- September 11, 1998
- Lecture:
- Elizabeth Lunbeck, Princeton University
- "'Identity'and the Politics of the Self in Post-War American Psychiatry"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Dan Sherman x2773)
- September 18, 1998
- Lecture:
- Piotr Wilczek, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, Rice University
- "Catholics and Heretics: Some Aspects of Religious Debates in the Old Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 16th-18th Centuries"
- 7:30 p.m.Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- September 22, 1998
- Lecture:
- Samantha Kelly, Rice University
- "The Theory and Practice of Late-Medieval Kingship: Politics and Propaganda at the Court of Robert of Naples (1309-1343)"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall 309
- (Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
- September 25, 1998
- Lecture:
- Stephen Kern, Norhern Illinois University
- "The Cultural History of Causality since 1830"
- 4:00 p.m.Fondren 525
- (Contact: Tom Haskell x4947)
- September 30, 1998
- Lecture:
- Joseph Manca, Rice University, CSC Fellow for 1997-1998
- "Moral Stance in Italian Renaissance Art: Image, Text, and Meaning"
- 12:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- October 1, 1998
- Reading:
- The Orion Society's "Forgotten Language Tour" presents
- Gary Paul Nabhan, ethnobotanist and author of Cultures of Habitat,
- Janisse Ray, poet and author of the forthcoming Where the Cutting Ends: Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,
- Sue Ellen Campbell (Rice '73), professor and author of Cultures of Habitat,
- 7:30 p.m. Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
- (Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
- October 2, 1998
- Lecture:
- Jack Zammito, Rice University, CSC Fellow for 1997-1998
- "Historical Reservations about the 'Aesthetic Ideology' Thesis"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: CSC x2770)
- October 5, 1998
- Lecture:
- Martin Jay, University of California - Berkeley
- "The Crisis of Experience in a Post-Subjective Age"
- 4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- October 12, 1998
- Lecture:
- Karla Jay, Pace University
- "In Theory and in Practice, but not in Deed""
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Colleen Lamos x2627)
- October 9-19, 1998
- Exhibition:
- Wang Chi
- "Trans-Pacific Art"
- First Floor, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945)
- October 15, 1998
- Lecture:
- Wang Chi
- "Trans-Pacific Art"
- 7:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Nanxiu Qian x5945)
- October 15, 1998
- Lecture:
- Stanley Kutler, University of Wisconsin - Madison
- "Abuse of Power: The Tapes & Scandals of Richard M. Nixon""
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Allen Matusow x5275)
- October 23, 1998
- Lecture:
- Kwasi Wiredu, University of South Florida
- "Determinism, Free Will, and the Concept of a Person: Some African Reflections"
- 4:00 p.m. Duncan Hall 1070
- (Contact: Elias Bongmba x2759)
- October 27, 1998
- Lecture:
- Katya Hirvasaho, Rice University
- "An Empire Without Colonies: Remarks on Russian Colonial Discourse"
- 12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting)
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- October 28, 1998
- Lunch Talk:
- Harvey Yunis, Rice University
- "Thucydides' Speeches at the Crossroads of Rhetoric and History: A Challenge to Disciplinary Thinking"
- 12:00 n. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Harvey Yunis x2775)
- October 29, 1998
- Lecture:
- David Keightley, University of California - Berkeley
- "Death and the Birth of Civilizations: Ancient China and Ancient Greece"
- 8:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Rich Smith x2552 and Harvey Yunis x2775)
- November 6, 1998
- Lecture:
- Douglas Medin, Northwestern University
- "Comparative Studies of Categorization and Reasoning: Culture and Expertise"
- 3:30 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Richard Grandy x2720)
- November 9, 1998
- Lecture:
- Satya Mohanty, Cornell University
- "Can Our Values Be Objective? A Realist Proposal"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Jack Zammito x3460)
- November 13, 1998
- Lecture:
- George Yudice, New York University
- "The Globalization of Culture: A Latin American Perspective"
- 3:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Maarten van Delden x2255)
- November 13, 1998
- Lecture:
- Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
- "The Psycho-Cultural Origins of Human Rights"
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- November 14, 1998
- Symposium:
- "Painting Under Pressure"
- 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
- (Contact: John Sparagana x3569)
- November 17, 1998
- Seminar:
- Emlyn Norman, Texas Southern University
- "The Political Economy of Africa"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 517
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x3526)
- November 20-21, 1998
- Conference:
- "Constructing Hildegard: Reception and Identity 1098-1998"
- Neil J. O'Brien Symposium in Medieval Studies for 1998.
- 4:00 p.m. November 20th, all day November 21st
- Sewall Hall 301
- Conference Web Page: http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~hildgard/conference/index.html
- (Contact: Honey Meconi,<hmeconi@rice.edu>)
- December 3, 1998
- Lecture:
- Johannes Heil
- "The Hidden Theological Concept: Jews and Judaism in 9th Century Commentaries on the Letters of Paul"
- 12:00 noon Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: David Nirenberg x2784)
- December 7, 1998
- Lecture:
- Peter Flint, Trinity Western University
- "The Dead Sea Psalms Scrolls and the Biblical Psalter"
- 5:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 240
- (Contact: Matthias Henze x2754)
- December 10, 1998
- Lecture:
- Wlad Godzich, Professor of Emergent Literatures, Comparative Literature, and European Studies, University of Geneva
- "The Emergence of Postnational Literature"
- 4:00 p.m. Kyl e Morrow Room
- (Contact: Kathryn Milun x3311)
- December 11, 1998
- Lecture:
- Wlad Godzich, Professor of Emergent Literatures, Comparative Literature, and European Studies, University of Geneva
- "The New Anthropos"
- 12:00 noon Sewall Hall 570
- (Contact: Kathryn Milun x3311)
- January 22, 1999
- Lecture:
- Anson Rabinbach, Princeton University
- "Why Were the Jews Sacrificed?: The Role of Anti-Semitism in Horkheimer and Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment"
- 4:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- January 29, 1999
- Lecture:
- Katama Mkangi, Carroll College
- "African Social Change and the Future of Society in Kenya"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
- January 29, 1999
- Lecture:
- Waclaw Mucha, Lecturer in Slavic Studies, Rice University
- "Humor and Satire in Soviet Russian Literature: The Case of Mikhail Zoshchenko"
- 7:30 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- January 29-31, 1999
- Film Festival / Conference:
- "Asian American Stories on Film"
- Opening night talk: Flora Moon, "Where is Home?" (Jan.29, 7 p.m.; reception at 6 p.m.)
- For program details see the Conference Web site or Rice Cinema Schedule. Location: Rice Media Center.
- (Contact: Shannon Leonard, sleonard@owlnet.rice.edu, 726-0588 or Sylvia Van Ziegert, svan@owlnet.rice.edu, 205-918-0038)
- January 30, 1999
- Symposium:
- "The Road to Plandom: Non-Socialist and Pre-Socialist Economic Planning in Republican China and Europe, 1935-1950"
- 9:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Baker Institute 104
- (Contact: Carl Caldwell x2543)
- February 9, 1999
- Lecture:
- Menachem Kellner, Wolfson Professor of Jewish Thought, University of Haifa
- "Song of Songs: Erotic Love Poetry or Aristotelian Philosophy?"
- 2:30 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Diana Lobel x2778)
- February 9, 1999
- Lecture:
- James Opolot, Department of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University
- "Police Administration in English Speaking Africa"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 517
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
- February 11, 1999
- Lecture:
- James T. Cushing, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame
- "Some Unexpected Limits on Scientific Knowledge"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 307
- (Contact: Yuri Balashov x3409)
- February 19, 1999
- Lecture:
- Rajewsari Sunder Rajan, Visiting Professor of English, George Washington University
- "Unwanted Girls in Rural Tamil Nadu: Children of the State?"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Betty Joseph x2774)
- February 26, 1999
- Lecture:
- Daniel Cohen, Florida International University
- "Heroic Women Found: Transgressive Feminism, Popular Biography and the Beautiful Female Murder Victim"
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Martin Wiener x2886)
- February 26, 1999
- Lecture:
- Benjamin Oduor Odhoji, Department of Anthropology, Emory University
- "Metaphors of the Self: Forms of Self-Expression and Representation among the Luo People of Kenya"
- 4:00 p.m., Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Atieno Odhiambo x4947)
- March 4, 1999
- Lecture:
- J. Baird Callicott, University of North Texas
- "Implications of the Shifting Paradigm in Ecology for Environmental Ethics"
- 4:00 p.m.Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Gregory Mikkelson, 713-737-6169)<
- March 8, 1999
- Lecture:
- Harry Walsh, Professor of Russian, University of Houston
- "Repatriation of Prince Andrei Kurbskii" (on recent Russian fiction)
- 12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting - Dutch treat; please confirm via email to sarmatia@rice.edu)
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- March 17, 1999
- Symposium:
- "Text and Commentary"
- Participants: Steven Fraade, Dept. of Religious Studies, Yale University; Mark Vessey, Dept. of English, Univ. of British Columbia
- 3:00-6:00 p.m. Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Michael Maas x2264)
- March 17, 1999
- Lecture:
- Tony Burgess, Biosphere 2 Center, Columbia University
- "Environmental Field Study at Biosphere 2"
- 5:15 - 6:30 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
- March 18, 1999
- Workshop:
- Norma Alarcon, University of California - Berkeley
- "Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminism, and the State"
- 4:00 - 6:00 pm. Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
- (Contact: Jose Aranda x2447)
- March 19, 1999
- Workshop:
- Norma Alarcon, University of California - Berkeley
- "Facing the Future: New Inter-Disciplinary and Theoretical Directions in Ethnic, Gender, and Sexuality Studies"
- 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. Miner Lounge, Rice Memorial Center
- (Contact: Jose Aranda x2447)
- March 19, 1999
- Symposium:
- "Future of the German Past"
- Participants: Jan Muller, New York University and William Scheuerman, University of Pittsburgh
- 4:00 p.m. Ley Conference Room, Rice Student Center
- (Contact: Richard Wolin x2453)
- March 22, 1999
- Lecture:
- Piotr Wilczek, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellow, Rice University
- "Cultural Changes in Central and Eastern Europe: the Case of the Upper Silesian Arts Festival"
- 12:00 n.Faculty Club (luncheon meeting - Dutch treat; please confirm via email to sarmatia@rice.edu)
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- March 25, 1999
- Lecture:
- Iris Marion Young, Professor of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
- "Public Address as a Sign of Political Inclusion: On Feminist Ethics"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 309
- (Contact: Susan Lurie x2635)
- March 26-27, 1999
- Conference:
- "The Enigma of Gift and Sacrifice"
- 3/26, 1-5 p.m.; 3/27, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
- (Contact: Edith Wyschogrod, stedith@rice.edu)
- April 5, 1999
- Lecture:
- Scott Slovic, Director of the Center for the Environment in Arts and Humanities, University of Nevada - Reno
- "The Environment in Arts and Humanities"
- 4:00 p.m. Location TBA
- (Contact: Walter Isle x5606)
- April 9, 1999
- Lecture:
- Ruth Garrett Millikan, Department of Philosophy, University of Connecticut
- "Abilities"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: Richard Grandy x2720)
- April 23, 1999
- Lecture:
- Fitzroy Baptiste, Professor of History, Oberlin College
- "The African Presence in the Indian Subcontinent"
- 4:00 p.m. Fondren Library 525
- (Contact: Edward Cox x2249)
- April 23, 1999
- Lecture:
- Dyan Elliott, Professor of History, Indiana University
- "Seeing Double: Jean Gerson, Female Spirituality, and the Discernment of Spirits"
- 4:00 p.m. Rayzor Hall 110
- (Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
- April 23, 1999
- Lecture:
- Hilary Schor, Professor of English, University of Southern California
- "Show Trials: Character, Conviction & the Law in Victorian Fiction"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 303
- (Contact: Alan Grob x2645)
- April 23, 1999
- Lecture:
- Edward Keenan, Professor of History, Harvard University and Director, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC
- "The Lost Continent of Dnieprovia"
- 7:30 p.m. 110 Rayzor Hall
- (Contact: Ewa Thompson x4874)
- April 28, 1999
- Lecture:
- Patricia Juliana Smith, University of California - Los Angeles
- "Icons and Iconoclasts: Figments of Sixties Lesbian Culture"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 305
- (Contact: Collen Lamos x4840)
- April 28, 1999
- Lecture:
- John Knasas, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas
- "The Metaphysical Basis of Aquinas's Natural Law Ethics"
- 4:00 p.m. Sewall Hall 301
- (Contact: Honey Meconi x3714)
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