2008-2009
20 September, Saturday, 7:30 p.m.
Three Arrows from the Mountain: Calabar to Cuba, Unbreakable Transmission in the Art History of the World
The Menil Collection
Robert Farris Thompson, Colonel John Trumbull Professor of Art History, Yale University.
This talk is part of the lecture series "Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation" coordinated by the HRC Collaborative Research fellow Marcia Brennan. Contact Marcia Brennan at mbrennan@rice.edu.
25 September, Thursday, 6:30 p.m.
H.E.R.E. Project Speakers Series Lecture
307 Sewall Hall
Ann Best, Executive Director, Teach for America - Houston
The H.E.R.E Speakers Series advances understanding of Houston’s impact on national issues of religiosity, social justice, and political equality by inviting noteworthy figures to give public lectures on related topics. This talk is part of the Houston Enriches Rice Education (H.E.R.E.) Project.
17 October, Friday - 19 October, Sunday
Promises and Agreements
102 Baker Hall
This conference will examine the subject of promises and agreements from the perspectives of social, moral, legal and political philosophy. Co-sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, Dean of Humanities, and James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Contact Hanoch Sheinman at sheinman@rice.edu.
23 October, Thursday, 7 p.m.
The Body of the Second World War: Now
100 Herring Hall
Alexander Nemerov, Professor of History of Art and American Studies,
Yale University.
This talk is part of the lecture series "Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation" coordinated by the HRC Collaborative Research fellow Marcia Brennan. Contact Marcia Brennan at mbrennan@rice.edu.
24 October, Friday
Mysticism Before Mysticism
Location: TBA
This full-day public symposium in religious studies will address two main sets of questions: What mysticism looks like within Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity? How mysticism emerges in different communal contexts in this period? Contact April DeConick at add2@rice.edu.
31 October, Friday
Title: TBA
Location: TBA
James Griesemer, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, University of Calfornia-Davis
Advocating disciplinary integration among the biological sciences, Dr. Griesemer’s recent work in the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology (“evo-devo”) argues for the application of field-specific principles across boundaries, for example positing evolutionary and developmental processes within scientific practice and cultural systems including research work and academic training and learning. Sponsors: History of Philosophy Workshop, Workshop for the Cultural Study of Science and Technology, Department of History, and Department of Philosophy. Contact Jack Zammito at zammito@rice.edu
November, 2008
Islamic Culture and the West
Location:TBA
Carole Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic History, Edinburgh University
Robert Hillenbrand, Professor of Islamic Art, Edinburgh University
This series of talks and a seminar is part of the Medieval Studies Workshop. Contact Eva Haverkamp at haver@rice.edu.
6 - 9 November, Thursday - Sunday
New Ways of Analyzing Variation
The 37th Annual Meeting of the New Ways of Analyzing Variation conference will showcase research on language variation according to social groupings including studies on the ethnography of speaking, language and social class, gender, ethnicity and sexuality, language in the schools, and more.
For more information see http://nwav37.rice.edu/
27 - 29 March, Friday - Sunday
Exploring the Mind through Music
Alice Pratt Brown Hall, Shepherd School of Music
This conference will bring together distinguished scientists and musicians to discuss music's role in human cognition and behavior. Speakers include composers Anthony Brandt (Rice) and Fred Lerdahl (Columbia), pianist Jon Kimura Parker (Rice), and neuroscientists Dr. David Eagleman (Baylor College of Medicine), Dr. Isabelle Peretz (University of Montreal), Dr. Gottfried Schlaug (Harvard), Dr. Mark Tramo (Harvard) and more. Co-sponsored by Shepherd School of Music and supported by a grant from the President of Rice University's Faculty Initiatives Fund, awarded to organizer Anthony Brandt, Associate Professor of Composition and Theory at Shepherd School of Music. For more information contact Dr. Brandt at abrandt@rice.edu.
14 April, Tuesday, 7 p.m.
The Slow Conscious Look: Toward a Pedagogy of Attentiveness
100 Herring Hall
Barbara Maria Stafford, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service
Professor Emerita, University of Chicago.
This talk is part of the lecture series "Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation" coordinated by the HRC Collaborative Research fellow Marcia Brennan. Contact Marcia Brennan at mbrennan@rice.edu.
May 2009
Details TBA
Menil Collection
Richard Tuttle, artist
This talk is part of the lecture series "Museums and the Medical Humanities: The Arts of Transformation" coordinated by the HRC Collaborative Research fellow Marcia Brennan. Contact Marcia Brennan at mbrennan@rice.edu.
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