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1/8/2009

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lectures
29 Thursday
“The Real Value of Testing.” James Larus, Microsoft Research. 4 p.m. 1030 NCSA. Information Trust Institute.

“Beyond Jihad: New Directions in Muslim Fundamentalist Thought.” Sherman A. Jackson, University of Michigan. 7:30 p.m. Kresge Hall, Spurlock Museum. MillerComm.

30 Friday
“Muslims, Islam and Race in America.” Sherman A. Jackson, University of Michigan. Noon. Second floor, Levis Faculty Center. Department of Religion.

4 Wednesday
“Lincoln and the House Divided: Launching a National Political Career.” David Zarefsky, Northwestern University. 3:30-5:30 p.m. Third floor, Levis Faculty Center. Lincoln Bicentennial Committee.

colloquia
20 Tuesday
“The New Invaders: the Resurgence of Vector-borne Diseases in the U.S.” Linn Haramis, Illinois Department of Public Health. 3:30 p.m. 1005 I-Building, 1816 S. Oak St., Champaign. Illinois Natural History Survey.

22 Thursday
“The Subject-Gap Restriction and Its Interactions With WH-Movement.” Carlos Buesca Garcia, University of Connecticut. 4 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

23 Friday
“The Poetic Technique of Girolamo Fracastoro: Observations on his ‘Syphilis, Book III.’ ” Stephan Heilen, UI. 2-4 p.m. 4080A Foreign Languages Building. Classics.

28 Wednesday
“Control of the Mechanical Properties of Electrospun Polymeric Nanofibers.” Ioannis Chasiotis, UI. Noon. 1005 Beckman Institute. Beckman Institute Director’s Seminar.

“Inquiry Into the Gender/Technology Story: A Triad of the Empirical, the Constructed and the Imagined.” Linda Vigdor, UI. Noon. 911 S. Sixth St., Champaign. Gender and Women’s Studies.

29 Thursday
“Nominal Ellipsis Is Not Syntax: Evidence From Spanish.” M. Emma Ticio, University of Connecticut. 4 p.m. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.

30 Friday
“Food and Consumption in the European Union.” Diana Mincyte, UI. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. European Union Center.

4 Wednesday
“Freedom’s Gift, Beauty’s Promise.” Mimi Nguyen, UI. Noon. 911 S. Sixth St., Champaign. Gender and Women’s Studies.

5 Thursday
“Signal Transduction and Gene Expression.” Alan Wolfe, Loyola University, Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. 4 p.m. B102 Chemical and Life Sciences Lab. Microbiology.

“Death of the Dinos: Giant Impacts and Biological Crises.” H. Jay Melosh, University of Arizona. 4 p.m. 141 Loomis Lab. Physics.

“The Muslim Within: Reflections on the Islamic Dimension of Western Identity.” Anouar Majid, University of New England. 4 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Global Studies and South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.

“The Power of Heresy.” Anouar Majid, University of New England. 7 p.m. Urbana Free Library, 210 W. Green St., Urbana. South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Global Studies.

6 Friday
“Nature or Nurture: Judicial Lawmaking in the European Court of Justice and the Andean Court of Justice.” Karen Alter, Northwestern University. Noon. Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building. European Union Center.

“The Priority of Rightful Care to Virtuous Care: A Critique of the Care Tradition.” Helga Varden, UI. 3-5 p.m. 213 Gregory Hall. Philosophy.

theater
23 Friday
“Choctalking on Other Realities.” LeAnne Howe, UI. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. Howe’s one-woman exploration of her own Choctaw roots. Admission charge.

24 Saturday
“Choctalking on Other Realities.” LeAnne Howe, UI. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. Howe’s one-woman exploration of her own Choctaw roots. Admission charge.

music
21 Wednesday
Faculty Recital. Dana Hall, jazz drums. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

22 Thursday
Stefan Milenkovich, violin. With Rohan De Silva, piano and Ani Aznavoorian, cello. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

23 Friday
Faculty Recital. Chip McNeill, jazz saxophone. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. McNeill will perform original compositions from his latest CD a well as his upcoming CD. Admission charge. School of Music.

24 Saturday
Faculty Recital. Elliot Chasanov, trombone. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

25 Sunday
Faculty Recital. John Hickey, jazz piano. 3 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

Faculty Recital. William Heiles, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

28 Wednesday
Interval: Small Potatoes. Noon. Lobby, Krannert Center. Chicago-based Jacquie Manning and Rich Prezioso have a repertoire they describe as “celtic to cowboy.”

Faculty Recital. Sherban Lupu, violin, with the Enescu Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge. School of Music.

30 Friday
Faculty Recital. “New Works for Voice and Electronics.” Phillipp Blume, composer. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

31 Saturday
Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra. Steven Larsen, music director and conductor. With David Syme, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. An uplifting evening of classical music. Admission charge.

Jeff Tweedy. 8:30 p.m. Foellinger Auditorium. Tickets available at Ticket Central in the Illini Union or by calling 333-5000. Admission charge. Star Course.

1 Sunday
Junior Recital. Hillary Rowley-Weiss, flute. 11 a.m. Memorial Room, Smith Hall.

2 Monday
Art in Conversation. Ingrid Filter, Argentine pianist. 5:15 p.m. Stage 5, Krannert Center.

Faculty Recital. Rochelle Sennet, piano. 7:30 p.m. Recital Hall, Smith Hall.

3 Tuesday
Ingrid Filter, piano. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. This performance will include a Bach concerto, Chopin waltzes and mazurkas and Schumann’s Symphonic Etudes. Admission charge.

4 Wednesday
World Music: “Mande.” Philip Yampolsky, coordinator. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge.

6 Friday
Traffic Jam: The Boat Drunks. 5 p.m. Lobby, Krannert Center. An evening in parrothead paradise.

7 Saturday
Sinfonia da Camera: “English Garden.” Ian Hobson, music director and conductor. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. With Csaba Erdelyi, viola. Admission charge.

8 Sunday
Black Sacred Music Symposium Final Concert. Ollie Watts Davis, coordinator. 7:30 p.m. Foellinger Great Hall, Krannert Center. Admission charge.

opera
30 Friday
East Village Opera Company. 7:30 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. This young ensemble puts a modern spin on venerated composers as Puccini, Verdi, Purcell and Bizet through a musical consciousness nurtured on Led Zeppelin and Metallica. Admission charge.
31 Saturday
East Village Opera Company. 7:30 and 10 p.m. Studio Theater, Krannert Center. This young ensemble puts a modern spin on venerated composers as Puccini, Verdi, Purcell and Bizet through a musical consciousness nurtured on Led Zeppelin and Metallica. Admission charge.

dance
23 Friday
Russian National Ballet Theatre: “Sleeping Beauty.” 7 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Admission charge. Krannert Center.

24 Saturday
Russian National Ballet Theatre: “Sleeping Beauty.” 2 and 7 p.m. Tryon Festival Theater, Krannert Center. Recommended for ages 8 and up. Admission charge. Krannert Center.

5 Thursday
“White Out.” 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. New and old works by faculty artists Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Renée Wadleigh and Linda Lehovac and alumnus Paul Singh. Admission charge.

6 Friday
“White Out.” 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. New and old works by faculty artists Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Renée Wadleigh and Linda Lehovac and alumnus Paul Singh. Admission charge.

7 Saturday
“White Out.” 7:30 p.m. Colwell Playhouse, Krannert Center. New and old works by faculty artists Rebecca Nettl-Fiol, Renée Wadleigh and Linda Lehovac and alumnus Paul Singh. Admission charge.

films
3 Tuesday
“Please Vote for Me.” Discussion led by Gale Summerfield, UI. 7 p.m. Spurlock Museum. Asian Educational Media Service and Spurlock Museum.

5 Thursday
“Sunset Boulevard.” 5:30 p.m. 62 Krannert Art Museum. Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

sports
15 Thursday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. University of Iowa. 7 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

17 Saturday
Women’s Gymnastics. UI vs. Pennsylvania State University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

20 Tuesday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Ohio State University. 6 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

24 Saturday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. University of Wisconsin. 3 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

Women’s Gymnastics. UI vs. University of Iowa. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

Men’s Gymnastics. UI vs. Ohio State University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

25 Sunday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Indiana University. 3 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

1 Sunday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. University of Iowa. 1 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

5 Thursday
Women’s Basketball. UI vs. Michigan State University. 8 p.m. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

6 Friday
Wrestling. UI vs. Northwestern University. 7 p.m. Huff Hall. Admission charge.

8 Sunday
Men’s Basketball. UI vs. Purdue University. Noon. Assembly Hall. Admission charge.

et cetera
16 Friday
Second Annual Midwest Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. 8:30 a.m. 141 Loomis Lab. For more information and to register, visit http://physics.illinois.edu/conferences/wip/. Physics.

CITES Security Orientation. 10-11:30 a.m. 404 Illini Union. Campus Informational Technologies and Educational Services.

22 Thursday
Sustainability Seminar Series. “Challenges in Comfort Conditioning of a Zero Energy Residence.” Ty Newell and Ben Newell of Newell Instruments Inc. Noon. Stephen J. Warner Conference Room, Waste Management and Research Center, 1 E. Hazelwood Drive, Champaign. Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.

27 Tuesday
Designmatters: “Walking Machines.” Marloes Ten Bhomer, artist. 5:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum.

28 Wednesday
Secretary of State’s Mobile Unit on Campus. 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. 314 Illini Union. Office of the Chancellor.

CITES Security Laptop Clinic. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Undergraduate Library. Campus Informational Technologies and Educational Services.

3 Tuesday
Designmatters: “Design for Democracy: Ballot + Election Design.” Marcia Lausen, UI. 5:30 p.m. 100 Gregory Hall. Fine and Applied Arts.

5 Thursday
Sustainability Seminar Series. “Wind Farms in Central Illinois.” Randy Lloyd, UI. Noon. Stephen J. Warner Conference Room, Waste Management and Research Center, 1 E. Hazelwood Drive, Champaign. Illinois Sustainable Technology Center.

Gallery Conversation. “Photography: Multiple Takes on Warhol’s Portraits and Mylayne’s Birds.” Jennifer Burns, Brigit Kelly, Ernesto Scott, and Terri Weissman, UI. 5:30 p.m. Krannert Art Museum. Krannert Art Museum.

6 Friday
Comparative Human Rights: “Literature, Art, Politics.” 10 a.m.-4 p.m. 405 Illini Union / General Lounge, Illini Union. Trowbridge Office on American Literature, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, English, Jewish Studies, African Studies, and Arms Control, Disarmament and International Security.

7 Saturday
“Winter Tales:” American Indian Storytelling Concert. Tim Tingle. 2-3:30 p.m. Spurlock Museum. Spurlock Museum.

exhibits
“Children Just Like Me”
Through May 3.
Five galleries featuring the cultures of the world.
Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana. Noon-5 p.m. Tuesday; 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday-Friday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday; Noon-4 p.m. Sunday.
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“The Archaeological Heritage of Illinois”
Through May 31.
“Collecting East Asia: The Lee Wonsik Collection”
Through July 26.
“Something That Happened Only Once”
“Jean Luc Mylayne”
“Audubon at Illinois: Selections From the University Library’s Birds of America”
“Polaroids and Portraits: A Photographic Legacy of Andy Warhol”
“WowDesign: Marloes Ten Bhomer”
New Installation of the Rosann Gelvin Noel Gallery
On view Jan. 30.
Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 2-5 p.m. Sunday. Free admission; $3 donation suggested.
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I space, 230 W. Superior St., Chicago. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday.

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Editor's note:This calendar is excerpted from the Jan. 15 issue of Inside Illinois, the faculty-staff newspaper at the UI.