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When George A. Miller died in 1951 he left an estate of almost a million dollars to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "to be used . . . for educational purposes . . . other than current general operating expenses."
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CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
Fall 2002
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Food Security and Poverty Eradication as a National Security Goal for the United States
September 5, 2002
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Room 149, National Soybean Laboratory
1101 West Peabody Drive
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Per Pinstrup-Andersen
Director General, International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington, DC
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Per Pinstrup-Andersen, 2001 World Food Prize Laureate, explores the links between economic inequities, international instability, terrorism, and other issues common in developing countries such as poverty, hunger, and hopelessness.
This is the first of a series of public lectures on Global Food Security sponsored by ACES Global Connect, the international arm of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. For more information consult http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/global.
Sponsored by:
ACES Global Connect,International Activities Policy Committee, College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Office of Research
In conjunction with:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Commerce and Business Administration, College of Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Animal Biology, Department of Animal Sciences, Department of Anthropology, Department of Crop Sciences, Department of Economics, Department of Entomology, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Department of Geography, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Studies, European Union Center, Environmental Council, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Office of International Programs and Studies, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Per Pinstrup-Andersen was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Is Climate Change Too Uncertain for Policy?
September 9, 2002
Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Room 190, Engineering Sciences Building
1101 West Springfield Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stephen Schneider
Environmental Biology and Global Change, Stanford University
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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.
Stephen Schneider will also participate in a free, community wide workshop Meeting Energy Requirements and Demands While Responding to Concerns About Climate Change Wednesday, September 11, 7:30 pm in the Auditorium, Beckman Institute. For more information contact the Department of Atmospheric Sciences, 333-2046.
Sponsored by:
Department of Physics
In conjunction with:
Department of Agricultural Engineering, Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Department of Entomology, Department of Geology, Department of Plant, Biology, Department of Statistics, Environmental Council, Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine, State Geological Survey, State Water Survey
Stephen Schneider was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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The Physics of Dance
September 20, 2002
Friday, 7:00 p.m.
Colwell Playhouse Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
500 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kenneth Laws
Professor Emeritus of Physics, Dickinson College
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"So the dance captured me first because of its beauty and the way it works with music, and then I discovered the way physics applies."
Kenneth Laws, a professor of physics and amateur dancer explores the interplay between natural law and the art (and illusions) of dance. He is the author of The Physics of Dance and Physics, as well as Dance and the Pas de Deux (co-authored with Cynthia Harvey, former principal dancer with the American Ballet Theater) and Physics and the Art of Dance: Understanding Movement (co-authored with photographer Martha Swope).
Sponsored by:
Department of Physics
In conjunction with:
Beckman Institute, Bioengineering Office, Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, College of Applied Life Studies, College of Engineering, College of Fine and Applied Arts, College of Medicine, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Dance, Department of Kinesiology, Department of Materials Sciences and Engineering, Department of Theatre, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, School of Chemical Sciences, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Studies Program
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The Bagel: A Social History of an Edible Icon
October 2, 2002
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Performance Studies, New York University, and Krouse Family Scholar in Judaism and Western Culture, UIUC
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Journey with one of America's preeminent folklorists to uncover the cultural and culinary secrets of one of the nation's most recognizable food items.
Sponsored by:
Program in Jewish Culture and Society
Krouse Endowment
In conjunction with:
Department of Anthropology, Department of French, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krouse Endowment, Office of Continuing Education, Program for the Study of Religion, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University High School
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Parking Lot Nation
October 10, 2002
Thursday, 4:30 p.m.
Plym Auditorium, Temple Hoyne Buell Hall
611 Taft Drive, Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
James Howard Kunstler
Author, The City in Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition
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James Howard Kunstler is a leading commentator on the state of America's cities. In The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, he exposed the depressing realities of post-war suburban sprawl. His remedy centers on the hope for a "new urbanism," the return of compact, walkable cities ---the kind that existed before the rise of what he terms the "automobile slum."
Sponsored by:
Department of Urban and Regional Planning
In conjunction with:
College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Geography, Department of Landscape Architecture, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, School of Architecture
James Howard Kunstler was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Facing Atrocity: Revenge, Justice and Reconciliation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
October 10, 2002
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Svetlana Broz
Physician, Director, Sarajevo Office, Gardens of the Righteous Worldwide and Author, Good People in an Evil Time
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"If there have been people who, even in the worst of times, and sometimes at the cost of their own lives, refused to act inhumanely themselves, and if there are people able to testify to this, have we the right to ignore them?"
At the height of ethnic conflicts in Bosnia, cardiologist Svetlana Broz, granddaughter of the former Yugoslav leader Josip Broz Tito, volunteered for service in the war zone. Rather than finding complete despair and hatred she started hearing stories of "enemies" crossing ethnic borders to help each other. Now she shares her experiences and views on atrocities and acts of courage during war and possibilities for understanding and reconciliation.
Sponsored by:
Russian and East European Center
In conjunction with:
Campus Honors Program, Center for International Business Education and Research, College of Medicine, Department of Journalism, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Department of Sociology, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, International Trade Center, Office of Continuing Education, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
Svetlana Broz was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Scenes from the Pacific Rim: Gender, Globalization and the Asian Diaspora
October 17, 2002
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Room 314, Illini Union
1401 West Green Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Department of History and Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
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Evelyn Hu-DeHart examines the movement of women and men from Asia to the Americas. She discusses the diasporic patterns, costs the migrants bear, and how the migrants shape the societies and cultures of their new countries.
This presentation is part of a public symposium on Gender and Transnational Networks held October 17 - 19. For more information, please contact the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, 333-1994 or www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp/
Sponsored by:
Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
In conjunction with:
Asian American Studies Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Latina/o Studies Program, Office of International Programs and Studies, Women's Studies Program
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Architectures of Intelligence: The Technologies of Mind from the Alphabet to the Internet
October 31, 2002
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Beckman Institute
405 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Derrick de Kerckhove
George A. Miller Visiting Professor, UIUC and Director, McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, University of Toronto
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Derrick de Kerckhove is a pioneer and futurist in digital technology and virtual reality whose theory of connected intelligence has gained worldwide notoriety in the search for a new electronic alphabet. He pushes at the frontier of cyberspace in terms of the physiology and psychology of human cognition to ask whether there is a mental space that can be multiplied mind-by-mind distinct from physical space and mediated by virtual space.
Sponsored by:
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Institute of Communications Research, National Center for Supercomputing Applications
In conjunction with:
Coordinated Science Laboratory, Department of Advertising, Department of French, Department of Journalism, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, School of Architecture, School of Art and Design
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Making Sense of Non-Revolutionary Violence: The Rwandan Genocide
November 1, 2002
Friday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mahmood Mamdani
Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Director, The Institute of African Studies, Columbia University
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By focusing on political violence and political identity in an era in which violence has often been considered a progressive force - a midwife of progress - how then do we understand the violence that does not fit this paradigm, the Rwandan Genocide, an event that brings to mind the Holocaust in Germany or the violence of partition in South Asia?
Sponsored by:
Center for African Studies
In conjunction with:
Department of French, Department of History, Department of Political Science, International Programs and Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security
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Punishment and Democracy: Prison Abolitionism in the Twenty-First Century
November 14, 2002
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Smith Memorial Hall
805 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Angela Davis
History of Consciousness, University of California at Santa Cruz
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During the period of the American Revolution, the prison was proposed as an historical alternative to corporal and capital punishment. Today, in the era of a global prison industrial complex, this institution is cavalierly assumed to be inevitable and permanent. In the tradition of late eighteenth century democratic reformers, who saw the future of democracy as linked to the abolition of corporal (and capital) punishment, contemporary advocates for radical democracy urge us to imagine and fight for a world without prisons.
Sponsored by:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program
In conjunction with:
African-American Cultural Program, Center for African Studies, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, College of Education, College of Law, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Program
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Creating Health Care in the 19th Century, Saving Health Care in the 21st Century
November 15, 2002
Friday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
912 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Suzanne Gordon
Journalist and Author, Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines
Sioban Nelson
Senior Lecturer, School of Postgraduate Nursing, The University of Melbourne
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Our society is facing a national crisis in nursing. Journalist Suzanne Gordon and historian Sioban Nelson discuss the critical role that nursing plays and has played in the development of the American health care system. Focusing on the importance of nursing professionals in caring for sick and vulnerable patients, Gordon and Nelson identify how nurses can make their critical contributions understood while securing the necessary economic and social resources to deliver needed health care.
The Alvina M. Berger Memorial Lecture
Sponsored by:
The Nursing Institute
In conjunction with:
College of Law, College of Medicine, Department of Community Health,
Department of Journalism, Department of Sociology, Disability Research Institute,
Institute of Communications Research, Institute of Government and Public Affairs,
Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, Medical Scholars Program, Program in Health Economics, Policy, and Management, School of Social Work, Women?s Studies Program, Family of Alvina M. Berger, Provena Covenant Medical Center
Siovan Nelson was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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