Calendar of Events Archive Spring 2007
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LECTURE - January 22, 2007
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Speaker: Marjorie Agosín
Speaker title: Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College
Title: A Cross and a Star: Meditations on Jewish Writings in the Americas
Time and Place: 12PM Humanities 226
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu or x2778
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LECTURE - January 26, 2007
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Speaker: Michael Ross
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles
Title: Africa and the Curse of Oil
Time and Place: 4 PM, Sewell 309
Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu or x2443
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LECTURE - January 30, 2007
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Speaker: Anthony Grafton
Speaker title: Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University
Title: The Republic of Letters: Sociology and History of An Intellectual Community
Time and Place: 4PM English Department Lounge 255
Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467
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LECTURE - February 2, 2007
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Speaker: José Pastrano
Speaker title: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow
Title: Scientific Farming and Modern Rural Poverty: 1887-1932
Time and Place: 4 PM, Humanities building 118
Contact: Melissa Bailar, melba@rice.edu or x2770
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LECTURE - February 5, 2007
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Speaker: John Mason Hart
Speaker title: John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston
Title: Hidden Influences: The Role of the US Economic Elite in Mexico and the Third World, 1865-1919
Time and Place: 3 PM, Humanities building 328
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481
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LECTURE and SEMINARS - February 5-9, 2007
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Speaker: Bruno Latour
Speaker title: Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and an HRC NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar
Title: Political Truth: Lippmann's Phantom and Dewey's Great Community
Time and Place: February 6th, 4 P.M. Herring 100
Other Events Include:
February 5th - Seminar "The Politics of Multinaturalism" - 4PM Humanities 117
February 7th - Seminar "Collective Experiments" - 4PM Humanities 118
February 8th - Making Things Public, Screening and Discussion - 4:30PM Anderson Hall, Farish Gallery
February 9th - Seminar "Cosmopolitics" - 4PM Rayzor 123
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| Lecture - February 12, 2006 |
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Speaker: David Gordon White
Speaker title: Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Title: The King Who Wasn't Himself: And Other Tales of Sinister Yogis
Time and place: 4 PM Humanities building 117
Contact: Jeffrey J. Kripal, jjkripal@rice.edu or x2238
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LECTURE - February 15, 2007
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Speaker: Theresa Coletti
Speaker title: Professor of English, University of Maryland at College Park
Title: Mary Magdalene: Text and Performance in Late Medieval England
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities building 117
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series
Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625
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LECTURE - February 21, 2007
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Speaker: Joan Oates
Speaker title: Professor at Cambridge University
Title: The Status Quo Challenged: Syria - The Source of Civilization?
Time and Place: 7PM, Sewell 301
Contact: Melissa Bailar, melba@rice.edu or x2770
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| Lecture - February 23, 2006 |
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Speaker: Richard Price
Speaker title: University of Maryland History Professor Chair
Title: Empire and Its Encounters: The British and the Xhosa Peoples of Southern Africa, 1820-1860
Time and place: 4 PM Humanities building 328
Contact: Martin Wiener, wiener@rice.edu or x4948
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LECTURE - February 23, 2007
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Speaker: Katharine Maus
Speaker title: James Branch Cabell Professor of English & American Literature, University of Virginia
Title: Francis Bacon: What's New About "The New Organon"?
Time and place: 4PM Herring Hall 255 (English Department Lounge)
Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467
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LECTURE - February 26, 2007
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Speaker: Carl Good
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University
Title: Whitman on the Border
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities building 117
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481
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LECTURE - March 13, 2007
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Speaker: Frieda Ekotto
Speaker title: Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Title: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé and Women's Resistance in West Africa
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities building 119
Contact: x4851
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LECTURE - March 15, 2007
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Speaker: Steven Justice
Speaker title: Associate Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley
Title: What is Literary History and Why Aren't We Doing It?
Time and Place: 7:30PM, Herring 100
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series
Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625
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LECTURE - March 15-16, 2007
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***** Update: Dr. Bennett's lecture will be postponed *****
Speaker: Herman Bennett
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Latin American History, Rutgers University and the author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Conciousness, 1570-1640.
Title: Reflecting Forward: Early Modern Freedom in Colonial Spanish America
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 328
Dr. Bennett will be giving a lecture on black family in Colonial Mexico and leading a graduate workshop on emerging issues in the history of the African diaspora.
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LECTURE - March 16, 2007
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Speaker: Metthew Chen
Speaker title: Energy Research Assistant, Baker Institute
Title: Chinese National Oil Companies and Human Rights
Time and Place: 4PM Sewell Hall
Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu or x2443
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LECTURE - March 19, 2007
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***** Update: Ms. Abdelnour's lecture will be postponed *****
Speaker: Patricia Abdelnour
Speaker title: Cultural Attache for the Venezuelan Embassy
Title: Culture and Politics in the New Venezuela
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Alex Lichtenstein, acl@rice.edu or x2397
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LECTURE - March 20, 2007
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Speaker: Patrick Caddeau
Speaker title: Director of Studies, Forbes College, Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Title: From Scroll to Screen: Adapting the Tale of Genji (Japan's First Novel) for the Cinema
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Richard Smith, smithrj@rice.edu or x2552
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LECTURE - March 22, 2007
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Speaker: Fiamma Montezemolo
Speaker title: Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera, Tijuana Mexico
Title: De-Mapping Tijuana
Time and Place: 4PM Rayzor Hall 302
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481
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SYMPOSIUM - March 23-24, 2007
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Autrey Symposium - The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies
Organizer: Joseph Clarke, Autrey Visiting Professor, Rice University Humanities Research Center
Participants:
George Baca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies, Goucher College
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
José E Limón, Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Suzette Spencer, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Jennifer Wilks, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin
Location: Herring Hall 100
Contact: Joseph Clarke, clarkej2@rice.edu or x2787
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| SYMPOSIUM - March 24-25, 2007 |
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Autrey Symposium - Aristotelian Natural Philosophy
Focused on the research interests of Pierre Pellegrin, Autrey Visiting Professor, Rice University Humanities Research Center
Organizer: Donald Morrison, Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, Rice University
Participants:
Robert Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Sean Kelsey, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Falcon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University
Mary Louise Gill, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University
Robin Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University
Location: Herring 125
Contact: Donald Morrison, donaldm@rice.edu or x2714
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LECTURE - April 12, 2007
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Speaker: Desirée Martin
Speaker title: Assitant Professor of English, University of California, Davis
Title: El Fantasma de Pancho Villa: Possessing Border and Nation in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture
Time and Place: 3PM, Rayzor 302
Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481
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LECTURE - April 13, 2007
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Speaker: Linda Pollock
Speaker title: Professor of History, Tulane University
Title: Honor, Gender and Reconciliation in the Seventeenth-Century English Elite
Time and Place: 4PM, Herring 255 (English Department Lounge)
Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467
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| CONFERENCE - April 13-14, 2007 |
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Title: The Birds Now
Guest Participants:
Lee C. Edelman - Chair of the English Department, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University
Tom Cohen - Chair of the English Department, SUNY Albany
Rice Participants:
Susan Lurie - Associate Professor of English, Rice University
Joshua D. Gonsalves - Assistant Professor of English, Rice University
Click here for the symposium website and complete schedule
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LECTURE - April 19, 2007
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Speaker: Robert Richards
Speaker title: Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, Director of the Fishbein Center for History of Science, University of Chicago
Title: Religion, Evolutionary Theory, and the Alleged Fraud of Ernst Haeckel
Time and Place: 5PM, Humanities bldg. 328
Contact: John Zammito, zammito@rice.edu or x2453
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LECTURE - April 20, 2007
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Speaker: Robin D. S. Yates
Speaker title: Professor of History, McGill University
Title: Soldiers, Scribes and Women: Lower Order Literacy in the First Chinese Empires
Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities bldg. 119
Contact: Nanxiu Qian, nanxiuq@rice.edu or x5945
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