Calendar

• Ayu Saraswati, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  "Cosmopolitian Whiteness: The Effects and Affects of Skin-Whitening and Tanning Advertisements in Transnational Media"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Jan. 25, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Viviana Grieco, History, University of Missouri, Kansas City
  "Trade, Credit and Royal Revenue: The Case of Francisco Ximenez de Mesa, Merchant and Director of the Aduana of Buenos Aires"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 1, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Viviana Grieco, History, University of Missouri, Kansas City
  "Trade, Credit and Royal Revenue: The Case of Francisco Ximenez de Mesa, Merchant and Director of the Aduana of Buenos Aires"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 1, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Cancelled Jonathan Due, Military History, U.S. Military Academy
  "The Incomplete Reform of Post-Vietnam U.S. Army"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 5, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Robert D. Sack, Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  "Facing 'the gap' in Geographical Theory: What It Tells Us About Self, Society, and Nature"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 12, 2010, 3:00pm - 5:00pm
  Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Jennifer Weber, History
  "President Abraham Lincoln and Executive Power"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 19, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Marietjie Oelofsen and Kondwani Chirambo, Governance and AIDS Program, Idasa, South Africa, Institute for Democracy in Africa
  "The Challenge of Building AIDS-Resilient Democratic Societies in Africa"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 22, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Mark Carey, History, Washington & Lee University, John Kelly, History, Colorado State University, Gregory T. Cushman, History, Trish Jackson and Johan Feddema, Geography
  "Symposium on Climate and Human History in the Southern Hemisphere: From Antarctica to the Andes to Easter Island"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 26, 2010, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Mark Carey, History, Washington & Lee University, John Kelly, History, Colorado State University, Gregory T. Cushman, History, Trish Jackson and Johan Feddema, Geography
  "Symposium on Climate and Human History in the Southern Hemisphere: From Antarctica to the Andes to Easter Island"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 26, 2010, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Anthony Corbeill
  "Grammatical gender and biological sex in ancient Roman literature and religion"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 1, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Emily Francomano, Spanish and Portuguese, Georgetown University
  Reversing the Tapestry: Translation in Text and Textile of Carcel de amor
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 1, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Cancelled
  "Westmoreland and U.S. Strategy in Vietnam"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 5, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Hal E. Wert, History, Kansas City Art Institute
  "Cultural Icons of the War In East Asia: Interpreting Wartime Children's Kimonos and Woodblock Prints in the Context of Military and International History"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 5, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Shani Mootoo, Independent Writer/Scholar
  "The Fiction Writer Citizen: Activism and Theory Through Metaphor"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 11, 2010, 1:30pm - 3:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka, Theatre/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
  "Old Songs of the New Market Square: Senegalese Women in Glocal Times"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 22, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Peter Herlihy, Geography, John Kelly, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Andrew Hilburn, Geography, Aida Ramos Viera, Geography
  "Land Tenure and Property Rights in Mexico and Central America"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 25, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Juan Carlos Gonzalez Espitia, Spanish, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  "A Latin American Syphilography: Literary, Medical and Political Discourses"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 26, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Heather McCrea, History, Kansas State University
  "Gulf of Disease: Public Health in Caribbean Ports in the Early Twentieth Century and the Invention of a Trans-Caribbean Identity"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 2, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Heather McCrea, History, Kansas State University
  "Gulf of Disease: Public Health in Caribbean Ports in the Early Twentieth Century and the Invention of a Trans-Caribbean Identity"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 2, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Thomas Huang
  "Bamboo Canoe: Emerging from Long Traditions. Expanded form language from traditional canoe construction."
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 5, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Karenbeth Zacharias, History
  "Two Weeks in September, 1960: The Crisis of the Congo and the United Nations"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 9, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova
  "The Ambiguous Faith: Youth's Attitudes Towards Catholicism in Communist Poland as Reflected in the Post-1989 Polish Bildungsromane"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 19, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Chris Frazer, History, St Francis University, Nova Scotia
  "Positively Primitive: The Contested Image of Emiliano Zapata, 1911 - 1913"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 23, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Tami Albin, KU Libraries
  "What Did I Find Under the Rainbow: Reflecting on GLBTIQ Oral History in Kansas"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 26, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Anne Martinez, History, University of Texas at Austin
  "Bordering on the Sacred: Race, Nation, and US-Mexican Relations 1910-1929"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 30, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Robert Hemenway- CANCELLED
  "Saving Lives and Athletic Goals"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., May. 3, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Bruce Hayes, French & Italian
  "Castigating Comedy: Polemical Comedic Theater During the French Wars of Religion"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., May. 3, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Christopher Rein, History
  "The Environmental Impact of the Air Force's Production and Training Infrastructure on the Great Plains"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., May. 7, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Christopher Rein, History
  "The Environmental Impact of the Air Force's Production and Training Infrastructure on the Great Plains"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., May. 7, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• CANCELLED - Scott Stephenson, Department of Military History, CGSC
  Lunch with Captain Römpler: A Case Study in Leadership (or Manipulation) In a Time of Revolution
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 3, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Santa Arias, Spanish & Portuguese
  "Mapping the River, Constructing the Empire: Franciscan and Jesuit Geo-Narratives of the Orinoco in the Late Eighteenth Century"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 10, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Santa Arias, Spanish & Portuguese
  "Mapping the River, Constructing the Empire: Franciscan and Jesuit Geo-Narratives of the Orinoco in the Late Eighteenth Century"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 10, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Tanya Golash-Boza, American Studies/Sociology
  "Forced Transnationalism: Transnational Coping Strategies among Deportees in Jamaica"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 24, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  *For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Deborah Whaley, American Studies, University of Iowa
  “African Goddesses, Mixed-Race Wonders, and Baadassss Women: Nubia, Storm, Vixen and the 'Sign' of Africa"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 27, 2010, 3:00pm - 4:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Carolyn Sale, English & Film Studies, University of Alberta
  "The Matter of Heresy and the 'Substance of the Realm'"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 4, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Graydon Tunstall, History, University of South Florida
  "Blood in the Snow: The Carpathian Winter War of 1915"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 8, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Emma Scioli, Research Fellow, Classics
  "Dream Description and Visual Experience in Latin Elegiac Poetry"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 11, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP is required; limited to graduate students and faculty.
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• Ben Colombi, American Indian Studies/Institute of the Environment, University of Arizona
  "Nation Building Through Salmon: The Nez Perce Tribe and Indigenous People as World Citizens"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 18, 2010, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Commons, Spooner Hall
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• David Bacon, Pacific News Service
  "A Human Rights-Based Immigration Policy - The Alternative to Criminalization"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Wed., Oct. 20, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Nicole Hodges Persley, Theatre
  "Nikki S. Lee, Hip-Hop and Cross-Racial Performance"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 25, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Patricia Manning, Spanish and Portuguese
  "Repentance and Departure from the Society of Jesus in the Seventeenth-Century Province of Aragon"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 1, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Katherine Clark, History
  "African-American Progressivism and American Expansion, 1899 - 1909"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 5, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• University of Kansas Wind Energy Symposium
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 5, 2010, 4:00pm - 7:00pm
  Commons, Spooner Hall
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• Ruben Flores, American Studies
  "The Beloved Communities: Integration in Mexico and the United States and the Birth of American Civil Rights"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Wed., Nov. 10, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• H. Faye Xiao, East Asian Languages and Cultures
  "Perpetual Motion: The Sisterhood of Divorced Women?"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 15, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Joseph Harrington, Creative Works Fellow, English
  "Hello From the Future: Narrative Time in a Multi-Genre Life Story"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., Nov. 18, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP Required; limited to graduate students and faculty.
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• Carla Zecher, Director, Center for Renaissance Studies, Newberry Library
  "Teaching the Ear to Hear: Descriptions of Non-European Music in Early Modern French Travel Writing"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Dec. 6, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• "Pearl Harbor in History and Memory", Grant Goodman, History (Emeritus), Steven Trout, English, Fort Hays State University , Hal Elliott Wert, History, Kansas City Art Institute, Ted Wilson, (moderator), History
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Tue., Dec. 7, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Chikako Mochizuki, Sias Graduate Fellow, Ph.D. candidate in East Asian History
  "Fumizukikai: the Efforts of Blind Educators in Early Postwar Japan"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., Dec. 9, 2010, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP Required; limited to graduate students and faculty.
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• Tai Edwards, History, Johnson County Community College
  "Preserving Gendered Relationships with the Environment: Indigenous Adaptation to Colonization in North America and the Pacific, 1840s-1940s"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 10, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Tai Edwards, History, Johnson County Community College
  "Preserving Gendered Relationships with the Environment: Indigenous Adaptation to Colonization in North America and the Pacific, 1840s1940s"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 10, 2010, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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