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President-elect of American Library Association to speak Saturday
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Maurice “Mitch” Freedman, the president-elect of the American Library Association (ALA), will speak at the University of Illinois on Saturday (March 2). His talk, on “The Changing Role of the Information Professional,” will be from 11 a.m. to noon in Room 126 of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science Building, 501 […]
Library School sponsors week of communications talks, including storytellers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. During the week of Feb. 4, an expert on global information and communications issues will give two free public talks at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. On Saturday of that week, a group of storytellers will host an early Valentine’s Day event and benefit. Pradip Thomas, research director of the London-based World […]
Semesterlong ‘Exploring the Human Experience’ culminates with Maya Angelou’s commencement talk
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Poetry, dance, theater and music will highlight a series of academic and cultural events during the spring semester at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The events are part of the “Exploring the Human Experience” initiative announced by Chancellor Nancy Cantor in connection with the commencement addresses May 12 by Maya Angelou. The […]
New biography on H.G. Wells focuses on late-life loves
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. That H.G. Wells’ intelligence was rivaled only by his appetite for women has never been a secret. That he had concurrent clandestine love affairs late in his life with American women 26 to 40 years his junior has been until now. A new biography reveals the secrets of the writers heart, the desires […]
Tolkien scholars to discuss ‘Lord of the Rings’
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. In anticipation of the Dec. 19 release of the film version of J.R.R. Tolkiens classic, “The Lord of the Rings,” local Tolkien scholars will gather on Friday (Dec. 7) to consider some of the more academic aspects of the work. The panel discussion on “The Medieval Sources of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings’ […]
Architects to discuss Sept. 11 attack and the built environment
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Students in the University of Illinois School of Architecture are organizing a forum on Oct. 18 to discuss the World Trade Center attack and its impact on the built environment. “Town Hall Meeting: Rebuilding a Way of Life in the Face of Disaster” will begin at 12:30 p.m. in the atrium of Temple […]
First Computer Fear Film Festival aims to dispel terror of technology
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — The fictional birthplace of the world’s first diabolical computer and the home of one of the world’s top computer science programs is holding its first “Computer Fear Film Festival.” The University of Illinois, the home of Hal — the cyberhero-turned-cyberpsycho from the movie “2001” — is hosting the inaugural film festival Sept. […]
Scholars and dignitaries to explore many facets of Colombia Aug. 1-4
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Scholars and dignitaries will explore wide-ranging topics dealing with Colombia from guerilla warfare and the war on drugs to Colombian identity and poetry Wednesday through Saturday (Aug. 1-4) at the University of Illinois. The conference is titled “La Colombia internacional.” Discussions, lectures, roundtables and plenary sessions, all to be conducted in Spanish, will […]
Russian librarians, government officials visit counterparts in Illinois
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Library directors and regional government officials from across Russia currently are meeting with their U.S. counterparts in several Illinois towns and cities. The groups two-week immersion in U.S. library and local government management, which began May 11, is a first step in a major Russian-American effort to begin expanding Russias book-oriented public libraries […]
Host families sought for Japanese summer visitors
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. The Intensive English Institute is hoping to recruit dozens of friendly people who are willing to host friendly visiting Japanese college students in Champaign-Urbana this summer. Japanese students from five universities Aichi Gakuin (Nagoya), Dokkyo and Senshu (Tokyo), Kinki (Osaka) and Konan (Kobe) will be staying on the UI campus for three or […]
Veteran journalist Shana Alexander to give UI her papers
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. Of the thousands of documents, photos and artifacts that veteran journalist Shana Alexander has just given the University of Illinois Library, perhaps none telegraphs her career better than her collection of press passes. The passes, a tiny part of the vast Shana Alexander Collection, reflect her decades of globetrotting in pursuit of the […]
Temira Pachmuss to receive medal of honor from Republic of Estonia
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. A professor of Slavic languages and literatures at the University of Illinois has won a medal of honor from the Republic of Estonia for her meritorious contributions to that nation. Temira Pachmuss will receive the Medal of the Order of the White Star on March 30 in ceremonies at the Estonian Embassy in […]