April 22, 2008. Congratulations to HRC's Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship Recipients for 2008-10. We welcome the new fellows Diana Bullen Presciutti (Ph.D. in History of Art, University of Michigan), Adrian Weimer (Ph.D. in the Study of Religioin, Harvard University) and Matthew Wilkins (Ph.D. in Literature, Duke University).
April 15, 2008, Congratulations to the HRC's new External Faculty Fellows. Avery Kolers from the Philosophy Department of University of Louisville, Carol Harrison from the History Department of the University of South Carolina, and David Gordon from the History Department of Bowdoin College will be in residence at Rice for one semester during the 2008-09 school year.
April 3, 2008, HRC's Africa Studies Workshop to Contribute to Houston International Festival
This series of presentations and discussions by Houston area scholars considers the theme "Out of Africa" as a series of three journeys. Events take place April 24, 25, 28. Download the poster.
March 3, 2008, "History Legend or Myth?" Medieval Studies Workshop examines the legend of Thomas Aquinas
A lecture, "The Image of Thomas Aquinas in Dominican Painting," will be given by M. Michèle Mulchahey '79, the Leonard E. Boyle Chair of Manuscript Studies at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, Toronto. Her lecture will focus on the points where the history of Aquinas intersects with the legend or myth of him.
February 26, 2008, Examining the Katrina Effect:
Lecture series at Rice looks at evacuees' lasting impact on Houston
The Houston Chronicle covers the HRC's Public Humanities Initiative.
February 12, 2008, HRC is pleased to announce its new research fellows for 2008-09.
Marcia Citron in Musicology, Leo Costello in Art History, and Julie Fette in French Studies have each been awarded an Individual Research Fellowship. Marcia Brennan in Art History is the new Collaborative Research Fellow.
January 22, 2008, Public Lecture Series to Discuss Katrina's Impact on Houston
The HRC will host a public lecture series February 25 to March 1 about the impact of the storm on our city. Two and a half years later, more than 100,000 New Orleanians remain in Houston; some intend to return to Louisana, and others have adopted Houston as their new home. By combining perspectives from the evacuee community, the academy and municipal government, "Houston and Katrina" will paint a multifaceted and still-emerging portrait of Houston.
January 9, 2008, External Faculty Fellow Hans Poser at the HRC
The HRC welcomes External Faculty Fellow Hans Poser, Visiting Professor from Technischen Universität in Berlin. In conjunction with his visit, the HRC and Department of Philosophy are hosting the First Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America, January 25-27, 2008.
January 9, 2008, Americas Colloquium Starts its Spring Event Series
The Americas Colloquium invites you to attend 3 spring semester events. All events take place at 4PM in Humanities 119.
• January 17: Kenneth Mills, Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies (University of Toronto) Outside In: Diego de Ocaca's Long Journey Home, 1599-1608
• February 19: Richard J Powell, John Spencer Basset Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of African and African American Studies (Duke University) Taking a New Head: Nineteenth-Century Images of Black Women's Head Adornments
• April 9: Ruth A Hill, Associate Professor of Spanish (University of Virginia) Crania Americana and the Ghost of Incas Past
December 7, 2007, 2008-2009 Mellon Research Seminars Announced
“America and the World.” Faculty leader: Ussama Makdisi, Arab-American Educational Foundation Associate Professor in Arabic Studies
“Comparison in Theory and Practice.” Faculty leader: Jeffrey Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor and Chair of Religious Studies
December 7, 2007, Mexican Academic Urges New Approach to International Immigration
See Rice News preview (11/15/07).
See the full program description at www.publichumanities.org.
November 29, 2007, "Mexicans Look at Mexico" speaker Francisco Salazar contributes to Baker Center's Conference "Natural Gas in North America"
See the full program description at www.publichumanities.org.
November 14, 2007, Rice Afro-America Expert to Speak on Jamaica
See the full details of the Global Hispanism Workshop here.
The talk will be held on November 30, in Rayzor Hall Room 123.
November 7, 2007, Faculty Colloquium held at Hillel Student Center
The featured speaker was HRC Visiting Professor Elliot Wolfson, who led a discussion on "Representations of Christianity and Islam in the Zohar."
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