LENNARD TENENDE
Halliburton

Title: "Africa in the Digital Divide"
Time and Location: 4PM, Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

MICHEL ACHARD
Associate Professor of French Studies and Linguistics and CSC Fellow, 2001-2002

Title: Usage, Form, and Function: Intransitive Predicates in French Impersonal Constructions

Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 118
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

WENDY DONIGER
Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions
The Divinity School, University of Chicago

Title: The Mythology of Marital Resurrection: The Falsely Accused Woman Who Returned from the Dead

Time and Location:7:30 PM, Herzstein Hall Ampitheater
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238

PAMELA SCULLY
Associate Professor of History, Denison University

Title: Sarah Baartman and the Boundaries of African History

Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119
Contact: Kerry Ward, x2443, kward@rice.edu

JOHN GARTH

Title: Tolkien and the Great War
Time and Location:7PM, Keck Hall 100
Contact: Honey Meconi, x3714, medieval@rice.edu

WILLIAM RADICE
Senior Lecturer in Bengali
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

Title: Confessiom Versus the Exclamation Mark: Or Why Rabindranath Tagore Did Not Like the Poetry of Michael Madhusudan Dutt

Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238

SEBASTIAAN FABER
Oberlin College, Department of Hispanic Studies

Title: Scholars Take Sides: The Impact of the Spanish Civil War on British and American Hispanism

Time and Location: 2PM, Rayzor Hall 123
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, x5403, rlk@rice.edu

STEVEN NADLER
Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Title: Four Myths About Spinoza

Time and Location: 4PM, Kyle Morrow Room in Fondren Library
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.

NICHOLAS B. KING
Postdoctoral Fellow in the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Michigan

Title: Biodefense: History, Politics, Ethics

Time and Location: 5PM, Rayzor 123
Contact: Hannah Landecker, x2061, hll@rice.edu

JEFFREY HAMBURGER

Title: The Various Writings of Humanity: A Sermon by Johannes Tauler on the Liber Scivias of Hildegard of Bingen

Time and Location: 7PM, Herring Hall 126
Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

WARREN BRECKMAN
Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

Title: Politics in a Symbolic Key: Pierre Leroux, Romantic Socialism and the 'Schelling Affair'

Time and Location: 5PM, Humanities 328
Contact: Rachel Zuckert, rzuckert@rice.edu.

ALAN UDOFF
Professor of Philosophy at St. Francis College

Title: "'Lingering on the Threshold': On the Origins of Jean Amery's Auschwitz Book"

Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 117
Contact: Gregory Kaplan, gkaplan@rice.edu, x2778.

ANN MARIE RASMUSSEN

March 11: "Comic Confessions in Late Medieval German Literature," 4PM, Humanities 119

March 12: "Medieval Comic Confessions in Translation: A Reading by Anne Marie Rasmussen and Sarah Westphal-Wihl," 4PM, Miner Lounge in the Rice Memorial Center

Contact: Sarah Westphal-Wihl (westphal @rice.edu, x4192) or Honey Meconi (hmeconi@rice.edu).

Graduate Student Symposium

LOCATING POP CULTURES: NEGOTIATING PLACE, INTERROGATING CLASS, CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY

3/12, 3:30-5PM: Humanities 119
3/12, 6-8PM: Kyle Morrow Room
3/13, 8:30AM-6PM: Humanities 117&119

Contact: Department of English, engl@rice.edu.

AFGHAN WOMEN AFTER 9/11

3/18, 4PM: ANNE BRODSKY, Presentation: "An Incomplete Liberation: RAWA, Afghan Women, and the Need for Continued Resistance," Fondren Library's Kyle Morrow Room
3/19, 3PM: MEENA NANJI, film screening of clips from "A Grain of Sand," Baker Institute's International Conference Facility
3/19, 4PM: SONALI KOLHATKAR, Lecture: "Building Empire on the Backs of Women," Baker Institute's International Conference Facility

Contact: Lynne Huffer, huffer@rice.edu, x5625.

PAUL COURTRIGHT

Title: Studying Religion in an Age of Terror

Time and Location:12:15PM, Religious Studies Graduate Lounge, 2nd floor Humanities
Contact: Dee Garza, asia@rice.edu.

JOSEPH DUMIT
Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT

Title: Managing Mind and Mood through Facts and Pharmaceuticals

Time and Location:4PM, Rayzor 123

Contact: Hannah Landecker, x2061, hll@rice.edu.

AMELIA MALAGAMBA
University of Texas at Austin

Title: Moving On. Reflections on New Chicana/o Art

Time and Location: 2:30PM, Sewall Hall 301

Contact: Center for the Study of Cultures, x2770.

MICHAEL BLAKEY
National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute for Historical Biology, College of William and Mary

Title: New York's African Burial Ground and the Stuggles for Human Rights

Time and Location: 4PM, Sewall Hall 307

Contact: Department of Anthropology, anth@rice.edu.

ISRAEL YUVAL
Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: From Metaphysical Holiness to Martyrological Sacredness: The Story and History of "Unetane Tokef"

Time and Location:4PM, Humanities 118

Contact: Eva Haverkamp, haver@rice.edu, x8085.

BEYOND THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS: MISSIONARIES, CONVERSION, AND TOLERANCE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

April 2: 2PM: Welcome
2:30PM: Conversion in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
5PM: Religious Reform, Inquisition, and Resistance
April 3: 8:30AM: Debating tolerance
11AM: Protestant Missionaries and Modernity in the Late Ottoman Empire
3PM: Historiography of Minorities

Location: Friday: Humanities 328, Saturday: Humanities 327
Contact: Ussama Makdisi, x2561, makdisi@rice.edu .

TENTH BIENNIAL LINGUISTICS SYMPOSIUM

Title: Stancetaking in Discourse: Subjectivity in Interaction
For more information, please visit http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~reng/symposium_2004.html
Registration is free but mandatory - register by e-mailing the contact below.

Time and Location: Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Contact: Robert Englebretson, x4776, reng@rice.edu .

WILLIAM ADLER
Professor of Religion at North Carolina State University

Title: "The Subversive Side of Eusebius of Caesarea"
Time and Location: 12:05PM, Sewall Hall 301

Contact: Michael Maas, x2264, maas@rice.edu .

DOUGLAS WILE
Professor of Chinese at Brooklyn College - CUNY

Title: "Chinese Sexual Cultivation: Yoga, Alchemy, and Mysticism"
Time and Location: CANCELLED

Contact: Jeffrey Kripal, x2238.

MEGAN BIESELE
Kalahari Peoples Fund

Title: San Identity Politics in Southern Africa: Interactions of Peoples' Organizations and NGOs
Time and Location: 4PM, Humanities 119

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

JOHN BEVERLEY

Title: "Latinamericanism after 9/11: The Questions of the Nation (A Dialogue with Samuel Huntington)"
Time and Location: 2:30PM, RH 123
Please note that there is a related talk by Dr. Beverley on April 22 at 2:30 PM at University of Houston in Agnes Arnold Hall 110. Call 713-743-3007 for information.
Contact: Lane Kauffmann, rlk@rice.edu, x5403.

Annual International Symposium and Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association

Title: Gender, History, and Memory
For more information on this event, please visit http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~malca/

Time and Location: Fondren Library, Kyle Morrow Room. For times and events, please visit http://german.rice.edu/news.cfm .
Contact: Regina Kecht, kecht@rice.edu .