Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Bill Baird
Is the decision to have an abortion a right or an abuse? Much intense debate has centered on the landmark abortion decision handed down by the US Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, a decision likely to be challenged in upcoming months. Bill Baird is a controversial figure on the leading edge of this…
Lynne Rudder Baker
Philosophical investigations into the nature of persons have tended to focus on features of our mental lives that set us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Yet the modern synthesis in biology has made it clear that we are biological beings, continuous with the rest of the animal kingdom. …
Robert T. Bakker
Cosponsored by: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; College of Education; College of Fine and Applied Arts; School of Art and Design; School of Life Sciences; Department of Anthropology; Department of Ecology, Ethology, and Evolution; Department of…
Pater Balakian
The past year has marked the centenary of the Armenian Genocide. In this presentation, the award-winning writer Peter Balakian will ask how literature can witness and commemorate historical trauma. He will begin by discussing the impact of the Armenian genocide on several major Armenian poets of…
Mary Jo Bane
Mary Jo Bane made headlines last fall when she resigned from her high-ranking position at HHS in protest after President Clinton signed the welfare reform bill. Drawing from her extensive experiences as an administrator of social service programs for children and families at both the state and…
Stephen Banfield
As sung by Judy Garland in the MGM film Meet Me in St Louis (1944), “The Trolley Song” is one of the world’s best-loved production numbers, yet close reading and documentary study are still surprisingly rare where numbers in Hollywood musicals are concerned, and this one is no exception to that…
John Perry Barlow
Cyberspace is a place made entirely of mind, so it is likely that, as with everything else the mind touches, it will develop its own aesthetics. Are they already there?
John Perry Barlow, described by the Utne Reader as one of the "100 visionaries who could change your life," is co-founder of the…
Barry Barnes
Scientific Knowledge: A Reflection of Objective Reality or a Social Convention?
"What people take to be knowledge of nature varies greatly both between different societies and between different periods of history of any given society. In this sense, natural order is as variable as moral order…
Paul Barolksy
Deftly interweaving poetry, theology, philosophy, and art, Paul Barolsky explores issues of poetic imagination, artistic inventiveness, and powers of pictorial expression. Using Michelangelo's Creation scenes in the Sistine Chapel, Barolsky's subtle analysis of such visionary art deepens our…
Spencer C.H. Barrett
Global Global change involves diverse environmental influences many of which are likely to act as important selective pressures on plant populations. Predicting the particular microevolutionary responses of plant populations to these changes is a difficult task without knowledge of the amounts and…
Linda M. Bartoshuk
Fifth Annual Lyle Lanier Lecture in Psychology
This lectureship is in honor of Lyle Lanier who served as Head of Psychology, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cosponsored by: Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research…
Omer Bartov
Using still images, Omer Bartov focuses on varying ways Jews have been represented in anti-Semitic films, as victims in Holocaust films, as heroes, especially in Hollywood films on the establishment of Israel, and as anti-heroes, mainly in Israeli films that make the "Jew" Nazi-like and the Arabs…
Amrita Basu
Amrita Basu, a leading expert on women's issues, examines how "globalization" has influenced feminist and other women's movements, what new opportunities have emerged and what new tensions have surfaced. First tracing the relationship between Robin Morgan's "Sisterhood is Global" of the 1960s and '…
Alice S. Baum
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Donald W. Burnes
. . . in order for our society to begin to solve the problems of the homeless, it must stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor and must stop denying the extent of alcoholism, drug addiction, and mental illness among the homeless.
A Nation in Denial: The Truth about…
Amita Baviskar
From the conflict about the upper run of the Salt Fork river in eastern Illinois to the battles over the Narmada Dam in India, hydropolitics (conflicts over property, distribution and use of water) are at one local and global. Baviskar argues that contemporary crises around water exposes the…
Ruth Behar
As a child growing up in post-revolutionary Cuba as a member of an Ashkenazi-Sephardic family, Ruth Behar was cared for by Cardidad Martinez, an Afro-Cuban woman. Years later, the now noted anthropologist and MacArthur Fellow, once again encounters Martinez although under vastly different…
Thomas O. Beidelman
In conjunction with: Anthropology/African Studies Alumni Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Center for African Studies, George A. Miller Committee
Joel Beinin
On the eve of the first Arab-Israeli war the Jews of Egypt were a heterogeneous community of cosmopolitan hybrids, which was both an element of strength and a factor in its eventual demise. Joel Beinin examines the history of this community in Egypt, where the majority remained, between 1948 and…
David Bellinger
Because lead has so many useful properties, it is widespread in the modern-day environment. Recent studies indicate that exposure to very small amounts of lead adversely affects children’s' brains and their futures. Despite this evidence, efforts to reduce the morbidity associated with lead…
Charles Benbrook
World food production must grow at a steady clip to meet the challenges of population growth and economic development. But how? Agricultural policy analyst, Charles Benbrook argues that we are not pursuing the best opportunities to intensify production. In addressing technological advancements and…
Lourdes Beneria
Lourdes Beneria studies the ways in which current economic restructuring affects changing employment dynamics and labor contracts, both in formal and informal employment. Using a gender perspective as well as an economic one, she focuses on the tendency for "core firms" to shift production to "…
Janet Catherine Berlo
While the study of American art has come a long way in terms of embracing diverse realms, Janet Berlo suggests how the study of more works of vernacular and Native American art (historic as well as modern) can help American art history become a more global and inclusive enterprise. Many of the…
Wendell Berry
If economy means "management of a household," then we have a system of natural accounting that bears no resemblance to the national economy whatsoever, for it is not the record of our life at home but the fever chart of our consumption.
Wednesday, October 14th, 1987 at 4:00pm
Poetry Reading
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Mary Frances Berry
African Americans have historically faced considerable challenges to their goal of achieving equality of opportunity. These challenges become multiplied as members of the global population—for example, those fleeing repressive regimes, those in search of a better economic situation, those…
Catherine Bertini
The UN General Assembly's Millennium Summit in 2000 discussed challenges facing the United Nations in the new century. These goals, dubbed the Millennium Development Goals, outline targets for world health on issues ranging from child welfare to nutrition to disarmament.
Catherine Bertini, winner…