May 6, 2002: Lecture

STEVEN PIERCE
Tulane University

"Pain and the Public: Scandal and the Spectacle of Judicial Flogging in Colonial Northern Nigeria"
Location: 4:00 p.m., Humanities 328
Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu, x2448

"The Limits of Persuasion in Plato's Political Thought"
Location: 4:30 p.m., Humanities 328
Contact: Donald Morrison, donaldm@rice.edu, x2714

April 17, 2002: Seminar

MICHEL SERRES
CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002

"Pascal's Geometry"
Location: 4:00 p.m., Humanities 226
Contact: x2770

STEVE P. WEITZMAN
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University

"'Extrasensory Perception' in the Book of Deuteronomy"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 117
Contact: Matthias Henze, x2754

April 15, 2002: Lecture

MICHEL SERRES
CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002

"Sciences and Humanities: The Case of Turner"
7:30 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Contact: x2770

April 13, 2002: Symposium

QUEER AND THERE: TRAVEL AND COMMODIFIED DESIRES
Symposium Presented by CSC, Inquiries Reading Group, and the Depts. of English and Anthropology

Location: 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Contact: Liz Fenton

April 12, 2002: Lecture

FLORIN CURTA
Dept. of History, University of Florida

Location: 4:00 pm, Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Contact: Michael Maas, x2264

April 12, 2002: Seminar

MICHEL SERRES
CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002

"Clinamen in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura"
Location: 4:00 p.m., Humanities 226
Contact: x2770

April 10, 2002: Seminar

MICHEL SERRES
CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002

"Space in Plato's Timeus"
Location: 4:00 p.m., Humanities 226
Contact: x2770

April 9, 2002: Seminar

MICHEL SERRES
CSC Distinguished Visiting Scholar, 2001-2002

"Euclidean First Definitions"
Location: 4:00 p.m., Humanities 226
Contact: x2770

April 7-9, 2002: Conference

MEMORIA: MEMORY AND COMMEMORATION IN MEDIEVAL CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM
The Neil J. O'Brien Conference for Medieval Studies

For Location and Time Visit the Conference Web Page: www.ruf.rice.edu/~medieval/memoria.html
Contact: Eva Haverkamp, x8085 or Angela Wren Wall, x5784

April 5, 2002: Lecture

"Accommodation, Collaboration, and Resistance in Poland, 1939-1947"
7:30 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
Contact: Ewa Thompson, x4874

April 4, 2002: Lecture

JEAN M. ALLMAN
Prof. of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"'Let your fashion be in line with our Ghanian Costume': Nation, Gender and the Politics of Clothing in Nkrumah's Ghana"
4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

April 2, 2002: Lecture Series

NEAL LANE
Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University

"The Two Cultures--Plus One"; Part of the Lecture Series "Technology, Cognition, and Culture"
4:00 p.m., McMurtry Auditorium (Duncan Hall)
Contact: Technology, Cognition and Culture Website

March 25, 2002: Lecture

DANIEL ALBRIGHT
Dept. of English; Eastman School of Music; University of Rochester

"Noble Savages in Armani Suits: American Art in the Late 20th Century: John Ashberry, Charles Wright, Cy Twombley, Earle Browne, and Christian Wolff"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 117
Contact: Alan Grob, x2645

March 22, 2002: Lecture

ELIZABETH THOMPSON
Dept. of History, University of Virginia

"Constructing Citizenship in the French Colonial Empire "
4:00 p.m., Humanities 328
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

March 18, 2002: Lecture

JUDITH A. BYFIELD
Dept. of History, Dartmouth College

"From Ladies to Women: Rice, Protest, and Politics in War Time Abeokuta (Nigeria)"
4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

March 1, 2002: Conference

CENTRAL TEXAS PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE CONSORTIUM MEETING

1:45-7:30 pm, Duncan Hall 3092
Contact: Sherrilyn Roush, x2771

March 1, 2002: Lecture

THOMAS V. McCLENDON
Prof. of History, Southwestern University

"Who Put the Mission in Civilizing Mission?"
4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

February 22-23 2002: Symposium

February 22, 2002: Lecture

JOHN HOWE
Professor of Medieval History, Texas Tech University

Music of the Spheres? Astronomical Antecedents of the Staff System of Musical Notation
7:00 p.m., 1404 Alice Pratt Brown Hall (Shepherd School of Music)
Contact: Honey Meconi, x3714 or x5784

February 20, 2002: Lecture

HAUN SAUSSY
Professor, Dept. of Asian Languages and the Dept. of Comparative Literature, Stanford University

"'Ritual Separates, Music Unites': Why Musical Hermeneutics Matters"
12:00 p.m., Humanities 117
Contact: Dee Garza

February 18, 2002: Lecture

LESSIE B. TATE
Dept. of History, Geography & Economics, Texas Southern University

"The 1858 Enslaved Migration to Texas via the ports of New Orleans"
4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

February 5, 2002: Lecture

DANIEL LASKER (Ben-Gurion University, Israel)
Norbert Blechner Professor of Jewish Values; Horwitz Visiting Scholar at the Houston Jewish Community Center

"Jewish Law and Bioethics"
4:30 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact:Gregory Kaplan, x2778

January 28, 2002: Lecture

BAKAMA BAKAMANUME
Dept. of Social Sciences, Prairie View A&M University

"Musicals and Geography/Social Sciences: Ipi Ntombi in the Classroom"
4:00 p.m., Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Ed Cox, x2249

January 25, 2002: Lecture

THE HON. LEONARD M. KRAZYNSKI
Honorary Consul, Republic of Poland

"Sealed Boxcars Moving East: Personal Remembrances of Soviet Russia's Deportations of Polish Civilians to Siberia and Central Asia, 1939-1940"
7:30 p.m., 309 Sewall Hall
Contact: Ewa Thompson, x4874

December 3, 2001: Lecture

NIA GEORGES (Rice University)
Associate Professor in Anthropology Department; 1998-1999 CSC Fellow

"Baby Talk: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Rhetorical Production of Maternal and Fetal Selves"
4:00 p.m., Sewall 307
Contact: nia@rice.edu

November 29, 2001: Lecture

ALAN STAHL (Rice University)
Visiting Professor in History Department; Author of Zecca: The Mint of Venice in the Middle Ages

"The Mint in the Life of Medieval Venice"
4:00 p.m., Sewall 307
Contact:hmeconi@rice.edu

November 15-18, 2001: Conference

AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE
44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

Location: TBA
Contact: Conference Website or African Studies Association

November 13, 2001: Lecture

DAVID B. GRAY (Rice University)
Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities

"Reconstituting the Primal Gnosis: On Myth, Textuality and Intertextuality as Strategies of Legitimation in Buddhist Traditions"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 117
Contact: x2770.

November 5, 2001: Lecture

SUSANNAH HESCHEL (Dartmouth College)
Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies

"Women in the SS: Feminist Theory and the Perpetrators"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 117
Contact: Matthias Henze

November 1-3, 2001: Conference

WRITTEN TEXT AND THE RISE OF LITERATE CULTURE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Second Part of the April, 2000 Conference, "Written Text and Transformations of Thought and Expression in Classical Greece"

Location: TBA
Contact: Harvey Yunis, x2775 or x5451 (Conference Organizer)

October 30, 2001: Lecture

MICHAEL HOENICKE MOORE (University of Houston)
Carolyn Grant Fay Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Honors College, University of Houston

"Itineraries of the Demonic in the Early Middle Ages "
4:00 p.m., Sewell Hall 307
Contact: Honey Meconi

October 29, 2001: Lecture

JERE L. BACHARACH (University of Washington)
Director, Jackson School of International Studies at University of Washington, and Past President ofMiddle East Studies Association

"Islamic Coins as a Source for Art History"
4:00 p.m., Humanities Building 117
Contact: Paula Sanders

October 25, 2001: Lecture

STEVEN CROWELL (Rice University)
Professor of Philosophy, 1999-2000 Center for the Study of Cultures Fellow

"Subjectivity: Locating the First-Person in Being andTime"
4:00 p.m., Humanities Building 117
Contact: Steven Crowell

October 24, 2001: Lecture-Recital

THOMAS E. JENKINS (Trinity University)
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies; Former Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University

KARIM AL-ZAND (Rice University)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Shepherd School of Music

"Moonlight on the Ganges: Interpreting the Exotic in Early American Popular Song"
8:00 p.m., Duncan Recital Hall
Contact: Thomas Jenkins or Karim Al-Zand

October 22, 2001: Lecture Series

MARK C. TAYLOR (Williams College)
Cluett Professor of Humanities, Director of the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities

"Minding Bodies"; First Part of the Lecture Series "Technology, Cognition, and Culture"
4:00 p.m., McMurtry Auditorium (Duncan Hall)
To view a webcast of this event, please visit:
  http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20011022taylor.html
Contact: Technology, Cognition and Culture Website

October 12-15, 2001: Conference

NEW MODERNISMS III
3rd Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association

Location: TBA
Further Information: MSA Website
Contact: Jacob Speaks, Conference Administrator

October 11-13, 2001: Conference

SHOTGUNS
A Symposium and Exhibition Studying African-American Culture, Contemporary Architecture and Community Keynote Address by bell hooks

Location of Keynote Address: Hamman Hall, 10/11, 7:00 p.m.
Contact: David Brown, x3466, or William Williams, x3388 (Conference Organizers)

October 11, 2001: Lecture

HAROLD SEGAL (Columbia University)
Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures

"The Interwar Polish Cabaret: Political Satire, Jews, and Szmonces"
7:30 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
Contact: Ewa Thompson

October 10, 2001: Lecture

DONALD MORRISON (Rice University)
Professor of Philosophy; 1999-2000 Center for the Study of Cultures Fellow

"Alcinous on Analytical Methods in Philosophy"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 309
Contact: Donald Morrison

October 5, 2001: Lecture

JAMES T. CAMPBELL (Brown University)
Associate Professor of American Civilization, Africana Studies and History

"Entangled Histories: Problems and Possibilities in Comparative, Diaspora and Transnational Histories"
4:00 p.m., Humanities 327
Contact: Ed Cox

September 24, 2001: Lecture

DAVID B. COOK (Rice University)
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies

"Gospel Materials in Arabic and the Position of Jesus in Early Islam"
4:00 p.m., Sewall Hall 309
Contact: Honey Meconi