cas : cas presentations The Idea of Race - in Shakespeare's Times and Ours October 7, 2002 Monday, 12:00 Noon 2nd Foor Music Room Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ania Loomba Professor of English, Associate at the Center for Advanced Study Introduction by Carol Neely, Professor of English For centuries, plays like Othello and The Tempest have spoken about race to audiences across the globe. But are concepts like 'race' and 'racism' appropriate to analyze communities in early modern Europe? Or is it that early modern vocabularies have shaped our own notions of difference? Did Comparative Linguistics Prepare the Ground for the Holocaust? February 28, 2002 Thursday, 12 Noon Music Room Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hans Heinrich Hock Associate 1993-94, Department of Linguistics, Director, Program in South Asian & Middle Eastern Studies The Invention of an Infrastructure for Black Political Participation in 20th Century America January 22, 2002 Tuesday, 12:00 Noon Music Room Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dianne Pinderhughes Afro-American Studies, Political Science Artificial atoms and molecules for quantum computing November 5, 2001 Monday, 12:00 Noon Music Room Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jean-Pierre Leburton Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, CAS Associate 1999-2000 Global Environmentalism and Local Realities: Late 20th Century Ethiopia October 23, 2001 Tuesday, 12:00 Noon Music Room Levis Faculty Center 919 W. Illinois Street, Urbana University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Donald Crummey Department of History, CAS Associate 2000-2001 Imagining Mind/Imagining Science Symposium Cellular Substrates of Mind: How the Brain Fine Tunes Itself for Action Bill Greenough Friday, September 28, 2001 7:30 pm, Auditorium, Beckman Institute 405 N. Mathews, Urbana Robotic Precursors to Mind Rodney Brooks Co-sponsored with the Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine http://www.uiuc.edu/unit/STIM