CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series archive : spring 2001 West Nile Virus - A Wake-up Call for Veterinary and Public Health Preparedness April 19, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Room 180, Bevier Hall 905 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Tracey C. McNamara Department of Pathology, The Wildlife Conservation Society, New York City During the summers of 1999 and 2000, New York City residents reported seeing increasing numbers of dead crows. After several birds, including flamingoes and a bald eagle, in the Bronx Zoo died, pathologist Tracey McNamara found evidence suggesting that they were carriers of the West Nile Virus. This virus, previously unknown in the Western Hemisphere, often causes fatal encephalitis in humans. How did it get here and what can be done to prevent its spread? This lecture is held in conjunction with the Fourth Annual Conference on New and Re-emerging Infectious Diseases presented by the Department of Veterinary Pathobiology. For more information, call 217-333-3845 or consult www.cvm.uiuc.edu/idc/. Sponsored by: College of Veterinary Medicine and Department of Veterinary Pathobiology in conjunction with: Center for Zoonosis Research and Infectious Disease, Council on Food and Agricultural Research, Department of Animal Sciences, Department of Entomology, and Department of Zoo Pathology. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. Racism and the Coming White Minority April 18, 2001 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Joe Feagin Department of Sociology, University of Florida and President, American Sociological Association Joe Feagin will examine the issues of racism in the U.S., reparations for the injustices of African American slavery, and the social, political, economic, educational implications of changing demographics and browning of America, and the coming white minority. Sponsored by: Department of Educational Policy Studies and Department of Sociology in conjunction with: African American Cultural Program, Center for African Studies, College of Communications, College of Social Work, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Human Resource Education, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Latina/o Studies Program, Unit One/Allen Hall, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, and Women’s Studies Program Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. Why Do Fundamental Theories Need Interpretations? April 6, 2001 Friday, 4:00 p.m. Room 407, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lawrence Sklar Department of Philosophy, University of Michigan A "naturalist" might suggest that we abandon philosophical metaphysics and seek the answers to the questions about the basic nature of the world from our "best available foundational physical theories." But these theories only tell us what the world is like when they are "interpreted." Why is interpretation necessary? And what is it? Does interpretation of theories within science itself require the invocation of philosophical modes of thinking? Philosophy Annual Lecture Sponsored by: Department of Philosophy in conjunction with: Department of Chemistry, Department of Economics, Department of Geography, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Department of Physics, Department of Sociology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Graduate Philosophy Student Organization. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. Naked Truth? Women, Knowledge and the Visual Arts in 18th-Century France April 2, 2001 Monday, 4:00 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Mary Sheriff Department of Art, University of North Carolina How did women in eighteenth-century France picture themselves as artists when the dominant view held them to be incapable of creating great art? This talk focuses on pictorial allegories of creativity and explores the French Enlightenment view that women were governed by passions and fantasies hatched in an overly sensitive imagination. This belief opened other possibilities precisely because imagination was not only a source of dangerous fantasy, but also fundamental to all higher thought and creativity. Sponsored by: Art History Program in conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, School of Architecture, School of Art and Design, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, and Women’s Studies Program. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. High Stakes Testing and the Politics of Improving Schools March 29, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Room 407, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Robert Linn Distinguished Professor of Education, University of Colorado at Boulder, and Co Director of the National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards and Student Testing (CRESST) Assessment and accountability have played prominent roles in many of the reform efforts during the last 50 years. The most current wave of reform is anchored by educational accountability systems. Do these systems actually work? What are the intended and unintended consequences? Can the unintended negative side effects be minimized?  Sponsored by: Department of Educational Psychology in conjunction with: Bureau of Educational Research, Consortium for Instructional Research and Curriculum Evaluation (CIRCE), Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, Department of Psychology, Department of Statistics, Institute for Communications Research, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Office of Instructional Resources, and Illinois State Board of Education. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. The Impact of Big-Time College Sports on Undergraduate Education March 28, 2001 Wednesday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Murray Sperber Professor of English and American Studies, Indiana University and author, Beer and Circus: How Big-time College Sports is Crippling Undergraduate Education Many large public universities no longer give a majority of their undergraduates a meaningful education. Instead, they allow a party scene that surrounds college sports to play an increasingly important role on their campuses, a role that distracts undergraduates from the institutions' academic missions. Sponsored by: Unit One/ Allen Hall in conjunction with: College of Education, Department of Educational Organization and Leadership, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of Kinesiology, Department of Leisure Studies, Department of Sociology, Office of Residential Life, and Program Coordinating Council of Student Affairs. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. What's a Landscape For? Smart Growth and Livability in the 21st Century March 27, 2001 Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Gerald W. Adelmann Executive Director, Openlands Project of Illinois One of the great traumas of modern life is the loss of a sense of place. Gerald Adelmann draws on his internationally recognized work as a regional environmental and historic preservation planner in Illinois to articulate ways in which nature, art and history need to be woven back into the fabric of American metropolitan life in order for that life to be healthy and meaningful. This talk is held in conjunction with the Environmental Horizons 2001 Conference, March 26- 27. For more information, contact the Environmental Council at 217-333-4178 or access www.environ.uiuc.edu. Sponsored by: College of Fine and Applied Arts and Office of Continuing Education in conjunction with: Allerton Park and Conference Center, Environmental Council, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Department of Economics, Department of Geography, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Landscape Architecture, Department of Leisure Studies, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Division of Conferences and Institutes, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, School of Architecture, Illinois Natural History Survey, Illinois State Geological Survey, Grand Prairie Friends, Illinois Student Environmental Network, and Prairie Rivers Network. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans, and The Graduate College. Culture and Agency in History March 21, 2001 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marshall Sahlins George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC and Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago 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 and Department of History in conjunction with: Center for African Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Communications, Department of the Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of Economics, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Linguistics, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Department of Speech Communications, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Office of Continuing Education, Program for the Study of Religion and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. Giving Voice to the Past: Conserving and Protecting Our Cultural Heritage March 7, 2001 Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Patty Gerstenblith College of Law, DePaul University Objects of cultural heritage have increasingly become the subject of media attention, legal disputes, and international debates not merely because of their considerable monetary value, but because of their significance for cultural heritage, identity and our understanding of the past. This lecture will look at several recent controversies focusing on the relationship between the international art market and leading private collectors and museums in the United States. Sponsored by: Art History Program in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, College of Education, College of Law, Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Department of Comparative Literature, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, Division of Architectural History and Preservation, Drobny Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, International Programs and Studies, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Laredo Taft Lecture Fund, Office of Continuing Education, Program on Ancient Technologies and Archaeological Materials, School of Art and Design, Spurlock Museum and Archaeological Institute of America. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. Celebrity Moms vs. Welfare Mothers: Media Imagery and the Competition Over Motherhood in America February 22, 2001 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Susan Douglas Department of Communication Studies, University of Michigan, author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media The media’s fixation with motherhood has produced two prevailing and opposing images: the “canonized celebrity mom” and the “demonized welfare mother.” How and why did these images arise, and what are their implications for mothers and for public policy? Sponsored by: The Women’s Studies Program in conjunction with: Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of Political Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute for Communications Research, School of Social Work and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans. The Making of Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey February 20, 2001 Tuesday, 6:00 p.m. film screening/ 8:00 p.m. presentation Room 62, Krannert Art Museum 500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign William Greaves Independent Filmmaker, Producer and Co-host Emmy Award Winner Black Journal Award winning filmmaker Robert Greaves discusses the making of his most recent production, Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey, selected for the Sundance Film Festival January 2001. A former Broadway, television and film actor, Greaves’ experiences both in front of and behind the camera have influenced how he approached the subject of Ralph Bunche, the first person of color to win the Noble peace prize. Mr. Greaves’ discussion will immediately follow a screening of Ralph Bunche: An American Odyssey. There will be an additional screening of Ralph Bunche: An American Oddessy on Tuesday, February 20 starting at 2:30 p.m. at the Afro-American Studies and Research Program, 1201 West Nevada, Urbana. Sponsored by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program in conjunction with: African American Cultural Program, Center for African Studies, College of Education, Department of Anthropology, Department of Cinema Studies, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Theatre, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/o Studies Program, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Women’s Studies Program and Unit One/Allen Hall. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. The Scientist in the Crib February 8, 2001 Thursday, 7:30 p.m. Third Floor Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alison Gopnik Professor of Psychology and Leading Cognitive Scientist at UC Berkeley In the last 30 years, we have learned more about what young children know and how they learn than we did in the preceding 2500 years. Scientists have found that children know a great deal to begin with, literally from the time they are born. They have extremely powerful learning abilities, in some ways greater than the abilities of the smartest scientists and the most sophisticated computers. And grown-ups are designed to unconsciously teach babies and young children just the things they need to know. Sponsored by: The Center for Advanced Study in conjunction with: College of Nursing, Department of Anthropology, Department of Community Health, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Pediatrics, Department of Psychology, Department of Special Education, Medical Scholars Program and The Nursing Institute. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. Fighting Racism in Contemporary Austria: A Jewish Activist's Account February 6, 2001 Tuesday, 4:00 p.m. Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center 919 West Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Doron Rabinovici Writer, historian, essayist, activist--Vienna Austria Austria’s Freedom Party, under the leadership of Jrg Haider, is the largest right-wing party in Europe. Since February 2000, it has been a part of Austria’s government. Doron Rabinovici, Austria’s leading public intellectual, has spearheaded a massive resistance movement against the Freedom Party and its racist policies. Here, he discuss his ongoing struggle against anti-Semitism, xenophobia, and Austria’s unwillingness to deal with its Nazi past. Sponsored by: Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society in conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Political Science, European Union Center, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies and Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. Jörg Immendorff: A Painter Talking About His Work January 28, 2001 Sunday, 4:00 p.m. Room 141 Wohlers Hall (formerly Commerce West) 1206 South Sixth Street, Champaign University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jörg Immendorff German painter One of the world’s most celebrated living artists, Jörg Immendorff, presents an illustrated talk about his work and his career. Sponsored by: School of Art and Design in conjunction with: Art History Program, College of Fine and Applied Arts, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of History, Department of Theatre, Graduate Painting Program, Visiting Artists Fund, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Krannert Art Museum, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Russian and East European Center and Illinois State University, Art Gallery. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of the Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, The Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund, The Council of Deans and The Graduate College. The Debt: The Case for Reparations to African-Americans and African Countries January 18, 2001 Thursday, 4:00 p.m. Illini Rooms B and C, Illini Union 1301 West Green Street University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Randall Robinson Founding President TransAfrica, Inc. and TransAfrica Forum 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 continuing consequences of slavery? Randall Robinson explores the issues of reparations to African Americans for slavery and America's responsibility in assisting countries in Africa. The Fourth Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture Sponsored by: Afro-American Studies and Research Program and Center for African Studies in conjunction with: African American Cultural Program, Campus Honors Program, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Writing Studies, College of Education, Counseling Center, Department of Economics, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Housing Division, Illinois Center for International Business Education and Research, Illinois State Geological Survey, International Programs and Studies, Latina/Latino Studies Program, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, School of Social Work, Spurlock Museum. Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women’s Studies Program and YWCA of the University of Illinois. Series support provided by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, 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 Center for Advanced Study, George A. Miller Endowment, George A. Miller Committee, Peggy Harris Memorial Fund and The Council of Deans.