April 5, 2007
Archive
UPCOMING EVENTS
* The Linguistics Student Organization is proud to announce two lectures by distinguished linguist Prof. William Labov:
"The growing divergence of English dialects in North America," Wednesday, April 4th, 2007, at 7pm on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center. This talk is intended for a campus-wide public.
"Crossing the great divide in North American phonology", Thursday, April 5th, at 4pm, (same location). This talk is more aimed at a linguistic audience.
Prof. Labov will also appear on 'Focus 580' with David Inge on Friday morning at 10:00.
* The Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures invites you to its monthly lecture series "Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft" (FG).
Distinguished Visiting Professor Helen Watanabe-O’Kelly, German, Oxford University, presents a scholarly lecture "Amazons in German - from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment."
Thursday, April 5, at 5.15 PM in the Lucy Ellis Lounge, 2090 FLB.
* The annual Delta Phi Alpha induction and Departmental Awards Ceremony will take place on Thursday, April 12 from 7 to 9 PM in the Lucy Ellis Lounge of the FLB. Professor Emeritus Jim McGlathery will present a lecture entitled: "Some Varying Versions of Familiar Fairy Tales from the 1630s to 1820s." There will be a small reception following the event.
* MUSICOLOGY COLLOQUIUM: "Nobody's Perfect: George Bernard Shaw as Wagnerite," Al Turco, Professor of English, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CN.
Prof. Turco, author of Shaw's Moral Vision: The Self and Salvation, has served for 30 years on the editorial board of SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, for which he edited an anthology on The Neglected Plays that also contains several of his articles.
Prof. Turco will delve into the still evolving critical fortunes of The Perfect Wagnerite, attempting to show why Shaw's seemingly vulnerable essay on the RING continues to live more than 100 years after its first publication. Few of the many who dismissed the book as political propaganda for the better part of a century after 1898 would have known that Shaw had been a Wagnerian--since his late teens--long before he became a Wagnerite. Perhaps even fewer of the many who today recognize Shaw's essay as a literary classic--including some distinguished critics of Wagner--would realize the extent to which their own ideas have been infiltrated by the one book yet written on the RING by a dramatist arguably of the composer's own rank.
Music Building 1180 Monday, April 9, 4pm
Sponsored by the School of Music, the Department of English, and the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
PRESENTATIONS
* Bill Brown gave a paper entitled "Extending Campus to Austria – A Model of Business & German Collaboration" at the Ohio State University Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) Business Language Conference on March 29.
* Marianne Kalinke gave a plenary lecture on “Female Desire and the Quest in the Icelandic Tristan Legend” at a conference on “The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur,” held at Pennsylvania State University, March 30–31.
* Anke Pinkert gave a paper "Projecting Oneself into History: Autobiography and Public Memory in East German Film" at an International, Interdisciplinary Conference on "German Life-Writing in the Twentieth Century," at the University of Nottingham, UK, March 24-26.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
* Dean Sarah Mangelsdorf has approved five distinguished professors for a formal affiliation with the department as so-called zero-time appointments Our new colleagues, who have enthusiastically accepted, are Professor Hans Henrich Hock, Linguistics; Professor William Kinderman, Music; Professor Craig Koslofsky, History; Professor Michael Rothberg, English; and Professor Mark Thompson, English. Please join us in welcoming them at the FG lecture on Thursday evening, April 5, 2007.
* Congratulations to faculty and instructors whose names appear on the Incomplete List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by Their Students for Fall 2006.
- GERMAN
CRANE,C 101
GOLATO,A 320
JICINSKA,V 212
JOHNSON,L 420
* LOVE,J TA 102
LUKE,W TA 102
LUTTRELL,J TA 101
MCLAINE,M TA 101
NIEKERK,C 199,470
SMITH,K TA 103
TRYGSTAD,B TA 101
WHITTINGTON,A TA 101
YILDIZ,Y 331
- SCANDINAVIAN
BORNHOLDT,C 252
SHERMAN,J TA 101
WEEKLY DEPARTMENTAL ACTIVITIES
* The Deutsche Konversationsgruppe meets each Wednesday from 2-4 at The Bread Company on Goodwin. Students of all levels are welcome. Instructors of German courses, please let your students know about this opportunity to get extra German practice in an informal, no-pressure setting. More information is available from Frederick Schwink (schwink AT uiuc DOT edu).
* The Scandinavian Coffee Hour meets every Wednesday from 4-6 PM at the Bread Company on Goodwin Street. All speakers of any level of modern Scandinavian languages are welcome to attend. Contact:
jfeason AT uiuc DOT edu.
* The IPRH Reading Group "Language and Social Interaction" holds its weekly data session Mondays, 4-5:30, in 3114 FLB. Anybody with a background or an interest in conversation analysis is welcome to attend. For more information, contact Professor Andrea Golato golato AT uiuc DOT edu
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