crediting curiosity >
culturing creativity //////////
ARTD499 > SP13 > Linda Robbennolt > Photography > School of Art and Design > University of Illinois > Urbana/Champaign
Todd Gitlin draws on his experience as activist and researcher to analyze social mobilization in our era of new and changing media. He will be speaking about how Social Media is a media, and not a society.
Speaker Todd Gitlin Date Feb 7, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum Cost Free and open to the public Sponsor Sponsored by Sociology and CAS MillerComm; Co-sponsored by WGGP and others
Speaker Mathias Risse (Harvard University) Date Feb 8, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center Cost Free and Open to the Public E-Mail colleenm@illinois.edu Phone (217) 333-2889. Registration Lunch include with registration by February 6th
Food for the Soul: I Am My Brother's Keeper: Champaign-Urbana's Brother to Brother Project
Speaker Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department (CUPHD) Date Feb 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
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.
Speaker Noreen Sugrue, WGGP and Sociology Date Feb 11, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign Cost Free and open to public Sponsor Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Study Abroad Office E-Mail wggp@illinois.edu Phone 333-1994 Registration Please register for lunch Event type Lecture Views 163 Originating Calendar Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP) Reflections on intersession trip, "Environmental Issues, Health, and Global Justice in the Developing World: Morocco"
Noreen M. Sugrue is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Health and Policy Initiatives in Women and Gender in Global Perspectives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Before joining WGGP, she was Senior Research Associate in the College of Nursing at University of Illinois and in 2003-04 she was a Resident Associate at UIUC's Center for Advanced Study. Her broad research focus is health and social welfare policy as well as international health policy. She is concerned with health labor issues as well as maternal and child health issues. She is the author of forthcoming book on nurses' aides. She also is principal investigator or co-investigator on research projects related to health care labor, immigrants, and/or health policy.
Thursday 7 February | 7:30PM Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert $10
Classical Mix Series | In 2001, a unique group of musicians—colleagues and friends from leading conservatories and music festivals across the country—envisioned the creation of a democratically run, self-conducted chamber orchestra that would thrive on the pure joy and camaraderie of classical music-making. Their vision was realized through ECCO, a dynamic collective that combines the strength and power of a great orchestral ensemble with the intimacy and sensitivity of superb chamber music. ECCO’s fresh interpretations, coupled with playing that exudes both finesse and delight, have propelled the group into position as one of the most exceptional ensembles of today’s generation.
Purcell: Fantasias Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge Bartók: Divertimento Geminiani, arr. Wiancko: “La Follia” Variations
Seoul Train Directed by Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky and Lisa Sleeth. 2005. 54 minutes. In Korean, Mandarin Chinese, English and Polish with English subtitles.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 7:00 pm Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL
Encore Screening: Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 7:00 pm (encore screening) Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Introduction and discussion by Dohye Kim (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UI).
Description: Through the combination of vérité footage, personal stories and interviews, Seoul Train is a riveting exposé into the life and death of North Koreans who attempt escape from their homeland and China via a secretive “underground railroad.” In this film we meet the activists on the front line, learn of the risks they take for their refugees and for themselves, and see firsthand the toll their work takes on them. We also hear from the Chinese Government, who articulates its country’s claims as to why the North Koreans are not refugees; from the UNHCR as to why it has failed to save even one North Korean refugee; from Sen. Sam Brownback, who has publicly challenged both the PRC and UNHCR; and from other experts (academics and NGOs) on the crisis at hand. Resources: Official website: http://www.seoultrain.com/ Contains a complete information on the film and production, history of the crisis, a trailer, and how to purchase.
Make 'Em Laugh (And Why You Should): Using Humor in the Classroom
Speaker Lucas Anderson
Date Feb 11, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location Room 428 Armory Building
Cost Free, but registration required!
Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence
E-Mail lander23@illinois.edu
Phone 217-300-4408
Registration https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/8577603
Event type Workshop
Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new) The use of humor is effective in motivating students, relieving anxiety, and building rapport. It is also awesome. We'll talk about why you should bring humor into the classroom, the types of humor available to you, the types of humor to avoid, and more. Absolutely no giraffes or harmonicas permitted!!
"The Perils of Princesses: Real and Imagined Women in Medieval Persian Literature"
Speaker Richard Davis, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature at Ohio State University Date Feb 7, 2013 Time 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Location Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room Cost free and open to the public Sponsor CSAMES Contact Angela Williams E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu Phone (217) 244-5939 Event type Public Lecture
Date Feb 6, 2013 Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Location ARC Concourse Level outside the locker rooms Cost FREE Sponsor McKinley Health Education and the UI Wellness Center Views 95 Originating Calendar UI Wellness Center - General Events Come and have your body composition and blood pressure measured by McKinley's Fitness and Nutrition Peers. Ask your exercise and food related questions as well.
Date Feb 9, 2013 Time 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Location Urbana Free Library Children's Department. 210 W Green St, Urbana. Sponsor Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies Contact Alejandra S-Seufferheld E-Mail amsseu@illinois.edu Event type Outreach Views 158 Originating Calendar Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) The Spanish Story Time program consists of storytelling, live music and art. It is presented bilingually in Spanish/English.
In case you wondering, this is going to be fucking awesome and you should totally go
Pecha Kucha Night C-U Vol. 11
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT PARKLAND COLLEGE in the PARKHILL APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTER PechaKucha Night Champaign-Urbana is excited to partner with Parkland College to present PechaKucha Night C-U Vol. 11 in a sparkling new venue, the Parkhill Applied Technology Center at Parkland College in Champaign.
PKN C-U Vol. 11 returns on Friday, February 8th with a new roster of quirky, insightful, and creative minds tapped from Champaign-Urbana's wealth of talent. Join us for an inspiring, artsy evening with friends, snacks, beer, and new presentations.
PechaKucha Night Champaign-Urbana Volume 11 is sponsored by The I.D.E.A. Store, Hatch: A Creative Reuse Art Festival, Unisource, 88.7 WPCD FM and Bugbee's DJ Plus. The evening will be hosted by Parkland College and CUDO, your friendly neighborhood design organization.
THE NITTY GRITTY Friday February 8, 2013 Parkland College at the Parkhill Applied Technology Center Building T 2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign For Directions: http://gds.parkland.edu/pkn/where.html Doors open 7:30pm. Show starts at 8:20pm. Admissions is FREE! Possible mature content 18+
The fabulous Michael Morgan returns as our emcee for the night. 88.7 WPCD will be DJing throughout the night
Stay after the show for a performance from Ryan Groff!
Please RSVP on our Facebook page: tinyurl.com/fbpkncuvol11
THE EVENING'S LINEUP Champaign-Urbana’s eleventh PechaKucha Night will feature ten presenters:
Luke Boyce: 5 Movies That Literally Changed the World Vanessa and Doug Burgett: 20 Collaborations x 20 Days Michael Coulter: Ideas, and How to Stop Them Jonas Dees: If your jeans could talk would you like what they have to say? Raeann Dossett: Information Apocalypse! Rebecca Grosser: World's Fastest Sing-Along Kaizad IranI: The Inner Sanctum: Sacred Spaces and Healing Spaces Tom Ramage: Extreme Paintball Jennifer Smith: Learning to Live Legendary Cathie Stalter: Cars, Cars, Cars
Our Mission: Preparing students for meaningful and impactful careers through internships with local organizations that will enhance existing efforts in the Champaign-Urbana community.
Program Objectives: · Have students gain valuable work experience that will prepare them for socially minded careers · Increase the impact of local organizations in Champaign Urbana by enhancing existing efforts · Connecting campus resources to community development
For more information visit UIntern.weebly.com
Want to learn more about the fantastic workshop series and internship opportunities that UIntern offers? Please attend one of two information sessions being held next week.
UIntern Information Sessions 7:00 PM, Tuesday, February 5th, Lincoln Hall Room 1000 7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 6th, English Building Room 160
Date Feb 6, 2013 Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Location Beckman Institute Auditorium (Rm 1025) Sponsor Shelby, Illinois Enginering First-Year Experience, Black Geek Week Event type Special Events Views 68 Originating Calendar TEC Calendar Ralph Gilles, Chrysler Group Design Senior VP & President of SRT Brand, will be giving a talk on on the business of high performance technology and popular culture
"Mosquita y Mari" Screening (Feb 6) + Lunch with director Aurora Guerrero (Feb 7)
La Casa (The Latino/Latina Cultural Center) is sponsoring this screening. It was a Sundance Film Festival "hit," but the IMDb page has very mixed reviews. It is a coming-of-age film about the growing relationship between two Chicana immigrant who have a fun lesbian relationship. They also complicate things by discussing privilege and denial of citizenship.
The screening will be in 180 Bevier Hall, Feb 6, at 7pm.
The next day, there will be a FREE lunch and discussion with director Aurora Guerrero. The lunch is at noon at La Casa (1203 W Nevada St). This is in the weekly lunch series that La Casa has every Thursday. I believe you need an iCard to get in, but I'm not positive on that.
Speaker Nina Totenberg Date Feb 11, 2013 Time 2:00 pm Location Beckman Institute Auditorium Sponsor College of Media Phone 333-2350 Views 159 The public is invited to a lecture by Nina Totenberg. Totenberg is the 2012 recipient of the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed news magazines: All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.
Bromance: Exploring the Rewards, Challenges, and Tensions of Men’s Friendships
Date: February 8 Time: 12-1 pm Speaker: Kenneth Importante (AACC, Rory James, BNAACC, & Herb Jones, University Housing) Sponsor: Diversity & Social Justice Education Location: 703 S. Wright St, 2nd Floor
Exploring the rewards, challenges, and tensions of men's friendships. Come for the FREE food, Stay for the Conversation! Part of Diversity Ed's "Conversation Cafe" Lunch On Us series
"Got the Winter Blues? Seasonal Affective Disorder"
Tuesday, February 5, 7-9 p.m. Wilson Chapel YMCA Do you ever feel like the weather affects your mood? You may be dealing with the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This psychoeducational workshop will give participants an understanding of what SAD truly is. Participants will discuss the various types of depression and where SAD falls on that spectrum. You will also learn about the causes and symptoms that lead to SAD. You will leave with tips and tricks to combat this disorder and keep your spirits high. Even if you have not experienced symptoms caused by SAD, come and learn how to recognize them in others and provide support. www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=72 Kayla Johnson, johns254@illinois.edu
"Health Data Collection Efforts Targeting Obesity and Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Conditions in Uganda"
Speakers: Diane Grigsby-Toussaint, Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health and Mary J. Christoph, PhD/MPH Student in Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
Date: Feb 6, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
Dish It Up: 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: Creating Culture, Changing History
Speaker Heather Ault, MFA, Artist and Founder of 4000 Years for Choice Date Feb 11, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL 61820 MC-302 Cost FREE Sponsor WRC Contact Rachel Storm E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu Phone (217) 333-3137 Event type Dish It Up Lunch Series Views 98 Originating Calendar Women's Resources Center 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. Dish It Up and the Lunch on Us Programs from OIIR offer a unique opportunity to engage with your peers in a fruitful discussion of identity, social phenomena, and justice on campus. Each Dish It Up program offers vegan and vegetarian food options. Should you require any additional accommodations (assistance with food and seating, large print programs, ASL interpreter, visual/audio assistance, etc.), please contact us at your earliest convenience.PAID FOR BY THE STUDENT CULTURAL PROGRAMMING FEE
2013 PRISMS GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURE SERIES: "Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Prevention" Dr. Nathan Wolfe, Stanford University Feb 11, 2013 12:00 pm NCSA Auditorium; 1205 West Clark Street; Urbana, IL Co-sponsored in part by the Center for Global Studies, CSAMES, and others Contact Angela Williams E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu Phone (217) 244-5939 Public Lecture
Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks then try to treat them, over the next 50 years we will realize that it is better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention. In this talk I discuss how novel viruses enter into the human population from animals and go on to become pandemics. I then discuss attempts by my own research group to study this process and attempt to control viruses that have only recently emerged. By creating a global network at the interface of humans and animals we are working to move viral forecasting from a theoretical possibility to a reality.
Dr. Antwi Akom Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/10-2/14 Co-sponsored by Sustainability LLC
All events are open to the public and take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, U. Free parking is available in the garage across the street.
Dr. Akom is Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (I-SEEED) which focuses on creating sustainable cities and schools so that people do not have to leave their communities in order to live, learn, work, and thrive. Dr. Akom is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, Public Health, and STEM Education at San Francisco State University. His forthcoming books are Building Sustainable Cities and Schools and Redemption Songs: New Visions of Race, Schooling, and Sustainability. He is a highly sought-after speaker nationally and internationally.
Sunday, Feb 10 7pm -Opening Program: Eco-Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Building an Environmental Justice Movement for Everyone(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Monday, Feb 11 7pm - Race, Power and the Environment: Building a Youth Driven Climate Justice Movement(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Tuesday, Feb 12 7pm - Fresh Ideas: Grassroots Solutions to Building Healthy Sustainable Communities(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Thursday, Feb 14 7pm - Green Revolutions: What the Modern World Can Learn from the Indigenous World to Save our Planet [Movie and Discussion](in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Date Feb 11, 2013 Time 7:00 pm Location Daniels Hall Sponsor McKinley Sexual Health Peers Event type Health Originating Calendar McKinley Health Center - Health Education What are the characteristics of a healthy relationship? What qualities are we looking for in a potential partner? Real Life Romance explores the issues of romance, intimacy, and dating among college students, and offers tips for better communication in our relationships. Differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships are also explored, including resources on campus that address relationship violence.
"Annie Sprinkle has made SEX her life’s work for four decades. She was a prostitute and porn star who recreated herself as a pivotal player in the 1980’s sex–positive feminist movement, became a tantric sex guru, an internationally acclaimed performance artist, and a sexologist with a PhD. Now the grrrlll has gone green and has come out of the closet as “ecosexual,” taking the Earth as her lover. Annie will share her life’s work, do mini-performances, and stimulate discussion.
Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn’t have a sexpert to ask. It’s fun, it’s entertaining, it’s educational. Questions can be asked anonymously or not."
Date Feb 7, 2013 Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm Location BIF Room 2011 Sponsor BCS Event type Company Presentation Originating Calendar Business - Business Career Services Information Session for all Students
side note* How cool would it be to get an internship with Coca-Cola!
Time: Thursday, Feb 07, 2013 07:15PM-09:00PM Location: Siebel 2405
Join in our tech talk with founders and key engineers from Belly. Come engage in an interactive session to learn about their backgrounds, challenges faced at startups, and the technology around their product!
Desserts will be provided.
Description of Belly I googled: http://www.podiumventures.com/blog/17-trends/414-startup-to-watch-belly-startup-to-watch-belly
Drug combinations are commonly employed in the treatment of multi-component diseases, severe bacterial infections, and many types of cancer. However, the actions of individual drugs are often coupled through their effects on complex intracellular networks. As a result, it is generally impossible to infer the net effect of a multi-drug combination directly from the effects of individual drugs. Dr. Wood will discuss his team's recent work that explores how drug interactions accumulate as the number of drugs, N, in a combination increases. First, the team develops a statistical model that associates drug interactions with correlations between random variables to exploit methods from statistical physics to measure the contributions of all K-body interactions (K<=N) to a given N-drug effect. Using this framework, they then experimentally show that the bacterial responses to drug pairs are sufficient to predict the effects of larger drug combinations in both gram negative bacteria (E. coli) and gram positive (S. aureus) bacteria. Remarkably, the quantitative relationship governing the accumulation of pairwise drug interactions appears to be independent of microscopic details such as cell type and drug biochemistry. Dr. Wood also will discuss an adaptation of this approach to study multi-drug resistance, a growing public health threat, and he will show how the team's findings can accelerate the development of cell-selective, therapeutically potent multi-drug therapies.
posting this makes me realize how fucking single i actually am.....
Counseling Center Workshop - Me, Myself, & I: Single and Satisfied!
Single? Happy? Satisfied? Want to learn how to be? Our workshop is the one for you! Please join us, the Counseling Center Paraprofessionals, on Tuesday, February 12th from 7 to 9pm to explore the single status through a lens of positivity. We will look critically at stereotypes, explore our own personal strengths, provide tips on having a fulfilling single life, and much more! Anyone who wants to positively explore the single status is welcomed! Let us be your guide, you'll leave this workshop feeling Single and Satisfied!
Date Feb 12, 2013 Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm Location Wilson Chapel Room @ YMCA
Friday, February 8 Marxism & the Interpretation of Culture at 25: Theories for the New Millennium(Symposium) Levis Faculty Center, Second floor
A Winter Symposium featuring papers by Gopal Balakrishnan (University of California, Santa Cruz), Laura Chrisman (University of Washington), David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania), Shu-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angeles), Carolyn Lesjak (Simon Fraser University, Canada), and Nikhil Pal Singh (New York University). Lead Organizers: Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Unit/English), Michael Rothberg (English/Holocaust, Genocide, & Memory Studies Initiative)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study; the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; the Department of English; the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies; the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative; the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese; the Department of Anthropology; the International Forum on US Studies; the Department of History; the Department of Political Science
Development Seminar-Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School)
Date Feb 8, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 2043 BIF Sponsor Dept of Economics Views 8 Originating Calendar Department of Economics (EVENTS) Joint with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Dept of Business Administration: "What do Latin American Development Banks Do?"
William G. Wilson is co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women - a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.
Scandinavian Studies - Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University: "Until the Sun Returns: Sami Cultural Resilience"
Speaker Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University Date Feb 12, 2013 Time 6:00 pm Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building Cost Free and open to the public Sponsor Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures Contact Professor Anna Stenport E-Mail aws@illinois.edu Event type Lecture Views 331 Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar Astract -- Despite enduring centuries of colonization and oppression, the Indigenous Sami people of northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia continue not only to survive, but to thrive. As we enter a period of increasing racism, violence, and an apparent return of state support for colonialism, we can take heart in the resilient staying power of Sami culture and ways of knowing. Bio -- Troy Storfjell is Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. A Sami scholar himself, he has focused much of his research on Nordic colonialism and Sami culture and literature. Recently Troy has been working in the area of Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies. He also serves on the board of Romssa Sami Searvi, the Tromso Sami Association. Troy received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin'Madison in 2001.
Dr. Tih-Fen Ting - University of Illinois Springfield Part of: Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) Seminars When: 3pm Feb 12, 2013 Where: (had to call and ask for this because it was nowhere online) Forbes Natural History Building (Formerly the I-Building), room 1005
Franklin's ground squirrel is declining in much of the central United States and is considered endangered, threatened, or a species of concern in many Midwestern states. Declines in Franklin's ground squirrel populations in the Midwest have been widely attributed to loss and fragmentation of habitat due to intensive agricultural practices, especially in the southern portions of its range such as Illinois. Nowadays in the southern portions of its range, Franklin's ground squirrels are frequently found along roadside or railroad right-of-ways with a diverse mixture of grassy and woody vegetation when these areas are no longer in use. However, these right-of-way habitats disappear quickly without active management to remove woody vegetation, especially trees that will shade out grasses and eventually turn prairie or savanna-like habitat into woodlands. Beginning 2010, Franklin's ground squirrel has been surveyed along sections of an abandoned railroad corridor in Sangamon County, Illinois. Portions of this abandoned railroad corridor owned by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources offer an opportunity to experimentally implement habitat management practices and monitor subsequent responses of Franklin's ground squirrels to removal or thinning of major woody structures. In this talk, I will present the survey results, assessment of the condition and suitability of this former railroad bed for sustaining the colonies of P. franklinii, and an on-going habitat improvement study in Sangamon County for Franklin's ground squirrel.
Astrophysics Colloquium: Ryan Foley, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University: "Improving Dark Energy Measurements through a Detailed Understanding of Supernova Physics"
Speaker Ryan Foley Date Feb 12, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location 134 Astronomy Sponsor Astronomy Department Contact Brian Fields E-Mail bdfields@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is at a crossroads. Previous SN surveys have been extremely successful, discovering the Universe's accelerated expansion (leading to the 2011 Nobel prize in physics) and providing ever-smaller constraints on the nature of dark energy. However, we have amassed enough data that simply increasing the samples will not improve our knowledge of cosmological parameters. Instead, we must produce novel techniques of reducing systematic uncertainties. Some of the largest systematic uncertainties are related to the nature of the SN progenitors and dust reddening. I will present evidence that multiple progenitor systems create SNe Ia and the discovery of the first link between the SN environment and the explosion, and discuss possible effects for SN cosmology. I will discuss a new and novel way of precisely determining the intrinsic color of SNe Ia, which improves our measurement of dust reddening, and thus distance estimates. I will also discuss a large (100 orbit) HST program that largely avoids the problems of dust by observing high-redshift SNe Ia in the NIR. Finally, I will discuss how future surveys such as DES and LSST can apply these techniques and knowledge to provide the best cosmological constraints with observations of SN Ia.
Event: Engineering Open House, Imagine the Possibilites 2013 Date: March 8-9 Where: Engineering Campus
We are excited to welcome you to the 93rd annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each year, we welcome over 20,000 visitors to our campus to experience the thrill of engineering. This year, we will have more than 250 exhibits ranging from concrete crushing to Newtonian fluid demonstrations. EOH will take place on March 8-9, 2013. The open hours are 9am-4pm on Friday and 9am-3pm on Saturday. We look forward to providing the best possible experience for our visitors and hope that you will take the time to visit our campus during the EOH weekend.
Lecture: Social Media
ReplyDeleteTodd Gitlin draws on his experience as activist and researcher to analyze social mobilization in our era of new and changing media. He will be speaking about how Social Media is a media, and not a society.
Speaker Todd Gitlin
Date Feb 7, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Cost Free and open to the public
Sponsor Sponsored by Sociology and CAS MillerComm; Co-sponsored by WGGP and others
Hot Topics | "Race, Gender, and Body Image in the Media"
ReplyDeleteFeb 11, 2013 (Mon)
7pm-9pm
Women's Resources Center (703 S. Wright St. MC-302, 2nd Floor, Champaign, IL 61820)
FREE
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?key=201302112013021123762285
reviewed by MOLLY
Deletereviewed by Brianne
Deletereviewed by ANNE
Deletereviewed by GINO
DeleteImmigration and Common Ownership of the Earth
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Mathias Risse (Harvard University)
Date Feb 8, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Reading Room, Levis Faculty Center
Cost Free and Open to the Public
E-Mail colleenm@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 333-2889.
Registration Lunch include with registration by February 6th
Food for the Soul: I Am My Brother's Keeper: Champaign-Urbana's Brother to Brother Project
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Champaign-Urbana Public Health Department (CUPHD)
Date Feb 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
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27467537&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
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.
Morocco: A Country of Contradictions
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Noreen Sugrue, WGGP and Sociology
Date Feb 11, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
Cost Free and open to public
Sponsor Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program and Study Abroad Office
E-Mail wggp@illinois.edu
Phone 333-1994
Registration Please register for lunch
Event type Lecture
Views 163
Originating Calendar Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP)
Reflections on intersession trip, "Environmental Issues, Health, and Global Justice in the Developing World: Morocco"
Noreen M. Sugrue is Assistant Professor and Coordinator of Health and Policy Initiatives in
DeleteWomen and Gender in Global Perspectives at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Before joining WGGP, she was Senior Research Associate in the College of Nursing at
University of Illinois and in 2003-04 she was a Resident Associate at UIUC's Center for
Advanced Study. Her broad research focus is health and social welfare policy as well as
international health policy. She is concerned with health labor issues as well as maternal and
child health issues. She is the author of forthcoming book on nurses' aides. She also is principal
investigator or co-investigator on research projects related to health care labor, immigrants,
and/or health policy.
ECCO—EAST COAST CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
ReplyDeleteThursday 7 February | 7:30PM
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert
$10
Classical Mix Series | In 2001, a unique group of musicians—colleagues and friends from leading conservatories and music festivals across the country—envisioned the creation of a democratically run, self-conducted chamber orchestra that would thrive on the pure joy and camaraderie of classical music-making. Their vision was realized through ECCO, a dynamic collective that combines the strength and power of a great orchestral ensemble with the intimacy and sensitivity of superb chamber music. ECCO’s fresh interpretations, coupled with playing that exudes both finesse and delight, have propelled the group into position as one of the most exceptional ensembles of today’s generation.
Purcell: Fantasias
Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Bartók: Divertimento
Geminiani, arr. Wiancko: “La Follia” Variations
Seoul Train
ReplyDeleteDirected by Jim Butterworth, Aaron Lubarsky and Lisa Sleeth.
2005. 54 minutes.
In Korean, Mandarin Chinese, English and Polish with English subtitles.
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 7:00 pm
Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL
Encore Screening:
Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 7:00 pm (encore screening)
Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Introduction and discussion by Dohye Kim (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, UI).
Description:
Through the combination of vérité footage, personal stories and interviews, Seoul Train is a riveting exposé into the life and death of North Koreans who attempt escape from their homeland and China via a secretive “underground railroad.” In this film we meet the activists on the front line, learn of the risks they take for their refugees and for themselves, and see firsthand the toll their work takes on them. We also hear from the Chinese Government, who articulates its country’s claims as to why the North Koreans are not refugees; from the UNHCR as to why it has failed to save even one North Korean refugee; from Sen. Sam Brownback, who has publicly challenged both the PRC and UNHCR; and from other experts (academics and NGOs) on the crisis at hand.
Resources:
Official website: http://www.seoultrain.com/
Contains a complete information on the film and production, history of the crisis, a trailer, and how to purchase.
reviewed by BECCA
DeleteMake 'Em Laugh (And Why You Should): Using Humor in the Classroom
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Lucas Anderson
Date Feb 11, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Location Room 428 Armory Building
Cost Free, but registration required!
Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence
E-Mail lander23@illinois.edu
Phone 217-300-4408
Registration https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/8577603
Event type Workshop
Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new)
The use of humor is effective in motivating students, relieving anxiety, and building rapport. It is also awesome. We'll talk about why you should bring humor into the classroom, the types of humor available to you, the types of humor to avoid, and more. Absolutely no giraffes or harmonicas permitted!!
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7/27346109
Delete"The Perils of Princesses: Real and Imagined Women in Medieval Persian Literature"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Richard Davis, Professor Emeritus of Persian Literature at Ohio State University
Date Feb 7, 2013
Time 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Location Levis Faculty Center, Reading Room
Cost free and open to the public
Sponsor CSAMES
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-5939
Event type Public Lecture
Wellzone Checkups
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 6, 2013
Time 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location ARC Concourse Level outside the locker rooms
Cost FREE
Sponsor McKinley Health Education and the UI Wellness Center
Views 95
Originating Calendar UI Wellness Center - General Events
Come and have your body composition and blood pressure measured by McKinley's Fitness and Nutrition Peers. Ask your exercise and food related questions as well.
Spanish Story Time
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 9, 2013
Time 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Location Urbana Free Library Children's Department. 210 W Green St, Urbana.
Sponsor Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Contact Alejandra S-Seufferheld
E-Mail amsseu@illinois.edu
Event type Outreach
Views 158
Originating Calendar Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS)
The Spanish Story Time program consists of storytelling, live music and art. It is presented bilingually in Spanish/English.
In case you wondering, this is going to be fucking awesome and you should totally go
ReplyDeletePecha Kucha Night C-U Vol. 11
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8 AT PARKLAND COLLEGE in the PARKHILL APPLIED TECHNOLOGY CENTER
PechaKucha Night Champaign-Urbana is excited to partner with Parkland College to present PechaKucha Night C-U Vol. 11 in a sparkling new venue, the Parkhill Applied Technology Center at Parkland College in Champaign.
PKN C-U Vol. 11 returns on Friday, February 8th with a new roster of quirky, insightful, and creative minds tapped from Champaign-Urbana's wealth of talent. Join us for an inspiring, artsy evening with friends, snacks, beer, and new presentations.
PechaKucha Night Champaign-Urbana Volume 11 is sponsored by The I.D.E.A. Store, Hatch: A Creative Reuse Art Festival, Unisource, 88.7 WPCD FM and Bugbee's DJ Plus. The evening will be hosted by Parkland College and CUDO, your friendly neighborhood design organization.
THE NITTY GRITTY
Friday February 8, 2013
Parkland College at the Parkhill Applied Technology Center
Building T
2400 West Bradley Avenue, Champaign
For Directions: http://gds.parkland.edu/pkn/where.html
Doors open 7:30pm. Show starts at 8:20pm.
Admissions is FREE! Possible mature content 18+
The fabulous Michael Morgan returns as our emcee for the night.
88.7 WPCD will be DJing throughout the night
Stay after the show for a performance from Ryan Groff!
Please RSVP on our Facebook page: tinyurl.com/fbpkncuvol11
THE EVENING'S LINEUP
Champaign-Urbana’s eleventh PechaKucha Night will feature ten presenters:
Luke Boyce: 5 Movies That Literally Changed the World
Vanessa and Doug Burgett: 20 Collaborations x 20 Days
Michael Coulter: Ideas, and How to Stop Them
Jonas Dees: If your jeans could talk would you like what they have to say?
Raeann Dossett: Information Apocalypse!
Rebecca Grosser: World's Fastest Sing-Along
Kaizad IranI: The Inner Sanctum: Sacred Spaces and Healing Spaces
Tom Ramage: Extreme Paintball
Jennifer Smith: Learning to Live Legendary
Cathie Stalter: Cars, Cars, Cars
UIntern
ReplyDeleteOur Mission:
Preparing students for meaningful and impactful careers through internships with local organizations that will enhance existing efforts in the Champaign-Urbana community.
Program Objectives:
· Have students gain valuable work experience that will prepare them for socially minded careers
· Increase the impact of local organizations in Champaign Urbana by enhancing existing efforts
· Connecting campus resources to community development
For more information visit UIntern.weebly.com
Want to learn more about the fantastic workshop series and internship opportunities that UIntern offers? Please attend one of two information sessions being held next week.
UIntern Information Sessions
7:00 PM, Tuesday, February 5th, Lincoln Hall Room 1000
7:00 PM, Wednesday, February 6th, English Building Room 160
IPOWERED Lecture Series: Ralph Gilles
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 6, 2013
Time 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location Beckman Institute Auditorium (Rm 1025)
Sponsor Shelby, Illinois Enginering First-Year Experience, Black Geek Week
Event type Special Events
Views 68
Originating Calendar TEC Calendar
Ralph Gilles, Chrysler Group Design Senior VP & President of SRT Brand, will be giving a talk on on the business of high performance technology and popular culture
"Mosquita y Mari" Screening (Feb 6) + Lunch with director Aurora Guerrero (Feb 7)
ReplyDeleteLa Casa (The Latino/Latina Cultural Center) is sponsoring this screening. It was a Sundance Film Festival "hit," but the IMDb page has very mixed reviews. It is a coming-of-age film about the growing relationship between two Chicana immigrant who have a fun lesbian relationship. They also complicate things by discussing privilege and denial of citizenship.
The screening will be in 180 Bevier Hall, Feb 6, at 7pm.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=27530339&calMin=201302&cal=20130203&skinId=1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1978480/?ref_=sr_2
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUaDJ5omP3Y
The next day, there will be a FREE lunch and discussion with director Aurora Guerrero. The lunch is at noon at La Casa (1203 W Nevada St). This is in the weekly lunch series that La Casa has every Thursday. I believe you need an iCard to get in, but I'm not positive on that.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3114?eventId=27521290&calMin=201302&cal=20130203&skinId=2292
Speaker Nina Totenberg
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 11, 2013
Time 2:00 pm
Location Beckman Institute Auditorium
Sponsor College of Media
Phone 333-2350
Views 159
The public is invited to a lecture by Nina Totenberg. Totenberg is the 2012 recipient of the Illinois Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Journalism. Her reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed news magazines: All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Totenberg
Bromance: Exploring the Rewards, Challenges, and Tensions of Men’s Friendships
ReplyDeleteDate: February 8
Time: 12-1 pm
Speaker: Kenneth Importante (AACC, Rory James, BNAACC, & Herb Jones, University Housing)
Sponsor: Diversity & Social Justice Education
Location: 703 S. Wright St, 2nd Floor
Exploring the rewards, challenges, and tensions of men's friendships. Come for the FREE food, Stay for the Conversation!
Part of Diversity Ed's "Conversation Cafe" Lunch On Us series
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/3322?eventId=27516619&calMin=201302&cal=20130204&skinId=5530
reviewed by PUJA
Delete"Got the Winter Blues? Seasonal Affective Disorder"
ReplyDeleteTuesday, February 5, 7-9 p.m.
Wilson Chapel YMCA
Do you ever feel like the weather affects your mood? You may be dealing with the symptoms of seasonal affective disorder (SAD). This psychoeducational workshop will give participants an understanding of what SAD truly is. Participants will discuss the various types of depression and where SAD falls on that spectrum. You will also learn about the causes and symptoms that lead to SAD. You will leave with tips and tricks to combat this disorder and keep your spirits high. Even if you have not experienced symptoms caused by SAD, come and learn how to recognize them in others and provide support.
www.counselingcenter.illinois.edu/?page_id=72
Kayla Johnson, johns254@illinois.edu
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/677?eventId=26842519&calMin=201302&cal=20130204&skinId=1
Center for African Studies Brown Bag Lecture
ReplyDelete"Health Data Collection Efforts Targeting Obesity and Nutrition-Related Non-Communicable Conditions in Uganda"
Speakers: Diane Grigsby-Toussaint, Professor, Department of Kinesiology and Community Health and Mary J. Christoph, PhD/MPH Student in Department of Kinesiology and Community Health
Date: Feb 6, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
Sponsor: Center for African Studies
Dish It Up: 40th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade: Creating Culture, Changing History
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Heather Ault, MFA, Artist and Founder of 4000 Years for Choice
Date Feb 11, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright Street, 2nd floor Champaign, IL 61820 MC-302
Cost FREE
Sponsor WRC
Contact Rachel Storm
E-Mail rstorm2@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 333-3137
Event type Dish It Up Lunch Series
Views 98
Originating Calendar Women's Resources Center
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. Dish It Up and the Lunch on Us Programs from OIIR offer a unique opportunity to engage with your peers in a fruitful discussion of identity, social phenomena, and justice on campus. Each Dish It Up program offers vegan and vegetarian food options. Should you require any additional accommodations (assistance with food and seating, large print programs, ASL interpreter, visual/audio assistance, etc.), please contact us at your earliest convenience.PAID FOR BY THE STUDENT CULTURAL PROGRAMMING FEE
reviewed by HARRISON
Delete
ReplyDelete2013 PRISMS GLOBAL HEALTH LECTURE SERIES: "Viral Forecasting for Pandemic Prevention"
Dr. Nathan Wolfe, Stanford University
Feb 11, 2013
12:00 pm
NCSA Auditorium; 1205 West Clark Street; Urbana, IL
Co-sponsored in part by the Center for Global Studies, CSAMES, and others
Contact Angela Williams
E-Mail aswillms@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 244-5939
Public Lecture
Current global disease control efforts focus largely on attempting to stop pandemics after they have already emerged. This fire brigade approach, which generally involves drugs, vaccines, and behavioral change, has severe limitations. Just as we discovered in the 1960s that it is better to prevent heart attacks then try to treat them, over the next 50 years we will realize that it is better to stop pandemics before they spread and that effort should increasingly be focused on viral forecasting and pandemic prevention. In this talk I discuss how novel viruses enter into the human population from animals and go on to become pandemics. I then discuss attempts by my own research group to study this process and attempt to control viruses that have only recently emerged. By creating a global network at the interface of humans and animals we are working to move viral forecasting from a theoretical possibility to a reality.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2678?eventId=27528854&calMin=201302&cal=20130205&skinId=2600
here's what's going on in Allen Hall this week
ReplyDeleteDr. Antwi Akom
Unit One/Allen Hall Guest-in-Residence 2/10-2/14
Co-sponsored by Sustainability LLC
All events are open to the public and take place in Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, U.
Free parking is available in the garage across the street.
Dr. Akom is Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainable Economic, Educational, and Environmental Design (I-SEEED) which focuses on creating sustainable cities and schools so that people do not have to leave their communities in order to live, learn, work, and thrive. Dr. Akom is an Associate Professor of Environmental Sociology, Public Health, and STEM Education at San Francisco State University. His forthcoming books are Building Sustainable Cities and Schools and Redemption Songs: New Visions of Race, Schooling, and Sustainability. He is a highly sought-after speaker nationally and internationally.
Sunday, Feb 10
7pm -Opening Program: Eco-Buddhism, Mindfulness, and Building an Environmental Justice Movement for Everyone(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Monday, Feb 11
7pm - Race, Power and the Environment: Building a Youth Driven Climate Justice Movement(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Tuesday, Feb 12
7pm - Fresh Ideas: Grassroots Solutions to Building Healthy Sustainable Communities(in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Thursday, Feb 14
7pm - Green Revolutions: What the Modern World Can Learn from the Indigenous World to Save our Planet [Movie and Discussion](in the South Rec Room of Allen Hall)
Real Life Romance
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 11, 2013
Time 7:00 pm
Location Daniels Hall
Sponsor McKinley Sexual Health Peers
Event type Health
Originating Calendar McKinley Health Center - Health Education
What are the characteristics of a healthy relationship? What qualities are we looking for in a potential partner? Real Life Romance explores the issues of romance, intimacy, and dating among college students, and offers tips for better communication in our relationships. Differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships are also explored, including resources on campus that address relationship violence.
LETS TALK ABOUT SEX with Annie Sprinkles
ReplyDelete"Annie Sprinkle has made SEX her life’s work for four decades. She was a prostitute and porn star who recreated herself as a pivotal player in the 1980’s sex–positive feminist movement, became a tantric sex guru, an internationally acclaimed performance artist, and a sexologist with a PhD. Now the grrrlll has gone green and has come out of the closet as “ecosexual,” taking the Earth as her lover. Annie will share her life’s work, do mini-performances, and stimulate discussion.
Everything you wanted to know about sex but didn’t have a sexpert to ask.
It’s fun, it’s entertaining, it’s educational. Questions can be asked anonymously or not."
Feb 6th, 7-8:30 pm
Main Lounge, Allen Hall
reviewed by ERIN
DeleteCoca-Cola Company Information Session
ReplyDeleteDate Feb 7, 2013
Time 5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location BIF Room 2011
Sponsor BCS
Event type Company Presentation
Originating Calendar Business - Business Career Services
Information Session for all Students
side note* How cool would it be to get an internship with Coca-Cola!
Belly Tech Talk
ReplyDeleteTime: Thursday, Feb 07, 2013 07:15PM-09:00PM
Location: Siebel 2405
Join in our tech talk with founders and key engineers from Belly. Come
engage in an interactive session to learn about their backgrounds,
challenges faced at startups, and the technology around their product!
Desserts will be provided.
Description of Belly I googled: http://www.podiumventures.com/blog/17-trends/414-startup-to-watch-belly-startup-to-watch-belly
Event link: http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2654/27526433
Bioengineering Seminar: Decoding the Multi-Drug Response in Populations of Bacteria and Human Cancer Cells
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Kevin Wood, Ph.D., Harvard University
Date Feb 11, 2013
Sponsor Bioengineering
Originating Calendar Division of Biomedical Sceinces
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=27524447&calMin=201302&cal=20130206&skinId=1
Drug combinations are commonly employed in the treatment of multi-component diseases, severe bacterial infections, and many types of cancer. However, the actions of individual drugs are often coupled through their effects on complex intracellular networks. As a result, it is generally impossible to infer the net effect of a multi-drug combination directly from the effects of individual drugs. Dr. Wood will discuss his team's recent work that explores how drug interactions accumulate as the number of drugs, N, in a combination increases. First, the team develops a statistical model that associates drug interactions with correlations between random variables to exploit methods from statistical physics to measure the contributions of all K-body interactions (K<=N) to a given N-drug effect. Using this framework, they then experimentally show that the bacterial responses to drug pairs are sufficient to predict the effects of larger drug combinations in both gram negative bacteria (E. coli) and gram positive (S. aureus) bacteria. Remarkably, the quantitative relationship governing the accumulation of pairwise drug interactions appears to be independent of microscopic details such as cell type and drug biochemistry. Dr. Wood also will discuss an adaptation of this approach to study multi-drug resistance, a growing public health threat, and he will show how the team's findings can accelerate the development of cell-selective, therapeutically potent multi-drug therapies.
posting this makes me realize how fucking single i actually am.....
ReplyDeleteCounseling Center Workshop - Me, Myself, & I: Single and Satisfied!
Single? Happy? Satisfied? Want to learn how to be? Our workshop is the one for you! Please join us, the Counseling Center Paraprofessionals, on Tuesday, February 12th from 7 to 9pm to explore the single status through a lens of positivity. We will look critically at stereotypes, explore our own personal strengths, provide tips on having a fulfilling single life, and much more! Anyone who wants to positively explore the single status is welcomed! Let us be your guide, you'll leave this workshop feeling Single and Satisfied!
Date Feb 12, 2013
Time 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location Wilson Chapel Room @ YMCA
Friday, February 8
ReplyDeleteMarxism & the Interpretation of Culture at 25: Theories for the New Millennium(Symposium)
Levis Faculty Center, Second floor
A Winter Symposium featuring papers by Gopal Balakrishnan (University of California, Santa Cruz), Laura Chrisman (University of Washington), David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania), Shu-mei Shih (University of California, Los Angeles), Carolyn Lesjak (Simon Fraser University, Canada), and Nikhil Pal Singh (New York University).
Lead Organizers: Lauren M.E. Goodlad (Unit/English), Michael Rothberg (English/Holocaust, Genocide, & Memory Studies Initiative)
Co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study; the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities; the Department of English; the Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide & Memory Studies; the Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative; the Department of Spanish, Italian & Portuguese; the Department of Anthropology; the International Forum on US Studies; the Department of History; the Department of Political Science
http://criticism.english.illinois.edu/2013%20Spring%20pages/Marxism_Schedule.htm
Event Detail Information
ReplyDeleteDevelopment Seminar-Aldo Musacchio (Harvard Business School)
Date Feb 8, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 2043 BIF
Sponsor Dept of Economics
Views 8
Originating Calendar Department of Economics (EVENTS)
Joint with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Dept of Business Administration: "What do Latin American Development Banks Do?"
The Art Theater
ReplyDelete"Bill W."
5pm
Tuesday Feb 12th
William G. Wilson is co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, a man included in TIME Magazine's "100 Persons of the 20th Century." Interviews, recreations, and rare archival material reveal how Bill Wilson, a hopeless drunk near death from his alcoholism, found a way out of his own addiction and then forged a path for countless others to follow. With Bill as its driving force, A.A. grew from a handful of men to a worldwide fellowship of over 2 million men and women - a success that made him an icon within A.A., but also an alcoholic unable to be a member of the very society he had created. A reluctant hero, Bill Wilson lived a life of sacrifice and service, and left a legacy that continues every day, all around the world.
reviewed by WES
DeleteScandinavian Studies - Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University: "Until the Sun Returns: Sami Cultural Resilience"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Troy Storfjell, Pacific Lutheran University
Date Feb 12, 2013
Time 6:00 pm
Location Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building
Cost Free and open to the public
Sponsor Dept. of Germanic Languages and Literatures
Contact Professor Anna Stenport
E-Mail aws@illinois.edu
Event type Lecture
Views 331
Originating Calendar School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar
Astract -- Despite enduring centuries of colonization and oppression, the Indigenous Sami people of northern Scandinavia and northwestern Russia continue not only to survive, but to thrive. As we enter a period of increasing racism, violence, and an apparent return of state support for colonialism, we can take heart in the resilient staying power of Sami culture and ways of knowing. Bio -- Troy Storfjell is Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Studies at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. A Sami scholar himself, he has focused much of his research on Nordic colonialism and Sami culture and literature. Recently Troy has been working in the area of Indigenous methodologies and epistemologies. He also serves on the board of Romssa Sami Searvi, the Tromso Sami Association. Troy received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin'Madison in 2001.
reviewed by CHRISTIAN
DeleteDr. Tih-Fen Ting - University of Illinois Springfield
ReplyDeletePart of: Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) Seminars
When: 3pm Feb 12, 2013
Where: (had to call and ask for this because it was nowhere online) Forbes Natural History Building (Formerly the I-Building), room 1005
Franklin's ground squirrel is declining in much of the central United States and is considered endangered, threatened, or a species of concern in many Midwestern states. Declines in Franklin's ground squirrel populations in the Midwest have been widely attributed to loss and fragmentation of habitat due to intensive agricultural practices, especially in the southern portions of its range such as Illinois. Nowadays in the southern portions of its range, Franklin's ground squirrels are frequently found along roadside or railroad right-of-ways with a diverse mixture of grassy and woody vegetation when these areas are no longer in use. However, these right-of-way habitats disappear quickly without active management to remove woody vegetation, especially trees that will shade out grasses and eventually turn prairie or savanna-like habitat into woodlands. Beginning 2010, Franklin's ground squirrel has been surveyed along sections of an abandoned railroad corridor in Sangamon County, Illinois. Portions of this abandoned railroad corridor owned by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources offer an opportunity to experimentally implement habitat management practices and monitor subsequent responses of Franklin's ground squirrels to removal or thinning of major woody structures. In this talk, I will present the survey results, assessment of the condition and suitability of this former railroad bed for sustaining the colonies of P. franklinii, and an on-going habitat improvement study in Sangamon County for Franklin's ground squirrel.
reviewed by SELINA
Deletereviewed by HUGH
DeleteAstrophysics Colloquium: Ryan Foley, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University: "Improving Dark Energy Measurements through a Detailed Understanding of Supernova Physics"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Ryan Foley
Date Feb 12, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location 134 Astronomy
Sponsor Astronomy Department
Contact Brian Fields
E-Mail bdfields@illinois.edu
Originating Calendar Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar
Cosmology with Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) is at a crossroads. Previous SN surveys have been extremely successful, discovering the Universe's accelerated expansion (leading to the 2011 Nobel prize in physics) and providing ever-smaller constraints on the nature of dark energy. However, we have amassed enough data that simply increasing the samples will not improve our knowledge of cosmological parameters. Instead, we must produce novel techniques of reducing systematic uncertainties. Some of the largest systematic uncertainties are related to the nature of the SN progenitors and dust reddening. I will present evidence that multiple progenitor systems create SNe Ia and the discovery of the first link between the SN environment and the explosion, and discuss possible effects for SN cosmology. I will discuss a new and novel way of precisely determining the intrinsic color of SNe Ia, which improves our measurement of dust reddening, and thus distance estimates. I will also discuss a large (100 orbit) HST program that largely avoids the problems of dust by observing high-redshift SNe Ia in the NIR. Finally, I will discuss how future surveys such as DES and LSST can apply these techniques and knowledge to provide the best cosmological constraints with observations of SN Ia.
reviewed by MIKE
DeleteEvent: Engineering Open House, Imagine the Possibilites 2013
ReplyDeleteDate: March 8-9
Where: Engineering Campus
We are excited to welcome you to the 93rd annual Engineering Open House at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Each year, we welcome over 20,000 visitors to our campus to experience the thrill of engineering. This year, we will have more than 250 exhibits ranging from concrete crushing to Newtonian fluid demonstrations. EOH will take place on March 8-9, 2013. The open hours are 9am-4pm on Friday and 9am-3pm on Saturday. We look forward to providing the best possible experience for our visitors and hope that you will take the time to visit our campus during the EOH weekend.
http://eoh.ec.illinois.edu/