- September 20, 1996
- Lecture:
- Martin Wiener
- "Victorian Men Who Killed Women: Why They Did It,
- What Happened to Them, and What We Can Learn From Them"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- September 27, 1996
- Lecture:
- Jan Rybicki
- "The Art of Translation"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor 110
- (Contact Ewa Thompson x4874)
October 4, 1996
- Lecture:
- Thomas Shippey
- "Tolkien and the Theory of Courage"
- 7:00 p.m. 301 Sewall Hall
- (Contact Linda Neagley x3316)
October 7, 1996
- Lecture:
- Jonathan Miller
- "Film and the Imagination"
- 7:00 p.m. Hamman Hall
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
October 17, 1996
- Lecture:
- Christopher Browning
- Historians on the Holocaust: A Fin-de-Siecle Perspective. Lecture 1 of 4.
- "Explaining the Holocaust Perpetrators: Ordinary Men or Ordinary Germans"
- 8:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
October 18, 1996
- Lecture:
- Franklin S. Odo
- "Asians in America: Representations and Realities"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
October 25, 1996
- Lecture:
- Ron Numbers
- "The Scopes Trial in History and Legend"
- (Contact: Al Van Helden x2556)
- October 29, 1996
- Lecture:
- Saul Friedlander
- Historians on the Holocaust: A Fin-de-Siecle Perspective. Lecture 2 of 4.
- "Two Jewish Historians in extremis: Ernst Kantorowicz and Marc
- Bloch in the Face of Nazism and Collaboration"
- 8:00 p.m. Sewall 301
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
October 31, 1996
- Lecture:
- Buluda Itandala
- "Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Democracy in Rwanda"
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
November 8, 1996
- Lecture:
- Gulie Ne'man Arad
- Historians on the Holocaust: A Fin-de-Siecle Perspective. Lecture 3 of 4.
- "From Estrangement to Embracement: The Holocaust in American Jewish
- Consciousness"
- 8:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
November 14, 1996
- Lecture:
- Jonathan Spence
- History Department Annual Kalb Lecture
- "War and Peace in Eighteenth Century China"
- 8:00 p.m. Sewall 301
- (Contact: x4948)
November 18, 1996
- Lecture:
- Johannes Fabian
- "The Power Within: Genres in Popular Culture"
- 4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Elias Bongmba x2759)
November 20, 1996
- Discussion:
- Peter Mieszkowski
- Commenting on Michael Bernstam's article on the Polish economic recovery
- CESG Luncheon Meeting
- 12:00 p.m. Rice Faculty Club
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
November 22, 1996
- Lecture:
- Steven Shapin
- "Here & Everywhere: Current Trends in Social Studies of Science"
- 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Jack Zammito x2780)
November 26, 1996
- Lecture:
- William Murchison
- "After the Election: What Now?"
- CESG Luncheon Meeting
- 12:00 p.m., DoubleTree Guest Quarters, 5353 Westheimer
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
December 3, 1996
- Lecture:
- Jeffrey Perl
- "The Manufacture of Disagreement"
- 4:30 p.m. Miner Lounge in the RMC
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
January 16, 1997
- Lecture:
- Michael Marrus
- Historians on the Holocaust: A Fin-de-Siecle Perspective. Lecture 4 of 4.
- "The Vatican and the Holocaust: A New Perspective"
- 8:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
January 24, 1997
- Lecture:
- Geraldine Heng
- "Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Arthurian Romance"
- 4:00 p.m. Location TBA
- (Contact: Jane Chance x2625)
January 24, 1997
- Lecture:
- Jan T. Gross
- "Revolution from Abroad: The Soviet Conquest of Poland's Western Ukraine
- and Western Belorussia"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
February 7, 1997
- Symposium:
- Classics in the Humanities: Ancient and Modern Problems
- Speakers: Richard Thomas of Harvard University and
- Arthur Eckstein of the University of Maryland
- 3:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Harvey Yunis x2775 or Michael Maas x2264)
- February 7-8, 1997
- Readings:
- Australian "Ficto-critics" Diane Losch, Stephen Muelhke, and Lesley Stern
- with Julie Taylor, Katie Stewart, and Luis Soares
- Begins 9:30 a.m. Sewall Hall 570
- (Contact: George Marcus x4847)
- February 13, 1997
- Lecture:
- Terry Castle
- "Lesbianism and the Aesthetic: The Case of Mademoiselle de Maupin" (Slide lecture)
- 5:00 p.m. Rayzor 110 (tentative)
- (Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627 or Jane Chance x2625)
- February 20, 1997
- Lecture:
- Chandra Mukerji
- "Nature, Artifice, and Power: Engineering and Absolutism in 17th-Century French Gardens"
- 4:00 p.m. 301 Sewall
- (Contact: Elizabeth Long x3483)
- February 20, 1997
- Lecture:
- Jane Gallop
- "Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment (her own story)"
- 8:00 p.m. 301 Sewall
- (Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627)
- February 21-22, 1997
- Meeting:
- Southwest Slavic Association
- Friday, Feb. 21, 6-10 p.m.
- Hungry's Cafe (informal dinner) and Baker College (performance)
- Saturday, Feb. 22, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room
- Keynote Speaker: James Millar, George Washington University, "Alternative Paths to the Economic Transformation of Russia" at 4 p.m.
- (Contact: Gale Stokes x2598)
- February 25, 1997
- Lecture:
- Klaus Aurisch, Consul General of Germany
- "Germany and East Central Europe"
- CESG Luncheon Meeting
- 12:00 p.m. George's Room, Rice Faculty Club
- Limited seating; please e-mail confirmation if you plan to attend
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson, ethomp@rice.edu)
- March 1, 1997
- Workshop:
- "Internationalizing the Disciplines"
- Presentations on what directions universities should be taking to create more culturally and historically sensitive approaches to the study of contemporary culture.
- Panelists:
- Arjun Appadurai, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the
- Chicago Humanities Institute
- Virginia Dominguez, Director of the Center for International and
- Comparative Studies, University of Iowa
- Leo Lee, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of Ethnic Studies,
- Harvard University
- Naoki Sakai, Professor of Japanese Studies, Cornell University
- Doris Sommer, Professor of Latin American Studies, Harvard University
- Jack Tchen, Director of Asian-American Studies, New York University
- 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Richard Smith x4947)
- March 10, 1997
- Lecture:
- Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic
- Speaking on postemotional politics in the Balkans, particularly the new economic initiative, SECI
- CESG Luncheon Meeting
- 12:00 p.m., Rice Faculty Club
- (Contact Ewa Thompson x4874)
- March 11, 1997
- Post-Symposium Discussion
- "Classical Education in the Humanities Curriculum at Rice: A Follow-up Discussion" to the AMC/CSC Symposium on February 7, "Classical Education in the Humanities: Ancient and Modern Problems." Our informal discussion will consider ways to make the presence of the classics more visible across the Humanities. Faculty in all fields are encouraged to attend. Refreshments.
- 4:30 p.m. 240.
- (AMC: Michael Maas x2264)
- March 14, 1997
- Lecture:
- Harold Mah
- "Impossible Hellas: German Identity Under Affliction: From Winckelmann to Thomas Mann"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact Alan Grob x2645)
- March 14, 1997
- Lecture:
- Edward Grant
- "Journey through the Spheres: The Cosmos in the Middle Ages"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact Al Van Helden x2556)
- March 21-23, 1997
- Conference:
- "Marcel Duchamp and Rethinking the Creative Act"
- Speakers:
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson, Art History, The University of Texas at Austin
- Dalia Judovitz, French and Italian, Emory University
- David Joselit, Art History, University of California, Irvine
- Herbert Molderings, Art History, Rihr University, Bochum
- Francis Naumann, Art History, Independent Scholar, New York
- Molly Nesbit, Art History, Vassar College
- Conveners and Introducers:
- William Camfield, Rice University
- Walter Hopps, The Menil Collection
- Thomas McEvilley, Rice University
- Friday, March 21, 4:00-8:30 p.m. and Saturday, March 22, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- All sessions meet in Sewall Hall 301.
- Sunday, March 23, 7:30 p.m. Films by, with, or about Marcel Duchamp.
- Rice Media Center.
- (Contact: Bill Camfield x3472 or CSC x2770)
- March 24, 1997
- Lecture
- Steven D. Goodman
- "Poetry, Visionary Revelation, and Philosophy: An Exploration in Songs of Realization in Indo-Tibetan Culture."
- 7:00 p.m. Sewall 309
- (Contact: Anne Klein x5201)
- March 25, 1997
- Lecture
- Anne Kilmer
- "Gender Ambiguity in the Cult of the Goddess Inanna/Ishtar"
- 3:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room
- (Contact: Scott Noegel x3244)
- March 28-29
- Conference
- "Kinship and Cosmopolitanism"
- Keynote Speaker: John Borneman, Dept. of Anthropology, Cornell University
- "Caring and Being Cared For: Displacing Kinship, Marriage, Gender, and Sexuality"
- (Friday 4:45 p.m.)
- Friday 4:30 - 6:00 p.m.; Saturday 9:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 - 4:30 p.m.
- Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
- (Contact: James Faubion x3384)
- April 11, 1997
- Lecture
- Joel Beinin
- "The Jewish Business Elite in 20th Century Egypt: From Pillars of the Community to Compradors?"
- 12:00 p.m. 525 Fondren Library
- (Contact: Paula Sanders x2541)
- April 11, 1997
- Lecture:
- Andrzej Wasko
- "Polish Romantic Literature: Samartism versus the Enlightenment"
- 7:00 p.m. 110 Rayzor
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- April 12, 1997
- Conference:
- "Feminism Today: A Houston Conference"
- 10:00 a.m. - late afternoon Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
- (Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627)
- April 18, 1997
- Lecture:
- H.W.O. Okoth-Ogendo
- "The Challenges of Land Tenure Reform in Africa"
- 11:00 a.m. 525 Fondren Library
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- April 18, 1997
- Lecture:
- Joseph Childers
- "The Malay at the Door and Other Subjects"
- 4:00 p.m. 301 Sewall Hall
- (Contact: Alan Grob x2645)
- April 26, 1997
- Conference:
- "Rethinking Area and Ethnic Studies: The Case of China"
- This conference will feature presentations and discussions by a group of scholars from Hong Kong, Taiwan, Mainland China, and the United States, who will consider the prospects for new forms of inter-institutional collaboration in teaching about, and doing research on, contemporary China. The full-day meeting will focus primarily on identifying issues and topics which the participants consider to be at the leading edge of changes in the greater China region.
- Moderators: Benjamin Lee (Rice, Anthropology) and Richard Smith (Rice, History)
- 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
- Rm. 150, International Conference Facility, The Baker Institute Building
- (Contact: Richard Smith x4947)
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