Calendar

• Scott Stephenson, Military History, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth
  "Lunch with Captain Rompler: A Case Study in Leadership (or Manipulation) in a Time of Revolution"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Jan. 14, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Wendy Jepson, Geography, Texas A&M
  "Claiming Space, Claiming Water: Contested Legal Geographies of Water in South Texas"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Thu., Jan. 27, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Wendy Jepson, Geography, Texas A
  "Claiming Space, Claiming Water: Contested Legal Geographies of Water in South Texas"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Thu., Jan. 27, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Sonya Satinsky - CANCELLED, Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences
  "The Connections Between Bodily and Sexual Self-Perceptions in Women"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Jan. 31, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  CANCELLED
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• Steven Trout, English, Fort Hays State University
  "John Lewis Barkley's No Hard Feelings: Editing a Classic Memoir of World War I"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Ryan Fagan, History
  "The Bona Mens and the Cartesian Self: A Question of the Baroque"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Dorice Elliott, English
  "'Transported to Botany Bay': Imagining Australia in 19th-Century Convict Broadsides"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., Feb. 8, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP by February 5 at hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Byron Caminero-Santangelo, English
  "Imagining Environmental Justice: South African Fiction 1948–2010"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 11, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Yajaira Padilla, Spanish & Portuguese
  "'Illegal Art': Visual Expression and Immigration Politics in Los Angeles"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 18, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Chris Forth, Humanities and Western Civilization
  "Materializing Fat, Historicizing Disgust"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 28, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Luis Corteguera, History
  "The Lascivious Gaze and the Power of Images in the Early Modern World"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 1, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP by February 26 to hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Susan Rotroff, Tyler Jo Smith and Maura Keane Heyn, Classics, Washington University in St. Louis; Art, University of Virginia; Classical Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
  Rehak Symposium: "Gender in Greek Art"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 3, 2011, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Mark Calhoun, School of Advanced Military Studies, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth
  "Leslie J. McNair: Little-Known Architect of the U.S. Army"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Misty Schieberle, English
  "Exemplarity and Gender in Late Medieval Mirrors for Princes"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Joseph Nevins, Department of Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College
  "The Space of Global Apartheid: The Case for a Framework for Analyzing International Migration"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 11, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  English Conference Room: 3001A Wescoe Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Shirley Christian, Simons Fellow
  "In the Way of the Country: Indian Maidens, White Men, and Polygamy on the American Frontier"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 15, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  KU faculty & graduate students only; RSVP by March 12 required to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided.
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• Lynn Stephen, Anthropology and Ethnic Studies/Center for Latino/a and Latin American Studies, University of Oregon
  "Walls and Borders: The Shifting U.S.-Mexico Relationship and Transborder Communities"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Wed., Mar. 16, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Elizabeth DeLoughrey, English, UCLA
  "Radiation Laboratories and Ecosystem Ecologies in the Nuclear Pacific"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 18, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Lorie Vanchena, German & Germanic Languages
  "Transatlantic Cultural Transfer in the Works of Reinhold Solger"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• "Border Wars Symposium"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Thu., Apr. 7, 2011, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• "Border Wars Symposium"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 8, 2011, 9:00am - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• J.V. Sapinoso, LGBT Studies, University of Maryland
  "Kweering Kinging Cultures: Negotiating Performances of Racialized Masculinities"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 11, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Jessica Vasquez, Sociology
  "Latino Family Formation in Kansas & California: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 15, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Manuel Muñoz, English, University of Arizona
  "Writing While Arizonan: Chicano Literature and Narrative Expectations"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Wed., Apr. 20, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Anthony Vital, English, Transylvania University
  ''Recalling British Romantics for a Postcolonial Planet: Nature, Loss and Hope''
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 22, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Randal Jelks, American Studies/African and African-American Studies
  "'Granny was an ardent .... And Early as I Can Remember Mother Called the Children to Prayer': Religion, Modernism, and Black Southern Masculinity in the Writings of Benjamin Elijah Mays and Richard Wright"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 25, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Adrian Finucane, History
  "The Anglo-Spanish Slave Trade: Reconceptualizing Imperial Interactions in the Caribbean"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., May. 2, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Brent Metz, Anthropology
  "Remembering the Indian in a Mestizo Part of Central America"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., May. 3, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Limited to faculty and graduate students. RSVP by April 30 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Dror Wahrman, History, Indiana University
  "The Birth of the Modern Information Age: An Idiosyncratic Artist's Perspective"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Thu., May. 5, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Lon Strauss, History
  "Requiring Loyalty in Thought and Deed: The  U.S. Army and Domestic Surveillance in World War I"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., May. 6, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Sonya Satinsky , Health, Sport, and Exercise Sciences
  "The Connections Between Bodily and Sexual Self-Perceptions in Women"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., May. 9, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Ali Brox, English
  "'Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans': Environmental Memory and Hurricane Katrina"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., May. 13, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  For Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff only.
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• Dorice Elliott, English
  "Sex and the Colony: Adultery, Bigamy, and Homosexuality in Australian Convict Fiction"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Aug. 29, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Paul Kelton, History
  "General Forbes and the Cherokees: The Significance of Indigenous Warriors in the English Attack on Fort Duquesne, 1758"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 2, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Stephen Ramsay, English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
  "Textual Behavior in the Human Male: Computational Text Analysis and Gender"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Sep. 6, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Film Premier, Presentation and discussion hosted by Susan Flader, University of Missouri, Columbia
  "Green Fire: Aldo Leopold & a Land Ethic for Our Time"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Thu., Sep. 8, 2011, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Benjamin Sax, History
  "The Baroque Languages of the Self"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 19, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• José Drummond, Visiting Fellow, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University; Professor at Center for Sustainable Development, Universidade de Brasília
  "Protected Areas Versus Areas Dedicated to Agriculture and Infrastructre in Brazil: Is There Room for Everybody?"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 23, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program & Nature & Culture Seminar
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• José Drummond, Visiting Fellow, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University; Professor at Center for Sustainable Development, Universidade Brasília
  "Protected Areas Versus Areas Dedicated to Agriculture and Infrastructure in Brazil: Is There Room for Everybody?"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 23, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program & the Latin American Seminar
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• Christina Lux, African and African-American Studies
  "Sounding the Atlantic, Shaping American Disciplines: the Translation of Race and Gender from Maryse Condé to Frantz Fanon"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 26, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Keri Sanburn Behre, English
  "Voracious Mothers: Craving and Identity in Early Modern English Drama"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 3, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Margaret Pearce, Geography
  "Digital Cartography and Collaboration in Maine: Transcultural Map Design with the Penobscot Nation"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Oct. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Claire Wolnisty, History
  "The Race to Nicaragua: Anglo-Saxonism and Regeneration in William Walker's Empire"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Peace, War & Global Change Seminar. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Claire Wolnisty, History
  "The Race to Nicaragua: Anglo-Saxonism and Regeneration in William Walker's Empire"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Latin American Seminar. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish & Portuguese
  "'And Then There is Sound': Performing Neruda, Listening to Vallejo"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 21, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch is provided. RSVP is required a week in advance.
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• Michelle Wibbelsman, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin
  "Migration, Diaspora, and Cosmopolitanism: Otavalan Communities on the Move"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 21, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Roberta Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  "Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 24, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Gender Seminar.
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• Roberta Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA
  "Major Concepts in Spanish Feminist Theory"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Oct. 24, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Latin American Seminar.
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• Patricia Foxen, National Council of La Raza
  "Providence Revisited: Transnational Maya in the Era of Mass Deportation"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Oct. 28, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Center of Latin American Studies. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Jeff Rydberg-Cox, English, UMKC
  "Social Networks as a Tool for Visualizing Linguistic Data in Greek Tragedy"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Nov. 1, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• John R. McNeill, Georgetown University
  CANCELLED: "A Global Environmental History of the Industrial Revolution, 1780--????"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 4, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Environmental Studies Program, and the NSF-IGERT C-Change Program. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Sally Cornelison, Art History
  "From Florence to Lawrence: Vasari's Christ Carrying the Cross at the Spencer Museum of Art"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Tue., Nov. 8, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Neil Oatsvall, History
  "Tree Versus Lives: Reckoning Military Success and the Ecological Effects of Chemical Defoliation During the Vietnam War"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Thu., Nov. 10, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Dave Tell, Communications
  "Capote in Kansas: The Making of a Region"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 11, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch is provided. RSVP is required a week in advance.
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• Walter Kretchik, History, Western Illinois University
  "US Army Doctrine and the 'Last War' Myth"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 11, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Command and General Staff College. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Sherrie Tucker & Kim Warren, American Studies; History
  "Gender--Dead or Alive?!: Drs. Warren and Tucker Compare Bodies of Evidence"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 28, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• John Hoopes, Anthropology
  "Shamans of the Apocalypse: Mesoamerican Identities and the Invention of Sacred Tradition"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Wed., Nov. 30, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Nick Sambaluk, History/Humanities & Western Civilization
  "The Life and Death of Dyna-Soar: Political and Policy Debates About the U.S. Air Force Space Plane Program, 1957-1963"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 2, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Erin Frykholm, Philosophy
  "A False Dilemma: Self-Interest and Virtue in the British Moralists"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Dec. 5, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Nina Vyatkina, Germanic Languages and Literature
  "Longitudinal Language Learning: How the Digital Humanities Can Expand Your Research"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Dec. 6, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Meghan Webb, Anthropology
  "'Have You Heard the One About...': Humor and Migration among the Kaqchikel and K'iche' of Guatemala"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Thu., Dec. 8, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• H. Faye Xiao, East Asian Languages & Cultures
  "Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: Chinese Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 9, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch is provided. RSVP is required a week in advance.
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• Marisol Cortez, American Studies
  "From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Toward an Urban Environmental Gothic in American Horror Film"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 9, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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