WHAT: “El Corte, Afox and Carnaval: Re (imagining) Afro descendant Music under Dominican and Brazilian Dictatorships,” Pamela Cappas-Toro, Ph.D. Student, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6 @ 2 p.m.
WHERE: 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
WHAT: “This is a Cold War: Militarization and Migration along the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, 1945-1955,” Andrew Eisen, Ph.D. Student, History
WHEN: Thursday, November 8 @ 12 noon
WHERE: 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
WHAT: “Voices of Women in the Arab (springs) Tempests (or storms),” Evelyne Accad, UIUC Dept. of French
WHEN: Friday, November 9 @ 12 noon
WHERE: 101 International Studies Building, 910 S. Fifth Street, Champaign
WHAT: “The Informational Content of Campaign Advertising,” Greg Martin, Stanford
WHEN: Tuesday, November 6 @ 3:30 p.m.
WHERE: TBA
The Department of Economics is sponsoring this one, so they should be able to supply some information about the location.
You live near a major university and a community college. There are smart people that come here every week to talk to the general public about interesting topics. Perhaps you were not aware of this fact, or were overwhelmed by the sheer number of opportunities for possible enlightenment. If that’s the case, Smile Politely understands and is here to help. Here are several events going on in town this week. Check out one or more of them if you have time. Get your learn on, as they say, and join the cognoscenti. It’s free, you know. Plus, sometimes there’s free food, too!
If you have a community event, speaker, or film event that you’d like to see featured on Listen Up!, send the event information to joelgillespie [at] smilepolitely [dot] com by Friday the week prior to the event. Listen Up! runs on Mondays when classes are in session.