National Endowment for the Humanities/Autrey Vsiting Faculty
The Distinguished Visiting Scholars program provides access to the world's most distinguished and innovative scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Administered by the Humanities Research Center, the program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and other donors.
Previous External Faculty Fellows
2007-2008 External Faculty Fellows
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Winfried Mennighaus, Fall 2007
Visiting Professor from Peter Szondi-Institut für Allgemeine at Freie Universität Berlin. A leading critic and theorist in aesthetic philosophy, Dr. Menninghaus has published works on Celan, Bejamin, Hölderlin, and others. He will offer three seminars at Rice, in conjunction with the HRC’s History of Philosophy Workshop led by Dr. Steven G. Crowell.
Click here for list of readings for the seminars.
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Elliot Wolfson, Fall 2007
Visiting Professor from the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University. Wolfson is a leading scholar in the field of Jewish mysticism and has published a trio of books representing a new direction in the field. He is also the editor of the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. He will teach a course on Jewish Mysticism through the Religious Studies Department while pursuing research on dreams and dream interpretation in Kabbalistic thought. In addition, Drs. Marcia Brennan and Jeffrey J. Kripal will convene a symposium, "Beyond the Beyond" in collaboration with the HRC’s Judaic Studies Workshop, centered on the work of Dr. Wolfson. |
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Jaqueline G. Campbell, Fall 2007
Visiting Assistant Professor from University of Connecticut. Dr. Campbell’s research on the Civil War era, examining how race, class, and gender shape military and social history, has yielded publications including When Sherman Marched North from the Sea. She will teach a course on the Civil War and Reconstruction through the History Department. Dr. John B. Boles will also organize a lecture series centered on her work, "New Perspectives on the Civil War." |
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Hans Poser, Spring 2008
Visiting Professor from Technischen Universität in Berlin. Dr. Poser studies the philosophy of science and technology and the history of philosophy. A former president of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Philosophie, he has also served for almost thirty years as the Vice President of the International Leibniz Society. Dr. Poser will offer a course through the Philosophy Department entitled “Introduction to Theories/Practices of Science and Technology Studies.” On the occasion of Dr. Poser’s visit, Dr. Mark A. Kulstad plans to organize the First Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America at Rice. |
2006-2007 External Faculty Fellows
Joseph Clarke visited as a member of the standing faculty of the English Department of the University of Pennsylvania. His work looks at the cultural power of the novel in the West Indies and in sub-Saharan Africa as well as at the "West Indian fiction boom" of the 1940's and 1950's. While at Rice, Dr. Clarke offered a course on the novel in the Americas, another on women writers from the Caribbean, and a graduate seminar on narrative and cultural difference. He organized the symposium "The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political and Cultural Legacies."
Pierre Pellegrin is a director of the Center for the History of Arabic and Medieval Science and Philosophy in Paris, France, a unit of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). His research interests include ancient political philosophy and ancient philosophical conceptions of science and scientific method, and especially their relationship to actual scientific practice. At Rice University, Dr. Pellegrin taught a course titled "Greek Philosophy of Nature" and a graduate seminar that offered a historical and philosophical examination of Aristotle's Politics. The HRC hosted the conference "Aristotelian Natural Philosophy" focused on Dr. Pellegrin's research.
Previous National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Visiting Scholars
Bruno Latour
Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques
Monday, February 5th - Friday, February 9th, 2007
Political Truth: Lippmann's Phantom and Dewey's Great Community
4PM, Herring Hall 100
Free and open to the public
Other events include:
February 5th - Seminar "The Politics of Multinationalism" 4PM Humanities 117
February 7th - Seminar "Collective Experiments" 4PM Humanities 118
February 8th - Film: Making Things Public 4:30PM Anderson Hall, Farish Gallery
February 9th - Seminar "Cosmopolitics" Rayzor Hall 123
Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago
John L. Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Monday, March 28 - Friday, April 1, 2005
Jean Comaroff
Criminal Ac/counting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal
Monday, March 28, 2005, 8PM in Herring 100
John Comaroff
Ethnicity, Inc.: On the Commodification, Consumption, and Construction of Cultural Identity in a Brave Neo World
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 8PM in Herring 100
Both lecures are free and open to the public
Faculty-Student Seminars:
Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 4PM in Humanities 117: Millenial Captialism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 4PM in Humanities 117: New Religious Movements in the Age of Neoliberalism
Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago Law School
September 22-25, 2003
Public Lecture jointly sponsored by the President's Lecture Series:
Shame, Stigma, and Punishment
8PM, Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
Free and open to the public
Faculty-Student Seminars:
September 23, 2003: Inscribing the Face: Shame and Stigma, 4 PM, Humanities 117
September 24, 2003: Beyond the Social Contract: Justice and Mental Disabilities, 4 PM, Humanities 117
September 25, 2003: Capabilities, Fundamental Entitlements, and Women's Equality, 4 PM, Humanities 117
A reception will follow the seminar.
Susan Handelman
Professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
March 18 through 25, 2003
Drawing on biblical hermeneutics, ancient and contemporary philosophy, literary theory, theology and psychoanalysis, Susan Handelman has illuminated the relations between literary criticism and its roots in the Patristic and Rabbinic interpretive traditions. Her work demonstrates the vitality literary criticism can regain when it views itself as the displacement and reemergence of ancient hermeneutical conflicts.
Teaching in the Face of Terror: Strategies of Survival, Humanistic Education, and Cultural Repair
March 19, 2003, 8PM
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Free and open to the public
Faculty-Student Seminars:
Tuesday, March 18, 4:00PM, Humanities 226: "Knowledge Has a Face," Part 1: "The Personal and the Pedagogical in Classical Jewish Sources and Postmodern Theory"
Friday, March 21, 3:00PM, Humanities 226: "Knowledge Has a Face," Part 2: "Academic Knowledge and Religious Discourse"
Monday, March 24, 5:30PM, Humanities 227: "The Student-Teacher Relation, the Construction of Knowledge, and the Rhetoric of Rabbinic Texts," Part 1
Tuesday, March 25, 4:00PM, Humanities 226: "The Student-Teacher Relation, the Construction of Knowledge, and the Rhetoric of Rabbinic Texts," Part 2
Michel Serres
Sciences and Humanities: The Case of J. M. Turner
Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Free and open to the public
Seminars:
(All the following seminars will take place at 4 p.m., Humanities 226)
Tuesday, April 9: Euclidean First Definitions
Wednesday, April 10: Space in Pluto's Timeus
Friday, April 12: Clinamen in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Wednesday, April 17: Pascal's Geometry
French philosopher Michel Serres will visit Rice April 6-20 as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Cultures. A member of the prestigious Academie Francaise, Serres has integrated scientific thought, especially mathematics, thermodynamics, and chaos theory, into his philosophy. His interdisciplinary works draw on the discoveries of the sciences as well as aesthetics, the arts, poetry, and literature.
Jan Assmann & Aleida Assmann
Jan Assmann is a professor at University of Heidelberg
Aleida Assmann is a professor at University of Konstanz
Aleida Assmann
Affect--Symbol--Trauma: Stabilizers of Memory
7.30-9:00pm, Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
Reception to follow in Kelley Lounge, 9.00-9:30pm
Jan Assmann
Monotheism and Memory: Freud's Moses and the Biblical Tradition
7.30-9:00pm, Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
Reception to follow in Kelley Lounge, 9.00-9:30pm
Seminars:
"History and Memory" 7.00-9.00pm, Sewall Hall 352A
"Reinventing Tradition" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
"Paradigms of Learning" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
"From Short Term to Long Term Memories" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
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