April 20: Lecture

BARBARA ABOU-EL-HAJ (Binghamton University SUNY, Art History)
"Santiago Suspended: Medieval History, Modern Mythology"
4:00pm, Sewall 305
Contact: Honey Meconi (713.348.3714)

April 6-8: Conference

CAMEROON: TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
MULTIDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES OF A SOCIETY AT THE CROSSROADS
Friday, April 6, 3:00-8:00pm
Saturday, April 7, 8:30am-4:30pm
Sunday, April 8, 8:30am-12:00noon
All lectures in Duncan Hall 1064 and 1070
Lectures are free and open to the public
Contact: Elias Bongmba (713.348.2759)

April 6: Lecture

PAUL W. KNOLL (UCLA, Dept. of History)
"The Jagiellonian University of Cracow in the Life of 15th Century Poland"
7:30pm, Sewall 309
Contact: Ewa M. Thompson (713.348.4874)

April 2: Lecture

WERNER KELBER (Dept. of Religious Studies, Rice University, Director, Center for the Study of Cultures)
"The Case of the Gospels: Memory's Desire or the Limits of Historical Criticism"
4:00-6:00pm, Humanities Building 119
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

March 23-25: Conference

MEMORY AND VIOLENCE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Panels:
---1. Fractured Memories
---2. War and Reconciliation
---3. Nationalism, Memory and War
---4. Contested Histories
---5. Recovering the Sacred Past
Time TBA
Humanities Building and Baker Institute, Room Numbers TBA
Conference is free and open to the public
Contact: Ussama Makdisi (713.348.2561)

March 23: Lecture

DAVID KILLICK (University of Arizona)
"Technology Transfer in the Islamic World System: A View from the Swahili Coast, 800-1500 A.D."
4:00pm, Humanities Building 213
Contact: Susan McIntosh (713.348.3380)

March 21: Lecture

ALAN MINTZ (Brandeis University)
"Yehuda Amichai and the Problem of Happiness"
4:00-6:00pm, Humanities Building 117
Contact: Matthias Henze (713.348.2754)

March 19: Lecture *CANCELLED*

DONALD MORRISON (Rice University, Philosophy)
"Alcinous on Methods of Analysis in Philosophy"
4:00-6:00pm, Humanities Building 119
Contact: Donald Morrison (713.348.2714)

March 8-11: Conference

NARRATIVE: AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
Plenary Speakers:
---Barbara Johnson (Harvard University)
---Franco Moretti (Stanford University)
---José David Saldivar (University of California, Berkeley)
---Richard Shusterman (Temple University)
Information about the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature may be found here.
Email inquiries to dayton@rice.edu.

February 23-25: Symposium

C. VANN WOODWARD'S "ORIGINS OF THE NEW SOUTH"
Participants:
-- Barbara Fields (Columbia)
-- Glenda Gilmore (Yale)
-- Harold Woodman (Purdue)
-- James C. Cobb (U. of Georgia)
-- Robert McMath (Georgia Tech)
Opening session, Friday, 7:30 p.m., Baker Institute International Conference Facility
Saturday sessions, 9:15am - 5:00pm, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall
Contact: John Boles (713.348.5546)

February 23-25: Symposium

ASIAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE AND FILM
---Roundtable Discussion - Asian-American Writers and Filmmakers:
Saturday, February 23, Time TBA, Baker Institute, Rice University
---Panel Discussion - Asian-American 21st Century Politics
Saturday, February 23, 5:00pm, Chinese Community Center
---Asian-American Film Festival
February 23-25, Rice Media Center (film tickets can be purchased at Media Center)
Discussions are free and open to the public
Contact: Chiu-Mi Lai (713.348.8201)

February 15: Colloquium

HISPANIC WOMEN WRITERS: MEDIEVAL LEGACIES
Speakers:
---Montserrat Cabre (Harvard University.)
---Dayle Seidenspinner-Nunez (University of Notre Dame)
---Ronald E. Surtz (Princeton University)
3:00-6:00pm, Sewall Hall 309
The colloquium is open to all members of the Rice community
Contact: Rafael M. Merida-Jimenez (713.348.3206)

February 12: Lecture

SHALOM SABAR (Scholar-in-Residence, Houston Jewish Community Center)
"Visions of Jerusalem in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Art"
4:00pm, Humanities Building 117
The lecture is free and open to the public
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

February 10: Colloquium

THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
Presenters:
---Gary A. Anderson (Harvard Divinity School)
---John J. Collins (Yale Divinity School)
---Peter W. Flint (Trinity Western University)
---Matthias Henze (Rice University)
---James C. VanderKam (University of Notre Dame)
9:00am-3:00pm, McMurtry Auditorium, Duncan Hall 1055
The colloquium is free and open to the public
Contact: Matthias Henze (713.348.2754)

February 1: Lecture

DONALD FANGER (Harvard University)
"Russian Writers and Slippages of History"
7:30pm, Sewall Hall, 309
Contact: Ewa M. Thompson (713.348.4874)

December 8: Lecture

SUSAN CAREY (New York and Harvard Universities)
"Where Do Concepts Come From?"
3:30pm, Humanities Building 117
Contact: Richard Grandy (713.348.2720)

November 17: Seminar

GERMAN UNIFICATON AND ITS CONSEQUENCES: ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES
Speakers:
---Irwin Collier (Freie Universität Berlin)
---Verena Tobsch (Universität Frankfurt an der Oder)
Transition Economic Seminar Series of 2000-01
4:00-5:30pm, Humanities Building 327
The seminar is free and open to the public
Contact: Carl Caldwell (713.348.2543)

November 10: Lecture

HANS ADLER (Dept. of German, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
"Trends in 18th-Century German Literary History"
4:00-5:30pm, Humanities Building 328
Contact: Goethe Center for Central European Studies (713.348.3473)

November 3-5: Conference

THE FUTURE OF FEMINIST CRITIQUE: ETHICS, AGENCY AND POLITICS
Keynote Speaker: Angela Y. Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz)
8.00pm, in the Grand Hall.
Conference web site is here.
Contact: Carol Quillen (713.348.2269)

November 2: Lecture

JELENA MILOJKOVIC-DJURIC (Center for Humanities Research, Texas A&M University)
"The Hapsburg Policies in an Occupied Territory: Austria-Hungary and Bosnia Hercegovina at the End of the Nineteenth Century"
11.30am, Faculty Club
Contact: Ewa M. Thompson (713.348.4874) Central European Study Group

October 26: Lecture

TOM JENKINS (Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University)
"Art-Deco Classics: A Brief Study in Reception"
4:00-5:30pm, Humanities Building 117
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 17: Seminar

JAN ASSMANN (University of Heidelberg)
ALEIDA ASSMANN (University of Konstanz)
"History and Memory"
7.00-9.00pm, Sewall Hall 352A
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 12: Seminar

JAN ASSMANN (University of Heidelberg)
ALEIDA ASSMANN (University of Konstanz)
"Reinventing Tradition"
7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 11: Lecture

ALEIDA ASSMANN (University of Konstanz)
"Affect -- Symbol -- Trauma: Stabilizers of Memory"
7.30-9:00pm, Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
Reception to follow in Kelley Lounge, 9.00-9:30pm
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 10: Seminar

JAN ASSMANN (University of Heidelberg)
ALEIDA ASSMANN (University of Konstanz)
"Paradigms of Learning"
7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 5: Lecture

HAROLD B. SEGAL (Department of Slavic Languages and Literature, Columbia University)
"Images of the Jew in Polish and Russian Literatures"
7.30pm, 309 Sewell Hall, with reception to follow
Contact: Ewa M. Thompson (713.348.4874) Central European Study Group

October 4: Seminar

JAN ASSMANN (University of Heidelberg)
ALEIDA ASSMANN (University of Konstanz)
"From Short Term to Long Term Memories"
7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)

October 3: Lecture

JAN ASSMANN (University of Heidelberg)
"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
Contact: The Center for the Study of Cultures (713.348.2770)