Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
June Reinisch
AIDS and Sex: What do we know? What do we need to know?
One in a four-part series
AIDS is the medical and social catastrophe of this generation. Its toll in human suffering, lost productivity, and social dislocation is staggering. AIDS has become a fundamental parameter of experience. Touching…
Drummond Rennie
Cosponsored by: School of Chemical Sciences, School of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, Department of Civil Engineering, Department of Computer Science, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Department of Entomology, Department of…
Joan Ramon Resina
An urban image is a summary of the dweller's aspirations and aversions, expectations and delusions, but the city also received its identity from outsiders who "discover" it through an authorizing look. Joan Ramon Resina considers some of the ways Barcelona, or more precisely its port-side fifth…
Richard Rirty
"I urge that whatever good the ideas of 'objectivity' and 'transcendence' have done for our culture can be attained equally well by the idea of a community which strives after both intersubjective agreement and novelty–a democratic, progressive, pluralistic community of the sort of which Dewey…
Allen F. Roberts
This illustrated lecture presents the arts of the Mourides, a contemporary mystical Islamic movement in the west African republic of Senegal, and focuses on imagery associated with the Mourides' founding Sufi saint, Sheikh Amadou Bamba (1853-1927). As a pacifist, poet, and mystic, Bamba has become…
Geoffrey Robertson
Author of the internationally-acclaimed Crimes Against Humanity, Geoffrey Robertson examines the chief hopes and challenges in the current struggle for global justice. As a founder of the human rights movement and one of three distinguished jurists on the UN's new Internal Justice Council, he draws…
Randall Robinson
United States' history is soiled by 246 years of enslaving Africans and their descendants and by another 135 years of racial segregation and de jure racial discrimination. Yet, without an apology and payment of reparations, this chapter of American history remains open.
Can reparations remedy the…
Francis Robinson
Four centuries ago Musim scholars began promoting a shift in Islamic society from other-worldiness, associated with mysticism, toward a this-worldly faith. This-worldly activists emphasized God's transcendence, personal responsibility before God, and the need to create a righteous society on earth…
Bernard E. Rollin
Ordinary common sense and everyday people have no problem with using anecdotal information and anthropomorphic attributions to interpret and understand animal behavior. In a scientific milieu, however, "anecdote" and "anthropomorphism" are dirty words, and are unequivocally dismissed as fallacious…
Renato Rosaldo
Cosponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Political Science,…
Joan B. Rose
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Since the era of waterborne jaundice and polio, environmental virology has attempted to understand disease risk through the monitoring of viruses in wastewater, and fresh and marine waters. More recently, the advent of molecular tools coupled with metagenomics has offered the…
Lawrence Rosen
In 2005-06 cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad led to protests by Muslims worldwide. The controversy became local when the Daily Illini published several of the cartoons. Professor Rosen will discuss why Muslims feel so intensely that they must protect the Prophet, and why the Prophet, seen not…
David Rosenboom
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What is form? What is an instrument? Is time granular and emergent? How do hyper-brain ensembles perform? Questions like these are being explored in experimental music. In this talk, David Rosenboom will present concrete examples from his more than five…
Adam Rudolph
A pioneering “world music” percussionist and composer at the forefront of cross-cultural music projects since the late 1970’s, Adam Rudolph discusses his research and performance experiences in various music cultures over the past 40 years, and how aspects of their cosmologies inspire and influence…
Vicki L. Ruiz
Throughout the 1930s and 40s, Luisa Moreno was a champion of civil rights for Spanish-speaking people in the United States. She was vice-president of the largest CIO union, the United Cannery, Agricultural Packing and Allied Workers of America, and was the first Latina to hold a national union…
Anthony Russell
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CONVERGENCE is a new repertoire of works exploring exile, spirituality, hope and redemption. Combining diverse strains of traditional Ashkenazi Jewish and African American music, CONVERGENCE stands directly at spiritual, historical and textual crossroads. The musical sources…
Nawal El Sayed El Saadawi
Dr. Nawal El Saadawi is one of Africa's and the Arab world's best known writers and feminists. As a result of her literary and scholarly writings and her activism, she has faced persecution and harassment from intolerant state officials and religious extremists, including dismissal, imprisonment,…
Marshall Sahlins
How cultural order authorizes historical agency--of individual subjects and collectives. Features conceptual high-flying and examples from the 1951 National League pennant race, war in the Fiji Islands and the Elian Gonzalez saga. Illustrated.
Sponsored by: Department of Anthropology, Department of…
Kirkpatrick Sale
In the dark twilight of fifteenth-century Europe, the overriding question . . . was how to survive the misery and suffering and violence that seemed to be rushing the world to its end. The answer . . . was the conquest of Paradise.
Cosponsored by: College of Agriculture; College of Education;…
Richard Saller
The Latin term gravitas embraces a wide variety of characteristics: the capacity to be worthy of honor and esteem, political responsibility and accountability, social rank, the attainments of grandeur and office. In our current political and cultural climate, when traditional leadership roles are…
Sonia Sanchez
In 1968, America was shaken by the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the urban uprisings that followed. An anti-war movement was in full swing, France teetered on the brink of revolution, and the Mexico City Summer Olympics was punctuated by the defiant fists of Black Power. That…
Serge Schmemann
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of critically acclaimed Echoes of a Native Land: Two Centuries of a Russian Village, Serge Schmemann recounts his experiences as an American correspondent returning to his native land as it faced monumental changes in the 80s and 90s and discusses Russia…
Stephen Schneider
Uncertainties in human induced climate change have spurred a serious policy debate. Many components are well established, however, and a number of "win-win" opportunities exist for energy planning.
Hosted by: Department of Physics
In conjunction with: Department of Agricultural Engineering,…
Gunther Schuller
Gunther Schuller sits down with University of Illinois Horn Professor Bernhard Scully for a far ranging conversation covering jazz, classical music, musicology, the history of music in America from 1950 to the present, conducting, composition, music administration, music publishing and the…
Lynne Sharon Schwartz
Through rich images, Lynne Schwartz allows us to view her characters and their foibles, eccentricities and their desperation. She's kindred to the painter Goya, who allowed us to see life as it was--with a certain sly with and style. Chicago Tribune
Lynne Sharon Schwartz, respected contemporary…