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Rebecca Eisenberg
Standard justifications for government funding of academic research have emphasized the lack of incentives to pursue basic research in the private sector.  But the relationship between public and private funding for research is shifting.  Federal policy since 1980 has promoted patenting the results…
Jonathan Elkind
Against the backdrop of global cooperation and competition for energy resources, the potential of tapping vast oil and natural gas reserves in the Caspian Sea basin sparked the interest of various international actors beginning in the early 1990s. Today, development of mechanisms (such as the…
James Elkins
We hardly notice how we see the world. Our eyes do everything for us automatically and if our glasses fit right, we normally don't give our vision a second thought. This is an experimental lecture, intended to suggest some of the strange properties of the ways we see the world. The first half of…
Heid E. Erdrich
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Emilio del Valle Escalante
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Inés Hernández-Avila
Professor del Valle Escalante will present An Indigenous Critic's Perspective: Contemporary Maya Poetry after the Civil War in Guatemala Heid E. Erdrich Abstract Emilio del Valle Escalante Abstract Inés Hernández-Avila Abstract Sponsored by: American Indian Studies Program, Center for Latin…
Heid E. Erdrich
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Inés Hernández-Avila
Heid E. Erdrich Abstract Inés Hernández-Avila Abstract Sponsored by: American Indian Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, George A. Miller Endowment, Spurlock Museum
Allen Ezell
Alan Ezell will define the major characteristics of a Degree Mill, and discuss why DMs are a problem, why we have them, what types exist, and how to identify their red flags.  He will include a history of the FBI's DIPSCAM taskforce and the federal statues used in the investigation.  Included in…
John Feffer
The best place to experience the new world order of food is your local food court.  Behind the apparent diversity of choices and international flavors lies a uniform model of production, distribution, and consumption that is global in scope and bears some important resemblances to an older imperial…
Caleb E. Finch
Genes strongly influence life span as witnessed by the almost one-million fold difference between species in their maximum life spans. Yet, within most species, individuals vary widely in life expectancy. In social insects, the same genome can be programmed during development for either a short-…
Neal L. First
Cloning of animals began in the 1950s with the cloning of amphibians for the purpose of determining the totipotency of animal cells and the irreversible nature of differentiated cells. Mammals were first cloned in 1986 from embryonic cells to study cell differentiation and to create clones for…
Nancy Foner
A hundred years ago a massive wave of immigration dramatically changed the United States. Today, a similar influx is again transforming the nation. In what ways is history being repeated? And what -- and how much-- is different from the past? The talk will explore both parallels and contrasts…
Bruce Fouke
A progressive integration of geology and microbiology, called Geobiology, is underway that will revolutionize our understanding of earth system processes and the history of life. This new research frontier focuses on the integration of recombinant DNA technology with chemical, sedimentologic, and…
Don Pandeiro and Di Freitas
Flyer Don Pandeiro and Di Freitas are performers, artisans, and instrument builders who represent two different Brazilian contexts and musical styles: urban and rural, Southeast and Northeast, and samba and música nordestina. This event will showcase the unique combination of musical talent and…
William C. French
In much modern Christian theology we find highly human-centered modes of discourse that focus attention on the value and dignity of the person and that eclipse attention to the "order of creation," to nature, and to our place within it. Moral value has unfortunately come to be understood as the…
Ariel Fristoe
In a zoo in Holland, a modern day Macbeth unfolds. Hominid is based on the true story of conspiracy, murder and empathy captured by eminent primatologist Frans de Waal in Chimpanzee Politics; Sex and Power Among the Apes. Hominid will be performed by University of Illinois Theatre students under…
Donna Gabaccia
Even as it again debates immigration restriction, the United States is almost alone worldwide in proclaiming itself a "nation of immigrants." Many Americans wrongly assume that immigrants had a uniquely important role in the making of America. In fact, many nations have depended on migration to…
Faith Gabelnick
Amy Gajda
The cover of the May 2006 issue of Vanity Fair featured movie stars Julia Roberts and George Clooney alongside political luminaries Al Gore and Robert Kennedy, Jr. A stylist had dressed the four in complementary shades of green and set designers posed them Hollywood-style in front of a mossy, ivied…
John H. (Jack) Gibbons
Matthew Gilbert
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Korinta Maldonado Goti
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Justin Richland
Traditionally, "the law" has been viewed as an instrument of colonial rule.  After all, conquest typically involves the imposition of the conquering authority's definition of what is and is not "legal."  Justin Richland is a student of a fascinating Native American legal system that was created in…
Tarleton Gillespie
If the character of public discourse, long chaperoned by the broadcast networks and major publishers, is now increasingly in the hands of online media platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr, then we must ask some quite old questions about how these commercial information providers navigate…
Ruth Wilson Gilmore
A number of trends illuminate the proactive and reactive social-spatial dynamics that shape the carceral geographies that have arisen unevenly as the earth’s surface has become increasingly ensnared by globalizing capital. Not surprisingly, the trends coalesce around categories: policing,…
Tom Ginsburg
  Legal reform has been on the agenda for East Asian states for the last two decades and has led to significant transformations of legal institutions in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and China.  The reforms include overhauls of legal education, new quasi-jury systems, and new methods of selecting…
Bianca Gomez
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Zon Moua
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Andrea Ortiz
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Veronica Rodriguez
AUDIO Transcript.pdf Nationwide, movements to remove police officers, or “special resource officers,” from public schools have been gaining momentum and winning campaigns—in Oakland, Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Madison, Seattle, Denver, and more. Built on years, even decades, of…
Steve Gorn
This workshop by Bansuri virtuoso Steve Gorn will explore a Hindustani morning raga in two parts.  Participants will first learn the melodic structure through singing in sargam, the Indian equivalent to solfege, in alap (free of rhythm).  In the second half of the workshop, this material will be…