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Save the Date!
September 27
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Digital Media Lecture Series
"Be Evil: Google and the Perils of Corporate Social Responsibility"
7:30 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
September 29
Fall Faculty Colloquium
9:00 - 10:30 a.m.
Hall Center Seminar Room
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News
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Ongoing Seminars
See a full schedule of the Fall 2011 ongoing seminars.
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Humanities Grant Development Office Visit the HGDO for a full spectrum of external proposal development assistance for individual fellowships and institutional grants. External Competitions
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Humanities Lecture Series
Laurence Rees
Award-winning documentarian and author of Auschwitz and World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West
"Talking with Nazis"
September 20, 7:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium
In-depth conversations with Japanese soldiers, Nazi officers, and Russian fighters forced into silence during Stalin's reign make the films of historian and documentarian Laurence Rees unique among the many accounts available of WWII. Rees is the former head of BBC Television's history programs, and the author of numerous best-selling books on World War II, including Auschwitz and World War II Behind Closed Doors: Stalin, the Nazis and the West. Rees has earned numerous awards in journalism, TV, and history, including the BAFTA, the most prestigious British film award. In his Humanities Lecture Series presentation, Rees will detail his unique efforts to understand the psychological motivators for his subjects' harrowing actions.
*Co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio
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Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities
Digital Humanities Forum
September 22, 23, & 24
Times and locations vary. Please refer to our website calendar for more details.
The Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, co-directed by Arienne Dwyer (Associate Professor, Anthropology) and Brian Rosenblum (Associate Librarian, KU Libraries), will host a three-day Digital Humanities Forum. The event will allow KU and non-KU faculty, technologists, librarians, and graduate students to explore the theory and practice of knowledge representation, broadly conceived, and to showcase their digital humanities projects and methodologies. For more information, please contact IDRH Co-Directors Arienne Dwyer (anthlinguist (at) ku (dot) edu, 864-2649) or Brian Rosenblum (brianlee@ku.edu, 864-8883). Registration is required.
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 Fall Faculty Colloquium
Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Directors: Anna Neill, Associate Professor, English and Leslie Tuttle, Associate Professor, History
September 22, 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.
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 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.
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.
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Reminder: Award Opportunity Deadlines
Commons Seed Grant Full Proposal Deadline
Deadline: Monday, October 31
These grants are intended to nurture and develop interdisciplinary, collaborative research ideas at the conceptual stage. The outcome of a seed grant should be the development of a substantive grant proposal to an external funding entity. For more information, please contact the Commons at thecommons@ku.edu.
Directorship of the Fall 2012 Faculty Colloquium
Deadline: Monday, October 31
The director determines the theme, provides intellectual leadership and guidance, and acts as coordinator of the colloquium. You must use the competitions portal to apply for this competition.
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Upcoming Seminars
Sep 19 Early Modern Seminar Benjamin Sax
Sep 23 Nature & Culture, Latin American Seminar José Drummond *Hall Center Conference Hall. Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program. |
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