Speaker: Christina Sisk
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Spanish, University of Houston

Title: Imagining the Border and Migration from Mexico City: The Intersection of Romance and National Identity

Time and place: 3PM, Rayzor 302

Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481 or x5451

Speaker: Peter V. Loewen
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Musicology, Rice University

Title: Singing in a Fool's Paradise: Mary Magdalen as Joculatrix Domini in Dramas from England, the German Lands, and Bohemia

Time and place: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series

Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625.

Speaker: David J. Silva
Speaker title: Chair of the Department of Linguistics and TESOL, The University of Texas: Arlington

Title: 19th Century Missionary Efforts in the Revaluation of the Indigenous Korean Script, Hangul

Time and place: Sewall Hall 309, 4PM

Contact: Steven Lewis, swlewis@rice.edu

Speaker: James C. Scott
Speaker title: Sterling Professor of Political Science and Anthropology, Yale University

Seminar: Moral Economies, State Spaces, and Categorical Violence
Time and Place: Humanities Building 117, 4PM

Lecture: Why Civilizations Can't Climb Hills: Hills and Valleys in Mainland Southeast Asia
Time and Place: Herring Hall 100, 8PM

Contact: Alex Lichtenstein, acl@rice.edu or x2397

Speaker: Cheng Zhangcan
Speaker title: Professor at Nanjing University

Title: One Recluse, A Thousand Buddhas: the Buddhist Inhabitance in the Early Medieval Nanjing

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities Building 119

Contact: Steve Lewis, swlewis@rice.edu or x5832

Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series
Speaker: Richard Doyle
Speaker title: Professor of Rhetoric and Science, Penn State University

Title: Just Say Yes to the Noosphere: Ecologies of Attention from Entheogens to Biometrics

Time and place: 4PM, McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall

Apocalypticism and Crisis in Ancient Judaism - Judaic Studies Workshop Conference - 100 Keck Hall

October 12, 7PM
Speaker: George Nickelsburg
Speaker Title: Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Iowa

Lecture Title: Enoch and the Beginnings of Apocalypticism

October 13, 7PM
Speaker: Matthias Henze
Speaker Title: Watt J. & Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor in Biblical Studies, Rice University

Lecture Title: Baruch and the Decline of Apocalypticism

Speaker: José Villalobos
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Spanish, Texas A&M University

Title: Writing Against the Border: Rafa Saavedra, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Alberto Ríos

Time and place: 3 PM, Rayzor 302

Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481 or x5451

Speaker: Katherine L. Jansen
Speaker title: Associate Professor of History, Catholic University of America

Title: Mary Magdalen, Apostle of Apostles

Time and place: 4:30PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series

Contact: Jane Chance, jchance@rice.edu or x2625.

Speaker: Kathleen Newman
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Spanish, Department of Cinema and Comparative Literature, University of Iowa

Title: Transnational Film Theory and Latin American Cinema

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities Building 118
This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium

Contact: Laura Serna, lserna@rice.edu or x2788

Speaker: Kirsten Ostherr
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of English and 2005-2006 HRC Fellow, Rice University

Title: Visual Pedagogy: Imaging and Instruction in Postwar Public Health Films

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the HRC Faculty Fellows Lecture Series

Contact: HRC at hrc@rice.edu or x2770.

Speaker: Fady Joudah
Speaker title: Physician, Doctors Without Borders

Title: Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan: The Race to Save Darfur

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 120

Contact: Kerry Ward, kward@rice.edu or x2443.

Speaker: Meredith Skura
Speaker title: Libby Shearn Moody Professor of English and 2005-2006 HRC Fellow, Rice University

Title: Rethinking the Origins of English Autobiography

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117
This talk is part of the HRC Faculty Fellows Lecture Series

Contact: HRC at hrc@rice.edu or x2770.

Speaker: Michele Wucker
Speaker title: Journalist and author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting it Right

Title: When We Came to America: Latinos and the Great Wave Immigration Myth

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Time and place: 3PM Herring Hall 100
This talk is part of the Global Hispanism Workshop

Contact: Maarten van Delden at x2481 or maarten@rice.edu.

Speaker: Gina Saraceni
Speaker title: Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, Rice University

Title: Heredar el desarraigo: Transmisión de un legado en Sergio Chejfec y Roberto Raschella

This talk is part of the Global Hispanism Workshop.

Time and place: 3PM, Rayzor Hall 302

Contact: Maarten van Delden at x2481 or maarten@rice.edu.

Speaker: Rebecca Scott
Speaker title: The Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History, Professor of Law, Department of History and University of Michigan Law School

Title: Writing Freedom: An African Mother and her Creole Daughters in the Era of the Haitian Revolution

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This talk is part of the Americas Colloquium.

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117

Contact: Alex Lichtenstein, acl@rice.edu or x2397

The Library and the Future of Scholarly Publishing

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