Calendar

• Charles Branson
  A View of Douglas County from the Office of the Prosecutor
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 1, 2009, 9:00am - 11:00am
  Lawrence Country Club
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• Ann Schofield, American Studies/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  "American Fiction, Gender and Respectability, 1885-1917"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 1, 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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• Gian Gentile, History, U.S. Military Academy
  "Current History and the Iraq War"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 2, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Tom Barker, School of Education
  "Preserving the Church: The Franciscan Efforts in the Thoku Region, 1614-1640"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 5, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Theatre/Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
  "'Ring-on-the-Mussis' (Mrs.): Marriage, Gender and the Cult of Respectability in Victorian Nigeria and Ghana"
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2009: Respectability
  Tue., Oct. 6, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Kristin Epps, History
  "Using Public Records to Uncover Hidden Voices: The African-American Experience on the Kansas-Missouri Border"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Tue., Oct. 6, 2009, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Robert Hemenway, Hall Center Research Fellow and former KU Chancellor
  "Jump at the Sun: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston"
  Public Symposium
  Tue., Oct. 6, 2009, 6:30pm
  Kansas City Public Library, 14 W 10th Street, KCMO
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• Lucy McGilley, Program Coordinator
  "The Al Self Leadership Program at the KU School of Engineering"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 7, 2009, 9:30am - 11:00am
  Lawrence Country Club
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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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• Chris Anderson, Principal
  "A Visit to East Heights School"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 8, 2009, 9:30am - 11:00am
  East Heights Elementary School Library
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• Cindy Ott, American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
  "'That Noble Fruit': Pumpkins in American History"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 8, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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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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• Svetozar Stojanović
  "Lessons from the Demise of Communism and the Crisis of Capitalism."
  Special Events
  Mon., Oct. 12, 2009, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Carla Freeman, Anthropology/Women's Studies, Emory University
  "Entrepreneurship and the Making of a Caribbean Middle Class: Creole Respectability in a Neoliberal Age"
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2009: Respectability
  Tue., Oct. 13, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  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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• Friends Fall Social
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Tue., Oct. 13, 2009, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Norman Saul, History & Kansas Humanities Council
  "The Kansas Miracle: Mennonites, Volga Germans, and Turkey Red Wheat"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 15, 2009, 9:00am
  Lawrence Country Club
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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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• Sir Robert Worcester, KU alum, and founder of the MORI polling organization
  Breakfast event: "Allington Castle, Kent: a Thousand Years of History"
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Tue., Oct. 20, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• James W. Herynk, Anthropology (graduate student participant)
  "Crossing the line into illness: Liminality and the social symbols of the body"
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2009: Respectability
  Tue., Oct. 20, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Andre' N. Bollaert, Executive Director
  "Tour of The Castle Tea Room"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Oct. 20, 2009, 9:00am - 11:30am
  1307 Massachusetts Street, Lawrence, KS
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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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• Peg Livingood, KU Design and Construction Management
  "The University of Kansas Campus Heritage Plan"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 21, 2009, 9:30am - 11:00am
  Golf Course Superintendents' Association of America
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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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• SMA Staff
  "African Ceramics from the Collection of the Spencer Museum of Art"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 22, 2009, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Spencer Museum of Art
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• T. R. Reid, Healthcare critic and commentator for NPR's Morning Edition
  "We're Number 37! Why Other Countries Have Better, Fairer, and Cheaper Health Care than the USA"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Thu., Oct. 22, 2009, 7:30pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
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• T. R. Reid, Healthcare critic and commentator for NPR's Morning Edition
  "Breakfast with T. R. Reid"
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Fri., Oct. 23, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Spencer Research Library Staff
  "Overview and Tour of Spencer Research Library"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Oct. 23, 2009, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Spencer Research Library
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• Chris Frazer, History, St. Francis University, Nova Scotia
  "Positively Primitive: The Contested Image of Emiliano Zapata, 1911-1913"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 23, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  CANCELLED
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• Thomas Heilke, Political Science
  "'My Husband / My Wife, and My Friend': Friendship, Loyalty, Faith, and Fidelity in Thieleman J. van Braght's Martyrs' Mirror"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 26, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ayu Saraswati, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies
  "Rooting, Routing, and Respecting Whiteness: From Dutch to Japanese White"
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2009: Respectability
  Tue., Oct. 27, 2009, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• The Cypress String Quartet
  "Meet Me at the Lied"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Oct. 27, 2009, 4:00pm - 5:15pm
  Seymour Gallery (2nd floor of the Lied Center)
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• Marc Bousquet, English, Santa Clara University
  "How the University Works" - Marc Bousquet, English, Santa Clara University
  Special Events
  Wed., Oct. 28, 2009, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Marc Bousquet, English, Santa Clara University
  "Open Discussion: The Tenure System, Adjunct, and Graduate Labor"
  Special Events
  Thu., Oct. 29, 2009, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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