Calendar of Events Archive Fall 2006
| Lecture - September 15, 2006 |
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Speaker: Christina Sisk
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Houston
Title: Imagining the Border and Migration from Mexico City: The Intersection of Romance and National Identity
Time and place: 3PM, Rayzor 302
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481 or x5451
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| Lecture Series - September 28, 2006 |
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Speaker: Peter V. Loewen
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Musicology, Rice University
Title: Singing in a Fool's Paradise: Mary Magdalen as Joculatrix Domini in Dramas from England, the German Lands, and Bohemia
Time and place: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series
Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625.
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| Lecture - September 28, 2006 |
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Speaker: David J. Silva
Speaker title: Chair of the Department of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas: Arlington
Title: 19th Century Missionary Efforts in the Revaluation of the Indigenous Korean Script, Hangul
Time and place: Sewall Hall 309, 4PM
Contact: Steven Lewis, swlewis@rice.edu
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| Lecture & Seminar - October 4, 2006 |
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Speaker: James C. Scott
Speaker title: Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University
Seminar: Moral Economies, State Spaces, and Categorical Violence
Time and Place: Humanities Building 117, 4PM
Lecture: Why Civilizations Can't Climb Hills: Hills and Valleys in Mainland Southeast Asia
Time and Place: Herring Hall 100, 8PM
Contact: Alex Lichtenstein, acl@rice.edu or x2397
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| Lecture - October 5, 2006 |
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Speaker: Cheng Zhangcan
Speaker title: Professor at Nanjing University
Title: One Recluse, A Thousand Buddhas: the Buddhist Inhabitance in the Early Medieval Nanjing
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities Building 119
Contact: Steve Lewis, swlewis@rice.edu or x5832
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| Lecture Series - October 9, 2006 |
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Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series
Speaker: Richard Doyle
Speaker title: Professor of Rhetoric and Science, Penn State University
Title: Just Say Yes to the Noosphere: Ecologies of Attention from Entheogens to Biometrics
Time and place: 4PM, McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall
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| Conference - October 12-13, 2006 |
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Apocalypticism and Crisis in Ancient Judaism - Judaic Studies Workshop Conference - 100 Keck Hall
October 12, 7PM
Speaker: George Nickelsburg
Speaker Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Iowa
Lecture Title: Enoch and the Beginnings of Apocalypticism
October 13, 7PM
Speaker: Matthias Henze
Speaker Title: Watt J. & Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor in Biblical Studies, Rice University
Lecture Title: Baruch and the Decline of Apocalypticism
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| Lecture - October 20, 2006 |
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Speaker: José Villalobos
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Spanish, Texas A&M University
Title: Writing Against the Border: Rafa Saavedra, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Alberto Ríos
Time and place: 3 PM, Rayzor 302
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481 or x5451
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| Lecture Series - October 26, 2006 |
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Speaker: Katherine L. Jansen
Speaker title: Associate Professor of History, Catholic University of America
Title: Mary Magdalen, Apostle of Apostles
Time and place: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series
Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625.
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| Lecture - October 27, 2006 |
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Speaker: Kathleen Newman
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa
Title: Transnational Film Theory and Latin American Cinema
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities Building 118
This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium
Contact: Laura Serna, lserna@rice.edu or x2788
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| Lecture Series - October 31, 2006 |
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Speaker: Kirsten Ostherr
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of English and 2005-2006 HRC Fellow, Rice University
Title: Visual Pedagogy: Imaging and Instruction in Postwar Public Health Films
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the HRC Faculty Fellows Lecture Series
Contact: HRC at hrc@rice.edu or x2770.
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| Lecture Series - November 10, 2006 |
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Speaker: Fady Joudah
Speaker title: Physician, Doctors Without Borders
Title: Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan: The Race to Save Darfur
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 120
Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu or x2443.
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| Lecture Series - November 16, 2006 |
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Speaker: Meredith Skura
Speaker title: Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and 2005-2006 HRC Fellow, Rice University
Title: Rethinking the Origins of English Autobiography
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the HRC Faculty Fellows Lecture Series
Contact: HRC at hrc@rice.edu or x2770.
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| Lecture - November 17, 2006 |
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Speaker: Michele Wucker
Speaker title: Journalist and author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right
Title: When We Came to America: Latinos and the Great Wave Immigration Myth
*****NEW LOCATION*****
Time and place: 3PM Herring Hall 100
This talk is part of the Global Hispanism Workshop
Contact: Maarten van Delden at x2481 or maarten@rice.edu.
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| Lecture - December 1, 2006 |
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Speaker: Gina Saraceni
Speaker title: Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Rice University
Title: Heredar el desarraigo: Transmisión de un legado en Sergio Chejfec y Roberto Raschella
This talk is part of the Global Hispanism Workshop.
Time and place: 3PM, Rayzor Hall 302
Contact: Maarten van Delden at x2481 or maarten@rice.edu.
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| Lecture - December 4, 2006 |
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Speaker: Rebecca Scott
Speaker title: The Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History, Professor of Law, Department of History and University of Michigan Law School
Title: Writing Freedom: An African Mother and her Creole Daughters in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
Click here to hear an interview with Rebecca Scott.
This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium.
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Alex Lichtenstein, acl@rice.edu or x2397
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| Lecture Series - Fall, 2006 |
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The Library and the Future of Scholarly Publishing
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