NEH Summer Stipend application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Application guidelines can be found here.

Collaborative Research Project Event: “Experimental and Empirical Approaches to Politeness and Impoliteness”
Co-organized by Marina Terkourafi (Linguistics), Kiel Christianson (Educational Psychology), and Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures), with support from the IPRH Collaborative Research Projects Initiative.

Conference information can be found online at:
http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/research/conferences/liariii.

IPRH Fall Reception
7:00–9:00 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
7:30 p.m., remarks by Chancellor Phyllis Wise

IPRH Event Grants Program submission deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Proposal guidelines can be found here.

Memory/Memoir: Readings and Discussion by Philip Graham (English), Alma Gottlieb (Anthropology), Janice Harrington (English), and Harry Liebersohn (History)
7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
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The Odyssey Project Seminar Series
Co-organized by Dale Bauer (English), Cris Mayo (Education Policy, Organization and Leadership), and Spencer Schaffner (Writing Studies), with support from the IPRH Collaborative Research Projects Initiative.

Featured Fall 2012 Speaker:
Tim Eatman (Imagining America/Syracuse University)

Third Annual IPRH Distinguished Lecture in the Humanities:  Feisal Mohamed (English)
“Republican Political Theology in the Age of Hobbes”
4:00 p.m., Levis Faculty Center, Third Floor
Opening Remarks by Provost Ilesanmi Adesida.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Conference: “American Religions/American Literatures”
Co-organized by Justine Murison (English) and Jonathan Ebel (Religion), with support from the IPRH Collaborative Research Projects Initiative.
Conference information can be found online at: http://www.religion.illinois.edu/news/conferences/

Symposium: Resentment’s Conflicts
9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Pine Lounge, Illini Union Building

Featured Speakers:  Javier Moscoso (History and Philosophy of Science, Institute of Philosophy of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)); Luis Martín-Cabrera (Spanish and Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego); Thomas Lewis (Religious Studies, Brown University); Mariselle Meléndez (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese); Anke Pinkert Germanic Languages and Literatures; Colleen Murphy (Philosophy); Lisa Marie Cacho (Asian American and Latina/o Studies)

Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Department of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese; L. Elena Delgado, co-organizer.
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Inside Scoop Series: Creative Inquiry in the Humanities, a Conversation with Undergraduates
Participants: Jane Desmond (Anthropology) and Jonathan Ebel (Religion), with Tara McGovern (LAS Anthropology Major).
5:00 p.m., Honors Commons Lounge, Lincoln Hall
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Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowships in the Humanities application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Application guidelines for these external fellowships can be found here.

Lecture: Tricia Rose (Africana Studies, Brown University)
“Black Cultural Politics in a Color Blind Nation”
4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Co-Sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum
David R. Roediger, Kendrick C. Babcock Professor of History and African American Studies will moderate.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Lecture: David Harvey (Distinguished Professor, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics)
IPRH “Revolution” Theme Lecture
7:30 p.m., Foellinger Auditorium
Colin Flint, Professor and Associate Head of the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, will moderate.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Conversation: Ripan Malhi (Anthropology, UI)
“How Did We Get Here?”
4:00 p.m., Claudia Cassidy Theater at the Chicago Cultural Center
77 East Randolph Street, Chicago
Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival
For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Science-And-Technology/2012f-Malhi-Levi-How-Did-We-Get-Here.aspx).

Lecture: Lisa Lucero (Anthropology, UI)
“Lessons From the Ancient Maya,”
3:00 p.m., First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple
77 West Washington Street, Chicago
Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Chicago Humanities Festival
For program details and ticket information, visit the Chicago Humanities Festival website (http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Science-And-Technology/2012f-Lisa-Lucero-Sustainability-Lessons-Maia.aspx).

IPRH Faculty and Graduate Student Fellowship application deadline, 5:00 p.m.
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Lecture:  Richard Graff (Writing Studies, University of Minnesota)
"Spaces of Oratorical Performance in Ancient Greece:  Reconstruction, Interpretive Visualization, and Assessment"
4:30 p.m., 1000 Lincoln Hall
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Lecture: Nicholas Mirzoeff (Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University)
"The Right to Look: Technologies of Direct Democracy"
4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Co-Sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum
A reception will follow the lecture.
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Panel: The Future of Authorship (Brown Bag Lunch)
12 Noon, IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
Featuring Nicholas Mirzhoeff (NYU), and UIUC Faculty: Kevin Hamliton (Art + Design), Eduardo Ledesma (Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese), and Jodee Stanley (English / Editor, Ninth Letter)
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MEMORY/MEMOIR: Readings and Discussion by LeAnne Howe (English/American Indian Studies) and Audrey Petty  (English), with Robert Ramirez (Theatre)
7:30 p.m., IPRH, Humanities Lecture Hall
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IPRH Event Grant Recipient and CAS/MillerComm lecture: Timothy Snyder (Professor of History, Yale University)
“Brotherlands: A Family History of the European Nations”
7:30 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Presented by The Program in Jewish Culture and Society. The lecture will serve as the keynote address for the international symposium, “The Micropolitics of Small-Town Life in Eastern Europe,” which will take place at on March 5-6, 2013, and is co-organized by Yvonne Kleinmann (Leipzig University) and Eugene Avrutin (History/JCS).

Lecture: Richard Pithouse (Political and International Studies, Rhodes University)
IPRH “Revolution” Theme Lecture: “Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa"
4:00 p.m., Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum
Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum.
A reception will follow the lecture.
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IPRH Prizes for Research in the Humanities application/nomination deadline, 5:00 p.m.
Information about the application/nomination process can be found here.

IPRH-Mellon Spring Symposium: "Performance and Globalization"
9:00 a.m. –5:00 p.m.
Half Ballroom West, Alice Campbell Alumni Center, 601 South Lincoln Ave, Urbana
Featuring Keynote Speakers: Dan Segal (Pitzer Professor of Anthropology and Professor of History & Director of the Munroe Center for Social Inquiry, Pitzer College), Ananya Chatterjea (Associate Professor, Theatre Arts and Dance, and Director of Dance, U Minnesota), and Josh Kun (Associate Professor of Communication in the Annenberg School, USC). Presentations by UIUC Faculty and Post-Doctoral Fellows, including Harry Liebersohn (History), Cynthia Oliver (Dance), Gabriel Solis (Music/African American Studies/Anthropology), Sandra Ruiz (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Latina/o Studies), and Ahalya Satkunaratnam (IPRH-Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow/Dance and GWS).
A complete program will be available on the IPRH website in early 2013.

IPRH Event Grant Recipient: Lecture by John MacFarlane (Professor of Philosophy, UC Berkeley)
Discussion on Semantic Relativism
3:00 p.m., 223 Gregory Hall
Hosted by the Departments of Philosophy and Linguistics.
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IPRH Event Grant recipient: Lecture by Sidney Tarrow (Emeritus Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Government, Cornell University)
“War, States, and Contention”
7:30pm, Lincoln Hall Auditorium 1000 (702 S Wright St, Urbana)
Sponsored by: the Center for Advanced Studies, the International Program for Research in the Humanities, the Gorecki Seminar, the Transnational Seminar, the Department of Sociology; the Department of Geography; the Department of History; the Depart­ment of Political Science; the Center for Global Studies; the School of Law and its Center for Law and Globali­zation; and the cross-campus Initiative for Transnational Futures (ITF).
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IPRH Large Event Grant Recipient: Lecture by Leti Volpp (Professor of Law, UC, Berkeley)
3:30 p.m., Location: TBD
Professor Volpp is a well‐known scholar in law and the humanities who has written widely on citizenship, migration, culture and identity. She will present her scholarship in a public lecture related to the theme of “Cultures of Law in Global Contexts.” Her visit will complement the ongoing activities of a two‐year INTERSECT initiative entitled “Cultures of Law in Global Contexts.”

Reading Group applications due

Lecture: Bruce Michelson (English / Director, Campus Honors Program)
“Mark Twain and the Invention of Celebrity.”
12:00 p.m., University Club (76 East Monroe Street, Chicago, IL)

IPRH Event Grant Recipient: “Early Russian Itineraries: Movement and the Space of the Russian Empire”—Fisher Forum 2013
Levis Faculty Center (919 West Illinois Street, Urbana)
A workshop inviting 15 scholars to our campus, to discuss the role of movement in the making of Russian imperial life, from the 16th to the 18th centuries.
Organized and hosted by the Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center (REEEC).
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