Calendar

• Kij Johnson, Assistant Professor, English
  "Kylen: The Moveable City"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., Oct. 1, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, & graduate students. Lunch provided. RSVP required by September 24 to hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Jeff Weinberg, Honors Program, University of Kansas
  The Amazing Chancellors from Oliver to Malott
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 2, 2013, 9:30am - 10:30am
  KU Continuing Education Building, 1515 Saint Andrews Drive
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• JazzReach, Grades 3-5
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 9:45am - 11:15am
  The Lied Center, 1600 Stewart Avenue
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• Karen Olson, Founder & President, Family Promise
  "Lessons Learned in a Humanities Based (Humanitarian) Movement Rooted in Compassion: Challenges and Opportunities in Community/University Collaborations"
  Special Events
  Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Natalie Houston, English, University of Houston
  "Poems on the Page: Reading Visual Codes of Victorian Books"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 3, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by IDRH
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• Dennis Christilles, Theatre, University of Kansas
  The University Theatre: Education and Entertainment
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Oct. 4, 2013, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Murphy Hall Lobby, 1530 Naismith Drive
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• Nick Murray, Military History, US Army Command & General Staff College
  "What Lies Beneath?: The Evolution of Trench Warfare to 1914"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 4, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Command & General Staff College
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• Bob Davis, Sportscaster
  Bob Davis, Sportscaster
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 10:00am - 11:00am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Daniel Crews, University of Central Missouri
  "The French Disease and Italian Heresy: The Case of Giovanni di Valdés"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Elizabeth MacGonagle, History, KU
  "Race & Slavery in Urban South Africa"
  Seminars: The Urban Experience Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 7, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Liam Lair, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
  "Exploring the Emergence of Trans* Identity"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Wed., Oct. 9, 2013, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to graduate students only. Lunch provided. RSVP required by October 2 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Friends Fall Social
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Wed., Oct. 9, 2013, 6:00pm - 8:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Friends of the Hall Center exclusive. RSVP required by October 2 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Thomas Sugrue, David Boies Professor of History & Sociology; Director of the Penn Social Science & Policy Forum, University of Pennsylvania
  "The Education of Barack Obama: Race and Politics in the Age of Fracture"
  Special Events – (The Tuttle Lecture)
  Thu., Oct. 10, 2013, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
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• Julie McPike & Sonia Smith, Program Coordinator, Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area;  Community Development and Outreach Specialist
  Freedom's Frontier National Heritage Area
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Oct. 14, 2013, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Old Carnegie Library, Heritage Room, 213 W. 9th Street
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• Quality Hill Playhouse and Golden Ox Restaurant:  "Do It Again – The Best of Quality Hill Playhouse"
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Oct. 16, 2013, 10:30am - 4:30pm
  Meet in the Lied Center Parking Lot
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• Kathy Porsch; Dave Tell, Hall Center Grant Development Office; Communication Studies
  "External Funding: Why Should I Bother?"
  Workshops: New Faculty Workshop
  Wed., Oct. 16, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all faculty within their first three years at KU. Lunch provided. RSVP required by October 9 to hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Jacob Dorman, Assistant Professor, History
  "Chosen People: The Rise of American Black Israelite Religions"
  Special Events – (The Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award Lecture)
  Thu., Oct. 17, 2013, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Reception to follow
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• Garth Myers, Urban Studies/International Studies, Trinity College
  "Reading Urban Environments in Africa: Intersections of Urban Political Ecology & Ecocriticism"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 18, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies and the Reimagining the City Seminar
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• Erika Nelson, Creator and Curator, World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Travelling Roadside Attraction and Museum
  Hucksters, Barkers and Sideshows
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Oct. 21, 2013, 10:00am - 11:00am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard University
  "Unseen--The History of Privacy"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Tue., Oct. 22, 2013, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Supported by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City
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• Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper '41 Professor of American History, Harvard University
  " A Conversation with Jill Lepore"
  Humanities Lecture Series: Conversation
  Wed., Oct. 23, 2013, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Sandra Gray; Peter Ukpokodu, Anthropology, KU; African & African American Studies, KU
  "Invisible Genocides in Uganda in the Karamoja Region" and "Reconciliation Rituals, Performance, and the TRC in South Africa"
  Past Seminars: Facing Genocide & Its Aftermath
  Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Red Hot Research
  The Commons
  Thu., Oct. 24, 2013, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Please RSVP to thecommons@ku.edu
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• Jerry Dobson, Author
  Waters of Chaos
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Oct. 25, 2013, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Cristian Dimitriu, Philosophy, KU
  "Is the Human Rights Approach Useful to Understanding Injustices in Latin America?"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 25, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Marie Grace Brown, History, KU
  "Fashioning Their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan 1900-1956"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 28, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Laura Dean, Political Science/Women Gender & Sexuality Studies
  "Performing Fieldwork in Authoritarian and Democratic States"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Tue., Oct. 29, 2013, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to graduate students only. Lunch provided. RSVP required by October 22 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Diana Seitz; Gregory Sandomirsky; Maya Tuylieva; Esther Seitz
  "A Musical Evening at the Hall Center"
  Special Events
  Tue., Oct. 29, 2013, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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