October 13-14, 2007
Sociology of Music Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Featured speaker, October 13, Saturday
Young Musicians and Their Careers: Highlights from the Longitudinal Study of Music Involvement, 2001-2007
Shoshana Dobrow, Assistant Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University
Dr. Dobrow's research addresses the question of why people make seemingly irrational decisions to pursue extraordinarily competitive, challenging music career paths. This presentation will offer highlights from an ongoing longitudinal survey study of talented young musicians. Dobrow investigates the nature of subjective orientation - the sense of calling.
Contact: Janet Rarick rarick@rice.edu or x4854.
October 26, 2007
Venturing Beyond the Beyond: A Symposium on the Visual Imagination and Mystical Hermeneutics of Elliot R. Wolfson
Bringing together a panel of distinguished scholars, this symposium will take Elliot R. Wolfson’s groundbreaking writings on Jewish mysticism and his related paintings and poetry as points of departure for lectures focused on the reenvisioning of embodiment, time, beauty, ritual practice, angelic presence, and issues of transgression, law and honesty. The symposium intentionally coincides with Dr. Elliot Wolfson's (NYU) appointment as a senior fellow in the Humanities Research Center. Dr. Wolfson himself will offer concluding reflections on the papers.
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal jjkripal@rice.edu or Marcia Brennan mbrennan@rice.edu.
January 25-27, 2008 - The First Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America
This major conference is designed to coincide with Hans Poser's (TU-Berlin) appointment as Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professor in the Humanities Research Center. The Leibniz Society of North America (LSNA) endorsed this as the inaugural conference in its initiative to launch an annual conference series, with the aim of further energizing and improving Leibniz scholarship on this continent.
Contact: Mark A. Kulstad at kulstad@rice.edu.
March 21-22, 2008 - Writing the History of Human Rights in 20th-Century Europe
Lora Wildenthal and Daniel Cohen in Rice’s Department of History have organized this conference to showcase new historical work on human rights and to address the difficulties of writing histories of human rights. Sessions will address the fin de siècle and the first world war, the interwar period and the second world war, and the post-1945 period. Topics addressed include, among many others, “The Soviets at Nuremberg: International Law, Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order,” “Jewish displaced persons and refugee policy,” “Advocating Dignity: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights Struggles and Global Politics,” and “East and West German responses to struggles for independence and national liberation in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.”
Contact: Lora Wildenthal at wildenth@rice.edu or Daniel Cohen at gdcohen@rice.edu
March 27-29, 2008 - The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity
This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together work on language evolution, historical change, language acquisition, and evolutionary biology, as well as cognitive and neurological studies.
Contact: Masayoshi Shibitani at shibo@rice.edu.
April 12-14, 2008 - Orality and Literacy VII: Oral-scribal dimensions of scripture, piety, and practice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
This is the seventh in a series of Orality-Literacy conferences and the second hosted by the HRC. The conference will reexamine the largely Western paradigm of the three monotheistic faiths as quintessential religions of the book from the perspective of oral traditional literature, which concerns itself with the study of compositional, performative, and aesthetic aspects of living oral traditions and the texts dependent on them. The conference will bring together sixteen experts in the oral-scribal dimension of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
Contact: Paula Sanders sanders@rice.edu or Werner Kelber kelber@rice.edu.
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