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lectures
18 Friday
“How Do We Get America Out of Debt?” Thomas Geoghegan, labor lawyer and author. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

19 Saturday
“Exotic Superconductors: New Mysteries, Exciting Applications.” Dale Van Harlingen, UI. 10:15-11:30 a.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Saturday Physics Honors Program.

23 Wednesday
“The Hysterical Alphabet: A Multi-Media History.” Terri Kapsalis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 7:30 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. MillerComm.

25 Friday
“More of the Same: Arne Duncan, Barack Obama and the Conundrum of National Education Reform.” Dave Stovall, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA . Friday Forum.

29 Tuesday
“From Page to Stage.” Karen Quisenberry and David Warfel, UI. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Know Your University.

“Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices.” Michael Moore, UI. 7:30 p.m. Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum. Center for Advanced Study.

1 Thursday
“Ready for a Journey: Outfitting an Ancient Merchant Ship.” Helena W. Swiny, Harvard University. 5:30 p.m. 302 Art and Architecture Building. Archaeological Institute of America, Classics and Krannert Art Museum.

“Civilization and the Single Woman: Buddhism in South and Southeast Asia.” Steven Collins, University of Chicago. 7 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. Religion.

2 Friday
“Winning High Quality Affordable Health Care As A Guaranteed Right For All in 2009.” William McNary, Citizen Action Illinois. Noon. Latzer Hall, University YMCA. Friday Forum.

3 Saturday
“Decision Making in Living Cells.” Ido Golding, UI. 10:15-11:30 a.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Saturday Physics Honors Program.

colloquia
17 Thursday
“The Material of Distance: Jean Epstein’s Early Film Theory and the Modern Aesthetic Encounter.” Jennifer Wild, University of Chicago. 4 p.m. 147 Armory. French and Media and Cinema Studies.

“To Build a Biofilm.” George O’Toole, Dartmouth Medical School. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Gauge/Gravity Duality.” Joseph G. Polchinski, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

18 Friday
“Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Studies: A Symposium.” 9 a.m. Levis Faculty Center. Continues on Saturday at 9:30 a.m. Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for Advanced Study; Medieval Studies, English; Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and the School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.

“The European Union and the Film Industry.” Anna Stenport, UI. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building. European Union Center.

“Reprogramming the Genetic Code: An Emerging Technology for the Discovery of a New Class of Peptidic Drugs” Hiroaki Suga, University of Tokyo. Noon. B102 CLSL Auditorium. Biochemistry.

“New Approaches to Studying the Cerebral Cortex: Plasticity and Dynamics of Visual Cortex Networks.” Mriganka Sur, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 1 p.m. 2269 Beckman Institute. Beckman Institute.

21 Monday
“Development of Novel Lewis Acid Catalysts Using Early Transition Metals.” Yasuhiro Yamashita, University of Tokyo. Noon. 161 Noyes Lab. Organic Chemistry.

“Devices for Diagnosis and Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease.” Ghassan Kassab, Purdue University. Noon. 1000 Micro and Nano Laboratory. Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

“Synthetic Biology – Biomedical, Research and Defense Applications.” Steven Blanke, UI. 4 p.m. 162 Noyes Lab. Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

22 Tuesday
“Programming Bacterial Population Dynamics Using Engineered Cell-Cell Communication.” Lingchong You, Duke University. 1 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

“How Do Turkish Heritage Speakers Write?” Ercan Balci, UI. 1 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Language Building. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“Nanostructured Boron Cages and Dendrimers: From Materials to Cancer Therapy.” Narayan Hosmane, Northern Illinois University. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Materials Chemistry.

23 Wednesday
“The Secret Lives of Histones.” Craig Mizzen, UI. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Unnatural Borders: Kenya’s Human-Wildlife Conflict.” Nancy Benson and Allison Wood, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. African Studies.

“The Mechanisms and Functions of Fat Taste in Humans.” Richard D. Mattes, Purdue University. 4 p.m. 150 Animal Sciences Lab. Nutritional Sciences.

“Computational Quantum Chemistry: Two Extremes.” So Hirata, University of Florida. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Physical Chemistry.

24 Thursday
“Corruption, Populism or Revolution? Natural Gas and Redistributive Politics in Bolivia.” Bret Gustafson, Washington University, St. Louis. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

“Rethinking the Origins of the Value of Literacy and School in the African American Experience, 1790-1865.” Noon. 242 Education. Educational Research.

“Public Privates: Performing Gynecology From Both Ends of the Speculum and The Hysterical Alphabet.” Terri Kapsalis, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 3 p.m. 300C Gregory Hall. History.

“Copper-Catalyzed C-H Amination With Unactivated Amines.” Timothy Warren, Georgetown University. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Inorganic Chemistry.

“Pockets of Nickels – Metal Transport and Regulation in Bacteria.” Peter Chiversd, Washington University School of Medicine. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Family Despotism and the Rights of the Person [lichnost’]: The Politics of the Personal in Late Imperial Russia.” Barbara Engel, University of Colorado. 4 p.m. 101 International Studies Building. Russia, East European and Eurasian Center.

“Nuclear Fear in the ‘Second Nuclear Age’ (1987-2007).” Spencer R. Weart, American Institute of Physics. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

“Envisioning Catastrophic Climate Change.” Spencer Weart, American Institute of Physics. 8 p.m. Second floor, Levis Faculty Center. Center for Historical Interpretation.

25 Friday
“Where Are We and Where Are We Going? The Challenges of Making and Distributing Independent Movies.” Sandra Schulberg, IFP founder and indie film producer. 1:30 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building. European Union Center and Cinema Studies.

“Social Dimensions of Climate Change: From Principles to Practice at the World Bank.” Robin Mearns, World Bank, Washington D.C. 2:30 p.m. 5602 Beckman Institute. Social Dimensions of Environmental Policy Initiative/Beckman.

“What Is a Nietzschean Self?” Lanier Anderson, UI. 3 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Philosophy.

28 Monday
“Synthetic Biology – Social, Ethical and Political Impact.” Anna-Maria Marshall, UI. 4 p.m. 162 Noyes Lab. Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

“Evaluating Multicore Design Challenges and Opportunities Using Simple Models.” Yan Solihin, North Carolina State University. 4 p.m. 1404 Siebel Center. Parallel@IL Computer Science.

29 Tuesday
“Music and Salvation in Late Imperial Russia: A.N. Skriabin as ‘Messiah.’ ” Rebecca Mitchell, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. Russian, East European and Eurasian Center.

“Structure and Dynamics of Inhomogeneous Fluids.” Thomas M. Truskett, University of Texas. 1 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

“Objects of Knowledge, Subjects of Consumption: Oriental Carpets, Connoisseur Books and Gendered Politics of Knowledge.” Minoo Moallem, University of California, Berkeley. 4 p.m. Asian American Culture Center Lounge, 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana. Gender and Women’s Studies.

“Metal-Oxygen Intermediates in Dioxygen Activation by Chemical Models of Heme and Nonheme Metalloenzymes.” Wonwoo Nam, Ewha Woman’s University. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Inorganic Chemistry.

30 Wednesday
“Understanding Paramyxovirus Mediated Membrane Fusion: A Nanomachine at Work.” Robert Lamb, Northwestern University. Noon. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Cell and Developmental Biology.

“Making Meaning With Conceptual Mashups.” Keith and Mendi Obadike, visiting artists. Noon.
101 International Studies Building. African Studies.

“Structural Dynamics of Spliceosomal RNAs by Single Molecule Spectroscopy.” David Rueda, Wayne State University. 4 p.m. 112 Chem Annex. Physical Chemistry.

“Single-Molecule Analysis Reveals Differential Effect of ssDNA-binding Proteins on DNA Translocation by XPD Helicase.” Masayoshi Honda, UI. 4 p.m. 116 Roger Adams Lab. Biochemistry.

1 Thursday
“Comparison of Metabolic and Nutritional Profiles Among Mexican Children Living in Mexico, Mexican Children Living in the United States and non-Hispanic White Children in the United States.” Karen Chapman-Novakotski, UI. Noon. 101 International Studies Building. Latin American and Caribbean Studies.

“Topological Insulators: The Observation of Quantum Hall-like Effects Without Magnetic Field.” M. Zahid Hasan, Princeton University. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

“Distinct Conformational Processes in the Ribosome Important to the Regulation of Protein Synthessis.” Scott Blanchard, Cornell University. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Three-Dimensional Photonic Band Gap Crystals From Biological Structures.” Michael Bartl, University of Utah. 4 p.m. 112 Chemistry Annex. Materials and Physical Chemistry.

2 Friday
“Intention, Permissibility, Terrorism and War.” Jefferson McMahan, UI. 3 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Philosophy.

theater
20 Sunday
The World Famous Lipizzaner Stallions. 2 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

30 Wednesday
“RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles.” 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall Star Theater. Admission charge.

4 Sunday
“So You Think You Can Dance” Tour 2009. 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

music
17 Thursday
Pygmalion Music Festival. “My Brightest Diamond.” 6 p.m. Link Gallery. Krannert Art Museum.
Nathan Gunn, baritone. With Julie Gunn, piano, 
and Yvonne Gonzáles Redman, soprano.7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge.

19 Saturday
Pygmalion Music Festival. Iron and Wine with opening act The Books. 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center. Admission charge.

Pygmalion Music Festival Afterglow. Ra Ra Riot with Princeton. 9:30 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center.

20 Sunday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. David Phy, jazz trombone. 1:30 p.m. 25 Smith Hall.

21 Monday
Guest Artist Master Class. Jean-Marie Londeix. 3 p.m. Music Building auditorium.

Guest Artist Recital. William Street, saxophone, and Roger Admiral, piano. 6 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

22 Tuesday
Malcolm Bilson, fortepiano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge.

Carnatic Classical Violin Duo Concert. 7:30 p.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall. Lalgudi G.J.R. Krishnan and Lalgudi Vijayalakshmi with Sri P. Satish Kumar, mridangam, and Sri T. Radhakrishnan, ghatam. SPICMACAY.

23 Wednesday
Faculty Recital. Dana Hall, jazz drums. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Diverse music of the African Diaspora, soul music and black culture. Admission charge. School of Music.

Buckcherry with Saving Abel, Red and The Last Vegas. 7:30 p.m. Assembly Hall Star Theater. Admission charge.

24 Thursday
Celebrating Navaratri With Subrata and Friends. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. The Hindu festival Navaratri is celebrated by Subrata Bhattacharya, tabla, and Snehasish Mozumder, mandolin, and other friends. Admission charge.

UI Wind Symphony and UI Symphonic Band I. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

25 Friday
UI Symphony Orchestra. Donald Schleicher, conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. On the program, Beethoven’s Egmont Overture, Tomasi’s Trumpet Concerto and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique. Admission charge.

26 Saturday
UI New Music Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Contemporary music takes center stage. Admission charge.

27 Sunday
Guest Artist Recital. Christopher Marks, organ. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

3 Saturday
Doctor of Musical Arts Recital. Samuel Carroll, percussion. 5 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

Master of Music Recital. Aaron Romm, trumpet. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

dance
25 Friday
Merce Cunningham Dance Company. “Nearly Ninety.” 7:30 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. A commemoration of Cunningham’s life features a re-envisioned composition by John Paul Jones and mixed-media artist Takehisa Kosugi. Admission charge.

films
17 Thursday
“The Truman Show.” 5:30 p.m. Auditorium, Krannert Art Museum. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities and Krannert Art Museum.

“Up and Down.” Czech Republic, 2004. 7 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building. European Union Center.

24 Thursday
“Selling Democracy: Films of the Marshall Plan, 1948-1953.” 5:15-7:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Continues through Saturday. For more information, visit www.euc.Illinois.edu. European Union Center and Cinema Studies.

30 Wednesday
“Lincoln: Prelude to the Presidency.” 6 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Office of the Chancellor, Illinois Public Media and Krannert Art Museum.

sports
18 Friday
Soccer. UI vs. Loyola Chicago. 7 p.m. Soccer Stadium. Admission charge.

20 Sunday
Soccer. UI vs. Milwaukee. Noon. Soccer Stadium. Admission charge.

25 Friday
Volleyball. UI vs. Ohio State University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

26 Saturday
Volleyball. UI vs. Pennsylvania State University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

27 Sunday
Soccer. UI vs. University of Minnesota. 1 p.m. Soccer Stadium. Admission charge.

3 Saturday
Football. UI vs. Pennsylvania State University. 6 p.m. Memorial Stadium. Admission charge.

et cetera
17 Thursday
“Social Entrepreneurship Showcase.” 7 p.m. Business Instructional Facility Atrium. College of Business.

21 Monday
“Always Growing, Always Strong.” 35th anniversary of La Casa Cultural Latina. Various events will take place through the week culminating in a weekend alumni reunion. Visit http://studentaffairs.illinois.edu/diversity/lacasa/ for more information. La Casa Cultural Latina.

“Enhancing The Teaching and Learning Environment for Diverse Classrooms.” Christine Stanley, Texas A&M University. 3:30-5 p.m. Deloitte Auditorium, Business Instructional Facility. Call 333-3370 for more information and to register. Office of the Provost, Teaching Academy Leadership Network and Center for Teaching Excellence.

22 Tuesday
“Test Construction.” John Ory, UI. 3:30 p.m. 428 Armory Building. To register, call 333-3370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

Poetry Craft Talk and Performance. Joy Harjo, artist, poet, writer and musician. 4:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Native American House.

23 Wednesday
“Food For The Soul.” Noon. Main lounge, Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center. Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center.

Brand U: Get the Message. 1-5 p.m. Activities and Recreation Center. For more information and to register, visit http://publicaffairs.illinois.edu/campus/brandu.html. Public Affairs.

24 Thursday
VOICE. Readings by Brian Kornell, Sara McWhorter and Micah Riecker, UI. 7:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum.

25 Friday
“Food Safety.” Susan Brewer, UI. 6-7 p.m. 180 Bevier Hall. Food Science and Human Nutrition.

26 Saturday
2009 Sandage Symposium. Celebrating 50 years of the department of advertising. 8 a.m. I Hotel and Conference Center, 1900 S. First St., Champaign. For more information and to register, visit http://www.media.illinois.edu/advertising/. Advertising/College of Media.

“Indigenous Sexualities: A Symposium.” 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W. Nevada St., Urbana. For more information, visit http://www.ais.illinois.edu/. American Indian Studies.

Kids@Krannert. 10 a.m.-noon. Krannert Art Museum. For the entire family with demonstrations, hands-on art projects, dance, music and storytelling. Krannert Art Museum.

28 Monday
“Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination.” Darieck Scott, University of California, Berkeley. Respondents: Richard T. Rodriguez, Marc D. Perry and Emily Skidmore, UI. 8 p.m. Levis Music Room. Criticism and Interpretive Theory.

29 Tuesday
“How Am I Doing? Using Informal Early Feedback and Other Strategies to Get Information on Your Teaching.” Sandy Finley, UI. 4 p.m. 428 Armory Building. To register, call 333-3370. Center for Teaching Excellence.

CARR Reading Series: Lucie Brock-Broido, author. 4:30 p.m. Author’s Corner, Illini Union Bookstore. English Creative Writing Program.

“All Love Is Equal: Becoming an LGBT Ally.” 7 p.m. 406 Illini Union. Counseling Center.

30 Wednesday
“Food For The Soul.” Noon. Main lounge, Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center. Bruce Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, Student Cultural Programming Fee.

1 Thursday
Imaging at Illinois Workshop. “Highlighting the Science, Technology and Application of Imaging.” 8:30 a.m. Beckman Institute. Keynote speaker: Alain Viel, Harvard University. For more information and to register, visit https://conferences.beckman.uiuc.edu/Imaging2009/. Beckman Institute.

Workshop. “Effective Grading: Principles and Strategies.” 3 p.m. 428 Armory Building. To register, call 333-3490. Center for Teaching Excellence.

Artist Performance. “Four Electric Ghosts.” Mendi + Keith Obadike. 6 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Frances P. Rholen Visiting Artists Fund/ College of Fine and Applied Arts and the School of Art + Design Visitors Series.

2 Friday
A Presidential Press Conference With Abraham Lincoln. 3 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Lincoln Bicentennial Event.

exhibits
“Diversity Services and Collections in the Library”
Through Sept. 30.
First floor, Library.
“One in a Million: An Exhibition of Eleven Landmark Acquisitions at the University of Illinois”
On view Sept. 28.
Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
“Homecoming Comeback Guests”
First floor, Library.
“Fire Safety: From the Fireground to Campustown”
On view Oct. 1.
Marshall Gallery, Main Library.
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“The Transforming Arts of Papua New Guinea”
Through Jan. 31.
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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School of Art+Design Faculty Exhibition
Through Sept. 27.
“On-Screen: Global Intimacy”
“Gestures in Space and Light”
“Effacement: Huang Yan’s China in the 21st Century”
“Vivid Lines in Graphic Times”
Through Jan. 3.
“The Morrill Act: The Land Grant Roots of a Great University”
On view Oct. 1.
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3 donation suggested.
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“Everybody! Visual Resistance in Feminist Health Movements, 1969-2009”
“The Glue Factory, a Broadside Project Regarding the Fear of Growing Old”
Through Oct. 10.
I space, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

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This calendar is excerpted from the Sept. 17 issue of Inside Illinois, the faculty-staff newspaper at the UI.