PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 20, No. 8, Oct. 19, 2000

brief notes

Staff Employee Expo 2000
11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Nov. 1
Illini Union Rooms A, B & C
Staff Employee Expo 2000 features presentations and information booths on various campus units and services for staff employees. The event has been designated as an approved event; staff members may be released from work for up to one hour (without loss of pay) to attend, with appropriate supervisory approval. Door prizes and free gifts will be given away during the day. You need not be present to win, but must register in person. The event is sponsored by the Staff Advisory Council and the Personnel Services Office. More information about the event and SAC can be found at www.pso.uiuc.edu/sac

The music is out there
Concert includes unusual collaboration
Classical music lovers are in for a treat next weekend, when conductor Gillian Anderson and scenic designer Lidia Bagnoli bring their bag of tricks to the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Anderson and Bagnoli will present the U.S. premiere of an unusual slide-and-music collaboration during the second half of a performance by the UI Chamber Orchestra on Oct. 27.

The concert begins at 8 p.m. in Krannert Center’s Foellinger Great Hall.
The first half of the program, conducted by UI music professor Donald Schleicher and graduate student conductor Carolyn Kuan, features more standard concert fare. The second half, conducted by Anderson, a UI alumnus and orchestral conductor who has restored the original musical accompaniments for 25 early, or silent, films, will be decidedly different. The performance will be accompanied by the projection of Bagnoli’s striking, hand-painted slides.

Some of the music-slide combinations should prove quite apropos considering the upcoming Halloween holiday: Charles Ive’s "Hallowe’en," and "For the Fallen," a composition by Bernard Herrmann, the composer for such film classics as "Psycho," "The Birds," "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir."

Anderson said she usually starts her performances by talking to the audience to determine whether the truth is out there.

"I ask how many of them came to the concert expecting to see Gillian Anderson, the actress (of television’s "X-files" fame)." Whether they are sincere, or just playing along, Anderson said, a few people typically raise their hands. But it doesn’t take long to set everyone straight, as she guides them toward a new dimension, musically speaking.

"My (film) audiences contain a lot of people who normally do not come to classical music concerts," she said. "It was not hard to see that the visual element was what brought them, so Lidia Bagnoli and I decided to try to add a visual element to the classical music concerts to see if we could attract a new audience.

"This is not exactly a new idea," she added, "but most of the time these are either video images or photographs. When these images are blown up, they become grainy and unfocused. The hand-painted transparencies, on the other hand, are made to intensify the moods and musical structure of each composition. When they are projected, they are enormous, luminous and gorgeous. Unlike photographs, the bigger they get, the more poetic they get."

A giant of American literature
James Jones celebrated Oct. 28
Historians and literary scholars will gather to discuss the life and work of James Jones, the author of the international best seller "From Here to Eternity," during the 10th annual James Jones Literary Society Symposium on Oct. 28. All of the events are free and open to the public.

The symposium will focus on Jones’ insights on the combat experience and its effects on the soldier. Jones wrote nine novels, including "The Thin Red Line," an acclaimed short-story collection, a non-fiction account of World War II, a book of essays, and short fiction and articles.

Historian Gerald H. Linderman, an emeritus faculty member at the University of Michigan, will be keynote speaker and discuss "James Jones and Two Wars: World War II and Vietnam." Other events include overviews of Jones’ war writings by Judith Everson, UI-Springfield; George Hendrick, UI; and J. Michael Lennon, Wilkes University.

A James Jones exhibit will be on display in the UI Rare Book and Special Collections Library.

A free writers’ workshop will be from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 27, led by Kaylie Jones, a novelist and Jones’ daughter. For more information, visit the James Jones Literary Society Web site at http://rking.vinu.edu/j.htm. To sign up, call Barbara Jones, 333-3777.

Armory Free Theater
Theater rededication set for Oct. 21
The UI department of theater’s experimental space for student work, the Armory Free Theater, has been under construction during the summer. The Armory Free Theater rededication ceremony will be at 1 p.m. Oct. 21. Tours and refreshments will be offered.

The 30-year-old theater is located in Room 160 of the Armory Building. The space provides an opportunity for students to write, direct, design and perform experimental theater works and original material with 18 to 24 events presented each season.

This season’s schedule appears on the Web at www.uiuc.edu/ro/armory/.

State Universities Annuitants Association
Fall SUAA meeting is Oct. 22
The fall meeting of the UI chapter of the State Universities Annuitants Association will begin at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 22 at the Park Inn, 2408 N. Cunninham Ave., Urbana.

The meeting will begin with a short social gathering followed by a brief business meeting. At 2:30 p.m. featured speaker Craig Bazanni, vice president for business and finance and comptroller at the UI, will discuss recent developments at the university. A question-and-answer period will follow.

All annuitants, retirees, spouses and surviving spouses are invited to the meeting. Current faculty and staff members who are eligible to retire also are welcome.

McKinley Health Center
Free flu shots offered
McKinley Health Center will once again provide flu shots to UI faculty and staff members, state employees and retirees. To be eligible for the state-sponsored shots, employees must be eligible for state health benefits based on their own employment, not as a dependent of another state employee.

The shots are available from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday at the McKinley Health Center. No appointment is necessary. Staff members also may go to other sites around campus. Times and sites for the week will be posted each Monday in the Daily Illini, on the Web at www.mckinley.uiuc.edu and recorded on a message accessible at 333-2701.

Employees can receive a shot under this benefit through Nov. 30. Staff members and their families who are not eligible for a free shot can get one for $8.50.

This is a one-hour approved event for Civil Service employees. Employees may be released from work with pay, operations permitting and with departmental approval, to receive a flu shot.

Office of Printing Services
Campus maps available
Updated copies of the campus map found in the Student/Staff Directory are available from the Printing Division of the Office of Printing Services. Two map sizes (8.5" x 11" and 11" x 17") and their corresponding keys are available. Call 333-0428 for more information.

College of Communication
Journalist Lee to speak Oct. 23
Kyung Won (K.W.) Lee, a columnist for the Korea Times who has been called the dean of Asian-American journalists, will return to his alma mater, the UI, to talk about his personal odyssey in the United States and in journalism.

Lee’s talk, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 2 p.m. Oct. 23 in 223 Gregory Hall. The topic for the talk, part of the College of Communication’s "Distinguished Speaker Series," is "An FOB’s Pilgrimage: From Jim Crow to the Tower of Babel." (Lee refers to himself as an FOB – someone "fresh off the boat.")

One of the first Asian immigrants to work for mainstream dailies in the continental United States, Lee said his goal as a journalist is to attain a "worm’s-eye view, to explore the unseen, unheard and under-represented in the other seething, subterranean America."

Leading expert on solid mechanics to speak
Nov. 2 Soo lecture features Rice
James R. Rice, the Gordon McKay Professor of Engineering Sciences and Geophysics at Harvard University, will present the fourth Yunchuan Aisinjioro-Soo Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. Nov. 2 in the auditorium of the Beckman Institute. A reception for Rice will be held at 3:30 p.m. in Room 1005 of Beckman.

Rice’s lecture is titled "Some Problems in Crack and Fault Dynamics." He is internationally renowned for his work on the problems of stressing, deformation and fracture dynamics as they arise in seismology, civil and mechanical engineering and materials physics. He pioneered the field of nonlinear fracture mechanics, contributing to the prevention of structural failure in airplanes, bridges, nuclear reactors and pipelines. His geophysical research has helped to explain sudden earthquake instabilities.

The Aisinjioro-Soo Lecture Series was founded in 1992 by Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Professor Emeritus S.L. Soo and his family in honor of his mother, Yunchuan Aisinjioro-Soo.

Latina/Latino Studies Program
WILL to air La Malinche doc
The documentary, "Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico," will air at 11 p.m. Nov. 2 on WILL-TV. The film documents the life of La Malinche, Hernán Cortés’ mistress and translator whom many cultural critics and artists believe engendered Mexican culture. The project was filmed during the UI’s August 1999 "U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on La Malinche" conference. The conference was organized by the Latina/Latino Studies Program in conjunction with the Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese department, the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, and the Women’s Studies Program. Rolando Romero, UI professor of Latina/Latino Studies, was the chief academic adviser of the film.

State of the European Union
Ambassador of France to speak
Francois Bujon de l’Estang, the ambassador of France to the United States, will visit the UI Oct. 27 to present the campus’s second annual address on the state of the European Union.

The ambassador’s speech, at 11 a.m. in Rooms A, B and C of the Illini Union, is the centerpiece event of European Union Day, hosted by the UI’s European Union Center and International Programs and Studies. Bujon de l’Estang’s presentation, on "The Agenda of the French Presidency," is free and open to the public.

France holds the rotating presidency of the Council of the European Union through Dec. 31, 2000 – the 11th time it has been the presiding nation of the E.U. since the beginning of the European integration. According to Buchon de l’Estang, France’s objectives during its presidency include continuing to promote economic modernization among E.U. countries, strengthening the European social model, and working to build a Europe that is responsive to the concerns of its citizens, particularly in such areas as domestic security and food safety.

A treaty-based institutional framework for the construction of a unified Europe, the E.U. comprises 15 nations: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Spain, Finland, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

Oct. 20-22
Symposium honors Enescu
Fifty years after Romanian composer George Enescu’s last residency at the UI, the campus is celebrating the anniversary with a three-day symposium Oct. 20-22. The event will feature lectures, concerts for large and small ensembles, vocal recitals and instrumental.

From 1948 through 1950, Enescu was a regular visitor to the UI campus. During his extended visits, he gave master classes in violin, piano and chamber music, and performed and conducted.

Lectures will be held each day of the event from 10 a.m. to noon, and 2 to 4 p.m., in Room 25 Smith Hall; most performances will be staged in Smith Hall’s recital hall. The exception is the opening-night concert featuring the Enescu Ensemble conducted by Sherban Lupu, UI professor of violin, which will take place at 8 p.m. in the Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Tickets are available at the Krannert Center Ticket office, 333-6280.

Subsequent evening concerts take place at 8 p.m. on Oct. 21, and at 7 p.m. on Oct. 22 in Smith Hall. Admission is free.

The festival and symposium is co-sponsored by the Russian and East European Center, School of Music and Romanian Student Club, with assistance from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
A complete schedule of activities is available on the Web at www.uiuc.edu/ro/RomClub/Enescu.