Upcoming Events, Fall 2012
Spring 2012 Events
Wednesday, January 25th, 3:00 p.m.
"Nutrition Deficiency in the Land of Plentiful," John Ulimwengu, Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of SH)
Fourth lecture in the year-long series: "The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny"
Friday, February 3rd, 2:00 p.m.
Creative Grammar Teaching (A workshop on how to teach L2 grammar)
Barbara Schmenk, University of Waterloo
Daley Library Conference Room 1-470
Wednesday, February 15th, 2:00 p.m.
Literaturlenz: New Literature in German
With Readings by Larissa Boehning, Monica Cantieni and Linda Stift
*Readings will be in German*
UH 1501
Wednesday, February 15th, 4:30 p.m.
"Thresholds of Ideology in Congolese Youth: Afrocentrism, Europhilia, and Nothingness," Emanuel Bueya, PhD Candidate, Boston College
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of SH)
5th and final lecture in the year-long series: "The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny"
Tuesday, February 21st, 5:00 p.m.
"Terrorism and the Text: Dostoevsky, Savinkov, and the Representation of Terrorist Violence in Russia (1872-1909)," Vadim Shkolnikov, Visiting Lecturer, Department of Slavic and Baltic Languages and Literatures
UH 1650
Friday, February 24th, 2:00 p.m.
"Looking for the Laugh: Humor and the Future of Being Italian American," Fred Gardaphe, Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies, Queens College, CUNY, and John D. Calandra Italian American Institute
GH 308 (The Oasis)
Tuesday, February 28th, 5:00 p.m.
"Postmemory and Translation, " Tomasz Bilczewski, Jagiellonian University,
Krakow, Poland
UH 1650
This Spring's In/Between Conference will be held Thursday and Friday,
MARCH 1st and MARCH 2nd. See below for information on the keynote addresses
(one in Literature; one in Linguistics):
Thursday, March 1st, 4:00 p.m.
Literature Keynote (PDF of poster) (description of the talk)
Geoffrey Galt Harpham, President and Director, National Humanities Center
"Finding Ourselves: The Humanities as a Discipline"
Daley Library Lecture Center 1-470
**dinner to follow
Friday, March 2nd, 11:00 a.m.
Linguistics Keynote (PDF of poster) (abstract of the talk)
Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Professor and Chair, Second Language Studies,
Indiana University
"You had to be there: Acquisition of Conventional Expressions in L2 Pragmatics: Recognition, Production, and Environment"
GH 308 (The Oasis)
**lunch to follow
Thursday, March 15, 1:30 p.m.
"Commedia dell'Arte: The Masks of Antonio Fava"
with Maestro Antonio Fava
EPASW L280 (main stage theatre)
Thursday, March 15, 12:30 p.m.
"A Romantic Hero to Women, but He is a Man's Friend": Race, Sexuality, and the Body in the Making of Silent Screen Actor Ramón Novarro's Star Image
Ernesto Chávez, Associate Professor of History, University of Texas, El Paso
Latino Cultural Center (Lecture Center B2)
Wednesday, March 28, 2:00 p.m.
Free Italian Cooking Class, Cucina del Nord Italia
Jane Addams Hull House (800 S. Halsted)
Thursday, March 29, 5:00 p.m.
"Sex, Ethics, Gender"
Professor Magdalena Sroda, Warsaw University, Poland
Keynote Speaker for the Symposium on the Study of Gender and Sexuality in East-Central European History
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of Stevenson Hall)
Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31
The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny
Conference and Cultural Events
Various locations (see program)
Wednesday, April 4, 2:00 p.m.
"The Images Dominate: Reconstructing Propaganda and Yael Hersonski's A Film Unfinished (2010)"
Bradley Prager, Associate Professor of German and Film, University of Missouri
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of Stevenson Hall)
Wednesday, April 4, 3:00 p.m.
"Native-like Brain Processing of L2 in College Learners:
Evidence from Event-related Potentials (ERPs)"
Harriet Wood Bowden, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
UH 1750
Wednesday, April 11, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
"Aquí y Allá: Art, Identity, and the Flight 587 Memorial," with artist Freddy Rodríguez
Latino Cultural Center (Lecture Center B2)
Friday and Saturday, April 13-14
Tasks and Projects in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning:
Language Symposium 2012
With Keynote Speaker Klaus Brandl, University of Washington:
"Maximizing Task Effects in a Communicative Language Learning Environment"
Events in the LCLC (3rd floor of GH) and Lecture Center F
Friday and Saturday, April 13-14
Transits Transition Revolution
Biennial UIC Graduate Student Conference of Hispanic Literary and Cultural Studies
With Keynote Speakers Horacio Castellanos Moya (U of Iowa) and Brad Epps (Harvard U)
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of Stevenson Hall)
Wednesday, April 18, 2:00 p.m.
Free Italian Cooking Class, Cucina Italiana
with Marielle Molon,Lecturer of Italian (sponsored by Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Jane Addams Hull House (800 S. Halsted)
Thursday, April 19, 12:30-2:00 p.m.
A Reading and Discussion with Austrian Author Angelika Reitzer
http://www.angelikareitzer.at/
UH 1501 (Kade Room)
Friday, April 20, 3:00 p.m.
The 29th Annual Tracy Lecture:
"Tan Men, Pale Women: Color as Gender Indicator in Egyptian and Archaic Greek Painting, a Question of Interconnections"
Mary Ann Eaverly, University of Florida
Institute for the Humanities (lower level of Stevenson Hall)
Saturday, April 21, 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Slavic Modernism Workshop:
Philosophy and Poetry on the Go: Osip Mandelstam's "Conversation about Dante"
(PDF of Event Poster)
(PDF of Presenters and Paper Titles)
UH 1650
April 22-26
Contemporary Polish Art Week
Featuring world-renowned artists and curators Maria Anna Potocka, Krzysztof Wodiczko and Piotr Krajewski.
April 26-28
The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years
AABS 2012 Conference
(PDF of complete conference program)
(PDF of "at a glance" conference program)
(PDF of Press Release for U.S. Senator Dick Durbin's speech)
(PDF of Press Release for White House National Security Officials and Baltic Countries’ Ambassadors)
Student Center East (750 S. Halsted St.)
Fall 2011 Events
Wednesday, September 14th at 2:00 p.m.:
"The Science of Fiction Entertainment Technologies," Stefano Cossu
GH 308 ("Language Oasis")
Wednesday, September 14th at 3:00 p.m.:
"New Forms of Life from the Debris of the Congolese State," Patience Kabamba (PDF of event poster)
UH 1501
First lecture in the year-long series: "The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny"
Friday, September 30th-Monday, October 3rd:
"After Milosz: Polish Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries"
(link to online program) (PDF of event poster)
All Events held at the Chopin Theater
Friday, October 7th, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
"States and Violence/Violence and the State: Pakistan"
DePaul University Lincoln Park Campus; see poster for details
Wednesday, October 12th at 12:00 p.m.:
"When 'foreign' languages aren't foreign: Heritage Speakers in the United States," Kim Potowski
Rafael Cintrón-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center (Lecture Center B2)
Wednesday, October 19th at 3:30 p.m.:
"Insegnare L'Italiano: Un Gioco di Parole," Anthony Mollica, Brock University
Grant Hall 308 (Language Oasis)
Thursday, October 20th at 6:00 p.m.:
"From Necessities to Delights: Eating Habits in Akrotiri Thera of the Bronze Age," Christos Doumas (Athens University)
National Hellenic Museum, 333 S. Halsted
Part of "Thera, Knossos and Egypt, 1500 BCE"
Thursday, October 20th at 7:00 p.m.:
"Lessons of Trauma: Dawn in the Shadows of Congo," Ngwarsungu Chiwengo (Creighton University)
Room 0711, Corboy Law Center, Loyola University Water Tower Campus
Second lecture in the year-long series: "The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny"
Saturday, October 22nd, 10:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.:
"Thera, Knossos and Egypt," A Colloquium
University of Chicago's Oriental Institute, 1155 E. 58th Street
Part of "Thera, Knossos and Egypt, 1500 BCE"
Tuesday, October 25th at 2:30 p.m.:
"Chungui Horror sin Lagrimas... Una Historia Peruana," film screening and discussion
(PDF of event poster) (link to Amnesty International Story on the director)
Rafael Cintrón-Ortiz Latino Cultural Center (Lecture Center B2)
Tuesday, November 1st at 3:00 p.m.:
"The Floral and the Human: Embodiment, Conquest, and Hospitality in the Roman d'Alexandre," Peggy McCracken, U of Michigan
UH 1750
Wednesday, November 2nd at 2:00 p.m.:
German author Martin Walser discusses his work
UH 1501
**Discussion held in German**
Thursday, November 3rd at 2:00 p.m.:
Hans Rudolf Vaget discusses his newly published book on Thomas Mann's America experience, Thomas Mann, der Amerikaner
UH 1501
**Discussion held in German**
Wednesday, November 16th at 3:00 p.m.:
"Kafka in the Congo: Demands for Rule of Law and an Independent Judiciary," David Bamlango, DLA Piper Chicago
Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level of SH
Third lecture in the year-long series: "The Congo: Reclaiming its Destiny"
Spring 2011 Events
April 27: "Invisible Loss. Holocaust, Art and Archive"
April 21: A Reading by Doron Rabinovici
April 20: "The Classical World-View and the Physiology of Sight"
April 14-15: In/Between Conference 2011: "Thoughts on Literature and Language"
April 14-15: UIC Bilingualism Forum 2011
April 11: A Poetry Reading by Polish Poet Piotr Sommer
April 6: "The Temple of Zeus on Mount Gerizim: Hadrianic Building and Foreign Policy in Judea"
April 1: The 28th annual Tracy Lecture: "Comedy in Context: Seeing Plays the Roman Way"
March 30: "Deviants go away to Berlin!" Locating Contemporary Poland's Queer Counter-Public
March 29: "Blood Work: A Tale of Murder and Medicine in the Scientific Revolution"
March 10: "Mapping the Infernal City: GIS as a tool for the analysis of the Divine Comedy"
March 9: "Sacred Cities: Religion, Violence and the Origin of the Italian City-Republics"
February 17: Literaturlenz: New Literature from Germany, Austria and Switzerland
February 17: "The Themersons and Polish Experimental Film Before 1945"
February 16: "The Day Dreams of Wojciech J. Has: Polish Cinema and Surrealism"
February 16: "Elegance and Artificiality: the Art of Italian Mannerism"
February 11: "Afterlife in 1925: The History of a Forged Masterpiece"
February 4: How (and Why) the Italians invented Opera: and What the French and Germans Did to It
January 27: Film and Discussion with filmmaker Sarah Golabek-Goldman
Fall 2010 Events
September 10: Astrological concilia deorum in Late Medieval and Early Modern Latin Poetry
September 13: From Troublemakers to Problem Solvers: Shifting Representations of Polish Migrants in Recent European Film
September 13: The Generation that Knew not Poland: The Challenges and Opportunities of Writing Polish-Jewish History Today
September 23: Monuments and Photographs: Palimpsests of Memory
September 24:Teaching the Analysis of a Literary Text: A Methodological Approach through Unusual Text
September 27: Inaugural Lecture by Michal Pawel Markowski, Hejna Chair in Polish Language and Literature
October 1: Myth and Imagination: A Symposium of Visuals, Texts, and Literary Creativity Based on Greek Myth
October 13: The Struggle to Preserve Chicago's Italian American Past
October 14: Meet the Author: Elizabeth Bettina, It Happened in Italy
October 18: "The Razanov Effect" in Polish and Russian Modernism
October 19: Film screening: Sky without Stars. Part of the Series: Made in East/West Germany.
October 21: Film screening: A Berlin Romance. Part of the Series: Made in East/West Germany.
October 22: What the World Needs Now: Internships, Language and Professional French Studies
October 26: Curious tails and curiouser tales: translating Alice in Wonderland
October 29: All the Colors of Race: The Consumption of Blackness in Post-Racial Italy
November 17: The Jewish Revolt of Bar Kokhba (AD 132-135) and the Star of Antinous
November 17: A Call to Listen: Sonic Dynamics of Gender and Ethnicity in Mediterranean Culture in French.
December 2: Embodying Aesthetic Experience.
Spring 2010 Events
April 22 and 23: In/Between: Literatures, Cultural Studies, Linguistics Conference
April 14: Altars of Zeus, Games for the Gods: Lykaion and Olympia in Early Greek Religion
April 1: Beaudelaire's Illustrious Flowers of Evil by Sonya Stephens
April 1: Little Heroes of the Big War: Narrating World War II for Children"
March 19: Classics Spring Lecture: Menelaos Christopoulos: Helen of Troy - Innocence, Guilt and Politics
March 17: Sarah Nelson: Powers of persuasion: Hortense & Marie Mancini in the court of public opinion
March 12: Literaturlenz
March 5: Brigitta Wagner: Remembering 1989-90 through East German Films of Transition
February 26: Linguine and Lust: Stereotypes and Stereo Reality in Italian American Culture
February 26 and 27: UIC Graduate Student Conference of Hispanic Literary and Cultural Study
February 17: Gourianova