Diane Ravitch 

Research Professor at New York University

"Will School Reform Improve the Schools?" 

October 18, 7:30 p.m.

Woodruff Auditorium 

Additional Event: A Conversation with Diane Ravitch

October 19, 10:00 a.m.

 Hall Center Conference Hall

 *Supported by the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City 

 One of today's most vocal supporters of public education, Diane Ravitch has offered assessments of public education for over 30 years. In her Humanities Lecture Series presentation, the former advocate of school choice will discuss how she came to the view that this and other reforms actually undermine the goal of providing a first-rate public education. Ravitch is the author of ten books on education, including her most recent work, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education (2010). 

David Zarefsky 

Professor Emeritus of Communication Studies & Owen L. Coon Professor Emeritus of Argumentation and Debate, Northwestern University

"Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: The Rhetoric of War and Peace" 

October 20, 3:00 p.m. 

Dole Institute of Politics 

*Co-sponsored by the Dole Institute of Politics, the Department of Communication Studies, and the Hall Center 

Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish & Portuguese 

"'And Then There Is Sound': Performing Neruda, Listening to Vallejo" 

October 21, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room

 Please join us for the first session in the Hall Center's 2011-2012 Resident Fellows Seminar series. Jill Kuhnheim is spending her time in residence at the Hall Center working on "Poetry and Performance in Spanish America," a book project that examines poetry as an explicitly performative genre, challenging the once prevalent tradition that reduced the term "poetry" to the written lyric.    

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.  Open to faculty and graduate students. 

Michelle Wibbelsman 

Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Texas, Austin 

"Migration, Diaspora, and Cosmopolitanism: Otavalan Communities on the Move" 

October 21, 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room

 Dr. Michelle Wibbelsman received her doctoral degree in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. She has undertaken field research in Imbabura, Pichincha, and Cotopaxi provinces in Ecuador since 1995. She completed 14 months of doctoral research in 2000-2001 in the norther highland regions of Otavalo and Cotacachi under a Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Research Grant. Wibbelsman published her first book, entitled Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community, in 2009. The book is a critical ethnography that engages topics of religion; public festivals; history, myth, and memory; performance and politics; aesthetics and power; intra-ethnic conflict; ritual violence; and transnationalism and migration. Her new research centers on indigenous transnational migration, diaspora and cosmopolitanism.

Seminars are open to faculty & graduate students only.