| Date | Concentration | Event | Speaker | Location/Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/23/2019 | Cybersecurity | Cyber Attack Resilient and Communication Aware Networked Control Systems | Coordinated Science Lab | 3:00pm |
| 1/24/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Health Inequity In China | Hongliang Wang, Nanjing Audit University China | 101 International Studies Building Noon-1:00pm |
| 1/24/2019 | Food Security | New Books in African Studies Series: Farming and Famine by Donald Crummey | Professor James Brennen, History UIUC | 4:30 pm Music Room at the Levis Faculty Center |
| 2/4/2019 | Cybersecurity | "Security for All: Modeling Structural Inequities to Design More Secure Systems" | Elissa Redmiles, PhD Candidate, University of Maryland | 2405 Seibel Center 10:00 am |
| 2/5/2019 | Biosecurity | Tracking an Extremely Infectious Vector Borne Disease in the Indian Continent: The Case of Kyasanur Forest Disease | Sulagna Chakraborty (Graduate Student, Department of Kinesiology & Community Health UIUC) | Noon Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB |
| 2/7/2019 | Water Security | Recent Advancements in Virus Detection and Monitoring | Webcast: Krista Rule Wigginton Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Michigan |
12:00-1:00 Register Here |
| 2/7/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Cultural Heritage for the Future: Can UNESCO’s Convention to Safeguard the World’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Succeed? | Dr. Frank Proschan, Intangible Cultural Heritage Program Implementation UNESCO | 4pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum |
| 2/8/2019 | Cybersecurity | A Client-Centric Approach to Transactional Data-Processing Systems | Natacha Crooks, PhD Candidate, University of Texas at Austin | 10:00am 2402 Seibel Center |
| 2/11/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Agents Provocateurs, the Dead, and Apocryphal Propaganda in 1968 Mexico | Jaime Pensado, History, University of Notre Dame | 3:00pm 101 International Studies Building |
| 2/12/2019 | Water Security | Groundwater and Geothermal Resources: From the Temperature in the Guarani Aquifer to the Geothermal Energy in Urbana | Yu-Feng Forrest Lin, Hydrogeology and Geophysics, University of Illinois | 2:00-3:30 101 International Studies Building |
| 2/13/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | #MeToo and Academia: Part 2 | Shao Dan Departments of East Asian Languages & Cultures and Gender & Women's Studies, Illinois Lesley Wexler, College of Law, Illinois Sarah Colome Women's Resources Center, Illinois Michelle Rodrigues Postdoctoral Fellow, Beckman Institute, Illinois |
12:00-1:15 210 Levis Faculty Center |
| 2/13/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Behind Enemy Lines | Marthe Cohn, Former WWII Spy | 6:00pm Foellinger Great Hall Krannert Center for the Performing Arts |
| 2/14/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | China’s Future: The Logic of Political Reform after the CCP’s 19th National Congress | Liwei Zhan Jilin University, China |
12:00-1:00 101 International Studies Building |
| 2/14/2019 | Biosecurity | Adventures in Science and Science Policy: From Industry to the White House and Beyond | Dr. Mary Maxon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | 4:00 pm 116 Roger Adams Laboratory 600 S. Mathews Urbana, IL 61801 |
| 2/18/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France | Professor Jean-Phillppe R Mathy-UIUC | Noon 109 English Building, 608 S Wright St, Urbana, IL 61801 |
| 2/19/2019 | Nuclear Security | Nuclear Disarmament via Resonant Phenomena | Areg Danagoulian, Norman C. Rasmussen Assistant Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, MIT | 3:30-4:30 136 Loomis |
| 2/21/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Iran: 40 Years of the Islamic Revolution That Never Was | Professor Asef Bayat-UIUC Asef Bayat is a Professor of Sociology, and the Catherine and Bruce Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. |
5:00 pm Room 1002 of Lincoln Hall; 702 S. Wright St |
| 2/26/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Modern South India: A History from the 17th Century to Our Times | Rajmohan Gandhi, Research Professor of Education Policy, Organization Leadership, UIUC | Noon Lucy Ellis Lounge, FLB |
| 2/27/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | African Women, ICT and Neoliberal Politics: The Challenge of Gendered Digital Divides to People-Centered Governance | Dean Assata Zerai Educational Equity, Sociology, UIUC | Noon 101 International Studies Building |
| 3/4/2019 | Cybersecurity | Regulating Complex Infrastructure Risks: Evidence From the Electric Grid Cybersecurity Standards | Aaron Clark-Ginsberg RAND Corporation Webcast Registration |
1:00pm CST |
| 3/5/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | "Challenges to Democracy at Home and Abroad" | Francesco Biagi University of Bologna Jason Mazzone University of Illinois Jacqueline Ross University of Illinois |
Room D, Law Building Noon |
| 3/7/2019 | Environmental Security | Promoting Sustainability in Russia's Arctic Cities | Robert Orttung (Research Director for Sustainable GW and Research Professor at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University) | 4:00pm 101 International Studies Building |
| 3/8/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | How Can Materials and Coral Restoration Scientists Converge to Save Coral Reefs? | Amy Wagoner Johnson Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering Associate, 2017-2018 |
Noon Levis Faculty Center Music Room |
| 3/8/2019 | Food Security | Food and Nutrition Security: Perspectives from Africa | Dr. Sheryl Hendriks, University of Pretoria, South Africa | 3:00pm - 4:00pm Bevier Commons, Bevier Hall, 905 S. Goodwin Ave. Urbana |
| 3/13/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Constructing Solidarities in the Global Justice Movement |
Manisha Desai Professor of Sociology and Asian & Asian American Studies, University of Connecticut |
4:00pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum |
| 3/26/2019 | Energy Security | Power Grid Outages in FEMA Region X: Causes, Impacts, and Mitigation | Alfonso Valdes, Information Trust Institute at the University of Illinois Webcast Registration |
3:00pm |
| 3/27/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | In Their Own Words: North Korean Painters on Practicing Art in the DPRK | Koen De Ceuster Lieden University, Netherlands |
Noon-1:30pm Lucy Ellis Lounge Foreign Language Building |
| 3/28/3019 | Multiple Concentrations | The Korean Peninsula in Crisis? | Various Speakers from the University of Illinois, Tufts University, Leiden University, Indiana University, and University of California at Berkeley | 8:30am-5pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum |
| 3/28/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Lenin’s Revenge: Regional Fracture and Security (Dis)Order in Post-Communist Eurasia | Anna Ohanyan (Richard B. Finnegan Distinguished Professor of Political Science and International Relations at Stonehill College) | 4:00pm 101 International Studies Building |
| 3/29/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Racial Capitalism Symposium |
Michael C. Dawson University of Chicago Dr. Ofelia Ortiz Cuevas UC Davis Dr. Marisol LeBrón University of Puerto Rico Ruth Wilson Gilmore City University of New York Alyosha Goldstein University of New Mexico Cheryl I. Harris UCLA Law Kimberly Kay Hoang University of Chicago Chandan Reddy University of Washington Jodi Melamed Marquette University Lisa Maria Cacho UIUC Iyko Day Mount Holyoke College |
9:00AM Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum |
| 3/29/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | The Geopolitics of Northeast Asia: Continuing Conflicts, Popular Memory, and Economic-Cultural Interdependence |
Professor John Lie, University of California, Berkeley |
Noon-1:30pm 3057 Lincoln Hall |
| 3/29/2019 | Energy Security | Save the Grid! Science Policy Group Game Night | RSVP | 2:00-5:00pm 1265 Digital Computer Lab |
| 3/29/2019 | Energy Security | ISSS Sustainability Program #2: Abbott Plant | - | 3:00 - 5:30 pm Registration |
| 4/2/2019 | Food Security | Building Institutional Capacity for Food Security - The Fifth Annual International Food Security Symposium | Program | All day ACES Library |
| 4/3/2019 | Food Security | Building Institutional Capacity for Food Security - The Fifth Annual International Food Security Symposium | Program | All day ACES Library |
| 4/3/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Turkey's Role in Africa: Humanitarian or Strategic? | Dr. Hasan Ozturk (Visiting Scholar, African Studies Center, UIUC) | Noon 101 International Studies Building |
| 4/9/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Roundtable on EU Transatlantic Relations with KU Leuven | - | 10:00am - 12:00pm Levis Faculty Center, Room 208, 919 W Illinois St, Urbana, IL 61801 |
| 4/10/2019 | Energy Security | CIRI Symposium on Resilience of Critical Infrastructures | Chris Nissen, Director, Asymmetric Threat Response, the MITRE Corporation Bob Kolasky, Director, National Risk Management Center, DHS Ray Rothrock, CEO, RedSeal |
8:00 am - 6:00 pm University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, IL Registration, deadline is April 2, 2019 at midnight, registration required to attend |
| 4/11/2019 | Energy Security | CIRI Symposium on Resilience of Critical Infrastructures | Chris Nissen, Director, Asymmetric Threat Response, the MITRE Corporation Bob Kolasky, Director, National Risk Management Center, DHS Ray Rothrock, CEO, RedSeal |
8:00 am - 12:00 pm University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NCSA Building, 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, IL Registration, deadline is April 2, 2019 at midnight, registration required to attend |
| 4/11/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | One Woman's Journey From Pakistan to the United States: A Struggle for Women's Rights | Naureen Butt, Regional Expertise & Cultiral Instructor for the USAF Special Operations at Hurlburt Airforce Base | 10-11:30am 106 Main Library |
| 4/15/2019 | NPRE 483 Speaker Series | Pellet Streams for Pushing Spacecraft and Asteroids: Transformative but a Two-Edged Sword? | Dr. Clifford Singer Former Director of ACDIS, NPRE Professor Emeritus |
4:00-5:00pm 100 Talbot Hall |
| 4/19/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | "Adoption of The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the mention of gender in constitutional nondiscrimination clauses in select African countries: law versus practice" | Professor Assata Zerai | 1:00 - 2:00pm IPRH Seminar Room, Room 424, Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. Illinois, Urbana |
| 4/22/2019 | Multiple Concentrations | Understanding Oman: A Unique Player in the Gulf Region | Reza Aghdam, Sultan Qaboos University Usamah Al Farban, Swltan Qaboos University Abdullah Al-Ba di, Sul tan Qaboos University Asma Al-Zaidi, Sultan Qaboos University Calvin Allen, Shenandoah University Jerry Davila, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Hadi Salehi Esfahani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Linda Pappas Funsch, Frederick (MD) Community College Valerie Hoffman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Janice Jayes, Illinois State University Marc J. O'Reilly, Heidelberg Unive,•sity in Tiffin, Ohio John E. Peterson, Historian and Political Analyst Amy Erica Smith, Iowa State University Michael K. Thomas, University of Illinois at Chicago |
9:00am to 5:20pm Levis Faculty Center |
| 4/29/2019 | Physical Security | Race, State Violence, and Radical Movements in the Decolonizing Pacific | Simeon Man | 4:00 - 6:00 pm 1090 Lincoln Hall |
| 4/30/2019 | Physical Security | History of Western Armenian Feminism in the Ottoman Empire and the Post-Genocide Armenian Diaspora | Professor Lerna Ekmekçioğlu (MIT) and Professor Melissa Bilal (American University of Armenia) | 7:30 pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum |