Save the Date!
October 4 Friends Fall Social Light supper and music 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. Hall Center Conference Hall *This is a Friends Exclusive event. RSVP is required. October 18 Diane Ravitch "Will School Reform Improve the Schools?"
7:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union *Supported by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City October 19 Diane Ravitch "A Conversation with Diane Ravitch"
10:00 a.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall October 20 David Zarefsky
"Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Rhetoric of War and Peace"
3:00 p.m.
Dole Institute of Politics
*Co-sponsored by the Dole Institute, the Department of Communications, and the Hall Center
October 26
Darlene Clark Hine
The Tuttle Lecture
"Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Professional Women's Health Care Activism before Brown"
4:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
*Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies, the Department of History, the Office of the Chancellor, the Office of the Provost, and the Hall Center
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Humanities Lecture Series
Laurence Rees
World War II historian, documentarian, and author of Auschwitz
"Talking with Nazis"
Tue, September 20, 7:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium
Additional Event: Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Breakfast: A Conversation with Laurence Rees
Wed, September 21, 9:00 a.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
*This is a Friends Exclusive Event. RSVP required.
In his Humanities Lecture Series presentation, award-winning documentarian Laurence Rees will detail his experiences interviewing Nazi officers, and will comment upon the psychology of those responsible for one of history's most infamous crimes.
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Byron Caldwell Smith Award Lecture
Leslie Tuttle, History
"Making Babies, Making the Nation-State: The Case of Pre-Revolutionary France"
Tue, September 13, 7:30 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
The Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award is offered every other year to honor an outstanding work of scholarship or creative literature authored by a Kansas resident during the previous two years. Leslie Tuttle, an Associate Professor of History at KU, was selected as the 2011 Byron Caldwell Smith Book Award recipient for Conceiving the Old Regime: Pronatalism and the Politics of France (Oxford University Press).
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Raj Bhala
Rice Distinguished Professor of Law
"Understanding Islamic Law"
Wed, September 7, 3:30 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
Raj Bhala will discuss the inseparability of law and religion, the distinction between a sacred and secular legal system, the importance of delineating authentic from inauthentic Islamic legal doctrines, and what his book teaches us about the American Empire and its future engagement with the Islamic world.
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Idéa Cafe at the Commons
Hume Feldman, Cosmology & Astrophysics
"When Models Disintegrate"
Tue, September 6, 12:00 p.m.
The Commons, Spooner Hall
In this Idea Café discussion, KU Professor of Cosmology & Astrophysics Hume Feldman considers the question: What do we do when the story we tell ourselves, the narrative we depend on for comfort, understanding, and our general well-being falls apart?
Lunch is provided. RSVP is required by August 30 to thecommons@ku.edu. Limit 40 guests.
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Siva Vaidhyanathan
Professor of Media Studies and Law at the University of Virginia
"Be Evil: Google and the Perils of Corporate Social Responsibility"
Tue, September 27, 7:30 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Does the market discipline companies so that responsibility is now an essential part of doing business? Or is corporate responsibility just a clever trick to gain a slight marketing advantage and defer state regulation? Siva Vaidhyanathan, a cultural historian, media scholar, and professor at the University of Virginia, will consider these issues through the lens of Google, the most significant promoter of a corporate moral ethos.
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Susan Harris
Hall Distinguished Professor of American Literature and Culture
"Mark Twain and the Philippines: How One Major Writer Viewed America's Entry into Global Imperialism"
Thu, September 15, 4:00 p.m.
Jayhawk Ink, Kansas Union
Co-sponsored by KU Bookstores, the Department of English, and the Hall Center.
Susan Harris' talk will look at America's first foray into overseas imperialism through Twain's eyes, introducing current topics such as U.S. global relations and the fusion of Protestant Christian and American identities. A book signing will follow the talk, which is free and open to the public. |
Idéa Cafe at the Commons
Garth Myers
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban International Studies, Trinity College
"What Causes City-Dwellers to Riot, and How Do Cities Recover?"
Fri, October 7, 11:30 a.m.
The Commons, Spooner Hall
In this Idea Café discussion, Professor Myers will respond to Northwestern University historian Jonathon Glassman's new book, War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar (2011), in which the author addresses the roots of Zanzibar's contemporary political violence and struggles and what caused ordinary people to not only riot, but, kill innocent people. Since 2002, Zanzibar City has largely been peaceful, and as of October 2010, it has been governed by a "Government of National Unity." Are there any lessons from its experiences for post-riot recovery for other cities?
Lunch is provided. RSVP is required by September 29 to thecommons@ku.edu. Limit 40 guests.
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