Download Fall 08 call for conference proposals. The HRC calls for conference-funding proposals once each semester to accommodate planning events throughout the academic year, and to alleviate the time pressures generally associated with the spring academic calendar.
2008-2009 Conferences
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.
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.
6 November, Thursday - 9 November, Saturday
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 March, Friday - 29 March, 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 Eagleton (Baylor), 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.
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