Viewing of the PBS Documentary The Ghosts of Rwanda, (7:30 PM, January 18, Herring Hall Auditorium)

Rwanda Genocide:One Witness/Survivor Shares His Story (4PM, January 19, Herring Hall Auditorium)

Speaker: Pastor Carl Wilkens, Chaplain at Milo Adventist Academy in Days Creek, Oregon

Contact: Regina Kecht, kecht@rice.edu or x5845

Speaker: Deborah Harter
Speaker Title: Associate Professor, Department of French Studies, Rice University

Title: Imaging Excess: Portraits of Pathology from Balzac to Silence of the Lambs

This lecture is part IV of the CSC Fellows Lecture Series

Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770

Speaker: Vincent Carretta
Speaker Title: Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University 

Title: Workshop on Atlantic Scholarship

Part of the Americas Colloquium

Time and location: 7PM, Humanities 115 (Dean's Conference Room)
Contact: axb@rice.edu

Title: The Late Medieval City: Architecture and Urbanism

Time and Location: 9AM, Herring Hall 100

For more information, please click here.

Contact: Linda Neagley, x3316, lneagley@rice.edu or Eva Haverkamp, x8085, haver@rice.edu

Speakers: Thom Chivens and Zoe Knox
Speaker Title: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows in the Center for the Study of Cultures, Rice University

Title: Postsocialist Transitions

NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION
Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770

Speaker: Doug Greenberg
Speaker Title: President and CEO, Shoa Foundation

Part of the Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series

Time and location: 8PM, McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall (reception begins at 7:15 in Martel Hall)

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770

Speaker: Lois Zamora
Speaker title: Professor of English, History, and Art History at the University of Houston
Title: Literature of the Americas: Comparative Approaches

Part of the Americas Colloquium

Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 115 (Dean's Conference Room)
Contact: axb@rice.edu

Speaker: Harriette Andreadis
Speaker title: Professor of English at Texas A&M University

Title: Re-Configuring Early Modern Friendship: Katherine Philips and Homoerotic Desire
Time and location: 4PM, Herring Hall 224
Contact: Liz Dietz at  edietz@rice.edu or x4316.

 Title: Southern National Bank Conference, "The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century"

Friday, February 25: 2005 Southern Historical Association Lecture by Professor W. Fitzhugh Brundage from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 7:30PM in the International Conference Faciltiy of the Baker Institute

Saturday, February 26: Speakers and Discussions in Mcmurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall from 9:15AM-4PM.

Contact: John Boles, x6039 or x5546, boles@rice.edu or Alex Lichtenstein at acl@rice.edu

 Title: Reinventing Hispanism in the Age of Globalization Symposium

8AM-6PM in 117 Humanities

For details and registration information, click here.

Contact: Beatriz Gonzalez-Stephan, x3237 or x5451, beatriz@rice.edu or Lane Kauffmann, x5403 or x5451, rlk@rice.edu

Speaker: Apollo Amoko
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of English at the University of Florida
Title: The Aesthetics of Crisis: Postcolonial Atrophy, School Culture, and Radical Politics
Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Betty Joseph, beejay@rice.edu or x2774.

 Title: Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China

Please refer to the conference web site for event times and locations: www.ruf.rice.edu/~betramod

Contact: Nanxiu Qian, x5945 or x6010, nanxiuq@rice.edu

Speaker: Evelyn Hu-DeHart
Speaker title: Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University
Title: Amrican Studies: Where Are We Going?

Time and location: 12-3PM, Humanities 115

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium
Contact: Anthony Pinn at x2710 or pinn@rice.edu.

Speaker: Werner Kelber
Speaker title: The Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures and the Isla Carol and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University
Title: Figurations of Knowledge: The CSC in the Context of Higher Learning
Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Sandra Gilbert, culture@rice.edu, x2770.

Speaker: Jean Comaroff
Speaker Title: Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Title: Criminal Ac/counting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal

Location: 8PM, Herring Hall 100

This lecture is a CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture.  Click here for information on the faculty-sudent seminars on March 30 and 31.

Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, culture@rice.edu, x2770.

Speaker: John Comaroff
Speaker Title: Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Title: Ethnicity, Inc.:On the Commodification, Consumption, and Construction of Cultural Identity in a Brave Neo World

Location: 8PM, Herring Hall 100

This lecture is a CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholars Lecture.  Click here for information on the faculty-sudent seminars on March 30 and 31.

Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, culture@rice.edu, x2770.

Speaker: Shula Marks
Speaker Title: Visiting Professor of History at the University of Richmond

Title: What Kind of History for a Rainbow Nation

Location: 4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu or x2443.

Title: Disciplinary Flashpoints: Conversations Between History and Literature

Friday April 1, 4:30, Commons Room of the University of Houston  Honors College (MD Anderson Library, 2nd Floor)

Saturday, April 2, 10:30, Rice University's English Department Lounge (Herring Hall, 2nd Floor)

For a complete program and to reserve your place at Saturday lunch and dinner please email basak@rice.edu

Contact: Helena Michie, x2823 or michie@rice.edu or Thad Logan, x2707 or  logan@rice.edu.

Speaker: Kenneth Warren
Speaker title: William J. Friedman & Alicia Townshend Friedman Professor of English at the University of Chicago

Title: The African Diaspora and the Decline of the African-American Novel

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium.
Time and location: 12PM, Humanities 115 (Dean's Conference Room)
Contact: Caroline Levander, clevande@rice.edu orx3203.

Speaker: Yitzhak Melamed
Speaker Title: Philosophy Department, University of Chicago (as of fall 2005)

Title: Spinoza's Anti-Humanism

Time and location: 4:30PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Mark Kulstad, kulstad@rice.edu, x2724.

Speaker: Jeff Browitt
Speaker Title: Senior lecturer in Latin American Studies

Open to Global Hispanism Workshop

Time and location: 5PM, Rayzor 302
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, x5403 or rlk@rice.edu

Title: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in Later Greek Antiquity

Contact: Donald Morrison, x2714, donaldm@rice.edu

Speaker: David Gray
Speaker title: Lecturer in Religious Studies at Rice University

Title: Orality, Textuality, and Tantric Buddhist Origins: A Comparative Analysis
Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: culture@rice.edu, x2770.

Speaker: Katherine Franke
Speaker Title: Professor of Law, Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Culture,
Columbia Law School

Title: The Politics of Same-Sex Marriage Politics

Time and location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Susan Lurie, lurie@rice.edu or x6265 or x2635.

Speaker: Danny Anderson
Speaker Title: Professor and Chair, Spanish and Portuguese, University of Kansas

Title: La Narrativa mexicana reciente y la globalización: mercado y nostalgia

Time and location: 2:30PM, Humanities 118 
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, x5403 or rlk@rice.edu