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The Legacy of University of Illinois' First American Indian Student
Speaker: Jamie Singson, Native American House Director Date: Apr 19, 2013 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location:Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St. Cost: FREE Sponsor:SCPF Funded
Exhibit: UNCONVENTIONAL BOND: THE STRANGE LIFE OF CASINO ROYALE ON FILM
Date Apr 16, 2013 - Jun 16, 2013 Time All Day Location Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana Cost Free admission. Sponsor Spurlock Museum Contact Kim Sheahan E-Mail ksheahan@illinois.edu Phone 244-3355 Event type Exhibit http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=26391384&calMin=201304&cal=20130421&skinId=1
Food for the Soul: Uncovering Liberia's Educational History, 1820-1860
Speaker Sammer Jones, Ph.D. candidate Date Apr 17, 2013 Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location 708 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801 Sponsor Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center Contact Ashley M. Davis E-Mail adavis2@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-2092 Event type Lunch
Annually the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center hosts a weekly lunch lecture series on Wednesdays from 12pm - 1pm in the Main Lounge of the Center. We bring in speakers to talk about current events, issues of relevancy to the African American Community, and Black history.
IPRH Event Grant recipient: Lecture by Sidney Tarrow (Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University) “War, States, and Contention” 7:30pm, Lincoln Hall Auditorium 1000 (702 S Wright St, Urbana) Sponsored by: the Center for Advanced Studies, the International Program for Research in the Humanities, the Gorecki Seminar, the Transnational Seminar, the Department of Sociology; the Department of Geography; the Department of History; the Department of Political Science; the Center for Global Studies; the School of Law and its Center for Law and Globalization; and the cross-campus Initiative for Transnational Futures (ITF).
April 18-20, 2013, 7PM & 9PM Studio Theatre, Krannert
Dance at Illinois Series | Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II. Its dance-making investigations by Dance at Illinois students are curated by a panel of their peers and faculty. Get your tickets early for this highly attended event!
Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm (location: I'm assuming a campus rec center, it doesn't specifically say at this point in time)
We have all used chocolate as a way to cope with stress. In honor of Stress Awareness Month, join us for a chocolate intervention as we take a healthy approach to your favorite chocolaty indulgences.
(Sounds like they'll be teaching you alternatives to chocolate to curve your stress)
Hot Topics | "Grad School or Career Field? Weighing the Pros and Cons"
Date Apr 22, 2013 Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820) Cost FREE
Sponsor Women's Resources Center, YWCA, Gender Action Network, and the Champaign-Urbana Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Contact Rachel Storm (Program Coordinator at the Women's Resources Center) E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu Event type Co-sponsored by WRC
Hot Topics seeks to provide a space for dialogue on gender and other social identities and social justice. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Gender Action Network and the Champaign-Urbana Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Date Apr 17, 2013 Time All Day Location Any company in Research Park and EnterpriseWorks Sponsor Research Park and EnterpriseWorks Contact Nidhi Patel E-Mail npate39@illinois.edu Phone 333-8324 Views 17 Originating Calendar Research Park Events This will be the first of a new Job Shadow program being implemented at Research Park. We will match students with Research Park startups and corporations that fit their industry and job interests. It will begin with a group breakfast and conclude with reception/mixer. Details will be released as soon as possible. If you are interesting in participating, please contact Nidhi Patel, Research Park human resources intern (npate39@illinois.edu)
Speaker Julianna Ge, WRC Volunteer Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302 2nd Fl. Champaign, IL 61820) Sponsor Women's Resources Center, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations Contact Rachel Lauren Storm, Assistant Director E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-3137 Event type WRC Program Event Views 31 Women on the Move | Women's-Only Fitness at the Women's Resources Center Thursdays as Scheduled* | 7pm-9pm Weekly Fitness Class + Wellness Talk-Back The Women's Resources Center is pleased to announce the return of our wellness series called Women on the Move, a weekly women'only* fitness class and safe space for women who for personal or religious reasons may be unable or uncomfortable with working out in co-ed facilities. First come, first served'please arrive early, wear comfortable clothes and shoes, and bring a water bottle and towel. Each class features an introductory talk, warm-up, fitness class, and wellness talk-back where students can ask questions about their health! A diversity of fitness classes means students will be introduced to different fitness styles, cultures, and traditions. For women-identified students only. *The Line-Up Feb 7th Zumba Fit Feb 21st Bellydance Fit Mar 7th Midterm Spa and Relaxation Fair Apr 4th Yoga for Healing | Sexual Assault Awareness Month Programming Apr 18th Hip Hop Fit Facilitated by: Julianna Ge, WRC Volunteer
Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture in Religion -- Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor at NYU Law School
Speaker Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor at NYU Law School Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 8:00 pm Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana Cost Free and open to the public. Sponsor Department of Religion Event type Lecture Views 137 Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Professor Halbertal served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of the books "Idolatry" (co authored with Avishai Margalit) and "People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority", both published by Harvard University Press. He is as well the author of "Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Tradition and Its Philosophical Implications" published by Princeton university Press. He is as well the author of the books "Interpretative Revolutions in the Making", and "Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence", both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His latest book published in Hebrew is "By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition". Professor Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild foundation, and the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000. Marjorie Hall Thulin (1910-2009), for whom the annual lecture is named, was a 1931 graduate of the University of Illinois. She enjoyed a successful career in advertising and published poetry and children's literature in addition to editing a book on the history of Glencoe, Ill. Mrs. Thulin's desire for students to understand how religion grows and functions in a complex society, especially Christianity in American society, led her to endow a fund establishing the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture. Through this endowment, each year an internationally known scholar of religion and contemporary culture is resident on the Champaign-Urbana campus for several days. A reception in the Spurlock Auditorium will follow the lecture.
Middle East Film Festival 2013: "The Battle for Syria"
Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location 245 Altgeld Hall, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana Cost free and open to the public Sponsor CSAMES Contact Angela Williams E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu Phone (217) 244-5939 Event type Film Screening Views 0 Originating Calendar CSAMES events "The Battle for Syria," Frontline, 2012, 27 mins. A journey to the heart of the Syrian insurgency. This is part of the 2013 Middle East Film Festival.
The Dark Side of Internationalism: Transnational Terrorism and the Internationalization of Repression
Speaker Sidney Tarrow Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 7:30 pm Location Lincoln Hall Auditorium, Room 1000, 702 S Wright St, Urbana Sponsor Acknowledgements: The campus visit is sponsored by: the Center for Advanced Studies, the International Program for Research in the Humanities, the Gorecki Lecture Series, the Transnational Seminar, the Department of Sociology; the Department of Geography; the Department of History; the Depart'ment of Political Science; the Department of Urban and Regional Planning; the Program on Women and Gender in Globalization; the Center for Global Studies; the School of Law and its Center for Law and Globali'zation; the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; and the cross-campus Initiative for Transnational Futures (ITF). Event type Seminar Views 133 Originating Calendar Department of Sociology Sidney Tarrow is a leading scholar in the field of social movements and contentious politics and is cur'rently working on a book tentatively titled 'War, States, and Contention'. Tarrow (PhD, Berkeley, 1965) is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University. Tarrow has his BA from Syracuse, his MA from Columbia, and his PhD from Berkeley. His work has covered a variety of interests, beginning with his book Peasant Com'munism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967), then shifting to the comparative study of Com'munism in Italy and France (Princeton 1972, ed., with Donald L.M. Blackmer). In the 1970s he compared local politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978), be'fore, in the 1980s, turning to a quantitative and qualitative reconstruction of the Ital'ian protest cycle of the late 1960's and early 1970's, in Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989), which received the prize for the best book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements from the American Sociological Association. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tarrow has served as Program co-Chair of the American Political Science Association Annual Convention and as President of the APSA Section on Comparative Politics. His most recent books are Power in Move'ment (Cambridge, 2011), Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Cambridge, 2001), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig, Rowman and Littlefield 2001), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge, 2005), Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly, Paradigm, 2006), and Strangers at the Gates: States and Movements in Conten'tious Politics (Cambridge, 2012). He has recently completed The Language of Contention, 1688-2012 for Cambridge.
Speaker: Aubree Henderson Date Apr 17, 2013 Time: 7:00 pm Location: Women's Resources Center, 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd Floor, Champaign, (SW Corner Wright & Green) Cost: FREE
Queer Sex 101 Presented by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Allies Do you like to talk about sex? Is sexual health important to you? Do you believe that LBGTQ people deserve relevant sex education? If so, this workshop is for you!
"Dish It Up: Seeing Sex: Representations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Media"
Speaker: Alicia Kozma, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Communications Research and Emily Dworkin, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology
Date: Apr 22, 2013 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL 61820 MC-302 Cost: FREE
Come join us for another Dish It Up Lunch on Us Program at the Women's Resources Center (every 2nd and 4th Monday at noon). Enjoy a complimentary meal while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.
Wednesday, April 17 7 p.m. – “Days of Heaven” (1978), a drama that takes place in the years before World War I on the Texas prairie, in which a farmhand convinces the woman he loves to marry a rich farmer who appears to be dying. Told from the perspective of the farmhand’s teenage kid sister, it features Brooke Adams, Richard Gere and Sam Shepard. Haskell Wexler, an uncredited director of photography for the film, will be a guest. Credited Director of Photography Néstor Almendros won an Oscar for the film. Before the film will be the short “I Remember” (2012), with director Grace Wang as a guest.
Thursday, April 18 1 p.m. – “Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh” (1987), a film that takes the viewer inside the life and work of Van Gogh, based on hundreds of letters the painter wrote to his brother. The director Paul Cox “adopts the role of a disciple of the painter,” says Ebert, exploring Van Gogh’s technique even down to the brushstroke at times, and portraying the painter as a “poetic, thoughtful man … open to the full range of his experience.” Cox will be a guest. Before the film will be the short “To Music” (2013), with co-directors Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen and actor Paul Cox as guests. 4 p.m. – “In the Family” (2012), a drama essentially about a father and son being separated against their wishes, according to Ebert, though the story is more complicated than that. The film “tells a quiet, firm, deeply humanist story about doing the right thing.” First-time director Patrick Wang, who also wrote the screenplay and gives an “extraordinary performance” as the father, will be a guest. 9 p.m. – “Bernie” (2011), a droll comedy based on a true story in Carthage, Texas, in which a much-liked funeral director befriends a much-older and much-disliked rich widow, before things turn sour. Jack Black plays the title role, giving “one of the performances of the year,” says Ebert, with Shirley MacLaine as the widow. Black and director Richard Linklater will be guests. [HOLY FUCK HOW COOL IS THAT GONNA BE?!?!]
Friday, April 19 1 p.m. – “Oslo, August 31st” (2011), a Norwegian film about a day in the life of a drug addict struggling to stay clean and sober, and feeling that life has moved on without him. It is “quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I’ve seen,” Ebert says. Director Joachim Trier will be a guest. 4 p.m. – “The Ballad of Narayama” (1958), a Japanese film “of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty,” Ebert says. That cruelty involves a village and its tradition of carrying those who have reached the age of 70 up a mountain and leaving them there to die. Presented in the style of kabuki theater, and structured around song and dance, it centers on the relationship between an elderly mother and her son. Film historian David Bordwell will be a guest. 8:30 p.m. – “Julia” (2008), “one doozy of a great thriller,” Ebert says, in which Tilda Swinton is “amazing.” She plays an unlikable woman in search of a big score, on a “nightmare journey through a thicket of people you do not want to meet,” at the same time protecting a young boy. Swinton will be a guest.
Saturday, April 20 11 a.m. – “Blancanieves” (2012), “a visually stunning” silent film from Spain, accompanied by a “full-throated romantic score,” whose story draws on the Brothers Grimm and Snow White and yet “is anything but a children’s film,” Ebert says. The plot revolves around the daughter of a famous matador who eventually becomes a matador herself. Director Pablo Berger will be a guest. 2 p.m. – “Kumare” (2011), a documentary that follows filmmaker Vikram Gandhi, raised in New Jersey in a Hindu family, as he sets himself up as a guru in Arizona and begins to attract followers. The film is not satirical or snarky, as one might expert, Ebert says, and “seems to establish that a guru can be a complete fraud and nevertheless do a certain amount of good.” Gandhi and executive producer Stephen Feder, a U. of I. media studies graduate, will be guests. 5 p.m. – “Escape From Tomorrow” (2013), a fantasy/drama and “fun paranoia ride … about the terror of ubiquitous entertainment,” says reviewer Michał Oleszczyk. Shot guerrilla-style almost entirely at Disney World, the film revolves around a father who becomes obsessed with a couple of sexy French tourists and then “gets caught up in the dark underside of the surrounding kingdom.” The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Director Randy Moore and producer/editor Soogin Chung will be guests. 9 p.m. – “The Spectacular Now” (2013), a comedy/drama about a high school boy and girl and their developing relationship, which also premiered at the recent Sundance. Its characters “look, speak and feel like real 18-year-old middle-American human beings,” which is rare for a film about high-school romance, Ebert says. Director James Ponsoldt will be a guest.
Sunday, April 21 Noon – “Not Yet Begun to Fight” (2012), a documentary about men of broken body and soul and their therapy through fly-fishing on a Montana ranch. The men are wounded veterans participating in a group called “Warriors and Quiet Waters.” Guests will include the producer/co-director Sabrina Lee, the co-director and editor Shasta Grenier, and film subjects Erik Goodge and Elliott Miller.
Art of Science 3.0 - Opening Reception Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm Location Indi Go Artist Co-Op, 9 E. University Ave., Champaign Cost Free and open to the public Sponsor Institute for Genomic Biology Contact Melissa McKillip E-Mail mmckilli@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-4619 Views 81 Originating Calendar Institute for Genomic Biology In its third year, the 'Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology' is an event that successfully spans two divides; art and science, and town and gown. Some of the University of Illinois research addressing significant problems in the environment, medicine, and energy use and production is on display. Come see the evolving modern scientific landscape.
What I Learned at Straight Camp Ted Cox Saturday, April 20, 2013 8:00pm Chemistry Annex Room 112
Ted Cox is an investigative journalist who infiltrates camps where pastors claim to be able to "pray away the gay." During this lecture, he will explain the techniques religious leaders use to guilt and shame perfectly healthy gay people into suppressing their natural urges.
He has delivered this interactive, multimedia presentation at dozens of schools including Harvard, UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University.
Midwest District Design Conference: New Paradigms for Design Indianapolis | Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing | April 19-20
The proliferation of new models for design practice makes this an exciting time for designers. Business is changing and with it so are our roles and relationships with manufacturing and distribution, product development funding models, entrepreneurs, and social and environmental groups offering designers virtually limitless possibilities for growth. Likewise, our interaction with the people who use the products, services and experiences that we create are rapidly evolving, shifting to a paradigm of increasingly direct collaboration between designer and end user. The result is a shift in how we design and new opportunities for collaboration.
With these new and evolving paradigms in place, how can we best fulfill the consumer’s needs and desires? How do our new relationships with manufacturing and distribution, funding models, entrepreneurs and special interests affect the way we design? And what does it all mean for us moving forward? At IDSA’s 2013 Midwest District Design Conference in Indianapolis, April 19-20, we will explore the New Paradigms for Design consider rich new possibilities, examine some tough questions and pose tangible options for your success and the future of design.
This year's Day of Silence keynote speaker is David Yost, who was the original blue power ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He left the show because of on-set discrimination for his sexual orientation and ended up going through conversion therapies to try to become straight. He will be saying some stuff at the two Day of Silence rallies (both on the Quad at noon and 5pm). He will then be giving a lecture at 7pm about his experiences.
Friday, April 19 - Day of Silence 7pm, Illini Union 314
Also also, that night at 10pm people will be gathering on the corners of Green St for the annual "Green St Hug-In" to raise awareness about violence, discrimination, hate crimes, and bullying.
EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES - Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton Univ.: "Notes on Chinese Film: Music, Melody, and Lyrics"
Who: Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. & Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University When: 4:00pm, Apr 18, 2013 Where: Room 1090, Lincoln Hall What: This talk is part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' Spring 2013 Lecture Series.
Since the introduction of "snakes" (parametric deformable contours) by Kass, Witkin, and Terzopolous, "active contours" have become popular both for still image segmentation as well as for tracking objects in image sequences (such as in video). There is a wide variety of active contour models just as there is a wide variety of techniques to incorporate them into the tracking problem. We will focus on purely geometric active contours (parameterization independent) whose evolutions are derived as the gradient descent of a meaningfully designed energy functional.
While the simplest tracking algorithm for such classes of active contours is simply to run "serial" gradient descent by using the steady state output contour of the gradient descent evolution on the previous image as the starting point for a new gradient descent on the following image, such a straight-forward technique is very sensitive to even the most momentary visual distractions (temporary occlusions, moving shadows, rapid changes between consecutive images, etc.).
Better techniques incorporate some manner of interdependence between computed contours in consecutive frames, thereby making it more difficult for tracking to be thrown off within a single image. In this talk we will present a Sobolev-type metric on the space of curves that not only improves the performance of the simplistic serial gradient descent based tracker but also allows for predictor/corrector schemes which are geometrically consistent with the gradient descent formulation.
Extra: PLEASE JOIN US FOR COOKIES AND COFFEE AT 10:30AM BEFORE THE SEMINAR IN ROOM 154 COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY
Scopely will be hosting a tech talk on April 22 from 6-7pm. It will take place in 2405 Siebel Center. Scopely CTO, Ankur Bulsara and UIUC Alum, Aaron Geisler will be discussing the exciting world of mobile game development.
Other reasons you should attend: Free swag, prizes, Raspberry pie with raspberry pie, Chipotle... and seriously smart engineers wrapped in bacon.
You can learn more about Scopley at http://www.scopely.com/.
When: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Apr 23, 2013 Where: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801 Cost: free
Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration! It's Time to Party Like It's 1564!
Join us on Monday, April 23, 2013 at 3pm in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library for a celebration of Shakespeare's Birthday. All are welcome and there'll be cake and ale (non-alcoholic) for those who can recite 14 lines or more from the immortal Bard!
Speaker A Long Walk Home, Inc. Date Apr 23, 2013 Time 7:30 pm Location Lincoln Hall Theater Cost FREE Sponsor Women's Resources Center Contact Molly McLay E-Mail mclay1@illinois.edu Phone 217.333.3137 Event type WRC Program Event Views 8 Originating Calendar Women's Resources Center Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS) is an award winning multimedia performance that entertains as well as educates the audience about sexual assault prevention. Featuring the music of Nina Simone, Maxwell, and Sade, SOARS tells one woman's story about how she reclaimed her body, sexuality, and self-esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. SOARS is a cutting-edge theatrical experience that stars a diverse cast of women, combining photographs, dance, spoken-word poetry and music as a way to educate about healing from sexual violence. The ultimate aim is to show that the shame, guilt and self-blame that rape victims too often experience can be eased; that the stories of rape survivors can be one of triumph and hope.
Wednesday 4/17, 7 PM: Traditional Israeli Dancing! Come learn how to dance Rikudey Am, the dance of the people of Israel! Led by the amazing Sarah Altschuler at Allen Hall. Take a look at the event page for more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/146931625478406/?ref=notif¬if_t=plan_user_invited
Speaker Martin Roth, Drake University Date Apr 19, 2013 Time 3:00 pm Location Room 1005 Beckman Sponsor Department of Philosophy Event type Seminar Views 26 Originating Calendar Beckman Main Calendar TITLE: I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: the Personal, the Sub-personal, and the Extended
"Making Place" Will Bruder, FAIA - President, Will Bruder Architects Monday, April 22, 2013 5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
The Art of Science Thursday, April 18, 2013 6p.m. - opening reception
Indi Go Artist Co-op 9 E. University Ave.
"In its third year, the ‘Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology’ is an event that successfully spans two divides; art and science, and town and gown. Research addressing significant problems in the environment, medicine, and energy use and production will be displayed."
If anybody is interested in long discussions about the paramount importance of music in physical medium, I am ALWAYS down to talk about it. If you're into that kinda shit, you probably already know that RECORD STORE DAY IS THIS WEEKEND. All day on Saturday (4/20) there will be exclusive RSD releases from hundreds of artists on the shelves of your favorite local record store. There will be live local music playing all day long this Saturday in downtown Champaign at Exile on Main St. (next to Merry Ann's) as well as the brand new local record store in town, Error Records (a little further down Neil). If you're interested in music, you should go. If you've not really immersed yourself in the local music scene, you should go. If you have immersed yourself in the local music scene and want to more, you should go. If you're a human being with emotions and a soul, you should go. There will be happy music, sad music, fun music, scary music, all kinds.
ITI Distinguished Lecture: Fred B. Schneider: "Blueprint for a Science of Cyber-security" Speaker Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University Date Apr 18, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory Sponsor
Information Trust Institute Event type Seminar Views 2400 Originating Calendar Information Trust Institute
ABSTRACT:
Cyber-security today is focused largely on defending against known attacks. We learn about the latest attack and find a patch to defend against it. Our defenses thus improve only after they have been successfully penetrated. This is a recipe for ensuring that some attackers succeed—not a recipe for achieving system trustworthiness. We must move beyond reacting to yesterday’s attacks and instead start building systems whose trustworthiness derives from first principles. Yet today we lack such a scientific base for cyber-security. That science of security would have to include attacks, defense mechanisms, and security properties; its laws would characterize how these relate. This talk will discuss examples of such laws and suggest avenues for future exploration.
Casino Royale and Beyond: Sixty Years of Ian Fleming's Literary
Start Date: Apr. 19, 2013 Time: 8:00 AM
The University Library’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, along with the Spurlock Museum, are planning several events this spring to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Library Friend Michael L. VanBlaricum, also an Illinois alumnus, was invited to curate a multi-venue exhibition. Not surprising, as VanBlaricum has amassed perhaps one of the finest collections of Ian Fleming material in private hands. He is also President of The Ian Fleming Foundation, dedicated to the study and preservation of the history of Fleming's literary works, the James Bond phenomenon, and their impact on popular culture. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library will display all manner of editions of Casino Royale, as well as letters, reviews, photos, and other works. The Casino Royale and Beyond: Sixty Years of Ian Fleming’s Literary Bond exhibit will focus on Fleming, his background, profession, and books. VanBlaricum will give a special talk about the exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library when the exhibit opens on April 12th. “The Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exhibit will include some interesting and unique items,” said VanBlaricum. “The original copy of A Poor Man Escapes, Fleming’s first story, written at the age of 19, will be included as well as a letter by Fleming written on the 22nd of April 1953 stating that 'I am bludgeoning friends and members of my staff into buying it (Casino Royale].' In addition, visitors will learn how the famous secret agent 007 got his name.” For more information, visit www.library.illinois.edu/rbx. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana 217-333-3777
2013 MFA Public Reading Saturday, April 20, 2013, 1:00 p.m., The Rare Book & Manuscript Library 346 Main Library, University of Illinois Graduating MFA candidates Laura Adamczyk, Kendra Chapman, Michael Don, and Angela Hine read selections from their final project manuscripts.
Dr. Irfan Ahmad, Avicenna Community Health Center and Donna Camp, Wesley Food Pantry
Date: April 19, 12pm – 1pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street (map)
Dr. Irfan Ahmad and Donna Camp here to talk about local faith-based responses to hunger and healthcare.
This lecture is a part of the Friday Forum Spring 2013 lecture series, 'Faith in Action.' The series will feature speakers from across the spectrum of faith traditions who are compelled by their faith to engage in bold and creative forms of action.
Wendy Mass, the author of "Every Soul a Star," will talk with students via Skype. Don't miss it! No registration needed. This event is part of the weekly Tuesdays @ the Library series.
04/23/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St.
Lecture: Biography of Carlos Montezuma
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Speaker: Jamie Singson, Native American House Director
Date: Apr 19, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location:Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St.
Cost: FREE
Sponsor:SCPF Funded
Exhibit: UNCONVENTIONAL BOND: THE STRANGE LIFE OF CASINO ROYALE ON FILM
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Time All Day
Location Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Cost Free admission.
Sponsor Spurlock Museum
Contact Kim Sheahan
E-Mail ksheahan@illinois.edu
Phone 244-3355
Event type Exhibit
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=26391384&calMin=201304&cal=20130421&skinId=1
Food for the Soul: Uncovering Liberia's Educational History, 1820-1860
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Sammer Jones, Ph.D. candidate
Date Apr 17, 2013
Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location 708 S. Mathews Avenue Urbana, IL 61801
Sponsor Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center
Contact Ashley M. Davis
E-Mail adavis2@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-2092
Event type Lunch
Annually the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center hosts a weekly lunch lecture series on Wednesdays from 12pm - 1pm in the Main Lounge of the Center. We bring in speakers to talk about current events, issues of relevancy to the African American Community, and Black history.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27467547&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
IPRH Event Grant recipient: Lecture by Sidney Tarrow (Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University)
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7:30pm, Lincoln Hall Auditorium 1000 (702 S Wright St, Urbana)
Sponsored by: the Center for Advanced Studies, the International Program for Research in the Humanities, the Gorecki Seminar, the Transnational Seminar, the Department of Sociology; the Department of Geography; the Department of History; the Department of Political Science; the Center for Global Studies; the School of Law and its Center for Law and Globalization; and the cross-campus Initiative for Transnational Futures (ITF).
STUDIODANCE II
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Studio Theatre, Krannert
Dance at Illinois Series | Always expect delightful surprises in Studiodance II. Its dance-making investigations by Dance at Illinois students are curated by a panel of their peers and faculty. Get your tickets early for this highly attended event!
May contain adult content.
Chocolate Overload
ReplyDeleteDate Apr 18, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
(location: I'm assuming a campus rec center, it doesn't specifically say at this point in time)
We have all used chocolate as a way to cope with stress. In honor of Stress Awareness Month, join us for a chocolate intervention as we take a healthy approach to your favorite chocolaty indulgences.
(Sounds like they'll be teaching you alternatives to chocolate to curve your stress)
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/637?eventId=27470471&calMin=201304&cal=20130418&skinId=1
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2629?eventId=27470471&calMin=201304&cal=20130418&skinId=3999
Hot Topics | "Grad School or Career Field? Weighing the Pros and Cons"
ReplyDeleteDate Apr 22, 2013
Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)
Cost FREE
Sponsor Women's Resources Center, YWCA, Gender Action Network, and the Champaign-Urbana Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW)
Contact Rachel Storm (Program Coordinator at the Women's Resources Center)
E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu
Event type Co-sponsored by WRC
Hot Topics seeks to provide a space for dialogue on gender and other social identities and social justice. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Gender Action Network and the Champaign-Urbana Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW).
Externship Day in the Research Park
ReplyDeleteDate Apr 17, 2013
Time All Day
Location Any company in Research Park and EnterpriseWorks
Sponsor Research Park and EnterpriseWorks
Contact Nidhi Patel
E-Mail npate39@illinois.edu
Phone 333-8324
Views 17
Originating Calendar Research Park Events
This will be the first of a new Job Shadow program being implemented at Research Park. We will match students with Research Park startups and corporations that fit their industry and job interests. It will begin with a group breakfast and conclude with reception/mixer. Details will be released as soon as possible. If you are interesting in participating, please contact Nidhi Patel, Research Park human resources intern (npate39@illinois.edu)
Women on the Move | Hip Hop Fit
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Julianna Ge, WRC Volunteer
Date Apr 18, 2013
Time 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302 2nd Fl. Champaign, IL 61820)
Sponsor Women's Resources Center, Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations
Contact Rachel Lauren Storm, Assistant Director
E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-3137
Event type WRC Program Event
Views 31
Women on the Move | Women's-Only Fitness at the Women's Resources Center Thursdays as Scheduled* | 7pm-9pm Weekly Fitness Class + Wellness Talk-Back The Women's Resources Center is pleased to announce the return of our wellness series called Women on the Move, a weekly women'only* fitness class and safe space for women who for personal or religious reasons may be unable or uncomfortable with working out in co-ed facilities. First come, first served'please arrive early, wear comfortable clothes and shoes, and bring a water bottle and towel. Each class features an introductory talk, warm-up, fitness class, and wellness talk-back where students can ask questions about their health! A diversity of fitness classes means students will be introduced to different fitness styles, cultures, and traditions. For women-identified students only. *The Line-Up Feb 7th Zumba Fit Feb 21st Bellydance Fit Mar 7th Midterm Spa and Relaxation Fair Apr 4th Yoga for Healing | Sexual Assault Awareness Month Programming Apr 18th Hip Hop Fit Facilitated by: Julianna Ge, WRC Volunteer
Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture in Religion -- Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor at NYU Law School
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Moshe Halbertal, Gruss Professor at NYU Law School
Date Apr 18, 2013
Time 8:00 pm
Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana
Cost Free and open to the public.
Sponsor Department of Religion
Event type Lecture
Views 137
Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar
Moshe Halbertal is the Gruss Professor at NYU Law School and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at the Hebrew University, and a fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1989, and from 1988-1992 he was a fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard University. Professor Halbertal served as a visiting Professor at Harvard Law School and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the author of the books "Idolatry" (co authored with Avishai Margalit) and "People of the Book: Canon, Meaning and Authority", both published by Harvard University Press. He is as well the author of "Concealment and Revelation: Esotericism in Jewish Tradition and Its Philosophical Implications" published by Princeton university Press. He is as well the author of the books "Interpretative Revolutions in the Making", and "Between Torah and Wisdom: R. Menachem ha-Meiri and The Maimonidean Halakhists in Provence", both published in Hebrew by Magnes Press. His latest book published in Hebrew is "By Way of Truth: Nahmanides and the Creation of Tradition". Professor Halbertal is the recipient of the Bruno Award of the Rothschild foundation, and the Goren Goldstein award for the best book in Jewish Thought in the years 1997-2000. Marjorie Hall Thulin (1910-2009), for whom the annual lecture is named, was a 1931 graduate of the University of Illinois. She enjoyed a successful career in advertising and published poetry and children's literature in addition to editing a book on the history of Glencoe, Ill. Mrs. Thulin's desire for students to understand how religion grows and functions in a complex society, especially Christianity in American society, led her to endow a fund establishing the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture. Through this endowment, each year an internationally known scholar of religion and contemporary culture is resident on the Champaign-Urbana campus for several days. A reception in the Spurlock Auditorium will follow the lecture.
Middle East Film Festival 2013: "The Battle for Syria"
ReplyDeleteDate Apr 18, 2013
Time 7:00 pm
Location 245 Altgeld Hall, 1409 W. Green Street, Urbana
Cost free and open to the public
Sponsor CSAMES
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-5939
Event type Film Screening
Views 0
Originating Calendar CSAMES events
"The Battle for Syria," Frontline, 2012, 27 mins. A journey to the heart of the Syrian insurgency. This is part of the 2013 Middle East Film Festival.
The Dark Side of Internationalism: Transnational Terrorism and the Internationalization of Repression
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Sidney Tarrow
Date Apr 18, 2013
Time 7:30 pm
Location Lincoln Hall Auditorium, Room 1000, 702 S Wright St, Urbana
Sponsor Acknowledgements: The campus visit is sponsored by: the Center for Advanced Studies, the International Program for Research in the Humanities, the Gorecki Lecture Series, the Transnational Seminar, the Department of Sociology; the Department of Geography; the Department of History; the Depart'ment of Political Science; the Department of Urban and Regional Planning; the Program on Women and Gender in Globalization; the Center for Global Studies; the School of Law and its Center for Law and Globali'zation; the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory; and the cross-campus Initiative for Transnational Futures (ITF).
Event type Seminar
Views 133
Originating Calendar Department of Sociology
Sidney Tarrow is a leading scholar in the field of social movements and contentious politics and is cur'rently working on a book tentatively titled 'War, States, and Contention'. Tarrow (PhD, Berkeley, 1965) is the Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government at Cornell University. Tarrow has his BA from Syracuse, his MA from Columbia, and his PhD from Berkeley. His work has covered a variety of interests, beginning with his book Peasant Com'munism in Southern Italy (Yale, 1967), then shifting to the comparative study of Com'munism in Italy and France (Princeton 1972, ed., with Donald L.M. Blackmer). In the 1970s he compared local politics (Between Center and Periphery, Yale 1978), be'fore, in the 1980s, turning to a quantitative and qualitative reconstruction of the Ital'ian protest cycle of the late 1960's and early 1970's, in Democracy and Disorder (Oxford, 1989), which received the prize for the best book in Collective Behavior and Social Movements from the American Sociological Association. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Tarrow has served as Program co-Chair of the American Political Science Association Annual Convention and as President of the APSA Section on Comparative Politics. His most recent books are Power in Move'ment (Cambridge, 2011), Dynamics of Contention (with Doug McAdam and Charles Tilly, Cambridge, 2001), Contentious Europeans (with Doug Imig, Rowman and Littlefield 2001), Transnational Protest and Global Activism (with Donatella della Porta, Rowman and Littlefield, 2004), The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge, 2005), Contentious Politics (with Charles Tilly, Paradigm, 2006), and Strangers at the Gates: States and Movements in Conten'tious Politics (Cambridge, 2012). He has recently completed The Language of Contention, 1688-2012 for Cambridge.
"Queer Sex 101"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker: Aubree Henderson
Date Apr 17, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Women's Resources Center, 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd Floor, Champaign, (SW Corner Wright & Green)
Cost: FREE
Queer Sex 101 Presented by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Allies Do you like to talk about sex? Is sexual health important to you? Do you believe that LBGTQ people deserve relevant sex education? If so, this workshop is for you!
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1771?eventId=27980563&calMin=201303&cal=20130324&skinId=1774
"Dish It Up: Seeing Sex: Representations of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality in Popular Media"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker: Alicia Kozma, Doctoral Candidate, Institute for Communications Research and Emily Dworkin, Doctoral Candidate in Psychology
Date: Apr 22, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL 61820 MC-302
Cost: FREE
Come join us for another Dish It Up Lunch on Us Program at the Women's Resources Center (every 2nd and 4th Monday at noon). Enjoy a complimentary meal while listening to speakers, lecturers, and panelists explore a variety of topics at the intersection of gender and other social identities.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1771?eventId=27139007&calMin=201303&cal=20130324&skinId=1774
ATTENTION FILM LOVERS
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Wednesday, April 17
7 p.m. – “Days of Heaven” (1978), a drama that takes place in the years before World War I on the Texas prairie, in which a farmhand convinces the woman he loves to marry a rich farmer who appears to be dying. Told from the perspective of the farmhand’s teenage kid sister, it features Brooke Adams, Richard Gere and Sam Shepard. Haskell Wexler, an uncredited director of photography for the film, will be a guest. Credited Director of Photography Néstor Almendros won an Oscar for the film.
Before the film will be the short “I Remember” (2012), with director Grace Wang as a guest.
Thursday, April 18
1 p.m. – “Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh” (1987), a film that takes the viewer inside the life and work of Van Gogh, based on hundreds of letters the painter wrote to his brother. The director Paul Cox “adopts the role of a disciple of the painter,” says Ebert, exploring Van Gogh’s technique even down to the brushstroke at times, and portraying the painter as a “poetic, thoughtful man … open to the full range of his experience.” Cox will be a guest.
Before the film will be the short “To Music” (2013), with co-directors Sophie Kohn and Feike Santbergen and actor Paul Cox as guests.
4 p.m. – “In the Family” (2012), a drama essentially about a father and son being separated against their wishes, according to Ebert, though the story is more complicated than that. The film “tells a quiet, firm, deeply humanist story about doing the right thing.” First-time director Patrick Wang, who also wrote the screenplay and gives an “extraordinary performance” as the father, will be a guest.
9 p.m. – “Bernie” (2011), a droll comedy based on a true story in Carthage, Texas, in which a much-liked funeral director befriends a much-older and much-disliked rich widow, before things turn sour. Jack Black plays the title role, giving “one of the performances of the year,” says Ebert, with Shirley MacLaine as the widow. Black and director Richard Linklater will be guests. [HOLY FUCK HOW COOL IS THAT GONNA BE?!?!]
reviewed by SEANO
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ReplyDeleteFriday, April 19
1 p.m. – “Oslo, August 31st” (2011), a Norwegian film about a day in the life of a drug addict struggling to stay clean and sober, and feeling that life has moved on without him. It is “quietly, profoundly, one of the most observant and sympathetic films I’ve seen,” Ebert says. Director Joachim Trier will be a guest.
4 p.m. – “The Ballad of Narayama” (1958), a Japanese film “of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty,” Ebert says. That cruelty involves a village and its tradition of carrying those who have reached the age of 70 up a mountain and leaving them there to die. Presented in the style of kabuki theater, and structured around song and dance, it centers on the relationship between an elderly mother and her son. Film historian David Bordwell will be a guest.
8:30 p.m. – “Julia” (2008), “one doozy of a great thriller,” Ebert says, in which Tilda Swinton is “amazing.” She plays an unlikable woman in search of a big score, on a “nightmare journey through a thicket of people you do not want to meet,” at the same time protecting a young boy. Swinton will be a guest.
Saturday, April 20
11 a.m. – “Blancanieves” (2012), “a visually stunning” silent film from Spain, accompanied by a “full-throated romantic score,” whose story draws on the Brothers Grimm and Snow White and yet “is anything but a children’s film,” Ebert says. The plot revolves around the daughter of a famous matador who eventually becomes a matador herself. Director Pablo Berger will be a guest.
2 p.m. – “Kumare” (2011), a documentary that follows filmmaker Vikram Gandhi, raised in New Jersey in a Hindu family, as he sets himself up as a guru in Arizona and begins to attract followers. The film is not satirical or snarky, as one might expert, Ebert says, and “seems to establish that a guru can be a complete fraud and nevertheless do a certain amount of good.” Gandhi and executive producer Stephen Feder, a U. of I. media studies graduate, will be guests.
5 p.m. – “Escape From Tomorrow” (2013), a fantasy/drama and “fun paranoia ride … about the terror of ubiquitous entertainment,” says reviewer Michał Oleszczyk. Shot guerrilla-style almost entirely at Disney World, the film revolves around a father who becomes obsessed with a couple of sexy French tourists and then “gets caught up in the dark underside of the surrounding kingdom.” The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January. Director Randy Moore and producer/editor Soogin Chung will be guests.
9 p.m. – “The Spectacular Now” (2013), a comedy/drama about a high school boy and girl and their developing relationship, which also premiered at the recent Sundance. Its characters “look, speak and feel like real 18-year-old middle-American human beings,” which is rare for a film about high-school romance, Ebert says. Director James Ponsoldt will be a guest.
Sunday, April 21
Noon – “Not Yet Begun to Fight” (2012), a documentary about men of broken body and soul and their therapy through fly-fishing on a Montana ranch. The men are wounded veterans participating in a group called “Warriors and Quiet Waters.” Guests will include the producer/co-director Sabrina Lee, the co-director and editor Shasta Grenier, and film subjects Erik Goodge and Elliott Miller.
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Tilda Swinton's taking a break from her sleeping act to come too, if you're into her
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ReplyDeleteArt of Science 3.0 - Opening Reception
Date Apr 18, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location Indi Go Artist Co-Op, 9 E. University Ave., Champaign
Cost Free and open to the public
Sponsor Institute for Genomic Biology
Contact Melissa McKillip
E-Mail mmckilli@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-4619
Views 81
Originating Calendar Institute for Genomic Biology
In its third year, the 'Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology' is an event that successfully spans two divides; art and science, and town and gown. Some of the University of Illinois research addressing significant problems in the environment, medicine, and energy use and production is on display. Come see the evolving modern scientific landscape.
reviewed by SHANNON
DeleteWhat I Learned at Straight Camp
ReplyDeleteTed Cox
Saturday, April 20, 2013
8:00pm
Chemistry Annex Room 112
Ted Cox is an investigative journalist who infiltrates camps where pastors claim to be able to "pray away the gay." During this lecture, he will explain the techniques religious leaders use to guilt and shame perfectly healthy gay people into suppressing their natural urges.
He has delivered this interactive, multimedia presentation at dozens of schools including Harvard, UC Berkeley, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University.
http://www.facebook.com/events/122276111297793/
reviewed by HARRISON
Delete2013 IDSA Midwest District Design Conference
ReplyDeleteTheme: New Paradigms for Design
April 19 -20, Indianapolis, IN
Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing
8787 Keystone Crossing
Indianapolis, IN
Phone Reservations: (317) 574-6711 or (888) 627-7814 – Request group rate for the 2013 IDSA Midwest District Design Conference
https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1211139227&key=107D2
Cancellations: No refunds issued without written request; 50% refund until April 5, 2013; no refunds after April 5, 2013.
Substitutions: Substitutions may be made before April 12, 2013.
NOTE: A closing party ticket comes with each registration. For additional tickets please contact IDSA (703-707-6000).
Early registration starts on 11/15/2012 and ends on 3/3/2013
Regular registration starts on 3/4/2013 and ends on 4/14/2013
After 4/14/2013 all registrations are onsite.
DeleteMidwest District Design Conference: New Paradigms for Design
Indianapolis | Sheraton Indianapolis at Keystone Crossing | April 19-20
The proliferation of new models for design practice makes this an exciting time for designers. Business is changing and with it so are our roles and relationships with manufacturing and distribution, product development funding models, entrepreneurs, and social and environmental groups offering designers virtually limitless possibilities for growth. Likewise, our interaction with the people who use the products, services and experiences that we create are rapidly evolving, shifting to a paradigm of increasingly direct collaboration between designer and end user. The result is a shift in how we design and new opportunities for collaboration.
With these new and evolving paradigms in place, how can we best fulfill the consumer’s needs and desires? How do our new relationships with manufacturing and distribution, funding models, entrepreneurs and special interests affect the way we design? And what does it all mean for us moving forward? At IDSA’s 2013 Midwest District Design Conference in Indianapolis, April 19-20, we will explore the New Paradigms for Design consider rich new possibilities, examine some tough questions and pose tangible options for your success and the future of design.
UIC artist talks. tomorrow at 5-7... i am going to try and head up there... let me know if you are interested in attending.
ReplyDeletehttp://gallery400.uic.edu/exhibitions/departure-2013-uic-art-mfa-thesis-exhibition-4
David Yost - The Blue Power Ranger
ReplyDeleteThis year's Day of Silence keynote speaker is David Yost, who was the original blue power ranger in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers. He left the show because of on-set discrimination for his sexual orientation and ended up going through conversion therapies to try to become straight. He will be saying some stuff at the two Day of Silence rallies (both on the Quad at noon and 5pm). He will then be giving a lecture at 7pm about his experiences.
Friday, April 19 - Day of Silence
7pm, Illini Union 314
http://www.facebook.com/events/636515106374230/?fref=ts
Also also, that night at 10pm people will be gathering on the corners of Green St for the annual "Green St Hug-In" to raise awareness about violence, discrimination, hate crimes, and bullying.
revuewed by GINO
DeleteEAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES - Jerome Silbergeld, Princeton Univ.: "Notes on Chinese Film: Music, Melody, and Lyrics"
ReplyDeleteWho: Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. & Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University
When: 4:00pm, Apr 18, 2013
Where: Room 1090, Lincoln Hall
What: This talk is part of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures' Spring 2013 Lecture Series.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=28294477&calMin=201304&cal=20130418&skinId=1
DCL Lecture Series: Professor Anthony Yezzi, Visual Tracking with Active Contours in Sobolev Spaces
ReplyDeleteWhen: 11am - 12pm, Apr 22, 2013
Where: 141 Coordinated Science Laboratory
What:
Abstract
Since the introduction of "snakes" (parametric deformable contours) by Kass, Witkin, and Terzopolous, "active contours" have become popular both for still image segmentation as well as for tracking objects in image sequences (such as in video). There is a wide variety of active contour models just as there is a wide variety of techniques to incorporate them into the tracking problem. We will focus on purely geometric active contours (parameterization independent) whose evolutions are derived as the gradient descent of a meaningfully designed energy functional.
While the simplest tracking algorithm for such classes of active contours is simply to run "serial" gradient descent by using the steady state output contour of the gradient descent evolution on the previous image as the starting point for a new gradient descent on the following image, such a straight-forward technique is very sensitive to even the most momentary visual distractions (temporary occlusions, moving shadows, rapid changes between consecutive images, etc.).
Better techniques incorporate some manner of interdependence between computed contours in consecutive frames, thereby making it more difficult for tracking to be thrown off within a single image. In this talk we will present a Sobolev-type metric on the space of curves that not only improves the performance of the simplistic serial gradient descent based tracker but also allows for predictor/corrector schemes which are geometrically consistent with the gradient descent formulation.
Extra: PLEASE JOIN US FOR COOKIES AND COFFEE AT 10:30AM BEFORE THE SEMINAR IN ROOM 154 COORDINATED SCIENCE LABORATORY
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=27524477&calMin=201304&cal=20130422&skinId=1
Scopely Tech Talk
ReplyDeleteWhen: 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Apr 22, 2013
Where: 2405 Siebel Center
Scopely will be hosting a tech talk on April 22 from 6-7pm. It will take place in 2405 Siebel Center. Scopely CTO, Ankur Bulsara and UIUC Alum, Aaron Geisler will be discussing the exciting world of mobile game development.
Other reasons you should attend:
Free swag, prizes, Raspberry pie with raspberry pie, Chipotle... and seriously smart engineers wrapped in bacon.
You can learn more about Scopley at http://www.scopely.com/.
URL: http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=28358063&calMin=201304&cal=20130422&skinId=1
Shakespeare's Birthday Party!
ReplyDeleteWhen: 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm, Apr 23, 2013
Where: The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Library, 1408 W. Gregory Dr., Urbana, IL 61801
Cost: free
Shakespeare's Birthday Celebration! It's Time to Party Like It's 1564!
Join us on Monday, April 23, 2013 at 3pm in The Rare Book & Manuscript Library for a celebration of Shakespeare's Birthday. All are welcome and there'll be cake and ale (non-alcoholic) for those who can recite 14 lines or more from the immortal Bard!
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=28080587&calMin=201304&cal=20130423&skinId=1
Story of a Rape Survivor
ReplyDeleteSpeaker A Long Walk Home, Inc.
Date Apr 23, 2013
Time 7:30 pm
Location Lincoln Hall Theater
Cost FREE
Sponsor Women's Resources Center
Contact Molly McLay
E-Mail mclay1@illinois.edu
Phone 217.333.3137
Event type WRC Program Event
Views 8
Originating Calendar Women's Resources Center
Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS) is an award winning multimedia performance that entertains as well as educates the audience about sexual assault prevention. Featuring the music of Nina Simone, Maxwell, and Sade, SOARS tells one woman's story about how she reclaimed her body, sexuality, and self-esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. SOARS is a cutting-edge theatrical experience that stars a diverse cast of women, combining photographs, dance, spoken-word poetry and music as a way to educate about healing from sexual violence. The ultimate aim is to show that the shame, guilt and self-blame that rape victims too often experience can be eased; that the stories of rape survivors can be one of triumph and hope.
reviewed by MOLLY
DeleteWednesday 4/17, 7 PM: Traditional Israeli Dancing! Come learn how to dance Rikudey Am, the dance of the people of Israel! Led by the amazing Sarah Altschuler at Allen Hall.
ReplyDeleteTake a look at the event page for more information:
https://www.facebook.com/events/146931625478406/?ref=notif¬if_t=plan_user_invited
Midwest Empirical and Theoretical Association
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Martin Roth, Drake University
Date Apr 19, 2013
Time 3:00 pm
Location Room 1005 Beckman
Sponsor Department of Philosophy
Event type Seminar
Views 26
Originating Calendar Beckman Main Calendar
TITLE: I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes: the Personal, the Sub-personal, and the Extended
"Making Place"
ReplyDeleteWill Bruder, FAIA - President, Will Bruder Architects
Monday, April 22, 2013
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
The Art of Science
ReplyDeleteThursday, April 18, 2013
6p.m. - opening reception
Indi Go Artist Co-op
9 E. University Ave.
"In its third year, the ‘Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology’ is an event that successfully spans two divides; art and science, and town and gown. Research addressing significant problems in the environment, medicine, and energy use and production will be displayed."
Exhibition hours:
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11:00 a.m - 8:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 20th
11:00 a.m - 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, April 21st
11:00 a.m - 4:30 p.m.
If anybody is interested in long discussions about the paramount importance of music in physical medium, I am ALWAYS down to talk about it. If you're into that kinda shit, you probably already know that RECORD STORE DAY IS THIS WEEKEND.
ReplyDeleteAll day on Saturday (4/20) there will be exclusive RSD releases from hundreds of artists on the shelves of your favorite local record store. There will be live local music playing all day long this Saturday in downtown Champaign at Exile on Main St. (next to Merry Ann's) as well as the brand new local record store in town, Error Records (a little further down Neil).
If you're interested in music, you should go.
If you've not really immersed yourself in the local music scene, you should go.
If you have immersed yourself in the local music scene and want to more, you should go.
If you're a human being with emotions and a soul, you should go.
There will be happy music,
sad music,
fun music,
scary music,
all kinds.
Just go.
I'll be there ;)
ReplyDeleteITI Distinguished Lecture: Fred B. Schneider: "Blueprint for a Science of Cyber-security"
Speaker Fred B. Schneider, Cornell University
Date Apr 18, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location B02 Coordinated Science Laboratory
Sponsor
Information Trust Institute
Event type Seminar
Views 2400
Originating Calendar Information Trust Institute
ABSTRACT:
Cyber-security today is focused largely on defending against known attacks. We learn about the latest attack and find a patch to defend against it. Our defenses thus improve only after they have been successfully penetrated. This is a recipe for ensuring that some attackers succeed—not a recipe for achieving system trustworthiness. We must move beyond reacting to yesterday’s attacks and instead start building systems whose trustworthiness derives from first principles. Yet today we lack such a scientific base for cyber-security. That science of security would have to include attacks, defense mechanisms, and security properties; its laws would characterize how these relate. This talk will discuss examples of such laws and suggest avenues for future exploration.
Reception to follow in room 301 CSL.
ReplyDeleteCasino Royale and Beyond: Sixty Years of Ian Fleming's Literary
Start Date: Apr. 19, 2013
Time: 8:00 AM
The University Library’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library and Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, along with the Spurlock Museum, are planning several events this spring to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the publication of Ian Fleming’s first James Bond novel, Casino Royale. Library Friend Michael L. VanBlaricum, also an Illinois alumnus, was invited to curate a multi-venue exhibition. Not surprising, as VanBlaricum has amassed perhaps one of the finest collections of Ian Fleming material in private hands. He is also President of The Ian Fleming Foundation, dedicated to the study and preservation of the history of Fleming's literary works, the James Bond phenomenon, and their impact on popular culture. The Rare Book & Manuscript Library will display all manner of editions of Casino Royale, as well as letters, reviews, photos, and other works. The Casino Royale and Beyond: Sixty Years of Ian Fleming’s Literary Bond exhibit will focus on Fleming, his background, profession, and books. VanBlaricum will give a special talk about the exhibition in the Rare Book & Manuscript Library when the exhibit opens on April 12th. “The Rare Book & Manuscript Library’s exhibit will include some interesting and unique items,” said VanBlaricum. “The original copy of A Poor Man Escapes, Fleming’s first story, written at the age of 19, will be included as well as a letter by Fleming written on the 22nd of April 1953 stating that 'I am bludgeoning friends and members of my staff into buying it (Casino Royale].' In addition, visitors will learn how the famous secret agent 007 got his name.” For more information, visit www.library.illinois.edu/rbx. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana 217-333-3777
2013 MFA Public Reading
ReplyDeleteSaturday, April 20, 2013, 1:00 p.m., The Rare Book & Manuscript Library 346 Main Library, University of Illinois
Graduating MFA candidates Laura Adamczyk, Kendra Chapman, Michael Don, and Angela Hine read selections from their final project manuscripts.
Dr. Irfan Ahmad, Avicenna Community Health Center and Donna Camp, Wesley Food Pantry
ReplyDeleteDate: April 19, 12pm – 1pm
Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright Street (map)
Dr. Irfan Ahmad and Donna Camp here to talk about local faith-based responses to hunger and healthcare.
This lecture is a part of the Friday Forum Spring 2013 lecture series, 'Faith in Action.' The series will feature speakers from across the spectrum of faith traditions who are compelled by their faith to engage in bold and creative forms of action.
https://www.google.com/calendar/event?eid=OGZicHQ3b2RvNjFzbmg5b3BwbnZjcnVoNmsgdW5pdmVyc2l0eXltY2FAbQ&ctz=America/Chicago
Special Population McKinley Center's 20th Annual Student Health Fair
ReplyDeleteWednesday April 17th, 11-3pm. Illini Union Rooms A,B, & C.
Virtual Visit with Author Wendy Mass
ReplyDeleteWendy Mass, the author of "Every Soul a Star," will talk with students via Skype. Don't miss it! No registration needed. This event is part of the weekly Tuesdays @ the Library series.
04/23/2013 - 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St.
reviewed by ALEX
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Theatre 417
Arts based dialogue
Jenitra Cannon and Tierra Kilpatrick
Date: April 23 7:30pm
Location: English Building rm 36
reviewed by ERIN
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