New at the HRC

May 5, 2009, 2009. The HRC is pleased to announced the Emerging Disciplines Symposium, to be held at Rice University September 18, 2009, featuring prominent scholars from across academic disciplines who are shaping important new fields of scholarly inquiry. The international selection of speakers represents a broad range of fields, including music and the mind, neurohistory, cultural economy, broad-spectrum history, cognitive approaches to art history, Judaic studies, and new approaches to Americas studies.
 

April 23, 2009. Upcoming discussion forum to examine the undergraduate experience at Rice for students planning to enter the medical field, with backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences. This discussion will be led by four senior students, and has been organized within the context Rice's discussion with Baylor College of Medicine concerning a possible merger. The forum will take place Friday, May 1, 2009. 11:30am in Herring Hall 126.
 

• HART 490 Cultural Boundaries, Ethnic Myths, and the Search for a National Style.  Maria Elena Versari, external faculty fellow
• HIST 450 Science and Empire. Mi Gyung Kim, external faculty fellow
• HART 344/ARCH 379 Baroque Art and Architecture in Italy, Spain, and the New World.  Diana Bullen Presciutti, postdoctoral fellow
• ENGL 397 Contemporary U.S. Novel.  Matthew Wilkens, postdoctoral fellow (syllabus) 
  

March 12, 2009. See the Rice News story  (3/12/09) on the publication of Marcia Brennan's Flowering Light: Kabbalistic Mysticism and the Art of Elliot R. Wolfson. Brennan, an HRC Faculty Fellow, began work on the book when meeting with Wolfson during his time as an HRC External Faculty Fellow. During Wolfson's stay at Rice, she co-organized a conference in Fall 2007 dedicated to his artistic production as well as his scholarship on Jewish mysticism. This book examines Wolfson's scholarship, poetry and painting as a single, integrated body of work.