Part of the Women and Gender in Islamic Societies Lecture Series
"The Qur'anic Worldview: A Woman's Perspective"
DR. AZIZAH AL-HIBRI , Professor of Law, University of Richmond

Location of lecture: Baker Hall, 7PM.
RSVP: bipprsvp@rice.edu or x5794.
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

Topic: The Young Leibniz
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Location: Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room
Contact: Mark Kulstad, Dept. of Philosophy, kulstad@rice.edu.

"Mapping Paradise: Islam in an Indian Landscape, circa 1540" 
 ADITYA BEHL
Associate Professor of South Asian Studies

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117 
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238.

"Number and Language: Developmental, Evolutionary and Nerological Evidence for Two"
CLAUDIA ULLER, Assistant Professor of Cognitive Science, University of Louisana Lafayette

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 226
Contact: Richard Grandy, rgrandy@rice.edu, x2720.

"The Relationship among the Hebrew Crusade Chronicles as Historical Event"
EVA HAVERKAMP, Anna Smith Fine Assistant Professor of History

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117 
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.

"Portraits for the People: Wood-Boxed Ambrotypes of Late 19th-Century Japan"
 HENRY D. SMITH II
Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 328 
Contact: Sarah Thal, thal@rice.edu, x2553.

"The Drama of Zimbabwe's Veterans in Three Acts"
 NORMA KRIGER
Professor of International Studies, Princeton University

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

Gender and Visual Cultures

4/10, 4PM, Humanities 117: Paul Morrison (Brandeis University) presents "We Had Faces: The Close-up and Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard"

4/11, 3PM, Meyer Conference Room: Kirsten Ostherr (Rice University) presents "Representing Contamination"
Contact: Susan Lurie, lurie@rice.edu, x6265 or x2635.

"'I vow not to disparage women': Reflections on Discourse about Women in Early Medieval Buddhism" 
 DAVID GRAY
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University

Location: 4:30PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Imitation as Interpretation: The Shishuo Tradition and the Theophrastan Character Writings" 
 NANXIU QIAN
Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Linguistics, Rice University

Location: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Was Hitler Gay?  Why Does Anyone Care?"
 CAROLYN DEAN
Professor of History, Brown University

Location: 3:00PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

 Topic: Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy

Location: Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room
Contact: Steven Crowell, Dept. of Philosophy, crowell@rice.edu.

"Culture, Connections and the 'Longue Durée' in the History of the Swahili Coast"
 GARY BURGESS
Professor of Political Science and History, Hampton University

Location: 12:00PM, Humanities 327 
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Heresy, Holiness, and the Early Inquisition" 
 MARK GREGORY PEGG
Assistant Professor of History, Washingto University, St. Louis

Location: 5:00PM, Humanities 328
Contact: Ussama Makdisi, makdisi@rice.edu.

"Gathering Around the Word: The Biblical Roots of Conciliarism in Jean Gerson" 
 ZACK FLANAGIN

Location: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

Part of the Women and Gender in Islamic Societies Lecture Series
"Text, Gender and Reform in Islam"
DR. AMINA WADUD
Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Qur'an and Woman

Location of lecture: Baker Hall, 7PM.
RSVP: bipprsvp@rice.edu or x5794.
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures.

Part of the Women and Gender in Islamic Societies Lecture Series
"Understanding a Refugee Woman's Reality"
ZAINAB SALBI
Founder and President of Women for Women International

Location of lecture: Baker Hall, 7PM.
RSVP: bipprsvp@rice.edu or x5794.
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"The Commercialization of the University and the Economics of Science in the 21st Century"
PHILIP MIROWSKI
Carl E. Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science
Notre Dame University

Location of lecture: McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall, 2PM.
Contact: Christopher Kelty, ckelty@rice.edu, x3311.

Public Lecture: "Teaching in the Face of Terror: Strategies of Survival, Humanistic Education, and Cultural Repair"
SUSAN HANDELMAN 
NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Bar Ilan University, Israel

Location of public lecture: March 19, 8PM in the Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library.
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770 and see our Distinguished Visiting Scholars  page for information on the Faculty-Student Seminars.

 Tradition and the Challenge of Modernity: Politics, Poetics and Gender in Late Qing China, 1840-1911

Location of Lectures: March 8, 9AM-12PM and 2-5PM, Humanities 117
For information on the Symposium/Workshop March 7-9, please visit: http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~nanxiuq
Contact: Nanxiu Qian, Depts. of Asian Studies and Linguistics, nanxiuq@rice.edu.

 "'What Will People Say... (Babylonian Talmud)?' Formations of Jewish Piety and the Rhetoric of Public Visibility"
ChARLOTTE FONROBERT
Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies 
Stanford University
Location: CANCELED
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778

 "Instructions for Life: How-to Literature and Hobby Photography in 1920s and 1930s Japan"
KERRY ROSS
PhD candidate, Department of History
Columbia University
Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Sarah Thal, thal@rice.edu, x2553

 "Sur Is the Sun: Why Surdas is North India's Most Celebrated Krishna Poet"
JOHN STRATTON HAWLEY
Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures
Barnard College
Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238

"The Imperial Hunt in Colonial Kenya, c1880-1909"
EDWARD STEINHART
Associate Professor of History, Texas Tech University

Location of lecture: Location and time TBA
Contact: Atieno Odhiambo, odhiambo@rice.edu, x2556.

"Synagogue Sounds: Issues in the Study of Music without a Clear Beat"
EDWIN SEROUSSI
Emmanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Location of lecture: 4:00PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.

Rice Women's Conference: Connections, Communications & Networking
Keynote Address: "The Curiosity Path: Women Preparing for the Unpredictable"
LE ANNE SCHREIBER
First woman sports editor of The New York Times and author of Light Years
Location: Rice Memorial Chapel, 10:45AM- 12PM, February 8.

For information on the lectures, workshops and events in this conference, please refer to http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rwc.
Contact: Kathleen Minadeo Johnson, x3452, rwc@rice.edu.

 "Apocalypse and History in 17th-Century Medina"
DAVID COOK
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rice University

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Michael Maas, maas@rice.edu, x2264.

 "Towards a New Paradigm of Communication"
LIUBAVA M. MOREVA
Director of The Russian Institute for Cultural Research, the St. Petersburg Branch

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Did Reagan Win the Cold War?"
ALLEN MATUSOW
William Gaines Twyman Professor of History
2001-2002 CSC Fellow

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

 "Other Aeneids: Rewriting Passages of Virgilian Epic in Antiquity"
SCOTT McGILL
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Honey Meconi, hmeconi@rice.edu, x3714

 "Architecture of Contemplation: Cistercian Simplicity from Burgundy to California"
Terryl Kinder
Field Archaeologist and Editor of Citeaux

Location: 4:00 PM, Sewall 309
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

 "Publishing as Politics: Dilemmas of, and courage and conviction among African Book Publishers"
Walter Bgoya
Publisher, Mkuki na Nyota Press
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Location: 4:00 PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Bacchus at Antioch" 
MICHAEL J. DECKER 
Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"What's Essential in Children's Concepts?"
SUSAN GELMAN 
Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Psychology

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"South Africa and Namibia: Aspects of a Relationship" 
CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS
Professor of History at University of Cape Town

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 328
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Bombay-London-New York"
AMITAVA KUMAR
Penn State University

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117 
Contact: English Department, x4846

"The Jewish Museum Berlin: Historical Roots and Contemporary Relevance"
W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
Director of the Jewish Museum, Berlin

Location: 8:00PM, Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Blood and Belief: The Role of a Symbol and Substance in Jewish-Christian Relations" 
DAVID BIALE
Emmanuel Ringelblum Professor of Jewish History

Location: 12:00PM
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Mother of the Maize: Maria Izquierdo's Images of Rural Gardens with Granaries in the Context of Postrevolutionary Mexican Art"
NANCY DEFFEBACH
Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

Location: 4:00PM, Sewall Hall 301
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"What Do Animals Know?"
SHERRILYN ROUSH
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rice University
2001-2002 CSC Fellow

Location: 5:00 PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Literature in the Twenty-first Century: A Technological Revolution"
Part of the Technology, Cognition & Culture Lecture Series
N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles)

Location: 4:00PM, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"The Civilizing Process in India: On the Applicability of Norbert Elias' Work to Cross-cultural Comparison"
DAVID GRAY 
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

Location: 4:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

"Post-Modern Ethics from the Sources of Judaism"
Dr. PAUL MENDES-FLOHR
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Chicago

Location: 5:00PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.

 6th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language: Language, Culture, and Mind
Keynote speakers: JOHN LUCY (University of Chicago, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics)
 SUSANNA CUMMING (University of California, Santa Barbara)
  RONALD LANGACKER (University of California, San Diego)

Location: Please refer to the website at http://www.rice.edu/csdl.
Registration: (Free).  E-mail Caleb at cde@rice.edu or visit http://www.rice.edu/csdl.
Contacts: Suzanne Kemmer, Dept. of Linguistics, kemmer@rice.edu, or Michel Achard, Depts. of French Studies and Linguistics, achard@rice.edu.

 International Herder Society

Location: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room
Contacts: John Zammito, zammito@rice.edu, x4948 or Sandra Gilbert, x2770

 September 23, 2002: Lecture

 DR. JEROME BONS
Utrecht University

"Do Not Let Isocrates Speak: 'Reputable Opinion' (en/doxa) in Isocrates and Aristotle's Rhetoric"
Location: 4:00 PM, Humanities Building, Room 117
Contact: Harvey Yunis, yunis@rice.edu, x2775