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CAS/MillerComm Lecture Series
Spring 2002

Environmental Awareness Through Art and Music
April 2, 2002
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building
1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anne LeBaron
Professor of Composition, California Institute of the Arts and Harpist

The sudden, unexplained extinction of the Golden Toad of Costa Rica was one of the first indicators alerting scientists to the mysterious disappearances of some populations of frogs and toads around the globe. Anne LeBaron, who has worked with frog and other animal vocalizations in her music for the past three decades, will demonstrate how art and music can positively affect, and deepen, our awareness of the environment, and how our natural environment has historically influenced art and music.

Anne LeBaron's music will be performed in a free concert, Monday, April 1 at 8 p.m., Smith Memorial Recital Hall, 805 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana. Anne LeBaron's visit is held in conjunction with Environmental Horizons 2002. For more information about this showcase of environmental research, outreach and art on the UI campus, please visit www.environ.uiuc.edu/Horizons2002.

Sponsored by:
Environmental Council, School of Music

In conjunction with:
Composition/Theory Division of the School of Music, Department of Sociology, Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, Women's Studies Program, Earth Doctors, Environmental Resources, Red Bison, Students for Environmental Concerns

How Not to Solve the Nursing Shortage: Why the Most Popular Proposals to Solve the Shortage Won't Work
Cancelled.
April 5, 2002
Friday,4:00 p.m.
B102 - Auditorium, Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory
602 S. Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Suzanne Gordon
Journalist and Author, Life Support: Three Nurses on the Front Lines

There is an acute shortage of health care providers, especially nursing care providers, creating a situation only expected to grow worse in the coming years. Suzanne Gordon considers a variety of proposals from nursing organizations and legislative sources intended to correct this problem. She presents alternative analyses, solutions and messages to address the problem of why nursing, as it is currently perceived, is not a long term satisfying career and how it can become a career of choice for both men and women.

Sponsored by:
The Nursing Institute

In conjunction with:
College of Applied Life Studies, College of Law, College of Medicine, Department of Community Health, Department of Journalism, Department of Sociology, Institute of Communications Research, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, Medical Humanities and Social Sciences Program, Medical Scholars Program, Program in Health Economics, Policy, and Management, School of Social Work, Women's Studies Program, Provena Covenant Medical Center

Cold Warriors: Eisenhower-Khrushchev-Kennedy
April 8, 2002
Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Sergei Khrushchev
Senior Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University

Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, will discuss US-Soviet relations during the height of the Cold War, recounting world-historic events that he often personally witnessed at his father's side.

Sponsored by:
Russian and East European Center

In conjunction with:
Campus Honors Program, Center for International Business Education and Research, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Department of Political Science, 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, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Military Education Council, Office of Continuing Education, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine

Is There a New Opportunity for Peace in the Middle East?
April 10, 2002
Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
500 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

HRH Prince El Hassan of Jordan
President, Club of Rome; Moderator, World Conference on Religion and Peace; and Vice Chairman, Foundation for Interreligious and Intercultural Research and Dialogue (Geneva)

HRH Prince El Hassan, an intellectual, author, science and technology policy maker, and a politician who knows the cultural, religious, and political issues of the Middle East and beyond will discuss the future of the Middle East after September 11. HRH believes that we live under one roof of a global village and if one part of it starts to crack, it will fall and destroy us all.

Sponsored by:
International Programs and Studies, Office of the Associate Provost for International Affairs

In conjunction with:
Department of Physics, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

A Critical but Caring Lens: The Politics of "Identity," Social Justice, and the Environment in Contemporary India
April 17, 2002
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Anand Patwardhan
Independent Documentary Film Maker, Mumbai, India

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 his extensive oeuvre.

Several of Anad Patwardhan's films will be shown during his visit to campus. For times, locations and titles, please call the Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, 244-7331, or consult www.uiuc.edu/providers/psames/events.html

Sponsored by:
Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

In conjunction with:
Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Anthropology, Department of English, Department of History, Department of Journalism, Department of Linguistics, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Environmental Council, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Media Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Unit for Cinema Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Studies Program, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Asian Educational Media Service, Indian Cultural Society of Urbana-Champaign, Indian Student Association

Anand Patwardhan was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.

The Only Good Neighbor is a Dead Neighbor: A Lacanian Approach to Ideology in Cinema
April 18, 2002
Thursday , 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Slavoj Zizek
University of Ljublijana, Slovenia and European Graduate School, Switzerland

Linking key philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts to social phenomena including popular culture and political struggle allows for a re-evaluation of the scientific method as well as of ideology. This is especially revealing when applied to societies believed to be beyond ideology.

Sponsored by:
Program in Comparative and World Literature

In conjunction with:
Department of English, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Political Science, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Art History, Program for the Study of Religion, Russian and East European Center, Unit for Cinema Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

The Russian Christ: The Silence of Jesus from Hesychasm to the Legend of the Grand Inquisitor
April 19, 2002
Friday , 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jaroslav Pelikan
Sterling Professor Emeritus of History, Yale University, and Senior Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Kluge Center, Library of Congress

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 author of The Christian Tradition, Jesus Through the Centuries, Mary Through the Centuries and other works--explores the Holy Silence of the Russian Christ as both theory and practice, in words, images, and music, from its roots on the holy mountain of Mount Athos to its supreme expression in Dostoevsky's portrait of the Prisoner.

This presentation is held in conjunction with the year-long program, Arts of the Sacred: Crossing the Boundaries of Place and Perception, part of a three-year interdisciplinary project, funded in part by the Ford Foundation, on Area Studies, Identities, and the Arts. Consult http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/ific/ford/yearthree/index.html for information on other public activities supported by this grant.

Sponsored by:
Russian and East European Center UIUC/Ford Program

In conjunction with:
Department of the Classics, Department of History, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Comparative and World Literature

Jaroslav Pelikan was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.

PREVIOUS EVENTS

Rehabilitating the Ideal of Racial Integration
March 29, 2002
Friday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Elizabeth S. Anderson
Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, University of Michigan

A discussion of the consequences of de facto racial segregation in U.S. society for democracy and equal opportunity, and of reasons for supporting integrative measures, such as affirmative action.

Philosophy Annual Public Lecture
This lecture is held in conjunction with the 24th Annual Graduate Philosophy Conference at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. For additional information visit www.students.uiuc.edu/~bbayer/conference/

Sponsored by:
Department of Philosophy

In conjunction with:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, College of Law Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/o Studies Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Studies Program, Graduate Philosophy Organization

Elizabeth S. Anderson was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.

Mandala: The Sacred Art of Tibet
March 28, 2002
Thursday, 5:00 p.m.
Room 62, Krannert Art Museum
500 East Peabody Drive, Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Venerable Tenzin Jamyang
Miller Endowment Visiting Artist, Tibetan Monk-Artist

with

Ter Ellingson
School of Music, University of Washington, Seattle

Venerable Tenzin Jamyang is in the process of creating a sand mandala at the Krannert Art Museum. Instead of immediately destroying the mandala, as is traditional, UIUC has been granted special permission to keep it on permanent display. Here he discusses the sacred art of Tibetan sand painting and the religious significance of the mandala in Buddhism.

This presentation is held in conjunction with the Ford Foundation project Crossing the Boundaries of Place and Perception Arts of the Sacred. Consult http://www.ips.uiuc.edu/ific/ford/yearthree/index.html for further information on other public activities supported by this grant.

You are welcome to observe the making of a sand mandala. Call Krannert Art Museum, 333-1861, for hours.

Sponsored by:
Ford Foundation/UIUC, Special Funding from Wanda and Bruno Nettl

In conjunction with:
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, International Programs and Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, Russian and East European Center, School of Music, Central Illinois Chinese-American Association, Society for Indian Culture, Tibetan Cultural Center, Bloomington, Indiana

Geographies of Gender: Britain in Black and White.
March 7, 2002
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Hazel Carby
Afro-American Studies Department, Yale University

One of the most important and influential black feminist intellectuals writing in the U.S. today, Hazel Carby reflects upon issues of gender and the racialization of the body within the context of being a black European of Jamaican and Welsh parents.

This talk is part of the Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History. For more information, please contact Jennifer Edwards, jcedward@uiuc.edu or http://www.history.uiuc.edu/areas/women/WomensGradSymposium.htm

Sponsored by:
Department of History, Women's and Gender History Graduate Symposium Planning Council

In conjunction with:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Writing Studies, College of Communications, College of Education, Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Department of Economics, Department of French, Department of Geography, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Drobny Program for Jewish Culture and Society, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/o Studies Program, Russian and East European Center, School of Music, School of Social Work, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women's Studies Program, Office of Minority Student Affairs, Office of Women's Programs

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy: Pragmatism and Adjudication
March 1, 2002
Friday, 4:00 p.m.
Auditorium, College of Law
504 East Pennsylvania, Champaign
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Richard A. Posner
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals (Seventh Circuit) and Senior Lecturer, University of Chicago Law School

Judge Posner will argue that, while philosophical pragmatism is of little relevance to adjudication, pragmatism in its everyday sense has much to contribute to it.

Sponsored by:
College of Law, Department of Philosophy

In conjunction with:
Department of Economics, Department of Political Science, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory

Forced Into Glory: Abraham Lincoln's White Dream
February 5, 2002
Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Lerone Bennett, Jr.
Executive Editor, Ebony Magazine, Chicago

Lerone Bennett traces the develop.m.ent of Lincoln's beliefs about African descended people, slavery, and citizenship from his youth through his assassination in 1865 situating Lincoln's thought and actions in the sociohistorical context in which he lived. In doing this, Bennett shows how Lincoln's racial politics laid the foundations for the system of racial apartheid that endures to this day.

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 Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Department of Theatre, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Latina/o Studies Program, Unit for Cinema Studies, Unit for Criticism and Interpretative Theory, Women's Studies Program

In Whose Aid is Aid? International Cooperation for African Development
January 24, 2002
Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thelma Awori
Teachers' College, Columbia University

Thelma Awori examines the bilateral and multilateral institutions that were created to make international allies and friends. She argues that they have failed. Aid to Africa and other places has been abused and subverted for purposes that turn the word "aid" on its head.
THE FIFTH ANNUAL W.E.B. DUBOIS LECTURE

Sponsored by:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program
Center for African Studies

In conjunction with:
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for Writing Studies, College of Education, College of Law, Department of Anthropology, Department of Business Administration, Department of Curriculum and Instruction, Department of Economics, Department of French, Department of Geography, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Develop.m.ent, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, International Programs and Studies, School of Social Work, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Unit One, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Program, African-American Cultural Program, La Casa Cultural Latina

On the Evolution of the Language Faculty
January 16, 2002
Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ray Jackendoff
George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC and Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science, Brandeis University

The human ability to learn language is a human cognitive specialization encoded (in some unknown way) in our genes. The evident adaptivity of linguistic communications suggests that this capacity arose through natural selection. It is therefore a challenge for linguistics to find a plausible route, using evidence from child and adult language acquisition, from aphasia, from pidgin and creole languages, from "language"-trained apes and from "fossils" of earlier forms of the language capacity still found in modern-day languages.

Sponsored by:
Department of Linguistics

In conjunction with:
Beckman Institute, Center for African Studies, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, Department of the Classics, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Division of English as an International Language, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Language Learning Laboratory, Program in Comparative and World Literature, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, School of Music