School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Calendar

Wednesday, October 23, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group -

  • Other
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Japanese Language Table

  • Other
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:20 pm
    
  • Room 1064, Lincoln Hall, 702 S. Wright St., Urbana

  EALC Speaker Series Lecture - Ulrich Timme Kragh, Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan, Poland): “An Asian Theory of Narrative in Historical Discourse”

  • Lecture
• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Information meeting for Foreign Language Teacher Education (FLTE)

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Room G-30 (basement), Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana (on main Quad)

  Slavic Movie Night: Leptirica / The She-Butterfly (1973 / in BCS / dir. Đorđe Kadijević)

  • Film Screening
• • 8:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • CaffeBene (Urbana location)

  Greek Coffee Hour - Topic: "The Financial Crisis"

  • Other

Thursday, October 24, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  HGMS (Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies) seminar

  • Other
• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 6:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Italian Movie Night: "Mine Vaganti" ("Loose Cannons", 2010)

  • Film Screening

Friday, October 25, 2019

• • 3:00 pm
    
  • 346 Main Library

  Professor Eleonara Stoppino: "Of Jealousy, Women Warriors and Spin-Offs: Secondo Tarentino's 'Bradamante Gelosa'""

  • Lecture
• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Basement of Illini Union (near Einstein Bros Bagels)

  Korean Conversation Table

  • Other

Monday, October 28, 2019

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Room 314, Foreign Languages Building

  Religious Studies Coffee Hour

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other

Tuesday, October 29, 2019

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Japanese Language Table

  • Other

Wednesday, October 30, 2019

• • 11:00 am
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group -

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Arabic Movie Night

  • Film Screening
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana

  Bate Papo

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign

  Yuliya Ilchuk, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Stanford Univ.: "Making Sense of Hybrid Cultural Production in the Russian Empire: The Case of Nikolai Gogol"

  • Lecture
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Russian Conversation Table (РУССКИЙ СТОЛ)

  • Other

Thursday, October 31, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Room 1090, Lincoln Hall

  Lecture by Francis X. Clooney

  • Lecture
• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, November 1, 2019

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Classics Series Lecture - Aine McVey (CITL): "AltAc Careers: Instructional Designer with a Classics PhD"

  • Lecture
• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Basement of Illini Union (near Einstein Bros Bagels)

  Korean Conversation Table

  • Other

Monday, November 4, 2019

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Room 314, Foreign Languages Building

  Religious Studies Coffee Hour

  • Other
• 

  • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Linguistics Seminar Series Lecture - Nicholas Fleisher, Associate Professor of Linguistics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other
• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Goldberg Lecture - Professor Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University): "Race and Grace: Rethinking Paul and its Implications for Modern Jewish Thought and Christian Theology"

  • Lecture

Tuesday, November 5, 2019

• • 5:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Gemma Sala, Associate Professor of Political Science, Grinnell College: "Is the European Union driving increasing demands for secession in Scotland and Catalonia?" "

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 6, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group -

  • Other
• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Japanese Language Table

  • Other
• • 2:30 pm
    

  University Library Presents Virtual Panel - "Navigating Scholarly Publishing: Scholars' Insights into the Author-Publisher Relationship"

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other
• • 6:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Italian Movie Night: "il Mostro" ("The Monster", 1994)

  • Film Screening
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Room G-30 (basement), Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana (on main Quad)

  Slavic Movie Night: Палата № 6 / Ward No. 6 (2009 / in Russian / dir. Karen Shakhnazarov)

  • Film Screening
• • 8:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • CaffeBene (Urbana location)

  Greek Coffee Hour - Topic: "Art and Creativity"

  • Other

Thursday, November 7, 2019

• • All Day
    
  • various locations (see "SCHEDULE" below)

  "Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times" (Inaugural C-U Campus/Community Interfaith Exploration)

  • Other
• • 3:00 pm
    
  • Room 220, Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana

  Pushkin Birthday Poetry Reading

  • Performance
• • 4:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Spanish & Portuguese Colloquium: Dr. Daniel Hershenzon, Dept. of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, University of Connecticut: "The Captive Sea: Slavery, Communication and Commerce in Early Modern Spain"

  • Lecture
• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, November 8, 2019

• • All Day
    
  • various locations (see "SCHEDULE" below)

  "Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times" (Inaugural C-U Campus/Community Interfaith Exploration)

  • Other
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Classics Series Lecture - Ariana Traill (UIUC): "Why is Polemon at fault? Domestic violence in Menander’s Perikeiromene"

  • Lecture
• • 3:30 pm
    
  • St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church and Campus Center, 909 S. Wright St., Champaign

  Dr. Mark Swanson: "From Missionary ‘Focus’ to Neighborly ‘Commitment’: Chicago Lutheran Stories in Christian–Muslim Relations"

  • Lecture
• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Basement of Illini Union (near Einstein Bros Bagels)

  Korean Conversation Table

  • Other

Saturday, November 9, 2019

• • All Day
    
  • various locations (see "SCHEDULE" below)

  "Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times" (Inaugural C-U Campus/Community Interfaith Exploration)

  • Other

Sunday, November 10, 2019

• • All Day
    
  • various locations (see "SCHEDULE" below)

  "Cultivating Hope in Anxious Times" (Inaugural C-U Campus/Community Interfaith Exploration)

  • Other

Monday, November 11, 2019

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Room 314, Foreign Languages Building

  Religious Studies Coffee Hour

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Linguistics Seminar Series Lecture - Rizwan Ahmed (Ass. Prof., English Literature & Linguistics,Qatar University)

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

• • 2:00 - 3:00 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Japanese Language Table

  • Other
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana

  AsiaLENS movie presentation: "Drokpa: Nomads of Tibet"

  • Film Screening

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

• • 11:00 am
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana

  Bate Papo

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other
• • 5:30 - 6:30 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Russian Conversation Table (РУССКИЙ СТОЛ)

  • Other
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Rosenthal Lecture - Professor Mark Roseman (Indiana University): "The Secret of solidarity: Helping Jews in the Holocaust"

  • Lecture

Thursday, November 14, 2019

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • IPRH Lecture Hall, 4th Floor, Levis Center, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

  Anti-Semitism panel discussion, with Mark Roseman (Indiana University) and Peter Fritzsche (History)

  • Other
• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, November 15, 2019

• • 12:00 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  East Asian Linguistics/Pedagogy Roundtable: Junghwan Maeng & Zhi-ling Lien

  • Seminar/Symposium
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Classics Series Lecture - Julia Mebane (Indiana U.): "The Elder Seneca and the Ages of Rome"

  • Lecture
• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Basement of Illini Union (near Einstein Bros Bagels)

  Korean Conversation Table

  • Other

Monday, November 18, 2019

• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Linguistics Seminar Series Lecture - Aurore Patricia Mroz (Asst. Prof., French & Italian, UIUC)

  • Lecture
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

• • 11:00 am
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group

  • Other
• • 6:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Italian Movie Night: "Cesare deve morire" ("Caesar Must Die", 2012)

  • Film Screening
• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Room G-30 (basement), Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana (on main Quad)

  Slavic Movie Night: День выборов / Election day (2007 / in Russian / dir. Oleg Fomin)

  • Film Screening
• • 8:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • CaffeBene (Urbana location)

  Greek Coffee Hour - Topic: "Rebetiko"

  • Other

Monday, November 25, 2019

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Room 314, Foreign Languages Building

  Religious Studies Coffee Hour

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

• • 5:15 - 6:45 pm
    
  • Room 1090, Lincoln Hall

  Modern Critical Theory Lecture Series - Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Assistant Professor of Classics: "Ecocriticism"

  • Lecture

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other

Thursday, November 28, 2019

• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, November 29, 2019

• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other

Monday, December 2, 2019

• • 12:30 - 1:30 pm
    
  • Room 314, Foreign Languages Building

  Religious Studies Coffee Hour

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • Espresso Royale, 1117 West Oregon Street, Urbana (corner of W. Oregon & Goodwin)

  Caffetino – Italian Conversation Group

  • Other

Tuesday, December 3, 2019

• • 6:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Italian Movie Night: "My Name is Tanino" (2002)

  • Film Screening

Wednesday, December 4, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • 2090B Foreign Languages Building (2nd floor mailroom area)

  Study Abroad Reading Group

  • Other
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other
• • 8:00 - 9:00 pm
    
  • CaffeBene (Urbana location)

  Greek Coffee Hour - Topic: "The Greek Diaspora"

  • Other

Thursday, December 5, 2019

• • 5:30 pm
    
  • Room 1136 Foreign Languages Building

  Undergraduate Italian Club

  • Social/Informal Event

Friday, December 6, 2019

• • 4:30 - 5:30 pm
    
  • 2050 Foreign Languages Building (EALC Library)

  Chinese Language Table

  • Other

Monday, December 9, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Jewish Studies Seminar Room, 109A English

  Liat Maggid Alon Israel Institute Visiting Scholar (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): "Exodus or Expulsion: Reconstructing the past of the Jews of Egypt in the 20th Century"

  • Conference/Workshop
• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Classics Series Lecture - Kelly P. Dugan (U. Georgia): "A Curriculum Enrichment Workshop on the Presentation of Slavery in Latin Textbooks"

  • Other
• • 4:00 - 5:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Linguistics Seminar Series Lecture - Anita Greenfield (Grad. Student, UIUC, Linguistics)

  • Lecture

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

• • 5:00 - 6:00 pm
    
  • La Casa Cultural Latina, 1203 W. Nevada St., Urbana

  Bate Papo

  • Social/Informal Event
• • 5:00 - 7:00 pm
    
  • Café Paradiso, on the corner of Lincoln & Nevada, Urbana

  Kaffeestunde (Germanic Coffee Hour)

  • Other

Thursday, December 12, 2019

• • 12:00 pm
    
  • Room 109, English Building

  Workshop - “A Nice Jewish Boy who Believes in Jesus:” Fear, Fury, and the Campaign against Messianic Judaism in Britain

  • Conference/Workshop

Monday, January 27, 2020

• • 7:00 pm
    
  • Illini Hillel, 503 East John Street, Champaign

  Documentary - "Liberation Heroes: the Last Eyewitnesses"

  • Film Screening

Monday, April 6, 2020

• • 8:30 am
    
  • Levis Faculty Center, Room 210, 919 W. Illinois St., Urbana

  Greenfield/ Lynch Lecture - Rena Potok (Villanova University): “Cultural Migration and Fusion in The Collected Plays of Chaim Potok”

  • Lecture

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

• • 4:00 pm
    
  • To be announced

  Annual SLCL Faculty Meeting

  • Lecture

Thursday, April 16, 2020

• • 7:30 pm
    
  • Knight Auditorium, The Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana

  Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture in Religion - Khaled M. Abou El Fadl, School of Law, UCLA

  • Lecture

Friday, April 17, 2020

• • 2:00 pm
    
  • Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building, 707 S. Mathews Ave., Urbana

  Thomas M. Brogan, Director, INSTAP Study Center for East Crete (INSTAP SCEC) “Twenty Years on Crete: The Impact of the INSTAP Study Center”

  • Lecture