Calendar

• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Sep. 1, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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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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• Hume Feldman, Physics and Astronomy
  "Idea Café: When Models Disintegrate"
  The Commons – (Idea Café)
  Tue., Sep. 6, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Lunch is provided, and RSVP is required by August 30. Limit 40 guests. RSVP to Emily Ryan at thecommons@ku.edu
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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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• Sheanon Zenger, Director, KU Athletics
  Meet Sheanon Zenger
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Sep. 7, 2011, 10:00am - 12:00pm
  Hadl Auditorium, Wagnon Student Athlete Center
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• Raj Bhala, Law
  "Understanding Islamic Law"
  Special Events
  Wed., Sep. 7, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Sep. 8, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
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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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• Jan Gaumnitz, Artist
  Visit the Private Studio of Renowned Artist - Jan Gaumnitz
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Sep. 13, 2011, 10:00am - 12:00pm
  The Gaumnitz Homestead
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• Isidro Rivera & John Pierce, Spanish & Portuguese; Public Administration & Chair, Friends of the Hall Center Council
  "The Role of the Humanities Center"
  Workshops: New Faculty Workshop
  Tue., Sep. 13, 2011, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to all new humanities, arts, & social sciences faculty in their first three years. RSVP required one week in advance to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided.
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• Leslie Tuttle, History
  Byron Caldwell Smith Award Lecture:  "Making Babies, Making the Nation-State: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France"
  Special Events
  Tue., Sep. 13, 2011, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Dr. Chalisa Gadt-Johnson, Psychologist
  Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Sep. 14, 2011, 9:00am - 11:00am
  Lawrence Country Club
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• Nawal El Saadawi, 2011 Mara Africana Lecture
  "Creativity and Dissidence"
  Special Events
  Wed., Sep. 14, 2011, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Sep. 15, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Donald E. Worster, Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Professor of U.S. History
  How Our National Parks Came To Be
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Sep. 15, 2011, 2:00pm - 3:30pm
  Lawrence Public Library
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• Susan Harris, English
  "Mark Twain and the Philippines: How One Major Writer Viewed America's Entry into Global Imperialism"
  Special Events
  Thu., Sep. 15, 2011, 4:00pm - 5:00pm
  Jayhawk Ink, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by KU Bookstores, the Department of English, and the Hall Center
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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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• Laurence Rees, Award-winning documentarian and author
  "Talking with Nazis"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Tue., Sep. 20, 2011, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.
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• Laurence Rees, Award-winning documentarian and author of Auschwitz and World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Breakfast: A Conversation with Laurence Rees
  Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event
  Wed., Sep. 21, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is a Friends Exclusive events. RSVP required.
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Sep. 22, 2011, 9:00am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Digital Humanities Forum
  BootCamp
  Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
  Thu., Sep. 22, 2011, 9:00am - 4:00pm
  5th and 6th Floors, Kansas Union
  Registration required. Contact idrh@ku.edu.
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• Digital Humanities Forum
  THATCamp
  Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
  Fri., Sep. 23, 2011, 9:00am - 4:00pm
  Watson Library
  Registration required. Contact idrh@ku.edu.
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• Emily Kennedy, Sociology
  "'That's What She Said': Interviews and Internet Research"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Fri., Sep. 23, 2011, 12:30pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  RSVP required one week in advance to hallcenter@ku.edu. Lunch provided. Open to graduate students only.
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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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• 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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• Digital Humanities Forum, Keynote speaker: C.M. Sperberg-McQueen, XML Markup Specialist
  "Representing Knowledge in the Digital Humanities"
  Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
  Sat., Sep. 24, 2011, 8:30am - 5:00pm
  Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Registration required. Contact idrh@ku.edu.
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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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• Siva Vaidhyanathan, Cultural historian & media scholar
  "Be Evil: Google and the Perils of Corporate Social Responsibility"
  Special Events – (Digital Media Lecture Series)
  Tue., Sep. 27, 2011, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium meeting
  Colloquia: Fall Faculty Colloquium 2011: Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
  Thu., Sep. 29, 2011, 9:00am - Sat., Sep. 29, 2012, 10:30am
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor
  Meet Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Sep. 29, 2011, 10:00am - 11:00am
  Dole Institute of Politics
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• Brent Steele, Political Science
  "Scars, Violence, and Accountability"
  Past Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Sep. 29, 2011, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Mechele Leon , Associate Professor and Univeristy Theater Artistic Director
  Backstage with the University Theatre's Production of Shakespeare in Hollywood
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Sep. 30, 2011, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Murphy Hall Lobby, University Theatre
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