Calendar of Events Archive Spring 2004
| Lecture: January 16, 2004 |
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LENNARD TENENDE
Halliburton
Title: "Africa in the Digital Divide"
Time and Location: 4PM, Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: January 20, 2004 |
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MICHEL ACHARD
Associate Professor of French Studies and Linguistics and CSC Fellow, 2001-2002
Title: Usage, Form, and Function: Intransitive Predicates in French Impersonal Constructions
Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: February 3, 2004 |
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WENDY DONIGER
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions
The Divinity School, University of Chicago
Title: The Mythology of Marital Resurrection: The Falsely Accused Woman Who Returned from the Dead
Time and Location:7:30 PM, Herzstein Hall Ampitheater
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238
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| Lecture: February 6, 2004 |
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PAMELA SCULLY
Associate Professor of History, Denison University
Title: Sarah Baartman and the Boundaries of African History
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Kerry Ward, x2443, kward@rice.edu
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| Lecture: February 6, 2004 |
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JOHN GARTH
Title: Tolkien and the Great War
Time and Location:7PM, Keck Hall 100
Contact: Honey Meconi, x3714, medieval@rice.edu
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| Lecture: February 9, 2004 |
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WILLIAM RADICE
Senior Lecturer in Bengali
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Title: Confessiom Versus the Exclamation Mark: Or Why Rabindranath Tagore Did Not Like the Poetry of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238
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| Lecture: February 20, 2004 |
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SEBASTIAAN FABER
Oberlin College, Department of Hispanic Studies
Title: Scholars Take Sides: The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on British and American Hispanism
Time and Location: 2PM, Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, x5403, rlk@rice.edu
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| Lecture: February 23, 2004 |
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STEVEN NADLER
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Title: Four Myths About Spinoza
Time and Location: 4PM, Kyle Morrow Room in Fondren Library
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.
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| Lecture: February 23, 2004 |
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NICHOLAS B. KING
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan
Title: Biodefense: History, Politics, Ethics
Time and Location: 5PM, Rayzor 123
Contact: Hannah Landecker, x2061, hll@rice.edu
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| Lecture: February 25, 2004 |
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JEFFREY HAMBURGER
Title: The Various Writings of Humanity: A Sermon by Johannes Tauler on the Liber Scivias of Hildegard of Bingen
Time and Location: 7PM, Herring Hall 126
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: February 26, 2004 |
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WARREN BRECKMAN
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Title: Politics in a Symbolic Key: Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism and the 'Schelling Affair'
Time and Location: 5PM, Humanities 328
Contact: Rachel Zuckert, rzuckert@rice.edu.
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| Lecture: March 8, 2004 |
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ALAN UDOFF
Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis College
Title: "'Lingering on the Threshold': On the Origins of Jean Amery's Auschwitz Book"
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.
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| Lecture: March 11-12, 2004 |
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ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN
March 11: "Comic Confessions in Late Medieval German Literature," 4PM, Humanities 119
March 12: "Medieval Comic Confessions in Translation: A Reading by Anne Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl," 4PM, Miner Lounge in the Rice Memorial Center
Contact: Sarah Westphal-Wihl (westphal @rice.edu, x4192) or Honey Meconi (hmeconi@rice.edu).
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| Symposium: March 12-13, 2004 |
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Graduate Student Symposium
LOCATING POP CULTURES: NEGOTIATING PLACE, INTERROGATING CLASS, CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY
3/12, 3:30-5PM: Humanities 119
3/12, 6-8PM: Kyle Morrow Room
3/13, 8:30AM-6PM: Humanities 117&119
Contact: Department of English, engl@rice.edu.
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| Symposium: March 18-19, 2004 |
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AFGHAN WOMEN AFTER 9/11
3/18, 4PM: ANNE BRODSKY, Presentation: "An Incomplete Liberation: RAWA, Afghan Women, and the Need for Continued Resistance," Fondren Library's Kyle Morrow Room
3/19, 3PM: MEENA NANJI, film screening of clips from "A Grain of Sand," Baker Institute's International Conference Facility
3/19, 4PM: SONALI KOLHATKAR, Lecture: "Building Empire on the Backs of Women," Baker Institute's International Conference Facility
Contact: Lynne Huffer, huffer@rice.edu, x5625.
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| Lecture: March 22, 2004 |
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PAUL COURTRIGHT
Title: Studying Religion in an Age of Terror
Time and Location:12:15PM, Religious Studies Graduate Lounge, 2nd floor Humanities
Contact: Dee Garza, asia@rice.edu.
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| Lecture: March 22, 2004 |
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JOSEPH DUMIT
Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
Title: Managing Mind and Mood through Facts and Pharmaceuticals
Time and Location:4PM, Rayzor 123
Contact: Hannah Landecker, x2061, hll@rice.edu.
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| Lecture: March 24, 2004 |
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AMELIA MALAGAMBA
University of Texas at Austin
Title: Moving On. Reflections on New Chicana/o Art
Time and Location: 2:30PM, Sewall Hall 301
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.
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| Lecture: March 24, 2004 |
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MICHAEL BLAKEY
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Historical Biology, College of William and Mary
Title: New York's African Burial Ground and the Stuggles for Human Rights
Time and Location: 4PM, Sewall Hall 307
Contact: Department of Anthropology, anth@rice.edu.
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| Lecture: March 26, 2004 |
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ISRAEL YUVAL
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: From Metaphysical Holiness to Martyrological Sacredness: The Story and History of "Unetane Tokef"
Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Eva Haverkamp, haver@rice.edu, x8085.
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| Conference: April 2-3 |
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BEYOND THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: MISSIONARIES, CONVERSION, AND TOLERANCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
April 2: 2PM: Welcome
2:30PM: Conversion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
5PM: Religious Reform, Inquisition, and Resistance
April 3: 8:30AM: Debating tolerance
11AM: Protestant Missionaries and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire
3PM: Historiography of Minorities
Location: Friday: Humanities 328, Saturday: Humanities 327
Contact: Ussama Makdisi, x2561, makdisi@rice.edu .
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| Symposium: March 31 - April 4 |
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TENTH BIENNIAL LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM
Title: Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity in Interaction
For more information, please visit http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html
Registration is free but mandatory - register by e-mailing the contact below.
Time and Location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Contact: Robert Englebretson, x4776, reng@rice.edu .
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| Lecture: April 8, 2004 |
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WILLIAM ADLER
Professor of Religion at North Carolina State University
Title: "The Subversive Side of Eusebius of Caesarea"
Time and Location: 12:05PM, Sewall Hall 301
Contact: Michael Maas, x2264, maas@rice.edu .
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| Lecture: April 12, 2004 CANCELLED |
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DOUGLAS WILE
Professor of Chinese at Brooklyn College - CUNY
Title: "Chinese Sexual Cultivation: Yoga, Alchemy, and Mysticism"
Time and Location: CANCELLED
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238.
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| Lecture: April 15, 2004 |
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MEGAN BIESELE
Kalahari Peoples Fund
Title: San Identity Politics in Southern Africa: Interactions of Peoples' Organizations and NGOs
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu, x2443.
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| Lecture: April 23, 2004 |
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JOHN BEVERLEY
Title: "Latinamericanism after 9/11: The Questions of the Nation (A Dialogue with Samuel Huntington)"
Time and Location: 2:30PM, RH 123
Please note that there is a related talk by Dr. Beverley on April 22 at 2:30 PM at University of Houston in Agnes Arnold Hall 110. Call 713-743-3007 for information.
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, rlk@rice.edu, x5403.
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| Symposium: April 22-25 |
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Annual International Symposium and Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
Title: Gender, History, and Memory
For more information on this event, please visit http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~malca/
Time and Location: Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room. For times and events, please visit http://german.rice.edu/news.cfm .
Contact: Regina Kecht, kecht@rice.edu .
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