LECTURE - January 22, 2007

Speaker: Marjorie Agosín
Speaker title: Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College

Title: A Cross and a Star: Meditations on Jewish Writings in the Americas

Time and Place: 12PM Humanities 226

Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu or x2778

LECTURE - January 26, 2007

Speaker: Michael Ross
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California Los Angeles

Title: Africa and the Curse of Oil

Time and Place: 4 PM, Sewell 309

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

LECTURE - January 30, 2007

Speaker: Anthony Grafton
Speaker title: Henry Putnam University Professor of History, Princeton University

Title: The Republic of Letters: Sociology and History of An Intellectual Community

Time and Place: 4PM English Department Lounge 255

Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467

LECTURE - February 2, 2007

Speaker: José Pastrano
Speaker title: Andrew W. Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow

Title: Scientific Farming and Modern Rural Poverty: 1887-1932

Time and Place: 4 PM, Humanities building 118

Contact: Melissa Bailar, melba@rice.edu or x2770

LECTURE - February 5, 2007

Speaker: John Mason Hart
Speaker title: John and Rebecca Moores Professor of History, University of Houston

Title: Hidden Influences: The Role of the US Economic Elite in Mexico and the Third World, 1865-1919

Time and Place: 3 PM, Humanities building 328

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

LECTURE and SEMINARS - February 5-9, 2007

Speaker: Bruno Latour
Speaker title: Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques and an HRC NEH Distinguished Visiting Scholar

Title: Political Truth: Lippmann's Phantom and Dewey's Great Community

Time and Place: February 6th, 4 P.M. Herring 100

Other Events Include:
February 5th - Seminar "The Politics of Multinaturalism" - 4PM Humanities 117
February 7th - Seminar "Collective Experiments" - 4PM Humanities 118
February 8th - Making Things Public, Screening and Discussion - 4:30PM Anderson Hall, Farish Gallery
February 9th - Seminar "Cosmopolitics" - 4PM Rayzor 123

Speaker: David Gordon White
Speaker title: Professor of Religious Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara

Title: The King Who Wasn't Himself: And Other Tales of Sinister Yogis

Time and place: 4 PM Humanities building 117

Contact: Jeffrey J. Kripal, jjkripal@rice.edu or x2238

LECTURE - February 15, 2007

Speaker: Theresa Coletti
Speaker title: Professor of English, University of Maryland at College Park

Title: Mary Magdalene: Text and Performance in Late Medieval England

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

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

LECTURE - February 21, 2007

Speaker: Joan Oates
Speaker title: Professor at Cambridge University

Title: The Status Quo Challenged: Syria - The Source of Civilization?

Time and Place: 7PM, Sewell 301

Contact: Melissa Bailar, melba@rice.edu or x2770

Speaker: Richard Price
Speaker title: University of Maryland History Professor Chair

Title: Empire and Its Encounters: The British and the Xhosa Peoples of Southern Africa, 1820-1860

Time and place: 4 PM Humanities building 328

Contact: Martin Wiener, wiener@rice.edu or x4948

LECTURE - February 23, 2007

Speaker: Katharine Maus
Speaker title: James Branch Cabell Professor of English & American Literature, University of Virginia

Title: Francis Bacon: What's New About "The New Organon"?

Time and place: 4PM Herring Hall 255 (English Department Lounge)

Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467

LECTURE - February 26, 2007

Speaker: Carl Good
Speaker title: Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Indiana University

Title: Whitman on the Border

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities building 117

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

LECTURE - March 13, 2007

Speaker: Frieda Ekotto
Speaker title: Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature, The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor

Title: Ousmane Sembene's Moolaadé and Women's Resistance in West Africa

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities building 119

Contact: x4851

LECTURE - March 15, 2007

Speaker: Steven Justice
Speaker title: Associate Professor of English, University of California at Berkeley

Title: What is Literary History and Why Aren't We Doing It?

Time and Place: 7:30PM, Herring 100
This talk is part of the Da Vinci Code Lecture Series

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

LECTURE - March 15-16, 2007

***** Update: Dr. Bennett's lecture will be postponed *****

Speaker: Herman Bennett
Speaker title: Associate Professor of Latin American History, Rutgers University and the author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Conciousness, 1570-1640.

Title: Reflecting Forward: Early Modern Freedom in Colonial Spanish America

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 328

Dr. Bennett will be giving a lecture on black family in Colonial Mexico and leading a graduate workshop on emerging issues in the history of the African diaspora.

LECTURE - March 16, 2007

Speaker: Metthew Chen
Speaker title: Energy Research Assistant, Baker Institute

Title: Chinese National Oil Companies and Human Rights

Time and Place: 4PM Sewell Hall

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

LECTURE - March 19, 2007

***** Update: Ms. Abdelnour's lecture will be postponed *****

Speaker: Patricia Abdelnour
Speaker title: Cultural Attache for the Venezuelan Embassy

Title: Culture and Politics in the New Venezuela

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 117

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

LECTURE - March 20, 2007

Speaker: Patrick Caddeau
Speaker title: Director of Studies, Forbes College, Lecturer in East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Title: From Scroll to Screen: Adapting the Tale of Genji (Japan's First Novel) for the Cinema

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities 119

Contact: Richard Smith, smithrj@rice.edu or x2552

LECTURE - March 22, 2007

Speaker: Fiamma Montezemolo
Speaker title: Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, El Colegio de la Frontera, Tijuana Mexico

Title: De-Mapping Tijuana

Time and Place: 4PM Rayzor Hall 302

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

SYMPOSIUM - March 23-24, 2007

Autrey Symposium - The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural Legacies

Organizer: Joseph Clarke, Autrey Visiting Professor, Rice University Humanities Research Center

Participants:
George Baca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies, Goucher College
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University
Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
José E Limón, Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Suzette Spencer, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Jennifer Wilks, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

Location: Herring Hall 100

Contact: Joseph Clarke, clarkej2@rice.edu or x2787

Autrey Symposium - Aristotelian Natural Philosophy

Focused on the research interests of Pierre Pellegrin, Autrey Visiting Professor, Rice University Humanities Research Center

Organizer: Donald Morrison, Professor of Philosophy and Classical Studies, Rice University

Participants:
Robert Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Sean Kelsey, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Falcon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University
Mary Louise Gill, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University
Robin Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

Location: Herring 125

Contact: Donald Morrison, donaldm@rice.edu or x2714

LECTURE - April 12, 2007

Speaker: Desirée Martin
Speaker title: Assitant Professor of English, University of California, Davis

Title: El Fantasma de Pancho Villa: Possessing Border and Nation in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture

Time and Place: 3PM, Rayzor 302

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

LECTURE - April 13, 2007

Speaker: Linda Pollock
Speaker title: Professor of History, Tulane University

Title: Honor, Gender and Reconciliation in the Seventeenth-Century English Elite

Time and Place: 4PM, Herring 255 (English Department Lounge)

Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu or x2467

Title: The Birds Now

Guest Participants:
Lee C. Edelman - Chair of the English Department, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University

Tom Cohen - Chair of the English Department, SUNY Albany

Rice Participants:
Susan Lurie - Associate Professor of English, Rice University

Joshua D. Gonsalves - Assistant Professor of English, Rice University

Click here for the symposium website and complete schedule

LECTURE - April 19, 2007

Speaker: Robert Richards
Speaker title: Morris Fishbein Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, Director of the Fishbein Center for History of Science, University of Chicago

Title: Religion, Evolutionary Theory, and the Alleged Fraud of Ernst Haeckel

Time and Place: 5PM, Humanities bldg. 328

Contact: John Zammito, zammito@rice.edu or x2453

LECTURE - April 20, 2007

Speaker: Robin D. S. Yates
Speaker title: Professor of History, McGill University

Title: Soldiers, Scribes and Women: Lower Order Literacy in the First Chinese Empires

Time and Place: 4PM, Humanities bldg. 119

Contact: Nanxiu Qian, nanxiuq@rice.edu or x5945