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October 1, 2012 - October 31, 2012
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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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