Calendar

• Brent Metz & Jodi Gentry, Anthropology; Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering
  "Engineers Without Borders  and the Ch'orti of Guatemala"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Jan. 25, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ryan Dohoney, Musicology
  "Musical Experimentalism and Gay/Queer Identity in the 1970s"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Jan. 28, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Mark Hull, Military History, Command & General Staff College
  "Why Nuremberg Matters: War Crimes and the Law"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 1, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Caroline Jewers, French & Italian
  "The Roman de Giglan, Rabelais, and Chivalric Romance in the Renaissance"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Feb. 4, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ben Rosenthal, Visual Art
  "All Quiet on the [Virtual] Front: Traversing the Digital/Physical Divide"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Feb. 5, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Adam Sundberg, History
  "Divine Wrath, Secular Response: Dutch Perception and Adaptation to the Christmas Flood of 1717"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 8, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Adam Sundberg, History
  "Divine Wrath, Secular Response: Dutch Perception and Adaptation to the Christmas Flood of 1717"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 8, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Karla Holloway, English/Law/Women's Studies, Duke University
  "Writing Gendered Bodies"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Fri., Feb. 22, 2013, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is the keynote lecture of the Gender Seminar's Symposium "Writing Gendered Bodies." Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Project for the History of Black Writing.
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• Symposium: "Writing Gendered Bodies"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Sat., Feb. 23, 2013, 9:00am - 4:15pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  RSVP required to schofield@ku.edu.
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• Jonathan Earle, Humanities Research Fellow; History
  "Electing Abraham Lincoln: The Revolution of 1860"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., Feb. 28, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  RSVP required by February 18 to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Amanda Schlumpberger, History
  "Point Four and Mutual Security: The Intersection of International and Domestic Racial Tensions"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 1, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Jonathan Beecher Field, English, Clemson University
  "Reading Antinomian Monstrosity During the English Civil Wars, 1640-1660"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 4, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Elijah Meeks, Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford University
  "Genealogy, Bureaucracy, Correspondence, Transportation--Networks and Network Analysis Methods in Humanities Scholarship"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 5, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Kathryn Rhine, Humanities Research Fellow; Anthropology
  "The Unseen Things: HIV, Secrecy, and Wellbeing among Women in Nigeria"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 7, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  RSVP required by February 28 to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided.
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• Christian Brannstrom, Geography, Texas A&M
  "Amber Warburton and the Discovery of Hispanic Child Labor in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, Texas"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 8, 2013, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Geography
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• Paul Outka, English
  "Western Landscapes and the Dreamwork of Whiteness"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 8, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Jessica Gerschultz, African & African American Studies
  "The Interwoven Ideologies of Art and Artisanal Education in Postcolonial Tunis"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 25, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Caroline Chaboo, Biodiversity Institute
  "Art and Biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 29, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies
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• Andrew Preston, Senior Lecturer of American History, Cambridge University
  "Religious Imperatives and America's Role in the World"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 29, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Caroline Chaboo, Biodiversity Institute
  "Art and Biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 29, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies
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• Jeff Kendrick, French & Italian
  "Violence and Truth in Sixteenth-Century French Poetry"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 1, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Brian Pytlik Zillig, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska
  "Digital Humanities and Electronic Texts: Proliferation, Interoperation, Illumination"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Apr. 2, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Paul Scott, Humanities Research Fellow; French & Italian
  "Surreptitious Subversions: Breaking Institutional Codes in Ancien Régime France"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., Apr. 4, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  RSVP required by March 28 to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• John Zdeb, History
  "Battered But Not Broken: A Reappraisal of the U.S. Army's Reform Efforts, 1971-74"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 5, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Whitney Sanford, Religion, University of Florida
  "Being the Change: What Gandhi Has Taught Contemporary Intentional Communities About Food, Non-Violence, and Social Justice"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 12, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies
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• Erin Finzer, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
  "Campesina Conservation: Women and the Environment in Mexico's Rural Education Reforms (1923-1939)"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 19, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies & the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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• Erin Finzer, University of Arkansas, Little Rock
  "Campesina Conservation: Women and the Environment in Mexico's Rural Education Reforms (1923-1939)"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Apr. 19, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies & the Department of Spanish & Portuguese
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• Kathryn Rhine, Anthropology
  "Intimate Ethics: Women and HIV in Northern Nigeria"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Apr. 29, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Biri Rottenberg-Rosler, Post-doctoral Fellow, Sociology
  "Motherhood in between the Virtual and the Real: Jewish Israeli Maternal Writing from the Bibliotherapeutic Perspective"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Thu., May. 2, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  RSVP required by April 25 to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Roger Spiller; Hal Wert; Theodore Wilson, Command & General Staff College; Kansas City Art Institute; History, KU
  "Panel: World War II War Films in History and Memory"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., May. 3, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Hilary Larkin Stroh, History
  "Foreign Kickshaws and Native Worth: The Rise of an Ethos of Plainness in Early Modern England"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., May. 6, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Anne Hedeman; Heather Tennison, Judith Harris Murphy Distinguished Professor of Art History; Art History, University of Illinois
  "Communication and Collaboration: Digging into/Digging into Data/"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., May. 7, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Greg Cushman, History
  "Christian Idioms, Quechua Narratives, Aymara Concepts, Environmental Foundations: The Cosmology of Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (circa 1610)"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., May. 10, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Greg Cushman, History
  "Christian Idioms, Quechua Narratives, Aymara Concepts, Environmental Foundations: The Cosmology of Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (circa 1610)"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., May. 10, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Greg Cushman, History
  "Christian Idioms, Quechua Narratives, Aymara Concepts, Environmental Foundations: The Cosmology of Joan de Santa Cruz Pachacuti Yamqui Salcamaygua (circa 1610)"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Fri., May. 10, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Cassandra Mesick; Martha Rabbani; Matthew Pettway, Spencer Museum of Art; Humanities & Western Civ, KU; Bates College
  "Panel: Social Change and Human Rights in Latin America"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Aug. 30, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Jonathan Lamb, English, KU
  "The Light Commodity of Words: Digitizing the Material Book"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Thu., Sep. 5, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by IDRH
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• Hal Wert, History/History of Art, Kansas City Art Institute
  "Vietminh Artists Under Fire: Poster Making in the Field"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 6, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Christina Jimenez, History, University of Colorado
  "How the City Revolutionized Citizenship in Mexico: Neighborhood Networks and Public Claims, 1880-1950"
  Seminars: The Urban Experience Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 9, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies & the Department of History
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• Karl Appuhn, History, New York University
  "Airy Barns and Artifical Pastures: Environment and Etiology in Eighteenth-Century Veterinary Medicine"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 13, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Leslie Tuttle, History, KU
  "Dreams and Disenchantment in Seventeenth-Century France"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 16, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Alesha Doan, Political Science, KU
  "Father Knows Best: Redefining Scientific Knowledge and Reaffirming State Paternalism Through Antiabortion Legislation in the States"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Sep. 23, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Lorraine Bayard de Volo, Women & Gender Studies, University of Colorado
  "Gendered Rebels: The Cuban Insurrection 1952-58"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Sep. 27, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Daniel Sjursen, History, KU
  "Anglo-American Relations and the Insurgency in Northern Ireland"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 1, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Michael O'Brien, Spanish & Portuguese, KU
  "Making the Right Move: Strategic Game Play in Diego de San Pedro's Cárcel de amor"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 4, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Lisa Rhody, English, University of Maryland
  "Revisiting Ekphrasis: Using Topic Modeling to Tell the Sister Arts' Story"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Thu., Nov. 7, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by IDRH
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• Ed Russell, History, KU
  "Coevolutionary History"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 8, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Germaine Halegoua; Bonnie Johnson, Film & Media Studies, KU; Urban Planning, KU
  "Can Social Media Save a Neighborhood Organization?: Exploring the Potential and Limits of Social Media within Neighborhood Contexts"
  Seminars: The Urban Experience Seminar
  Mon., Nov. 11, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Katherine Mellen Charron, History, North Carolina State University
  "Septima Clark and Citizenship Education: Black Power for Black Women"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Wed., Nov. 20, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Heather McCrea, History, Kansas State University
  "Living Laboratories: Combating Tropical Diseases Through Human and Animal Experiments"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Nov. 22, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies
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• Brian Moots, French & Italian, KU
  "The Subversive Chorus in Sixteenth-Century French Tragedy"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Dec. 2, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Richard Faulkner, Military History, US Army Command & General Staff College
  "Combat Leadership in the AEF"
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 6, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Command & General Staff College
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• Donna Gardner; John Rury, William Jewell College; Education, KU
  "Suburban Opposition to District Reorganization: The 1968 Spainhower Commission and Metropolitan Kansas City and St. Louis"
  Seminars: The Urban Experience Seminar
  Mon., Dec. 9, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Ani Kokobobo, Assistant Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures
  "Freakish Outsiders and Monsters Within--Russian Realism and the Grotesque, 1869-1899"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Tue., Dec. 10, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, & graduate students. Lunch provided. RSVP required by December 3 to hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Paul Stock, Sociology, KU
  CANCELED: "New Zealand's Agricultural Utopia"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Dec. 13, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Rachel Vaughn, Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, KU
  CANCELED: "Sanitary Imperalism on the Global Trash Frontier: Gendered Waste Picking in a Time of Waste Commodity"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Dec. 16, 2013, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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