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George A. Miller
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
Spring 2003
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The Role of the African Diaspora and African States in the Struggle Against White Minority Rule in South Africa
February 11, 2003
Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane
Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sociology, University of Connecticut
Director, South African Democracy Education Trust
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Using the history of Pan Africanism as his prism, Dr. Magubane will link developments within the African American community and within both the African community in South Africa and in Africa in general. Specifically he examines the close identification with each other's political aspirations that have developed between Africans in the Americas and their "kith and kin" in South Africa.
The Sixth Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
Sponsored by:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program
Center for African Studies
In conjunction with:
African-American Cultural Program, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Latino/a Studies Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Women's Studies Program.
Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Pictures from an Occupation: The Legacy of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
February 26, 2003
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
600 South Gregory, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David B. Edwards
Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Williams College
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David Edwards details the history of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban that followed the Soviet army's departure. He will illustrate this through a unique set of videos and photographs that were shot by Afghan nationals during the Soviet period and its politically violent aftermath.
Sponsored by:
Department of Anthropology
In conjunction with:
Center for International Business Education and Research, Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society, Department of Geography, Department of Journalism, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, International Programs and Studies, Program for the Study of Religion, Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, Program in South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Russian and East European Center.
David B. Edwards was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Mice, Monkeys and Man: The Ethical and Practical Problems of Animal Use in Biomedical Research
March 5, 2003
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Smith Recital Hall
805 South Mathews Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Colin Blakemore
Director, Medical Research Council Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Oxford University
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Colin Blakemore is both a distinguished neuroscientist and one of the leading proponents of public understanding of science. Professor Blakemore examines the moral basis for biomedical research, and argues for a utilitarian approach to the use of animals, human subjects and embryos in research. It is essential that the moral decisions that underpin research should be informed by public debate, based on proper understanding.
Sponsored by:
Department of Animal Sciences
Department of Molecular and Integrated Physiology
In conjunction with:
College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences, Department of Cell and Structural Biology, Department of Entomology, Department of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Department of Veterinary Bioscience, Neuronal Pattern Analysis Group, Beckman Institute, Neuroscience Program
Colin Blakemore was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Our Cultures, Our Selves: How the Ways We Live Shape Our Hearts and Minds
March 6, 2003
Thursday, 8:00 p.m.
Auditorium, Beckman Institute
400 North Mathews Avenue, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hazel Rose Markus
Davis-Brack Professor in Behavioral Sciences, Co-Director, Research Institute of the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University
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How we think, how we feel, and how we behave depends on ethnicity, social class, and where we live. Each of these social distinctions is associated with different patterns of ideas and practices about how to be a person and the right way to behave. This research focuses on choice, suggesting that it is far from "free" and is instead powerfully influenced by the ideas and ways of living that animate and structure our social worlds.
Lyle Lanier Lecture
Established in 1986, this lectureship is in honor of Lyle Lanier who served as Head of Psychology, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Sponsored by:
Department of Psychology
In conjunction with:
African American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian American Studies Program, Beckman Institute, College of Communications, Department of Anthropology, Department of History, Department of Human and Community Development, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Department of Speech Communication, Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations, School of Social Work, Women's Studies Program.
Hazel Rose Markus was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Too Many Notes: Computers, Complexity, and Culture
March 13, 2003
Thursday, 3:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Room 2100, Music Building
1114 West Nevada Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Lewis
George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC and Professor of Music and Critical Studies, University of California at San Diego
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Recent McArthur Fellowship "Genius Award" winner George Lewis will discuss his creative work as a composer, trombonist, and improviser, in connection with his work in computer music and interactive systems. Mr. Lewis has collaborated with many of the world's most renowned improvisers and has an extensive and diverse discography. His work with interactive computer music systems is also known worldwide.
Other public events during George Lewis' visit to campus include a concert, Monday, March 17, 8:00 pm in the Music Building auditorium. This free concert features the compositions, improvisations, and interactive computer-music systems of George Lewis with performers to include UI New Music Ensemble, UI Graduate Saxophone Quartet, Guest Violinist Dorothy Martirano, and others.
Sponsored by:
Composition-Theory Division, School of Music
In conjunction with:
African American Cultural Program, Lorado Taft Lecture Fund, Unit One.
Additional Funding from Meet the Composer, Inc. is provided with the support of the National Endowment for the Arts, ASCAP, and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
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Habits of a Colonial Heart: The Affective Grid of Racial Politics
March 13, 2003
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ann Laura Stoler
Professor of Anthropology, History, and Women's Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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Stoler argues that the management and re-channeling of sentiments and affect lay at the core of late colonial racial discourses, challenging the assumption that the mastery of reason and Enlightenment principles has been at the political foundation of nineteenth and early twentieth-century colonial regimes and should figure in critical accounts of them. Such a reassessment refigures what we imagine to be at the heart of empire, central to the work of colonial states and to what constitutes the terrain of politics.
This talk is part of the Fourth Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History. For more information, please contact ksmeehan@uiuc.edu.
Sponsored by:
Department of History
Women's and Gender History Graduate Symposium Planning Committee
In conjunction with:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Center for Writing Studies, College of Communications, Department of Anthropology, Department of the Classics, Department of Economics, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, La Casa Cultural Latina, Latina/o Studies Program,
Office of Equal Opportunity and Access, Office of Women's Programs, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Russian and East European Center, School of Music, Women's Studies Program.
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An Evening with John Edgar Wideman
March 17, 2003
Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Edgar Wideman
Two-time Pen/Faulkner Award winner, MacArthur Fellow and Distinguished Professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
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John Edgar Wideman is one of our country's leading, acclaimed literary voices. He is the author of eleven novels, three memoirs (most recently, Hoop Roots: Basketball, Race and Love) and scores of essays on American culture featured in such publications as the New Yorker, Vogue, Esquire and the New York Times magazine.
"Writing of any sort consists of setting down one word after another, making something that doesn't exist until it's expressed with the medium of written language. The effort of making is at some level play, like patting clay, beating a drum, or tapping your toes, singing, or spreading paint with your fingertips - play that's a gift to the artist the artist passes on, from the one to the many to the one. Serious play that reminds us we're all in this together, this life, and what we make goes into the collective project to brighten and lighten, to glorify and transform the unavoidable pain and burden of being alive."
from the introduction to the Drue Heinz Prize Anthology (2001)
Sponsored by:
Creative Writing Program
Department of English
In conjunction with:
African American Cultural Program, Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of History, Department of Kinesiology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Office of Minority Student Affairs, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University Library.
John Edgar Wideman was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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The Historical Construction of Racism: A Comparison of White Supremacy and Anti-Semitism
April 1, 2003
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Room 407, Levis Faculty Center
919 West Illinois Street, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
George Fredrickson
Robinson Professor of History, Stanford University
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The nation's leading writer of comparative history brings together the trajectories of anti-semitism and of white supremacy over the last 500 years, emphasizing both similarities and differences. Fredrickson traces the decline of the religious universalism that had set limits on the elaboration of racist views. His analysis of the effects of democratic revolutions and emancipation movements on the status of blacks and Jews lays the groundwork for a sweeping reinterpretation of the economic, political, and cultural contexts of the intensified racism of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Sponsored by:
Center on Democracy in a Multiracial Society
In conjunction with:
Afro-American Studies and Research Program, Asian-American Studies Program, Department of Educational Policy Studies, Department of History, Department of Sociology, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Institute of Communications Research, Jewish Studies Workshop, Latino/a Studies Program, Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Women's Studies Program, John Henry Newman Institute of Catholic Thought, St. John's Catholic Chapel
George Fredrickson was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes and Animal Behavior
April 24, 2003
Thursday, 7:30 p.m.
Room 149, National Soybean Research Center
1101 West Peabody Drive, Urbana
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bernard E. Rollin
Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University and George A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor, UIUC
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Ordinary common sense and everyday people have no problem using anecdotal information and anthropomorphic attributions to interpret and understand animal behavior. In a scientific milieu, however, "anecdote" and "anthropomorphism" are dirty words, and are unequivocally dismissed as fallacious. We will examine the question of whether or not such cavalier dismissal is justified.
Sponsored by:
College of Veterinary Medicine
Department of Animal Sciences
In conjunction with:
Department of Philosophy
Bernard E. Rollin was on WILL-AM radio's call-in program, FOCUS-580. Listen to the archived interview here.
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