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Hosts needed for Japanese college students coming to U. of I.
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – About 40 Japanese college students are coming to Champaign-Urbana in late July to spend up to a month brushing up on their conversational English. All of them are hoping to find friendly local hosts to share their American experiences with. The students will need hosts who can spend time with them getting […]
Scholar: Tourists should reflect on themselves, tourism experience
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – This summer, millions of Americans will morph overnight. Swapping their drivers’ licenses for airline tickets, their corporate clothes for casual, and their comfort zones for zones of intermittent pleasure and pain, these Americans will take flight, turn into tourists. With months of planning behind them, their guidebooks in tow, they are ready […]
Career of Judge Harlington Wood Jr. is focus of U. of I. Library exhibit
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – An exhibit chronicling the “long and extraordinary” career of federal judge Harlington Wood Jr., a high-ranking public servant who, among other critical roles, served as chief negotiator for the U.S. Department of Justice at Wounded Knee, is running at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, his alma mater. Titled “Judge Harlington Wood, […]
Excusing military elite in Abu Ghraib scandal part of ‘shameful pattern’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A scholar working on a book about the war in Iraq agrees with a recent Human Rights Watch report that described Abu Ghraib as only the “tip of the iceberg” in terms of U.S. involvement in prisoner abuse. The scholar, Stephen Hartnett, also believes that the recent U.S. Army investigation that absolved […]
Writer Andrei Codrescu donates literary works to U. of I. Library
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – If it’s possible to know a person by the books he reads, patrons of one of the world’s largest libraries soon could be on a first-name basis with an award-winning author, commentator and observer-provocateur. Andrei Codrescu, the prolific poet-novelist-essayist and widely recognized radio celebrity, has given his collection of Romanian books, periodicals, […]
Two exhibits explore American culture through sheet-music covers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Two exhibits exploring a changing and challenging America as depicted by Tin Pan Alley have opened at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “Portraying American Femininity Through Melody and Art” looks at evolving American womanhood as seen through the lens of music and sheet-music cover artwork produced from the turn of the […]
Grant will help Mortenson Center at Illinois assist African librarians
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – The Mortenson Center for International Library Programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received a grant that will, through the development of automated systems, assist it in helping African librarians to better serve the research needs of their users. The three-year $499,900 grant from the Carnegie Corp. of New York […]
Exhibit at Illinois commemorates anniversary of political imprisonment
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – An international touring exhibit marking the 25th anniversary of the incarceration of two Puerto Rican political prisoners in U.S. federal facilities will open May 7 (Saturday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The exhibit, “Not Enough Space,” commemorates the imprisonments of Oscar López Rivera and Carlos Alberto Torres, who are serving […]
Field trip to educate Champaign students about water-related issues
Champaign students about water-related issues Andrea Lynn, Humanities Editor 217-333-2177; andreal@illinois.edu 4/20/2005 CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Geography students from Champaign Unit 4 schools are attending college – for a day, anyway. On Friday (April 22), the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will host a field trip for the students as a way to introduce them “to […]
Impact of spread of free-market policies to be discussed at conference
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – A conference on “Fetishizing the Free Market: The Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism” will be held April 29-30 (Friday and Saturday) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Most of the sessions will be in the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana. The event is free and open to the public. […]
European modernism and information society focus of U. of I. conference
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – Scholars representing disciplines as diverse as architecture, urban planning, science, technology, cultural studies and library and information science – will gather May 6-8 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for a conference on “European Modernism and the Information Society: Informing the Present, Understanding the Past.” The conference, which takes place at […]
John M. Unsworth, dean of U. of I. library school, wins $25,000 Lyman Award
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. – John M. Unsworth, dean of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, has won the National Humanities Center’s 2005 Richard W. Lyman Award. The $25,000 award recognizes people who have advanced humanistic scholarship and teaching through the innovative use of information technology. Unsworth will […]