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Friday, March 01, 2013 4:00pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory Street Urbana
Philosophical investigations into the nature of persons have tended to focus on features of our mental lives that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Yet the modern synthesis in biology has made it clear that we are biological beings, continuous with the rest of the animal kingdom. Lynne Rudder Baker defends a view that recognizes our uniqueness even as it tries to show how we are part of the world of organisms.
Lecture: The formation and Impact of Racial Microagressions
This lecture discusses the effects and impacts of insults against minorities on campus of the University of Illinois.
Speaker: Melvin Armstrong Jr Date: Mar 1, 2013 Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location: Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St. Cost: FREE Sponsor: Sponored by SCPF
Dzodzi Tsikata: 'Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective'
Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801 Cost free and open to the public Sponsor Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program Contact Anita Kaiser E-Mail wggp@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-1994 Registration Click to register for lunch Event type Lecture Views 265 Originating Calendar Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) Noon talk with Dzodzi Tsikata. Lunch provided with registration by
Lecture Series: Net Art, Digital Poetry and Rebellion in Latin America: Digital Contestation Post Y2K
Speaker Eduardo Ledesma, Assistant Professor. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. UIUC Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 101 International Studies Building Sponsor Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Contact Angelina Cotler E-Mail cotler@illinois.edu http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=27293575&calMin=201302&cal=20130224&skinId=1
CSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Global Health Initiatives in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa"
Speaker Gregory 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 Date Mar 5, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building Sponsor CSAMES Contact Angela Williams E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu Phone (217) 244-5939 Event type Brown Bag lecture
Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 5:30 pm Location NCSA, 1205 W. Clark, Urbana Sponsor University of Illinois Office of Technology Management Phone 217.244.3124 Registration Registration Event type Other Views 610 Originating Calendar Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership Innovation Celebration provides recognition of those individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions, taken risks, and provided leadership to ensure the continuing economic success of Champaign County, the ongoing success of the University's economic development mission, and the growth of entrepreneurial talent and energy in the community.
Thursday 28 February, 7:30PM Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert $10
Classical Mix Series | In 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet was created by American composer William Schuman, then president of the Juilliard School, and the quartet’s original first violinist, Robert Mann. The ensemble’s purposes would be to perform—both contemporary work and classical repertory—and to teach at Juilliard. From its inception through today, as the group welcomes new first violinist Joseph Lin, these have remained the cornerstones of its mission.
The quartet has consistently realized its credo to “play new works as if they were established masterpieces, and established masterpieces as if they were new.” This performance at Krannert Center exemplifies the group’s mission and includes a Mozart quartet nicknamed “The Violet” after a poem by Goethe; music from Bach’s Art of the Fugue, perhaps the composer’s ultimate melding of logic and beauty; and a work from Elliott Carter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who recently celebrated his 103rd birthday with three world premieres and died in November 2012.
Bach: Four canons from Art of the Fugue Carter: String Quartet No. 5 Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575
Rm B02, Auditorium, Coordinated Science Laboratory 1308 W. Main, Urbana IL
Jon Orwant Engineering Manager
Google
For the first time in our history, it's possible to analyze the entire input of our society at once. All the books, all the pictures, all the people: each is a corpus of information now amenable to computational processing. In this talk, I'll give some examples and talk about the implications of being able to crunch data on the largest possible scales.
Landscape Seminar Series - National Science Foundation
Date Feb 27, 2013 Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm Location 100 Micro and Nanotechnology Lab Sponsor Division of Biomedical Sciences Faculty Development Program Registration Registration Views 483 Originating Calendar Division of Biomedical Sceinces Come and learn about the highly competitive National Science Foundation solicitation and review process.
MEMORY/MEMOIR: Readings and Discussion Date: February 27, 2013 Time: 7:30 p.m. Location: IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
About this event:
This event features members of the U of I Creative Writing faculty reading from their soon-to-be-published works. Professor LeAnne Howe will be reading from “An American Indian in Japan,” a creative non-fiction story about her travels throughout Japan during the 1993 International Year of Indigenous People. The story is forthcoming in Choctalking on Other Realities, New and Selected Stories, Aunt Lute Books, 2013. Professor Audrey Petty will be reading from High Rise Stories, forthcoming in McSweeney’s Voice of Witness book series (summer 2013), for which she interviewed former residents of the Chicago housing projects Cabrini-Green and Robert Taylor Homes, among others, for their firsthand accounts of Chicago public housing. Each author will read a selection, chosen for its particular significance to the author and her primary creative intention(s). After the authors have finished reading, Professor Robert Ramirez will lead a discussion of the role of memory and memoir in the humanities more broadly, and we will open the floor for discussion with the audience.
Carol Fisher Saller: Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Choices and Responsibilities
Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Room 24 GSLIS Sponsor College of Media Department of Journalism E-Mail jefollis@illinois.edu Phone 265-5073
Originating Calendar College of Media Events 'Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Choices and Responsibilities' Session to include a reading from Eddie's War. Carol Fisher Saller, author of 'The Subversive Copy Editor' and its related blog, edits scholarly books at the University of Chicago Press and is the longtime editor of the 'Chicago Manual of Style Online's' Q&A. She has also worked as an editor of children's fiction and nonfiction and has written several books for children, most recently 'Eddie's War', a middle‐ grade novel about an Illinois farmboy during World War II.
Sex & Gender Film Series: "The Year I Broke My Voice"
Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 6:30 pm Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820) Event type WRC Documentary Film Series Cost FREE
The Year I Broke My Voice" (directed by Madsen Minax) is set in a post-industrial 'Neverland' of worn down row houses, looming factories, and desolate seashores, a rabble of disenfranchised gender and age ambiguous youths explore their own vulnerabilities and put pressure on what it means to grow up. Offers an alternative perspective on coming of age that emphasizes perpetual states of becoming over conventions of linear development into adulthood.
Jovi Radtke is a queer, Christian, Republican poet who talks about how all that stuff gets jumbled up and confusing. She's going to be reading some of her poems and talking about the issues behind them. She's been all around. Check out some of her stuff on her website:
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 for the culminating celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation Sesquicentennial events at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall at 7:30 pm. Dr. Myrlie Evers will deliver the keynote address. She will also receive the Presidential Award and Medallion in recognition of her life of activism for social justice and her service to humanity.
Although she is widely known as the widow of Medgar Evers, Dr. Myrlie Evers is a woman whose sharp intellect, deep commitment, numerous contributions, powerful voice, and shining example have earned her a well-deserved reputation for outstanding national leadership in her own right. Between 1954 and 1963, she worked as a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Jim Crow, Mississippi. Among her responsibilities were voter registration drives, civil rights demonstrations, campaigning for the desegregation of the University of Mississippi and Mississippi public schools, advocating for equal access to public accommodations in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and educating the everyday citizen of their civic rights and responsibilities.
Following her husband's assassination in June 1963, Dr. Evers continued to engage in social justice endeavors to secure funding and better opportunities for the poor, the homeless, and for organizations such as the National Woman's Educational Fund. She played an active role in the NAACP, including serving as the first woman to chair the organization from 1995 to 1998. After leaving her post as chairperson for the NAACP, Dr. Evers established the Medgar Evers Institute in Jackson, Mississippi, which continues to promote the values of democracy, freedom, and justice.
The culminating event on February 27 includes musical performances by the Black Chorus, the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, and the Wind Symphony, which will be performing the Lincoln Portrait. There will also be a special commissioned piece in memory of Medgar Evers.
Rajitha Kumar, "Design Mining the Web " When: 11 am, Feb 27 Where: 2405 Siebel Center
The Web has transformed the nature of creative work. For the first time, millions of people have a direct outlet for sharing their creations with the world. As a result, the Web has become the largest repository of design knowledge in human history, and the ensuing “democratization of design” has created a critical feedback loop, engendering a new culture of reuse and remixing.
The means and methods designers employ to draw on prior work, however, remain mostly informal and ad hoc. How can content producers find relevant examples amongst hundreds of millions of possibilities and leverage existing design practice to inform and improve their creations? My research explores data-driven techniques for working with examples at scale during the design process, automating search and curation, enabling rapid retargeting, and learning generative probabilistic models to support new design interactions. Knowledge discovery and data mining have revolutionized informatics; in this talk, I’ll discuss what we can learn from mining design.
Speaker Dr. Nadya Mason, Associate Professor, Physics Date Mar 6, 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 Views 182 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.
Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective
Speaker Dzodzi Tsikata Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana Sponsor WGGP, African Studies, and Sociology Event type Seminar Views 358
The Body Project | An Exhibition at the Women's Resources Center Feb 27, 2012 Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm, Closing Reception: Friday, March 2nd, 5-7pm Sponsor Sponsored by the Women's Resources Center and the Eating Disorders Awareness Week Committee
"National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the Women's Resources Center is proud to exhibit The Body Project, an installation that invites viewers to consider our relationships to our bodies and how to reclaim and reshape how we engage our bodies. The Body Project demands that we resist a one-dimensional, dangerous ideal in favor of embracing a wider definition of beauty wherein our diversities, social identities, and desires are validated!"
Every Wednesday and Friday, 2 p.m. starting wednesday the 27th at 2:00!
Come learn about the Orpheum’s animals with a new program! The Orpheum Education Team will talk to visitors about our animals, followed by an animal feeding time. Participants will take a closer look at our aquatic turtles, land turtle, bearded dragons, and corn snake.
2013 Gryphon Lecture -- Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners
On Friday, March 1, at 7:00pm in GSLIS 126, the Center for Children's Books (CCB) will host the annual Gryphon Lecture. Featuring a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture, Gryphon Lectures are free and open to students and the public.
This year's lecture will feature Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science. A scholar of literature, digital worlds, and storytelling—as well as a professional storyteller—Sturm will present "Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners." A reception will follow the event in the GSLIS East Foyer and Room 131.
Location: 126 LIS Building Event Date: Fri, 03/01/2013 - 7:00pm
Lemann Lecture Series. Kids & Politics: Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Brazil
Professor Terrie Groth, Political Scientist from University of Braslia, Brazil Mar 5, 2013 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls, Saunders Lounge, 906 College Ct., Urbana Sponsor Global Crossroads Living Learning Community, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies Contact Brigitte Cairus E-Mail bcairus@illinois.edu Event type Lecture Series
- ABSTRACT: What do kids know about politics? How do they learn? Can kids be taught political attitudes? Come to hear about an innovative civic education program designed and implemented solely by undergraduate Political Science majors at the University of Braslia. Poltica na Escola - Politics in the School is a multi-year venture of students reaching beyond the walls of the classroom to engage disadvantaged public school children (grades 3 to 5) in a political education program emphasizing the core experience of democracy.
1. The East African Culture Club meets tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 5-8pm at La Casa, 1203 West Nevada Street. Please come, relax and practice Swahili with your colleagues. All level-speakers are welcome. Karibuni sana! _________________________
2. Center for African Studies and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives present:
Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana
"Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective"
February 28th, 12pm, Heritage Room, ACES Library
Lunch provided with RSVP
Please register at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5867788
Discussant: Jesse Ribot, Geography and Director of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative
In reaction to the global food price crisis in 2007-8 as well as concerns over population pressures and water shortages, wealthier developing and newly industrialized countries have begun a surge of leasing and acquistion of large land tracts in many developing countries. Prof. Tsikata draws on her study of three cases in Ghana to explore the gendered implications of recent land transactions for land tenure security, the availability of and access to the commons, food secucrity, and livelihood outcomes for men and women of different social groups.
Sponsored by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives and Center for African Studies with co-sponsorship from Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Anthropology, Center for Advanced Study, Center for International Business Education and Research, European Union Center, Family Resiliency Center, Gender and Women Studies, Geography, Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy, and Sociology; The Feminist Economics Journal. _________________________
3. The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History will be held February 28 - March 2, I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First, Champaign. Celine Parrenas Shumizu (UC Santa Barbara) will present the keynote address starting at 7:30, Thursday, February 28.
These presentation are free and open to the public.
For more information see http://wghs.history.illinois.edu/
The Center for Advanced Study is a cosponsor of this symposium. _________________________
4. NEWS BUREAU TO HOST “WORKING WITH THE MEDIA SEMINAR" FOR LAS FACULTY
The News Bureau is offering a “Working with the Media Seminar” session for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty on Friday, March 1 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Topics will include “How, When, and Why to Explain Your Research to the Public,” “What the News Bureau Does,” and “What Makes a Research Story Newsworthy?” The event is free, but requires registration: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3124055 . The seminar will be held in Lincoln Hall, Room 1002. For more information, contact Sue Johnson (Director of Communications and Marketing, College of LAS) at johnso16@illinois.edu . _________________________
Dear colleagues,
I am writing to share the poster and schedule for Richard Pithouse's visit to campus March 4-9, which CAS is supporting. Richard Pithouse is a South African scholar, journalist and activist with the Durban shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. The key public events of his visit are a panel on urban and housing activism from below in the History Department March 4, two showings of DEAR MANDELA, on Abahlali baseMjondolo, March 4 and 8, Richard's IPRH/History talk at the Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum Mar. 7 at 4 pm, and a "Community Knowledge" day at the Champaign Public Library, with a Skype conversation to Abahlali baseMjondolo and discussion about community knowledge that the University can tap from various community/campus movements March 9, 10 AM and 2 PM.
Speaker Zsuzsa Gille and Martin Medina Sr. Date Mar 1, 2013 Time 3:00 pm Location Illini Union room 314 A Sponsor CO-SPONSORS: ADM | Anthropology |Center for African Studies | Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies| Center for Global Studies | Center for International Business and Education Research | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | European Union Center | Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies |Russian, East European and Eurasian Center | Sociology | SDEP Event type Seminar Views 153 Originating Calendar Department of Sociology 2013 Joint Area Study Centers Symposium 3:00 pm Welcome (Zsuzsa Gille) (0:10) Screening of Waste Land (1:40) 5:00 pm - Keynote Speech Waste Governance: Can Less be More? Harnessing the Power of the Informal Sector in Male, Maldives, and Guangzhou, China Keynote by Martin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.) 6:30 pm - Dinner reception (Illini Union room 314 B)
Date Feb 28, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location Levis Faculty Center Sponsor College of Media Contact Lynn Holley E-Mail lholley@illinois.edu Views 344 Originating Calendar College of Media Events Hear from alumni about their careers in the worlds of both traditional and new journalism. This will be an incredible opportunity to network and talk with veterans in the fields where you hope to work after graduation. Learn about breaking into the job market, what to put on a cover letter and resume, thriving in the many fields where your journalism skills are in demand and more. Open to all Journalism students.
Understanding a Social Scene from Social Cameras Speaker Hyun Soo, Park Date Mar 1, 2013 Time 2:00 pm Location SC 3405 Sponsor Derek Hoiem Views 202 Originating Calendar Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems (AIIS) Seminar
Abstract:
A social camera is a camera carried or worn by a member of a social group, (e.g., a smartphone camera, a hand-held camcorder, or a wearable camera). These cameras are becoming increasingly immersed in our social lives and closely capture our social activities. In this talk, I argue that social cameras are the ideal sensors for social scene understanding, as they inherit social signals such as the gaze behavior of the people carrying them. I will present a computational representation for social scene understanding from social cameras. A social scene, in general, involves various human interactions in the form of visible social signals, such as body gestures, gaze directions, or facial expressions.
In the first part of my talk, I will show how these social signals can be recovered in 3D. This work includes 3D trajectory reconstruction and motion capture from body-mounted cameras. The second part of the talk will focus on how the reconstructed signals can discover social salience via a gaze concurrence analysis. Social salience is the 3D location of what people pay attention to and our method reconstructs the spatio-temporal structure of social salience that may occur in the social scene.
Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
Speaker miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University; Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center Date Mar 4, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana (map) Sponsor European Union Center; co-sponsors: Center for Advanced Study; Center for Global Studies; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of French/French@Illinois; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Modern Greek Studies; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Event type Lecture Views 512 Originating Calendar European Union Center Events Abstract:
Focusing on the transcultural networks of exchanges, borrowings and appropriations that have long linked the Mediterranean's diverse communities, cultures, and histories, cooke will examine the ways in which these networks have constructed Medizen subjectivities.
Speaker Bio:
miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Dartmouth College. She serves on several international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. Since coming to Duke University she has taught Arabic language and a wide variety of courses on Arabic literature, war and gender, the Palestine-Israel conflict, postcolonial theory. She has directed several study abroad courses in Morocco, Tunisia, Cairo and Istanbul.
Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism. Her more recent interests have turned to Arab cultural studies with a concentration on Syria, and to the networked connections among Arabs and Muslims around the world.
She is the author of several monographs that include The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi (1984); War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (1988); Women and the War Story (1997); Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001); Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010). She has co-edited several volumes, including Opening the Gates. A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990/ 2005 with Margot Badran); Gendering War Talk (1993 with Angela Woollacott); Blood into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (1994 with Roshni Rustomji); Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005 with Bruce Lawrence); Mediterranean Passages: from Dido to Derrida (2008 with Erdag Goknar and Grant Parker). She has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life (2000). Three of her books (Women Claim Islam; Women and the War Story and The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi) were named Choice Outstanding Academic Books. Several books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch and German.
Hatch: A Creative-Reuse Art Festival March 1 – 3, 2013
Hatch is the first-ever creative-reuse art festival produced by The I.D.E.A. Store, a Champaign, Illinois-based creative-reuse marketplace and social earned-income enterprise of the The Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation. The festival features a juried art fair and juried art exhibition, and takes place in and near downtown Champaign, a hip & happening entertainment district that is home to art galleries and studios, funky shops, and trendy bars and restaurants.
Hatch kicks off from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, March 1, 2013, with a festive opening reception at the host site of the art exhibition, The Indi Go Artist Co-op, 9 E. University Ave., Champaign. The exhibition will feature art and functional design by some of the Midwest’s most innovative creative-reuse artists and designers. Exhibited work will range from assemblage, collage, jewelry, fiber and paper arts to re-imagined objects for home and garden. Additional exhibition hours during the festival are 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Saturday, March 2 and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, March 3. The exhibition will continue March 5-17, with gallery hours from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday (the gallery is closed on Mondays).
A second exciting component of Hatch is an all-day art fair on Saturday, March 2, where more than 20 artist-vendors will offer all manner of creative-reuse art for sale. The art fair will take place from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in the McKinley Fitness Center gymnasium, 500 W. Church St., Champaign, Illinois. The venue is conveniently located a few blocks west of the Champaign downtown district.
We hope you will be there with us as we “Hatch” this exciting, new art festival!
Come join IUB along with the Illinois Leadership Center in welcoming University of Illinois Alum Sheila Johnson to campus!
Sheila Johnson is an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose accomplishments span from hospitality to sports, TV/film, and more. She is the CEO of Salamander Hospitality, LLC, a company that oversees a growing portfolio of luxury properties. She is co-founder of the TV network BET (Black Entertainment Television), where she pioneered modern television programming and created the award winning program Teen Summit. Ms. Johnson is also the first African-American woman to have a share in three professional sports teams. In addition, she is a 1970 music education graduate from the University of Illinois and an accomplished violinist and conductor.
Admission is free! The lecture will take place in the Illini Union I-Rooms and a short Q&A session will follow the lecture.
Medium & High Energy Seminar:"Hunting Asymmetric Stops"
Speaker Julia (Jessie) Shelton.Deparment of Physics, Harvard University Date Mar 4, 2013 - Mar 5, 2013 Time 1:00 pm Location 464 Loomis Sponsor Medium High Energy Seminar Contact Marjorie Gamel E-Mail mgamel@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-3762 Event type Medium & High Energy Seminar
Originating Calendar Physics - Medium and High Energy Seminar With the discovery of what looks very much like a weakly coupled Higgs boson, we have at last direct experimental evidence about how electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is realized in nature. The next step in understanding EWSB is the hunt for partners to the top quark: is naturalness relevant for understanding the TeV scale, or not? I'll explain what makes these searches hard, discuss the current status of stops and other top partners, and propose a search in a novel final state, using novel variables.
Davy Rothbart and Peter Rothbart In-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall 3/3-3/7
Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of the essay collection My Heart is an Idiot and a book of stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ Magazine, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. He has directed three films; a fourth, Easier With Practice, based on one of his autobiographical essays, won two 2010 Independent Spirit Awards. Peter Rothbart is an award winning songwriter and the front man for folk rock group The Poem Adept. He recently released his third solo album, You Are What You Dream, and his music was featured in McSweeney's Wholphin and the 2012 documentary film Mister Rogers & Me. He is also an editor at Found Magazine and the executive director of the urban gardening organization We Patch.
Sunday, March 3 7:00 pm - Kickin' it With Found Magazine (main lounge) Who drives the baddest Nissans in the Northwest? Why do clairvoyants make such fine web designers? Who spends more on liquor than rent? Will the booty ever stop? Find out the answers to these questions and many more as Davy shares his favorite hilarious and heartbreaking notes and letters from the pages of Found Magazine, Peter belts out beautiful and ridiculous tunes based on these finds, and the two discuss the 'zine's origins. PEEP THIS—www.FoundMagazine.com
9:00pm - The Burnet, Texas Game (guest apartment) You've got half an hour to take 24 pictures. Go! PEEP THIS—www.mfrPhoto.com WHAT TO BRING—the best camera you can get your hands on.
Monday, March 4 7:00 pm - Everything You Wanted To Know About 'This American Life' But Were Afraid To Ask (south rec room) Davy shares his favorite stories from the popular public radio show as well as behind-the-scene insights and strategies for how to make great audio documentaries. PEEP THIS—www.ThisAmericanLife.org/contributors/Davy-Rothbart
9:00 pm - I Am Extracting Lint From My Belly Button Right Now (guest apartment) A wild, interactive audio scavenger hunt. WHAT TO BRING—a recording device of any kind.
Tuesday, March 5 7:00 pm - How to Write Like I Do (south rec room) Love writing but not sure what to write about? Writer's block got you stumped? Join Peter and Davy for insights about the creative writing process, including how to separate writing from editing, how to free yourself from self-criticism, and where to find inspiration. We'll also do some exercises to help you write like a boss, and play the funnest game ever! WHAT TO BRING--a pen
9:00 pm - Fun With Labelmakers (guest apartment) Vandalizing children's books and calling it “art.”
Wednesday, March 6 7:00 pm - How To Get Your Shit Out Into The World (south rec room) Okay, you've recorded your album, written your book, painted your masterpiece, or started your rad non-profit organization. Now what? How do you get people to check it out? Davy and Peter share a very practical primer to DIY publicity and grassroots community-building, followed by a discussion and two in-class exercises. WHAT TO BRING—a pen.
9:00 pm - All Eyez on Me (guest apt) Sometimes the hardest part of doing what you do is doing it in front of other people. Learn how to take the stage with reckless abandon as Peter offers strategies for performers of all types. Be ready to act a fool! WHAT TO BRING--a smile and an open mind. Leave your reservations and criticisms at home.
Thursday, March 7 7:00 pm - On The Mic, I Believe That You Should Get Loose (main lounge) Davy and Peter close out the week with a rowdy and reflective hour-long performance. WHAT TO BRING—cash or checkbook to buy cool Found stuff.
DROP-IN:
1-on-1 Songwriting Tutorials Get personal feedback from Peter on your latest tunes. We'll make your songs shine! PEEP THIS--www.poemadept.com WHAT TO BRING--your instrument and lyrics to your songs.
UI UNIVERSITY BAND AND UI CAMPUS BAND TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013, AT 7:30PM | FOELLINGER GREAT HALL (krannert performing arts)
Open to all students, these two ensembles give music majors and experienced nonmajors an opportunity to perform a wide range of classic works as well as untraditional pieces and to engage in unusual collaborations. The UI Campus Band and UI University Band are large concert groups within the strong Illinois Bands program that dates to 1905.
This performance will last approximately 1 hour and has no intermission.
I anticipate this will be some sort of collaborative thing. Could be cool.
The Museum of the Need to Know: the consumption of digital infrastructure on the China-Russia Border. Speaker Dr. Dawn Nafus, Intel Labs Date Mar 5, 2013 Time 6:00 pm Location 1092 Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright Street, Urbana Sponsor CO-SPONSORED BY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, RUSSIAN EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN CENTER, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, THE INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH. Event type Seminar Views 38 Notions of dingpolitiks have been significant to understanding the materialities of political practice and state governance. Yet dingpolitiks and other aligned theoretical frameworks have largely been developed in the context of democratic processes and ideals. This work uses the case of a digital technology project on the China-Russia border to examine the visibilities and invisibilities of infrastructures as a situated set of relations. In this project, the Chinese state produced an aestheticized, consumable experience of infrastructure plans, and partially withheld it from local citizens only then to make a spectacle of that which was withheld. In doing so, the state not only created differential terms of access, but created a specific kind of relationship between the people it differentiated. It made them into objects of each others' spectacle. In this way, we can think of non-democratic dingpolitiks as a politics of managed differentiation. Dawn Nafus is an anthropologist with Intel Labs, where she conducts ethnographic research to inform new product development and strategy. She holds a PhD from University of Cambridge and has research interests in various aspects of the anthropology of technology, including experiences of temporality, notions of development, gender, and numeracies as material and cultural forms.
A Clear Day and No Memories Neurology, Philosophy, and Analogy in Kerry Tribe's H.M. lecture by Matthew Goulish
In 1953, Henry Molaison underwent radical brain surgery to cure his epileptic seizures, after which he could not commit new events to long-term memory. He spent the rest of his life as an object of neurological study. In Kerry Tribe's installation HM a 16 mm film spools through two projectors spaced far enough apart to allow the audience to experience the film twice at a 20 second delay, miming the duration of HM's present; he forgot events after 20 seconds.
Drawing on the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Whitehead's process philosophy, this lecture examines Tribe's installation, and the problems of clinical versus critical thinking. What is the place of neurology in the project that philosophy and poetry can be said to share? Is a fundamental difference between philosophy and medicine the inclusion of horror? Who do we become when we sit in Tribe's installation?
Date Mar 5, 2012 Time 6:00 pm Location Wesley Foundation, Great Hall Sponsor Asian and Pacific American Coaltion, Philippine Student Association, Taiwanese American Student Club, alpha Kappa Delta Phi Contact Ariel Wang E-Mail ariel.wang373@gmail.com Phone 847.691.1907 Views 1068 Originating Calendar Asian American Cultural Center Events PSA & TASC & aKDPhi collaboration.
Medium & High Energy Seminar, "Higgs Boson vs. New Physics"
Speaker Brian Batell, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute Date Mar 1, 2013 Time 11:00 am Location 322 Loomis Sponsor Physics Department Contact Marjorie Gamel E-Mail mgamel@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-3762 Event type Medium & High Energy Seminar Views 64 Originating Calendar Physics - Medium and High Energy Seminar The discovery of the Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider represents a major breakthrough in our quest to unravel the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. The next step in this effort is a precise experimental determination of the properties of this new state, such as its couplings and quantum numbers. These measurements, while providing new tests of the Standard Model of particle physics, will also provide novel probes of theories that go beyond the Standard Model. I will describe in detail how measurements of the signal strength parameters (ratios of measured cross sections to their predictions in the Standard Model) constrain new physics, both from an effective field theory perspective and in the context of explicit new physics models. I will emphasize the complementarity of these measurements with direct searches at colliders as well as indirect constraints such as the precision electroweak data and the stability of the electroweak vacuum. I will also present more speculative interpretations of the current trends in the Higgs data set along with the prospects for testing these scenarios.
From the director of CACHE and THE WHITE RIBBON. "Brilliantly directed with an atypically tender touch by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, this story about an octogenarian husband and wife facing their mortality had left audiences stunned with its artistry and depth of feeling." -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
Human Beings: What Sets Us Apart?
ReplyDeleteFriday, March 01, 2013
4:00pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory Street
Urbana
Philosophical investigations into the nature of persons have tended to focus on features of our mental lives that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Yet the modern synthesis in biology has made it clear that we are biological beings, continuous with the rest of the animal kingdom. Lynne Rudder Baker defends a view that recognizes our uniqueness even as it tries to show how we are part of the world of organisms.
http://cas.illinois.edu/Events/ViewPublicEvent.aspx?Guid=3FB41080-94E7-441D-96CE-E4E1E6286360
http://engage.illinois.edu/entry/13375
Lecture: The formation and Impact of Racial Microagressions
ReplyDeleteThis lecture discusses the effects and impacts of insults against minorities on campus of the University of Illinois.
Speaker: Melvin Armstrong Jr
Date: Mar 1, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location: Native American House, 1206 W. Nevada St.
Cost: FREE
Sponsor: Sponored by SCPF
Dzodzi Tsikata: 'Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective'
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 28, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801
Cost free and open to the public
Sponsor Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Contact Anita Kaiser
E-Mail wggp@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-1994
Registration Click to register for lunch
Event type Lecture
Views 265
Originating Calendar Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP)
Noon talk with Dzodzi Tsikata. Lunch provided with registration by
Lecture Series: Net Art, Digital Poetry and Rebellion in Latin America: Digital Contestation Post Y2K
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Eduardo Ledesma, Assistant Professor. Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. UIUC
Date Feb 28, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 101 International Studies Building
Sponsor Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Contact Angelina Cotler
E-Mail cotler@illinois.edu
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=27293575&calMin=201302&cal=20130224&skinId=1
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/863?eventId=27293575&calMin=201301&cal=20130119&skinId=4234
DeleteCSAMES Brown Bag Lecture: "Global Health Initiatives in South Asia, the Middle East and Africa"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Gregory 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
Date Mar 5, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Sponsor CSAMES
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-5939
Event type Brown Bag lecture
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=26833662&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
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DeleteInnovation Celebration 2013
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 28, 2013
Time 5:30 pm
Location
NCSA, 1205 W. Clark, Urbana
Sponsor
University of Illinois Office of Technology Management
Phone 217.244.3124
Registration Registration
Event type Other
Views 610
Originating Calendar Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Innovation Celebration provides recognition of those individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions, taken risks, and provided leadership to ensure the continuing economic success of Champaign County, the ongoing success of the University's economic development mission, and the growth of entrepreneurial talent and energy in the community.
JULLIARD STRING QUARTET
ReplyDeleteThursday 28 February, 7:30PM
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
$10
Classical Mix Series | In 1946, the Juilliard String Quartet was created by American composer William Schuman, then president of the Juilliard School, and the quartet’s original first violinist, Robert Mann. The ensemble’s purposes would be to perform—both contemporary work and classical repertory—and to teach at Juilliard. From its inception through today, as the group welcomes new first violinist Joseph Lin, these have remained the cornerstones of its mission.
The quartet has consistently realized its credo to “play new works as if they were established masterpieces, and established masterpieces as if they were new.” This performance at Krannert Center exemplifies the group’s mission and includes a Mozart quartet nicknamed “The Violet” after a poem by Goethe; music from Bach’s Art of the Fugue, perhaps the composer’s ultimate melding of logic and beauty; and a work from Elliott Carter, the Pulitzer Prize-winning American composer who recently celebrated his 103rd birthday with three world premieres and died in November 2012.
Bach: Four canons from Art of the Fugue
Carter: String Quartet No. 5
Mozart: String Quartet No. 21 in D Major, K. 575
Big Data
ReplyDeleteTuesday, March 05, 2013
4:00 pm
Rm B02, Auditorium, Coordinated Science Laboratory
1308 W. Main, Urbana IL
Jon Orwant
Engineering Manager
Google
For the first time in our history, it's possible to analyze the entire input of our society at once. All the books, all the pictures, all the people: each is a corpus of information now amenable to computational processing. In this talk, I'll give some examples and talk about the implications of being able to crunch data on the largest possible scales.
http://cas.illinois.edu/events/ViewPublicEvent.aspx?Guid=0D33FF19-7722-47C8-AC04-0B2DD8C52321
reviewed by SELINA
DeleteLandscape Seminar Series - National Science Foundation
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 27, 2013
Time 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location 100 Micro and Nanotechnology Lab
Sponsor Division of Biomedical Sciences Faculty Development Program
Registration Registration
Views 483
Originating Calendar Division of Biomedical Sceinces
Come and learn about the highly competitive National Science Foundation solicitation and review process.
MEMORY/MEMOIR: Readings and Discussion
ReplyDeleteDate: February 27, 2013
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Location: IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
This event is free and open to the public.
About this event:
This event features members of the U of I Creative Writing faculty reading from their soon-to-be-published works. Professor LeAnne Howe will be reading from “An American Indian in Japan,” a creative non-fiction story about her travels throughout Japan during the 1993 International Year of Indigenous People. The story is forthcoming in Choctalking on Other Realities, New and Selected Stories, Aunt Lute Books, 2013. Professor Audrey Petty will be reading from High Rise Stories, forthcoming in McSweeney’s Voice of Witness book series (summer 2013), for which she interviewed former residents of the Chicago housing projects Cabrini-Green and Robert Taylor Homes, among others, for their firsthand accounts of Chicago public housing. Each author will read a selection, chosen for its particular significance to the author and her primary creative intention(s). After the authors have finished reading, Professor Robert Ramirez will lead a discussion of the role of memory and memoir in the humanities more broadly, and we will open the floor for discussion with the audience.
Carol Fisher Saller: Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Choices and Responsibilities
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 28, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Room 24 GSLIS
Sponsor College of Media Department of Journalism
E-Mail jefollis@illinois.edu
Phone 265-5073
Originating Calendar College of Media Events
'Fiction, Nonfiction, Creative Nonfiction: Choices and Responsibilities' Session to include a reading from Eddie's War. Carol Fisher Saller, author of 'The Subversive Copy Editor' and its related blog, edits scholarly books at the University of Chicago Press and is the longtime editor of the 'Chicago Manual of Style Online's' Q&A. She has also worked as an editor of children's fiction and nonfiction and has written several books for children, most recently 'Eddie's War', a middle‐ grade novel about an Illinois farmboy during World War II.
Sex & Gender Film Series: "The Year I Broke My Voice"
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 28, 2013
Time 6:30 pm
Location Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)
Event type WRC Documentary Film Series
Cost FREE
The Year I Broke My Voice" (directed by Madsen Minax) is set in a post-industrial 'Neverland' of worn down row houses, looming factories, and desolate seashores, a rabble of disenfranchised gender and age ambiguous youths explore their own vulnerabilities and put pressure on what it means to grow up. Offers an alternative perspective on coming of age that emphasizes perpetual states of becoming over conventions of linear development into adulthood.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?eventId=27515651&calMin=201302&cal=20130211&skinId=2292
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Delete"An Evening with Jovi Radtke"
ReplyDeleteFeb 28, 7pm, Allen Hall South Lounge
Free
Jovi Radtke is a queer, Christian, Republican poet who talks about how all that stuff gets jumbled up and confusing. She's going to be reading some of her poems and talking about the issues behind them. She's been all around. Check out some of her stuff on her website:
http://joviradtke.com/home.cfm
Wednesday, February 27, 2013 for the culminating celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation Sesquicentennial events at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Foellinger Great Hall at 7:30 pm.
ReplyDeleteDr. Myrlie Evers will deliver the keynote address. She will also receive the Presidential Award and Medallion in recognition of her life of activism for social justice and her service to humanity.
Although she is widely known as the widow of Medgar Evers,
Dr. Myrlie Evers is a woman whose sharp intellect, deep commitment, numerous contributions, powerful voice, and shining example have earned her a well-deserved reputation for outstanding national leadership in her own right. Between 1954 and 1963, she worked as a field secretary for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Jim Crow, Mississippi. Among her responsibilities were voter registration drives, civil rights demonstrations, campaigning for the desegregation of the University of Mississippi and Mississippi public schools, advocating for equal access to public accommodations in the wake of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, and educating the everyday citizen of their civic rights and responsibilities.
Following her husband's assassination in June 1963, Dr. Evers continued to engage in social justice endeavors to secure funding and better opportunities for the poor, the homeless, and for organizations such as the National Woman's Educational Fund. She played an active role in the NAACP, including serving as the first woman to chair the organization from 1995 to 1998. After leaving her post as chairperson for the NAACP,
Dr. Evers established the Medgar Evers Institute in Jackson, Mississippi, which continues to promote the values of democracy, freedom, and justice.
The culminating event on February 27 includes musical performances by the Black Chorus, the Men's and Women's Glee Clubs, and the Wind Symphony, which will be performing the Lincoln Portrait. There will also be a special commissioned piece in memory of Medgar Evers.
Rajitha Kumar, "Design Mining the Web "
ReplyDeleteWhen: 11 am, Feb 27
Where: 2405 Siebel Center
The Web has transformed the nature of creative work. For the first time, millions of people have a direct outlet for sharing their creations with the world. As a result, the Web has become the largest repository of design knowledge in human history, and the ensuing “democratization of design” has created a critical feedback loop, engendering a new culture of reuse and remixing.
The means and methods designers employ to draw on prior work, however, remain mostly informal and ad hoc. How can content producers find relevant examples amongst hundreds of millions of possibilities and leverage existing design practice to inform and improve their creations? My research explores data-driven techniques for working with examples at scale during the design process, automating search and curation, enabling rapid retargeting, and learning generative probabilistic models to support new design interactions. Knowledge discovery and data mining have revolutionized informatics; in this talk, I’ll discuss what we can learn from mining design.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=27552780&calMin=201302&cal=20130227&skinId=1
Food for the Soul
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Dr. Nadya Mason, Associate Professor, Physics
Date Mar 6, 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
Views 182
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.
Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Dzodzi Tsikata
Date Feb 28, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Heritage Room, ACES Library, 1101 S. Goodwin, Urbana
Sponsor WGGP, African Studies, and Sociology
Event type Seminar
Views 358
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DeleteThe Body Project | An Exhibition at the Women's Resources Center
ReplyDeleteFeb 27, 2012
Monday-Thursday 9am-10pm, Closing Reception: Friday, March 2nd, 5-7pm
Sponsor Sponsored by the Women's Resources Center and the Eating Disorders Awareness Week Committee
"National Eating Disorders Awareness Week, the Women's Resources Center is proud to exhibit The Body Project, an installation that invites viewers to consider our relationships to our bodies and how to reclaim and reshape how we engage our bodies. The Body Project demands that we resist a one-dimensional, dangerous ideal in favor of embracing a wider definition of beauty wherein our diversities, social identities, and desires are validated!"
Animal Encounters at the Orpheum!
ReplyDeleteEvery Wednesday and Friday, 2 p.m.
starting wednesday the 27th at 2:00!
Come learn about the Orpheum’s animals with a new program! The Orpheum Education Team will talk to visitors about our animals, followed by an animal feeding time. Participants will take a closer look at our aquatic turtles, land turtle, bearded dragons, and corn snake.
2013 Gryphon Lecture -- Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners
ReplyDeleteOn Friday, March 1, at 7:00pm in GSLIS 126, the Center for Children's Books (CCB) will host the annual Gryphon Lecture. Featuring a leading scholar in the field of youth and literature, media, and culture, Gryphon Lectures are free and open to students and the public.
This year's lecture will feature Brian Sturm, associate professor at the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science. A scholar of literature, digital worlds, and storytelling—as well as a professional storyteller—Sturm will present "Paradoxically Speaking: Just One of the Ways Children's Folktales Engage Listeners." A reception will follow the event in the GSLIS East Foyer and Room 131.
Location:
126 LIS Building
Event Date:
Fri, 03/01/2013 - 7:00pm
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/863?eventId=27532590&calMin=201303&cal=20130305&skinId=4234
ReplyDeleteLemann Lecture Series. Kids & Politics: Civic Engagement and Service Learning in Brazil
Professor Terrie Groth, Political Scientist from University of Braslia, Brazil
Mar 5, 2013
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Pennsylvania Avenue Residence Halls, Saunders Lounge, 906 College Ct., Urbana
Sponsor Global Crossroads Living Learning Community, Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies
Contact Brigitte Cairus
E-Mail bcairus@illinois.edu
Event type Lecture Series
- ABSTRACT: What do kids know about politics? How do they learn? Can kids be taught political attitudes? Come to hear about an innovative civic education program designed and implemented solely by undergraduate Political Science majors at the University of Braslia. Poltica na Escola - Politics in the School is a multi-year venture of students reaching beyond the walls of the classroom to engage disadvantaged public school children (grades 3 to 5) in a political education program emphasizing the core experience of democracy.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/1249?eventId=27476153&calMin=201302&cal=20130227&skinId=4273
ReplyDeletein the style of miles davis, it is what they dont say that makes this sound interesting.
i only hope Jung is talked about
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ReplyDelete1. The East African Culture Club meets tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 27, 5-8pm at La Casa, 1203 West Nevada Street. Please come, relax and practice Swahili with your colleagues. All level-speakers are welcome. Karibuni sana!
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2. Center for African Studies and Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
present:
Dzodzi Tsikata, University of Ghana
"Transnational Large-Scale Land Transactions, the Disappearing Commons and Livelihood Insecurities in Ghana: A Gender Perspective"
February 28th, 12pm, Heritage Room, ACES Library
Lunch provided with RSVP
Please register at https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/5867788
Discussant: Jesse Ribot, Geography and Director of the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative
In reaction to the global food price crisis in 2007-8 as well as concerns over population pressures and water shortages, wealthier developing and newly industrialized countries have begun a surge of leasing and acquistion of large land tracts in many developing countries. Prof. Tsikata draws on her study of three cases in Ghana to explore the gendered implications of recent land transactions for land tenure security, the availability of and access to the commons, food secucrity, and livelihood outcomes for men and women of different social groups.
Sponsored by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives and Center for African Studies with co-sponsorship from Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Anthropology, Center for Advanced Study, Center for International Business Education and Research, European Union Center, Family Resiliency Center, Gender and Women Studies, Geography, Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy, and Sociology; The Feminist Economics Journal.
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3. The Fourteenth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History will be held February 28 - March 2, I-Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First, Champaign. Celine Parrenas Shumizu (UC Santa Barbara) will present the keynote address starting at 7:30, Thursday, February 28.
These presentation are free and open to the public.
For more information see http://wghs.history.illinois.edu/
The Center for Advanced Study is a cosponsor of this symposium.
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4. NEWS BUREAU TO HOST “WORKING WITH THE MEDIA SEMINAR" FOR LAS FACULTY
The News Bureau is offering a “Working with the Media Seminar” session for College of Liberal Arts and Sciences faculty on Friday, March 1 from 2:00-3:00 p.m. Topics will include “How, When, and Why to Explain Your Research to the Public,” “What the News Bureau Does,” and “What Makes a Research Story Newsworthy?” The event is free, but requires registration: https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/3124055 . The seminar will be held in Lincoln Hall, Room 1002. For more information, contact Sue Johnson (Director of Communications and Marketing, College of LAS) at johnso16@illinois.edu .
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Dear colleagues,
I am writing to share the poster and schedule for Richard Pithouse's visit to campus March 4-9, which CAS is supporting. Richard Pithouse is a South African scholar, journalist and activist with the Durban shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. The key public events of his visit are a panel on urban and housing activism from below in the History Department March 4, two showings of DEAR MANDELA, on Abahlali baseMjondolo, March 4 and 8, Richard's IPRH/History talk at the Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum Mar. 7 at 4 pm, and a "Community Knowledge" day at the Champaign Public Library, with a Skype conversation to Abahlali baseMjondolo and discussion about community knowledge that the University can tap from various community/campus movements March 9, 10 AM and 2 PM.
http://illinois.edu/2430/richard_pithouse_poster_2.pdf
I hope you will publicize this schedule widely and attend many of the events,
JACS 2013 The Future of Waste
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Zsuzsa Gille and Martin Medina Sr.
Date Mar 1, 2013
Time 3:00 pm
Location Illini Union room 314 A
Sponsor CO-SPONSORS: ADM | Anthropology |Center for African Studies | Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies| Center for Global Studies | Center for International Business and Education Research | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies | Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies | European Union Center | Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies |Russian, East European and Eurasian Center | Sociology | SDEP
Event type Seminar
Views 153
Originating Calendar Department of Sociology
2013 Joint Area Study Centers Symposium 3:00 pm Welcome (Zsuzsa Gille) (0:10) Screening of Waste Land (1:40) 5:00 pm - Keynote Speech Waste Governance: Can Less be More? Harnessing the Power of the Informal Sector in Male, Maldives, and Guangzhou, China Keynote by Martin Medina Sr. (International Relations Specialist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, DC.) 6:30 pm - Dinner reception (Illini Union room 314 B)
Journalism Career Night
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 28, 2013
Time 7:00 pm
Location Levis Faculty Center
Sponsor College of Media
Contact Lynn Holley
E-Mail lholley@illinois.edu
Views 344
Originating Calendar College of Media Events
Hear from alumni about their careers in the worlds of both traditional and new journalism. This will be an incredible opportunity to network and talk with veterans in the fields where you hope to work after graduation. Learn about breaking into the job market, what to put on a cover letter and resume, thriving in the many fields where your journalism skills are in demand and more. Open to all Journalism students.
ReplyDeleteUnderstanding a Social Scene from Social Cameras
Speaker Hyun Soo, Park
Date Mar 1, 2013
Time 2:00 pm
Location SC 3405
Sponsor Derek Hoiem
Views 202
Originating Calendar Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems (AIIS) Seminar
Abstract:
A social camera is a camera carried or worn by a member of a social group, (e.g., a smartphone camera, a hand-held camcorder, or a wearable camera). These cameras are becoming increasingly immersed in our social lives and closely capture our social activities. In this talk, I argue that social cameras are the ideal sensors for social scene understanding, as they inherit social signals such as the gaze behavior of the people carrying them. I will present a computational representation for social scene understanding from social cameras. A social scene, in general, involves various human interactions in the form of visible social signals, such as body gestures, gaze directions, or facial expressions.
In the first part of my talk, I will show how these social signals can be recovered in 3D. This work includes 3D trajectory reconstruction and motion capture from body-mounted cameras. The second part of the talk will focus on how the reconstructed signals can discover social salience via a gaze concurrence analysis. Social salience is the 3D location of what people pay attention to and our method reconstructs the spatio-temporal structure of social salience that may occur in the social scene.
Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Mediterranean Networks: Connecting People, Ideas and Cultures Across Time
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miriam cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Duke University; Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Date Mar 4, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location
2nd Floor, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana (map)
Sponsor
European Union Center; co-sponsors: Center for Advanced Study; Center for Global Studies; Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies; Department of French/French@Illinois; Department of History; Department of Political Science; Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; Modern Greek Studies; Women and Gender in Global Perspectives
Event type Lecture
Views 512
Originating Calendar European Union Center Events
Abstract:
Focusing on the transcultural networks of exchanges, borrowings and appropriations that have long linked the Mediterranean's diverse communities, cultures, and histories, cooke will examine the ways in which these networks have constructed Medizen subjectivities.
Speaker Bio:
miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University and Director of the Duke University Middle East Studies Center. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Dartmouth College. She serves on several international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. Since coming to Duke University she has taught Arabic language and a wide variety of courses on Arabic literature, war and gender, the Palestine-Israel conflict, postcolonial theory. She has directed several study abroad courses in Morocco, Tunisia, Cairo and Istanbul.
Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers’ constructions of Islamic feminism. Her more recent interests have turned to Arab cultural studies with a concentration on Syria, and to the networked connections among Arabs and Muslims around the world.
She is the author of several monographs that include The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi (1984); War's Other Voices: Women Writers on the Lebanese Civil War (1988); Women and the War Story (1997); Women Claim Islam: Creating Islamic Feminism through Literature (2001); Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007) and Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010). She has co-edited several volumes, including Opening the Gates. A Century of Arab Feminist Writing (1990/ 2005 with Margot Badran); Gendering War Talk (1993 with Angela Woollacott); Blood into Ink: 20th Century South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Write War (1994 with Roshni Rustomji); Muslim Networks from Hajj to Hip Hop (2005 with Bruce Lawrence); Mediterranean Passages: from Dido to Derrida (2008 with Erdag Goknar and Grant Parker). She has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life (2000). Three of her books (Women Claim Islam; Women and the War Story and The Anatomy of an Egyptian Intellectual: Yahya Haqqi) were named Choice Outstanding Academic Books. Several books have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch and German.
Hatch: A Creative-Reuse Art Festival
ReplyDeleteMarch 1 – 3, 2013
Hatch is the first-ever creative-reuse art festival produced by The I.D.E.A. Store, a Champaign, Illinois-based creative-reuse marketplace and social earned-income enterprise of the The Champaign Urbana Schools Foundation. The festival features a juried art fair and juried art exhibition, and takes place in and near downtown Champaign, a hip & happening entertainment district that is home to art galleries and studios, funky shops, and trendy bars and restaurants.
Hatch kicks off from 5-7 p.m. on Friday, March 1, 2013, with a festive opening reception at the host site of the art exhibition, The Indi Go Artist Co-op, 9 E. University Ave., Champaign. The exhibition will feature art and functional design by some of the Midwest’s most innovative creative-reuse artists and designers. Exhibited work will range from assemblage, collage, jewelry, fiber and paper arts to re-imagined objects for home and garden. Additional exhibition hours during the festival are 10 a.m.- 6 p.m. Saturday, March 2 and 1-5 p.m. Sunday, March 3. The exhibition will continue March 5-17, with gallery hours from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 1-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday (the gallery is closed on Mondays).
A second exciting component of Hatch is an all-day art fair on Saturday, March 2, where more than 20 artist-vendors will offer all manner of creative-reuse art for sale. The art fair will take place from 10 a.m.-6 p.m. in the McKinley Fitness Center gymnasium, 500 W. Church St., Champaign, Illinois. The venue is conveniently located a few blocks west of the Champaign downtown district.
We hope you will be there with us as we “Hatch” this exciting, new art festival!
http://the-idea-store.org/hatch/
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
ReplyDelete7pm
Illini Union I-rooms
Come join IUB along with the Illinois Leadership Center in welcoming University of Illinois Alum Sheila Johnson to campus!
Sheila Johnson is an entrepreneur and philanthropist whose accomplishments span from hospitality to sports, TV/film, and more. She is the CEO of Salamander Hospitality, LLC, a company that oversees a growing portfolio of luxury properties. She is co-founder of the TV network BET (Black Entertainment Television), where she pioneered modern television programming and created the award winning program Teen Summit. Ms. Johnson is also the first African-American woman to have a share in three professional sports teams. In addition, she is a 1970 music education graduate from the University of Illinois and an accomplished violinist and conductor.
Admission is free!
The lecture will take place in the Illini Union I-Rooms and a short Q&A session will follow the lecture.
https://www.facebook.com/events/213691042107354/
This has been cancelled and will be rescheduled. Check the Facebook event page for more info.
DeleteMedium & High Energy Seminar:"Hunting Asymmetric Stops"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Julia (Jessie) Shelton.Deparment of Physics, Harvard University
Date Mar 4, 2013 - Mar 5, 2013
Time 1:00 pm
Location 464 Loomis
Sponsor Medium High Energy Seminar
Contact Marjorie Gamel
E-Mail mgamel@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-3762
Event type Medium & High Energy Seminar
Originating Calendar Physics - Medium and High Energy Seminar
With the discovery of what looks very much like a weakly coupled Higgs boson, we have at last direct experimental evidence about how electroweak symmetry breaking (EWSB) is realized in nature. The next step in understanding EWSB is the hunt for partners to the top quark: is naturalness relevant for understanding the TeV scale, or not? I'll explain what makes these searches hard, discuss the current status of stops and other top partners, and propose a search in a novel final state, using novel variables.
http://www.renaissancesociety.org/site/
ReplyDeleteOpening Reception
John Neff
Location: The Renaissance Society
Admission: FREE
Featuring a talk with the artist from 5:00 to 6:00 pm in Kent Hall Room 107.
Neff is a Chicago photographer that turns scanners into cameras.
Davy Rothbart and Peter Rothbart
ReplyDeleteIn-Residence at Unit One/Allen Hall
3/3-3/7
Davy Rothbart is the creator of Found Magazine, a frequent contributor to This American Life, and author of the essay collection My Heart is an Idiot and a book of stories, The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He writes regularly for GQ Magazine, and his work also appears in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Believer. He has directed three films; a fourth, Easier With Practice, based on one of his autobiographical essays, won two 2010 Independent Spirit Awards.
Peter Rothbart is an award winning songwriter and the front man for folk rock group The Poem Adept. He recently released his third solo album, You Are What You Dream, and his music was featured in McSweeney's Wholphin and the 2012 documentary film Mister Rogers & Me. He is also an editor at Found Magazine and the executive director of the urban gardening organization We Patch.
Sunday, March 3
7:00 pm - Kickin' it With Found Magazine (main lounge)
Who drives the baddest Nissans in the Northwest? Why do clairvoyants make such fine web designers? Who spends more on liquor than rent? Will the booty ever stop? Find out the answers to these questions and many more as Davy shares his favorite hilarious and heartbreaking notes and letters from the pages of Found Magazine, Peter belts out beautiful and ridiculous tunes based on these finds, and the two discuss the 'zine's origins.
PEEP THIS—www.FoundMagazine.com
9:00pm - The Burnet, Texas Game (guest apartment)
You've got half an hour to take 24 pictures. Go!
PEEP THIS—www.mfrPhoto.com
WHAT TO BRING—the best camera you can get your hands on.
Monday, March 4
7:00 pm - Everything You Wanted To Know About 'This American Life' But Were Afraid To Ask (south rec room)
Davy shares his favorite stories from the popular public radio show as well as behind-the-scene insights and strategies for how to make great audio documentaries.
PEEP THIS—www.ThisAmericanLife.org/contributors/Davy-Rothbart
9:00 pm - I Am Extracting Lint From My Belly Button Right Now (guest apartment)
A wild, interactive audio scavenger hunt.
WHAT TO BRING—a recording device of any kind.
Tuesday, March 5
7:00 pm - How to Write Like I Do (south rec room)
Love writing but not sure what to write about? Writer's block got you stumped? Join Peter and Davy for insights about the creative writing process, including how to separate writing from editing, how to free yourself from self-criticism, and where to find inspiration. We'll also do some exercises to help you write like a boss, and play the funnest game ever!
WHAT TO BRING--a pen
9:00 pm - Fun With Labelmakers (guest apartment)
Vandalizing children's books and calling it “art.”
Wednesday, March 6
7:00 pm - How To Get Your Shit Out Into The World (south rec room)
Okay, you've recorded your album, written your book, painted your masterpiece, or started your rad non-profit organization. Now what? How do you get people to check it out? Davy and Peter share a very practical primer to DIY publicity and grassroots community-building, followed by a discussion and two in-class exercises.
WHAT TO BRING—a pen.
9:00 pm - All Eyez on Me (guest apt)
Sometimes the hardest part of doing what you do is doing it in front of other people. Learn how to take the stage with reckless abandon as Peter offers strategies for performers of all types. Be ready to act a fool!
WHAT TO BRING--a smile and an open mind. Leave your reservations and criticisms at home.
Thursday, March 7
7:00 pm - On The Mic, I Believe That You Should Get Loose (main lounge)
Davy and Peter close out the week with a rowdy and reflective hour-long performance.
WHAT TO BRING—cash or checkbook to buy cool Found stuff.
DROP-IN:
1-on-1 Songwriting Tutorials
Get personal feedback from Peter on your latest tunes. We'll make your songs shine!
PEEP THIS--www.poemadept.com
WHAT TO BRING--your instrument and lyrics to your songs.
UI UNIVERSITY BAND AND UI CAMPUS BAND
ReplyDeleteTUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013, AT 7:30PM | FOELLINGER GREAT HALL (krannert performing arts)
Open to all students, these two ensembles give music majors and experienced nonmajors an opportunity to perform a wide range of classic works as well as untraditional pieces and to engage in unusual collaborations. The UI Campus Band and UI University Band are large concert groups within the strong Illinois Bands program that dates to 1905.
This performance will last approximately 1 hour and has no intermission.
I anticipate this will be some sort of collaborative thing. Could be cool.
ReplyDeleteThe Museum of the Need to Know: the consumption of digital infrastructure on the China-Russia Border.
Speaker Dr. Dawn Nafus, Intel Labs
Date Mar 5, 2013
Time 6:00 pm
Location 1092 Lincoln Hall, 702 S Wright Street, Urbana
Sponsor CO-SPONSORED BY DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, RUSSIAN EAST EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN CENTER, DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION, DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY, CENTER FOR EAST ASIAN AND PACIFIC STUDIES, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, THE INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH.
Event type Seminar
Views 38
Notions of dingpolitiks have been significant to understanding the materialities of political practice and state governance. Yet dingpolitiks and other aligned theoretical frameworks have largely been developed in the context of democratic processes and ideals. This work uses the case of a digital technology project on the China-Russia border to examine the visibilities and invisibilities of infrastructures as a situated set of relations. In this project, the Chinese state produced an aestheticized, consumable experience of infrastructure plans, and partially withheld it from local citizens only then to make a spectacle of that which was withheld. In doing so, the state not only created differential terms of access, but created a specific kind of relationship between the people it differentiated. It made them into objects of each others' spectacle. In this way, we can think of non-democratic dingpolitiks as a politics of managed differentiation. Dawn Nafus is an anthropologist with Intel Labs, where she conducts ethnographic research to inform new product development and strategy. She holds a PhD from University of Cambridge and has research interests in various aspects of the anthropology of technology, including experiences of temporality, notions of development, gender, and numeracies as material and cultural forms.
Feb 28 :: 5:30 PM
ReplyDelete62 Krannert
A Clear Day and No Memories
Neurology, Philosophy, and Analogy in Kerry Tribe's H.M.
lecture by Matthew Goulish
In 1953, Henry Molaison underwent radical brain surgery to cure his epileptic seizures, after which he could not commit new events to long-term memory. He spent the rest of his life as an object of neurological study. In Kerry Tribe's installation HM a 16 mm film spools through two projectors spaced far enough apart to allow the audience to experience the film twice at a 20 second delay, miming the duration of HM's present; he forgot events after 20 seconds.
Drawing on the poetry of Wallace Stevens and Whitehead's process philosophy, this lecture examines Tribe's installation, and the problems of clinical versus critical thinking. What is the place of neurology in the project that philosophy and poetry can be said to share? Is a fundamental difference between philosophy and medicine the inclusion of horror? Who do we become when we sit in Tribe's installation?
I Am Asian American Week
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 5, 2012
Time 6:00 pm
Location Wesley Foundation, Great Hall
Sponsor Asian and Pacific American Coaltion, Philippine Student Association, Taiwanese American Student Club, alpha Kappa Delta Phi
Contact Ariel Wang
E-Mail ariel.wang373@gmail.com
Phone 847.691.1907
Views 1068
Originating Calendar Asian American Cultural Center Events
PSA & TASC & aKDPhi collaboration.
Medium & High Energy Seminar, "Higgs Boson vs. New Physics"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Brian Batell, University of Chicago, Enrico Fermi Institute
Date Mar 1, 2013
Time 11:00 am
Location 322 Loomis
Sponsor Physics Department
Contact Marjorie Gamel
E-Mail mgamel@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-3762
Event type Medium & High Energy Seminar
Views 64
Originating Calendar Physics - Medium and High Energy Seminar
The discovery of the Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider represents a major breakthrough in our quest to unravel the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. The next step in this effort is a precise experimental determination of the properties of this new state, such as its couplings and quantum numbers. These measurements, while providing new tests of the Standard Model of particle physics, will also provide novel probes of theories that go beyond the Standard Model. I will describe in detail how measurements of the signal strength parameters (ratios of measured cross sections to their predictions in the Standard Model) constrain new physics, both from an effective field theory perspective and in the context of explicit new physics models. I will emphasize the complementarity of these measurements with direct searches at colliders as well as indirect constraints such as the precision electroweak data and the stability of the electroweak vacuum. I will also present more speculative interpretations of the current trends in the Higgs data set along with the prospects for testing these scenarios.
Art Theater
ReplyDeleteAmour screening
7:30 PM
From the director of CACHE and THE WHITE RIBBON. "Brilliantly directed with an atypically tender touch by the Austrian director Michael Haneke, this story about an octogenarian husband and wife facing their mortality had left audiences stunned with its artistry and depth of feeling." -Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN ENGINEERING
ReplyDeleteWho : Jerry Kennelly, founder of Riverbend Technology
When : Tuesday, March - 5:00 PM
Where : Siebert Center