Calendar

• Digital Jumpstart Workshop
  Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
  Thu., Mar. 1, 2012, 9:00am - Fri., Mar. 2, 2012, 5:00pm
  Watson Library, 4th Floor
  Advanced registration is required by February 24.
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• Rebecca Solnit
  "Do We Need a Crisis to Have Citizenship?"
  The Commons – (Idea Café)
  Thu., Mar. 1, 2012, 10:30am - 12:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Coffee is provided. RSVP to thecommons@ku.edu by February 22. Limit 40 guests.
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• Jay Sexton, History, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University
  "William H. Seward in the World"
  Seminars: Peace, War & Global Change Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 2, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Studies Book Publication Award
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 5, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology
  "Digital Humanities"
  Workshops: New Faculty Workshop
  Mon., Mar. 5, 2012, 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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• Robert Schwaller, History
  "Defining Difference in Early New Spain"
  Seminars: Latin American Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 5, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Early Modern Seminar.
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• Robert Schwaller, History
  "Defining Difference in Early New Spain"
  Seminars: Early Modern Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 5, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Co-sponsored by the Latin American Seminar.
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• David Birnbaum, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
  "Patterns in the Transmission of Cultural Texts: The Case of Medieval Miscellany"
  Seminars: Digital Humanities Seminar
  Tue., Mar. 6, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• John Schneiderwind, History
  "Popular Culture as Texts: Japanese Identity and Transnationalism"
  Workshops: Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop
  Thu., Mar. 8, 2012, 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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• Learning More About the Spencer Museum of Art
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Thu., Mar. 8, 2012, 4:00pm - 5:30pm
  Spencer Museum of Art
  Reception following talk.
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• Celebration of Books Published by Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts Faculty in 2011
  Special Events
  Thu., Mar. 8, 2012, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  This event is open to the public and sponsored by the Friends of the Hall Center. RSVP is required by March 1.
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• Jay T. Johnson, Geography
  "Place-Based Learning and Knowing: A Critical Pedagogy Grounded in Indigeneity"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 9, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Seminar Room
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• Jerome Silbergeld, P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Professor of Chinese Art History, Princeton University
  Keynote Lecture: "Musical Text and Textual Music in Chinese Cinema"
  Special Events – (Third Annual Mid-America Humanities Conference in Interdisciplinary Studies)
  Fri., Mar. 9, 2012, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
  Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by the Humanities & Western Civilization Program, CLAS, the Departments of Economics, History of Art, Philosophy, and Political Science, and the Hall Center
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• Graduate Summer Research Award
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 12, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• Collaborative Research Seed Grant
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 12, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• Hall Center Scholar Award
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 12, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• 7th Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium in Ancient Art
  "Etruscan Culture"
  Special Events
  Tue., Mar. 13, 2012, 2:00pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by Classics and the Hall Center.
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• Alain de Botton, Author & philosopher
  "Religion for Atheists"
  Humanities Lecture Series
  Wed., Mar. 14, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  This event has been MOVED TO Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.
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• Alain de Botton, Acclaimed author and "philosopher of everyday life"
  "Living Architecture: A Conversation with Alain de Botton"
  Humanities Lecture Series: Conversation
  Thu., Mar. 15, 2012, 10:00am - 11:30am
  Hall Center Conference Hall
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• Heather Kraus-Minnick, Director
  Citizen's Review Board of Douglas County
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Wed., Mar. 21, 2012, 10:00am - 11:00am
  Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, Division VI Courtroom
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• 2012 Fall Faculty Colloquium Participant Competition
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 26, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• 2012 Fall Faculty Colloquium Graduate Student Participant Competition
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 26, 2012, 12:00am - 11:45pm
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• Tammy Kernodle, Langston Hughes Visiting Professor
  "Singing and Swinging Like It Was Christmas: Cafe Society and the Creation of a Black Women's Performance Aesthetic"
  Seminars: Gender Seminar
  Mon., Mar. 26, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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• IDRH Digital Humanities Course Development Grant
  Competition Deadlines
  Mon., Mar. 26, 2012, 5:00pm - 5:15pm
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• James Gelvin, Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles
  "The Arab Uprisings at the Intersection of the National and Transnational"
  Special Events – (The Arab Spring Lecture Series)
  Mon., Mar. 26, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  The Commons, Spooner Hall
  Co-sponsored by The Commons, Dole Institute of Politics, Center for Global and International Studies, Spencer Museum of Art, Religious Studies, Anthropology, and the Hall Center
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• Phil Wilke, KANU Radio
  A Visit to Baehr Hall and Kansas Public Radio and Audio Reader
  New Generation Society of Lawrence (NGSL members only)
  Tue., Mar. 27, 2012, 9:30am - 11:00am
  Baehr Hall, 1120 West 11th Street
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• Sarah Weddington
  "Some Leaders Are Born Women!"
  Special Events – (Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad Women's Leadership Lecture)
  Tue., Mar. 27, 2012, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
  Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
  Reception to follow
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• Michael Trujillo, American Studies, University of New Mexico
  "America Profunda: Compelling Symmetries, Comparative Modernities, and Dialectical Americas"
  Seminars: Modernities Seminar
  Thu., Mar. 29, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Departments of American Studies and Spanish & Portuguese. Opoen to faculty, staff and graduate students.
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• Maria Carlson, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Humanities Research Fellow
  CANCELED: "Stalking the Primordial Vampire"
  Seminars: Resident Fellows Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 30, 2012, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students. Lunch is provided. RSVP is required a week in advance.
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• Stephanie Lemenager, English, UC Santa Barbara
  "Considering Tar Sands Culture, or the Future of North America"
  Seminars: Nature & Culture Seminar
  Fri., Mar. 30, 2012, 3:30pm - 5:00pm
  Hall Center Conference Hall
  Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program. Open to faculty, staff, and graduate students.
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