Raj Bhala 

Digital Humanities Seminar 

Stephen Ramsay  

English, University of Nebraska

"Textual Behavior in the Human Male: Computational Text Analysis and Gender"

September 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Hall Center Conference Room

New Faculty Workshop

Isidro Rivera, Spanish & Portuguese, and John Pierce, Public Administration, Chair of the Friends of the Hall Center Council
 "The Role of the Humanities Center"
 September 13, 12:00-1:30 p.m. 

Hall Center Seminar Room   

The goal of these workshops is to help new faculty members in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts negotiate the first three years at KU. Participants will meet other new faculty from different departments and have the opportunity to question a number of senior faculty and staff about any concerns they may have regarding teaching, research and service. The workshops are an interactive forum in which speakers will provide a short talk before taking questions.  

Lunch will be provided, but RSVP is required by September 6  to hallcenter@ku.edu or 864-4798.  

Idea Café at the Commons

Hume Feldman, Cosmology & Astrophysics 

"When Models Disintegrate" 

Tue, September 6, 12:00  p.m. 

The Commons, Spooner Hall    

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? Usually the crisis can be averted by tinkering, fiddling, mending, adding, or in general, futzing. And then there are those other times... Hume Feldman, KU professor of cosmology and astrophysics, studies the large-scale structure of the universe, developing and implementing dynamical and statistical tools. The Idea Café is intended to elicit energetic exchanges between attendees in response to the speaker's introduction.

The deadline to register for this event has passed. To inquire about possible attendance, contact Emily Ryan at thecommons@ku.edu.

Fall Faculty Colloquium

Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective 

Directors: Anna Neill, Associate Professor, English and Leslie Tuttle, Associate Professor, History   

Thu, September 8, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room 

The Hall Center's 2011 Fall Faculty Colloquium, "Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective," will encourage interdisciplinary dialogue about consciousness, which sits simultaneously at the forefront of the cognitive sciences and at the root of humanistic inquiry. Participants will consider how new insights about how our evolutionarily shaped minds might enrich understanding of the classic subjects of humanistic scholarship, such as reading, storytelling, reasoning, and believing. The format of the colloquium will be unique, exploratory and interrogative, with the principal aim being to generate novel ideas for further investigation.  

Seven faculty members and one graduate student will meet under the leadership of co-directors Anna Neill and Leslie Tuttle: Sherrie Tucker (Associate Professor, American Studies); Iris Smith Fischer (Associate Professor, English); Mark Landau (Assistant Professor, Social Psychology); Glenn Adams (Associate Professor, Social Psychology); Ann Rowland (Associate Professor, English); Ben Sax (Associate Professor, History); Brian Daldorph (Assistant Professor, English); and Nicholas Simmons (doctoral candidate, Philosophy).  

All KU faculty and graduate students are welcome to to attend Colloquium sessions.