Calendar

• Keri Sanburn Behre, English
  "Voracious Mothers: Craving and Identity in Early Modern English Drama"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 3, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Kenneth Audus, Dean
  Visit with Dean Kenneth Audus and Tour of the New Pharmacy Building
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Oct. 4, 2011, 9:30am - 11:00am
  2010 Becker Drive, West Campus
  View Event Details >
• Margaret Pearce, Geography
  "Digital Cartography and Collaboration in Maine: Transcultural Map Design with the Penobscot Nation"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Oct. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Friends Fall Social
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Tue., Oct. 4, 2011, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is a Friends Exclusive events. RSVP required.
  View Event Details >
• Tarik Khatib, Police Chief
  Meet and Get to Know the New Police Chief - Tarik Khatib
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 5, 2011, 10:30am - 12:00pm
  Lawrence Country Club
  View Event Details >
• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Oct. 6, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  View Event Details >
• Bruce Murray, History, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
  "David Lloyd George, the People's Budget, and the Struggle with the House of Lords, 1909-1911: A Century's Retrospect"
  Special Events
  Thu., Oct. 6, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  View Event Details >
• Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College
  "What Causes City Dwellers to Riot, and How Do Cities Recover?"
  The Commons – (Idea Café)
  Fri., Oct. 7, 2011, 11:30am - 1:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Lunch is provided, and RSVP is required by September 29. Limit 40 guests. RSVP to Emily Ryan at thecommons@ku.edu.
  View Event Details >
• Claire Wolnisty, History
  "The Race to Nicaragua: Anglo-Saxonism and Regeneration in William Walker's Empire"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Peace, War & Global Change Seminar. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Claire Wolnisty, History
  "The Race to Nicaragua: Anglo-Saxonism and Regeneration in William Walker's Empire"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Latin American Seminar. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Quality Hill Playhouse and Golden Ox Restaurant:  Noel and Gertie
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 12, 2011, 10:30am - 4:30pm
  Bus Trip to Quality Hill Playhouse and Golden Ox Restaurant
  View Event Details >
• Joshua Rosenbloom & Jeff Moran, Associate Vice Chancellor, Research & Graduate Studies; History
  "Research Engagement"
  Workshops: New Faculty Workshop
  Thu., Oct. 13, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all new humanities, arts, & social sciences faculty in their first three years. RSVP required one week in advance to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided.
  View Event Details >
• Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director, Imagining America
  "Publicly Engaged Scholarship: A Conversation with Imagining America Director Jan Cohen-Cruz"
  Special Events – (Imagining America)
  Thu., Oct. 13, 2011, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  View Event Details >
• Shawn Alexander, African and African-American Studies
  "Reconstruction, Violence, and the Ku Klux Klan Hearings"
  Past Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 13, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Passages:  Persistent Visions of a Native Place
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 13, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Spencer Museum of Art
  View Event Details >
• Steve Nowak, Executive Director of the Douglas County Historical Society
  New Developments at the Watkins Museum
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Oct. 14, 2011, 10:00am - 11:30am
  View Event Details >
• Nicole Perry, Sociology
  CANCELED: "Intimate Interviews: Using Technology to Understand the Sexual Histories of Female Prisoners in 1920s and 30s Kansas"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Fri., Oct. 14, 2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP required one week in advance to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided. Open to graduate students only.
  View Event Details >
• A Musical Evening with Randy Klein
  Special Events
  Fri., Oct. 14, 2011, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  View Event Details >
• Diane Ravitch, Education historian & policy analyst
  "Will School Reform Improve the Schools?"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Tue., Oct. 18, 2011, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Supported by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City. Co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.
  View Event Details >
• Diane Ravitch, Research Professor at New York University and nonresident senior at the Brookings Institute
  "A Conversation with Diane Ravitch"
  Humanities Lecture Series: Conversation
  Wed., Oct. 19, 2011, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  View Event Details >
• David Zarefsky, Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
  "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Rhetoric of War and Peace"
  Special Events
  Thu., Oct. 20, 2011, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  Dole Institute of Politics
  Co-sponsored by the Dole Institute, the Department of Communication Studies, and the Hall Center
  View Event Details >
• Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish & Portuguese
  "'And Then There is Sound': Performing Neruda, Listening to Vallejo"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 21, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch is provided. RSVP is required a week in advance.
  View Event Details >
• Michelle Wibbelsman, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
  "Migration, Diaspora, and Cosmopolitanism: Otavalan Communities on the Move"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 21, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Roberta Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  "Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 24, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Latin American Seminar.
  View Event Details >
• Roberta Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  "Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 24, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Gender Seminar.
  View Event Details >
• Greg Rau and Neal Ezell, Lawrence Homebuilders Association
  Lawrence Homebuilders Association
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 26, 2011, 9:30am - 11:00am
  Lawrence Country Club
  View Event Details >
• Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University
  "Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Professional Women's Health Care Activism before Brown"
  Special Events – (The Tuttle Lecture)
  Wed., Oct. 26, 2011, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by the American Studies Department, the History Department, the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost, and the Hall Center
  View Event Details >
• Ned O'Gorman & Kevin Hamilton, Communications, University of Illinois; New Media, University of Illinois
  "'A Peculiar Sovereignty': Technology and Presidential Power in the American Nuclear Weapons System"
  Past Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 27, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Malott Room, Kansas Union
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• African Literary Symposium, Featuring keynote speaker, Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
  Public Symposium
  Thu., Oct. 27, 2011, 6:45pm - 8:45pm
  View Event Details >
• African Literary Symposium
  Featuring keynote speaker, Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
  Public Symposium
  Fri., Oct. 28, 2011, 9:00am - 9:00pm
  View Event Details >
• Patricia Foxen, National Council of La Raza
  "Providence Revisited: Transnational Maya in the Era of Mass Deportation"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 28, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
  View Event Details >
• Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature, Harvard University
  Keynote Lecture: "Inside and Outside the Whale: Take Two"
  Public Symposium
  Fri., Oct. 28, 2011, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  View Event Details >
• African Literary Symposium, Featuring keynote speaker, Biodun Jeyifo, Professor of African and African American Studies and Comparative Literature at Harvard University.
  Public Symposium
  Sat., Oct. 29, 2011, 9:00am - 3:30pm
  View Event Details >
• Directorship of the Fall 2012 Faculty Colloquium
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Oct. 31, 2011, 12:00am - 11:45pm
  View Event Details >
• The Commons Seed Grant (Full Proposal)
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Oct. 31, 2011, 12:00am - 11:45pm
  View Event Details >