PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 22, No. 7, Oct. 3, 2002

IHistorians and history buffs welcome
Discussion about ‘The Civil War’
Historians and history buffs will gather at the Early American Museum in Mahomet at 2 p.m Oct. 6 to talk about how well Ken Burns harnessed the power of history with his PBS documentary series "The Civil War."

WILL-TV and the museum are sponsoring the event, and invite the public to join the discussion and tour the museum exhibit about the Civil War in Champaign County.

WILL-TV station manager Carl Caldwell will moderate the discussion. Among the other panelists will be Dr. John Schmale, a retired physician and Civil War buff who has worked to save Illinois’ Civil War flag collection, and Robert Sampson, an adjunct history faculty member at Millikin University in Decatur.

Burns’ "The Civil War" originally was broadcast in 1990 and quickly became the highest-rated series in PBS history. A re-mastered version was shown on PBS and WILL-TV last month.

WILL-FM Second Sunday concert
‘Beethoven With a Twist’ featured
An ensemble directed by violist Robin Kearton with violinist Dorothy Martirano, cellist Barbara Hedlund, guitarist Tim Johnson, pianist William Kinderman and accordionist Julia Cortinas will perform "Beethoven with a Twist" for the WILL-FM Second Sunday Concert on Oct. 13.

The public is invited to the 2 p.m. free concert in the West Gallery of the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. It will be broadcast live on WILL-FM 90.9 (101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) with WILL-FM music host Roger Cooper.

Kearton said the music will range from serious selections, such as Beethoven’s Piano Sonata in C minor, to lighter selections, including amateur parlor arrangements of Beethoven’s music from the 1860s and an adaptation of "Sonatina," Opus 49, No. 1, for accordion and viola.

WILL-FM Second Sunday Concerts are a joint venture of WILL-FM, the UI School of Music and the Krannert Art Museum.

Live forum is Oct. 13
Candidates in live TV appearance
U.S. Senate candidates Dick Durbin, the Democratic incumbent, and his Republican challenger Jim Durkin, a state representative from Westchester, will meet in a WILL-TV televised forum at 7 p.m. Oct. 13.

WILL-TV’s John Paul will host the hour-long, live forum, which will be broadcast from WILL’s Urbana studio in Campbell Hall and will air on WSIU (Carbondale) and other public television stations around the state. WILL-AM also will broadcast the program audio live, both on the air and on the WILL Web site at will.uiuc.edu. Paul said he anticipates discussions about U.S. policy toward Iraq, national security, the economy and a third airport in the Chicago area.

"Programs of this kind make an important contribution to an informed electorate," Paul said. "We’re proud to provide more than sound-bite access to these candidates. Those who watch can find out how candidates stand on issues important to them."

Museums at the Crossroads
Open houses for educators
Champaign County’s Museums at the Crossroads Consortium presents a museum open house night for area educators. All eight museums will be open from 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 9, offering information about their tours, programs and other educational resources. Participating members: Anita Purves Nature Center and Spurlock Museum, Urbana; Champaign County Historical Museum, Krannert Art Museum, Orpheum Children’s Science Museum and William M. Staerkel Planetarium, Champaign; Early American Museum, Mahomet; Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul.

For more information, contact Kim Sheahan, 244-3355. More information about the consortium and links to its member museums is available at www.m-crossroads.org.

Now available
Second edition of ethics handbook
The second edition of the university’s "Handbook for Good Ethical Practice for Faculty and Staff" is now available. The handbook contains references and resources to provide a framework for proper conduct and to assist employees in making sound judgments that not only further the interests of the university but also treat all members of our community fairly and respectfully.

It is now available in hard copy or can be accessed at http://ethics.uillinois.edu. For a printed copy of the handbook, contact Richard Traver, university ethics officer, 505 E. Green St., Suite 206, MC-498, or rtraver@uillinois.edu.

LGBT support group
Ally training offered Oct. 11
The Ally Network will hold a training meeting from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 11 in 406 Illini Union. The last hour of the meeting will be on the Quad for the "Coming Out Rally." The training is open to faculty and staff members who are interested in creating a safe environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender students. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Pat Morey, 333-3137, or Jane Reid, 333-3701.

‘The Stargazer’
Kaler featured in film at Staerkel
UI astronomy professor James B. Kaler is featured in a new planetarium show, "The Stargazer," which is being shown at the William M. Staerkel Planetarium at Parkland College, 2400 W. Bradley Ave., Champaign.

The program is based on Kaler and his teaching of astronomy. Kaler also co-narrates the film with Nichelle Nichols of the original "Star Trek."

Written and produced by the Great Lakes Planetarium Association, the film is recommended for students in grade 4 and older and gives a personal look at gravity, light, and the spectrum and how they help us decipher the lifestyles of the stars.

The film will be featured through Nov. 23. For more information, call the planetarium’s Showline at 351-2446. More information also is available at www.parkland.edu/coned/pla.

School of Art and Design
Series to focus on NYT art critic
The School of Art and Design announces a lecture series, "Conversations With and Beyond Michael Kimmelman." The series will begin Oct. 10 with a lecture by Kimmelman, chief art critic of The New York Times, and a post-lecture discussion moderated by Joel Snyder, University of Chicago, and James Elkins, School of the Art Institute. The lecture begins at 3 p.m. in 112 Gregory Hall.

All events are free and open to the public.

In addition, Kimmelman will be featured in an open forum at 10 a.m. Oct. 11 in the 20th Century Gallery at the Krannert Art Museum.

Prominent scholars Snyder and Elkins will contextualize and discuss Kimmelman’s lecture, engaging the audience by both responding to Kimmelman’s subject and discussing their own areas of research expertise.

Elkins also will speak at 5 p.m. Nov. 5 in the Krannert Art Museum auditorium, Room 62. Snyder will speak at 5 p.m. Nov. 13 in the Krannert Art Museum auditorium, Room 62.

Advances and promises for childbirth and childhood
Community Med School offered
The UI College of Medicine and Carle Foundation Hospital are hosting Community Medical School. The two-part series will include lectures and demonstrations.

Classes are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Forum at Carle, behind Carle Foundation Hospital. "Genetics and Childbirth" will be featured Oct. 23, and "Genetic Influence in Childhood" will be explored Oct. 30.

Class and lecture materials are free but advance registration is required; space is limited. To register, call 333-2787.

Question-and-answer forum
Provost Herman to speak to acpros

Provost Richard Herman will address the concerns of academic professionals on the Urbana campus at a question-and-answer forum at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 in 160 English Building.

The event is sponsored by the Association of Academic Professionals (AAP), the local affiliate of the National Education Association/Illinois Education Association. For more information, contact Philip Garnier at 244-5251.

‘Living With Catastrophic Terrorism’
Public policy expert to speak Oct. 8
Lewis M. Branscomb, a public policy expert from Harvard University and co-chair of the committee that recently wrote a report on countering terrorism, will deliver the inaugural lecture Oct. 8 of a UI seminar series.

Branscomb, the Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus at Harvard, will discuss "Living With Catastrophic Terrorism: Can Science and Technology Make Us Safer?" The free, public lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Room 141 of the Loomis Laboratory of Physics.

The lecture begins the William R. Schowalter Science and Technology Seminar, which recognizes the immediate past dean of the College of Engineering.

"This semester, the seminar lectures will concentrate on homeland security," said Jeremiah Sullivan, a professor of physics who is coordinating the seminar. "There will be a theme each semester on topics connected to the college and of broad interest."

‘Gender and Transnational Networks’
WGGP conference is Oct. 17-19
The UI’s Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program will host its annual symposium Oct. 17-19. This year’s theme is "Gender and Transnational Networks."

All symposium events will take place in Room 314 Illini Union.

The symposium begins at 4 p.m. Oct. 17 with a keynote talk by Evelyn Hu-DeHart, professor of history and director of Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America. Hu-DeHart’s talk is co-sponsored by the Center for Advanced Study’s MillerComm program.

Gale Summerfield, director of WGGP, said this year’s event will bring together specialists from various fields — from the Illinois campus and beyond — to take a closer look at "gender issues of transnational networks in socio-politics, hybridity-identity, technology-popular culture, migration-mobility, and human security-economic policy."

Panelists will consider such wide-ranging topics as quotas for women in elected legislatures to China’s Tibetan-inspired "New Age World Beat" music. Also scheduled is a rough cut of Illinois graduate student Maria Silva’s film titled "Mexican Migrant Women on the Prairies: Transnational Motherhood and Communities."

For a complete list of symposium speakers and presentations, visit www.ips.uiuc.edu/wggp.

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