Come see ten of our graduating seniors present the research they’ve done this year for their Senior Capstone Projects!
When: Thur., April 19th, 5:30 – 8:30 pm
Where: 160 English Bldg
Come hungry–we’ll have lots of delicious food from Red Herring!
Category: Campus Lectures and Other Events
After accepting an invitation to speak at the annual L’Oréal executives conference in Paris next month, a University anthropology professor shared the message she plans to express to top executives of the global cosmetic producer with students.
Alma Gottlieb presented students with a preview of that speech Wednesday during a lecture at the Spurlock Auditorium, which about 100 students and faculty members attended.
At its Feb. 22 meeting, the University of Illinois Student Senate passed a resolution encouraging Facebook users to avoid posting racially insensitive material on a memes page associated with the school. The page administrators voluntarily removed the posts deemed offensive, but the debate continued in the Opinions section of the Daily Illini, a student newspaper. Few of the racially charged memes referred to African-Americans or Latinos; most referred to students of Asian heritage.
The memes controversy exemplifies the type of issues that are the focus of the American University Meets the Pacific Century Project – a social science research laboratory guided by U. of I. professors Nancy Abelmann (anthropology, Asian American studies, East Asian languages and cultures), Soo Ah Kwon (Asian American studies, human and community development), Tim F. Liao (sociology, statistics) and Adrienne Lo (anthropology). Started in the spring of 2010, the AUPC Project is hosting the first conference to address this topic on March 9-10 (Friday and Saturday), with speakers from colleges in the U.S. and Canada as well as Yonsei University, the oldest private university in South Korea.
The conference will focus on the fastest-growing segments of international students – Asian undergraduates – with presentations on topics ranging from the social conditions in China and South Korea that drive education migration to the ways these students are changing American colleges and universities.
Read full article in University News.
If you’ll still be in town May 18-21, do plan to come to an exciting international conference hosted on our campus. Many well-known scholars from around the world will be presenting talks–1,200 talks in all!
The conference has plenty of unusual and creative components! For you double majors in Spanish, Portuguese or Turkish: the first day of the conference (Wed., May 18) will feature dozens of talks in those languages! That first day also features a series of talks about using qualitative methods in social work and psychology.
And the conference also includes a poetry reading, and an interactive art exhibit in which social science posters mix with fiber arts (felt and mixed media pieces) to create a multi-dimensional approach to data analysis!
Friday features dozens of sessions on ethnographic methods, including talks on online ethnography, discourse/narrative, social justice, feminism, mixed methods, autoethnography, writing, marginalized communities, globalization, motherhood, and much more.
UIUC anthropology faculty presenting at the conference includes Michael Kral (Wed., Fri.) and Alma Gottlieb (Fri.).
Full schedule at: http://www.icqi.org/
More info:
Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry: “Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy” |
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| Date | May 18, 2011 – May 21, 2011 | |
| Time | 8:30 am | |
| Location | Illini Union | |
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| Phone | 217-333-0795 | |
| Sponsor | Area Studies Centers | |
Keynote Addresses: “Writing Against Othering” Michal Krumer-Nevo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev “Turning the Next Wide 21st Century Corner: Holistic Restorative Justice Principles in Qualitative Inquiry” John H. Stanfield, II Indiana University Over 1,300 persons, from more than 67 nations have registered for the Congress. There are 21 pre-conference workshops. More than 1,200 papers will be presented in over 270 sessions. Six day Pre-Congress Days-A Day in Spanish and Portuguese, A Day in Turkish, A Day in Qualitative Healthcare, A Day in Psychology, A Day in Social Work, and Indigenous Qualitative Inquiry-will be held on May 18. |
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Cassie Pontone Receives an Award from Prof. Alma Gottlieb for Her Talk, “Ethnically American: A Case Study of the Permanent Collections at the Polish Museum of America, Their Selective History, and Their Representation of Polish American Identity
Irene Jaramillo Receives an Award from Prof. Alma Gottlieb for Her Talk, “Applying Carbon and Oxygen Isotope Analysis on Modern and Extinct Fauna to Identify Birth Seasonality and Diet”
Transnational Studies Colloquium: “Fighting for the Future of Food: Activists versus Agribusiness in the Struggle over Biotechnology” |
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| Date | Apr 29, 2011 | |
| Time | 3:00 pm | |
| Location | Room 223 Temple Hoyne Buell Hall | |
| Speaker | Rachel Shurman, Associate Professor of Sociology and Global Studies University of Minnesota, William Munro, Professor of Political Science and Director of International Studies, Illinois Wesleyan University | |
| Sponsor | Department of Sociology, Department of Geography, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Center for Global Studies | |
| Fighting for the Future of Food tells the story of how a small group of social activists, working together across tables, continents, and the Internet, took on the biotech industry and achieved stunning success. Rachel Schurman and William A. Munro detail how the anti-biotech movement managed to alter public perceptions about GMOs and close markets to such products. Drawing strength from an alternative worldview that sustained its members sense of urgency and commitment, the anti-GMO movement exploited political opportunities created by the organization and culture of the biotechnology industry itself. | ||
New Directions in Higher Education in Africa: What Role for Women & Gender Studies? |
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| Date | Apr 28, 2011 | |
| Time | 12:00 pm | |
| Location | Room 333, College of Education | |
| Speaker | Dr. Maimouna Barro, Associate Director, Center for African Studies | |
| Sponsor | Global Studies in Education On-Campus Program | |
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Since independence, education has probably been the area where women in several African countries have made the greatest gains. Widening access to education at all primary, secondary, and tertiary levels has been a major policy goal in many African countries for the past four decades. However, education represents an arena in the development agenda where gender disparities exists at all levels, but especially in higher education where inequalities between men and women are more pronounced with respect to access, retention and achievement.
The beginning of the new millennium in Africa has also coincided with a deepening crisis in higher education and the necessity to look for other alternatives that seek to bypass governments. This paper focuses on the 1990s onwards and examines ways in which the promotion of women and gender studies programs may offer us tools to rethink more critically issues engaging access, retention and achievement in higher education, not just for women but for all. Since the 1970s, there has been a long process of euphoria, then disillusionment and later self-criticism and re-organization of higher education among African intellectuals and in African intellectual circles. The primary contention of this paper is that in order to get a more holistic approach to solving the crisis in higher education in the continent more attention should be given to gender and women studies in both research and teaching. Global Studies in Education On-Campus Seminar Series |
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Movie Screening and Panel Discussion- Water First |
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| Date | Apr 27, 2011 | |
| Time | 6:00 pm | |
| Location | Max L. Rowe Auditorium, Law Building, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave, Champaign | |
| Speaker | Eric Freyfogle, Law Professor, Christine Hurt, Law Professor, Lesley Wexler, Law Professor, Tim Larson, The Illinois State Geological Survey, Scott Dossett, Urbana-Zomba Sister City Committee | |
| Sponsor | College of Law, The Illinois Program in Business Law and Policy, Center for African Studies | |
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An inspiring documentary from Malawi that shows that clean water is essential for the achievement of the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.
7pm Panel Discussion For more information, www.waterfirstfilm.org |
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