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November 10 Bangere "Purna" Purnaprajna "Indian Classical Music: The Art of Improvisation" 7:30 p.m. Hall Center Conference Hall November 17 Louis Menand "A Man is Shot: The Cold War Meaning of a Cinematic Technique"
7:30 p.m.
Auditorium, Spencer Museum of Art November 18 Louis Menand "Reform and Resistance in the American University: A Conversation with Louis Menand"
10:00 a.m.
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Humanities Lecture Series
Diane Ravitch
Research Professor at New York University; Nonresident Senior at the Brookings Institute
"Will School Reform Improve the Schools?"
Tue, October 18, 7:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium
Additional Event: A Conversation with Diane Ravitch
Wed, October 19, 10:00 a.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
Former Assistant Secretary of Education and historian of education Diane Ravitch asks, "Will School Reform Improve the Schools?" Ravitch reviews the case for charter schools and standardized testing, offering surprising conclusions, and attempts to understand the culture wars leading to America's current attack on teachers.
*Supported by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City. Co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio.
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Friends Fall Social
Tue, October 4, 6:00 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
Join us for an evening of music and a light supper. This is a Friends of the Hall Center Exclusive Event. Please RSVP by September 27 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 864-4798.
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David Zarefsky
Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
"Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Rhetoric of War and Peace"
Thu, October 20, 3:00 p.m.
Dole Institute of Politics
In his lecture, David Zarefsky, Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies and Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus of Argumentation and Debate at Northwestern University, will argue that Lyndon B. Johnson's goal of escalation during the Vietnam War was not traditional military victory, but persuasion, convincing various audiences that wars of liberation fail.
*Co-sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics, the Department of Communication Studies, and the Hall Center
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Darlene Clark Hine
Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History, Northwestern University
"Rehearsal for Freedom: Black Professional Women's Health Care Activism before Brown"
Wed, October 26, 4:30 p.m.
Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
Darlene Clark Hine, Board of Trustees Professor of African-American Studies and Professor of History at Northwestern University, is a leading historian of the African American experience and a pioneering scholar in African American women's history.
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African Literary Symposium
Thu, October 27 - Sat, October 29
The Commons; The Hall Center for the Humanities
For a complete listing of sessions, times, and locations, please visit our website calendar
This symposium will investigate the response of a new generation of African writers to issues raised by transnationalism, migration, and local identities engendered by globalization.
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