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Saturday 9 March 2013 9:00AM National Petascale Computing Facility 1725 S. Oak St, Champaign
Sponsored by NCSA @ UIUC
Come to the National Petascale Computing Facility for a first-hand look at Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! With a sustained speed over 1 petaflop, Blue Waters is capable of performing more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second.
In addition to viewing Blue Waters, you can also see the infrastructure required for this powerful machine. This is a self-guided tour. Come any time during the day and stay as little or as long as you'd like.
Friday 8 March 2013 : 9AM - 4PM Saturday 9 March 2013 : 9AM - 3PM
Location: various buildings across the engineering campus
Engineering Open House (EOH) is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exciting exhibits and captivating competitions that showcase the talent and ingenuity of engineering students. The exposition attracts thousands of visitors to the Illinois campus each year and stands as the largest event of its kind in the country. EOH brings together students, faculty, and corporate sponsors to feature cutting-edge innovation in the fields of science and technology.
Each year, EOH welcomes over 20,000 visitors to our campus to experience the thrill of engineering. This year, they will have more than 250 exhibits ranging from concrete crushing to Newtonian fluid demonstrations.
Lecture: Gender, Race, and Tourism in Andean, Peru and Chiapas, Mexico.
Expanding knowledge on the culture of Peru and Mexico.
Speaker: Florence Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida Date: Mar 7, 2013 Time: 12:00 pm Location: 101 International Studies Building Sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Noontime Scholar Lecture- Resistance, Rescue, Reproductive Labor: Jewish 'family units' and the Nazi genocide
Speaker Anika Walke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis Date Mar 12, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 101 ISB, 910 S Fifth St Champaign Cost This event is free and open to the public http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=25963759&calMin=201303&cal=20130310&skinId=1
Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in the Early Twentieth Century
Speaker Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University Date Mar 8, 2013 Sponsor European Union Center E-Mail kimrice@illinois.edu Phone (217) 265-7515 Event type Lecture
Speaker Bio: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A., University of Florida B.A., University of Athens, Greece
Theodora Dragostinova's work focuses on nation-building, refugee movements, and minority politics in eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Balkans. She is the author of Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011). Professor Dragostinova has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the American Historical Association. The dissertation on which her book is based received the John O. Iatrides Prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek topic. Her work has appeared in Nationalities Papers, Slavic Review, and East European Politics and Societies.
Her second book, tentatively entitled Communist Extravaganza, is a transnational study of the years of late socialism in Bulgaria through an examination of cultural politics and national commemorations that combines archival work with oral history interviews. She is also working on the project “Making Nations: The Struggle over National Classifications in (Post-) Ottoman Macedonia,” which will explore broader issues of borderlands and identities in the Balkans.
Professor Dragostinova teaches courses on “Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1453-1919,” “Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century,” “Displaced Persons in Eastern Europe,” “Communism in Eastern Europe,” “Nationalism in Eastern Europe,” and “European Civilization since 1600.”
In October 2011, Professor Dragostinova organized, together with Yana Hashamova (OSU Slavic), the conference “Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans.”
Monday, March 11 Levis Faculty Center, Second Floor 8pm
"Hitchcock à la carte"
Jan Olsson (Stockholm University) Response by Pat Gill (Communication/Gender & Women's Studies)
The talk will explore Alfred Hitchcock's body politics as integral to the marketing of the brand across media with a emphasis on photoessays and his work for television. Olsson argues that television sanitized Hitchcock as the former grotesque was substituted for alimentary modernism running in tandem with his screen practices.
Co-sponsored by Film Studies Committee (English), INSPIRE, Media & Cinema Studies (College of Media)
Encouraging Deep Learning by Flipping the Classroom (Part I and II)
Speaker Jose Vazquez (Economics/ LAS) & Cheelan Bo-Linn (CTE)
Date Mar 6, 2013
Time 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Location 428 Armory Bldg
Cost Free, but registration required***
Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence
Contact Cheelan Bo-Linn
E-Mail cbolinn@illinois.edu
Registration Click here => https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/7424036
Event type Workshop
Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new)
In survey after survey faculty cite 'lack of student engagement' as the greatest challenge they face in their teaching. On the other hand, a student's typical response to this complaint is that it is hard to get engaged when they don't understand even the basics of the concepts at the time they come to lecture. The inverted (or 'flipped') classroom solves this problem of student engagement by aligning instructor and student expectations. The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. Short video lectures as an introduction to the content are viewed by students at home before the class session, while in-class time is devoted to higher levels of thinking, such as application and evaluation through exercises, projects, or discussions.
This workshop will have two parts: You may sign up for one or both.
Part I: Introduction and Design. This part will introduce the inverted classroom model, its basic elements, and offer best practices to effectively integrate into any course. (3:00 - 4:30 pm)
Part II:Hands-on. This part will provide an opportunity for those who have attended a flipped classroom design session to practice developing a pre-lecture video and accompanying online exercises. Participants will need to bring their own laptops. (4:45 - 5:15 pm).
After attending this workshop the participants should have all the tools they need to flip their own classrooms.
Translating Language Teaching Theory into Practice
Speaker Dinah Armstead Date Mar 8, 2013 Time 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm Location 428 Armory Bldg. Cost Free, but registration required. Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence Contact Dinah Armstead E-Mail armstead@illinois.edu Phone (217) 300-2849 Registration Click here to register Event type Workshop Views 112 Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new)
Designed for, but not limited to beginning language teachers, this workshop will look at ways to link what we know about language acquisition to successful language classroom activities. Teachers will be introduced to some tried and true classroom activities, as well as be given a list of resources. Discussion will also address the role of vocabulary practice in the language classroom. Prior to the workshop, teachers are asked to submit a lesson plan or ideas for one activity to be shared among all workshop participants.
New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Legal Histories in Eastern Europe New Foci, Methods and Approaches
Speaker Yvonne Kleinmann - Head of Research Group at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University Date Mar 7, 2013 Time 4:00 pm Location 101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign Cost This event is free and open to the public Sponsor Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center Event type Lecture Views 11632 Originating Calendar Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers Yvonne Kleinmann's current work as head of the research group 'Pathways of Law in Ethno-Religiously Mixed Societies: Resources of Experience in Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States' at Leipzig University has been ongoing since 2008. She holds masters degrees in the fields of East European History, Slavic Studies, and Theatre Studies. Earlier on in her career she participated in the preparation of the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, worked at the Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig, and coordinated the project 'Peace of Religions and Modes of Solving Religious Conflicts in East Central Europe' at the GWZO in Leipzig. Her Ph.D. thesis on Jewish forms of life in St. Petersburg and Moscow in the 19th century was published in 2006.
Health Risk or Hype: Emerging Diseases You Should Care About When: Thu, March 7, 7pm – 9pm Where: Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine
Covering risks associated with tick-borne diseases, Hanta virus, West Nile virus, whooping cough, tularemia, plague, antimicrobial resistance, etc. and presentation of science/health info in the media
Gunning for Campus: Examining the Impacts of Gun Violence on College and University Students
Date: March 8 Time: 12-1 pm Location: Women's Resources Center 703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor FREE + Lunch included
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence, examining the impacts of gun violence on College and University students.
Part of Diversity Ed's Conversation Cafe Lunch On Us series
Date Mar 12, 2013 Time 5:00 pm Location BIF Deloitte Auditorium Sponsor BCS Event type Workshop Views 182 Originating Calendar Business - Business Career Services Join us on Tuesday, March 12th at 5 pm in the Deloitte Auditorium and learn how to make Linkedin your top job search tool. *Build your Linkedin Profile *Tactics to identify & connect with Illinois Business Alumni *Conduct thorough company research Join us to win prizes and give-aways! RSVP on I-Link
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love of Soulforce on “Fundamentalism, Freedom, and Faith”
March 8, 12-1pm Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA (1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign, Illinois)
The talk will focus on the challenges faced by marginalized communities, who are often subjected to the violence of exclusion, and highlight the non-violent efforts made by Soulforce to resist the oppression arising out of fundamentalism. Local church and political officials as well as the media are invited to speak with Rev. Dr. Cindi Love before and after the noontime talk.
This is part of the YMCA's Friday Forum series: http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/
Friday 3/8: Main Session -multimedia presentation, overview of the issues, and the Not For Sale story.
7pm: Lincoln Hall Theater
Saturday 3/9: Workshops (all in Lincoln Hall Room 1092) 11am: Free2Work - making little changes to make a big difference
12pm: Social Entrepreneurship - how economic justice means social justice
2:30pm: Team Not For Sale - utilizing your personal passions and skills to work together
Human trafficking--both forced labor and sex trafficking--is extremely prevalent in the States and around the world today. It is our job as college-educated students to help raise awareness and to work to END the modern day slave trade.
This March 8th and 9th David Batstone (founder of the non-profit anti-human trafficking organization Not For Sale) and Carry The Fire (a U of I student organization devoted to human trafficking) are coming together for a two-day conference where people like you and me will come together to learn more about what we can do to help abolish modern day slavery.
Date Mar 6, 2013 Time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Location The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St. Sponsor The Career Center Contact The Career Center E-Mail careercenter@illinois.edu Phone 217-333-0820 Event type TCC Staff Event Views 213 Join The Career Center on the first Wednesday of the month for Health Profession Wednesdays. These workshops expose you to professional development opportunities and give you a chance to network with professionals in the Champaign
America and Sousa's Band Through the Photographic Lens of Charles Strothkamp
Date Oct 3, 2012 - Sep 16, 2013 Location Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, 1103 S. Sixth Street, Champaign Cost No Cost Sponsor Sousa Archives and Center for American Music E-Mail sousa@illinois.edu Phone 217-244-9309 Event type Exhibit Views 6315 Originating Calendar Library Calendar Charles Strothkamp played clarinet in the Sousa Band between 1926 and 1932, and as he travelled with the ensemble his camera meticulously documented the off-stage life of his music colleagues, including Mr. and Mrs. Sousa, and the many different communities and theaters the band played throughout its 1926-1930 American tours. This photographic exhibition explores the humorous and everyday exploits of Charles Strothkamp as a member of the Sousa Band, and also highlights some of the Strothkamp family’s cross-country travels at the beginning of America’s Great Depression when Charles wasn’t on tour with the band.
Michael Kothke + Kathy Hancox HK Associates, Inc. Lecture Title: "Influences + Intentions" Monday, March 11, 2013 5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
There is no description for this event but it is part of the architecture spring lecture series and the title sounds quite enticing.
Speaker Dr. Cindi Love Date Mar 8, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location Lazter Hall, University YMCA
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression Arising out of Fundamentalism The Spring 2013 Friday Forum Lecture Series will feature speakers from across the spectrum of faith traditions who are compelled by their faith to engage in bold and creative forms of action. The series brings to life faith as a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, sharing stories from the frontlines of interfaith activism. All lectures are free and open to the public. Y Thai Eatery lunch tickets: $6.50/$3.00 students. Sponsored By: University YMCA; Channing-Murray Foundation; Chapel of St. John the Divine/Episcopal Church and Foundation; First Mennonite Church; McKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation; Champaign Urbana Jewish Federation; College Democrats; La Colectiva; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center; Wesley Church and Foundation. Paid for by SORF.
Physics Colloquium, "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament"
SPEAKER: Dr. Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist
DATE: 3/6/2013 TIME: 4:00 pm LOCATION: 141 Loomis SPONSOR: Physics Department CONTACT: Marjorie M. Gamel 217-333-3762 mgamel@illinois.edu
ABSTRACT: Is nuclear disarmament technically feasible? What are the technical challenges to verifying that a formerly nuclear-armed nation has completely dismantled its nuclear arsenal? What is the feasibility of achieving and verifying that fissile material is no longer produced for weapons purposes? Will keeping stockpiles of weapons-usable material pose a show-stopper for disarmament? What is the role of missile defense in a nuclear-weapon-free world? The presenter will discuss these and other challenges and physicists' role in meeting them.
Condensed Matter Seminar: Screening of charge and structural motifs in oxides
Speaker Peter B. Littlewood - Assoc. Director - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Argonne National Laboratory Prof of Physics - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago Date Mar 8, 2013 Time 1:00 pm Location 190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
Originating Calendar Physics - Condensed Matter Seminar Heterostructure oxides offer the opportunity to build in electric fields by precise control of chemistry on the atomic scale, used recently to generate modulation doping of two- dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in oxides. The origin of the 2DEG, whether in pristine or defected materials, is under debate. I will discuss the role of surface redox reactions, in particular O vacancies, as the source of mobile carriers, and also discuss their role in the switching of ferroelectricity in ultra-thin films.
While electric charges can be screened by mobile carriers, the same is not true of strain fields, which have intrinsic long-range interactions that cannot be screened. When strain fields are produced as a secondary order parameter in phase transitions - as for example in ferroelectrics - this produces unexpected consequences for the dynamics of order parameter fluctuations, including the generation of a gap in what would otherwise have been expected to be Goldstone modes. In some cases, eg manganites and nickelates, other intra-cell modes can nonlinearly screen the order parameter, which produces a strong sensitivity of ordering to octahedral rotations, essentially a jamming transition.
How "Community" Matters: Uncovering the Social Dynamics of Health Information Behavior in Everyday Life Speaker Tiffany C.E. Veinot, MLS. Ph.D. Date Mar 11, 2013 Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Location Room 126, Library and Information Science Building Sponsor Graduate School of Library and Information Science Views 17 Originating Calendar Graduate School of Library and Information Science Access to health information is, unfortunately, differential in communities across the United States. And those groups who have the most difficulty obtaining needed information are often those who experience worse health outcomes ("health disparities"). However, little is known about health information seeking, sharing, and use in marginalized communities. This talk presents findings from a series of community-based studies that aim to answer the question, "How does community/family affiliation matter for access to, and use of, health information?" Results are presented from studies conducted with rural Canadians, urban African Americans, gay/bisexual men, and patient groups confronting chronic disease.
Speaker Zach Horn Date Mar 8, 2013 Time 12:00 pm Location 819 Psychology Sponsor Cognitive Division Contact John Hummel E-Mail jehummel@illinois.edu Event type Brown Bag Views 186 Originating Calendar Psychology General Calendar The Stability of Adjusted Beliefs
Collaborative, Illinois History Graduate Students of Color, will host the 2013 UIUC History Diversity Conference GRADUATE STUDENT DIVERSITY & RETENTION: A CAMPUS DISCUSSION on Friday, March 8, 1pm-5pm at the Asian American Cultural Center, 1208 W. Nevada, Urbana.
Valinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina) will give the keynote, African American Women Schoolteachers and Black Freedom in the South, 1884-1964, starting at 1pm. A panel, Promoting Diversity ThroughtRetention and Mentoring, follows at 3:30pm.
These presentations are free and open to the public.
Date: Mar 8, 2013 Time 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Location University of Illinois Observatory Cost Free!
Come join the Astronomical Society at the University of Illinois for their monthly public open house! UIAS will open up the university's historic observatory to the public from 8:00pm to 10:00pm on Friday, March 9th for a beautiful, guided look at our night sky. **We'll only open the observatory if it is clear, so make sure you can see the stars before you come by!** If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at uias@illinois.edu. We hope to see you there!
Come to Illinois Public Media's free screening and discussion of a film that traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.
The event takes place at 6 pm Tuesday, March 12, at the Champaign Public Library.
Carol Tilley, a U of I assistant professor in the U of I Graduate School of Library and Information Science, whose recent research found that an anti-comics crusading psychiatrist in the 1950s “played fast and loose with the data,” will be part of the discussion panel. Other panelists include Rachel Storm, assistant director of the U of I Women’s Resources Center, and Kevin Hamilton, U of I associate professor of art and design. GMart, a comic book store in Champaign, and the U of Women's Resources Center are partners for the event.
The film goes behind the scenes with TV stars Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), comic writers and artists, and real-life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna and others, who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.
Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and contradictions of heroines within the genre. Reflecting our culture’s deep-seated ambivalence toward powerful women — even in this so called post-feminist era — women may be portrayed as good, or brave, or even featured as “action babes,” but rarely are they seen as heroes at the center of their own journey.
Wonder Women! airs on WILL-TV at 9 pm Monday, April 15.
9:00 PM | Friday, March 8, 2013 VENUE: Bardeen Engineering Quad ADDRESS: 1308 West Green Street COST: Free
We are excited to welcome back the Tesla Coil Performance to EOH this year. Be amazed with the amazing visuals of thousands of volts of electricity zapping through the air as the operator uses the bolts to recreate well-known musical tunes. This spectacular concert will feature music performed on Tesla coils built by Jeff Larson and UIC alum Terry Blake. Included will be “Evolution”, an original piece written by UIUC staff member Mark Smart, along with various other tunes. Then the great Dr. Zeus will don his protective gear and perform within the electric arcs! The Tesla Coil Performance is a truly unique experience that you will be hard-pressed to find anywhere else, so be sure to mark down the date and time and show up early to find a great viewing spot. You won’t be disappointed!
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AMERICAN BORN CONFUSED DANCER: INDIAN DANCE SHOW Meet Jashan (or Jason as he likes to introduce himself): He's the shy and quiet son of loud and proud Indian immigrant parents who want nothing more for their son than appreciating his cultural roots. But for Jashan, he's only had one thing on his mind: his love for hip hop and contemporary dance (or as his parents refer to it, his "silly Vestern danz.") To escape his nagging parents, Jashan decides to go to the college that he thinks will be easiest to avoid the "brown crowd" best: UIUC. Will Jashan stick with his plans and ditch his culture completely? Or will he find something new as he starts his life as an Illini? Come find out as Ghungroo Dance Company presents: American Born Confused Dancer!
GDC's annual show is back, and this year, we're bringing you a story you may have heard, but with a special twist!
We have an AWESOME line up for you so be sure to save the date, and don't miss out on the chance to watch this epic story!
*************************************************** Here are the details: *Who: Ghungroo Dance Company featuring Chai-Town Acapella *What: GDC's rendition of a beloved story *When: Saturday, March 9th at 7PM *Where: Foellinger Auditorium (Doors open at 6:30PM) *Why: To be part of the audience that watches UIUC’s premier dance company give you the experience of your LIFE as we dance our hearts out!
**Tickets will be $5 Pre-sale and $7 at the door! Tickets are going to be sold Tuesday-Friday the week of the show from 12pm-5pm on the Quad!!!
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -7:00 pm Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 7:00 pm Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL Cost: free admission
Bön: Mustang To Menri Produced by Andrea Heckman and Rose Gordon. Directed by Tad Fettig. 2011. 60 minutes. In English.
Introduction and discussion by Alexander L. Mayer (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies, UI).
"Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath" Viewing & Discussion
“When a turbaned Sikh man is brutally murdered in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a college student journeys across America to discover who counts as "American" in times of crisis.”
When: Friday, March 8, 2013 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: La Casa Cultural Latina 1203 West Nevada Street Urbana, IL 61801
Self-Guided Tour of Blue Waters
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9:00AM
National Petascale Computing Facility
1725 S. Oak St, Champaign
Sponsored by NCSA @ UIUC
Come to the National Petascale Computing Facility for a first-hand look at Blue Waters, one of the fastest supercomputers in the world! With a sustained speed over 1 petaflop, Blue Waters is capable of performing more than 1 quadrillion calculations per second.
In addition to viewing Blue Waters, you can also see the infrastructure required for this powerful machine. This is a self-guided tour. Come any time during the day and stay as little or as long as you'd like.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/772/27371779
DeleteEngineering Open House
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Saturday 9 March 2013 : 9AM - 3PM
Location: various buildings across the engineering campus
Engineering Open House (EOH) is an annual student-led event featuring two days of exciting exhibits and captivating competitions that showcase the talent and ingenuity of engineering students. The exposition attracts thousands of visitors to the Illinois campus each year and stands as the largest event of its kind in the country. EOH brings together students, faculty, and corporate sponsors to feature cutting-edge innovation in the fields of science and technology.
Each year, EOH welcomes over 20,000 visitors to our campus to experience the thrill of engineering. This year, they will have more than 250 exhibits ranging from concrete crushing to Newtonian fluid demonstrations.
eoh.ec.illinois.edu
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DeleteLemann Lecture Series: 'VAMOS': Active Living, Enhancing Health
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2pm
101 International Studies Building
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=27293578&calMin=201303&cal=20130312&skinId=1
Lecture: Gender, Race, and Tourism in Andean, Peru and Chiapas, Mexico.
ReplyDeleteExpanding knowledge on the culture of Peru and Mexico.
Speaker: Florence Babb, Vada Allen Yeomans Professor of Women's Studies. Department of Anthropology. University of Florida
Date: Mar 7, 2013
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 101 International Studies Building
Sponsor: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Noontime Scholar Lecture- Resistance, Rescue, Reproductive Labor: Jewish 'family units' and the Nazi genocide
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Anika Walke, Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington University in St. Louis
Date Mar 12, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 101 ISB, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
Cost This event is free and open to the public
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=25963759&calMin=201303&cal=20130310&skinId=1
Jean Monnet Lecture Series: Between Home and Homeland: Migration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in the Early Twentieth Century
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Theodora Dragostinova, History, Ohio State University
Date Mar 8, 2013
Sponsor
European Union Center
E-Mail kimrice@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 265-7515
Event type Lecture
Speaker Bio: Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign M.A., University of Florida B.A., University of Athens, Greece
Theodora Dragostinova's work focuses on nation-building, refugee movements, and minority politics in eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Balkans. She is the author of Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011). Professor Dragostinova has received grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the American Historical Association. The dissertation on which her book is based received the John O. Iatrides Prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek topic. Her work has appeared in Nationalities Papers, Slavic Review, and East European Politics and Societies.
Her second book, tentatively entitled Communist Extravaganza, is a transnational study of the years of late socialism in Bulgaria through an examination of cultural politics and national commemorations that combines archival work with oral history interviews. She is also working on the project “Making Nations: The Struggle over National Classifications in (Post-) Ottoman Macedonia,” which will explore broader issues of borderlands and identities in the Balkans.
Professor Dragostinova teaches courses on “Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1453-1919,” “Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century,” “Displaced Persons in Eastern Europe,” “Communism in Eastern Europe,” “Nationalism in Eastern Europe,” and “European Civilization since 1600.”
In October 2011, Professor Dragostinova organized, together with Yana Hashamova (OSU Slavic), the conference “Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans.”
This event is free and open to the public.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/596?eventId=26388535&calMin=201301&cal=20130114&skinId=1
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Levis Faculty Center, Second Floor
8pm
"Hitchcock à la carte"
Jan Olsson (Stockholm University)
Response by Pat Gill (Communication/Gender & Women's Studies)
The talk will explore Alfred Hitchcock's body politics as integral to the marketing of the brand across media with a emphasis on photoessays and his work for television. Olsson argues that television sanitized Hitchcock as the former grotesque was substituted for alimentary modernism running in tandem with his screen practices.
Co-sponsored by Film Studies Committee (English), INSPIRE, Media & Cinema Studies (College of Media)
Encouraging Deep Learning by Flipping the Classroom (Part I and II)
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Jose Vazquez (Economics/ LAS) & Cheelan Bo-Linn (CTE)
Date Mar 6, 2013
Time 3:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Location 428 Armory Bldg
Cost Free, but registration required***
Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence
Contact Cheelan Bo-Linn
E-Mail cbolinn@illinois.edu
Registration Click here => https://illinois.edu/fb/sec/7424036
Event type Workshop
Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new)
In survey after survey faculty cite 'lack of student engagement' as the greatest challenge they face in their teaching. On the other hand, a student's typical response to this complaint is that it is hard to get engaged when they don't understand even the basics of the concepts at the time they come to lecture. The inverted (or 'flipped') classroom solves this problem of student engagement by aligning instructor and student expectations. The flipped classroom is a pedagogical model in which the typical lecture and homework elements of a course are reversed. Short video lectures as an introduction to the content are viewed by students at home before the class session, while in-class time is devoted to higher levels of thinking, such as application and evaluation through exercises, projects, or discussions.
This workshop will have two parts: You may sign up for one or both.
Part I: Introduction and Design. This part will introduce the inverted classroom model, its basic elements, and offer best practices to effectively integrate into any course. (3:00 - 4:30 pm)
Part II:Hands-on. This part will provide an opportunity for those who have attended a flipped classroom design session to practice developing a pre-lecture video and accompanying online exercises. Participants will need to bring their own laptops. (4:45 - 5:15 pm).
After attending this workshop the participants should have all the tools they need to flip their own classrooms.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/7?eventId=27301026&calMin=201301&cal=20130122&skinId=1
Translating Language Teaching Theory into Practice
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Dinah Armstead
Date Mar 8, 2013
Time 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location 428 Armory Bldg.
Cost Free, but registration required.
Sponsor Center for Teaching Excellence
Contact Dinah Armstead
E-Mail armstead@illinois.edu
Phone (217) 300-2849
Registration Click here to register
Event type Workshop
Views 112
Originating Calendar Center for Teaching Excellence (new)
Designed for, but not limited to beginning language teachers, this workshop will look at ways to link what we know about language acquisition to successful language classroom activities. Teachers will be introduced to some tried and true classroom activities, as well as be given a list of resources. Discussion will also address the role of vocabulary practice in the language classroom. Prior to the workshop, teachers are asked to submit a lesson plan or ideas for one activity to be shared among all workshop participants.
New Directions in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Eurasia - Legal Histories in Eastern Europe New Foci, Methods and Approaches
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Yvonne Kleinmann - Head of Research Group at the Institute for Slavic Studies, Leipzig University
Date Mar 7, 2013
Time 4:00 pm
Location 101 International Studies Building, 910 S Fifth St Champaign
Cost This event is free and open to the public
Sponsor Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center
Event type Lecture
Views 11632
Originating Calendar Russian, E. European & Eurasian Center: Speakers
Yvonne Kleinmann's current work as head of the research group 'Pathways of Law in Ethno-Religiously Mixed Societies: Resources of Experience in Poland-Lithuania and Its Successor States' at Leipzig University has been ongoing since 2008. She holds masters degrees in the fields of East European History, Slavic Studies, and Theatre Studies. Earlier on in her career she participated in the preparation of the permanent exhibition of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, worked at the Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture in Leipzig, and coordinated the project 'Peace of Religions and Modes of Solving Religious Conflicts in East Central Europe' at the GWZO in Leipzig. Her Ph.D. thesis on Jewish forms of life in St. Petersburg and Moscow in the 19th century was published in 2006.
Health Risk or Hype: Emerging Diseases You Should Care About
ReplyDeleteWhen: Thu, March 7, 7pm – 9pm
Where: Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine
Covering risks associated with tick-borne diseases, Hanta virus, West Nile virus, whooping cough, tularemia, plague, antimicrobial resistance, etc. and presentation of science/health info in the media
Gunning for Campus: Examining the Impacts of Gun Violence on College and University Students
ReplyDeleteDate: March 8
Time: 12-1 pm
Location: Women's Resources Center
703 S. Wright St., 2nd floor
FREE + Lunch included
Speaker: Dr. Nicole Anderson Cobb, Illinois Council Against Handgun Violence,
examining the impacts of gun violence on College and University students.
Part of Diversity Ed's Conversation Cafe Lunch On Us series
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2040?eventId=27516621&calMin=201302&cal=20130222&skinId=1820
BCS LIVE: WITH LinkedIn
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 12, 2013
Time 5:00 pm
Location BIF Deloitte Auditorium
Sponsor BCS
Event type Workshop
Views 182
Originating Calendar Business - Business Career Services
Join us on Tuesday, March 12th at 5 pm in the Deloitte Auditorium and learn how to make Linkedin your top job search tool. *Build your Linkedin Profile *Tactics to identify & connect with Illinois Business Alumni *Conduct thorough company research Join us to win prizes and give-aways! RSVP on I-Link
Rev. Dr. Cindi Love of Soulforce on “Fundamentalism, Freedom, and Faith”
ReplyDeleteMarch 8, 12-1pm
Location: Latzer Hall, University YMCA (1001 S. Wright Street, Champaign, Illinois)
The talk will focus on the challenges faced by marginalized communities, who are often subjected to the violence of exclusion, and highlight the non-violent efforts made by Soulforce to resist the oppression arising out of fundamentalism. Local church and political officials as well as the media are invited to speak with Rev. Dr. Cindi Love before and after the noontime talk.
This is part of the YMCA's Friday Forum series: http://www.universityymca.org/friday_forum/
Not For Sale UIUC tour
ReplyDeleteFriday 3/8: Main Session
-multimedia presentation, overview of the issues, and the Not For Sale story.
7pm: Lincoln Hall Theater
Saturday 3/9: Workshops (all in Lincoln Hall Room 1092)
11am: Free2Work - making little changes to make a big difference
12pm: Social Entrepreneurship - how economic justice means social justice
2:30pm: Team Not For Sale - utilizing your personal passions and skills to work together
Human trafficking--both forced labor and sex trafficking--is extremely prevalent in the States and around the world today. It is our job as college-educated students to help raise awareness and to work to END the modern day slave trade.
This March 8th and 9th David Batstone (founder of the non-profit anti-human trafficking organization Not For Sale) and Carry The Fire (a U of I student organization devoted to human trafficking) are coming together for a two-day conference where people like you and me will come together to learn more about what we can do to help abolish modern day slavery.
http://www.facebook.com/events/412955975462914/
DeleteHealth Profession Wednesdays - Taking a Gap Year
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 6, 2013
Time 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location The Career Center, 715 S. Wright St.
Sponsor The Career Center
Contact The Career Center
E-Mail careercenter@illinois.edu
Phone 217-333-0820
Event type TCC Staff Event
Views 213
Join The Career Center on the first Wednesday of the month for Health Profession Wednesdays. These workshops expose you to professional development opportunities and give you a chance to network with professionals in the Champaign
America and Sousa's Band Through the Photographic Lens of Charles Strothkamp
ReplyDeleteDate Oct 3, 2012 - Sep 16, 2013
Location Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, 1103 S. Sixth Street, Champaign
Cost No Cost
Sponsor Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
E-Mail sousa@illinois.edu
Phone 217-244-9309
Event type Exhibit
Views 6315
Originating Calendar Library Calendar
Charles Strothkamp played clarinet in the Sousa Band between 1926 and 1932, and as he travelled with the ensemble his camera meticulously documented the off-stage life of his music colleagues, including Mr. and Mrs. Sousa, and the many different communities and theaters the band played throughout its 1926-1930 American tours. This photographic exhibition explores the humorous and everyday exploits of Charles Strothkamp as a member of the Sousa Band, and also highlights some of the Strothkamp family’s cross-country travels at the beginning of America’s Great Depression when Charles wasn’t on tour with the band.
Michael Kothke + Kathy Hancox
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Lecture Title: "Influences + Intentions"
Monday, March 11, 2013
5:30 P.M. - Lawrence J. Plym Auditorium
Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
There is no description for this event but it is part of the architecture spring lecture series and the title sounds quite enticing.
http://www.arch.illinois.edu/events/lectures/sp2013/
Speaker Dr. Cindi Love
ReplyDeleteDate Mar 8, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location Lazter Hall, University YMCA
Dedicated to Relentless, Nonviolent Resistance to Oppression Arising out of Fundamentalism The Spring 2013 Friday Forum Lecture Series will feature speakers from across the spectrum of faith traditions who are compelled by their faith to engage in bold and creative forms of action. The series brings to life faith as a bridge of cooperation rather than a barrier of division, sharing stories from the frontlines of interfaith activism. All lectures are free and open to the public. Y Thai Eatery lunch tickets: $6.50/$3.00 students. Sponsored By: University YMCA; Channing-Murray Foundation; Chapel of St. John the Divine/Episcopal Church and Foundation; First Mennonite Church; McKinley Presbyterian Church and Foundation; Champaign Urbana Jewish Federation; College Democrats; La Colectiva; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center; Wesley Church and Foundation. Paid for by SORF.
Physics Colloquium, "The Physics of Nuclear Disarmament"
ReplyDeleteSPEAKER: Dr. Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientist
DATE: 3/6/2013
TIME: 4:00 pm
LOCATION: 141 Loomis
SPONSOR: Physics Department
CONTACT: Marjorie M. Gamel
217-333-3762
mgamel@illinois.edu
ABSTRACT:
Is nuclear disarmament technically feasible? What are the technical challenges to verifying that a formerly nuclear-armed nation has completely dismantled its nuclear arsenal? What is the feasibility of achieving and verifying that fissile material is no longer produced for weapons purposes? Will keeping stockpiles of weapons-usable material pose a show-stopper for disarmament? What is the role of missile defense in a nuclear-weapon-free world? The presenter will discuss these and other challenges and physicists' role in meeting them.
Condensed Matter Seminar: Screening of charge and structural motifs in oxides
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Peter B. Littlewood -
Assoc. Director - Physical Sciences and Engineering - Argonne National Laboratory
Prof of Physics - James Franck Institute - University of Chicago
Date Mar 8, 2013
Time 1:00 pm
Location
190 Engineering Sciences Bldg - corner Goodwin & Springfield
Originating Calendar Physics - Condensed Matter Seminar
Heterostructure oxides offer the opportunity to build in electric fields by precise control of chemistry on the atomic scale, used recently to generate modulation doping of two- dimensional electron gases (2DEG) in oxides. The origin of the 2DEG, whether in pristine or defected materials, is under debate. I will discuss the role of surface redox reactions, in particular O vacancies, as the source of mobile carriers, and also discuss their role in the switching of ferroelectricity in ultra-thin films.
While electric charges can be screened by mobile carriers, the same is not true of strain fields, which have intrinsic long-range interactions that cannot be screened. When strain fields are produced as a secondary order parameter in phase transitions - as for example in ferroelectrics - this produces unexpected consequences for the dynamics of order parameter fluctuations, including the generation of a gap in what would otherwise have been expected to be Goldstone modes. In some cases, eg manganites and nickelates, other intra-cell modes can nonlinearly screen the order parameter, which produces a strong sensitivity of ordering to octahedral rotations, essentially a jamming transition.
ReplyDeleteHow "Community" Matters: Uncovering the Social Dynamics of Health Information Behavior in Everyday Life
Speaker Tiffany C.E. Veinot, MLS. Ph.D.
Date Mar 11, 2013
Time 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location Room 126, Library and Information Science Building
Sponsor Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Views 17
Originating Calendar Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Access to health information is, unfortunately, differential in communities across the United States. And those groups who have the most difficulty obtaining needed information are often those who experience worse health outcomes ("health disparities"). However, little is known about health information seeking, sharing, and use in marginalized communities. This talk presents findings from a series of community-based studies that aim to answer the question, "How does community/family affiliation matter for access to, and use of, health information?" Results are presented from studies conducted with rural Canadians, urban African Americans, gay/bisexual men, and patient groups confronting chronic disease.
Cognitive Brown Bag -- Zach Horn
ReplyDeleteSpeaker Zach Horn
Date Mar 8, 2013
Time 12:00 pm
Location 819 Psychology
Sponsor Cognitive Division
Contact John Hummel
E-Mail jehummel@illinois.edu
Event type Brown Bag
Views 186
Originating Calendar Psychology General Calendar
The Stability of Adjusted Beliefs
Collaborative, Illinois History Graduate Students of Color, will host the 2013 UIUC History Diversity Conference GRADUATE STUDENT DIVERSITY & RETENTION: A CAMPUS DISCUSSION on Friday, March 8, 1pm-5pm at the Asian American Cultural Center, 1208 W. Nevada, Urbana.
ReplyDeleteValinda Littlefield (University of South Carolina) will give the keynote, African American Women Schoolteachers and Black Freedom in the South, 1884-1964, starting at 1pm. A panel, Promoting Diversity ThroughtRetention and Mentoring, follows at 3:30pm.
These presentations are free and open to the public.
For more information see history.illinois.edu
Observatory Open House
ReplyDeleteDate: Mar 8, 2013
Time 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Location University of Illinois Observatory
Cost Free!
Come join the Astronomical Society at the University of Illinois for their monthly public open house! UIAS will open up the university's historic observatory to the public from 8:00pm to 10:00pm on Friday, March 9th for a beautiful, guided look at our night sky. **We'll only open the observatory if it is clear, so make sure you can see the stars before you come by!** If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at uias@illinois.edu. We hope to see you there!
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/500?eventId=27547910&calMin=201303&cal=20130308&skinId=1
Come to Illinois Public Media's free screening and discussion of a film that traces the fascinating evolution and legacy of Wonder Woman. From the birth of the comic book superheroine in the 1940s to the blockbusters of today, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines looks at how popular representations of powerful women often reflect society's anxieties about women's liberation.
ReplyDeleteThe event takes place at 6 pm Tuesday, March 12, at the Champaign Public Library.
Carol Tilley, a U of I assistant professor in the U of I Graduate School of Library and Information Science, whose recent research found that an anti-comics crusading psychiatrist in the 1950s “played fast and loose with the data,” will be part of the discussion panel. Other panelists include Rachel Storm, assistant director of the U of I Women’s Resources Center, and Kevin Hamilton, U of I associate professor of art and design. GMart, a comic book store in Champaign, and the U of Women's Resources Center are partners for the event.
The film goes behind the scenes with TV stars Lynda Carter (Wonder Woman) and Lindsay Wagner (The Bionic Woman), comic writers and artists, and real-life superheroines such as Gloria Steinem, Kathleen Hanna and others, who offer an enlightening and entertaining counterpoint to the male-dominated superhero genre.
Wonder Women! explores the nation’s long-term love affair with comic book superheroes and raises questions about the possibilities and contradictions of heroines within the genre. Reflecting our culture’s deep-seated ambivalence toward powerful women — even in this so called post-feminist era — women may be portrayed as good, or brave, or even featured as “action babes,” but rarely are they seen as heroes at the center of their own journey.
Wonder Women! airs on WILL-TV at 9 pm Monday, April 15.
http://publish.illinois.edu/arthistory/
ReplyDeleteBill Brown from university of Chicago will be in town.
http://english.uchicago.edu/faculty/brown
he is known for thinking about things and thingness.
if you are in town, you should go to it.
Tesla Coil Concert – EOH 2013
ReplyDelete9:00 PM | Friday, March 8, 2013
VENUE: Bardeen Engineering Quad
ADDRESS: 1308 West Green Street
COST: Free
We are excited to welcome back the Tesla Coil Performance to EOH this year. Be amazed with the amazing visuals of thousands of volts of electricity zapping through the air as the operator uses the bolts to recreate well-known musical tunes. This spectacular concert will feature music performed on Tesla coils built by Jeff Larson and UIC alum Terry Blake. Included will be “Evolution”, an original piece written by UIUC staff member Mark Smart, along with various other tunes. Then the great Dr. Zeus will don his protective gear and perform within the electric arcs! The Tesla Coil Performance is a truly unique experience that you will be hard-pressed to find anywhere else, so be sure to mark down the date and time and show up early to find a great viewing spot. You won’t be disappointed!
im fucking going to this. holy shit everyone. like... look at the picture in the link.. I'm crying..
http://the217.com/events/tesla-coil-concert-eoh-2013
AMERICAN BORN CONFUSED DANCER: INDIAN DANCE SHOW
ReplyDeleteMeet Jashan (or Jason as he likes to introduce himself):
He's the shy and quiet son of loud and proud Indian immigrant parents who want nothing more for their son than appreciating his cultural roots. But for Jashan, he's only had one thing on his mind: his love for hip hop and contemporary dance (or as his parents refer to it, his "silly Vestern danz.") To escape his nagging parents, Jashan decides to go to the college that he thinks will be easiest to avoid the "brown crowd" best: UIUC.
Will Jashan stick with his plans and ditch his culture completely? Or will he find something new as he starts his life as an Illini?
Come find out as Ghungroo Dance Company presents:
American Born Confused Dancer!
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GDC's annual show is back, and this year, we're bringing you a story you may have heard, but with a special twist!
We have an AWESOME line up for you so be sure to save the date, and don't miss out on the chance to watch this epic story!
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Here are the details:
*Who: Ghungroo Dance Company featuring Chai-Town Acapella
*What: GDC's rendition of a beloved story
*When: Saturday, March 9th at 7PM
*Where: Foellinger Auditorium (Doors open at 6:30PM)
*Why: To be part of the audience that watches UIUC’s premier dance company give you the experience of your LIFE as we dance our hearts out!
**Tickets will be $5 Pre-sale and $7 at the door!
Tickets are going to be sold Tuesday-Friday the week of the show from 12pm-5pm on the Quad!!!
"Yo YouTube!"
ReplyDeleteDate: 3/11/2013
Start Time: 4:00 PM
Library: Douglass Branch Library, 504 E. Grove St.
Location: Meeting Room
Contact: Douglass Branch Library
Contact Number: 217/403-2090
An event at the library discussing youtube culture, phenomenons, etc. Activities include making a video to put on the library's YouTube channel.
http://engage.illinois.edu/entry/13395
ReplyDeleteTime and Locations:
Tuesday, March 12, 2013 -7:00 pm
Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 - 7:00 pm
Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green Street, Urbana, IL
Cost: free admission
Bön: Mustang To Menri
Produced by Andrea Heckman and Rose Gordon. Directed by Tad Fettig.
2011. 60 minutes.
In English.
Introduction and discussion by Alexander L. Mayer (Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures and Religious Studies, UI).
"Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath" Viewing & Discussion
ReplyDelete“When a turbaned Sikh man is brutally murdered in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, a college student journeys across America to discover who counts as "American" in times of crisis.”
When: Friday, March 8, 2013
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Where: La Casa Cultural Latina
1203 West Nevada Street
Urbana, IL 61801
https://www.facebook.com/events/162283627257667/