Calendar of Events Archive Fall 2003
| Lecture: September 17 |
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PAULA SANDERS
Associate Professor of History and CSC Fellow 2000-2001
Title: Cairo of the Arabian Nights
Time and Location: 5PM, Humanities 117 (Note new time)
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Public lecture and faculty-student seminars: September 22-25, 2003 |
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MARTHA NUSSBAUM
NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Public lecture: "Shame, Stigma, and Punishment"
September 22, 8PM, Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
Faculty-Student Seminars: Three faculty-student seminars will take place at 4PM on September 23, 24, and 25 in Humanities 117. Please click here for titles and additional information.
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| Lecture: September 26, 2003 |
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JOSHUA OJWANG'
Associate Director of Therapeutic Research at ZymeTx, Inc.
Title: An African Scientist: Challenges and Opportunities
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| International Conference: October 10-12, 2003 |
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ORALITY AND LITERACY III: MEMORY
Please visit the conference website at www.ruf.rice.edu/~orlitmem.
Keynote Address:
JAN ASSMAN
"Cultural Memory and Cultural Texts"
October 10, 7PM, Duncan Hall
Conference directors: Elias Bongmba, bongmba@rice.edu, and Werner Kelber, kelber@rice.edu.
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| Lecture: October 17, 2003 |
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D.A. MASOLO
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities, University of Louisville
Title: Juok: The Moral Foundations of Personhood in Western Kenya
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: October 23, 2003 |
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HONEY MECONI
Associate Professor of Musicology and CSC Fellow, 2002-2003
Title: The Unknown Language of Hildegard von Bingen
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: October 28, 2003 |
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LYNNE HUFFER
Professor of French Studies and CSC Fellow, 2002-2003
Title: Derrida's Nostalgeria
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Conference: October 29-November 1, 2003 |
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38th Annual Western Literature Conference
Keynote Speakers: Sandra Cisneros, Ramón Saldívar, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar Hull, Rubén Martínez, Nuestra Palabra: Latino Writers Having Their Say, and Voices Breaking Boundaries.
Please visit the conference website at www.ruf.rice.edu/~wla for a list of events.
Conference director: Christa Comer, x3207, kcomer@rice.edu.
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| Lecture Series: November 4 |
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TECHNOLOGY, COGNITION, AND CULTURE LECTURE SERIES
STEPHEN MURPHY
Professor of Medieval Art and Gothic Architecture
Columbia University
You may view this presentation at http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20031104murray.html.
Time and Location: 4PM, Duncan Hall, McMurtry Auditorium
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: November 14 POSTPONED |
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LENNARD TENENDE
Halliburton
The new date for this lecture is January 16, 2004.
Title: "Africa in the Digital Divide"
Time and Location: 4PM, TBA
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: November 17, 2003 CANCELLED |
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JILL HARRIES
F.M. Bird Faculty Exchange Professor, Department of Classics, Emory University
Title: Crime, Deviance, and the Limitations of Roman Law
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119 CANCELLED
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: November 17, 2003 |
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MARTIN RÖSEL
Professor at the University of Rostock, Germany
Title: The First Bible of the Church: The Septuagint and Its Theology
Time and Location: 5:15PM, Humanities 117 (Note new time)
Contact: Matthias Henze, mhenze@rice.edu, x2754.
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| Lecture: November 19, 2003 |
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SUSAN McINTOSH
Professor of Anthropology and CSC Fellow, 2002-2003
Title: The Earliest West African "Empires": Archaeology and the Reconstruction of Pre-documentary History
Time and Location: 4PM, TBA
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: November 21, 2003 |
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LARRY HIRSCHFELD
Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan
Title: Does the Autistic Child Have a Theory of Society?
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: November 21, 2003 |
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DEBORAH COHEN
Professor, Brown University
Title: The War Comes Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany 1914-1939
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 328
Contact: Martin Wiener, wiener@rice.edu, x2886.
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| Lecture: December 2, 2003 Postponed |
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MICHEL ACHARD
Associate Professor of French Studies and CSC Fellow, 2001-2002
Title: Usage, Form, and Function: Intransitive Predicates in French Impersonal Constructions
Time and Location: This talk has been postponed until January 20, 2004
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: December 4, 2003 |
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BURT C. HOPKINS
Seattle University
Title: Husserl, Klein, and the Origins of Mathematical Formalism: An Intentional-Historical Problem
Time and Location: 5:15PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Stephen Crowell, crowell@rice.edu.
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| Conference: December 5-7 |
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THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED: WORKING THROUGH FREUD IN RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Time and Location: The plenary speech is on Friday, December 5 at 7PM at the Baker Institute.
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, x2778, gkaplan@rice.edu ; Jeffrey Kripal, x2238, jjkripal@rice.edu ; William Parsons, x2712, pars@rice.edu .
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