC
      Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?
      Foreign Language Bulding (FLB), Lucy Ellis Lounge (or Room1080)
   6. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, UIUC
      Modern Greek Studies -- Dr. Stefanos Katsikas, Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program, UIUC: "Greece's Opening to the Soviet Bloc in the Early 1970s: A Conscious Diplomatic Strategy?"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   7. 1:00 pmInfo Session: Africa
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street
   8. 4:00 pmInfo Session: Summer Course Abroad to Jordan "Immigration and Integration"
      1128 Foreign Languages Building
   9. 4:30 pmFrancois Proulx, PhD in French, Harvard, 2010; Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
      FRENCH-- Francois Proulx, PhD in French, Harvard, 2010; Lecturer, Dept. of Comparative Literature, Harvard University: "The Novelesque on Trial "
      1024 Lincoln Hall

3. Tuesday, February 5, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmWail Hassan, Professor, Program in Comparative and World Literature
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Kuwait: The Transnational Trajectory of an African Literary Classic"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   2. 2:00 pmLuciano Tosta, Assistant Professor. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, UIUC
      Lemann Lecture Series: O Sublime Serto: Miragens do Brasil em O Sertanejo, Os Sertes e Grande Serto: Veredas
      101 International Studies Building
   3. 4:00 pmInfo Session: Costa Rica
      Lincoln Hall 1065
   4. 5:00 pmDr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies
      FRENCH -- Dr. Samir Meghelli, Chancellor's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of African American Studies: "Paris Is Still Burning: Rap, Race, and Riots in Postcolonial France"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAAA Social/AAA Discussion
      Lounge/Kitchen

4. Wednesday, February 6, 2013

   1. 11:00 am

      Dimiter Kenarov, Fellow at the Pulitzer Center, Washington DC

      
      Videoconference Lecture: Shale Gas in Poland (with U. of Pittsburgh)
      

      507 E. Green St., Room 411, Champaign, IL (map)
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmChampaign-Urbana Public Health Department (CUPHD)
      Food for the Soul: I Am My Brother's Keeper: Champaign-Urbana's Brother to Brother Project
      708 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801
   3. 1:30 pm - 3:30 pmInfo Session: School for Field Studies In Aus/NZ, Costa Rica, Turks and Caicos, and Tanzania
      Morgan Room, ACES Library
   4. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 6:00 pm - 9:00 pmAAA Social/AAA Discussion
      Lounge/Kitchen
   6. 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmLinguistics Language Program Film Series: "A Panther in Africa" (USA. 2004)
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana
   7. 7:00 pmAurora Guerrero
      Screening of the film "Mosquita y Mari"
      180 Bevier Hall

5. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmAldo Musacchio, Associate Professor of Business Administration. Harvard Business School
      Lecture Series: Leviathan Evolving: New Varieties of State Capitalism in Brazil and Beyond
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 12:00 pmAurora Guerrero
      Lunch @ La Casa - Aurora Guerrero
      La Casa
   3. 3:00 pm - 4:00 pmAAS Christina Chin Postdoc Talk
      Lounge/Kitchen
   4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmDr. Heejin Kim (Beckman Institute)
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Dr. Heejin Kim (Beckman Institute): "Intelligibility and Acoustic Characteristics in Dysarthric Speech: an Overview of General Issues"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   5. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies - Conversation Table in Modern Greek
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   6. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmRichard Davis, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature at Ohio State University
      "The Perils of Princesses: Real and Imagined Women in Medieval Persian Literature"
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room

6. Friday, February 8, 2013

   1. All Day

      Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghita, History and Italian Studies, New York University;

      Abdulkader Sinno, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

      
      Mediterranean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean
      

      Foreign Language Building
   2. All DayKEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University; Abdulekader Sinno, Indiana University
      Mediterranean Studies graduate student conference: "Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmAlternate Jummah
      Basement
   4. 1:00 pmInfo Session: Middle East
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street
   5. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)
   6. 5:00 pmFLAS 2013-14 application Deadline
   7. 7:30 pm - 11:30 pmCSSA Karaoke and Board Game Night
      Activities Room & Resource Room

7. Saturday, February 9, 2013

   1. All Day

      Keynote speakers: Ruth Ben-Ghita, History and Italian Studies, New York University;

      Abdulkader Sinno, Political Science and Middle Eastern Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington

      
      Mediterranean Studies Graduate Student Conference: Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean
      

      Foreign Language Building
   2. All DayKEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Ruth Ben-Ghiat, New York University; Abdulekader Sinno, Indiana University
      Mediterranean Studies graduate student conference: "Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmIkebana Workshop
      2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL 61802
   4. 2:30 pm - 3:30 pmSpanish Story Time
      Urbana Free Library Children's Department. 210 W Green St, Urbana.
   5. 3:00 pm - 9:00 pmChinese New Year Gathering
      Lounge/Kitchen