PROGRAMS & EVENTS 2011-2012 |
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July 2011 07.09-10 Piano Competition / International Institute for Young Musicians / The Commons 07.14 Winner's Recital / International Institute for Young Musicians / The Commons 07.16 Winner's Recital / International Institute for Young Musicians / The Commons 07.20 Winner's Recital / International Institute for Young Musicians / The Commons
AUGUST 2011 08.22 Convocation and Welcome / University Honors Program / The Commons 08.30 Information Session: Seed Grants / The Commons / 3:30pm
SEPTEMBER 2011 09.06 Idea Café: When Models Disintegrate / Hume Feldman, KU Professor of Physics and Astronomy / 12:00pm / The Commons 09.14 Information Session: Artist Projects / The Commons / 3:30pm
OCTOBER 2011 10.07 Idea Café - What Causes City Dwellers to Riot, and How Do Cities Recover? / Garth Myers, Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College / 11:30am / The Commons 10.21 Staff Fellows Meeting / Office of the Provost and Human Resources Equal Opportunity / The Commons / 10:00am 10.27-29 Symposium: African Literatures in Global Perspective / Sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Graduate Studies, Theatre, African and African-American Studies, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Africa World Press, English, and Western Civilization / Events at the Hall Center for the Humanities and The Commons
November 2011 11.04 Staff Fellows Meeting / Office of the Provost and Human Resources Equal Opportunity / The Commons 11.09 Idea Cafe / Disasters as Design Moment: Does Urban Design Make Sense after Disasters? / Jake Wagner, Associate Professor of Urban Planning + Design, University of Missouri - Kansas City / 12:30pm / The Commons 11.10 Lecture / Research without Borders: Seizing Opportunities and Dealing with Border Guards / Martha Crago, Vice President of Research, Dalhousie University / 7:00pm / Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost 11.17 Artist Talk / Alex Lukas, Printmaking & Drawing / 7:00pm / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program and the Department of Visual Arts 11.18 Summit / Sustaining the Planet, Powering the World / Strategic Initiative Summit 1 / 8:00am-4:00pm / The Commons / Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
DECEMBER 2011 12.01 Lecture / Discovering the Developmental Roots of Heart Disease / Dr. Kent Thornburg, Director of the Heart Research Center, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University / 7:00pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost 12.02 Summit / Promoting Well-Being, Finding Cures / Strategic Initiative Summit 2 / 8:00am-4:00pm / The Commons / Sponsored by the Office of the Provost
JANUARY 2012 01.29 Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Germany Year Zero / 3:00pm / The Commons 01.29 Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Dark City / 4:30pm / The Commons 01.29 Filmmaker Talk / Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Carl Deal / The Making of Trouble the Water / 6:15pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program 01.29 Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Trouble the Water / 7:00pm / The Commons
FEBRUARY 2012 02.09 Lecture / Yomi Braester / The Architecture of Utopia: From Rem Koolhaas's Scale Models to RMB City / Honors Lecture Series / 7:30pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program 02.14 Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Paris je t'aime / 5:00pm / The Commons 02.14 Film Festival / Urban Palimpsest: destruction and renewal / Cairo Time / 7:00pm / The Commons 02.16 Humanities Lecture Series / Jeff Moran / The Antievolution Controversies and American Culture / Sponsored by the Hall Center for the Humanities and Kansas Public Radio / 7:30pm / The Commons 02.20 Lecture / Max Grinnell / What We Talk About When We Talk About Art in Cities / Co-sponsored by Lawrence Public Library / 7:00pm / Lawrence Public Library 02.29 Lecture / Rebecca Solnit / Civil Society, the Phoenix in the Ruins: Disaster, Carnival, Revolution, and Public Joy / Co-sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library / 7:30pm / The Commons
MARCH 2012 03.01 Idea Café / Rebecca Solnit / Do We Need Crisis to Have Citizenship? / 10:30am / The Commons 03.05 Lecture / Kevin Gotham / A Repertoire of Authenticity: Tourism Gentrification and the Transformation of the French Quarter / Honors Lecture Series / 7:30pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program 03.26 Book Talk / James Gelvin / The Arab Uprisings at the Intersection of the National and Transnational / Arab Spring Lecture Series / 7:30pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program, Dole Institute of Politics, Center for Global and International Studies, Spencer Museum of Art, Hall Center for the Humanities, Department of Religious Studies, Department of Anthropology
APRIL 2012 04.03 Lecture / Janet Ward / Visualizing the Ruined City / Honors Lecture Series / 7:30pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the University Honors Program 04.26 Nature & Culture Seminar / John R. McNeill / The Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution(s) / Hall Center for the Humanities Nature & Culture Seminar / 3:30pm / The Commons / Co-sponsored by the Department of History & the Environmental Studies
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