Byron Caldwell Smith Award Lecture  

Leslie Tuttle 

New Faculty Workshop

"The Role of the Humanities Center"
Isidro Rivera, Spanish & Portuguese, and John Pierce, Public Administration, Chair of the Friends of the Hall Center Council
 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.  

The RSVP date for this event has passed. If you would like to attend but still have not responded, please contact the Hall Center at hallcenter@ku.edu or 785-864-4798. Attendance is still possible but lunch may not be available.  

Nawal El Saadawi  

"Creativity and Dissidence"

September 14, 7:00-9:00 p.m.

Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union 

Renowned Egyptian scholar, writer, and activist, Nawal El Saadawi will deliver the 2011 Marwa Africana Lecture. Nawal was imprisoned for her activist role in exposing the political, religious, and economic plight and repression of Egyptian and Arab women. She will speak on "Creativity and Dissidence" and answer questions on current events in Egypt, including the political and economic background of the Arab/North African/Egyptian crisis, and the involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood.

*Co-sponsored by African & African-American Studies, the  Langston Hughes Center, Kansas African Studies Center, CLAS, the Center for Global & International Studies, the Emily Taylor Women's Center, American Studies, Anthropology, Communication Studies, Economics, English, Film & Media Studies, French & Italian, Geography, Political Science, Psychology, Religious Studies, Sociology, Theatre, Women Gender & Sexuality Studies, and the Hall Center 

The Commons

Info Session: Artist Project Grants

September 14, 3:30  p.m. 

The Commons, Spooner Hall    

The Commons grants funding annually to members of the KU community to create artistic interpretations of a theme based within interdisciplinary inquiry. In offering this opportunity, The Commons seeks to draw attention to creative possibilities strengthened by the perspectives of multiple disciplines. The theme for this year's artist projects is "Urban Palimpsest Destruction and Removal." This informational meeting will allow potential applicants to ask questions and meet other interested colleagues. You may download the call for proposals here. Applications for Artist Projects are due November 7. 

Susan Harris

"Mark Twain and the Philippines: How One Major Writer Viewed America's Entry into Global Imperialism" 

September 15, 4:00  p.m. 

Jayhawk Ink, Kansas Union     

God's Arbiters: Americans and the Philippines, 1898-1902 (Oxford University Press, 2011) explores the U.S. annexation of the Philippines in 1899, drawing on documents, speeches, newspaper articles and the anti-imperialist writings of Mark Twain to assess the rhetoric of Christian/national identity that governed national and international debates over America's global mission at the turn of the twentieth century. Harris notes that this talk differs from her February 2011 Humanities Lecture Series talk in its focus on the contemporary implications of that identity; she will briefly discss the book's evolution and give a reading of the epilogue, which tracks the religious issue into the 21st century. Book signing to follow.

*Co-sponsored by KU Bookstores, the Department of English, and the Hall Center 

Fall Faculty Colloquium

Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective 

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

September 15, 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.  

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

Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop

Emily Kennedy 

"'That's What She Said': Interviews and Internet Research" 

September 23, 12:30-2:00 p.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room

 

All graduate students are invited to attend these workshops, directed by the four students who received Hall Center Graduate Summer Research Awards. The talks will incline more to method, problem, or theory than to subject content, to increase their appeal to a wider audience.

Lunch provided, but RSVP is required by September 16 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 864-4798.