Weekly Advisory – September 17, 2013
UIC Headlines
- Groundbreaking for Curtis Granderson Stadium at UIC
- New enrollment record at UIC
- UIC’s Gallery 400 receives federal grant for ‘Standard of Living’
- Federal policymaker to head UIC Urban Health Program
- National LGBTQ Student Career Conference at UIC
- UIC, Binaytara Foundation help bring blood cancer treatment to Nepal
- UIC Theatre presents Sarah Ruhl’s ‘Eurydice’
- Former Northwestern fundraiser to head development at UIC
UIC Events
(A complete listing of UIC events is online)
17, Tuesday: National Constitution Day. Voter Registration. Noon – 1:30 p.m. Student Services Building, 1200 W. Harrison St. Free. Call (312) 996-3105.
17, Tuesday: Re-Thinking Soup. Home Economics films, domesticity and feminist responses, led by Jennifer Reeder, associate professor, UIC School of Art & Art History. 6 – 7:30 p.m. (new time). Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Residents’ Dining Hall, 800 S. Halsted St. Free. Call (312) 413-5353.
17, Tuesday: National Constitution Day Lecture. “Guantanamo, Torture, and the Constitution.” Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University. 12:30 p.m. Student Services Building, 1200 W. Harrison St, Rooms A, B, C. Free. Call (312) 996-3105.
17, Tuesday: Art Lecture. “Radical Stakes in Contemporary Indian Art: On Vivan Sundaram’s Late Style.” Saloni Mathur, UCLA. 6 – 7:30 p.m. Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St. Free. Call (312) 996-6114.
19, Thursday: Jazz Master Class. Willie Pickens critiques Ravinia’s Jazz Scholars. 5:30 p.m. Recital Hall L060, Education, Performing Arts and Social Work Building, 1040 W. Harrison St. Free. Call (312) 996-2977.
26, Thursday: “Immigration and the Border Politics and Policy in the New Latino Century.” Discussion and workshop. 3 – 5 p.m. UIC Latino Cultural Center, 803 S. Morgan St., Lecture Center B2. Free. To register, call (312) 996-2445.
26, Thursday: “The Reason Why: A lecture and discussion on why African Americans were not included in the World’s Colombian Exposition of 1893.” 6 – 8 p.m. DuSable Museum of African-American History, 740 E. 56th Place. Free. Call (312) 996-9549.
Oct. 5: UIC Open House. Admissions and financial aid sessions, campus tours, student panels and college information tables. 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Free. Call (312) 996-4350. Go to www.admissions.uic.edu/openhouse2013.
Oct. 8: “Reviving the Jordan River: Islam, Judaism, Ecology, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” 4 p.m. UIC Institute for the Humanities, Stevenson Hall, lower level, 701 S. Morgan St. Free. Call (312) 996-6354.
Oct. 11: “Delivering Food Assistance in a Shrinking Humanitarian Space.” Lecture. Ertharin Cousin, executive director, United Nations World Food Programme. 2 p.m. Room 302, Student Center East, 750 S. Halsted St. Free. Call (312) 996-6354.
Thru Oct. 19: “The Program” curated by Michael Scott Hall. Three short group exhibitions on Viennese art.10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Tuesday through Friday; noon – 6 p.m. Saturday. Gallery 400, 400 S. Peoria St. Free. Call (312) 996-6114.
Thru Dec. 20 (new closing date): “The Reason Why the Colored American Is Not in the World’s Columbian Exposition.” Exhibition. Room 207, African-American Cultural Center, Addams Hall, 830 S. Halsted St. 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday – Friday. Free. Call (312) 996-9549.
Categories