Calendar

• 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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