Calendar of Events Archive 1999-2000
- September 11, 1999
- Public meeting and discussion:
- "Latin American Subaltern Studies: Founding Members Discuss New Directions"
- 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon, Sewall 570
- The Latin American Subaltern Studies Founders are: John Beverley, U. of Pittsburgh; Sara Castro-Klaren, Johns Hopkins; Michael Clark, US Chamber of Commerce; Abdul Karim Mustapha, Duke; Jose Rabasa, UC-Berkeley; Ileana Rodriguez, Ohio State; Patricia Seed, Rice.
- (Contact: Patricia Seed x4947)
- September 14, 1999
- Lecture:
- Jane Chance, Professor of English, Rice University; CSC Fellow for 1998-1999
- "Fabulizing Subjectivity: Individuation and the Incorporated Soul in Late Medieval Mythography"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall 309
- There will be a reception immediately following the lecture.
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- September 14, 1999
- Lecture:
- Sheryl McCurdy, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Health Promotion, University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health,
- "Manyema Women's Sexuality and Colonial Anxiety: Examining Strategies that Encouraged Low Fertility and Divorce in Colonial Tanganyika, 1926-36"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- September 24, 1999
- Lecture:
- Edward Steinhart, Department of History, Texas Tech University
- "Spirit Possession and the Clash with Christian Civilization in Uganda: The Baccwezi at Munsa"
- 4:00 p.m.Fondren 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- September 24, 1999
- Luncheon meeting (CESG):
- John Knasas, Professor of Philosophy, University of Saint Thomas
- "Lithuania Today: Major Issues"
- 12:00 noon, Faculty Club
- please confirm via email: sarmatia@rice.edu
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- October 1, 1999
- Lecture:
- Roger Chickering, Center for German and European Studies, Georgetown University
- "A Funeral in Freiburg, 1917: A German City in the Era of Total War"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: Carl Caldwell x2543)
- October 8, 1999
- Lecture:
- David William Cohen, International Institute, University of Michigan
- Atieno Odhiambo, Department of History, Rice University
- "Global Capital, Local Power: The Murder of Robert Ouko, Kenya's Foreign Minister, Kenya 1990"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- October 12, 1999
- Lecture:
- K. Lalita, Social Activist, Anveshi Research Center for Women's Studies
- "Writing Oral History and Living Political Experience: An Account of Feminist Praxis in Hyderabad, India"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall 301
- (Contact: Lynne Huffer x4851)
- October 15, 1999
- Lecture:
- Eric Margolis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rice University; CSC Fellow for 1998-1999
- "Concepts, Innateness, and the Theory of Content"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall 305
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- October 22, 1999
- Lecture:
- Paul Gregory, Department of Economics, University of Houston
- "Preconditions and General Results of Transition in Russia: One Decade Later"
- (part of the Path-Dependency and Transition Economics Workshop Series)
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 105
- This talk will be based on a pre-distributed paper, which you can receive from Carl Caldwell.
- (Contact: Carl Caldwell x2543)
- October 22, 1999
- Julius Kambarage Nyerere Memorial Lecture:
- D. A. Masolo, Professor of Philosophy, University of Louisville
- "Nationalism and Philosophy in Africa"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- October 27, 1999
- Luncheon meeting (CESG):
- Valery Lazarev, University of Houston
- Topic: History Textbooks in Postcommunist Russia
- 12:00 noon, Faculty Club (President's Dining Room)
- Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu) two weeks in advance; seating is limited.
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- November 5, 1999
- European Intellectual History Lecture:
- Elliot Neaman, Professor of History, University of San Francisco
- "A Dubious Past: Ernst Jünger and the Politics of Literature after Nazism"
- 4:00 p.m., Miner Lounge, Ley Student Center, RMC
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- November 9, 1999
- Lecture:
- Christopher Lorenz, Professor of History, Free University - Amsterdam
- "Objectivity and the Instrumental Uses of History: Afterthoughts about a Recent Conference in Brussels"
- 4:00 p.m., Fondren 525
- (Contact: Thomas Haskell x2197)
- November 12, 1999
- Lecture:
- Michael Gerli, Professor of Spanish, Georgetown University
- "The Ideologies of Philology: Gender, Text, and Nation in the Construction of the Romance Kharjas"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall 309
- (Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
- November 15, 1999
- Lecture:
- Sahar Amer, Assistant Professor of French, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "On the Borders of Gender and Cultures: The Literary Genealogy of the French Medieval Lesbian"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall 305
- (Contact: Lynne Huffer x5625)
- November 18, 1999
- Lecture:
- Elizabeth Spelke, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
- "Core Concepts and New Combinations: Space and Number"
- 12:00 noon, Space Science 106
- (Contact: Richard Grandy x2720)
- December 9, 1999
- Luncheon meeting (CESG):
- Dr. Chester Natulewicz
- "The Greek and Roman Classics in Central and Eastern Europe"
- 12:00 noon, Faculty Club (President's Dining Room)
- Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu) two weeks in advance; seating is limited.
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- January 21, 2000
- Lecture:
- Johannes Fritsche, Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research
- "Hegel's Theological and Rational Justification of Civil Society"
- 4:00 p.m., Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- January 25, 2000
- Lecture:
- Debra Blumenthal, CSC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Rice University
- Tentative title: "Implements of Labor, Instruments of Honor: Muslim, Eastern, and Black African Slaves in Fifteenth-Century Valencia"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
- February 3, 2000
- Lecture:
- Timur Kuran, Professor of Economics, University of Southern California
- "The Muslim Commercial Retreat: Causes, Consequences, Responses"
- (part of the Path-Dependency and Transition Economics Workshop Series)
- 4:00 p.m. Baker Institute 104
- (Contact: Steve Lewis x5832)
- February 3, 2000
- Lecture:
- Marcus Leuchter, Member of the Board of Directors, Houston Holocaust Museum
- "Reflections on the Holocaust"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- February 11, 2000
- Film and Discussion:
- Trinh T. Minh-ha, Professor of Women's Studies, University at California - Berkeley, Filmmaker
- "A Tale of Love" (35mm color film, 108 mins., 1995; directed, written, and edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha)
- Portraying the Vietnamese immigrant experience through Kieu, A Tale of Love follows the quest of a woman in love with Love. The film is loosely inspired by "The Tale of Kieu," the Vietnamese national poem of love which Vietnamese people see as a mythical biography of their motherland. A free-lance writer, Kieu also works as a model for a photographer who idealizes the headless female body and who captures Kieu sheathed by transparent veils. Voyeurism runs through the history of love narrative and is here one of the threads that structure the "narrative" of the film. Exposing the fiction of love in love stories and the process of consumption, the film marginalizes traditional narrative conventions and opens up a denaturalized space of acting where performed reality, memory and dream constantly pass into one another. The film will be followed by a discussion featuring the director and members of the Feminist Reading Group.
- 2:00 p.m., Rice Media Cener
- (Contact: Lynne Huffer x5625)
- February 11, 2000
- Lecture:
- Bruce Masters, Professor of History, Wesleyan University
- "Rethinking Tolerance: Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Arab Lands"
- 4:00 p.m., Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Ussama Makdisi x2561)
- February 15, 2000
- Lecture:
- Peter Jansen, Journalist and Author
- "The Sloterdijk Affair in Germany"
- 12:00 p.m., Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- February 18, 2000
- Lecture:
- David Good, Professor of History, University of Minnesota
- "Rethinking Economic Performance in Central and Eastern Europe, 1870-1989"
- (part of the Path-Dependency and Transition Economics Workshop Series)
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- This talk will be based on a pre-distributed paper, which you can receive from Carl Caldwell.
- (Contact: Carl Caldwell x2543; caldwell@rice.edu)
- February 18-20, 2000
- Film Festival:
- Landscapes through Asian Pacific/American Media
- More information at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~asamfilm
- Rice Media Center
- (Contact: Elizabeth Tsai, etsai@rice.edu)
- February 21, 2000
- Luncheon meeting (CESG):
- Milan Jazbec, Minister Plenipotentiary, Republic of Slovenia
- Topic: The Diplomacies of the Small New States
- 11:30 a.m., Faculty Club (Card Room)
- Please confirm via email (sarmatia@rice.edu); seating is limited; Dutch-treat lunch.
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- February 25, 2000
- Lecture:
- Josiah Blackmore, Assistant Professor of Portuguese and Associate Chair of Portuguese,University of Toronto.
- "Manifest Perdition: Shipwreck Narrative and the Disruption of Historiography"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Rafael Merida x3206; merida@rice.edu)
- February 26, 2000
- Symposium:
- Queering Past and Present
- 12:00 - 6:00 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library; program TBA
- (Contact: Rafael Merida x3206 or Colleen Lamos x2627)
- February 26, 2000
- Wokshop:
- Collaborative Urbanisms - Community Development
- One in the series of workshops pairing local and national urban scholars with key players in the revitalization and economic growth of downtown Houston. Guest Speakers: Robin German-Curtis, Greater Houston Urban Redevelopment Corporation, Stephen Klineberg, Professor of Sociology, Rice University, and Mardie Oakes, Fifth Ward Community Redevelopment Corporation. More information here
- 10:00 a.m., Anderson Hall 117
- (Contact: Nitin Deckha, 713-521-1151, devdatt@rice.edu or ndeckha@hotmail.com)
- February 29, 2000
- Lecture:
- Dr. Chris van Wyk, Eastern Cape Technikon, South Africa
- "Higher Education in the New South Africa"
- 4:00 p.m.Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- March 2, 2000
- Lecture:
- Paul Bertagnolli, Assistant Professor, Moores School of Music, University of Houston
- "Ein deutsches Requiem, How a German Formalist Mourned"
- 7:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Bryce Simmang x3473)
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- March 4, 2000
- Wokshop:
- Collaborative Urbanisms - Global Markets
- One in the series of workshops pairing local and national urban scholars with key players in the revitalization and economic growth of downtown Houston. Guest speakers: Bill Gilmer, Assistant Vice-President, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas at Houston, and Rainer Lilienthal, Assistant Director, Trade Development, Port of Houston Authority. More information here
- 10:00 a.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Nitin Deckha, 713-521-1151, devdatt@rice.edu or ndeckha@hotmail.com)
- March 15, 2000
- Lecture:
- Elizabeth Gamard, Associate Dean, School of Architecture, Tulane University
- "Bauhaus, or the Birth of Modern Architecture"
- 2:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 111
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- March 17, 2000
- Lecture:
- Professor Zdzislaw Krasnodebski, Osteuropa und Ostmitteleuropa Institut, University of Bremen, Germany
- "The Changing Social and Political Realities in Central Europe"
- 7:30 p.m., Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- March 23, 2000
- Lecture:
- Abiola Irele, Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature, Ohio State University
- "Literature and Philosophy in Francophone Africa"
- 4:00 p.m.Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- March 23, 2000
- Lecture:
- Khenpo Ogyen Thrinely, Tibetan Teaching Scholar
- "Visions of Tibetan Buddhism"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
- (Contact: Anne C. Klein, x2711, ack@rice.edu)
- March 24, 2000
- Lecture and roundtable discussion:
- Li Zehou, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Colorado-Boulder
- "After Bidding Farewell to Revolution"
- 4:00 p.m., Baker Institute 104
- (Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945, nanxiuq@rice.edu)
- March 24, 2000
- Lecture:
- Pier Larson, Assistant Professor of History, Johns Hopkins University
- "Of Conversation and Conversion: Meetings of Minds in Early-19th-Century Highland Madagascar"
- 4:00 p.m.Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- March 24, 2000
- English Graduate Student Symposium Keynote Address:
- Robyn Wiegman, Director of Women's Studies, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of California - Irvine
- "The University in the Afterlife of Identity Politics"
- 7:00 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- March 24-25, 2000
- English Graduate Student Symposium: "Analysis Now"
- The symposium will open with Robyn Wiegman's keynote address on Friday evening (see above). On Saturday there will be several panels featuring papers by Rice English Department faculty and graduate students.
- Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Dejan Kuzmanovic, dkuzman@rice.edu, or Deborah Needleman-Armintor, debn@rice.edu)
- March 25, 2000
- Wokshop:
- Collaborative Urbanisms - Multicultural Citizenship
- One in the series of workshops pairing local and national urban scholars with key players in the revitalization and economic growth of downtown Houston. Guest speakers: James Holston, Professor of Anthropology, University of California - San Diego, and Larry Payne, Executive Director, National Conference for Community and Justice, Greater Houston Chapter. More information here
- 3:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Nitin Deckha, 713-521-1151, devdatt@rice.edu or ndeckha@hotmail.com)
- March 27, 2000
- Lecture:
- Hindy Najman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Notre Dame
- "Angels at Sinai: Revelation and Exegesis in Second Temple and Rabbinic Literature"
- 4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 109
- (Contact: Matthias Henze x2754)
- April 5, 2000
- CSC Fellow's Lecture:
- Colleen Lamos, Associate Professor of English, Rice University
- "'I'm Not a Lesbian; I Just Loved Thelma': Lesbian Disavowals in Modern Literature"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- April 6-9, 2000
- Conference:
- Causation and Interpersonal Manipulation in Languages of Central and South America
- Location TBA. You can see the program and the list of participants at http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hilaryy/symp.html
- (Contact: Hilary Young, hilaryy@rice.edu)
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- April 8, 2000
- Wokshop:
- Collaborative Urbanisms - Downtown Cultural Sector
- One in the series of workshops pairing local and national urban scholars with key players in the revitalization and economic growth of downtown Houston. Guest speakers: John Runnels and Charlie Sartwelle, Mother Dog Studios, and Sharon Zukin, Broeklundian Professor of Sociology, Brooklyn College (CUNY). More information here
- 2:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Nitin Deckha, 713-521-1151, devdatt@rice.edu or ndeckha@hotmail.com)
- April 10, 2000
- Lecture:
- Susan Ashbrook Harvey, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Brown University
- "Sensing the Sacred: Bodily Experience and Bodily Knowing in Late Antique Christianity"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- April 12, 2000
- Lecture:
- Paul Morrison, Visiting Professor of English, Rice University
- "Lavender Fascists"
- 4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 109
- (Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627)
- April 12-13, 2000
- Conference:
- "Christians, Jews, and Muslims in Medieval Spain: colloquium on works in progress"
- Participants: Tom Buhrman, University of Tennessee; John Tolan, Universite' de Nantes; Amy Remensnyder, Brown University; Kathryn Miller, Stanford University; Mark Meyerson, University of Toronto; Ana Echevarria, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia; Larry Simon, Western Michigan State University.
- Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center, April 12 (10:00 - 5:00)
- Second Floor Conference Room, Rice Memorial Center, April 13 (9:00 - 11:00)
- (Contact: David Nirenberg x2784)
- April 13, 2000
- Roundtable Discussion:
- Olga Cooke, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, Texas A & M University
- "Slavic Studies in Postcommunism: Educational Challenges"
- 12:00 noon - 2:30 p.m., Cohen House
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- April 13, 2000
- Lecture:
- Mark Sneed, Professor of Hebrew Bible, Lubbock Christian University
- "Ecclesiastes: 'Frightening Guest' in the Canon"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: Matthias Henze x2754)
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- April 13-16, 2000
- Conference:
- Written Text and Transformations of Thought and Expression in Classical Greece
- Confirmed participants: David Cohen (UC-Berkeley), Lesley Dean-Jones (UT-Austin), Andrew Ford (Princeton), Michael Gagarin (UT-Austin), Albert Henrichs (Harvard), Richard Hunter (Cambridge), Charles Kahn (Pennsylvania), Geoffrey Lloyd (Cambridge), Hilary Mackie (Rice), Dirk Obbink (Oxford), Rosalind Thomas (London), Harvey Yunis (Rice).
- International Conference Facility, Baker Hall. For program and other information see here
- (Contact: Harvey Yunis x2775)
- April 14, 2000
- Lecture:
- Edward Alpers, Professor of History, University of California - Los Angeles
- "The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean World: An Overview and Some Atlantic Comparisons"
- 4:00 p.m.Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- April 17, 2000
- Lecture:
- Judith Halberstam, Professor of English Literature, University of California at San Diego
- "Male Fraud: Counterfeit Masculinities and the Brandon Teena Archive"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
- In preparation for the lecture, FRG will screen the documentary, "The Brandon Teena Story" (90 minutes), on Friday, April 14th, 3-4:30 p.m., in Sewall Hall 309.
- (Contact: Lynne Huffer x5625)
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- April 21, 2000
- Lecture:
- Gauri Viswanathan, Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
- "The Grammar of Dissent: Conversion, Heresy, and Belief in British India"
- 4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Ussama Makdisi x2561)
- April 27, 2000
- Lecture:
- Richard Golsan, Department of Modern Languages, Texas A & M University
- "The Politics of Memory in Contemporary France"
- 4:00 p.m., location tba
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- April 28, 2000
- Lecture:
- Gregory Maddox, Department of Geography and History, Texas Southern University
- "'Degradation Narratives' and 'Population Time Bombs': Myths and Realities about the African Environments"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
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