PUBLICATIONS Inside Illinois Vol. 26, No. 9, Nov. 2, 2006

brief notes

School of Music
Palmer to host lectures, film screenings
The School of Music will host British filmmaker Tony Palmer in a day of lectures and film screenings.

On Nov. 6, Palmer will give two lectures:

“I am the Enemy You Loved: Stalin & Shostakovich,” noon, Memorial Room, Smith Music Building; and “Kubrick’s Music,” 4:30 p.m., Spurlock Museum auditorium.

That evening, two of Palmer’s films will be shown in the School of Music Auditorium:

“Testimony,” a 1987 film about Shostakovich, featuring Ben Kingsley, at 7:30 p.m. and “All my Loving,” a 1968 film about Frank Zappa, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and The Who. Palmer has received 40 international prizes for his work, including 12 gold medals at the New York Film and Television Festival as well as numerous Emmy Awards.

Overlooked film festival
Passes on sale now for ‘Ebertfest’
Festival passes are now on sale for the ninth annual Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film Festival, April 25-29 at the Virginia Theater in Champaign, and on the UI campus.

The passes are $100 and cover all 12 screenings during the five-day event. They can be purchased through the theater box office, 356-9063, or through TicketWeb accessible through the festival Web site, www.ebertfest.com.

Tickets for individual movies will be available April 6. Admission is $10 ($8 for students).

The 1,000 festival passes available for the 2006 “Ebertfest” sold out in January, about two months before the films were announced and three months before the festival, according to Mary Susan Britt, the festival’s assistant director. The same number of passes will be available again this year.

Ebert, a 1964 Illinois journalism graduate, adjunct professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, will host the event and select the films that he believes have been overlooked by audiences, critics and distributors. The lineup of films, along with additional information on film-associated guests and other festival events, will be announced several weeks before the festival.

Updates on the festival, a College of Communications event, will be posted on the festival Web site.

Sponsors and volunteers for the festival are being sought. Those interested should call 244-0552, or e-mail  marsue@uiuc.edu.

Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration
Dinner on Nov. 20 in Bevier Hall
A 2006 Beaujolais Nouveau Celebration will be held in the newly renovated Bevier Cafe in Bevier Hall at 7 p.m. Nov. 20. The event will feature a gourmet meal and celebrate the release of the 2006 Beaujolais Nouveau wine.

The meal includes an extensive cold buffet featuring jumbo shrimp, whole poached Atlantic salmon, frog leg salad, stuffed chicken and turkey, peppered beef filet, roasted seasonal vegetables vinaigrette, mushroom a la Grecque, homemade pâtés, cheeses, fresh fruits, desserts and more.

Chef Jean-Louis Ledent and students in the UI hospitality management program in the department of food science and human nutrition will prepare and present the meal.

In addition, the evening will feature wine experts to discuss the new wine.

The annual celebration of the Beaujolais Nouveau release has become one of the most exciting and lively wine events in the world. According to French law, the Beaujolais Nouveau cannot be sold until the third Thursday of November, creating a great deal of fanfare when it is released.

The cost to attend is $75 per person with proceeds benefiting the renovation of the Quantity Foods Laboratory in the department of food science and human nutrition. The laboratory includes the Spice Box and Bevier Café restaurants and the kitchen facilities. The Bevier Café dining room was remodeled this summer. All proceeds for this event will go toward further renovations of the Bevier Spice Box and kitchen.

Reservations and advanced payment are required by Nov. 13. Call 333-6520 or contact Jill North, jnorth@uiuc.edu for more information or to make a reservation.

Workshop and performance/lecture
‘Sound Art for Sound Minds’ is Nov. 9
“Sound Art for Sound Minds” is the theme of a workshop and performance-lecture that will be presented Nov. 9 at the School of Art and Design and Krannert Art Museum by visiting artist Nicolas Collins.

The workshop is scheduled from 1-3 p.m. in 240 Art and Design; the lecture-performance begins at 7:30 p.m. in the lower level of the museum. Workshop participants are asked to bring several materials, including a portable, battery powered radio, electronic toy and batteries. For a complete materials list, contact Anthony Ptak, ptak@uiuc.edu.

Both events are free and open to the public and geared toward artists interested in incorporating sound into their work, as well as to anyone eager to learn more about how sonification has morphed into its own genre of art in today’s cacophonous world of cell phone and computer-generated beeps, blips, pings and ring tones.

Collins, a sound artist, composer, performer, curator, writer and inventor, is the chair of the department of sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He also is the author of “Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking” (Routledge) and editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal.

More information is available online at http://soundartforsoundminds.blogspot.com/.

WILL
Second Sunday Special is Nov. 12
WILL-FM’s Second Sunday Concert Special on Nov. 12 features two violins, a viola and a cello, the only surviving set of decorated string instruments made by Antonio Stradivarius still used for performances.

Members of the Smithsonian Chamber Players will perform at 1 p.m. at the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion. The free concert is open to the public and will be broadcast on WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) at 7:06 p.m. Nov. 26. Seating is limited.

The concert is part of the American Music Month celebration, which features an exhibition of the instruments at the art museum and an evening performance on Nov. 14 at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. On loan from the Smithsonian Institution, the instruments are being displayed and performed in the Midwest for the first time.

Cellist Kenneth Slowik, director of the Smithsonian Chamber Music Society, hosts the concert, and is joined by violinist Catherine Manson and violist Steven Dann, to perform works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi and Mozart.

‘Black Women and Activism’
Civil rights is focus of presentations
The role of black women in civil rights and in 20th-century black history will be the focus of three presentations Nov. 8 and 9 on the UI campus.

The two talks and one film are part of a symposium, “Black Women and Activism,” sponsored by the African American Studies and Research Program at Illinois.

All three events are free and open to the public.

The symposium will open at 7 p.m. on Nov. 8 with the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Lecture, given by Darlene Clark Hine, the director of the Center for African American History at Northwestern University. The lecture will be in the auditorium of the Spurlock Museum.

Hine, considered a leading historian of the African-American experience, will speak on the topic “From Respectability to Respect: Black Women’s Civic Culture and Consciousness in Jim Crow America.” The lecture will focus on the political, social, economic and health care activism of black women during the first half of the 20th century, before the height of the civil rights movement.

The second lecture, at noon on Nov. 9, will feature Julieanna Richardson, the founder and executive director of “The HistoryMakers” initiative, based in Chicago. Richardson will talk about her organization’s effort to record and archive interviews with thousands of both well-known and unsung African-Americans, making the archives available to both researchers and a wider audience. Her talk will be in Room 151 of Everitt Lab.

At 7 that evening, the symposium will show the film “Standing on My Sisters’ Shoulders,” an award-winning documentary about the civil rights movement in Mississippi during the 1950s and ’60s, told from the point of view of the women who lived it and emerged as its grassroots leaders. The film will be shown in Room 228 of the Natural History Building, and will be followed by a discussion led by African American Studies faculty members.

Courses open to anyone
IFLIP courses offered during January
The Intensive Foreign Language Instruction Program for winter 2007 is being offered by the UI foreign language departments.

IFLIP classes are open to UI students, faculty and staff members, and retirees, as well as members of the community. Children younger than 18 are not eligible to participate. No academic credit is given for IFLIP instruction. Tuition will be $75 for UI students; $100 for faculty and staff members, and retirees; and $125 for the general public.

Classes will meet 9 a.m. to noon weekdays, beginning on Jan. 2 and continue through Jan. 12. Register by Dec. 1.

Language instruction will be offered: Introductory Arabic, introductory Chinese, French (introductory and intermediate), German (beginning and intermediate for travelers), introductory Hindi, introductory Italian, introductory Japanese, introductory Portuguese, introductory Russian, Spanish (beginning, intermediate and advanced), and introductory Swahili.

Classes are taught by advanced graduate students or faculty members. Each class must have a minimum of 10 participants to be offered and is limited to a maximum of 20 participants to provide for an effective learning environment. To download a Word document for registration, go to http://services.lang.uiuc.edu/forms/IFLIP-Registration.doc. For more information, contact Marita Romine, 244-3252 or mromine@uiuc.edu.

Center for the Study of Democratic Governance
Forum on democracy is Nov. 6 and 7
The Center for the Study of Democratic Governance will host the second annual “Northern Trust Forum on Democracy, Globalization and Societal Welfare.”

This year’s forum, “Globalization and the Politics of Economic Adjustment,” will feature Geoffrey Garrett as keynote speaker. Garrett will discuss “Unpacking Globalization: What China Means for America,” at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in the Beckman Institute auditorium.

Garrett is the president of the Pacific Council on International Policy and professor of international relations, business administration, communication and law at the University of Southern California. Garrett also has served on the faculties of Oxford, Stanford and Yale universities as well as the Wharton School. An expert on globalization, Garrett has written widely on the effects of free trade and capital mobility, European integration, international law, and partisan politics.

The forum will focus on the political and policy challenges that the United States faces from globalization, with a particular emphasis on relations with China.

In addition the center will host a roundtable discussion and public forum, “Protecting U.S. Economic Growth in an Era of Globalization: Irreconcilable Differences?” The discussion will be from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Nov. 6 in 170 Illini Room C.

Shortened pledge drive
WILL Radio raises $170,000
WILL radio’s fall pledge drive raised $170,000 for WILL-AM (580) and WILL-FM (90.9/101.1 in Champaign-Urbana) in a shortened fundraising period of five full days instead of the usual eight.

The drive featured a “power hour” from 7 to 8 a.m. Oct. 19 that raised $30,000 from phone calls and online pledges, and another $15,000 in money pledged in the days leading up to the event. It set WILL radio records for the largest amount pledged in one hour and for the greatest number of pledges, 202, in one hour.

“We tried something new, and the audience responded,” said Rita Schulte, WILL membership director. “We’re going to continue to look at how we use our air time for fundraising.”

WILL radio station manager Jay Pearce said listeners appreciated having fewer days of interruptions of regular programming. “Callers were enthusiastic about the effort we were making,” he said. “They understand that pledge drives are the most effective way for us to raise operating funds. But they think it’s great that we found a way to do it more efficiently. We do too. We’re grateful to all those who contributed.”

Schulte said contributions of $13,236 from 113 pledges were made online at willpledge.org during the drive, the largest amount and number ever online during a pledge drive. “People are catching on that it’s easy for them and cost-effective for us,” she said.

The radio stations are on their way to raising $900,000 from listeners by June 30.

Salvatore Martirano Memorial
Composition award concert is Nov. 16
A 36-year-old composer from Washington, D.C., who started as a performer in punk rock bands in New York City is the winner of the 10th annual Salvatore Martirano Memorial Composition Award Competition at the UI. His winning composition “102nd & Amsterdam,” named after his father’s first address in New York City, will be performed by the UI New Music Ensemble in concert at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Tryon Festival Theatre at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Douglas Boyce will receive a $1,000 award and will be at the concert to hear the performance of his winning composition. Zack Browning, UI professor of composition and director of the competition, quoted Boyce as describing “102nd & Amsterdam” for string trio as a work “inspired by my father who was a wonderful, if diffuse, storyteller, with many narrative elements being developed, abandoned, rediscovered and sometimes corrected.” Boyce is currently a professor of music at George Washington University and founding member of the New York new music collective counter induction.

The second place award of $250 in the Martirano competition went to German composer Jorge Garcia del Valle Mendez for “seok yang jong” (The Bell of Twilight) for piano trio and computer-generated sounds. Honorable mention went to two Australian composers, Calogero Panvino, for his solo piano work, “Sonata 101,” and Nicholas Paul Vines, for his composition “Dolmen for a New Albion,” for 10 players, which will be conducted by Stephen Taylor, assistant director of the New Music Ensemble. Eduardo Diazmunoz, director of the New Music Ensemble, will conclude the program by conducting a performance of “Thrown,” by Martirano. All of the winning composers will be on hand to hear their works performed.

After the concert, a reception for the winners will follow, along with a performance in the Krannert lobby by the Boneyard Jazz Quintet. The composers will participate in two Composers’ Forums from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Nov. 14 and 16 in Room 1201 of the Music Building on the UI campus. The public is invited.

The UI School of Music sponsors the Martirano Composition Award competition and concert each year in memory of Salvatore Martirano, a UI professor of composition from 1963 to 1995. He died Nov. 17, 1995, soon after retiring. Since it started in 1996, the competition has drawn more than 1,600 entries from all over the world. This year’s competition drew 286 entries.

CITES
Guest online account services expanded
Guests of UI faculty and staff members and students now have a way to stay connected while they’re on campus.

Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services is expanding its sponsored guest account service allowing anyone with a UI Network ID – students and faculty and staff members – to sponsor guests to connect to UIUCnet, the campuswide computing network.

“Whether they’re coming to visit friends, family, or to see an Illini football or basketball game, campus guests will now be able to get online to check e-mail and surf the Web,” said Mike Smeltzer, director of network communications for CITES.

The Web address for the expanded service is https://ctweb1.cites.uiuc.edu/guestwireless. Guest account sponsors must authenticate using their Network ID and Bluestem password in order to create guest accounts.

In the past, a campus unit had to sponsor a guest account and special unit registrars had to create it. Now, anyone with a valid Network ID can create up to two simultaneous sponsored guest accounts. Campus units may sponsor more than two simultaneous accounts.

The Web-based interface for creating guest accounts also has been streamlined.

“It’s a nice visual face lift,” said Mark Notarus, senior research programmer at CITES. “… For the guest account sponsor, this means they can easily generate guest-user accounts, enable and disable guest users, and reset guest users’ passwords. There are also new tools for generating account information paperwork, such as a business card printout with the guest’s username and password.”

Guest accounts allow the user to connect to the Internet through any one of four major campus network services: UIUCnet Wireless, UIUCnet Quick Connect, UIUCnet Virtual Private Network (VPN), and UIUCnet Walkup services. The fastest and easiest way for a guest user to connect is to open a Web browser window and log in to UIUCnet Quick Connect with their guest account username and password.

UIUCnet Quick Connect works either via an Ethernet connection or a Wi-Fi-enabled computer where UIUCnet Wireless service is available.

Sponsored guest accounts can remain active for up to three days; registered network administrators can create accounts that last up to 30 days; and units can submit a request to wireless@uiuc.edu to extend some accounts’ life spans up to 90 days.

A personal account sponsor takes responsibility for the network activity of his or her guests. Guests must adhere to the university’s Policy on Appropriate Use of Computers and Network Systems, which is available at www.fs.uiuc.edu/cam/CAM/viii/viii-1.1.html. The CITES Security Office reserves the right to cancel not only a guest user’s account but also the sponsor’s ability to create guest accounts.

For assistance with sponsored guest accounts, contact the CITES Help Desk, 244-7000 or consult@uiuc.edu. For a comprehensive list of UIUCnet Wireless Access locations, visit www.cites.uiuc.edu/wireless/locations.html.

European colonial history
‘Departmentalization’ conference planned
On the 60th anniversary of the “departmentalization” of four of France’s overseas colonies, scholars from across the United States and from abroad are coming to the UI to explore the consequences of this rare form of colonialization.

The conference, “Departmentalization at the Crossroads: Sixty Years On,” will take place Nov. 15-18 in Room 314 of the Illini Union. It is free and open to the public.

The anniversary marks the only occasion in European colonial history when former colonies – French Guiana, Guadeloupe and Martinique in the Caribbean, and the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean – were integrated into the political structure of the colonial power that had dominated them for more than 300 years. Gaining full status as a département is roughly equivalent to becoming a state in the U.S.

The event is the only one of its kind in Europe and the United States to mark this anniversary.

Conference participants will discuss the rationales for departmentalization and the continued significance and usefulness of these territories to France’s self-identity and to the affected populations.

Issues will be discussed from a variety of perspectives, including literary reflections, political implications and the impact of continued globalization on territories that are in one place politically and in another geographically.

Twenty scholars, critics and writers from abroad will attend, including Martinican novelist Suzanne Dracius. The two top U.S. critics in French and Francophone studies, Francoise Lionnet of UCLA and J. Michael Dash of New York University, also will take part.

“It is a testament both to the UI and to the importance attached to this event that we have been able to attract scholars of this caliber,” said Adlai Murdoch, the principal conference organizer and a Caribbean specialist in Illinois’ French department.

“The social, economic and political implications of having non-independent Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories as members of the European Union, particularly in this age of globalization and international migration, raise many questions related to national identity, dependency, belonging and the movement of peoples and cultures,” Murdoch said, adding that he expects many of the conference presentations to “address and illuminate these and other issues.”

Sponsors include the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Center for Advanced Study and MillerComm, department of history, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, African-American Studies and Research Program, Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, European Union Center, International Programs and Studies and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities.

The conference program will soon be available at www.french.uiuc.edu.

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