some lectures going on this week...

Thursday at 4pm, Education Building Room 2: A Global Perspective on Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship
"Professor Wu Qing's dedication to social activism has won her world acclaim and in 2001 the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service, considered the "Asian Nobel Prize." She is the first woman to receive the honor and has also been selected to join the Schwab Foundation network of exemplary social entrepreneurs. Join Professor Wu Qing in discussing how socially responsible entrepreneurship can dramatically impact societies and economies around the world."
http://webtools.uiuc.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=7&eventId=58875

Thursday at 7:30pm, Alice Campbell Alumni Center Ballroom: 16th Annual Daniel S. Sanders Peace and Social Justice Lecture given by Larry Cox (exec. director-Amnesty International)
http://webtools.uiuc.edu/calendar/Calendar?ACTION=VIEW_EVENT&calId=7&eventId=58514

Friday at 4pm, Illini Union 314B: MillerComm Lecture Series "Humanities in Post-human Times"
"The goal of the conference is to explore the interfaces between the humanities and high technology with talks by specialists in these areas from the U. of I. and from other institutions. Speakers will explore how the humanities and technology meet now and can meet in the future. Talks will look at how the humanities pursue traditional and not-so-traditional subjects. Speakers will also examine how emerging technologies illuminate and illustrate cultural artifacts. Visualization and virtual reality look at text-based objects of culture, and facilitate and add to interpretation and reading. Talks will also look at the repercussions of emerging "post-human" paradigms by examining new ways of thinking and models of the post-modern. This conference not only produces new knowledge, but also develops innovative approaches to these issues and problems that are central to having an on-going dialog at the U. of I. and elsewhere. The keynote lecture is by Professor Alan Liu (University of California-Santa Barbara) as a MillerComm talk, on Friday, April 20, in 314B, Illini Union at 4 p.m."

I won't be in town for the Friday one, but it sounds pretty cool. definitely relative to post-modernist feminism and queer theory. if you by chance get to attend it, i would love to hear a run down of how it went.

ok. peace out.