MONDAY, 10TH
- 6:00pm - 8:00PM // Community Gamelan // School of Music, Room 1188, 1114 W. Nevada Street, Urbana (nearest entrance on Oregon Street) // CORIE
- 12:00 pm // Dish It Up: Unfinished Business for the Constitution: The Equal Rights Amendment// Women's Resources Center // PUJA_Ratification,_10-20-1978.jpg)
Puja: The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) seemed like an
interesting and important enough issue—it basically says that a person cannot
be denied rights on account of sex. For whatever reason though, it still hasn’t
been ratified.
- 4:00pm-5 p.m.// LINGUISTICS - Seminar Series talk by Prof. Kara Federmeier, U of I Psychology: "Time for Meaning: What electrophysiology reveals about how the brain makes sense of the world"// Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building// JOEY
- 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm// Hot Topics | We Say No More: Feminism, Consent, and Dismantling Rape Culture // Women's Resources Center // PUJA
TUESDAY, 11TH
- 3:45 // Astronomy Colloquium: "Using Results from Research on Undergraduate Learning in Cosmology to Build an Interactive Student-Centered Curriculum" // Kim Coble // Astronomy 134 // LINDSEY
- 12:00n // Discussion with Jian Ping and Lisa Xia, "Mulberry Child" // Asian American Cultural Center // Linda
The dialogue that occurred
made me think back to own experience as an Indian-American, and how recently
it’s played a role in my photographic work as well.
- 3:00 p.m.// Mulberry Child: Bridging a Cultural Divide from Memoir to Film// Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL// JOEY
Puja: Originally
I planned to write about the “Equal Rights Amendment” presentation at the
Women’s Resources Center (which I attended), but it did not move me in the same
way that the talk by Lisa Xia and her mother Jian Ping did.
- 3:00 p.m.// Mulberry Child: Bridging a Cultural Divide from Memoir to Film// Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL// JOEY
 - 7:00 pm// AsiaLENS Screening of "Mulberry Child" // 428 Armory // BRIGITTA
Chris: We
meet Jian Ping and her daughter Lisa in the film through a combination or
real-life footage and reenactments. Lisa, being fairly Americanized, doesn't
necessarily see eye to eye with her very traditional mother, who would like her
to visit more often
  Brigitta: She remarked on how her upbringing affected how she
herself brought up her daughter; the high expectations she held and the lack of
emotion she usually showed. This is because she tried to be strong like the
mulberry trees she used to climb as a child.
Anne: As the film ended, Lisa and Jian had walked out
onto the stage. Maggie and I were shocked because we didn’t know that they were
going to be apart of the lecture.
   Maggie: One very interesting topic discussed in the movie
was the idea of Chinese women binding their feet. I had heard of this before,
but never witnessed it before. In the film, Jian’s mother shows her feet after
being bound for several years.
Jill: I could not imagine experiencing half of what Jian
went through at such a young age. Living through a time like Communist China
would force children to grow up at such a young age.
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WEDNESDAY, 12TH
-12:00 pm// History Salon: Noah Lenstra // 341 LIS Building // BRIGITTA
- 12:00 pm //
CAS Brown Bag Lecture: "From Revolution to Reform: Understanding
the 1980 Regime in Zimbabwe"
//
Speaker:
Vasabjit Banerjee
// 101 International
Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St. // LINDA
- 3:00 pm // No. 44 Society Meeting: Conservation and Care of Rare Materials Talk // The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana // ANNE
- 3:30 pm// "Playin’ It Safe": Reframing the Sexual Lives of Latina Youth // 223 Gregory Hall // PUJA
- 4:00PM-5:30 pm //StrengthsQuest for Interview Success (Free) // 210 Illini Union CHRIS
- 4:00 pm// Sex Machine: Asian Women in the U.S. Cold War Imaginary// Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W Nevada, Urbana CHRIS
- 4:00 pm // Nutritional Sciences 500 Seminar with Kirk Erickson // 180 Bevier Hall // MAGGIE
- 6:00 pm // Movie Evening: "Never on Sunday" (Pote ten Kyriake, in Greek)// Lucy Ellis Lounge (room 1080), Foreign Language Building // PUJA
- (rescheduled) // 6-7 PM // Champaign-Urbana Design Organization presents “Meet the Pros” talk series feat. filmmakers Chris & Anne Lukeman // Buvons Wine Bar, 203 N Vine, Urbana IL // BRIAN
- 6:00 pm and 7:30 pm reoccurring // Reiki Healing Circle // Beads N Botanicals117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana // ALEX
- 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm // 2013-14 International Careers Workshop Series: International Careers in Business, Government and NGOs //Lincoln Hall 1000, 702 South Wright St., Urbana, IL // BRIAN
- 7:30PM // 15th Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert // Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall // CORIE
Kelly: piano competition. Although I’m an art student and this is my
fourth semester at UIUC, I’ve never actually stepped foot inside the Krannert
Center. First off, the building is gorgeous.
THURSDAY,13TH
- 11:00 am- 12:00 pm // Teaching Undergraduate Students How to Read Academic Articles in the Social Sciences (registration required) // 428 Armory// JILL
- 12:00 pm // Lecture Series: The land above, within, and below: Territorial rights and the evolving complexity of landscapes in the Amazon // 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifht Street, Champaign IL // ANNE
- 1:00-2:00// Get $avvy Financial Wellness Webinar Series: Love Your Loan - Student Loan Repayment // // UI Extension Financial Wellness Program // LINDSEY
- 3:00 -3:50 pm //Managing Your Copyrights: Retain the Rights Important to You (Free) // Main Library 314. Take the north stairwell (Armory and Wright Street entrance) to the 3rd floor of the Main Library and make a left at the top of the stairs CHRIS
- 4:30 p.m.// "Performing Authenticity and the Labor
of Dance"// Body/Bodies Lecture
Series// Department of Gender and
Women's Studies// Knight
Auditorium, Spurlock Museum// Linda
- 6:00 PM // Opening Reception - Outlandish Adventures: Works by Benjie Heu // Parkland Art Gallery // ALEX
- 7:30pm // VOICE Reading Series // KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery // $3 donation suggested // CATE
Joey: But I really
did take something away from the event. That is, that the purpose and the
delivery of an idea are entirely contingent upon each other. It is so important
to understand the nature of the medium you are working with, and to consider
what it is that makes work in that medium effective. What makes a written story
good won’t necessarily make a spoken story good. (Not that a great speaker can’t
make a good written story just as good, if not better). What might have been
riveting at my desk was utterly forgettable at the podium.
Cate: However, the most entertaining/interesting part for
me was definitely when a very young punk looking student, with a five inch tall
mohawk that was dip dyed hot pink, walked through the art gallery during the
middle of the first writer’s reading with the world’s loudest and squeakiest
shoes on.
FRIDAY 14TH >3
- 12:00 pm-1:00 pm // ISTC - Sustainable Seminar Series - The Realities of Energy in Illinois and Beyond “It’s much more interesting than you think.” (Free) // Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820 // JILL
- 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm // Roundtable Discussion: Understanding the Ukrainian Maidan: Between Russia and the EU // Room 126, GSLIS Building, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign // MAGGIE
- 2:00 pm // Dr. Dustin Allred - Urban governance and the sustainability fix: Can voluntary regional planning create more sustainable cities? // 241 Everitt Laboratory // KELLY
- 7:00 pm// A Night of Blues // Illini Union Courtyard Café // $5 admission // KELLY
- 7:30pm // SINFONIA DA CAMERA: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE // Krannert // $5-$34 // CATE
SATURDAY, 15TH
- 2:00 pm// Tea Ceremony // Japan House 2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL // $8 per person // recurring. this event does not qualify for ART students! but please go anyway!
- 5:00 PM // Hobbico E-Fest Indoor Electric Airplane Festival // University of Illinois Armory, 505 E. Armory // ALEX
Roshni:
hobbico, There were so many
different types/sizes of planes in the room and it was so entertaining to watch
the variety of planes flying so high in the room
SUNDAY, 16TH
Feb 16-20 // Lucky Dragons // Allen Hall // SEAN
Feb 13-23 // 7:30pm // Wait Until Dark // Parkland Theater // SEAN
Seano: wait until dark Now its unclear how long the body
was dead before Suzie walked by it, but for a character who overcomes by help
of a heightened dependency on sense of smell, she really should have noticed
that corpse I think. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/metxv1kt6651f6l/A-FhG4nFWE
- 2:00 pm // PLANning For Pollinators // Museum Education Center, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, 950 N Lombard // ALEX
Corie: pollinators.
I understood the bees are becoming extinct and it was our fault, but I
didn't realize how it was our fault. It was interesting to hear the different
types of flowers we need to create pollination for the bees, and other insects,
to survive
Alex: Other than
the occasional horrific flash back from my Horticulture course last year, I
really enjoyed this lecture. I was reminded of my old fascination, and
compelled to plant some milkweed when it warms up.
xoxo
ReplyDeletefeb. 13 // 11:00 am- 12:00 pm // Teaching Undergraduate Students How to Read Academic Articles in the Social Sciences (registration required) // 428 Armory
ReplyDeleteReading and understanding academic articles is a key component of many social science undergraduate classes. However, many undergraduates have never read an academic article before, and may only have a rudimentary understanding of how to engage with academic material. This workshop focuses on introducing undergraduates to academic articles for the first time, providing them with tools for success for their present and their future.
This workshop is part of the TA-to-TA workshop series, presented by one of CITL's Graduate Affiliates. You may attend one, many, or all in this series.
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feb. 14 // 12:00 pm-1:00 pm // ISTC - Sustainable Seminar Series - The Realities of Energy in Illinois and Beyond “It’s much more interesting than you think.” (Free) // Illinois Sustainable Technology Center, One E. Hazelwood Dr., Champaign, IL 61820
ReplyDeleteEnergy is used by everyone in the state of Illinois – we all rely on some form of energy or another as we live, work and play in a 21st century society. However, where does this energy come from? What are the challenges and opportunities associated with energy development and transportation? Are renewable energies really the answer? What’s next? Tom Wolf, the executive director of the Chamber’s Energy Council will give a high-level overview of energy issues in Illinois in an effort to ensure policy decisions are based on realty and not fantasy.
What do Illinois businesses think about hydraulic fracturing, energy conservation, climate change or exporting oil? This presentation will provide some insights as to the priorities for Illinois businesses when it comes to energy and where it might lead us in the coming years. Plus, it includes references to Princess Leia, Whack-a-Mole, and the 80’s rock icon, Meatloaf (Google him) – so it can’t be all bad, right?
If you cannot attend the event at ISTC you may view the webinar live by registering at https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/715828607. The webinar will also be archived on our website www.istc.illinois.edu for later viewing.
I attempted to go to this event. Upon arriving I had asked the woman at the front desk what room the seminar was being held in and she had informed me that the event was schedule for March 7th instead.
Deletefeb. 13 // 3:00 -3:50 pm //Managing Your Copyrights: Retain the Rights Important to You (Free) // Main Library 314. Take the north stairwell (Armory and Wright Street entrance) to the 3rd floor of the Main Library and make a left at the top of the stairs CHRIS
ReplyDelete(***useful for art students looking to protect their intellectual property***)
Description:
As scholars and researchers, we all create work in which we hold the copyright. When we publish that work, we often are asked to assign that copyright to the publisher. In some cases, this may mean you may lose the right to reuse your work or to make it available to colleagues or on the web. In this workshop, you will learn what rights you hold, how to read copyright transfer and license agreements, and how to approach retaining the rights most important to you.
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Feb 12// 4:00 pm// Sex Machine: Asian Women in the U.S. Cold War Imaginary// Asian American Cultural Center, 1210 W Nevada, Urbana CHRIS
ReplyDeleteDescription: Long Bui’s presentation will examine the construction and representation of Asian women as human sex machines in U.S. media culture. While much of the scholarly research on Asians and Asian Americans have focused on immigration, citizenship or labor, Dr. Bui’s research looks through gendered ideas of machinery to examine the techno-Orientalist discourses that have shaped notions about Asian women as technological beings separate from normative ideas of humanity. Long is teaching “AAS 100: Introduction to Asian American Studies” this spring semester 2014.
Long Bui received his Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, San Diego. He is currently a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Asian American Studies. In his teaching and scholarship, Bui explores the intersections of race, visual media culture, politics and history. Besides his work as a visual artist and poet, he has published academic research examining ideas of race, gender and sexuality on television and film.
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Feb 12 // 3:00 pm // No. 44 Society Meeting: Conservation and Care of Rare Materials Talk // The Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 346 Main Library, 1408 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana // ANNE
ReplyDeleteHenry Hébert, the Rare Book Conservator at the University of Illinois Library will talk about conservation and care of rare materials. Winners of the 2013 Fall Semester Fletcher and Baldwin Essay contests will also be announced.
No cost or registration required!
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I've actually been to the rare books library before and it was actually really cool! They even let us bring our phones to take pictures (as long as the flashes were off.) I highly reccomend visiting this library before you graduate, it's a once in a life time type of experience.
Feb 13 // 12:00 pm // Lecture Series: The land above, within, and below: Territorial rights and the evolving complexity of landscapes in the Amazon // 101 ISB, 910 S. Fifht Street, Champaign IL // ANNE
ReplyDeleteLecture Series: The land above, within, and below: Territorial rights and the evolving complexity of landscapes in the Amazon
Speaker: Eduardo Brondizio, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Adjunct Professor, School of Public and Environmental Affairs (SPEA) and Department of Geography Indiana University Bloomington
No cost! No registration!
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Feb 11// 7:00 pm// AsiaLENS Screening of "Mulberry Child" // 428 Armory // BRIGITTA
ReplyDeleteSpeaker: Jian Ping and Lisa Xia
Description: Mulberry Child A film by Susan Morgan Cooper. Based on the book by Jian Ping. 2011. 85 minutes. In English. Published in 2009, Jian Ping’s memoir Mulberry Child tells the history of the Mao’s Cultural Revolution through personal stories principally written for her American raised daughter to understand the struggles and sacrifices her family made in order to survive persecution faced in China. In the 2011 film by Susan Morgan Cooper, reenacted personal history and stock footage are combined to retrace the Cultural Revolution and its devastating effects on Jian Ping’s family, while current day footage of mother and daughter in the United States illustrate a tenuous relationship resulting from their cultural divide.
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So I first would like to apologize to all who attempted to go see this at the armory...apparently it was at the Spurlock Museum where they had the 3pm showing as well! I double checked before I had posted so I'm not sure if it had changed or I just can't read...but sorry about that.
DeleteAnyways; there was a viewing of this documentary at the Spurlock Museum in a spacious auditorium with a large screen. Quite a few people filled the seats. The main woman in the film talked a bit about it before hand and her daughter was there as well. It was a detailed insight of Jian's time as a child growing up in communist China and the hardships her family went through, especially her parents who were held under captivity for the belief that they were suspected capitalists. She remarked on how her upbringing affected how she herself brought up her daughter; the high expectations she held and the lack of emotion she usually showed. This is because she tried to be strong like the mulberry trees she used to climb as a child.
I was shocked to hear Jian's daughter say she felt as though she was a guest at her own parent's home because of her very different views being brought up in the US. It was clear this hurt her mother, who obviously loves her very much. This is why she wrote the Mulberry Child for her daughter; to try and explain why she behaves and believes the way she does. The way in which Jian's parents were treated also came as a shock, but it was a relief to see that they were all reunited eventually.
It was a very eye-opening documentary to see what happened on a more personal note from someone who lived during the Communist China revolution. I have a friend from home who is brought up in a very similar fashion from parents who also lived during this period and moved to the US to give her a better life. They are very proud of her but always expect the best; nothing but president of a club, nothing but 100%. It must be a hard way to grow up as a child under all that pressure but she has told me it has made her a stronger person.
For my event this week, I attended the screening of Mulberry Child. Maggie and I went to this event together and thank goodness, because we had originally also thought that this event was held in the Armory and we quickly found out otherwise. We drove across campus to the Spurlock Museum and we arrived just as the movie had begun. I had never been in the Spurlock Museum prior to this event so it was neat to experience another new place on campus.
DeleteThe movie was about a mother, Jian, and her daughter Lisa and their relationship. The movie was quite fascinating. Throughout the film, Jian had explained how she had grown up in China during the Chinese Revolution and the struggles/hardships that her and her family had been put through. It was really shocking/upsetting to watch a family be torn apart and split. Hearing about the situation from Jian made it interesting because it wasn’t just like any regular history film, we got to learn from someone who had actually lived through it. The one part that stood out to me the most during the film was that Jian and her family never expressed any emotion. Anyone who watched this film would have known that these individuals were very upset and that their life was awful but there was no emotion shown throughout the film.
Lisa, the daughter, had grown up in America and she had several privileges that her mother had never experienced. The struggle between Jian and Lisa was that Lisa had grown up in Naperville (where I am from) and she had most likely never had to deal with any type of similar struggle that her mom had to deal with as she was growing up. The two didn’t see eye to eye for several years, as the film ended Lisa had started to begin to grasp her family’s past and her mother, Lisa, and her became much closer.
As the film ended, Lisa and Jian had walked out onto the stage. Maggie and I were shocked because we didn’t know that they were going to be apart of the lecture. It was really neat getting to see them and have them talk about the film together. I was happily surprised and glad that I attended this event.
http://tinypic.com/r/17c08g/8 Maggie and I
http://tinypic.com/r/2eofjfl/8 Jian and her daughter, Lisa
This week, Anne and I attended the screening of Mulberry Child at the Spurlock Museum on campus. This was the second time I had been in the Spurlock Museum, but the first time I had been in the auditorium. It was gorgeous!
DeleteMulberry Child focused on three generations of women growing up in China and the United States. Jian, the main character, told her story of growing up in China, then moving to the United States and raising her daughter Lisa. The Movie discusses the differences and challenges faced by the women in the story. Lisa and her mother seemed to have different opinions on the appropriate way to grow up as a woman. Jian believed Lisa should have had a similar childhood to hers, but because Lisa grew up in the Unites States, and not China like her mother, this caused conflicts between them. Jian told stories about her family and the obstacles they faced while living in China. One very interesting topic discussed in the movie was the idea of Chinese women binding their feet. I had heard of this before, but never witnessed it before. In the film, Jian’s mother shows her feet after being bound for several years. This was very interesting for me to actually see and not just hear about. After the film was shown, Jian and Lisa came to the front of the auditorium, which I was not expecting at all. They did a small Q & A segment with the audience, which I thought was really nice and personable of them. Lisa is currently 28 and seems to have a very positive relationship with her mother. Seeing this movie tells me that no matter where you grow up, girls will always butt heads with their mother while they’re growing up. Just like I did with my mother! Overall, this was a great event, and I am glad Anne and I were able to make it.
Brigitta and myself traveled to see the documentary Mulberry Child. Originally the event was scheduled to be at the Armory. I have never had a class in the Armory before and I quickly found out that the building was extremely confusing to navigate. Finally, after some help from a nice gentlemen we found room 428. The room was locked with no one to be found. We waited a few minutes to see if anyone was going to show. Eventually we figured out that the event location had been switched to the Spurlock Museum in Urbana. We jumped in the car and reached the screening on time.
DeleteThe event was held in a large auditorium located within the museum. The crowd consisted of mostly middle-aged adults. There were over fifty people. Two women, mother and daughter, presented the documentary. They gave a small background of the film. Then the lights dimmed and the screening started.
The documentary was about the mother, Jian, trying to explain to her daughter, Lisa, the way she is, and how growing up in Communist China has shaped her. The documentary was a combination of the mother and daughter in their present lives and reenactments of stories from the past. I could not imagine experiencing half of what Jian went through at such a young age. Living through a time like Communist China would force children to grow up at such a young age. It made me value my childhood.
Like everyone who has already commented, I too visited the armory first, only to discover the film's relocation to Spurlock. Being on foot, I arrived a minute or too late and I missed the introduction to the film. Luckily, I got there right as the film started.
DeleteWe meet Jian Ping and her daughter Lisa in the film through a combination or real-life footage and reenactments. Lisa, being fairly Americanized, doesn't necessarily see eye to eye with her very traditional mother, who would like her to visit more often. The two take a trip to China to learn more about each other, and more importantly to show Lisa how communist China shaped Jian Ping into the women she is. We see first hand how families and tradition had been torn apart under the Mao regime. It was an extremely difficult time to grow up in China. Lisa had never felt such struggles growing up in the states, and this created the disconnect between her and her mother. They had different societal views on how people should interact with one another.
I thought overall the film was very well put together, and quite compelling. My only complaint was that at times it was a bit hard to distinguish the real footage from the reenactments, but I really enjoyed the film.
Feb 12 // 12:00 pm// History Salon: Noah Lenstra // 341 LIS Building // BRIGITTA
ReplyDeleteDescription: To be a genealogist, to do genealogy, requires sources of information.
These sources emerge as part of ever-evolving information infrastructures. This paper analyzes how local genealogists organized genealogical services and collections in a public library archives in Urbana, Illinois. These local practices both shaped and reflected the emergence of a national, and even international, genealogical information infrastructure between the years of 1958 and 1978. By analyzing these local information practices in their historical context I offer new perspective on how and why genealogical research became accessible and appealing to many Americans of diverse class and ethnic backgrounds in the second half of the twentieth century. In addition, by foregrounding how amateur genealogists took control of the library's archives space for their own purposes, this paper considers how library users shape libraries, and information infrastructures more generally.
The History Salon is a forum for the exchange of ideas about the history of books, libraries, and information. Activities are free and open to the public. For more information and abstracts of past events, visit the History Salon website.
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Feb 12 // 3:30 pm// "Playin’ It Safe": Reframing the Sexual Lives of Latina Youth // 223 Gregory Hall // Puja
ReplyDeleteGenerally, studies that have considered the sexual experiences of Latina girls have approached their sexuality as a "problem," and ignored or marginalized their sexual agency. This perspective on Latina youth tends to obscure other dimensions of their sexual lives, such as the complex interplay of race/ethnicity, gender and sexuality in their social worlds. In this talk, Prof. Garcia will draw on her qualitative research among second-generation Latina girls in Chicago ("Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself: Latina Girls and Sexual Identity" [New York University Press, 2012]) to show how focusing on Latina girls’ sexual agency can provide additional insight into their sexual practices and meaning-making, particularly in relation to safe sex.
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Feb 15 // 2:00 pm// Tea Ceremony // Japan House 2000 S. Lincoln Avenue, Urbana, IL // $8 per person // KELLY
ReplyDeleteReservations are required. To reserve in advance, please call 217-244-9934 with a credit card number to hold your reservation. The fee is $8 per person. A tea ceremony takes approximately an hour. Ages 4 - 100; handicap accessible
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Japan house is part of the School of Art and Design, thus will not qualify as a posting or event for art students. non-art students will receive credit for attending and responding.
Deletethis is also an ongoing event, and, as has been posted earlier, will no longer count as an excavation posting for ANYONE.
That being said, tea ceremony is wonderful and if you have never been, you should go!
Feb 14 // 2:00 pm// Dr. Dustin Allred - Urban governance and the sustainability fix: Can voluntary regional planning create more sustainable cities? // 241 Everitt Laboratory // KELLY
ReplyDeleteRegional or metropolitan scale planning in a framework of voluntary governance has been portrayed as a way to address the fragmented development priorities of local jurisdictions in pursuit of more sustainable development outcomes. The case of the Sacramento region’s Blueprint has been identified as an exemplar of this ‘New Regionalism’ but we know relatively little about how comprehensive regional land use plans like Blueprint influence the development priorities of local jurisdictions as they contend with evolving urban economy-environment relations. This study uses Blueprint to investigate how this ‘New Regionalism’ has played out over time and whether or not it has lived up to its stated promise of achieving more sustainable patterns of regional development through collaborative and cooperative approaches to regional planning. More than simply a governance innovation matching policy coordination to the scale at which labor markets, commute sheds, and housing markets operate, this “New Regionalism” raises questions about the embrace of a neoliberal civic regionalism vulnerable to capture by special interests and civic elites, and focused one-sidedly on market based solutions. This talk contemplates the significance these shifts in urban governance and their meaning for how cities and regions plan for sustainable futures.
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Feb 14 // 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm // Roundtable Discussion: Understanding the Ukrainian Maidan: Between Russia and the EU // Room 126, GSLIS Building, 501 E. Daniel St., Champaign // MAGGIE
ReplyDeleteSpeaker
Kostas Kourtikakis (Political Science)
Carol Leff (Political Science)
Oleksandra Wallo (Slavic)
On November 2013, Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich refused to sign the European Union Assocation Agreement, after years of negotiation. As a result, chaos and protests flared up on the capital city Kiev’s main square, which the locals call Maidan. Since the Orange Revolution of 2004, the Maidan has symbolized freedom. A roundtable discussion, featuring University of Illinois experts on Ukraine, will discuss the country’s current events, the implications of the ongoing political protests, and the enduring symbol of the Maidan.
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Feb 12 // 4:00 pm // Nutritional Sciences 500 Seminar with Kirk Erickson // 180 Bevier Hall // MAGGIE
ReplyDeleteKirk Erickson, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Pittsburgh "Exercise, obesity, and brain function throughout the lifespan" Mini-Theme: Diet and Cancer: Prevention versus Intervention
Sponsored by Division of Nutritional Sciences
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Feb 12 // 6:00 pm // Movie Evening: "Never on Sunday" (Pote ten Kyriake, in Greek)// Lucy Ellis Lounge (room 1080), Foreign Language Building // PUJA
ReplyDeleteSummary: (Black-and-white film) Illia is Piraeus's most popular person: an energetic prostitute, full of life and good humor. Every day, she swims at the pier, entertaining the dock hands. Sundays she has an open house with food, drink and song. Homer Thrace, an amateur philosopher from Middletown, Conn., arrives in town to find out why Greece has fallen from ancient greatness. He decides Illia is a symbol of that fall, so he sets out to study and to save her. Unknown to Illia, he gets the money for the books and all else he gives her from Mr. No Face, the local vice boss who wants Illia retired because her independence gives other whores ideas. Whose spirit is stronger: Homer's classical ideal or Illia's?
Cast:Melina Merkouri; Jules Dassin; Dimitris Papamichael; Allexis Tolomor
Melina Mercouri was the Grand Prize for the Best Performance at the Cannes International Film Festival 1960
Film in English
Free pizza and beverages will be served
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Feb 14 // 7:00 pm// A Night of Blues // Illini Union Courtyard Café // $5 admission // KELLY
ReplyDeleteA Night of Blues features special guest: Susan Williams Band. Dance instruction begins at 7pm and the open dance starts at 8pm. $5 admission fee.
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ReplyDeleteFeb 11 // 3:45 // Astronomy Colloquium: "Using Results from Research on Undergraduate Learning in Cosmology to Build an Interactive Student-Centered Curriculum" // Kim Coble // Astronomy 134 // LINDSEY
ReplyDeletePowerful new observations and advances in computation and visualization have led to a revolution in our understanding of the structure, composition, and evolution of the universe. These gains have been vast, but their impact on education has been limited. Determining the range and frequency of “alternative conceptions” is an important first step to improving instructional effectiveness. Through analysis of pre-instructional open-ended surveys (N ~ 1250), follow-up interviews, and other assessments, our research group has been classifying students’ ideas about concepts important to modern cosmology, including the distances, structure, composition, age, expansion, and evolution of the universe. Informed by our research on student learning, we have created a series of web-based cosmology learning modules in which students master the scientific concepts and reasoning processes that lead to our current understanding of the universe, through interactive tasks, prediction and reflection, experimentation, and model building. This curriculum will fill the need for research-based educational resources in the rapidly changing field of cosmology while serving as a model for transforming introductory courses from primarily lecture- and book-based to a more engaging format.
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ReplyDeleteFeb 13 // Get $avvy Financial Wellness Webinar Series: Love Your Loan - Student Loan Repayment // 1:00-2:00 // UI Extension Financial Wellness Program // LINDSEY
ReplyDeleteFeed your finances with what you learn from this FREE webinar series. Get $avvy – Grow Your Green $tuff is aimed to inform, educate, and empower you about important financial topics. For more information or to register go to http://goo.gl/SsYqX
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Feb 12 (rescheduled) // 6-7 PM // Champaign-Urbana Design Organization presents “Meet the Pros” talk series feat. filmmakers Chris & Anne Lukeman // Buvons Wine Bar, 203 N Vine, Urbana IL // BRIAN
ReplyDeleteThe landscape of professional video production is changing. Shots in Hollywood blockbusters and Superbowl commercials are being filmed with equipment that fits in the palm of your hand and costs less than $1,000.
At the same time, community initiatives like the K-12 student "Pens to Lens" screenwriting competition are making way for a dramatic increase in the already impressive local film production scene.
Chris and Anne Lukeman will speak about these trends, and how they affect all aspects of advertising, marketing, and the future of video. The Lukemans have been active filmmakers and video producers in the community for the past nine years.
The Lukeman Filmography
From directing the 2008 horror-comedy-musical feature film "The University of Illinois vs. A Mummy," to releasing a sci-fi web series "Once Upon a Time in the 1970s," to having spec commercials purchased by national brands like Dell Computers and CVS Pharmacy, the Lukemans have created content at almost all levels of production.
Their comedy short films have screened on VH1, Comedy Central, The Big Ten Network, PBS affiliates, and national film festival programs, while receiving Mid America Emmy, Hugo Television Award, and National Student Television Award recognition.
From UIUC to Film Society
The Lukemans work for the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where Chris manages the local access television channel, UI-7, and they both produce video for UIUC Public Affairs that brings the Illinois brand to a national market.
Chris and Anne are founding board members of the Champaign-Urbana Film Society, an organization dedicated to supporting film production and film appreciation in the community. One of CUFS's main initiatives is the "Pens to Lens" student screenwriting competition.
"Pens to Lens" is a K-12 contest that invites local students to submit short screenplays. Local filmmakers turn the screenplays into films, and local designers from CUDO turn them into movie posters.
More information about the 2014 contest can be found at www.PensToLens.com
More information on Chris and Anne's narrative comedy/horror/sci-fi films can be found at
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www.killvampirelincoln.com
Feb 12 // 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm // 2013-14 International Careers Workshop Series: International Careers in Business, Government and NGOs //Lincoln Hall 1000, 702 South Wright St., Urbana, IL // BRIAN
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Center for African Studies (CAS); Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies (CEAPS); Center for Global Studies (CGS); Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER); Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS); Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (CSAMES); European Union Center (EUC); Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC)
Registration: Registration
Event type: Workshop
Looking to find an international career that uses your global skills and language abilities? During this workshop, you will learn practical advice on how to articulate your experiences and skills, where you can best find international careers (in business, non-profits, and government), and how you can translate your skills upon your return. Come prepared to discuss your experiences and learn from an expert who has multiple experiences working abroad. This workshop will be great preparation for your personal job/internship search.
AGENDA
6:30-7:15 pm– INTERNSHIP/JOB SEARCH FOR INTERNATIONAL CAREERS. Victoria Spring, The Career Center
• How to think about your value to an organization
• How to best present yourself for an international career
• Where to find international jobs and internships in business, non-profit, and government
7:15-8:00 pm– BENEFITS OF WORKING ABROAD AND HOW TO SEARCH FOR THE RIGHT INTERNATIONAL CAREER. Alissa Harvey, Campus Peace Corps Representative
• Personal background in international development and international service work
• Benefits of interning or working abroad
• Searching for the right international career
CAS Brown Bag Lecture: "From Revolution to Reform: Understanding the 1980 Regime in Zimbabwe"
ReplyDeleteSpeaker: Vasabjit Banerjee
Date: Feb 12, 2014
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: 101 International Studies Building; 910 S. Fifth St., Champaign
Cost: Free and open to the public.
Sponsor: Center for African Studies
Contact: Terri Gitler
E-Mail: tgitler@illinois.edu
Phone: (217) 265-5016
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Feb 10 // 6:00 - 8:00PM // Community Gamelan // School of Music, Room 1188, 1114 W. Nevada Street, Urbana (nearest entrance on Oregon Street) // CORIE
ReplyDeleteThe Robert E. Brown Center for World Music offers community members the opportunity to learn and play traditional Balinese Gamelan music under the direction of I Ketut Gede Asnawa, a master gamelan musician and composer at the University of Illinois. A gamelan is an orchestra consisting mainly of keyed metallophones, gongs, and drums, often functioning as accompaniment to dance, dramas, and other Balinese performance arts. As part of the center’s outreach programming, these Monday evening classes from 6pm to 8pm are open to all, free of charge, with no prior experience required. No credit is offered and registration is not needed for these classes. However, participants join the ensemble with an understanding that members need to attend regularly in order to enjoy the responsibility of making music in an orchestra where everyone depends on the contribution of every player.
Feb 12 // 7:30PM // 15th Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert // Krannert Center, Foellinger Great Hall // CORIE
ReplyDeleteDedicated to education, appreciation, and support for piano works, the 21st Century Piano Commission funds a competition each year for a composition featuring the keyboard instrument. This year’s winners are composer Ashley Fu-Tsun Wang and pianist Ya-Wen Wang.
After the ‘Illini Showcase with Esteban Gast’ and ‘Phoenix Improv Comedy Show’, I’m beginning to realize that I really enjoy performance-based events. So, in line with that, for this week I attended the ‘15th Annual 21st Century Piano Commission Award Concert’ at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. Unsure of how popular the show would be, I ordered my $4 ticket online and picked it up at will call before the show. That ended up be unnecessary because the theater wasn’t at all full, but Krannert has a really nice set-up online for ordering tickets and I would definitely recommend it to ensure a smooth process.
DeleteAlthough I’m an art student and this is my fourth semester at UIUC, I’ve never actually stepped foot inside the Krannert Center. First off, the building is gorgeous. The performance itself was located in Foellinger Great Hall, which is an absolutely beautiful space. It was warm and grand and I really enjoyed my time there.
The performance itself was not at all what I was expecting. When I think of the piano, I think soft and complex, like classical music. (Granted, I’ve never played an instrument and know nothing about playing or writing music.) With that being said, the music was totally different. I’m not exactly sure how to describe it other than it sounded very funky and modern. Totally non-traditional. I recorded a minute of one of the performances to demonstrate what I mean.
Overall, I thought the show was really cool. Again I got to experience something I’ve never experienced before, which is always a good thing. I’m not sure if I was able to appreciate the music as much as someone who understands it better would have, but I did appreciate the architecture of the space and the clear passion of those who performed.
feb 15th // 5:00 PM // Hobbico E-Fest Indoor Electric Airplane Festival // University of Illinois Armory, 505 E. Armory // ALEX
ReplyDeleteGet ready for the Hobbico Electric Indoor Airplane Event for 2014 – E-Fest! The event will be held February 15th and 16th, 2014 at the University of Illinois Armory, 505 E. Armory, Champaign, Illinois. The event features open flying by some of the top R/C pilots in the U.S. plus a Make-It-Take-It table for kids. Vendors will be on the show floor selling product every day and concessions are available. Admission is only $5.00 with kids 12 and under – FREE. Saturday after 5:00 pm, the events begin with the indoor scale contest, The Gauntlet, combat and the popular Black Out Night Fly. Interesting and informative seminars are held all day Saturday. Please visit our website: http://www.hobbico-efest.com/ for details. We look forward to seeing you there!
This week, I attended the hobbico electric indoor plane event in the track and field room of the armory. As I walked in, the first thing I noticed were the multiple sized electric planes flying from one end of the room to the other. There were many little kids and parents who attended with their own homemade or bought planes. As I was walking around the track observing the stalls and open flying area, I noticed that the majority of the population were families more than students. It was interesting to see how a large number of kids (5-8 yrs) were involved in the events and stalls because I was expecting an older audience or engineering students. It almost seemed like an actual (real scale) plane show because there were stands selling inner parts and outer detailed parts for users. There were interesting demonstrations and games that kids were able to interact with as well. The stall I was intrigued by was the stall that included handmade scaled planes that were made to replicate actual company planes such as American Airlines' aircraft. The body was made of foam and the logo/branding of the plane was printed, cut and glued onto the body. There were so many different types/sizes of planes in the room and it was so entertaining to watch the variety of planes flying so high in the room. I was truly amazed by the craftsmanship and the different heights these planes were capable of flying. I loved seeing the excitement and passion many kids had for their electric planes because it reminded me of my childhood again.
Deletefeb 13th // 6:00 PM // Opening Reception - Outlandish Adventures: Works by Benjie Heu // Parkland Art Gallery // ALEX
ReplyDeleteStarting Feb. 10, Parkland Art Gallery will host a solo exhibition of works by Benjie Heu, professor of ceramics at Southeast Missouri State University. An artist reception takes place from 6 to 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 13 with a gallery talk by Heu at 7 p.m. and music by the Parkland College Guitar Ensemble. The artist will provide an additional lecture in Parkland’s S building on Thursday, Feb. 13 at 11 am. Parkland Art Gallery’s spring hours are Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m.; Friday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m.; and Saturday, noon–2 p.m. The gallery will be closed on March 28 and 29 for Parkland’s spring holiday. To find the gallery when classes are in session, we suggest using the M6 parking lot on the north corner of the campus. Enter through any door and follow the ramps uphill to the highest point of the first floor, where the gallery is located. The gallery windows overlook the outdoor fountain area. This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency. Parkland is a section 504/ADA-compliant institution. For accommodation, call 217/351-2505.
reoccurring feb 12th // 6 pm and 7:30 pm // Reiki Healing Circle // Beads N Botanicals117 North Broadway Ave, Urbana // ALEX
ReplyDeletei love this place. one of the ladies there is psychic and always says the coolest shit to me when i walk in..
Reiki Healing Circle. Open to all. You do not have to have Reiki certification to participate in this energetic healing circle. All participants give and receive healing energy. A wonderful way to relax and de-stress. Cost: $10.
Please arrive at least five minutes before OR call 217-365-9355 if you are running a little late so we can hold the door open for you!
Second Wednesday of the month, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
2/11/14// 3:00 p.m.// Mulberry Child: Bridging a Cultural Divide from Memoir to Film// Spurlock Museum, Knight Auditorium, 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana, IL// JOEY
ReplyDeleteJian Ping is the author of Mulberry Child: A Memoir of China a coming-of-age tale of her life as a the daughter of a high-ranking Chinese government official who comes to America. Her book was eventually adapted into an award-winning film, which she helped produce. She will be speaking about her process of creation from memoir to film.
FREE
DeleteFeb 14// SINFONIA DA CAMERA: FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE // 7:30pm // Krannert // $5-$34 // Cate
ReplyDelete"Prokofiev’s exquisite Symphony No. 1 pays homage to Mozart and Haydn, while the brilliant Firebird Suite tells of the magical quest of Prince Ivan to free his imprisoned love. Sinfonia is joined by the acclaimed Andrés Cárdenes for Tchaikovsky’s challenging Concerto in D for Violin and Orchestra."
2/10/14//4-5 p.m.// LINGUISTICS - Seminar Series talk by Prof. Kara Federmeier, U of I Psychology: "Time for Meaning: What electrophysiology reveals about how the brain makes sense of the world"// Lucy Ellis Lounge, 1080 Foreign Languages Building// JOEY
ReplyDeleteAbstract: How does the human brain so rapidly and reliably link complex perceptual stimuli, such as words, to the information stored in long-term memory that constitutes the "meaning" of those words? Electrophysiological data suggest that meaning is accessed through a stimulus-elicited, temporally-delimited process that binds neural activity across a distributed, multimodal brain network. In contrast to long-standing views that treat the recognition of words (and other meaningful stimuli) as occurring primarily through feed-forward processing that it relatively impervious to context, our work has shown that the language comprehension system uses context information to predict semantic and even perceptual features of likely upcoming words. The fact that some information may be available to the brain even before the word actually appears is likely an important part of what allows meaning processing to be as fast and effective as it usually is. However, although prediction seems important for comprehension, it also appears susceptible to age-related deterioration and can be associated with processing costs. Intriguingly, our research suggests that the brain might use both predictive and more "bottom-up" processing strategies in parallel, distributed across the left and right cerebral hemispheres. In particular, we have shown that whereas the right hemisphere processes language inputs in a feedforward manner, the left hemisphere is more likely to generate predictions, perhaps because comprehension mechanisms are integrated with language production mechanisms only in the left hemisphere, which is strongly dominant for speech. Overall, our research has revealed that there is a "time for meaning".
FREE
DeleteFeb 13 // VOICE Reading Series // 7:30pm // KAM Gelvin Noel Gallery // $3 donation suggested // Cate
ReplyDeleteThe VOICE Reading Series showcases readings by fiction writers and poets in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Creative Writing MFA program.
So I kind of can’t write about this without sounding like an asshole, but hopefully you get my point.
DeleteWriting and speaking are two different things, and being good at one most definitely does not guarantee being good at the other. This is my most prominent impression of the VOICE Reading Series. But fortunately for the speakers, it is also true that being bad at one does not guarantee being bad at the other. Having said that, I was not exactly blown away by the performance (if that’s what it was?) given by the three readers at VOICE.
Often times, reading the script of a movie cannot quite do the piece of art the same justice as the movie itself could. My point is that the readers delivered their poems and short stories in a way that was detrimental to what I have no reason to believe wasn’t great work. They stood stationary behind a podium, faces down at their papers. They read through their writing as if they were reading lists, tediously ending each sentence with a little lift in their voice. Almost like a question? Or even as though they were skimming to proof read? You see?
Or, maybe you aren’t paying attention anymore. Unfortunately, that was my case for a gross majority of the event. I drifted in and out, not hearing the beginning, middle, and end of any one of the pieces read. That’s a bummer! I would have loved to have been drawn into a story. Instead, I shifted uncomfortably in my white, I-Robot-esque KAM chair as I surveyed the eyes in the room, asking myself, “Surely, surely! nobody here is able to appreciate this. Or wait, is my attention span so pathetic that I can’t even believe in other people’s attention spans?!”
The introductions on the other hand, those were amazing. Each reader was introduced by another person, and these were by far the most entertaining moments of the night. One introducer spoke hysterically of her first trip to yoga with the “Fucking yoga master!” reader. It was only when the reader came up and told us so that we learned the whole trip was itself fiction. To just come up with that? That is brilliant.
Another introducer described the “devilishly sharp” and “hellishly hot” equipment in the kitchen where the reader got him a job after he graduated with his “lucrative” English Literature degree. What diction! Each introduction was memorable, but I don’t think I could make even one comment, good or bad, about word choice on the actual stories and poems. That is because I don’t really feel I was told a story at all. Moreover, I really don’t just remember any of them.
But I really did take something away from the event. That is, that the purpose and the delivery of an idea are entirely contingent upon each other. It is so important to understand the nature of the medium you are working with, and to consider what it is that makes work in that medium effective. What makes a written story good won’t necessarily make a spoken story good. (Not that a great speaker can’t make a good written story just as good, if not better). What might have been riveting at my desk was utterly forgettable at the podium. Still, I am extremely glad to have learned this important distinction, and it is one that I will definitely keep in mind for future work.
I hope this wasn’t too rude or unconstructive, I guess I just felt like I had to liven myself up a little bit.
These voice reading were very nice for someone who had any connection to the readers/writers. They were briefly entertaining but I found myself zoning in and out of the entire show.
DeleteI definitely preferred the short stories to the poems… because for the most part I hate poetry.. and I always think “maybe this time, maybe this poem will break through to me..” NOPE NEVER.
The writers were very open, which is always admirable and the introductions were very entertaining... especially in comparison to the actual work/writing.
However, the most entertaining/interesting part for me was definitely when a very young punk looking student, with a five inch tall mohawk that was dip dyed hot pink, walked through the art gallery during the middle of the first writer’s reading with the world’s loudest and squeakiest shoes on. I’ve never wanted to laugh harder in my entire life. The entire situation was incredibly hilarious to me. Here we were, all sitting quiet and respectfully in organized rows, in a very clean, modern, open and organized art gallery, listening to someone speaking very softly and properly when a loud messy student very rudely (and hilariously) bulldozed right through literally not giving a single fuck about anything. It was awesome.. (I felt bad for the writer.. but honestly what did they expect setting up a reading in the middle of an open art museum…) I wish it had been a girl that walked through instead because that would have brought a whole new element to the guerilla girl exhibit that was just a room away.
Side note:
I also started the night by getting on the wrong bus and had a 20 minute long conversation with a 20 year old black girl from Chicago. Her name is Imani and she moved down here to study at parkland. She’s hoping to become a nurse that performs sonograms (and all that goes with it). She talked to me about school and her car being broke. She thought I was around 25 and laughed when I told her I was just about to turn 19. We ended up exchanging numbers. I think she is lonely and struggling. Makes me sad to think back on and I really wish her to best.
I know this has absolutely nothing to do with the readings.. but after a week of hell I definitely needed to see how pitiful my problems are.
Feb 10 // 12:00 pm // Dish It Up: Unfinished Business for the Constitution: The Equal Rights Amendment// Women's Resources Center // PUJA
ReplyDeleteAbby Twenter, Former Government Relations Assistant at NOW (National Organization of Women) will present – Unfinished Business for the Constitution: The Equal Rights Amendment. Enjoy a complimentary meal. Each Dish It Up program offers vegan and vegetarian food options. Should you require any additional accommodations (assistance with food and seating, large print programs, an ASL interpreter, visual/audio assistance, etc.), please contact us at your earliest convenience. Paid for by the Student Cultural Programming Fee.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345/31351176
I chose to focus on a different event, but since I attended this one too...here's some of my thoughts on it.
DeleteThe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) seemed like an interesting and important enough issue—it basically says that a person cannot be denied rights on account of sex. For whatever reason though, it still hasn’t been ratified. Our speaker mentioned that one of our amendments took some 200 odd years before it took effect—makes me wonder how slow the political world can be sometimes.
The presentation itself was fine, but I guess what bothered me was when a classmate from my Contemporary Women’s Issues class asked during Q&A why gender wasn’t really a part of the discussion. Especially for someone like her who is transgender, this was a very fair and necessary question. Unfortunately, the speaker didn’t really have a good answer to give in return, and there was just something sad and awkward about it all.
Feb 10 // 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm// Hot Topics | We Say No More: Feminism, Consent, and Dismantling Rape Culture // Women's Resources Center // PUJA
ReplyDeleteHot Topics Dialogues is a series hosted by the Women's Resources Center and the YWCA on campus. Hot Topics seeks to provide a space for dialogue on gender and other social identities and social justice--and occurs on Mondays 7-9pm. Refreshments will be provided. Event is free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Gender Action Network and the Champaign-Urbana Chapter of the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Should you require any additional accommodations (assistance with food and seating, large print programs, ASL interpreter, visual/audio assistance, etc.), please contact us at your earliest convenience.
http://illinois.edu/calendar/detail/2345?eventId=31072855&calMin=201402&cal=20140210&skinId=2292
Talk by Lisa Xia
ReplyDeleteDate
: February 11, 2014
Time
: 12:00 noon
Location
: Asian American Cultural Center
Discussion with
Jian
Ping and Lisa Xia
"
Mulberry Child
: Bridging a Cultural Divide from Memoir to Film"
Date
: February 11, 2014
Time
: 3:00 p.m.
Location
: Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana)
Film Screening
Date
: February 11, 2014
Time
: 7:00 p.m.
Location
: Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana)
About this event:
Special speaking engagements with filmmakers whose documentaries address the Cultural Revolution in China from distinctly different, personal views will enhance the Spring 2014 AsiaLENS film series presented by the Asian Educational Media Service, Spurlock Museum and Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.
A February 11th screening of the 2012 film Mulberry Child, inspired by Jian Ping’s memoir written for her American raised daughter Lisa Xia to better understand the struggles and sacrifices her family made to survive the Cultural Revolution, will be preceded by a 12pm talk by Lisa Xia in the Food for Thought program at the Asian American Cultural Center, and a 3pm discussion on the memoir to film process by Jian Ping and Lisa Xia at Spurlock Museum.
AsiaLENS screenings will include introductions and post-screening discussions by our guest speakers and are open to the general public, free of charge at the Spurlock Museum, located at 600 S. Gregory Street, Urbana. All films start at 7:00 p.m. Both Jian Ping and Lisa Xia will be present at the 7:00 p.m. film screening.
More information is available at http://www.aems.illinois.edu/events/asialens.htm
Originally I planned to write about the “Equal Rights Amendment” presentation at the Women’s Resources Center (which I attended), but it did not move me in the same way that the talk by Lisa Xia and her mother Jian Ping did.
DeleteThe Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) seemed like an interesting and important enough issue—it basically says that a person cannot be denied rights on account of sex. For whatever reason though, it still hasn’t been ratified. Our speaker mentioned that one of our amendments took some 200 odd years before it took effect—makes me wonder how slow the political world can be sometimes.
The presentation itself was fine, but I guess what bothered me was when a classmate from my Contemporary Women’s Issues class asked during Q&A why gender wasn’t really a part of the discussion. Especially for someone like her who is transgender, this was a very fair and necessary question. Unfortunately, the speaker didn’t really have a good answer to give in return, and there was just something sad and awkward about it all.
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By chance I ended up going to the Asian American Cultural Center’s Food for Thought program (I do admit that my primary motivation at first was the free meal part—I left satisfied). I went in mostly unaware of the topic, and assumed it was a book of some sort.
The first part of the presentation involved us viewing a film trailer for “Mulberry Child.” It took me a moment to realize that the two main female characters in it were the same people standing in the room with us, giving us the presentation. I was not expecting this twist, and that made me even more interested in what they had to say. In many ways, Lisa and Jian were like any other mother and daughter duo. They didn’t always see eye to eye on many things—especially in regards to cultural roots—but they care deeply about each other. Although their relationship has grown more fortified over the years, it wasn’t always like that.
Jian came to the United States after surviving China’s Cultural Revolution—a painful memory that surely still haunts her today. Her vivid experiences as a child became the basis for her memoir, Mulberry Child. However, it was not until Lisa began rejecting her Chinese heritage that Jian felt compelled to write her family’s history.
The dialogue that occurred made me think back to own experience as an Indian-American, and how recently it’s played a role in my photographic work as well. It makes me think of how my grandfather came to America many decades ago without his own family, back when letters were the only form of communication. It makes me think of how selfish I sounded all those years when I told my parents I didn’t want to go to India. Above all, it makes me think of how lucky I am.
The Department of Gender and Women's Studies and IPRH invite you to the
ReplyDeleteBody/Bodies Lecture Series
Susan Leigh Foster
(Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Culture/Dance and in the School of Theater, Film and Television, UCLA)
4:30 p.m.// "Performing Authenticity and the Labor of Dance"// Body/Bodies Lecture Series// Department of Gender and Women's Studies// Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum// Linda
Series presented by IPRH and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, with co-sponsorship by the Spurlock Museum.
A reception will follow the lecture.
This danced lecture interrogates the explicit body presented in performances of competition dance on television shows such as So You Think You Can Dance. I look specifically at how dance serves in these spectacles as guarantor of authenticity and of a rigid set of gendered identities. Invoking neo-Marxist theories of affective labor, I show how dancers on these programs enact a cycle of alienation and hyper-devotion to the practice of dance, one that replicates the endless drive to consume that marks our contemporary moment. By looking closely at the expressions of surprise, gratitude, and praise for others that the dancers must perform, I consider how the competition’s protocols re-produce the lack of distinction between motivated and unmotivated relationships that is pervasive in our culture.
About this speaker:
Susan Leigh Foster, choreographer and scholar, is Distinguished Professor in the Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance at UCLA. Her research areas include dance history and theory, choreographic analysis, and corporeality. She is the author of Reading Dancing: Bodies and Subjects in Contemporary American Dance (University of California Press, 1986), Choreography and Narrative: Ballet's Staging of Story and Desire (Indiana University Press, 1996), Dances That Describe Themselves: The Improvised Choreography of Richard Bull (Wesleyan University Press, 2002), and Choreographing Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance (Routledge, 2011). She is also editor of three anthologies: Choreographing History (University of Indiana Press, 1995), Corporealities (Routledge, 1996), and Worlding Dance (Palagrave, 2009).
This event is free and open to the public.
Feb 13-23 // 7:30pm // Wait Until Dark // Parkland Theater // SEAN
ReplyDeleteI'm attending the DH tonight.
http://visitchampaigncounty.org/calendar/date/wait-until-dark
Three conmen are about to meet their match. They have traced the location of a mysterious doll, they're searching for to the Greenwich Village apartment of Sam and his blind wife, Susy. Sam had been persuaded by a strange woman to transport the doll across border, not knowing what was sewn inside. When the woman is murdered the situation becomes more urgent. The conmen, through a cleverly constructed deception, convince Susy that the police have implicated Sam in the woman's murder, and the doll, which she believes is the key to his innocence, is evidence. She refuses to reveal its location, and with the help of a young neighbor, figures out she is the victim of a bizarre charade. A deadly game of cat and mouse ensues and Susy knows the only way to play fair is by her rules. Just how will this dark game end?
A Broadway hit, this masterfully constructed thriller moves from one moment of suspense to another as it builds toward an electrifying, breath-stopping final scene.
February 13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22 at 7:30pm
February 23 at 3pm
Adult- $14
Student and Senior- (55+)- $12
Part I
DeleteUnfortunately the only shows that are playing in the planetarium are repeats of the ones I’ve seen (or read the excavation reports and decided against attending). It’s really bumming me out because I wanted to focus this class on astronomy and ancient celestial mythology stuff, but they only open Staerkel up on the weekends, and for some reason they lack in quality programming. I’m thinking about getting out to one of those observatory open houses here on campus.
I went to Parkland anyways this week for opening night of Wait Until Dark. I may have mentioned this last year in one of my many dramatic arts excavations, but I was big theater/choir nerd for a large period of high school while I was discovering myself. I did musicals, plays, short dramas, improv, and madrigals. I’m not involved in that kind of performance art anymore, but obviously there was something about it that had a profound effect on me as a teenaged fellow. I had read this play in high school in a playwriting class and when we finished it at the end of the semester we watched the film adaptation, which made a year after the play premiered. But I ditched school the day we were going to watch the movie. Today was a day of reckoning so I checked it out at the library and watched it.
The play is a thriller that surrounds Suzie Hendrix, a woman recently made blind and adapting to “all this…dark brown.” Suzie gets caught up in a crazy ordeal with a doll discreetly filled with heroin that comes into her apartment after her professional photographer man friend (no shit) comes into possession of it by mistake. In an effort to reclaim the doll, 3 men elaborately deceive our blind protagonist and attempt to locate the doll. Throughout the first half of the play Suzie is portrayed to be kind of pathetic. In the film adaptation she’s played by Audrey Hepburn and the live performance I saw she was played by an attractive red-haired woman, so there’s an idea planted in the viewers head of the sexual stigma that pretty girls need help or need a man or whatever to get by. I only mention this because I think that notion is called attention to by later actions of Suzie contradicting those stigmas, and therefore a big theme in this play is the unsexualized (somewhat?) woman overcoming adversity from being underestimated. (http://mmimageslarge.moviemail-online.co.uk/waituntildark1.jpg) That being said I’m much more interested in the more active viewer role of projecting myself into the consciousness of this blind main character. The most interesting thing about this play to me is that the set, in both the live production and film is absolutely incredible. It emanates an economically decorated New York apartment in the 60s, but is kind of ironically formatted in a way I would consider hazardous to a blind person, mainly the front and only entrance to the apartment being at the top of a flight of stairs in the film and every set design of the live production. It’s an important part. Often Suzie is on the ground feeling around for things and the people around her are doing dubious things right in front of her, but she reveals periodically that she has been picking up on incredibly subtle oddities like hearing one of the men signaling to the van with the blinds but realizing it was winter and it got dark early and other puzzles she’s putting together. In the climax of the play she runs around smashing every lightbulb in the apartment except for one, her man friend’s darkroom lightbox, and sort of traps the bad guy in the darkness by splashing hypo in his face and killing the lights. Sadly that is really the only reason there’s a photographer in the plot, but I think there is a great philosophical kind of connection between the way Suzie feels around and exists in the darkness and has to rely on the slightest details to be the “world’s champion blind lady” and how a great photographer I think has to really be in sync with every detail of their image, but also historically has a very tactile relationship with those details the way Suzie navigates her home and the world.
Part II
DeleteI don’t know if I would recommend this particular live production of the show to anyone. It’s not too expensive but the acting isn’t amazing. I only say that because I know I could have done better myself and am by no means a Monday morning quarterback. However I would recommend the film adaptation. There are some beautiful shots and they’re made better by Hepburn who is both classically beautiful and a pretty solid actress. But I must finally point out one glaring flaw I notice. There’s a point where there’s a dead corpse in Suzie’s closet and she’s like an inch away from it, she actually brushes her hair against it, but she doesn’t notice the body or and smell. She even brings up shortly after that she was worried by the story on the news about the woman found dead, murdered on her block (in fact in her apartment). Now its unclear how long the body was dead before Suzie walked by it, but for a character who overcomes by help of a heightened dependency on sense of smell, she really should have noticed that corpse I think. Not noticing it is contradictory to the integrity of her character. Needs to be rewritten. 1.5 thumbs up.
Feb 16-20 // Lucky Dragons // Allen Hall // SEAN
ReplyDeleteOk I'm trying to get my hands on a schedule of events, having a hard time but I'll post it here (and next week) as soon as I get it. These guys came to Allen my freshman year and I really enjoyed them. The big fiber optic kinetic wire music maker thing was really cool. You'll see what I mean.
February 16, 2014 – February 20, 2014
Lucky Dragons is an ongoing collaboration between Los Angeles-based artists Sarah Rara and Luke Fischbeck. Active as a band since 2000, they are known for their participatory approach to making music; radically inclusive live shows; and playful, humanistic use of digital tools. Fischbeck and Rara have presented interactive performances and installations in a wide variety of contexts--including MOCA Los Angeles, The Smell, the Smithsonian's Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of the 2008 Whitney Biennial), The Kitchen and PS1 in New York, REDCAT and LACMA in Los Angeles, Frankfurt's Schirn Kunsthalle, ICA London, and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Lucky Dragons’ sister projects include sumi ink club, a weekly collaborative drawing society and glaciers of nice, a small press and internet community.
Hey Sean, did you get the details for this event yet?
DeleteI just looked into this, seems that it doesn't start until Monday the 17th
Deletefeb 16th // 2 pm // PLANning For Pollinators // Museum Education Center, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, 950 N Lombard // ALEX
ReplyDeleteGARDENING LECTURE SERIES - PLANTING FOR POLLINATORS
Museum Education Center, Lake of the Woods Forest Preserve, 950 N Lombard, Mahomet, 2 – 4 p.m.
Bees are just one species of pollinators that have a great impact on the environment. Lesley Deem, Director of the Pollinatarium, University of Illinois-Urbana, will present a program on protecting and planting to encourage native bees, wasps, butterflies, moths, flies and beetles so they can help with bountiful farm and garden harvests, maintain healthy plant communities, and provide food for other wildlife. FREE. For more info: (217) 586-2612 or kriopelle@ccfpd.org.
For this weeks event, Corie and I drove out to Lake of the Woods in Mahomet to sit in on Lesley Deem's lecture about planning your garden around pollinating insects, and their importance towards humans. Lesley is an entomologist at the University of Illinois and helps run the Pollinatarium in the South Farms. Corie and I were the youngest attenders (by far) and probably the least educated as well.. The lecture started off by identifying pollinating species such as honey bees, beetles, and butterflies. Lesley told us about the importance of these types of species, and how they need to thrive in order for us to thrive. She stated that about half of our food consumption is directly affected by the success of wild pollinating insects. The food supply for these species has dwindled since humans have expanded, clearing out natural prairie land for farm land and industrial growth. The lecture then focused on how us (as gardeners in a range of living situations) can help include "mainland islands" of plants and vegetation that can help pollinators exist. Currently, pollinators may have to travel many miles in between patches of suitable flowers for feeding. Up until this point, i was pretty interested in the lecture. I grew up with a fascination for bugs, and my parents always figured i would go into biology or entomology (that is, until i turned about 10). However, the crowd in this lecture room started asking ultra-specific questions about genus's of flowers that were "mold resistant" and "nutrient beneficial" to specific species of flies and ants, which is about when i checked out mentally. I tried to keep up, but their questions were so specific that i was hardly able to understand it as english. I benefited from the informational portion of this event much more than the Q & A portion, but thats all right. Other than the occasional horrific flash back from my Horticulture course last year, I really enjoyed this lecture. I was reminded of my old fascination, and compelled to plant some milkweed when it warms up.
DeleteAs Alex said, the two of us made the trip out to Mahomet for the PLANnting for Pollinators lecture. I honestly had no expectations of what we were doing for the day, but we ended up at a small but pretty forest preserve (of course we explored it with our cameras after the lecture). In the lecture we were the two random under 40 sitting in the back corner; while it seemed we didn't belong in the scene I learned a lot from Lesley Deem's expertise of feeding the plants. From past knowledge I understood the bees are becoming extinct and it was our fault, but I didn't realize how it was our fault. It was interesting to hear the different types of flowers we need to create pollination for the bees, and other insects, to survive. How we should plant closer together because 3 miles is a long way for them to travel, we should plant the same flower next to each other in clumps because bees memorize the pattern in the pollen. It was little facts that made it interesting and made me realize when my mom tells me to help plant and water throughout the year I shouldn't just do it because she asked but because every single household helps. My best friend has a bee farm at home, we use to make fun of her for jarring honey but I may just have to have a coffee date to discuss these bees more with her.
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