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Calendar of Events Archive Spring 2006

 Lecture Series - January 24, 2006

Speaker: Richard Grandy
Speaker Affiliation: 2004-2005 CSC Fellow and Carolyn and Fred McManis Professor of Philosophy, Rice University

Title: Varieties of cognitive experience:  why language matters for philosophy

Time and Place: 4:15PM, Humanities 117

THIS IS PART OF THE CSC FELLOWS LECTURE SERIES

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770


 Lecture - January 25, 2006

Speaker: Robert Gibbs
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto

Title: Law and Ethics: A Jewish Philosophy for Tomorrow
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119

Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu or x2778


 Lecture Series - January 30, 2006

Speaker: Caroline Quenemoen
Speaker Affiliation: 2004-2005 CSC Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art History, Rice University

Title: The Palatine Complex and the Augustan Image of Empire
Time and Place: 4:15PM, Humanities 117

THIS IS PART OF THE CSC FELLOWS LECTURE SERIES

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770


 Lecture - February 1, 2006

Speaker: Silvio Torres-Saillant
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, Syracuse University

Title: Afro-Latinos and the Racial Wall
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 226

Reception following

Contact: Katharine Donato, kmd@rice.edu or x6025


 Lecture - February 2, 2006

Speaker: Silvio Torres-Saillant
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, Syracuse University

Title: Problematic Citizens: Diasporic Representations of the Caribbean
Time and Place: 3PM, Humanities 115 (Dean's conference room)

THIS IS PART OF THE AMERICAS COLLOQUIUM

Contact: Caroline Levander, clevande@rice.edu or x3203


 Lecture - February 3, 2006

Speaker: Jean Grondin
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal

Title: The Hermeneutics of Plato's Phaedrus: Reflections on the Tübingen School and Gadamer.
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119

Contact: Harvey Yunis, yunis@rice.edu or x2775


 Lecture - February 9, 2006

Speaker: Amartya Sen
Speaker Affiliation: Nobel Prize winning economist and author

Title: What Do We Want from a Theory of Justice?
Time and Place: 10AM, 1055 Duncan Hall (McMurtry Auditorium)


 Lecture - February 16, 2006

Speaker: Meredith parsons Lillich
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Fine Arts, Syracuse University

Title: The King Is Crowned: Medieval Stained Glass in Reims Cathedral
Time and Place: 4PM, 100 Herring Hall 


 Lecture - February 24, 2006

Speaker: Janine Barchas
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

Title: Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Time and Place: 4PM, Herring Hall 255 (English Department Lounge)

Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467


 Lecture - March 2, 2006

Speaker: Stefan Helmreich
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of Anthropology, M.I.T.

Title: An Anthropologist Underwater: Deep-Sea Soundscapes, Submarine Cyborgs, and the Idea of Immersion
Time and Place: 12:15PM, SH 570

Contact: Chris Kelty, ckelty@rice.edu or x3311


 Lecture - March 3, 2006

Speaker: John Ferrari
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Classics, University of California - Berkeley

Title: Dialogue within Dialogue: Thoth and Ammon in Plato's Phaedrus
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119

Contact: Harvey Yunis, yunis@rice.edu or x2775


 Lecture - March 7, 2006

Speaker: Andrew Lakoff
Speaker Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC San Diego

Title: Threats without Enemies: An Anatomy of Contemporary Security
Time and Place: 12:15PM, SH 570

Contact: Chris Kelty, ckelty@rice.edu or x3311


 Exhibit - March 9-28, 2006

Women's History Month Exhibit

Title: Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America
Time and place: Farnsworth Pavilion, Rice Student center.  There is a reception March 9 from 7-8PM.

In conjunction with the exhibit, there is a lecture by co-curator and historian Rickie Solinger titled "Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman" on March 24 at 4PMin Humanities 117.

Contact: Lora Wildenthal, wildenth@rice.edu


 Lecture - March 22, 2006

Speaker: Rogelio Saenz
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University

Title: Demography of Latino and Mexican Immigrants in the United States: Trends and Implications
Time and Place: 4PM, HUMA 119

Contact: Katharine Donato, kmd@rice.edu or x6025


 Lecture - March 23, 2006

Speaker: Verene Shepherd
Speaker Affiliation: History and Archaeology, University of the West Indies at Mona

Title: Beyond the Boundaries: Transforming "American Studies" in the Age of Trans-Nationalism
Time and Place: 3:30PM, Humanities 118

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium

Contact: Alex Byrd, axb@rice.edu or x2541.


 Lecture - March 24, 2006

Women's History Month Speaker

Speaker: Rickie Solinger
Title: "Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman"
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 117

In conjunction with the speaker, there is a photography exhibit on display March 9-28 in the Farnsworth Pavilion of the Rice Student Center titled "Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America."

Contact: Lora Wildenthal, wildenth@rice.edu


 Symposium, March 24-25, 2006

Things/Matter: The Object and Its Representation in Literature and Art

Keynote Speaker:
Susan Staves
Speaker Affiliation: Professor Emerita of English Literature at Brandeis University

For additional information, click here.


 Lecture - March 30, 2006

Speaker: Jia Jinhua
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, City University of Hong Kong

Title: Taoist Priestesses in Medieval China: Roles, Images, and Identity
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 118

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


 Lecture - March 31, 2006

Speaker: Mauricio Tenorio Trillo
Speaker Affiliation: Profesor Investigador of History, CIDE, Mexico and Professor of History, University of Chicago

Title: The Americas as a Historical Essay 
Time and Place: 12PM, SH 307

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium.

Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481.


 Symposium - April 1, 2006

Title: México y Estados Unidos: nuevas posiciones y contraposiciones
Time and place: 8AM-5PM, Herring Hall 100
Speakers:

  • José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (CIDE, Mexico City): "La persuasión multicultural en México y Estados Unidos"
  • Rebecca Biron (University of Miami): "Modernities on Parade: William Faulkner and Elena Garro"
  • Robert McKee Irwin (UC Davis): "Border Studies/Estudios de la Frontera: el legado de Anzaldúa"
  • Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago): "De la 'brown Atlantis' y los intelectuales mexicanos"
  • Javier D. Durán (University of Arizona): TBA
  • María Socorro Tabuenca (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico): TBA 

Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481.


 Symposium - April 1, 2006

Title: Intersections of Opera and Film
Time and place: 9:30AM-12:30PM, Shepherd School building room 1133
Speakers:

  • Jeongwon Joe (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music): "Film Divas and the Gendered Dichotomy Between Vocal and Instrumental Music"
  • Michal Grover-Friedlander (Tel Aviv University): "Callas Forever: The Afterlife of an Operatic Voice"
  • Marcia J. Citron (Shepherd School, Rice Univ.): "Cavalleria rusticana as the Climax of Coppola's Godfather Trilogy"
  • Helen M. Greenwald (New England Conservatory of Music): "The Opera That Would be Film: Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place"

Please note: In addition to the Symposium (the centerpiece event), there are related film screenings at the Rice Media Center, each introduced by a symposium speaker:

  • Thurs., 3/30, 7:30pm: "Callas Forever" (introd. by Profs. Grover-Friedlander and Joe)
  • Fri., 3/31, 7:30pm: "The Godfather" (introd. by Prof. Marcia Citron)

Contact: Marcia Citron, x3209 or citr@rice.edu


 Lecture CANCELLED - April 10, 2006

Speaker: Andrew Bowie
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy and German, Royal Holloway, University of London

Title: Music, Meaning, and Philosophy 
Time and Place: 4 PM, Humanities 118
THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED

Contact: Rachel Zuckert, rzuckert@rice.edu or x2298


 Lecture - April 13, 2006

Speaker: Michelle Murphy
Speaker Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto

Title: Traveling Technology, Transnational Biopolitics, and a Device for Not Performing Abortion
Time and Place: 12:15PM, SH 570

Contact: Chris Kelty, ckelty@rice.edu or x3311


 Lecture - April 13, 2006

Speaker: Angel Quintero-Rivera
Speaker Affiliation: Research Project Director and Professor at the Social Science Research Institute of the University of Puerto Rico

Title: US Latin America Cultural Relations from the Perspective of Hispanic Caribbean Popular Culture
Time and Place: 4PM, HUMA 118

Contact: Katharine Donato, kmd@rice.edu or x4368


 Lecture - April 14, 2006

Speaker: Yasmin Saikia
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Title: "They were Human:" Women, Men and Memories of Violence of the 1971 War of Bangladesh
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Elora Shehabuddin, elora@rice.edu, x2784


 Lecture - April 14, 2006

Speaker: Janet Ewald
Speaker Affiliation: Associate Professor of History, Duke University

Title: Motley Crews: sian and African Seafarers on English Vessels in the India Trade, c.1600 - c.1900
Time and Place: 4PM, Rayzor Hall 123

Contact: Alex Byrd, axb@rice.edu or x2542


 Lecture - April 14, 2006

Speaker: J. Ronald Green
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Film, Ohio State University

Title: Oscar Micheaux Film and Lecture
Time and Place: 7 PM, Rice Media Center

A reception will follow the lecture and film. The event is free for Rice students, $6 for others.

Contact: Yvonne Taylor, ytaylor@rice.edu


 Lecture - April 19, 2006

Speaker: Dermot Moran
Speaker Affiliation: Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professor in the Center for the Study of Cultures

Title: Husserl's Transcendental Idealism and His Critique of Naturalism
Time and Place: 4:30PM, Humanities 119

Reception following

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770


 Lecture - April 19, 2006

Speaker: Arthur Kleinman
Speaker Affiliation: Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor and Chair of Anthropology, Harvard University and Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medeicine and Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

Title: Crises in Moral Experience: Life in Times od Danger and Uncertainty 
Time and Place: 7PM, Dore Commons in Baker Hall of the Baker Institute (Booksigning at 6:15PM)

Contact: Steve Lewis, swlewis@rice.edu


 Lecture - April 20, 2006

Speaker: Elelwani Farisani and Dorothy Farisani 
Speaker Affiliation: Elelwani Farisani is the CSC Visiting Scholar from the University of Kwazulu-Natal (School of Religion and Theology).  Dorothy Farisani is a senior lecturer at the University of Kwazulu-Natal (School of Law).

Title: Current Research Report / Brown Bag Lecture
Time and Place: 12:05PM, Humanities 327

Contact: culture@rice.edu or x2770


 Lecture - April 21, 2006

Speaker: Simon Gikandi
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of English, Princeton University

Title: Culture and Local Cosmopolitanism
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Betty Joseph, beejay@rice.edu, x2774


 Lecture - May 1, 2006

Speaker: Geoffrey Samuel
Speaker Affiliation: Professor of Religious and Theological Studies, Cardiff University

Title: The Attractions of Tantra: Two Historical Moments
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119

Contact: Alejandro Chaoul, alec@rice.edu





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