Spring 2019

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