Calendar

• Ray Pence, American Studies
  "People with Disabilities Get Ready: Curtis Mayfield in the 1990s"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Jan. 23, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• John J. Bricke, Philosophy; Judy Roitman, Mathematics and poet; Michael S. Vitevitch, Psychology
  "Language, Cognition, Consciousness: A Panel Discussion"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Jan. 28, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Doug Harvey, History
  "Early American Theatre: Performance and the Ambiguity of Empire in the Age of Revolution"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 8, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Eugene O'Connor, Ohio State University Press; Kenneth Goings, History and African American Studies, Ohio State University
  "Creating a 'Culture of Dissemblance': African American Resistance to the Suppression of the Classics at Historically Black Colleges"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Feb. 12, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Troy Duster, Sociology/Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge, New York University and Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Berkeley
  "Race Meets Medicine: A Post-Genomic Surprise"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Feb. 20, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Gerald Mikkelson, Russian, East European & Eurasian Studies
  "Pushkin and Chaadaev, Poet and Philosopher: A Meeting of the Minds in 19th-Century Russia"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 25, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ben Chappell, American Studies
  "Custom Mexican America: Lowrider Style as Subjugated Knowledge"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Wed., Feb. 27, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Johannes Feddema, Geography
  "Conveying Science to a Global Audience: Inside the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 3, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Dr. Bo Jordin, Stockholm physician and former Director of Primary Care, Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare
  "A Conversation about Swedish Health Care and its Historical and Cultural Roots"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Mar. 5, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Paul Sneed, Spanish & Portuguese
  "Machine Gun Voices: Bandits and Bailes in Brazilian Funk"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 7, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Richard F. Hardin, English
  "Milton and Spain: Poet as Republican Hero"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 10, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Mary Ann Eaverly, Classics, University of Florida; Jane Burnett Grossman, The J. Paul Getty Museum; Mary Sturgeon, Art History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  "Third Annual Paul Rehak Symposium on Ancient Art: Color in Ancient Art"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 11, 2008, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Stephen Goddard, Spencer Museum of Art (Organizer)
  Panel: "Art and the Environmental Endgame"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 13, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Ann Russo, Womens & Gender Studies, DePaul University
  "Feminism, Whiteness, and Power: Cultivating Accountability"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 24, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Judith Hallett, Classics, University of Maryland
  "The Mythology of Edith Hamilton (1867-1963)"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 25, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Constance Chen, History, Loyola Marymount University
  "Between Two Worlds: Japanese Americans and the Question of Nationhoods(s) in Early Twentieth-Century United States"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Wed., Mar. 26, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Michele Cloonan, Graduate School of Library & Information Science, Simmons College
  "Libraries and Human Rights: Iraq in the Crossfire"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Thu., Apr. 3, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Robert Collmer, English (emeritus), Baylor University
  "Collecting Bunyan: A Discussion"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Thu., Apr. 3, 2008, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Johnson Room, Spencer Research Library
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• Mark Nesbitt-Daly, University Honors Program/Germanic Languages & Literatures
  "Using Love as a Gauge of Maturity in Lanzelet"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Apr. 8, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RESCHEDULED TO 4/15/08
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• Mark Nesbitt-Daly, University Honors Program/Germanic Languages & Literatures
  Using Love as a Gauge of Maturity in Lanzelet"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Apr. 15, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Shawn Alexander, African & African-American Studies
  "Hybridity, Absorption or a New American Race: Notions of the 'Future American' in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Wed., Apr. 16, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Claire Conceison, Department of Drama & Dance, Tufts University
  "Collaborative Autobiography: Writing the Life of Chinese Theatre Luminary and Statesman Ying Ruocheng"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 18, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Richard Coggins, Fulbright-Robertson Visiting Professor of British History at Westminster College, Fulton, MO
  "Prime Minister Tony Blair's Ethical Foreign Policy"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 18, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• James Gunn, English (emeritus)
  "Philosophy and Science Fiction"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 21, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Emma Scioli, Classics
  "Dreams and the Visual in Latin Love Elegy"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Apr. 22, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ibitola Olu Pearce, Sociology/Women's Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
  "Women's Health in Africa and the Implementation of the Beijing Platform"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Apr. 23, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Christine Anderson, History
  "'Votes for Women': Performing the Politics of Gender on the Modern Stage"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 28, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Tanya Hart, Women's Studies/American Studies
  "Correcting the Contadina: Southern Italian Women and Public Health Care in New York City, 1910-1930"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., May. 14, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Karin Westman, English, Kansas State University
  "Seeing Bridget Jones, Seeing England"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 8, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Richard Ring, History/KU Libraries
  "The Origins of the Medieval Economy and the Missing Mancus"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Sep. 9, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Henry Bial, Theatre & Film and Stuart Day, Spanish & Portuguese
  "What's Hot in Performance and Culture"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 12, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology/American Studies
  "Raids, Detentions, and Deportations: U.S. Immigration Policy in the 21st Century"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Wed., Sep. 17, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Mary Zimmerman, Health Policy and Management/Sociology
  "A Comparative Health Systems Perspective on Candidate Health Reform Proposals in the 2008 Presidential Election"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Sep. 24, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Elaine Gerbert, East Asian Languages and Cultures (Organizer)
  Round Table: "The Beijing Olympics and the Global Community"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Thu., Sep. 25, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Cynthia Willett, Philosophy, Emory University
  "The Ethics of the Dog-Man: Ground Zero for an Ethics of Meaning in J. M. Coetzee's Disgrace"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 29, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  RESCHEDULED FROM 09/15/08
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• Rhonda Blair, Theatre, Southern Methodist University
  "Theatre/Performance, Empathy, and Cognitive Neuroscience"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 10, 2008, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, Sociology, University of Southern California
  "There's A Spirit That Transcends the Border: Religious Mobilizations for Immigrant Rights"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 10, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Sonia Hofkosh, English/Women's Studies, Tufts University
  "What Does a Fetish Want? or, Romanticism, the Object, and the Poetics of Interruption"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 13, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Valija Evalds, History of Art
  "Beards, Clocks and the Angel with the Sundial at Chartres Cathedral"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Oct. 14, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Margaret Arnold, English
  "Ancient Philosophy and Milton's Concept of Exile"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 20, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  POSTPONED
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• Kim Kimminau, Family Medicine, KU School of Medicine
  "Should Student Health be a Public School Imperative?: A Research Agenda and a Policy Debate"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Wed., Oct. 22, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Lindsey Feitz, American Studies
  "Avon Calling in Argentina"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Thu., Oct. 23, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Linda Alcoff, Philosophy/Women's Studies/Political Science, Syracuse University
  "Discourses of Sexual Violence in a Global Framework"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Wed., Oct. 29, 2008, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Geraldo de Sousa, English
  "Vanishing Castles: Shakespeare and the Materiality of Domestic Space"
  Past Seminars: British Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 10, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Sergey Dolgopolskii, Religious Studies
  "The Talmud Backwards in Time: Reading Self in Rabbinic Literature"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Nov. 11, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Jonathan Mayhew, Spanish & Portuguese
  "Theory of Timbre: Wittgenstein, Lorca, and Barthes"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 17, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Eileen Diaz-McConnell, Transborder Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies, Arizona State University
  "Media Representations of the Growth and Change of Asian and Latino Populations in Atlanta, Georgia: 1990-2000"
  Past Seminars: American Seminar
  Wed., Nov. 19, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• J. Christopher Brown, Geography and Environmental Studies (Organizer)
  Panel: "Addressing Consumers' Dilemmas in a Globalized World"
  Past Seminars: Globalization(s) Seminar
  Thu., Nov. 20, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Jacob S. Dorman, American Studies/History
  "'Orientally Splendid and Weirdly Romantic Spectacular Pilgrimage to Mecca': Orientalism and American Popular Culture"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 21, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Iruka Okeke, Biology, Haverford College
  "Diagnostic Insufficiency: The Case for Strengthening Laboratory Medicine in Africa"
  Past Seminars: Health & Humanities Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 21, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Diane Fourny, French & Italian
  "Travel Memoirs, Rhetoric, and the Self"
  Past Seminars: Philosophy & Literature Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 24, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Margaret Woodhull, Graduate Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Colorado
  "Women Building Rome: Gender and the Built Environment in the Early Roman Empire"
  Past Seminars: Before 1500 Seminar
  Tue., Dec. 2, 2008, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Priscilla Melendez, Spanish and Portuguese, Yale University
  "The Body and the Law: Violence and Violation in Sabina Bermans's Backyard and Hugo Salcedo's El viaje de los cantors"
  Past Seminars: Performance & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 5, 2008, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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