Speaker: Dajing Qian
Speaker title: Freelance artist
Title: Art, Memory, and the Forgotten Nanjing Massacre
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117

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

Speaker: Daniel Branch
Speaker title: Research Associate and Visiting Lecturer, Yale University Center for International and Area Studies
Title: The Enemy Within: Loyalists and the War Against Mau Mau in Kenya

Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 117

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

Speaker: Daniel Tröhler
Speaker affiliation: Institute for the History of Education, University of Zurich

Title: Speaking on the Quality and Methodological Sophistication of History of Education in the EU

Time and place: 4:30 PM, Humanities 328

Contact: Tom Haskell, x2197 or thaskell@rice.edu

Speaker: Paula Moya
Speaker affiliation: Associate Professor of English at tanford University

Title: Putting the “Lone Genius” to Rest: Producing Collaborative Knowledge Through Humanities Research Networks

Time and place: 4:00 PM, McMurtry Auditorium in Duncan Hall
Reception following

Speaker: Marie Borroff
Speaker title: Sterling Professor Emerita of English, Yale University
Title: Enclosure and Inclusion in "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
Time and place: 4:30PM, 100 Herring Hall

Reception following

This lecture is part of the 2005-2006 Neil J. O'Brien Lecture Series on Women Medievalists and the Academy

Contact: Jane Chance, x2625

Title: The Anthropology of Intellectuals
Speakers: James D. Faubion (Rice University), Lesley Fordred Green, University of Cape Town, Smithsonian), Dominic Boyer (Cornell University), Douglas Holmes (SUNY Binghamton), Paul Rabinow (U. C. Berkeley), George E. Marcus (Rice University, U. C. Irvine)

Time and place: Friday 10/28 9:30-12:30 and 2-4, Saturday 10/29 9:30-12:30
All events take place in the Anthropology Common Room (Sewell Hall 570)

The conference is free and open to the public.

Contact: James D. Faubion, jdf@rice.edu, x3384.

Speaker: Graham Parry
Speaker title: Professor of English, University of York
Title: The Antiquarian Endeavor: The Discovery of the Past in Early Modern England
Time and place: 4PM, Herring 255

Contact: Meredith Skura, skura@rice.edu

Speaker: Suleymane Bachir Diagne
Speaker affiliation: Professor at Northwestern University

NOVEMBER 10
Title: The Reformist Philosophy in Islam: A presentation of the thought of Muhammad Iqbal
Time and place: 4PM, Humanities 119

NOVEMBER 11
Title: Leopold Senghor et l'art africain
Time and place: 2PM, Rayzor Hall 202

Contact: Jean-Joseph Goux, goux@rice.edu

Speaker: David Blight
Speaker title: Professor of American History and Director of the Yale University Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition

Title: Innovative Approaches to the Study of Race and Slavery
Time and place: 3PM, Rayzor 123 NOTE NEW LOCATION

Contact: Caroline Levander, clevande@rice.edu or x3203

Title: Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Click here for the conference web site and program.

Contact: Christian J. Emden