CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : fall 2001 How To Save The World: Real Solutions to the Global Environmental Crisis November 29, 2001 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mark Hertsgaard Journalist and author, Earth Odyssey Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future Independent journalist, author and activist Mark Hertsgaard has twice traveled around the world investigating the declining health of the world environment. From the boardrooms of Paris to the streets of Bangkok and Beijing, Hertsgaard spent over six years travelling to nineteen countries interviewing and observing local reaction to the escalating environmental crisis. Art historian Christopher Green discusses the artistic significance of the pioneering cubist sculptor, Jacques Lipchitz, within the context of his remarkable circle of friends and contemporaries, particularly Pablo Picasso and Juan Gris, as well as the social, political, and cultural developments of the period. This is the Inaugural Jerrold Ziff Lecture in Modern Art. The lecture series honors the distinguished Turner scholar and professor, who was the principal architect of the doctoral program in art history at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Green's lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition Jacques Lipchitz and the Avant-Garde: From Paris to New York at the Krannert Art Museum from September 21, 2001 - January 6, 2002. For more information please call 333-1861 or access http://www.art.uiuc.edu/kam. Sponsored by: Krannert Art Museum Jerrold Ziff Lecture in Modern Art Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Institute of Communications Research In conjunction with: Environmental Council, Department of Journalism, Department of National Resources and Environmental Science, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Human Dimension of Environmental Systems, Media Studies Program Medical Humanitarianism and Human Rights Witnessing in Action: A Sociological Study of Doctors Without Borders November 28, 2001 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Room 407, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Renèe C. Fox Annenberg Professor Emerita of Social Sciences, Fellow of the Center for Bioethics, University of Pennsylvania Drawing on first-hand data that are part of an ongoing sociological study of Médecins Sans Frontières/ Doctors Without Borders, this lecture will focus on key principles and values of MSF, practical and moral dilemmas of its humanitarian and witnessing action, and how these value-commitments and dilemmas have been affected by the organization's development over the thirty years of its history and by changes in the world context in which it works. Sponsored by: Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program Medical Scholars Program More Information In conjunction with: College of Medicine, Department of Anthropology, Department of Community Health, Department of History, Department of Internal Medicine, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychiatry, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Institute of Communications Research, Nursing Institute, Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine, Russian and East European Center, International Health Society, Physicians for Social Responsibility Jews on Mission: The Alliance Israélite Universelle, 1860-2001 November 13, 2001 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jean-Claude Kuperminc Director, Library of the Alliance Israélite Universelle, Paris After almost one hundred and fifty years, the struggle for equal rights for Jews remains one of the Alliance Israélite Universelle's priorities. Whether making formal diplomatic approaches to the governments of countries where Jews were oppressed, providing assistance to those wishing to emigrate, or establishing a network of French-oriented schools for Jewish students in the Balkans, Middle East, and North Africa, the Alliance continues to work in the field of Jewish education and culture. Sponsored by: University Library In conjunction with: Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, European Union Center, Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, Program in Comparative and World Literature and Cinema Studies Champaign-Urbana Jewish Federation Reading Community: The Art Work of Suzanne Lacy November 7, 2001 Wednesday, 5:00 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Suzanne Lacy George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Scholar, UIUC Director, Center for Art in Public Life, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Lacy has worked in communities in Europe and North and South America, building connections among participants in her large-scale performance projects. To foster community, the artist must first read the community with openness to diverse and sometimes contradictory ideas. Sponsored by: School of Art and Design In conjunction with: Art Education Program, Art History Program, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, Department of Theatre, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, Office of Women's Programs, School of Architecture, Women's Studies Program Picasso and Lipchitz: Cubism and Beyond Due to travel complications Christopher Kenneth Green's CAS/MillerComm2002 presentation, "Picasso and Lipschitz: Cubism and Beyond" has been re-scheduled from Sunday, Sept. 23 to Saturday, Nov. 3 November 3, 2001 Saturday, 3:00 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Christopher Kenneth Green Fellow, British Academy and Courtauld Institute of Art, London Inaugural Jerrold Ziff Lecture in Modern Art Sponsored by: Krannert Art Museum Jerrold Ziff Lecture in Modern Art In conjunction with: College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of French, Department of History, Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, Program in Art History, Program in Comparative Literature, School of Art and Design, School of Music French Cultural Wars October 12, 2001 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lawrence Kritzman Ted and Helen Geisel Third Century Professor of Humanities and Professor of French and of Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College Kritzman examines how contemporary policies for the arts and education in France have raised important issues concerning the definition of culture and its political consequences. French public intellectuals including Agasinski, Bourdieu, Debray, Finkielkraut, Fumaroli, Pennac, and Wievorka will be discussed in the context of the public policies of the Malraux and Lang ministries of culture in Fifth Republic France. This lecture is held in conjunction with the conference French Cultural Studies from October 11 - 14, 2001. For more information, please contact the Department of French at 333-2020 or www.french.uiuc.edu. Sponsored by: Department of French Press Release In conjunction with: College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of the Classics, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Division of English as an International Language, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative and World Literature, and Cinema Studies, Women's Studies Program Background to Catastrophe: King Leopold II and the Conquest of the Congo October 11, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Adam Hochschild Journalist and author, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa While casually reading a book on an airplane, Adam Hochschild noticed a reference to Mark Twain's involvement in a worldwide movement protesting atrocities in the Congo, events that had taken five to eight million lives. The savagery of Belgium's King Leopold II, the incredible human tragedies and heroism in Africa, as well as the emergence of what appears to be the first worldwide human rights movement in the 20th century are histories that had not been told in the U.S. since these events. This lecture is held in conjunction with conference on "Reclaiming the Congo and Its Potential for Africa." For more information contact African Studies 333-6335 or www.afrst.uiuc.edu/drc.html. Sponsored by: Center for African Studies Department of Linguistics More Information | Conference Site In conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Campus Honors Program, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for International Business Education and Research, College of Law, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of French, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Drobny Program for the Study of Jewish Culture and Society, International Programs and Studies, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University Laboratory High School, Center for Research on the Congo, Illinois State University, Department of Modern Languages, Illinois State University, Department of Political Science and Governance Religion on the Global Scene: The Killer That Heals September 20, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Colwell Playhouse Theatre Krannert Center for the Performing Arts 500 S. Goodwin Avenue University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Martin Marty Fairfax Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, University of Chicago 11th Annual Distinguished Mortenson Lecture How can the same phenomenon, religion, serve some movements as an agency of destruction and others as an instrument of reconciliation? Martin Marty discusses militant fundamentalisms, ethnonationalism, and other disruptive and "killing" expressions of religion, contrasting them with the "healing" elements of interreligious cooperation, movement toward economic interaction, and work toward peace. Sponsored by: C. Walter and Gerda B. Mortenson Center for International Library Programs Understanding the 20th Century Canceled September 13, 2001 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Levis Faculty Center, Room 407 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dan Diner George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor and International Council Visiting Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Director, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig, Germany; Professor of History, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Sponsored by: Drobny Program for Jewish Culture, and Society In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, International Programs and Studies How We Talk About the Holocaust September 5, 2001 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Peter Novick Professor Emeritus, Department of History, University of Chicago Peter Novick, author of the widely acclaimed book, The Holocaust in American Life, reflects on the meanings of such concepts of Holocaust discourse as incomprehesibility, uniqueness, trauma, and memory. Sponsored by: Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of History, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Office of Continuing Education, Program for the Study of Religion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory