Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Robert A. Williams
Native peoples around the world have experienced varying degrees of success in securing their rights to cultural survival within the legal systems of their own countries. Many groups in recent years, however, have increasingly turned to the international human rights system as a more effective…
Bernard Williams
Philosophy Annual Public Lecture
In conjunction with: Department of English, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communications, Institute of Communications Research, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive…
Deborah Willis
Cosponsored by African-American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, Photography Program, Women's Studies Program, Women's Studies Network, YWCA of the University of Illinois, The Center for Advanced…
Olly Wilson
Performer, composer, and educator Olly Wilson is proficient in several idioms including classical, jazz, and electronic music. Among his many compositions are works for orchestra, chorus, piano, chamber ensemble, and electronic sound which have been performed in settings ranging from college…
Langdon Winner
A colorful theme in American thought is the belief that new technologies will revitalize democratic society, enabling citizens to become more effectively self-governing. Hopes of this kind have reappeared in every generation since the early nineteenth century, a standard motif in the nation's…
Evan Wolfson
Evan Wolfson addresses current questions surrounding marriage and its history for gays and non-gays in the U.S. and in western culture. He also examines the current fight to end discrimination in legal marriage and how this fight is being used as a political baton to implement a backlash that is…
Abel Wolman
Dr. Abel Wolman has had a distinguished career in public health, sanitation, and water supply since 1913, when he began studies on pollution in the Potomac River for the U. S. Public Health Service.
In conjunction with: Department of Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering Program;…
Peter D. Wood, PhD., D.Sc.
A Four-Part Series
Exercise, Cholesterol, and Your Heart
In conjunction with: College of Applied Life Studies, College of Medicine, School of Human Resources and Family Studies, Department of Health and Safety Studies, Department of Kinesiology, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Campus Recreation…
Philip Yenawine
"Unsafe subjects" are topics often referred to as "unmentionable," at least those which some would prefer not discussed–-certainly not in polite company, or not with people whose views are different from one's own. In certain strains of art, we have long seen a tendency to push the parameters of…
Chen Yi
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Zhou Long
Chen Yi and Zhou Long burst onto the Chinese musical scene in the early 1980s, attracting widespread attention with their daring use of a mixture of Western avant-garde composition techniques and traditional Chinese music idioms. Because of this, they have been dubbed the "New Wave" composers.
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Francesca Zambello
Francesca Zambello is general and artistic director of The Glimmerglass Opera Festival and artistic advisor for Washington Opera. Her directing career includes new and canonical works at many of the world's most venerable theatres. At a time when theatres are especially vulnerable to financial…
Slavoj Zizek
Linking key philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts to social phenomena including popular culture and political struggle allows for a re-evaluation of the scientific method as well as of ideology. This is especially revealing when applied to societies believed to be beyond ideology.
Hosted by:…
Bruce E. Zuckerman
Cosponsored by Department of History; Department of Linguistics; Department of the Classics; Committee on Jewish Culture and Society; Humanities Council/LAS; Program for the Study of Religion; Program in South and West Asian Studies; Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials (…
Initiatives
Telecommunications networks have long constituted a core infrastructure, supporting an array of social, cultural and economic activities, and vested with varying public service responsibilities. Historically, how, why and to what extent have telecommunications systems been endowed with such public…
Destructive hurricanes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, floods and tsunamis have occurred throughout human history and often cause vastly more loss of life and disruption of human activities than events orchestrated by terrorists. "Creeping megacatastrophes" are new phenomena that affect the…
FRIDAY, MARCH 1
9:00am Introduction
Glen Hoetker, CAS Resident Associate, University of Illinois
9:15am Keynote Address
The Changing Role of Intellectual Property in Asia; National Innovation Policies of India and China
Alan Wm Wolff, Dewey and LeBoef LLP, Washington DC
10:…
Friday, April 151:00-2:30pm The Politics of Indigenous Recognition
Chair: Jodi Byrd, University of Illinois
Speaker: Glen Coulthard, University of British Columbia
Just Another Angry Indian: On Reconciliation, Recognition and Resentment in Indigenous Politics
Comments: Nils Jacobsen, University of…
November 17 and 18
Since the mid-nineteenth century, transformations in communications and technology have accelerated the pace of encounter and exchange between musical cultures. Participants in this workshop will come together in order to share disciplinary perspectives on the reshaping of…
Mobilization for World War II triggered profound changes in all areas of human endeavor. Innovations in microelectronics and computing are well known. Less familiar but of critical importance were vectors of change in the organization and retrieval of information. These changes drew on a concurrent…
HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC LIFE PROGRAM
ILLINOIS @ 150 CONFERENCE WEBSITE
This is a full-day symposium featured as part of the Sesquicentennial culmination conference, Illinois at 150: The 21st-Century University and Research for the Public Good (which includes plenary sessions on Tuesday evening…
Raymond Zilinskas
Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Christopher Hsu
CAS John Bardeen Graduate Scholar, Veterinary Pathobiology, UIUC
Eric Jakobsson
Molecular and Integrative Physiology, UIUC
R. Todd Kiskaddon
Department of Emergency Medicine, Provena…
Each year, the journal Educational Theory, brings leading scholars to campus to address fundamental questions about fundamental educational concepts and their implications for policy and practice. This year’s institute explore such questions as:
What values and claims are at stake when parents…
Far more than entertainment, music is a portal for mind-body synchronization; a conduit for engagement in ritual, group catharsis, and entrainment, and a holder of mythology and history. Often the musician is exalted, but is also seen as liminal, or dangerous to the order of society, which speaks…
Tatsuya Nakatani, an acoustic sound artist and master percussionist originally from Osaka, Japan returns to Urbana-Champaign as part of Improvisers Exchange, an upcoming CAS initiative.
The Nakatani Gong Orchestra offers a unique, transformative experience for performers and audiences as rich…
The aftermath of major natural disasters, like the 2004 tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina, Andrew and Mitch, often reveal socially constructed disasters of gender, class, and racial inequalities of equal magnitude. These inequalities are also evident in the post-disaster reconstruction. This symposium…