PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 25, No. 7, Oct. 6, 2005

brief notes

Krannert Art Museum
Exhibition of Day of the Dead altars
On view through Dec. 31 at Krannert Art Museum is the exhibition “Altars for the Dead, Vows of the Living: Altares para los muertos, votos de los vivos.” The exhibition puts life and death side by side in the form of 19th and 20th century devotional ex-voto and retablo paintings from Mexico and modern Day of the Dead altars.

Events planned in conjunction with the exhibition:

• Oct. 9, 1 p.m., guest curators Bernard Cesarone and Maria Silva will give a guided tour of the exhibition.
  
• Oct. 21, 5-7 p.m., reception sponsored by the Krannert Art Museum Council, featuring music by the Indianapolis-based Mariachi Band Zelaya.
  
• Oct. 30, 2-4 p.m., community altar installation. Members of the local Mexican community will erect and celebrate an altar dedicated to deceased members of their community. Ritmo y Sabor, a dance troupe directed by Eliana Manero, will perform traditional Latin American dances.

Illinois Researcher Information Service
Service helps save time, find grants
The Illinois Researcher Information Service has updated its server to provide faster searching of federal and private grant opportunities. The service is free to the campus community and available at www.library.uiuc.edu/iris.

Available services:

• IRIS Database contains information on more than 8,600 funding opportunities from almost 2,000 sponsors and funding agencies, saving researchers the trouble of searching dozens of Internet sites.
  
• IRIS Alert Service provides automatic e-mail notifications of new grant opportunities in specific fields as they are posted to the site.
  
• See upcoming deadlines in 25 subject areas, including those for junior faculty and graduate students, at: http://iris.library.uiuc.edu/~iris/deadlines/.
  
• “An Eye on IRIS” is a grants blog that features a different grant opportunity every week: www.library.uiuc.edu/blog/iris/.

Contact director Susan Harum at sharum@uiuc.edu to schedule a presentation on how to search IRIS.
Spurlock Museum Lecture

Talks about Hindu culture Oct. 4, 20
Learn more about Hindu culture this month at the Spurlock Museum.
On the island of Bali, Hindu culture is celebrated in masked dramas filled with kings, clowns and demons. Learn more about these performances in “Masks of Bali,” a talk by author Judy Slattum at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum.

“Necrophagy, Cannibals and Animals: Disgust, Shame and the Power of Knowing in Bali” looks at what some consider a more troubling side to Balinese customs. In this talk, to begin at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 20 also in the Knight Auditorium of the Spurlock Museum, UI professor of anthropology Laura Bellows dispels the image of Bali as a peaceful paradise.

Both talks are being held in conjunction with the exhibit “Visions of the Unseen: Picturing Balinese Ceremony and Myth.” The talks are free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.spurlock.uiuc.edu.

Academic Outreach
Online education retreat Oct. 24-25
The 2005 Retreat on Online Education will be held from 1 to 8:30 p.m. Oct. 24 and 8 a.m. to noon Oct. 25 at Levis Faculty Center. The purpose of the retreat is to provide a forum for the growth and development of online education at UI. The retreat teaches educators and administrators about existing UI Online programs, course technology and course-management systems. It also will provide updates on research in the field of online education. For more information, go to www.ao.uiuc.edu/onlineretreat/ or contact Sara Dolinar at 244-7882, sdolinar@uiuc.edu.

Allies of LGBT students
Support training to be offered Oct. 11
Learn how to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered students and faculty and staff members by gaining a greater understanding of the issues they face. Join the Ally Network by participating in a training session from 9 a.m. to noon Oct. 11 in Room 209 Illini Union.

The program will offer an introduction to what it is like to be an LGBT person at UI and provide participants with information on how to help provide a safe and welcoming place for LGBT people. Participants also may join the Coming Out Day Rally on the Quad at noon.

The Sexual Orientation Diversity Allies Committee of the Counseling Center and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Concerns sponsors the Ally Network.

To RSVP or for more information, contact Curt McKay, 244-8863 or curtb@uiuc.edu, or Anita Hund, ahund@uiuc.edu.

College of Law
Clinic offers legal assistance
The UI College of Law Employee Justice Clinic is offering legal assistance to Hurricane Katrina victims who have relocated to East Central Illinois. The program is designed to provide real-world legal experience to law students while providing free legal services and legal education to individuals and organizations that would not otherwise have access to legal representation.

The Employee Justice Clinic is one of four clinical experiences available to UI law students and clients, including Civil Litigation Clinic, International Human Rights Clinic, and Transactions and Community Economic Development Clinic. As part of the clinical training, UI law students learn and practice legal skills such as trial advocacy, negotiations, interviewing, counseling and fact investigation and alternative dispute resolution.

Clients or organizations needing assistance or public education should call 244-9494 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

College of Law
George Mitchell to speak Oct. 21
Former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell will speak on “America’s Role in the World in the 21st Century” at the UI law school at 3 p.m. Oct. 20. in the Max L. Rowe Auditorium. The lecture is part of the Vacketta-DLA Piper Lecture Series, which focuses on the evolving role of the government.

Mitchell has been at the forefront of American politics for nearly four decades, moving into the spotlight in 1987 during the Senate investigation of the Iran-Contra affair.

The event is free and open to the public. Overflow seating will be available in other locations throughout the law building.

Krannert Art Museum
Performance, surveillance in video art
“Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art” is a particularly timely exhibition for a world preoccupied with security and fearful of international terrorism. Curated for Krannert Art Museum by Michael Rush, writer, curator, critic and former director of The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, the exhibition examines both the early days of video art and current practices in an attempt to understand the complex relationship between voluntary acting for the camera and involuntary taping by power systems that have an interest in the movement of common citizens. The exhibition will contain large-scale installations, single channel tapes and newly commissioned work.

“Balance and Power” will be held at two venues on the UI campus. On Oct. 10 part of the exhibition will open at the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, and on Oct. 22 the remainder of the exhibition will open at Krannert Art Museum. The museum is open to the public 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free; a donation of $3 is suggested.

Public events associated with “Balance and Power”:

• Oct. 10, 5:30 p.m. “Art and Surveillance: A Dialogue,” an informal conversation between curator Rush and exhibiting artist Kevin Hamilton at Siebel Center.
  
• Oct. 21, 5 to 7 p.m. Opening reception at Krannert Art Museum.
  
• Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m. Gallery conversation with Rush and Tim Murray, director of Graduate Studies in Film and Video at Cornell University.
  
• Nov. 13, 1 p.m. Second Sunday Gallery Tour lead by Hamilton.
  

University Library
Annual Book Sale features sci/fi
The University Library Annual Book Sale will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 20 and 21 in the Marshall Gallery (east foyer) of the Main Library building.

Hardcover books will be sold for $3; paperback books will cost $1. Special edition books and prints will be priced individually. This year’s sale will offer two sets of encyclopedias as well as a large selection of fantasy/ science fiction items and cookbooks. All proceeds will benefit the Library’s collections. For more information, call 244-2070.

College of Business
Lecture focuses on entrepreneurship
Leading communications entrepreneur Hatim Tyabji will lecture on the joys and perils of building a successful business at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in 141 Wohlers Hall.

Tyabji is executive chairman of Bytemobile, a global communications infrastructure company based in Mountain View, Calif. He also is on the audit committee of Best Buy, an ambassador at large at Benchmark Capital (venture investing), and serves on the board of eFunds and three other technology companies.
The presentation is part of the V. Dale Cozad Lecture Series and is free and open to the public.

Indoor concert
Marching Illini at Assembly Hall Oct. 23
The Marching Illini will perform their 16th annual concert at Assembly Hall at 3 p.m. on Oct. 23.

Concertgoers will experience “Illinois Loyalty” when the band performs classic Illini anthems and highlights from their football half-time presentations. Tickets are on sale – $7 in advance and $9 the day of the concert – at the Assembly Hall Box Office, Ticket Central at the Illini Union, or charge by phone at 333-5000.

Channing-Murray Foundation
Tagore Festival is Oct. 15
A festival honoring the late Rabindranath Tagore, an Indian author who won a Nobel Prize in literature, will begin at 2:30 p.m. Oct. 15. “Tagore: At Home and Abroad” is the theme of the 17th annual festival to be held at the Channing-Murray Foundation, 1209 W. Oregon, Urbana.

Tagore, whose son studied agriculture at the UI from 1906-1910, helped foster a unique relationship among the UI, the Urbana Unitarian Church and the people of India.

The festival seeks to relate Tagore’s intellectual vision to present-day ethical and political crises and cultural assimilation in the United States. The festival’s events include presentation of scholarly articles on Tagore, a keynote speech, slide shows on the life and works of the poet and panel discussions on various facets of his vision. This year, speakers and artists from Belgium, Germany and India will project Tagore’s vision of national unity and world-embracing universality. Many local artists and children from different communities also are participating. For more information or to make reservations visit http://tagore.cba.uiuc.edu.

Civil Service Advisory Committee
Civil service election canceled
There will no election for the Civil Service Advisory Committee vacancy on Oct. 18. Only one person returned a petition, eliminating the need for an employee vote. Questions should be directed to the Personnel Services Office at 333-3105.

Literature Conferences
German violence and exile addressed
Scholars of German culture will gather at Illinois Oct. 14-16 for a conference titled “Violence in German Literature, Culture and Intellectual History, 1789-1938.” Sessions will be held in the Levis Faculty Center and in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the Foreign Languages Building.

Conference panel discussions are organized around historical perspectives. Presenters will consider literary texts, films and other art forms as case studies and attempt to reconstruct the historical contexts of violence, said Carl Niekerk, professor of Germanic languages and literatures at Illinois and the conference organizer.

Jacob Burckhardt, Heinrich Heine and Franz Kafka are among the writers to be considered by Stephen Jaeger, Germanic languages and literature, UI; Jeff Grossman, Germanic languages and literature, University of Virginia; and Mark Thompson, English, UI.

The conference is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Mellon Foundation, the department of Germanic languages and literatures, the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, the German Academic Exchange Service, the Foreign Languages Building Fund, the Program in Comparative and World Literature and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

The conference is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Niekerk at niekerk@uiuc.edu.

Tournées French Film Festival
French films to be screened Oct. 7-13
The UI has been selected as one of 50 college and university campuses to host the prestigious Tournées French Film Festival Oct. 7-13 at Boardman’s Art Theatre, 126 W. Church St., Champaign.

Five award-winning films, all subtitled in English and having multiple screenings, will be shown: “Brodeuses/Sequins” (directed by Eléonore Faucher, France, 2004), “L’Esquive/Games of Love and Chance” (Abdellatif Kechiche, France, 2003), “Moolaadé” (Ousmane Sembene, Senegal, 2004), “Notre Musique/Our Music” (Jean-Luc Godard, France-Switzerland, 2004), and “Qui a Tué Bambi?/Who Killed Bambi?” (Gilles Marchand, France, 2003).

The screening schedule is at www.boardmansarttheatre.com/festivals/french.cfm. All seats are reserved; prices for tickets, on sale now, range from $5.50 to $8.

Tournées, launched 10 years ago, is an annual grant program designed to support the screening of contemporary French films on U.S. college and university campuses. Additional financial support for the festival came from the UI French department and the Foreign Language Building Fund, Parkland College and the Hub, a local newspaper.

Margaret Flinn, an assistant professor of French and of cinema studies at Illinois, led the grant proposal to bring the festival to Champaign-Urbana.

The Center for Advanced Study
‘Journalism and the Underclass’ lecture
Leon Dash, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Journalism, will speak on “Journalism and the Underclass” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Tryon Festival Theatre, Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. All CAS events are free and open to the public. For information call 333-6729 or go to www.cas.uiuc.edu/annlecture.html. There also will be a ceremony for the donation of Dash’s papers to the University Archives in the main library at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27.

Campus Recreation
‘Lunch and Learn’ series begins Oct. 12
UI Campus Recreation will host a ‘Lunch and Learn’ series this semester on various wellness topics.

• “Relaxation and Stress Management” Noon to 1 p.m. Oct.12, CRCEPresented by Dan Moeller & Tony D’Agostino, McKinley Health Promotion Peer Educators
  
• “Organ Donation: How a Simple ‘Yes’ Can Change Someone’s World” Noon-1 p.m. Oct. 26, CRCEPresented by Robyn Deterding, Donor Mom and “Gift of Hope” Volunteer
  
• “Road to Relief: Migraine Treatment,” Noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 7, 154 IMPEPresented by Drs. Kenneth Aronson & Patricia McNussen, Carle Clinic Association
  

Free to Campus Rec members and $3 for nonmembers. Register at CRCE Member Services or e-mail campusrec@uiuc.edu. For more information, call 333-3806 or visit www.campusrec.uiuc.edu.

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