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? Nov. 3, ?The Slow-Motion Suicide of the American Empire,? 
by Ted Rall, a journalist, columnist and cartoonist for the 
Universal Press Syndicate and author of ?Generalissimo El 
Busho: Essays & Cartoons on the Bush Years.?

An outspoken opponent of the current administration, Rall 
will discuss the country?s ideological divides and a number 
of international issues. His MillerComm talk begins at 4 p.m. 
on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. 
Illinois St., Urbana.


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Center for Advanced Studies announces November lecture series

Craig Chamberlain, News Editor
217-333-2894; cdchambe at uiuc.edu

10/18/05

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. ? A variety of topics will be explored in a 
series of November lectures at the University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign ? among them a journalist?s take on America 
at home and abroad, Homer?s lessons for the modern military, 
diploma mills, naturalists and their letters, and what bees 
can teach us about brains and behavior.

The lectures are sponsored by the university?s Center for 
Advanced Study, and three are part of the its MillerComm 
series. All of the talks are free and open to the public.

The MillerComm lecture series began in 1973 and is supported 
with funds from the George A. Miller Endowment and several co-
sponsoring campus units. The lectures provide a forum for 
discourse on topics spanning the university?s many 
disciplines.

The first of the CAS lectures will come on Nov. 2, with the 
inaugural Chancellor?s CAS Special Lecture, ?Overachievers: 
What Honey Bees Teach Us About Genes, Brain and Social 
Behavior,? presented by Gene E. Robinson, professor of 
entomology at Illinois. He also is a professor in the 
Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois and director of the 
Neuroscience Program.

Robinson will draw on the latest studies from several fields 
to explore how honey bees, with brains the size of a grass 
seed, can live together in societies that rival those of 
humans in complexity and internal cohesion. His lecture 
begins at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of the Beckman 
Institute, 405 N. Mathews Ave., Urbana.

Subsequent CAS lectures:

? Nov. 3, ?The Slow-Motion Suicide of the American Empire,? 
by Ted Rall, a journalist, columnist and cartoonist for the 
Universal Press Syndicate and author of ?Generalissimo El 
Busho: Essays & Cartoons on the Bush Years.?

An outspoken opponent of the current administration, Rall 
will discuss the country?s ideological divides and a number 
of international issues. His MillerComm talk begins at 4 p.m. 
on the third floor of the Levis Faculty Center, 919 W. 
Illinois St., Urbana.

? Nov. 10, ?Corresponding Naturalists,? by Janet Browne, a 
professor in The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of 
Medicine at University College London, and currently a George 
A. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor at Illinois.

Browne will discuss the role that letters played in natural 
history research in the 18th and 19th centuries, with 
particular emphasis on the correspondence of Charles Darwin 
and his contemporaries. Her MillerComm talk begins at 7:30 
p.m. in the Knight Auditorium in the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. 
Gregory St., Urbana.

The lecture also will serve as the opening keynote for a two-
day symposium, ?Naturalist Voyagers,? held in honor of 
Richard W. (Chip) Burkhardt, who recently retired from the 
department of history at Illinois.

? Nov. 14, ?Degree Mills ? Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,? by 
Allen Ezell,
co-author of ?Degree Mills: The Billion-Dollar Industry That 
Has Sold Over a Million Fake Diplomas.?

Ezell, who founded and headed the FBI?s ?DipScam? diploma-
mill task force, will discuss how the mills operate and the 
extent of the problem. His talk, part of the CAS ?Age of 
Networks? series, begins at 4 p.m. on the third floor of the 
Levis Faculty Center.

? Nov. 17, ?From Troy to Baghdad: Can the U.S. Military Learn 
from Homer's Epics?? presented by Jonathan Shay, staff 
psychiatrist for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs 
Outpatient Clinic, Boston, and author of ?Achilles in 
Vietnam.?

Shay will discuss what he has learned about military 
leadership and ethics from his treatment of post-traumatic 
stress disorder and from the work of the ancient Greek poet 
Homer. His MillerComm lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Room 407 of 
the Levis Faculty Center.

For additional information, or to confirm scheduling details 
prior to a lecture, check the events section of the CAS Web 
site.