Calendar of Events Archive 1997-1998
- September 12, 1997
- Lecture:
- Michael Maas
- "Urbanism, Identity, and Law at the End of Classical Antiquity"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- September 26, 1997
- Lecture:
- W.J. Lukaszewski, Sam Houston State University
- J.R. Thompson
- "NATO Enlargement and the Central European Democracies"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Dr. Ewa Thompson x4874, ethomp@rice.edu)
- September 26, 1997
- Lecture:
- Charles Ramirez Berg, University of Texas at Austin
- "Latino Stereotypes in Hollywood"
- 2:00 p.m. Rice Media Center
- (Contact: David Medina 831-4700 x103, dmedina@rice.edu)
- October 31, 1997
- Lecture:
- Jane Dailey, CSC Fellow 1996-1997
- "The Limits of Liberalism: The Politics of Patronage, Race, and Manhood in Virginia, 1880-1883"
- 12:00 noon Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- November 3, 1997
- Lecture:
- Harvey Yunis, Classical Studies
- "Politics as Literature: Demosthenes and the Burden of the Athenian Past"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- November 6, 1997
- Lecture:
- Daniel Sherman, CSC Fellow 1996-1997
- "Seeing the Signified: Art, Memory, and Representation in France after World War I"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- November 6-9, 1997
- Conference: Annual African Seminar
- "Research and Knowledge in Africa"
- 8:00 am to 5:00 pm Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- November 13, 1997
- Lecture:
- Sara Lipton, College of William and Mary
- "The Temple is my Body: Gender, Carnality and Synagoga in the Bible Moralisee"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Linda Neagley x3316)
- November 13, 1997
- Seminar:
- Abraham David, Hebrew University
- "Egyptian Jews in Sixteenth Century Trade: a chapter in social and economic integration in the Middle East"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 240
- (Contact: Paula Sanders x2541)
- November 14, 1997
- Lecture:
- Daniel Monk, Harvard University
- "Totemic Wars: Architecture, Apotropaics, and the Body Politic in Israel and Palestine"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: David Nirenberg x2784)
- November 14, 1997
- Lecture:
- Danuta Batorska, University of Houston
- "Zofia Stryjenska (1894-1976), Polish Painter and Proto-feminist"
- 1:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 106 (av room; slide presentation with commentary)
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- November 21, 1997
- Lecture:
- Anthony Grafton, Princeton University
- "De Pictura: Leon Battista Alberti and the Criticism of Painting"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
- (Contact: Donald Morrison x2714)
- December 4, 1997
- Lecture:
- Zhou Xunchu, Nanjing University
- "The Transcultural Background of the Great T'ang Poet Li Po (701-762)"
- 4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library (Reception to follow)
- (Contact: Nanxiu Qian, nanxiuq@owlnet.rice.edu)
- December 5, 1997
- Lecture:
- Regina Kecht, Director, Center for the Study of Language
- "The Habsburg Legacy: Austria and Central Europe"
- 12:00 noon Faculty Club
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- January 23, 1998
- Lecture:
- Dan Segal, Pitzer College
- "History, Prehistory, and the Making of 'Western Civ.'"
- 4:00 p.m. 307 Sewall Hall
- (Contact: Peter Caldwell x2543)
- January 28, 1998
- Lecture:
- Raphael Freundlich, Tel Aviv University
- "Josephus' Biblical Narrative as a Source for Understanding the Man and His Work"
- 4:00 p.m. 111 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- January 30, 1998
- Lecture:
- Susan Einbinder
- "The Magic Book that Failed: Paris, 1290"
- 4:00 p.m. 240 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: David Nirenberg x2784 )
- January 30, 1998
- Lecture:
- David Orr, Oberlin College
- "Ecological Design and Liberal Arts Education"
- 4:00 p.m. 1070 Duncan Hall
- (ES: contact Walter Isle x5606)
- February 2, 1998
- Joint Lecture:
- Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University and Peter Balakian, Colgate University
- "The Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide"
- 12:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (contact Richard Wolin x2453)
- February 3, 1998
- Lecture:
- Jeffrey Hamburger, University of Toronto
- "Seeing and Believing: the Suspicion of Sight in Late Medieval Art and Devotion"
- 3:00 p.m. 305 Sewall Hall
- (Contact: Linda Neagley x 4815 )
- February 5, 1998
- Lecture:
- Iris Chang
- "The Forgotten Massacre of World War II: The Rape of Nanking"
- 7:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Nanxiu Qian x 5945)
- February 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- Paul Gottfried, Elisabethtown College
- "Polonophobia and Other Phobias"
- 7:30 p.m. 110 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x 4874)
- February 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- Sabine MacCormack, University of Michigan
- "Lords of Cuzco: From Pre-Inca Settlement to Inca and Spanish City"
- 4:00 p.m. 303 Sewall Hall
- (Contact: CSC x 2770)
- February 13, 1998
- Lecture:
- Benjamin Isaac, Tel Aviv University /Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University
- "Jews, Pagans, and Christians in Palestine: Mixed or Separate Communities?"
- 4:00 p.m.105 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- February 13, 1998
- Lecture:
- Darcy Grigsby, University of California, Berkeley
- "Robinson Crusoe's Stump and Géricault's Raft of the Medusa"
- 4:00 p.m.117 Anderson Hall
- (Contact: Alan Grob x2645)
- February 20, 1998
- Lecture:
- Daniel Baraz, Visiting Scholar, UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
- "Martyrdom and Cruelty: A Necessary Pair?"
- 4:00 p.m. Miner Lounge, RMC
- (AMC: Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- February 20, 1998
- Lecture:
- David R. Knechtges, University of Washington
- "Translating the Medieval Chinese Literature"
- 4:00 p.m. Physics Lab 212
- (AS: Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945)
- February 20, 1998
- Lecture:
- Steven Seidman, University of Albany, SUNY
- "From Identity to Queer Politics"
- 3:00 p.m. 1046 Duncan Hall
- (FRG: Contact: James Faubion x3384)
- February 24, 1998
- Lecture:
- Peter Matthiessen, author
- "The Last of the Tiger," 2nd in lecture series: "Interdisciplinary Efforts in Environmental Education and Research"
- 7:00 p.m. McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
- (ES: contact Walter Isle x5606)
- February 26, 1998
- Lecture:
- Carl Richard, University of Southwestern Louisiana
- "The Founding Fathers and the Classics"
- 4:00 p.m. 303 Sewall Hall
- (AMC: Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- March 19, 1998
- Lecture:
- Peter H. Lee, University of California, Los Angeles
- "Critical Issues in Korean Literary History"
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor 111
- (AS: Contact: Insun Yang x2258)
- March 19-22, 1998
- Conference:
- Nineteenth Century Anglo-American Conceptions of Space
- Keynote speakers: Philippa Levine, Joseph Litvak
- Seminar leaders: Derek Gregory, Joseph Roach, Helena Michie
- Kyle Morrow Room, the afternoon of the 19th of March,
- Kyle Morrow Room, all day on the 20th of March
- Rayzor Hall classrooms, all day on the 21st of March
- (Contact: Helena Michie x2823)
- March 25, 1998
- Lecture:
- Jill Nagle, Independent Writer and Scholar
- "Whores and Other Feminists" and "Love for Sale: Queering Heterosexuality"
- 4:00 p.m. Minor Lounge
- (FRG: Contact: James Faubion x3384)
- March 26, 1998
- Lecture:
- Edward Said
- "The Tragedy of Palestine"
- 8:00 p.m. Grand Hall, RMC
- (Contact: Ussama Makdisi x2541)
- March 26, 1998
- Lecture:
- Peter Moyle and David Robertson, University of California, Davis
- "Environmental Studies in the Watershed," Third in a lecture series: "Interdisciplinary Efforts in Environmental Education and Research"
- 4:00 p.m.Biology 131
- (ES: contact Walter Isle x5606)
- March 27, 1998
- Lecture:
- Judith Newman
- "Gracious and Compassionate: The Character of God in Second Temple Literature"
- 5:00 p.m. Meyer Conference Room, RMC
- (JS: Contact: Matthias Henze x2754)
- March 27, 1998
- Lecture:
- Michael Fried
- "Menzel's Realism: Art and Embodiment in Nineteenth-Century Berlin"
- 4:00 p.m. Herring Hall 124
- (NICE: Contact: Alan Grob x2645)
- April 2, 1998
- Lecture:
- Gyan Prakash, Princeton University
- "The Nation-State and the Critique of Modernity"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Ussama Makdisi x2541)
- April 2, 1998
- Lecture:
- SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo, Colorado State University
- A Reading: Work in Progress on Cranes and Volcanoes. Fourth in lecture series: "Interdisciplinary Efforts in Environmental Education and Research"
- 7:00 p.m. McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
- (ES: contact Walter Isle x5606)
- April 3, 1998
- Slide Lecture:
- David Germano, University of Virginia
- "Channeling Goddesses, Searching for Incarnations, and Debatable Dates in 14th Century Tibet"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: Richard J. Smith x4947 or 5843)
- April 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- Lucja S. Cannon, Center for Strategic and International Studies
- "Privatization Policy in Eastern Europe and Russia"
- 12:00 noon faculty club
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x 4874)
- April 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- Jan van Luxemburg, University of Amsterdam
- "Patricia Highsmith: (Homo-)Sexuality and Genre" and "Small g: A Summer Idyll," by Patricia Highsmith
- 4:00 p.m. Miner Lounge
- (FRG: Contact: James Faubion x3384)
- April 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- James Clifton, Director of the Blaffer Foundation at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston
- "Sprinkled with His Blood: Catholics, Protestants and the Bleeding Christ in the Age of Reformation"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (MSW: Contact: Linda Neagley x3316)
- April 6-8, 1998
- Conference:
- Continental Theory Roundtable with Frank Ankersmit, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
- April 6, 4-6 p.m.: Discussion of Ankersmit's work (reading available prior to the meeting)
- April 7, 9-11:30 a.m.: Discussion of Steve Crowell's paper
- April 7, 1-3:30 p.m.: Discussion of Jack Zammito's paper
- April 8, 9-11:30 a.m.: General discussion
- (CTW: Contact: Jack Zammito x 2780)
- April 16, 1998
- Lecture:
- Dennis Banks
- "The American Indian Movement since 1968"
- 7:00 p.m. Rice Media Center
- (Contact: Lisa Slappey, slappey@rice.edu)
- April 22, 1998
- Lecture:
- Jane Dailey, Rice University
- "The Limits of Liberalism in the Post-Emancipation South: Race, Sex, Schools, and Citizenship"
- 4:00 p.m. Minor Lounge
- (FRG: Contact: James Faubion x3384)
- May 1, 1998
- Lecture:
- Alex Kurczaba, University of Illinois-Chicago
- "East Central Europe and Multiculturalism in the American Academy"
- 7:00 p.m. 110 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x 4874)
- May 16, 1998
- Symposium:
- "'000' a Late Editions May Meeting"
- (The editorial/symposium on the last volume of Late Editions, scheduled for the year 2000)
- 570 Sewall Hall, time and meeting participants TBA
- (LE: Contact: George Marcus, x3382)
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