Archives
Events at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from Nov. 2 through 19
10/25/2006
lectures
3 Friday
“Will the World Run Out of Water?” Ximing Cai, UI. Noon.
Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.
“Ciwara Yere Yere: Champion Farmers and Powerful Dancers on the
Mande Plateau.” Stephen Wooten, University of Oregon. 4 p.m. Spurlock
Museum, 600 S. Gregory. The Spurlock Museum Guild Lecture and Performance
Series.
4 Saturday
“Physics of the Body.” Klaus Schulten, UI. 10:15 a.m. 141
Loomis Lab. Physics.
“Live in Your Head-Ecstasy: In and About Altered States.”
Paul Schimmel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. 3 p.m. Krannert
Art Museum Auditorium. Jerrold Ziff Distinguished Lecture on Modern
Art/Krannert Art Museum.
6 Monday
“I Am the Enemy You Loved – Stalin and Shostakovich.”
Tony Palmer, British filmmaker. Noon. Memorial Room, Smith Hall. School
of Music.
“Serene Shadows: Aura and Icon in Postcolonial Senegal.”
Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles and UI. 4 p.m.
62 Krannert Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum and MillerComm.
“Kubrick’s Music.” Tony Palmer, British filmmaker.
4:30 p.m. Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. School of Music.
7 Tuesday
“Illinois 2056: Imagining Your University of the Future.”
Richard Herman, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.
9 Thursday
“Is Philology Safe? Language, Ideology and the Tarim Mummies.”
Hans Henrich Hock, UI. 7 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. Liberal
Arts and Sciences Annual Humanities Lecture.
10 Friday
“Conserving the Earth’s Biodiversity.” James Herkert,
The Nature Conservancy of Illinois. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA.
Friday Forum.
“Age and the Limits of Attainment in Second Language Acquisition.”
David Birdsong, University of Texas, Austin. 6 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge,
1080 Foreign Languages Building. Second Language Acquisition and Teacher
Education.
13 Monday
“Blazoning the Arts: Heraldic Designs of Body, Image and Text
in the Middle Ages.” Haiko Wandhoff, Humboldt University, Berlin.
4 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Medieval
Studies.
“Ingres, Raphael and the Fornarina.” Henri Zerner, Harvard
University. 5 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. French, Art and Design, Illinois
Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Criticism
and Interpretive Theory, Architecture and Landscape Architecture.
14 Tuesday
“Illinois Politics: What’s Next?” Jim Nowlan, UI.
Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.
“Indigenous Rights in a Global Arena: Globalization From Below.”
Luis Macas, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. 4
p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. Global Studies Initiative.
“Harps and Harpists – Angels and Demons in Art and Life.”
Roslyn Rensch, author. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium. School of
Music.
18 Saturday
“Looking for 10**-16m Objects With a 10**-4m Microscope.”
Tim Stelzer, UI. 10:15 a.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.
colloquia
2 Thursday
“Growing Pains: The State and the Development of Chimbote, Peru,
1943-1980.” Nathan Clarke, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies
Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
“Hinterlands and Borderlands: Nationalism and Ideology on the
Greco-Turkish Frontier.” Robert Ousterhout, UI. 4 p.m. 101 International
Studies Building. Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.
“Recent Developments in Music Synthesis Technology With Emphasis
on Synful’s Reconstructive Phrase Modeling.” Eric Lendemann,
Synful. 4 p.m. 151 Everitt Laboratory. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
“Colonization of the Urinary Tract and Gene Expression by Uropathogenic
E. coli.” Harry Mobley, University of Michigan Medical School.
4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.
3 Friday
“Life and Aesthetics in Contemporary Japan.” Botond Bognar
and David Goodman, UI; Scott O’Bryan, Indiana University; and
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University. Noon. Krannert Art Museum. East
Asian and Pacific Studies.
“Rad54 Protein: The Motor of Genetic Recombination.” Alexander
V. Mazin, Drexel University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences auditorium.
Biochemistry.
“Use of Human Stem Cells in Research.” Mark Noble, Professor,
University of Rochester. Noon. 2271c Veterinary Medicine Basic Sciences
Building. VB/VP 596 Interdisciplinary Toxicology Seminar/Veterinary
Medicine.
“Athenian Democracy: A Breeding Ground for Racialism?” Susan
Lape, University of Southern California. 2 p.m. 406 Illini Union. Classics.
“Community Wellness and Control in the Canadian Arctic: Collective
Agency as Subjective Well-Being.” Michael Kral and Gilberto Rosas,
UI. 3 p.m. 109a Davenport Hall. Anthropology.
“Globalization, Property Development and Urban Politics.”
Andy Wood, University of Kentucky. 3 p.m. Davenport Hall. Sociology,
Geography, Urban and Regional Planning, Global Studies, and Women and
Gender in Global Perspectives Program.
“Accelerator Mass Spectrometry: Measuring Rare Isotopes in Biomedicine.”
Tyler Zimmerman, UI. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Analytical Chemistry.
6 Monday
“Explicit Application-Network Cross-layer Optimization.”
Laurent Mathy, Lancaster University. 10 a.m. 3124 Siebel Center. Computer
Science.
“Update From the National Science Foundation: Priorities and Plans
for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Education.”
James S. Dietz, National Science Foundation. Noon. 242 Education Building.
Educational Research and Office for Mathematics, Science and Technology
Education.
Collection in Context Lecture. “Der Blaue Reiter: Franz Marc and
Gabriele Munter.” Marcel Franciscono, UI. Noon. Krannert Art Museum.
Krannert Art Museum Council.
“Language Ideology, Attitudes and Policy: Global English in South
Korea.” Hyunju Park, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building
101. East Asian and Pacific Studies.
“Delay-Constrained Wireless Networking: Where Shannon Meets Erlang.”
Dapeng Oliver Wu, University of Florida. 4 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center for
Computer Science. Computer Science.
“Can’t You See I’m Burning? J.M. Coetzee’s Apartheid,
Post-Apartheid, Holocaust Fiction.” Brett Kaplan, UI. 8 p.m. Third
floor, Levis Faculty Center. Unit for Criticism.
7 Tuesday
“Protecting Women and Children During Conflict.” Mattito
Watson, Save the Children, Sudan. 3:30 p.m. 329 Armory Building. Arms
Control, Disarmament and International Security.
8 Wednesday
“Discovering the Secrets of the Candida albicans Agglutinin-like
Sequence (Als) Family of Cell-Surface Glycoproteins – a Sticky
Pursuit.” Lois Hoyer, UI. Noon. 2506 Veterinary Medicine Basic
Sciences Building. Pathobiology Seminar Series/Veterinary Medicine.
“Practical Generation of Transgenic Xenopus Embryos Using phiC31
Integrase.” Dan Weeks, University of Iowa. Noon. B102 Chemical
and Life Sciences Lab. Cell & Developmental Biology.
“Intraspecies Diversity of Probiotic Bacteria.” Michael
J. Miller, UI. 4 p.m. 150 Animal Sciences Laboratory. Nutritional Sciences.
“Control of Biochemical Reaction Dynamics in Restricted Environments.”
C. Patrick Collier, California Institute of Technology. 4 p.m. 112 Chemistry
Annex. Physical Chemistry.
9 Thursday
“Education, Teacher Training and Research in Spain: A Music Educator’s
View.” Gabriel Rusinek, University Complutense, Madrid. Noon.
242 Education. Bureau of Educational Research.
“On the Optimality of the Friedman Rule with Tax
Enforcement.” Marcelo Arbex. UI. Noon. 101 International Studies
Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
“Ideology, Identity and the Reconstruction of Medieval Monuments
in Ukraine.” Olenka Pevny, University of Richmond. Noon. Gallery
(first floor), Architecture Building. Russian, East European, and Eurasian
Center.
“Protein Self-assembly: Predicting Form and Function.” David
Lynn, Emory University. Noon. 161 Noyes Lab. Chemical Biology.
“The Changing Effects of Labor Force Participation on Women’s
Health.” Eliza Pavalko, Indiana University. 3 p.m. 336 Lincoln
Hall. Sociology.
“Multi-Flash 3D Photography.” Gabriel Taubin, Brown University.
4 p.m. 151 Everitt Lab. Electrical and Computer Engineering.
“Regulation of Recombinase Function.” Michael M. Cox, University
of Wisconsin. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.
10 Friday
“Phonology and the Art of Automatic Speech Recognition.”
Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, UI. Noon. 1005 Beckman Institute. Beckman Institute.
“Sites of Politics, Sites of Modernity: Consumption of International
Film Festivals in South Korea.” Young-A Park, Harvard University.
12:30 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. East
Asian and Pacific Studies.
13 Monday
“Use of Myzoma Virus as a Novel Treatment for Cancer.” Amy
MacNeill, UI. Noon. 80 Small Animal Clinic. Translational Biomedical
Research Seminar Series/Veterinary Medicine.
“Chemical Biology With Organometallics.” Eric Meggers. University
of Pennsylvania. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Laboratory. Organic Chemistry.
14 Tuesday
“Rethinking Linguistic Power and Solidarity: Covert Language Attitudes
in Morocco.” Brahim Chakrani, UI. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080
Foreign Languages Building. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
“Israel’s National Security Doctrine at a Crossroads: Lessons
From the Past and From the Lebanon II War.” Zeev Maoz, University
of California, Davis. 3:30 p.m. 101 Armory Building. Arms Control, Disarmament
and International Security.
15 Wednesday
“Recientes Elecciones en America Latina: Que nos espera?”
Luis Macas, Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador. 2
p.m. 201 International Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean
Studies.
“Towards an Epigenetic Model for Diet-Induced Obesity.”
Leslie P. Kozak, UI. 4 p.m. 150 Animal Sciences Lab. Nutritional Sciences.
16 Thursday
“The Politics of Federalism in Brazil: The Role of Governors in
the Brazilian National Congress.” Jose Antonio Cheibub, UI. Noon.
101 International Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
“Pathogenesis of Vibrio cholera.” Ronald K. Taylor, Dartmouth
Medical School. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.
“Plasma Displays – Past, Present, and Future.” Larry
Weber, UI. 4 p.m. Room 151 Everitt Laboratory. Electrical and Computer
Engineering.
17 Friday
“T Cell Recognition of Antigen: Specific, Degenerate, or Poly-Specific?”
Paul Allen, Washington University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences
Lab. Biochemistry.
theater
2 Thursday
“Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.” 7 p.m. Assembly
Hall Star Theatre. This musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
combines pop, rock, country and other musical styles for a multi-textured
palette of sound. Admission charge.
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. A tale of five sisters in County Donegal,
Ireland, in the summer of 1936. Admission charge.
3 Friday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
4 Saturday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
8 Wednesday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
9 Thursday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
10 Friday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
11 Saturday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 7:30 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
12 Sunday
“Dancing at Lughnasa.” Lisa Dixon, director. 3 p.m. Studio
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge.
music
2 Thursday
Thursdays at Twelve-Twenty. Tito Carillo Jazz Trio. 12:15 p.m. Beckman
Institute Atrium. Beckman Institute and School of Music.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra. David Robertson, conductor, and Leonidas
Kavakos, violin. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. This
special performance includes Bartók’s Violin Concerto No.
2. Admission charge.
3 Friday
Jazz Forum. Steve Rochinsky, guest artist. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.
Traffic Jam: The Hillbilly Jones. 5 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center. This
local band features Jonny Bridgewater and Nate Van Vleet on guitars,
Bryan Miles on drums, and Jeffrey Gibbens on bass.
Faculty Recital. Timothy McGovern, bassoon. 7:30 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. A program of wind
chamber music. Admission charge. School of Music.
Ethos Percussion Group and The Masters of Indian Music. 7:30 p.m. Tyron
Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Ethos joins The Masters of Indian
Music – Pandit Samir Chatterjee, tabla, and Kinnar Seen, sitar
– to explore the intersection of ancient rhythms and modern percussive
sound. Admission charge.
4 Saturday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Joyce Griggs and J. Michael Holmes,
saxophone. 2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Junior Recital. Evan Dorner, bass trombone. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Chamber Singers. Fred Stoltzfus, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.
5 Sunday
Women’s Glee Club. Joe Grant, conductor. 3 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Percussion Ensemble. William Moersch, director. 3 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.
The English Concert. Andrew Manze, violin. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. Paying tribute to Mozart, Andrew Manze and The
English Concert move from concertos to orchestral works with an energy
and technical brilliance that has made them one of the world’s
leading chamber music ensembles. Admission charge. Prelude with The
English Concert. 6:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center.
Master of Music Recital. Joo-Hye Lee, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Undergraduate Recital. Nick Wolny, horn. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
7 Tuesday
Jazz Combos. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Several
small student jazz ensembles will perform. Admission charge. School
of Music.
Senior Conducting Recital. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall. Students
of Joe Grant.
8 Wednesday
Performance/lecture. “My Violin’s Bellybutton: Music From
the Inside Out.” Donna Hladish, violin; Peter Schaffer, UI; and
Gary Sturm, Smithsonian Institute. 6:30 p.m. Urbana Free Library. A
Prairie Breezes mini-concert for kids. School of Music.
Ivo Pogorelich, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center.
Pogorelich presents Chopin’s Sonata No. 3 in B minor, Op. 58,
as well as one Nocturne, Scriabin’s Sonata No. 4, and Rachmaninoff’s
Sonata No. 2 for his second Krannert Center appearance. Admission charge.
9 Thursday
Guest Artist Recital. Thomas Robertello, flute. 11 a.m. Memorial Room,
Smith Hall.
Guest Artist Master Class. Thomas Robertello, flute. 11:30 a.m. Memorial
Room, Smith Hall.
Thursdays at Twelve-Twenty. Joanna Grosshans, violin. 12:15 p.m. Beckman
Institute Atrium. Beckman Institute and School of Music.
Faculty Recital. Chip McNeill, jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.
10 Friday
Jazz Forum. The Hall Combo. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.
Sinfonia da Camera. Ian Hobson, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m.
Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Sinfonia’s string section
takes centerstage in a program that includes classic works like Pachelbel’s
Canon, Richard Strauss’ Metamorphosen for 23 Solo Strings, and
Finzi’s Romance, Op. 11. Admission charge. Student Performance
Project: 6:45 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.
Trombone Choir. Elliot Chasanov and Jim Pugh, directors. 7:30 p.m. Recital
Hall, Smith Hall.
11 Saturday
Master of Music Recital. Katherine Winson, soprano. 5 p.m. Recital Hall,
Smith Hall.
Dad’s Day Concert. UI Varsity Men’s Glee Club and UI Women’s
Glee Club. Barrington Coleman and Joe Grant, conductors. 7:30 pm Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center. An evening of traditional repertoire for
men’s, women’s and mixed choral ensembles. Admission charge.
School of Music.
Junior Recital. Kiel Lauer, bass trombone. 7:30 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
Betty Buckley. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. A
vocal tribute to the legends of American jazz. Admission charge.
Global Transfer Afterglow: Cyro Baptista’s “Beat the Donkey.”
10 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center. A hybrid of percussion, samba, jazz,
funk, martial arts, and dance.
12 Sunday
Trumpet Ensemble. Chad Daigle and Jake Walburn, directors. 11 a.m. Music
Building auditorium.
Second Sunday Concert Special: “A Musical Serenade: Stradivari’s
Decorated String Quartet.” Smithsonian Chamber Players: Steven
Dann, viola; Catherine Manson, violin; and Kenneth Slowik, cello. 1
p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Broadcast at 7 p.m. Nov. 26 on WILL-FM (90.9;
101.1).
Senior Recital. David Halperin, clarinet. 2 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Senior Recital. Emily Packer, trombone. 2 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
Miro Quartet. 3 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. This University
of Texas at Austin quartet-in-residence performs music by Haydn, Shostakovich,
and Schubert. Admission charge.
Music Education Senior Recital. Neal Shipton, euphonium. 5:30 p.m. Music
Building auditorium.
Latin Jazz Ensemble. Rumba Urbana. Ricardo Flores, director. 7:30 p.m.
Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. This group’s repertoire
is a combination of American jazz, mozambique rhythms of Cuba, calypso
from Trinidad, and samba and bossa nova from Brazil to name a few. Admission
charge. School of Music.
Concert Choir. Chester Alwes, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith
Hall.
Brass Division Chamber Music. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
13 Monday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Jing-I Jang, harp. 7:30 p.m. Music Building
auditorium.
14 Tuesday
Voice Division Recital. 11 a.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
Smithsonian Chamber Players. “An Evening With the Strads.”
John Elwes, tenor; Gary Slowik, cello; and Delores Ziegler, mezzo-soprano.
7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Celebrating National
American Music Month and the UI’s affiliation with the Smithsonian
Museum. Admission charge. Prelude: Kenneth Slowik, music director of
the Smithsonian Chamber Players. 6:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert
Center.
Student Composers Concert. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
15 Wednesday
Retumba! Noon. Lobby, Krannert Center. Retumba! centers its performance
on the rich heritage of music and dance from Africa and Europe and its
expression throughout the Americas. From traditional rhythms to ancient
melodies, Retumba! celebrates world diversity from a uniquely feminine
perspective.
UI Symphony Orchestra. Donald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger
Great Hall, Krannert Center. This concert will also be performed in
Chicago’s Symphony Place on Nov. 19. Admission charge. School
of Music.
Granny’s Front Porch: “Crossing the Great Divide.”
Gary O’Brien, host. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert
Center. A tribute to the old-time fiddle featuring winners of the second
annual Champaign Youth Fiddle Contest and some of the region’s
favorite local musicians. Admission charge.
16 Thursday
Thursdays at Twelve-Twenty. Rhiannon Jerch, flute, and Keelin Eder,
harp. 12:15 p.m. Beckman Institute Atrium. Beckman Institute and School
of Music.
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Steven Larsen, music director and
conductor, and Maria Merkelo, accordion. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great
Hall, Krannert Center. Music of composers “Born in the USA.”
Admission charge.
Martirano Award Concert. UI New Music Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival
Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.
Illini Women and University Chorus. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.
MENC Major Instrument Recital. 7:30 p.m. Music Building auditorium.
17 Friday
Jazz Forum. The Stephens Combo. Noon. 25 Smith Hall.
dance
9 Thursday
November Playhouse Dance. 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center,
Colwell Playhouse. In this concert featuring choreography by faculty
and alumni performers, the Department of Dance introduces its new department
head, Jan Erkert. Works by Linda Lehovec, Erika Randall, John Toenges,
Denise Posnak, Teena Custer, Douglas Dunn, Stephen Koester, and David
Marchant. Admission charge.
10 Friday
November Playhouse Dance. 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center,
Colwell Playhouse. In this concert featuring choreography by faculty
and alumni performers, the Department of Dance introduces its new department
head, Jan Erkert. Works by Linda Lehovec, Erika Randall, John Toenges,
Denise Posnak, Teena Custer, Douglas Dunn, Stephen Koester, and David
Marchant. Admission charge.
11 Saturday
November Playhouse Dance. 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center,
Colwell Playhouse. In this concert featuring choreography by faculty
and alumni performers, the Department of Dance introduces its new department
head, Jan Erkert. Works by Linda Lehovec, Erika Randall, John Toenges,
Denise Posnak, Teena Custer, Douglas Dunn, Stephen Koester, and David
Marchant. Admission charge.
films
6 Monday
“Testimony.” Tony Palmer, filmmaker. 7:30 p.m. Music building
auditorium. School of Music.
“All My Loving.” Tony Palmer, filmmaker. 11 p.m. Music Building
auditorium. School of Music.
8 Wednesday
“Night on Earth.” France/UK/Germany/USA/Japan, 1991. 7:30
p.m. 134 Temple Buell Hall. Landscape Architecture.
15 Wednesday
“London.” United Kingdom, 1992. 8 p.m. 134 Temple Buell
Hall. Landscape Architecture.
sports
(to confirm times, go to www.fightingillini.com)
3 Friday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Clarion (Exhibition). 7 p.m. Assembly
Hall. Admission charge.
4 Saturday
Football. UI vs. Ohio State University. Time: TBA. Memorial Stadium.
Admission charge.
7 Tuesday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Lewis (Exhibition). 7 p.m. Assembly
Hall. Admission charge.
8 Wednesday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. SIU-Edwardsville (Exhibition). 7 p.m.
Assembly Hall. Admission charge.
11 Saturday
Football. UI vs. Purdue University. Time: TBA. Memorial Stadium. Admission
charge.
12 Sunday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Butler University. 2 p.m. Assembly
Hall. Admission charge.
13 Monday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Austin Peay State. 7 p.m. Assembly Hall.
Admission charge.
15 Wednesday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Jackson State. 7 p.m. Assembly Hall.
Admission charge.
17 Friday
Volleyball. UI vs. Indiana University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Georgia Southern University. 7 p.m. Assembly
Hall. Admission charge.
18 Saturday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Loyola University. 2 p.m. Assembly
Hall. Admission charge.
Volleyball. UI vs. Purdue University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.
19 Sunday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Florida A&M. 4 p.m. Assembly Hall.
Admission charge.
et cetera
2 Thursday
Panel discussion. “Colloquium on Heinrich Heine (1797-1856).”
3-6 p.m. Music Room, Levis Faculty Center. Panelists include Mara Wade,
James McGlathery and Matti Bunzl, UI; Jeffrey Sammons, Yale University;
and Jeff Grossman, University of Virginia. Germanic Languages and Literatures.
Paper Discussion. “Cortico-hippocampal Interaction and Adaptive
Stimulus Representation: A Neurocomputational Theory of Associative
Learning and Memory, by M. Gluck et al.” Discussion Leader: Shawn
Kohler. 4 p.m. 4269 Beckman Institute. Beckman Institute.
Gallery Conversation. “When We Were Young: New Perspectives on
the Art of the Child.” Jonathan Fineberg, UI. 5:30 p.m. Krannert
Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum.
3 Friday
Panel Discussion. “Community Wellness and Control in the Canadian
Arctic: Collective Agency as Subjective Well-Being.” Michael Kral
and Gilberto Rosas, UI. 3 p.m. 109a Davenport Hall. Anthropology.
4 Saturday
Teachers Workshop for Saints in the City: “Sufi Arts of Urban
Senegal.” 9 a.m. Krannert Art Museum. Registration required, call
244-3648. African Studies and Krannert Art Museum.
Love Chocolate Weekend. “Natural History of Chocolate.”
2-4 p.m. Allerton Park Retreat Center. Pre-registration required; call
244-1035 or e-mail allertoninfo@uiuc.edu. Admission charge. Allerton
Park.
Love Chocolate Weekend. “Chocolate Relaxation.” 7-8:30 p.m.
Allerton Park Retreat Center. Pre-registration required; call 244-1035
or e-mail allertoninfo@uiuc.edu. Admission charge. Allerton Park.
5 Sunday
Love Chocolate Weekend. “Hands-On Chocolate.” 2-3:30 p.m.
Allerton Park Retreat Center. Pre-registration required; call 244-1035
or e-mail allertoninfo@uiuc.edu. Admission charge. Allerton Park.
Love Chocolate Weekend. “Chocolate Activity Time.” 3:30-5
p.m. Allerton Park Retreat Center. Pre-registration required; call 244-1035
or e-mail allertoninfo@uiuc.edu. Admission charge. Allerton Park.
6 Monday
Roundtable Discussion. “Protecting U.S. Economic Growth in an
Era of Globalization: Irreconcilable Differences?” 3 p.m. 170
Illini Room C. Center for the Study of Democratic Governance.
Forum. “Unpacking Globalization: What China Means for America.”
Geoffrey Garrett, University of Southern California. 7:30 p.m. Beckman
Institute auditorium. Center for the Study of Democratic Governance.
7 Tuesday
“Socializing Personhood: Constructing ‘Korean People’
at a Korean Heritage Language School.” Adrienne Lo, UI. Noon.
210A Education. Educational Psychology.
8 Wednesday
“Around the World Wednesdays.” 9:30 a.m. Spurlock Museum.
Wednesdays, through Dec. 6, the Learning Center opens its doors for
children and their parents to create and learn together. For more info,
visit www.spurlock.uiuc.edu. Spurlock Museum.
Open Class. Dana Rush, UI. 2-5 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Focusing on
themes and issues related to “A Saint in the City.” The
museum’s holdings and exhibitions are incorporated into course
curricula. The public is invited. Krannert Art Museum.
9 Thursday
“Mid-Term Elections: Global & Local Implications.” Jorge
Chapa, Arlene Torres, Brian Gaines and Noreen Sugrue, UI. Noon. 1009
Doris Kelley Christopher Hall, Studio. Women and Gender in Global Perspectives.
Workshop. “Girls Engaged in Math and Science.” 4-7 p.m.
1040 NCSA Building. Designed to teach girls who have completed sixth,
seventh, or eighth grade about math, science, technology and forensics.
To register, visit http://gems.ncsa.uiuc.edu/application/. Supercomputing
Applications.
Panel Discussion. “Iran Between Revolution and Reaction: The Geopolitics
of the Middle East.” 4 p.m. Humanities Lecture Hall, 805 W. Pennsylvania
Ave., Urbana. For more information, call 244-3344 or visit www.iprh.uiuc.edu.
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
11 Saturday
Nature ABCs & 123s, “O is for Opossum.” 10-11 a.m. Visitor
Center, Allerton Park. Ages 2-5. Children and their parents are invited
to come and play while learning about nature at Allerton. Register at
www.allerton.uiuc.edu or call 244-1035. Admission charge. Allerton Park.
12 Sunday
Rhythm Awareness Workshop with Cyro Baptista. 11:30 a.m. Orchestra Rehearsal
Room, Krannert Center. This "hands-on" workshop gets participants
to use their hands, feet, and voice to clap, stomp, and sing their way
to polyrhythmic awareness under the guidance of percussionist and composer
Cyro Baptista. Recommended for high school students and adults.
13 Monday
Open Class. Marilyn Booth, UI. 3-4:45 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Focusing
on themes and issues related to the museum’s holdings and exhibitions.
The public is invited. Krannert Art Museum.
School of Art and Design Visitor’s Series. Henri Zerner, Harvard
University. 5 p.m. Krannert Art Museum Auditorium. Art and Design and
Krannert Art Museum.
14 Tuesday
Open Class. Mahir Saul, UI. 1-2:15 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Focusing
on themes and issues related to the museum’s holdings and exhibitions.
The public is invited. Krannert Art Museum.
Discussion. “The Fable of the Keiretsu.” J. Mark Ramseyer,
Harvard Law School and author. 4 p.m. Faculty Lounge, College of Law.
East Asian and Pacific Studies.
Music Lecture and Demonstration. “String Theory: The Craft of
Antonio Stradivarius.” 4 p.m. Alice Campbell Alumni Center. Admission
charge. UI Alumni Association.
“One Size Fits All? – Body Image.” 7 p.m. 406 Illini
Union. Counseling Center Paraprofessionals.
15 Wednesday
“Around the World Wednesdays.” 9:30 a.m. Spurlock Museum.
Wednesdays, through Dec. 6, the Learning Center opens its doors for
children and their parents to create and learn together. For more info,
visit www.spurlock.uiuc.edu. Spurlock Museum.
Nature ABCs & 123s, “O is for Opossum.” 10-11 a.m. Visitor
Center, Allerton Park. Ages 2-5. Children and their parents are invited
to come and play while learning about nature at Allerton. Register at
www.allerton.uiuc.edu or call 244-1035. Admission charge. Allerton Park.
Open Class. Dana Rush, UI. 2-5 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Focusing on
themes and issues related to “A Saint in the City.” The
museum’s holdings and exhibitions are incorporated into course
curricula. The public is invited. Krannert Art Museum.
Conference: “Departmentalization at the Crossroads.” 6-8
p.m. 314 Illini Union. Marking the 60th anniversary of the departmentalization
of Guyane, Martinique, Guadeloupe and Reunion. Continues through Saturday.
For more info and a schedule of events, send e-mail to hmurdoch@uiuc.edu.
French.
16 Thursday
Workshop. “Girls Engaged in Math and Science.” 4-7 p.m.
1040 NCSA Building. Designed to teach girls who have completed sixth,
seventh, or eighth grade about math, science, technology and forensics.
To register, visit http://gems.ncsa.uiuc.edu/application/. Supercomputing
Applications.
.
18 Saturday
“An Afternoon of West African Stories, Spoken and Sung.”
Foday Musa Suso, kora-player, and La’Ron Williams, storyteller.
2 p.m. Spurlock Museum. Admission charge. Spurlock Museum.
exhibits
“Conversations About Something”
An art exhibition by Andy Ducett, UI.
IPRH, 805 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.
Through Dec. 8.
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“Siti’s Diary”
Watercolors by Siti Mariah Jackson
Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St. Urbana. 8:30 a.m.-5
p.m. Monday-Friday.
Through Jan. 5.
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“Where Animals Dance”
Through March 4.
Five galleries featuring the cultures of the world.
Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday; 9
a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
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“Decorative and Musical Art of the 17th-19th Centuries: A Quartet
of Ornamented String Instruments by Antonio Stradivari”
Through Nov. 26.
“Surrealist Interventions: Selections From Krannert Art Museum
and the University of Illinois Library”
“When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child”
“A Saint in the City: Sufi Arts of Urban Senegal”
Through Dec. 31.
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday;
2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3donation suggested.
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“Dante at Illinois”
346 Main Library.
Through Dec. 14.
“Pride of the Illini: The Illinois Band 1890-1929”
Marshall Gallery, Library.
Through Dec. 31.
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“Green Design and Planning in Architecture”
“Critical Dualities: Front of House/Back of House”
“Here+There”
Through Nov. 11.
I space, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.
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@art gallery. Online exhibit of the UI School of Art and Design. www.art.uiuc.edu/@art
•This calendar is excerpted from the Nov. 2 issue of Inside Illinois,
the faculty-staff newspaper at the UI.
