CAS Cosponsored Events
Fall 2009 (Current)
In addition to our regular activities, the Center is pleased to cosponsor events hosted and coordinated by campus units. By offering grants to offset the costs associated with a visiting speaker or an entire conference, we help to ensure that our university continues to serve as a venue for the vibrant exchange of ideas for our on- and off-campus audiences.
Complete Listing of CAS Cosponsored Events
September 3-6, 2009
Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
Orchestra Rehearsal Room (2nd level)
Wearable Computing for Art & Performance
A Workshop in Computer Movement Analysis and Intermedia Performance
Join us for a workshop led by somatic studies theorist and wearable computing artist <http://dance.illinois.edu/people/1134>Dr. Thecla Schiphorst (George A Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, University of Illinois and Simon Frasier University).
Workshop participants will be learning about Laban Movement theories through moving and capturing Laban effort shapes with sensors attached to their bodies. We will learn how these movements can be analyzed through computer machine learning and use this to translate patterns of movement into improvised interactive sound, text, music and dance.
SESSION 1 - Thursday September 3, 2009; 7-9pm
Introduction: Movement + Body in Context
SESSION 2 - Friday September 4, 2009; 5-7pm
Movement Quality + Sound
SESSION 3 - Saturday September 5, 2009; 11am-3pm
Movement Quality + Material
SESSION 4 - Sunday September 6, 2009; 11am-3pm
Movement, Fabric, Sound and Space
Free and open to all members of the University and Champaign/Urbana communities. Attendance at all four sessions is requested, but auditors for individual sessions are welcome. Please wear comfortable clothing that you can move in.
Faculty Leader: Associate Professor and Music Director John Toenjes.
Click here for more information and to register.
Sponsored by: Center for Advanced Study/George A. Miller Program, Dance at Illinois, eDream, Frances P. Rohlen Visiting Artists Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Institute for Advanced Computing Applications and Technologies/Creativity and Computing, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Illinois Campus Research Board
September 10-11, 2009
Campaign Communities: New Historical Perspectives on Gender, Armies, and States
Symposium in honor of John Lynn
History
For more information contact Craig Koslofsky (History) or Clare Crowston (History)
September 17-18, 2009
Levis Faculty Center
Theorizing Anglo-Saxon Studies Symposium
Medieval Studies
For more information contact Renee Trilling (English and Medieval Studies)
September 18, 2009
I Hotel and Conference Center
Symposium in honor of Professor Rex Hess
College of Veterinary Medicine
For more information contact Marie-Claude Hofmann (IGB, Veterinary Biosciences)
September 24, 2009
Catastrophe: Global Histories of Natural, Technological and Social Disaster series
History
Spencer Weart (Director, Center for History of Physics, American Institute of Physics)
For more information contact Clare Crowston (History)
October 15, 2009
Brad Efron (Statistics, Stanford University)
Statistics
For more information contact Ping Ma (Statistics)
October 23-24, 2009
Illinois Philosophical Association
Sally Haslanger (Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT)
The Natural, the Unnatural and the Social
Philosophy
For more information contact Helga Varden (Philosophy)
October 26, 2009
4pm
Beckman Auditorium
Klaus von Klitzing (Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart)
Quantum Leap to Nanoelectronics
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Dept. of Physics
For more information contact Jean-Pierre Leburton (ECE) or Laura Greene (Physics)
November 11-13, 2009
Illini Union, General Lounge
Choosing Change: Symposium on the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Germanic Languages & Literatures
For more information contact Anke Pinkert (Germanic Languages & Literatures)
November 11, 2009
Lincoln Bicentennial Lecture Series
4pm
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
Robin Blackburn
"The Republican and the Revolutionary: Abraham Lincoln and Karl Marx"
Department of History
For more information contact Clare Crowston (History)
November 16, 2009
Brazilian Writers and Their Translators
Center for Translation Studies
For more information contact Elizabeth Lowe (SLCL)