Calendar

• Fall Faculty Colloquium
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2012: The City Imagined
  Mon., Oct. 1, 2012, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Marta Vicente, History/Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  "Eighteenth Century Debates on Sex and Gender"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 1, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern seminar.
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• Marta Vicente, History/Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  "Eighteenth Century Debates on Sex and Gender"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 1, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Gender seminar.
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• Amy Earheart, English, Texas A&M University
  "Recovering the Recovered Text: Digital Canon(s) and Lost Texts"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Oct. 2, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Quintard Taylor, Scott & Dorothy Bullitt Professor of American History, University of Washington
  "Freedom's Frontier: Kansas and the Idea of African American Liberty, 1856-1877"
  Special Events – (The Tuttle Lecture)
  Tue., Oct. 2, 2012, 4:30pm - 6:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by the American Studies Department, the Office of the Provost, and the Hall Center
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• Friends Fall Social
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Wed., Oct. 3, 2012, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is a Friends Exclusive event. RSVP is required by September 26.
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• Neil M. Johnson, Truman impersonator and author of "Power, Money, and Women"
  Harry Truman – Words to the Wise
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 4, 2012, 1:30pm - 2:30pm
  Lawrence Country Club, 400 Country Club Terrace
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• Sally Pemberton, Independent scholar
  "Murdock Pemberton, the New Yorker's First Art Critic"
  Past Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 4, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Leslie Bennett, Associate Professor M.F.A., Boston University
  The University Theatre: Education and Entertainment
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Oct. 5, 2012, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Murphy Hall Lobby on KU campus
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• Lon Strauss, History, Park University
  "The AEF and the Race to Sedan"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 5, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Susan Osborn
  "Keep Them Doggies Rollin', Rawhide": The Sesquicentennial Cattle Drive
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Oct. 9, 2012, 9:30am - 11:00am
  Villas Club House, 5630 Villa Drive
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• Sarah Vowell, Bestselling author and former NPR contributor
  "An Evening with Sarah Vowell"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Wed., Oct. 10, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
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• Sarah Vowell, Bestselling author & former NPR contributor
  "A Conversation with Sarah Vowell"
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Thu., Oct. 11, 2012, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is a Friends Exclusive event. RSVP is required by October 4.
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• Sara Gregg, History
  "Rural Credit and the Wartime Farmer: The World War I Plow Up and the Federal Hand in Agriculture"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 12, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2012: The City Imagined
  Mon., Oct. 15, 2012, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Ellen Gruber Garvey, Professor of English, New Jersey City University
  "Writing with Scissors: Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance"
  Special Events
  Mon., Oct. 15, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and American Studies, and the Hall Center
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• Kathy Porsch & Sherrie Tucker, Hall Center Grant Development Office; American Studies
  "External Funding: Why Should I Bother?"
  Workshops: New Faculty Workshop
  Tue., Oct. 16, 2012, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP required by October 9. Open to all new humanities, social science, and arts faculty within their first three years.
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• Quality Hill Playhouse and Golden Ox Restaurant: "On the Sunny Side of the Street"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 17, 2012, 10:30am - 4:30pm
  Bus departs from Lied Center parking lot
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• Jana Tigchelaar, English
  "Spectacles of Consumption: Consumer Culture and Performance in Sister Carrie and Summer"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Thu., Oct. 18, 2012, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to graduate students only. Lunch provided. RSVP required by October 11 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Film Screening & Discussion: Truthland (2012)
  The Commons
  Thu., Oct. 18, 2012, 5:30pm - 7:30pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Sponsored by the KU Energy Club
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• Joan DeJean, Trustee Professor of French, University of Pennsylvania
  "The Pont Neuf: The Bridge Where Modern Urban Life Began"
  Special Events
  Fri., Oct. 19, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of French & Italian, Spanish & Portuguese, English, History, and Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and the Hall Center
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2012: The City Imagined
  Mon., Oct. 22, 2012, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Film Screening: GasLand (2010)
  The Commons
  Tue., Oct. 23, 2012, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Rob Nixon, Rachel Carson Professor of English, University of Wisconsin
  "Silent Spring 50 Years Later: Is It Still Relevant?"
  The Commons – (Idea Café)
  Wed., Oct. 24, 2012, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  RSVP to thecommons@ku.edu required. Lunch provided. Limit 40 guests.
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• Robin Rowland, Professor of Communication Studies, University of Kansas
  "From Hope to Audacity: The Evolution of President Barack Obama's Rhetoric and the 2012 Presidential Campaign"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Wed., Oct. 24, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Sponsored by the Friends of the Hall Center
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• Anna Neill, English
  "Developing Nonsense in the Alice Stories"
  Past Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 25, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Exhibition: Giorgio Vasari & Court Culture in Late Renaissance Italy
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 25, 2012, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Spencer Museum of Art
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• Andy Hillburn, Geography
  "Perceptions and Realities of Solid Waste Management in a Rural Mexican Municipality: The Case of Coxcatlán, Puebla"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 26, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2012: The City Imagined
  Mon., Oct. 29, 2012, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• "The Great Mountain" performed by the Red Sky Dance Theater
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Oct. 29, 2012, 9:45am - 12:30pm
  The Lied Center of Kansas
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• Hannah Britton, Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies/Political Science
  "Building Community Networks to Address Gender Based Violence in South Africa"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 29, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty and graduate students.
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• New Theatre Restaurant:  Social Security
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 31, 2012, 10:45am - 4:30pm
  Meet in the Lied Center parking lot
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• Forrest Pierce, Music, Creative Work Fellow
  "Il Cantico del Sole: Translating St. Francis Into Song"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Wed., Oct. 31, 2012, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch provided. RSVP required by October 24 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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