Spring 2010

January

Thursday, January 21, 2010 - Thursday, September 21, 2010

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Title - TBA »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Mark Wrathall Professor ofPhilosophy, University of California, Riverside

Humanities Building

Saturday, January 23, 2010

2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Digital Storytelling, a workshop »
Workshop
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:	Carroll Parrott Blue University of Houston
Speaker:	Kairn Klieman University of Houston

305 Sewall Hall

February

Thursday, February 11, 2010

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Title - TBA »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Rosemarie Bodenheimer Professor of English, Boston College

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas
USA

Friday, February 12, 2010

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Poetry is Dead, Long Live Poetry »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Maureen McLane Associate Professor of English, and contributing editor at Boston Review, New York University

Inprint
1520 West Main
Houston, Texas
USA

Friday, February 12, 2010

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

The State of Exception as a Political and Logical Problem »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Andrew Norris Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California at Santa Barbara

119 Humanities Building

Friday, February 19, 2010

9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

Museums and the Medical Humanities: Our Continuing Conversation »
Symposium
Humanities Research Center

Kyle Morrow Room Fondren Library

Friday, February 19, 2010

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Lost and Found: A Cache of Early Modern Drama »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Roslyn Knutson Professor Emerita of English, University of Arkansas at Little Rock

119 Humanities Building

Friday, February 26, 2010

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Intentions and Wrongful Discrimination »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Deborah Hellman the Jacob France Research Professor of Law, University of Maryland

123 Rayzor Hall

March

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

What Do Scholars Want? »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Jerome McGann the John Stewart Bryan University Professor and Professor of English, University of Virginia

301 Sewall Hall

Thursday, March 11, 2010

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Critical Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: An Interdisciplinary, Contextualist Approach »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

William Rehg Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University

119 Humanities Building

Sunday, March 14, 2010

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Becoming Visual: The Emergence of the Visible Jewess in Later Medieval Art »
Conference
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Sara Lipton Associate Professor of History, State University of New York, Stony Brook

Congregation Beth Yeshurun
4525 Beechnut St.
Houston, Texas
USA

Monday, March 15, 2010

9:00 AM - 4:15 PM

Crossing Borders: Visualizing Jewish/Christian and Jewish/Muslim Relations in Medieval and Early Modern Times »
Conference
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:	Linda Elaine Neagley Associate Professor of Art History, Rice University
Speaker:	Natalie Zeldin student, Rice University
Speaker:	Diane Wolfthal the David and Caroline Minter Endowed Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Art History, Rice University
Speaker:	Anne Derbes Professor of Art and Archeology, Hood College
Speaker:	Eva Haverkamp Professorin für Mittelalterliche Jüdische Geschichte, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universita¨t, Munich
Speaker:	Sarah Westphal-Wihl Associate Professor of German Literature & Language, Washington University in St. Louis
Speaker:	Paula Sanders Professor of History, Rice University

Farnsworth Pavilion RMC/Ley Student Center

Monday, March 15, 2010

7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Which is the Merchant here, and Which the Jew?’: Shakespeare’s Jewish Questions »
Conference
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

David Nirenberg the Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago

Congregation Brith Shalom
Bellaire Blvd.
Houston, Texas
USA

Friday, March 19, 2010

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

Regarding Doing Being Ordinary »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

J. David Velleman Professor of Philosophy, New York University

119 Humanities Building

April

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - Thursday, April 18, 2010

9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Histories of the Hidden God »
Conference
Humanities Research Center

Kyle Morrow Room Fondren Library

Friday, April 16, 2010

4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Phenomenological Method after Husserl »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

David Cerbone Associate Professor of Philosophy, West Virginia University

119 Humanities Building

Friday, April 16, 2010

4:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Anthropology of the Brain: Consciousness and Symbolic Systems »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Roger Bartra Investgador Emérito, Instituto des Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Autónoma de México, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City, Mexico

Rice University
6100 Main St
Houston, Texas
USA

Thursday, April 22, 2010

5:30 PM - 7:00 PM

'The Earth to be spann'd': American Studies and the Digital Humanities »
Lecture/Lecture Series
Humanities Research Center

Speaker:

Matt Cohen Associate Professor of English, University of Texas, Austin

308 Herring Hall