Event Archive
The WUN would like to showcase past collaborative events that have been coordinated, hosted, attended, and showcased by University of Illinois faculty, staff and students. Please share your past events with us and we will be happy to post showcase them on this page.
The WUN would like to showcase past collaborative events that have been coordinated, hosted, attended, and showcased by University of Illinois faculty, staff and students. Please share your past events with us and we will be happy to post showcase them on this page.
Upcoming Conference
Translating the Middle Ages
October 28-29, 2008
Organized by the Medieval Studies Department at Illinois
More details coming shortly
Second International Conference on Spintronic Materials and Technology
(WUN-SPIN-08)
Nanjing-Hangzhou, China
July 14-18, 2008
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Jean-Pierre Leburton
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute
Co-Chairman, Program Committee
Jean-Pierre Leburton
Presentation “Quantum dot and tunable spintronic devices”
WUN-Hangzhou International School on Spintronics, Hangzhou, China, July 17-19, 2008
SPINTRONICS is expected to have a major impact on advanced data storage, microelectronics, automotive sensors, communication and quantum computing, in a way comparable to the development of the transistor 60 years ago. This international conference with an emphasis on materials, devices and applications aims to bring together people from both academia and industries working on spintronics to share ideas on the progress and future of this exciting technology.
WUN China Enterprise Conference
Globalisation:
Integrating Innovation and Entrepreneurship
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14-16 May, 2008
Organizers & Marketing Materials: Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
WUN Enterprise Steering Committee Members: Anthony Mendes & Kimberly Sugden
Presentation: "Introducing Social Entrepreneurship as a Development and Change Approach for New Social Services Students" - Steven Anderson
Presentation: "Entrepreneurs Without Borders" - Anthony Mendes & Kimberly Sugden
This is the third in a series of WUN conferences focusing on enterprise, that have been held Chicago, Leeds, and Hangzhou 2007-2008. The ambition of this conference is to explore the collaboration and cooperation of international institutions in integrating global innovation resources to build new models and approaches to enterprise education.
Conference themes include: global innovations and entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and innovation and internationalisation of enterprise education.
Worldwide Universities Network - Annual Global Meeting
Sofitel Hotel, Washington DC
April 12-13, 2008
University of Illinois Attendees;
Dr. William Brustein - Associate Provost for International Affairs
Kimberly Sugden - Associate Director, Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
Presentation: "WUN Enterprise Initiative" - Kimberly Sugden & Richard Williams
Government Innovations in China: Advancing Political & Social Development in China through Interaction between Local Governments and Academic Institutions
April 7, 2008
Speaker: Dr. Hongyun Zhou
Organizers:School of Social Work, The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Worldwide Universities Network
Hongyun Zhou, Ph.D. in Sociology at Tsinghua University, now is Associate Professor and Deputy Director of the China Center for Comparative Politics & Economics (CCCPE). She is one of the core members of "the Awards and Research Programme of Innovations and Excellence in Chinese Local Governance (IECLG)". She is also the programme manager of "Developing Governance Assessment Framework in China", in cooperation with UNDP (United Nations Development Programme).
The Global Public University: Global Reach, Local Impact
Hosts: University of Wisconsin, Madison
March 11, 2008
Speakers:
William Brustein Associate Provost, International Affairs Director
International Programs and Studies UIUC
Susan Jeffords Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs - University of Washington Bothell
Join two experts on the internationalization of higher education for a candid discussion about how local communities and regions benefit from the global efforts of their public universities. Topics will include knowledge hubs and economic development, strategic university-community partnerships, and institutional cooperation, among others.
WUN Medieval Studies Sessions, 42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies
Kalamazoo, Michigan, 2007-2008
Looking Medieval: The Gaze and the Glimpse
Organizer: Anne D. Hedeman, WUN, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Pamela M. King, University of Bristol
The Eye as Camera: Reproducing nature's Art in Chaucer's Physician's Tale
Becky McLaughlin, University of South Alabama
Thenne Lyst the Lady to Loke on the Knyght: Gazing in the Domestic Chapel
Chloe Morgan, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York
Seeing as Reading: The Gaze and the Glimpse in French Copies of Coccaccio's De cas des nobles hommes et femmes
Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Looking Medieval: Spectacle and Space
Organizer: Stephen J. Milner, University of Manchester
Beth Williamson, University of Bristol
Presider: Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Thomas the Florentine: Witness, Doubt, and Visibility in Communal Italy
Stephen J. Milner, University of Manchester
"They Have Eyes That They May Not See?": Exploring Object, Display, and Gaze in Religious Drama
Pamela M. King, University of Bristol
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages
Organizer: Anne D. Hedeman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Norris Lacy, Prnnsylvania State University
"Not as Bad as French": Latin and Old English in Old English Bible Translations
Gareth Griffin, University of Bristol
"Counterfeit Language": Representation of French in Early English Drama
Lindsey M. Jones, Pennsylvania State University
Waffling and Other Sins of the Tongue in a Fourteenth-Century Classroom
Michael Johnson, Buffalo State University
Latin and Vernacular in the Legal Records of Medieval and Early Modern Savoy: The Language Policy of Duke Emmanuel Philibert
Francesco Aimerito, University of Degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale
WUN Leeds Enterprise Conference
Inspiring and Developing Enterprising People: Building Global Networks
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10-11 December, 2007
Marketing Materials: Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
WUN Enterprise Steering Committee Members: Anthony Mendes & Kimberly Sugden
Presentation: "Empowering Enterprising People in Subsistence Marketplaces" - Madhu Viswanathan
Presentation: "Nascent Entrepreneur Workshop Series" - Anthony Mendes & Kimberly Sugden
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This is the second in a series of workshops focusing on enterprise being held in Chicago, Leeds and Zhejiang in 2007-08.
The ambition is to explore aspects of practice and research and developing entrepreneurship skills in the context of the distinctive requirements to develop global entrepreneurs. We are defining global entrepreneurs as individuals and organisations equipped to work across geographical, political and economic boundaries to accelerate the development of innovative research, systems and products. Increasingly creative adaptable and cross-cultural individuals are needed to develop new types of relationships, partnerships and organisations that are based on extensive trans-national collaborations.
WUN Contemporary China Center
Chinese Administrative Law in Comparative Perspective
November 1, 2007
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Speaker: Professor Tom Ginsburg, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
Administrative law establishes a mechanism by which citizens can challenge government actions in courts, and, in some systems, participate in government policymaking. China has developed a system of administrative litigation in recent years by which citizens can sue government. Many western observers see this as a nascent system of rights protection and liberalization. I adopt an alternative perspective that sees administrative law systems as tools for government provision of information. This point of view allows us to understand the timing of China's adoption of the system as well as the structure of the system. The implications of China's system will be discussed as well.
WUN Contemporary China Center
Gender and Changing Opportunities in China
October 25, 2007
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Speaker: Gale Summerfield - Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program
This presentation first sets the context of gendered opportunities in the current period of China's reforms. Then it explores issues of changing rights to land using a case study conducted in Liaoning Province. Land tenure policies have strong impacts on life in rural China, and these impacts are examined through the contrasting experience of two sisters in the village of the case study.
WUN Chicago Enterprise Conference
Inspiring and Developing Enterprising People:
Entrepreneurship and Global Impact Conference
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4-6 October, 2007
Conference Organizer: Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership
WUN Enterprise Steering Committee Members: Anthony Mendes & Kimberly Sugden
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This conference will address the profound impact that entrepreneurship has on globalization, cultural change, technology, and social issues. How is the world around us adapting to economic change? What role are entrepreneurs taking in this new marketplace, and what role do Universities play in providing challenging and innovative entrepreneurship curriculum?
Select faculty members will have the opportunity to present entrepreneurial concepts and research based papers, that center around conference themes. Social entrepreneurship presentations and discussion will address best practices for the creation of not-for-profit enterprises and the far reaching effects of their social impact.
First International Conference on Spintronics Materials and Technology
(WUN-SPIN-07)
York, England, UK
August 8-10, 2007
Programme committee member: Jean-Pierre Leburton
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute
Conference presentation: Jean-Pierre Leburton
“Spin-based quantum dots for quantum computing” Quantum Computing workshop
Controlled diet experiments to determine stable carbon isotope fractionation factors in bone collagen, apatite, lipids and amino acids
May 14, 2007
Speaker: Professor, Stanley H. Ambrose
Department of Anthropology and Nutritional Sciences Interdisciplinary Graduate Program
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Wu Qing - A Global Perspective on Socially Responsible Entrepreneurship
April 19, 2007
Organizers: WGGP, The Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership, CAS/STIP, Aces Global Connect, Center for African Studies, Social Work, CGS, Global Crossroads LLC, CLACS, CDMS, CEAPS, NCSA
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Wu Qing's dedication to social activism has won her world acclaim and in 2001 the prestigious "Asian Nobel Prize," titled the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service. She is the first Chinese woman to receive this honor, and has also been selected to join the Schwab Foundation network of exemplary social entrepreneurs. Join Professor Qing in discussing how socially responsible entrepreneurship can dramatically impact societies and economies around the world.
Calling Capital to Account - Corporate Gender Responsibility in the Global Era
April 20, 2006
Speaker: Ruth Pearson, University of Leeds
Organizers: The Academy, Women & Gender in Global Perspectives Program, Office of the Chancellor, Center for Advanced Study
Professor Pearson, an expert scholar of women's changing roles in the global economy, will argue that there must be an expansion of corporate responsibility. She contends that the expansion needs to include more protection for the health and safety of workers and enhanced support of child care, education and job training spending.
First Worldwide Universities Spintronics Network Workshop
University of Manchester’s London office, London, UK
November 7, 2005
Jean-Pierre Leburton
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Beckman Institute
Featured Presentation: “Quantum dot spintronic devices”
Green Chemistry Virtual Seminar Series
Selective Oxidations in Green Chemistry
June 30, 2005
Speaker: Professor Patricia Shapley from University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
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eLearning Seminar Series:
Researching Dialogue & Communities of Enquiry in eLearning in HE
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Organized and Attended by: Graduate School of Library and Information Science
Seminar 1: What do we know about researching Elearning?
December 7, 2004
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Speakers:
- Carol Chapelle, Iowa State University
Zhao Yuan, MPhil/PhD student, Educational Studies, University of York - Ellen Roberts and Jane Rostron, Department of Social Work and Social Policy, University of York
- Caroline Haythornthwaite, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
April 15, 2005
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Speakers:
- Melody Thompson, Pennsylvania State University
- Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Maarten De Laat, University of Southampton
- Grainne Conole, University of Southampton
Seminar 3: How can we best research such learning in electronic communities?
July 6, 2005
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Speakers:
- Angela McFarlane, Professor in Learning Technology, GSoE, University of Bristol
- Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist, Annenberg Center for Communication, University of Southern California
- Habibah Ab Jalil, MPhil/PhD student, GSoE, University of Bristol
- Federica Olivero, GSoE, University of Bristol
Seminar 4: eLearning policy informed by elearning research
November 20, 2005
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Speakers:
- Welcome by Dr Jim Petch, Head of Distributed Learning, University of Manchester
- Professor Diana Laurillard Chair of Learning, Digital Technologies, London Knowledge Laboratory
- Professor Robert-Jan Simons, Director for the Centre of ICT, Utrecht
- Professor Nick Burbules, Grayce Wicall Gauthier Professor Dept of Educational Policy studies University of Illinois
- Mr David Dickinson Education Manager Fujitsu
- Mr Malcolm Hunt Assistant Director, Evidence and Evaluation Directorate, British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
- Mr Nigel Banister Chief Executive Officer MBS-Worldwide
Seminar 5: Researching the immediate world
March 16, 2006
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Speakers:
- Welcome by Professor David Cottrell, previously Director of Teaching and Learning and acting Head of the School of Medicine, University of Leeds
- Dr John Sandars and Dr Catriona Morrison, The Net Generation
- International Speaker, Professor Rich Ling, Oslo University
- Dr Nicky Shaw and Dr John Sandars
- Dr Aisha Walker, University of Leeds
- Will Stewart, JISC Regional Support Centre for Yorkshire and Humberside
- Dr Terry Wassall, School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds
- International Speaker – Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign
- Plenary - Where do we go from here – The challenge and the solutions! Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite and Dr John Sandars
Seminar 6: Online Learning Communities: the Implications of Research
July 13, 2006
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Speakers:
- Welcome and introduction by Sheena Banks, eLearning Research Fellow
- Professor Sten Ludvigsen, Director InterMedia, University of Oslo
- Sabine Little, PhD student, School of Education, University of Sheffield
- Professor David McConnell, Director CSALT, Lancaster University
- Professor Richard Andrews, University of York
