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Calendar of Events Archive 1998-1999

September 11, 1998
Lecture:
Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
"'Identity'and the Politics of the Self in Post-War American Psychiatry"
4:00 p.m.Sewall Hall 305
(Contact: Dan Sherman x2773)
September 18, 1998
Lecture:
Piotr Wilczek, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, Rice University
"Catholics and Heretics: Some Aspects of Religious Debates in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries"
7:30 p.m.Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: CSC x2770)
September 22, 1998
Lecture:
Samantha Kelly, Rice University
"The Theory and Practice of Late-Medieval Kingship: Politics and Propaganda at the Court of Robert of Naples (1309-1343)"
4:00 p.m.Sewall 309
(Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
September 25, 1998
Lecture:
Stephen Kern, Norhern Illinois University
"The Cultural History of Causality since 1830"
4:00 p.m.Fondren 525
(Contact: Tom Haskell x4947)
September 30, 1998
Lecture:
Joseph Manca, Rice University, CSC Fellow for 1997-1998
"Moral Stance in Italian Renaissance Art: Image, Text, and Meaning"
12:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
(Contact: CSC x2770)
October 1, 1998
Reading:
The Orion Society's "Forgotten Language Tour" presents
Gary Paul Nabhan, ethnobotanist and author of Cultures of Habitat,
Janisse Ray, poet and author of the forthcoming Where the Cutting Ends: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
Sue Ellen Campbell (Rice '73), professor and author of Cultures of Habitat,
7:30 p.m. Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
(Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
October 2, 1998
Lecture:
Jack Zammito, Rice University, CSC Fellow for 1997-1998
"Historical Reservations about the 'Aesthetic Ideology' Thesis"
4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
(Contact: CSC x2770)
October 5, 1998
Lecture:
Martin Jay, University of California - Berkeley
"The Crisis of Experience in a Post-Subjective Age"
4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
October 12, 1998
Lecture:
Karla Jay, Pace University
"In Theory and in Practice, but not in Deed""
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627)
October 9-19, 1998
Exhibition:
Wang Chi
"Trans-Pacific Art"
First Floor, Fondren Library
(Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945)
October 15, 1998
Lecture:
Wang Chi
"Trans-Pacific Art"
7:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945)
October 15, 1998
Lecture:
Stanley Kutler, University of Wisconsin - Madison
"Abuse of Power: The Tapes & Scandals of Richard M. Nixon""
4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: Allen Matusow x5275)
October 23, 1998
Lecture:
Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida
"Determinism, Free Will, and the Concept of a Person: Some African Reflections"
4:00 p.m. Duncan Hall 1070
(Contact: Elias Bongmba x2759)
October 27, 1998
Lecture:
Katya Hirvasaho, Rice University
"An Empire Without Colonies: Remarks on Russian Colonial Discourse"
12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting)
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
October 28, 1998
Lunch Talk:
Harvey Yunis, Rice University
"Thucydides' Speeches at the Crossroads of Rhetoric and History: A Challenge to Disciplinary Thinking"
12:00 n. Fondren Library 525
(Contact: Harvey Yunis x2775)
October 29, 1998
Lecture:
David Keightley, University of California - Berkeley
"Death and the Birth of Civilizations: Ancient China and Ancient Greece"
8:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Rich Smith x2552 and Harvey Yunis x2775)
November 6, 1998
Lecture:
Douglas Medin, Northwestern University
"Comparative Studies of Categorization and Reasoning: Culture and Expertise"
3:30 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Richard Grandy x2720)
November 9, 1998
Lecture:
Satya Mohanty, Cornell University
"Can Our Values Be Objective? A Realist Proposal"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Jack Zammito x3460)
November 13, 1998
Lecture:
George Yudice, New York University
"The Globalization of Culture: A Latin American Perspective"
3:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Maarten van Delden x2255)
November 13, 1998
Lecture:
Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
"The Psycho-Cultural Origins of Human Rights"
4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
November 14, 1998
Symposium:
"Painting Under Pressure"
9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
(Contact: John Sparagana x3569)
November 17, 1998
Seminar:
Emlyn Norman, Texas Southern University
"The Political Economy of Africa"
4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 517
(Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
November 20-21, 1998
Conference:
"Constructing Hildegard: Reception and Identity 1098-1998"
Neil J. O'Brien Symposium in Medieval Studies for 1998.
4:00 p.m. November 20th, all day November 21st
Sewall Hall 301
Conference Web Page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hildgard/conference/index.html
(Contact: Honey Meconi,<hmeconi@rice.edu>)
December 3, 1998
Lecture:
Johannes Heil
"The Hidden Theological Concept: Jews and Judaism in 9th Century Commentaries on the Letters of Paul"
12:00 noon Sewall Hall 303
(Contact: David Nirenberg x2784)
December 7, 1998
Lecture:
Peter Flint, Trinity Western University
"The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Biblical Psalter"
5:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 240
(Contact: Matthias Henze x2754)
December 10, 1998
Lecture:
Wlad Godzich, Professor of Emergent Literatures, Comparative Literature, and European Studies, University of Geneva
"The Emergence of Postnational Literature"
4:00 p.m. Kyl e Morrow Room
(Contact: Kathryn Milun x3311)
December 11, 1998
Lecture:
Wlad Godzich, Professor of Emergent Literatures, Comparative Literature, and European Studies, University of Geneva
"The New Anthropos"
12:00 noon Sewall Hall 570
(Contact: Kathryn Milun x3311)
January 22, 1999
Lecture:
Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
"Why Were the Jews Sacrificed?: The Role of Anti-Semitism in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment"
4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
January 29, 1999
Lecture:
Katama Mkangi, Carroll College
"African Social Change and the Future of Society in Kenya"
4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
(Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
January 29, 1999
Lecture:
Waclaw Mucha, Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Rice University
"Humor and Satire in Soviet Russian Literature: The Case of Mikhail Zoshchenko"
7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
January 29-31, 1999
Film Festival / Conference:
"Asian American Stories on Film"
Opening night talk: Flora Moon, "Where is Home?" (Jan.29, 7 p.m.; reception at 6 p.m.)
For program details see the Conference Web site or Rice Cinema Schedule. Location: Rice Media Center.
(Contact: Shannon Leonard, sleonard@owlnet.rice.edu, 726-0588 or Sylvia Van Ziegert, svan@owlnet.rice.edu, 205-918-0038)
January 30, 1999
Symposium:
"The Road to Plandom: Non-Socialist and Pre-Socialist Economic Planning in Republican China and Europe, 1935-1950"
9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Baker Institute 104
(Contact: Carl Caldwell x2543)
February 9, 1999
Lecture:
Menachem Kellner, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa
"Song of Songs: Erotic Love Poetry or Aristotelian Philosophy?"
2:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Diana Lobel x2778)
February 9, 1999
Lecture:
James Opolot, Department of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University
"Police Administration in English Speaking Africa"
4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 517
(Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
February 11, 1999
Lecture:
James T. Cushing, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
"Some Unexpected Limits on Scientific Knowledge"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 307
(Contact: Yuri Balashov x3409)
February 19, 1999
Lecture:
Rajewsari Sunder Rajan, Visiting Professor of English, George Washington University
"Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamil Nadu: Children of the State?"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Betty Joseph x2774)
February 26, 1999
Lecture:
Daniel Cohen, Florida International University
"Heroic Women Found: Transgressive Feminism, Popular Biography and the Beautiful Female Murder Victim"
4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: Martin Wiener x2886)
February 26, 1999
Lecture:
Benjamin Oduor Odhoji, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
"Metaphors of the Self: Forms of Self-Expression and Representation among the Luo People of Kenya"
4:00 p.m., Fondren Library 525
(Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
March 4, 1999
Lecture:
J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas
"Implications of the Shifting Paradigm in Ecology for Environmental Ethics"
4:00 p.m.Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Gregory Mikkelson, 713-737-6169)<
March 8, 1999
Lecture:
Harry Walsh, Professor of Russian, University of Houston
"Repatriation of Prince Andrei Kurbskii" (on recent Russian fiction)
12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting - Dutch treat; please confirm via email to sarmatia@rice.edu)
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
March 17, 1999
Symposium:
"Text and Commentary"
Participants: Steven Fraade, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University; Mark Vessey, Dept. of English, Univ. of British Columbia
3:00-6:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
March 17, 1999
Lecture:
Tony Burgess, Biosphere 2 Center, Columbia University
"Environmental Field Study at Biosphere 2"
5:15 - 6:30 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
March 18, 1999
Workshop:
Norma Alarcon, University of California - Berkeley
"Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminism, and the State"
4:00 - 6:00 pm. Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
(Contact: Jose Aranda x2447)
March 19, 1999
Workshop:
Norma Alarcon, University of California - Berkeley
"Facing the Future: New Inter-Disciplinary and Theoretical Directions in Ethnic, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"
2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
(Contact: Jose Aranda x2447)
March 19, 1999
Symposium:
"Future of the German Past"
Participants: Jan Muller, New York University and William Scheuerman, University of Pittsburgh
4:00 p.m. Ley Conference Room, Rice Student Center
(Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
March 22, 1999
Lecture:
Piotr Wilczek, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, Rice University
"Cultural Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of the Upper Silesian Arts Festival"
12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting - Dutch treat; please confirm via email to sarmatia@rice.edu)
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
March 25, 1999
Lecture:
Iris Marion Young, Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
"Public Address as a Sign of Political Inclusion: On Feminist Ethics"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
(Contact: Susan Lurie x2635)
March 26-27, 1999
Conference:
"The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice"
3/26, 1-5 p.m.; 3/27, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
(Contact: Edith Wyschogrod, stedith@rice.edu)
April 5, 1999
Lecture:
Scott Slovic, Director of the Center for the Environment in Arts and Humanities, University of Nevada - Reno
"The Environment in Arts and Humanities"
4:00 p.m. Location TBA
(Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
April 9, 1999
Lecture:
Ruth Garrett Millikan, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
"Abilities"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
(Contact: Richard Grandy x2720)
April 23, 1999
Lecture:
Fitzroy Baptiste, Professor of History, Oberlin College
"The African Presence in the Indian Subcontinent"
4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
(Contact: Edward Cox x2249)
April 23, 1999
Lecture:
Dyan Elliott, Professor of History, Indiana University
"Seeing Double: Jean Gerson, Female Spirituality, and the Discernment of Spirits"
4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
(Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
April 23, 1999
Lecture:
Hilary Schor, Professor of English, University of Southern California
"Show Trials: Character, Conviction & the Law in Victorian Fiction"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
(Contact: Alan Grob x2645)
April 23, 1999
Lecture:
Edward Keenan, Professor of History, Harvard University and Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
"The Lost Continent of Dnieprovia"
7:30 p.m. 110 Rayzor Hall
(Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
April 28, 1999
Lecture:
Patricia Juliana Smith, University of California - Los Angeles
"Icons and Iconoclasts: Figments of Sixties Lesbian Culture"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
(Contact: Collen Lamos x4840)
April 28, 1999
Lecture:
John Knasas, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas
"The Metaphysical Basis of Aquinas's Natural Law Ethics"
4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
(Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)




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