Sunday, January 13, 2013

wk14 excavations: Apr. 17-23

the real world is in the offing

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  1. Lecture: War, States, and Contention

    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'. This lecture will discuss what the topics covered in the book.

    Speaker: Sidney Tarrow (Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University)
    Date: Apr 18, 2013
    Time: 7:30 pm
    Location: Lincoln Hall Auditorium, Room 1000
    Sponsor: CAS, IPRH, Gorecki Lecture Series, Sociology, WGGP, and others

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  2. Carlos Montezuma, 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
    Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St.
    FREE

    Event type: Chat 'N Chew

    http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2570?eventId=26611224&calMin=201301&cal=20130128&skinId=2292

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  3. Queer Sex 101
    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
    Sponsor Presented by the Sexual Orientation Diversity Allies and Women's Resources Center
    Contact Aubree Henderson
    E-Mail hender10@illinois.edu
    Phone 217-333-3137
    Event type Co-sponsored by WRC
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    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! Topics covered will include healthy and safe sexual practices, tips for negotiating consent, sex toy care and safety, and audience questions. All are welcome to this event, though the focus will be on LGBTQ identities. Please contact Aubree Henderson (hender10@illinois.edu) with any questions.

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  4. Speaker Pavel Spivakovsky
    Date Apr 23, 2013
    Time 12:00 pm
    Location 101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign

    Sponsor Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center

    Originating Calendar Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers
    Traditional notions of Russian postmodernism as an extreme cultural-aesthetic phenomenon miss the important qualities of heterogeneity it exhibits. The avant-garde is just one of its strands. In this talk Spivakovsky will look at Russian postmodernist literature and art with reference to the energy/entropy binary formulated by Yevgeny Zamyatin and examine its recent shift from the conceits of the avant-garde to a greater depth of perception and an acknowledgment of the tragic nature of contemporary existence. Spivakovsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Twentieth Century Russian Literature (Philological Faculty) at Moscow State University. He is also a Visiting Associate Professor of the Russian, East European & Eurasian Center at the University of Illinois. His research interests include Russian Postmodernism, polyphony in the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and the work of Vladimir Sorokin's poetics. He is especially interested in Sorokin's poetics in terms of its ethics, views on citizenship, as well as the problem of overcoming the consequences of totalitarian thought and pre-modern stereotypes in the works of Russian postmodernists. Currently, his research focuses on the emergence of a new version of postmodernism in the context of the newest Russian reality. He is the author of the monograph: Fenomen A.I. Solzhenitsyna: novyi vzgliad / INION RAN. Moscow, 1998 and 60 scientific articles about Russian literature and culture of the Twentieth and Twenty-First centuries. He also compiled and prefaced a book entitled: "Ivanu Denisovichu" polveka: Iubileinyi sbornik (1962'2012) . Moscow.: House of Russian emigre named Solzhenitsyn: Russkii put', 2012.

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  5. Blooms, not Butts

    Date: April 23, 2013
    Time: 11-2
    Location: Union Courtyard Cafe

    https://www.facebook.com/events/156704744497378/
    Volunteers will be handing out flowers while picking up tobacco litter across campus on Saturday, April 20. Reducing tobacco litter will improve the environment and beautify our campus. This is just one of the many benefits of the upcoming smoke-free campus. (To volunteer your organization, contact Paula Chmiel at chmiel1@illinois.edu).

    Don't forget to check out the Environmental Expo on Tuesday, April 23 (11 AM - 2PM) at the Illini Union Courtyard Cafe. Stop by the Expo to learn about the impact of cigarette litter on campus, and watch student compete. Or become a part of the competition for a chance to win cash prizes and more! Registered students (teams or individuals) can enter by submitting display ideas that follow the theme "Benefits of a Smoke-Free Campus" at http://goo.gl/mxkNw by April 16. For questions, contact Paula Chmiel at chmiel1@illinois.edu.


    To learn more about our smoke-free campus (or to quit smoking), visit go.illinois.edu/smokefree.

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