Speaker: Douglas Wile
Speaker Title: Professor of Chinese Language and Literature, Brooklyn College - CUNY

Title: Chinese Sexual Cultivation: Yoga, Alchemy, and Mysticism

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Jeff Kripal, x2238, jjkripal@rice.edu

Speaker: Miles Orvell
Speaker Title: Professor of English and American Studies, Director of American Studies Program, and Director of the Masters of Liberal Arts at Temple University

Title: The Small Town and American Culture
1PM, Humanities 115 (Dean's Conference Room)

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium

Contact: Caroline Levander, x3203, clevande@rice.edu

Speaker: George Sher
Speaker Title: Autry Professor of Humanities in Philosophy, Rice University

Title: Out of Control: Being Responsible for What We Cannot Help

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: George Sher, x2723, gsher@rice.edu

Title: Language in Use: Culture, Society, and Change Workshop

Sessions are held in Humanities 117, refreshemnts are in the Humanities lobby.

Contact: Suzanne Kemmer, x6225 or x 6010, kemmer@rice.edu

Speaker: Dan Zahavi
Speaker Title: Director of the Center for Subjectivity Research, University of Copenhagen

Title: Back to Brentano? Neo-Brentanian Theories of Consciousness and Self-Consciousness

5PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Steven Crowell, x2719, crowell@rice.edu

Speaker: David J. Weber
Speaker Title: Robert and Nancy Dedman Professor of History and Director of the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University (Dallas)

Title: Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment
2:30PM, Sewell 301

Contact: Lane Kauffmann, x5403, rlk@rice.edu

Speaker: John Beck
Speaker Title: Professor of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne

Title: Beyond Exceptionalism: The Americas in the UK
Time and location TBA

This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium

Contact: Caroline Levander, x3203, clevande@rice.edu

Speaker: Norman Etherington
Speaker Title: Professor of History at the University of Western Australia

Title: How 19^th-Century Amateur Scientists Invented Historical Migrations to South Africa

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Kerry Ward, x2442, kward@rice.edu

Title: Working Across the Disciplines: Writing a History of the Early West African States and Empires, 800-1500 C.E.
(Part of the Early West African States and Empires Workshop)

Presentations and discussions by: David Conrad (Professor of History at SUNY Oswego), Paulo Farias (Professor of History at University of Birmingham - England), Roderick McIntosh (Professor of Anthropology at Rice University), and Susan Keech McIntosh (Professor of Anthropology at Rice University)

7PM, Humanities 328

Contact: Susan McIntosh, x3380, skmci@rice.edu

Speaker: Rajani Sudan
Speaker Title: Professor of English at Southern Methodist University

Title: Mud, Mortar, and Other Technologies of Empire

4PM, Herring Hall 224

Contact: Elizabeth Dietz, x4316, edietz@rice.edu

Speaker: Richard Smith
Speaker Title: Rupp Professor of Humanities in History, Rice University

Title: Eternal Writ: The Evolution and Globalization of the Yijing (I-Ching or Book of Changes)

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Richard Smith, x2552, smithrj@rice.edu

Speaker: Arthur I Miller
Speaker Title: Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, University College London

Title: The Aesthetic Universe

4PM, Duncan Hall McMurtry Auditorium

This talk is part of the Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series

Contact: citi@rice.edu

Speaker: John Breen
Speaker Title: Senior Lecturer at the Center for the Study of Asia & Africa, University of London

Title: The Shogun's Pilgrimmage to Kyoto 1863: The Space of Bakumatsu History

4PM, Humanities 120

Contact: Sarah Thal, thal@rice.edu

Speaker: Luc Brisson
Speaker Title: Professor at CNRS, Paris

Title: Socrates' daimonion in Plato

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Donald Morrison, donaldm@rice.edu, x2714

Speaker: Christopher Kelty
Speaker Title: Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Rice University

Title: Load Image Into Memory: Software, Networks, and the Cultural Study of New Media

4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Chris Kelty, x3311, ckelty@rice.edu

Speaker: Purushottam Agrawal
Speaker Title: Professor in the Center of Indian Languages, School of Languages, Literature, and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Title: After Ayodhya: Reflections on Hindu Nationalism

Location: 7PM, Rayzor Hall 123

Contact: Jeff Kripal, jjkripal@rice.edu or x2238.