Calendar

• Erika Nelson, Creator and Curator, World's Largest Collection of the World's Smallest Versions of the World's Largest Things Travelling Roadside Attraction and Museum
  The Tall-Tale Postcards of Dad Martin and Pop Conrad
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Vice Chancellor for Research Book Publication Award
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 3, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Mar. 4, 2014, 12:00am
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• Germaine Halegoua, Film & Media Studies
  The Spatial Self: Location-Based Identity on Social Media
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• "Panel Discussion: Why Pursue a Career in Applied Humanities?"
  Workshops – (Pursuing Careers in the Applied Humanities)
  Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Reception to follow. Please RSVP by February 28 through the link below.
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• Paul Zeleza, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of History, Quinnipiac University
  Africa's Struggles for Decolonization: From Achebe to Mandela
  Special Events
  Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• A Night with Marilynne Robinson
  Special Events
  Thu., Mar. 6, 2014, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
  Plymouth Congressional Church, 725 Vermont St
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• Sandra Swanson Wiechert
  Traveling the Silk Road in Asia
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Fri., Mar. 7, 2014, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Shannon O'Lear, Geography
  Climate Science and Slow Violence
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 7, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
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• James Willbanks, U.S. Army Command & General Staff College
  A Raid Too Far: Lam Son 719 and 'Vietnamization' in Laos
  Seminars: Conflict & International Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 7, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the Command & General Staff College
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• Just Food, The Douglas County Food Bank
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 10:00am - 11:30am
  1000 E. 11th Street
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• Argun Saatcioglu, Education
  School Desegregation in Cleveland: Unmitigated Failure or Unacknowledged Success?
  Seminars: The Urban Experience Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Jason Sharples, History, Catholic University of America
  The World That Fear Made: Conspiracy, Imagination, and Power
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by the History Department
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• Graduate Summer Research Awards
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 10, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 12:00am
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• Angela Hendrickson, French & Italian
  The Unique Relationship Between Diverse Fields of Study
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to graduate students only. Lunch provided. RSVP required by March 4 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Peter Brown, Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University, and author of Through the Eye of the Needle
  "Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350-550 AD"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Tue., Mar. 11, 2014, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Lied Center Pavilion
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• Peter Brown, Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor Emeritus of History, Princeton University
  "A Conversation with Peter Brown"
  Humanities Lecture Series: Conversation
  Wed., Mar. 12, 2014, 8:30am - 10:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This is a special Friends of the Hall Center breakfast. The event is also open to the public, but all planning to attend must RSVP by March 4 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• "Panel Session: How to Pursue a Career in Applied Humanities"
  Workshops – (Pursuing Careers in the Applied Humanities)
  Thu., Mar. 13, 2014, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Reception to follow. Please RSVP by March 7 through the link below.
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• Jane Rhoads, Author & historian
  Hard Working Entertainers on the Kansas Frontier
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Mar. 19, 2014, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Watkins Community Museum, 1047 Massachusetts
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• Catherine Jacquet, History, Macalester College
  Negotiating Histories of Injustice: Feminism, Civil Rights, and Interracial Rape in the 1970s
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
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• Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little, Chancellor, University of Kansas
  An Evening with Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little
  Special Events – (Emily Taylor & Marilyn Stokstad Women's Leadership Lecture)
  Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Reception to follow
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• Hall Center Scholar Award
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 12:00am
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• Fall Faculty Colloquium Participant Competitions
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 24, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 12:00am
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• 9th Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium in Ancient Art: Roman Villas on the Bay of Naples
  Special Events
  Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Department of Classics & the Hall Center
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• Data & Democracy: What is Free Speech in the Age of Social Media?
  The Commons
  Tue., Mar. 25, 2014, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Co-sponsored by The Commons, the School of Journalism, & the Office of the Provost
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• Lynne Green, Executive Director, Van Go
  Lynne Green and Van Go
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Mar. 26, 2014, 9:30am - 11:00am
  715 New Jersey Street
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• Erik Ehn, Theatre, Brown University
  Silence as the Creative Space--Entering the Aftermath of Genocide as Culture Workers So That Although 'All Is Destroyed, Nothing is Lost'
  Past Seminars: Facing Genocide & Its Aftermath
  Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
  Co-sponsored by the School of the Arts & the Departments of Theatre, English, & American Studies
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• "Master Class: What to Do to Obtain a Career in Applied Humanities"
  Workshops – (Pursuing Careers in the Applied Humanities)
  Thu., Mar. 27, 2014, 3:30pm - 6:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Reception to follow. Please RSVP by March 21 through link below.
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• Perry Collins, NEH Senior Program Officer, Office of Digital Humanities
  Special Events
  Fri., Mar. 28, 2014, 12:00pm - 2:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room 1
  Lunch provided. RSVP required by March 21 to hallcenter@ku.edu.
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• Steven Hirsch, International Studies, Washington University, St. Louis
  Peruvian Anarchists and the Indian Question 1898-1927: Discourses, Tropes and Repertoires of Struggle"
  Seminars: Latin America & Its Diasporas Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 28, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by LACS
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• Laura Mielke, English
  Provocative Eloquence: Theatre, Oratory, and Collective Violence in America, 1820-1860
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, & graduate students. Lunch provided. RSVP by March 24 to hallcenter@ku.edu
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• Ted Underwood, English, University of Illinois
  "We Don't Already Understand the Broad Outlines of Literary History: Using Genre Classification and Topic Modeling to Trace Literary Trends in a Collection of 700,000 18th and 19th century English-language Volumes"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Co-sponsored by IDRH
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• Collaborative Research Seed Grant
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:00am
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• Humanities Summer Graduate Internship
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 31, 2014, 11:00pm - Tue., Apr. 1, 2014, 12:00am
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