Week of March 3, 2013 to March 9, 2013

1. Sunday, March 3, 2013

   1. 1:00 pm - 4:00 pmAAA Alumni Lunch
      Lounge/Kitchen, Conference Room

2. Monday, March 4, 2013

   1. 12:00 pm

      miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University; Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center

      
      Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
      

      2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana (map)
   2. 12:00 pmMiriam Cooke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
      Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
      2nd Floor; Levis Faculty Center; 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana
   3. 4:15 pmLINGUISTICS - Arabic Conversation Table
      Room 109, Graduate School of Library and Information Science Bldg., 501 E. Daniel, Champaign

3. Tuesday, March 5, 2013

   1.  The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe
      Levis Faculty Center & Spurlock Museum
   2. 12:00 pmGregory Damhorst, MD/Phd Student, Department of Bioengineering and the College of Medicine; Irfan Ahmad, Executive Director, Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Research Faculty at the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering; Rashid Bahir, Director, Nanotechnology Lab and Abdel Bliss Professor of Engineering
      CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Global Health Initiatives in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa"
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
   3. 7:00 pm - 8:00 pmProfessor Terrie Groth, Political Scientist from University of Braslia, Brazil
      Lemann Lecture Series. Kids & Politics: Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Brazil
      Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls, Saunders Lounge, 906 College Ct., Urbana
   4. 7:00 pm - 9:00 pmWelcome Gathering
      Lounge/Kitchen
   5. 7:30 pmTimothy Snyder
      Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations
      Levis Faculty Center (Third Floor)
   6. 7:30 pm

      Timothy Snyder, History, Yale

      
      CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series: Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations
      

      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana (map)

4. Wednesday, March 6, 2013

   1.  The Micropolitics of Small Town Life in Eastern Europe
      Levis Faculty Center & Spurlock Museum
   2. 9:30 am - 12:00 pmAround the World Wednesdays
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   3.  OPT Workshop
      

      ISSS Multipurpose Room
      4th floor, Student Services Building
   4. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmDr. Nadya Mason, Associate Professor, Physics
      Food for the Soul
      708 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801
   5. 1:30 pmPhillippe Faucher, Department of Political Science, Universit de Montral
      Lemann Lecture Series: The Challenges Facing the Brazilian Developmental State
      101 International Studies Building
   6. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
   7. 5:00 pmMakoto Hayashi
      SLATE talk by Makoto Hayashi
      Room G-24 (basement), Foreign Languages Building

5. Thursday, March 7, 2013

   1. 12:00 pmFlorence Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida
      Lecture Series: Gender, Race, and Tourism in Andean Peru and Chiapas, Mexico
      101 International Studies Building
   2. 12:00 pmLunch @ La Casa - Semana de la Mujer
      La Casa
   3. 4:00 pmSudeshna Banerjee, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Jadavpur University, Calcutta, India
      "Food, frailty and 'fake Brahmins': Bengali middle-class fears of failed hegemony in late colonial Calcutta"
      Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room
   4. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmRania Al-Sabbagh, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics
      Linguistics Seminar Series -- Rania Al-Sabbagh, Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics
      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. 4:00 pmYvonne Kleinmann - Head of Research Group at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University
      New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Legal Histories in Eastern Europe New Foci, Methods and Approaches
      101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
   7. 5:30 pmDuncan Keenan-Jones, UIUC
      CLASSICS - Duncan Keenan-Jones, UIUC: "Reconstructing the History of Ancient Rome's Greatest Aqueduct"
      Room 62 Krannert Art Museum (Auditorium)
   8. 7:30 pm

      Charles D. Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists

      
      CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series: Leveraging Science and Technology to Transform International Security: The Social Responsibility of Engineers and Scientists
      

      Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 South Gregory Street, Urbana, Illinois
   9. 7:30 pmBruno Nettl (Professor Emeritus of Music and Anthropology, UIUC); Massoud Rostam-Abadi (Emeritus Professor, UIUC; Principal Chemical Engineer Honorary, Prairie Research Institute)
      Introducing Persian Classical Music: Lecture and Performance
      1201 Music Building; 1114 West Nevada Street; Urbana, IL 61801

6. Friday, March 8, 2013

   1. 9:00 am - 3:00 pmHistory Department Retention Roundtable
      Lounge/Kitchen
   2. 12:00 pm - 4:00 pmAlternate Jummah
      Basement
   3. 12:00 pmDr. Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University
      Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas Across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in Early Twentieth Century
      1002 Lincoln Hall
   4. 12:00 pm

      Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University

      
      Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in the Early Twentieth Century
      

      1002 Lincoln Hall, 201 South Wright St., Urbana (map)
   5. 12:00 pmDr. Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University
      Modern Greek Studies -- Dr. Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University: "Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in Early Twentieth Century"
      Room 1002 Lincoln Hall
   6. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmSLCL Book Club - "The Rude Populations Inhabiting Foreign Lands"
      Caffe Paradiso, 801 S. Lincoln Ave., Urbana
   7. 5:00 pm - 6:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Korean Conversation Table
      Basement, Illini Union (near Sushi-San)
   8. 7:00 pm - 8:30 pmLaurence Nugent
      Exhibit Opening Celebration: "From Protest to Peace"
      Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
   9. 7:30 pm - 11:30 pmCSSA Karaoke and Board Game Night
      Activities Room & Resource Room

7. Saturday, March 9, 2013

   1. All Day2nd Annual Champaign Greek Film Festival
      

      Art Theater, Champaign (map)
   2.  2nd Annual Champaign Greek Film Festival
      Art Theater, Champaign
   3.  MODERN GREEK STUDIES - 2nd Greek Film Festival in Champaign
      Art Theatre, 126 W. Church St., Champaign
   4.  Modern Greek Studies -- 2nd Annual Champaign Greek Film Festival
      126 W. Church Street, Champaign
   5. 2:30 pmSpanish Story Time: Hairs/ Pelitos
      The Urbana Free LIbrary