Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Richard Nisbett
Richard Nisbett presents his latest work on reasoning, comparing East Asians with Westerners. He has found that Western thought is analytic, meaning that there is a focus on salient objects and their attributes, together with a propensity to categorize and find rules. However, Asian thought is…
Timothy Noah
In The Great Divergence, Timothy Noah discusses the post-1979 expansion of income inequality in the United States. Here he will examine the specific ways that access to higher education affects, and doesn’t affect, income distribution in the U.S.
Hosted by: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives…
Reed Noss
Biology and regional planning usually have been considered separate disciplines with disparate aims and methodologies. However, recently the limitations of species-by-species, resource-by-resource approaches to conservation have become clear. Reed Noss argues that successful conservation efforts…
Peter Novick
Peter Novick, author of the widely acclaimed book, The Holocaust in American Life, reflects on the meanings of such concepts of Holocaust discourse as incomprehensibility, uniqueness, trauma and memory.
Hosted by: Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society
In conjunction with: Department of…
Martha C. Nussbaum
Martha Nussbaum examines the most prominent arguments opposing same-sex marriage against the backdrop of a philosophical/legal analysis that focuses on the need to resist a "politics of disgust," in favor of a politics based on equal respect for persons. She then asks what the constitutional…
Kenneth Olden
Cosponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; College of Veterinary Medicine; Agricultural Experiment Station; Department of Animal Sciences; Department of Biochemistry…
Sharon Olds
One of the most popular and influential poets writing today, Sharon Olds commands large and diverse audiences. Focusing always on the personal, the interior, Olds' poetry ranges from the pleasures of the body to the anguish of individuals caught up in the cataclysms of twentieth-century history. …
Pauline Oliveros
Traditional western music includes co-located performers in antiphonal compositions from very early on to the present day. The opposing choir lofts of the Church of San Marco inspired Renaissance musicians Gabrieli and Monteverdi to compose pieces exploring the spatial effects of performers at a…
Sherry Ortner
Professor Ortner will address the way Americans do and do not talk about class and the problems of doing ethnology at home by examining her own graduating high school class in Newark, New Jersey.
Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate…
David Ostrow
Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs; College of Applied Life Studies; College of Law; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; College of…
Jack Otis
The single most important source of child abuse and child exploitation in the world is child labor, which affects over 250 million children under the age of sixteen. These children are considered desirable employees not only because they work for low or no wages, but because they are powerless and…
Stephen Packard
"When you know something is about to go out of existence, it calls out to you. People realize then there is something great to do that no future generation can do, this is do or die, the time when these last little remnants of prairie and savannah are going . . . What's true today for the tall-…
Rama S. Pandey
The Fourth Annual Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Lecture
Internationally known as a leader in efforts to achieve world peace, human rights, and social justice, Daniel S. Sanders was dean of the UIUC School of Social Work from 1986 to 1989.
Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor,…
Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan is the most dynamic, nationally and internationally recognized documentary film maker of India, examining its painful problems and pleading for social justice. This presentation documents India's path from Nehruvian and Gandhian ideals to the market economy, with illustrations from…
Charles M. Payne
Septima Clark was an American original-early member of the South Carolina NAACP, crusader for expanded educational opportunities for Blacks, Director of Education for the Highlander Center, member of the SCLC Board of Directors, and perhaps most significantly, founder of the Citizenship Schools,…
Silvia Pedraza
Cosponsored by Office of the Chancellor, College of Education, Department of Agricultural Economics, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, African-American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Counseling Center,…
Kathy Peiss
The Zoot Suit–an oversized suit with broad shoulders, a 'drape shape' and pegged pants popular among young men in the 1940s–was infamous for its role in the 1943 Los Angeles riot, in which white servicemen attacked Mexican-American zooters and literally tore the clothes off their backs. What is…
Jaroslav Pelikan
In Fyodor Dostoevsky's "Legend of the Grand Inquisitor," the most eloquent and shattering statement is the Silence of Jesus. Indeed, almost from the first moment after Christ arrived in Russia his silence has been speaking volumes. Jaroslav Pelikan, a preeminent historian of Christianity--the…
Louis A. Pérez
Luis Perez begins with an overview of the interaction, or special relations, between Cubans and North Americans spanning the late nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century. He looks at this relationship from both the perspective of how North Americans came to know Cubans, and vice…
Marifeli Pérez-Stable
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Council of Deans, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller…
Charles E. Phelps
Cosponsored by College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; Department of Agricultural Economics; Department of Community Health; Department of History; Department of Medical Information Science; Department of Philosophy; Department of Political Science; Department of Psychology; Department of…
Nélida Piñon
Since 1955, Nélida Piñon has dedicated herself full-time to creative writing, publishing more than six novels and three collections of short stories. Piñon's writing has been translated into Spanish, French, English, and Polish. Her literary contributions are considered to be the avant-garde of…
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Global food security, pacifier of families and chronic malnutrition, confronts global politics: war, international trade, greed. Can global food security become a reality?
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, explores the links between economic inequities, international…
Adrian Piper
Now that we know that the concept of race was developed in order to rationalize slavery in the Americas and has no legitimate use, meaning, or reference, how do we deal with the blatant inequities in wealth, status, and opportunities inherited from the fictional concept of whiteness? In particular…
Arn Chorn Pond
As a child, Arn Chorn-Pond survived the Khmer Rouge Killing Fields by playing revolutionary songs on his bamboo flute. Today, he is an internationally recognized human rights leader and the founder of Cambodian Living Arts, a project of World Education, originally created to support the music…