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January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2009
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Don Stull, Anthropology
"Meatpacking and Mexicans on the High Plains: From Minority to Majority in Garden City, Kansas"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Jan. 21, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Jerry Masinton, English
"Epistemological Shift in Contemporary American Fiction"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Jan. 26, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Michael Fox, Health Policy and Management
"Experiencing Disaster with a Disability: Katrina Revisited"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Thu., Jan. 29, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Katie Egging, English and Tracie Amend, Spanish & Portuguese
"Works in Progress: Doctoral Research in Performance and Culture"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Jan. 30, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Hanne Sigismund-Nielsen, Greek and Roman Studies, University of Calgary
"Who Invented the Univira?"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Feb. 10, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
CANCELLED
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Kathryn A. Conrad, English
"Performance, Parades, Publics: Queering Northern Irish Identities"
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Fri., Feb. 13, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Gerald Mikkelson, Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies
"Philosophy of Nature in the Prose and Poetry of Varlam Shalamov"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Feb. 16, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Zulema Valdez, Sociology, Texas A&M University
"Agency and Structure in National, Panethnic and Racial Identity Formation: The Case of Latino/a Entrepreneurs"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Feb. 18, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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John Wilinsky, School of Education, Stanford University
"Open Access to Knowledge: What Comes of the Right to Know in Kansas and Kumasi"
Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
Thu., Feb. 19, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Jayhawk Room, Kansas Union
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Scott Magelssen, Theatre & Film, Bowling Green State University
"Rehearsing the 'Warrior Ethos': 'Theatre Immersion' and the Simulation of Iraq Theatres of War"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Feb. 20, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Tanya Hart, American Studies/Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
"The Desegregation of the University of Kansas School of Medicine"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Wed., Feb. 25, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Anne Chapin, Art, Brevard College; Kim Shelton, Classics, University of California, Berkeley; Nancy R. Thomas , Art, Jacksonville University
The 4th Annual Paul Rehak Symposium in Ancient Art: "Mycenae and its Art"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Mar. 3, 2009, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
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Neil Fleming, Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History, Westminster College
"Gladstone and the Ulster Question"
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Mon., Mar. 9, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Ellen Averett, Health Policy and Management
"Health Care Ethics: Can It Be Taught On-Line"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Tue., Mar. 24, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Panel Discussion: "Designing in a Global Environment: Adjustments and Translations"
Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
Thu., Mar. 26, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
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Iris Fischer, English
"C.S. Peirce and the Habit of Theatre"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Mar. 30, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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The Roundtable: New Directions in Faculty Research
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Mon., Apr. 13, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Sharon Kinoshita, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz
"The Corrupting Sea? Old French, Literary Studies, and the Medieval Mediterranean"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Apr. 14, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Gary Reich, Political Science
"The Roots of U.S. State Activism on Immigration: Explaining the Adoption of Restrictive versus Accommodating Policies"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Apr. 15, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Panel Discussion: "Islam in the Age of Globalization: Perspectives on Changing Dynamics"
Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
Thu., Apr. 16, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
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Mechele Leon, Theatre and Film and Michelle Hayes, Music and Dance
"Forum: Reflections on the KU Production of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Apr. 17, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Sean Ireton, German, University of Missouri-Columbia
"Lines and Crimes of Demarcation: The Subjugation of Nature in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Daniel Kehlmann's Measuring the World"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Apr. 20, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Johnson Room, Spencer Research Library
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Jan Thomas, Women's and Gender Studies and Sociology, Kenyon College
"Trusting Women, Respecting Birth: Why is Sweden Consistently Ranked One of the Best Places to Have a Baby?"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Wed., Apr. 22, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Eleanor Winsor Leach, Classics, Indiana University
"Epistolary Dialogues: Constructing Selves and Others in Cicero's and Pliny's Letters"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., May. 5, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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James Woelfel, Humanities & Western Civilization
"'The Beautiful Necessity': Emerson and the Stoic Tradition"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Aug. 31, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Israel Kamudzandu, New Testament Studies, Saint Paul School of Theology
"The Aeneas Myth under the Aspect of the Africans: A Postcolonial Perspective"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Sep. 8, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Derrick Darby, Philosophy & School of Law
"Educational Inequality and the Science of Diversity in Grutter"
Past Seminars: Inequality Seminar
Wed., Sep. 9, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Henry Bial, Theatre & Stuart Day, Spanish & Portuguese
"The Performativity of Commemoration"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Sep. 11, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Richard Hardin, English
"Plautus and the Renaissance of English Drama"
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Mon., Sep. 14, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Ludwin Molina, Psychology
"National Identity in a Diverse Society: Out of Many, One?"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Sep. 16, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Tazewell Thompson, Professional Theatre Director, New York City
"'The Scottish Play': A Conversation with Tazewell Thompson"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Oct. 2, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
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Argun Saatcioglu, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies
"The Consequences and Discourses of Racial Integration and Segregation in Urban School Systems: The Case of Cleveland Schools, 1973-1999"
Past Seminars: Inequality Seminar
Wed., Oct. 7, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Sara Danger, English, Valparaiso University
"Bonnets and Politics: Domestic Ideology as a lens for Political Analysis in Frances Trollope's Domestic Manners of the Americans."
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Mon., Oct. 12, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Vered Lev Kenaan, Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of Haifa, Israel
"Ancient Images of the Unconscious: From Pandora's Jar to Psyche's Box"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Oct. 13, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Julianne Buchsbaum, KU Libraries
"Presenting the Unrepresentable: Edmund Burke, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and the Postmodern Sublime in Contemporary Poetry"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Oct. 19, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Christopher Crenner, History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical School
"The Use of Categories of Race in American Medicine during the Era of Racial Science"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Tue., Oct. 20, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Roberto Gonzales, School of Social Work, University of Washington
"Learning to be Illegal: Undocumented Youth and the Confusing and Contradictory Routes to Adulthood"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Oct. 21, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Marta Vicente, History/Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
"The Popular Fable of Sex Change': Medical Analysis of Sex and Gender in Early Modern Spain"
Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
Mon., Nov. 2, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Ronald F. Ferguson, Faculty Co-Chair and Director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University
"Racial Issues in Building a Stronger National Culture of Achievement"
Past Seminars: Inequality Seminar
Wed., Nov. 4, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
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Kirsten F. Nigro, Languages and Linguistics, University of Texas at El Paso
"Walking the Line: The U.S./Mexico Border as and in Performance"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Nov. 6, 2009, 2:40pm - 3:40pm
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
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Kim Schutte, History
"Down and Out in Tudor England: Patterns of Elite Subsequent Marriages"
Past Seminars: British Seminar
Mon., Nov. 9, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Misty Schieberle, English
"Women's Counsel and Men's Authority in English Translations of Christine de Pisan's Epistre d'Othae"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Nov. 10, 2009, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Jerry Masinton, English & Doreen Fowler (respondent), English
"Sigmund's Freudiad."
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Nov. 16, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Ben Chappell American Studies
"Barrio Metaxis: Ambivalent Iconicities in Mexican American Lowriders"
Past Seminars: American Seminar
Wed., Nov. 18, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Bernadette A. Meyler, Law, Cornell University
"Theaters of Pardoning"
Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
Mon., Nov. 30, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Conference Hall
CANCELLED
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John Rury, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies & Shirley Hill, Sociology
"Closing the Attainment Gap: The African American Struggle for Secondary Education"
Past Seminars: Inequality Seminar
Wed., Dec. 2, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Nicole Hodges Persley, Theatre
"Sampling Blackness: Performing African Americanness in Hip-hop Theater and Performance"
Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
Fri., Dec. 4, 2009, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
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Christopher Forth, Humanities and Western Civilization
"Ancient Appetites: The Belly and What Lies Beneath"
Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
Tue., Dec. 8, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
Hall Center Seminar Room
CANCELLED
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