Week of October 28, 2012 to November 3, 2012

1. Monday, October 29, 2012

   1. 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

2. Tuesday, October 30, 2012

   1. 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
   2. 4:00 pmSPANISH -- Study Abroad in Barcelona, Spain, Informational/Recruitment Meeting
      Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building

3. Wednesday, October 31, 2012

   1. 2:00 pm - 3:00 pmEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES -- Japanese Language Table
      2050 Foreign Languages Building

4. Thursday, November 1, 2012

   1. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmModern Greek Studies'Conversation Table in Modern Greek
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   2. 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
   3. 5:30 pm - 7:00 pmFrench Pause Cafe
      Espresso Royale, 1117 W. Oregon, Urbana (corner of Oregon and Goodwin)
   4. 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

5. Friday, November 2, 2012

   1. 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
   2. 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
   3. 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

6. Saturday, November 3, 2012

   1. 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