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Save the Date!
November 10
Bangere "Purna" Purnaprajna
"Indian Classical Music: The Art of Improvisation"
7:30 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
November 11
Walter Kretchik
Peace, War & Global Change Seminar
"US Army Doctrine and the 'Last War' Myth"
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
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News
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Ongoing Seminars
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Hall Center Support for Faculty See upcoming deadlines and download application information.
Hall Center Support for Graduate Students
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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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Idéa Cafe at the Commons
Jake Wagner
Associate Professor of Urban Planning & Design, UMKC
"Disasters as Design Moment: Does Urban Design Make Sense After Disasters?"
November 9, 12:30 p.m.
The Commons, Spooner Hall
What can we learn about cities and urban design after a disaster? Professor Wagner will address some of the challenges of rebuilding cities in the wake of major disasters through examples including New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and the recovery of Joplin, MO after the May 2011 Tornado.
The Idea Café is intended to elicit energetic exchanges between attendees in response to the speaker's introduction. Lunch is provided, and RSVP is required by October 31. Limit 40 guests. RSVP to Emily Ryan at thecommons@ku.edu.
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Reminder: Award Opportunity Deadlines
To apply for any of the following awards, visit our Competition Portal on the Hall Center website under the Grants and Fellowships tab.
IMPORTANT: For those applications requiring reference letters, applicants should begin their applications and submit the names of references well in advance of the deadline. This will ensure that references have sufficient time to submit letters through the new automated system. After entering the names of your references, you may log out and return to the portal at a later time to complete the rest of your application. We will only accept letters of reference submitted through the portal. Reference letters submitted by fax, email, regular mail or by hand will not be accepted.
Director of the Fall 2012 Faculty Colloquium
Deadline: Monday, October 31
The director determines the theme, provides intellectual leadership and guidance, and acts as coordinator for the colloquium.
Creative Work Fellowship
Deadline: Monday, November 7
Provides release time from teaching and service for one semester to focus entirely on a major creative undertaking in the arts, design, performance, music or writing.
Humanities Research Fellowship Deadline: Monday, November 7 Provides release time from teaching and service for one semester to focus entirely on research and scholarly engagement.
Faculty Travel Grant
Deadline: Monday, November 21
Provides KU faculty members with financial support for domestic or international travel undertaken as a necessary component of a humanities research or creative project.
Andrew Debicki International Travel Award in the Humanities
Deadline: Monday, November 21
Provides one KU humanities graduate student with travel support for dissertation research outside the US.
Jim Martin Travel Award in the Humanities
Deadline: Monday, November 21
Provides one KU humanities graduate student with travel support for dissertation research in the US. |
Reminder
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. |
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Digital Humanities Seminar
Jeff Rydberg-Cox
English, University of Missouri Kansas City
"Social Networks as a Tool for Visualizing Linguistic Data in Greek Tragedy"
November 1, 3:30-5:00p.m.
Hall Center Seminar Room
This seminar will detail ongoing work to study the use of social network diagrams as a tool to explore the language of Greek tragedy. In this project, Rydberg-Cox is constructing social networks for each surviving Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. These diagrams are augmented with linguistic data associated with each character in the plays, thereby allowing users to more easily access and understand complex linguistic data associated with each of these characters. Jeff Rydberg-Cox is a professor in the English Department, director of the Classical and Ancient Studies program, and affiliated faculty in the Computer Science Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. His research focuses on statistical approaches to Ancient Greek and Latin texts.
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 Resident Fellows Seminar
Dave Tell, Communications
"Capote in Kansas: The Making of a Region"
November 11, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Hall Center Conference Hall
Please join us for the next presentation in the Hall Center's 2011-2012 Resident Fellows Seminar series. Dave Tell is spending his time in residence at the Hall Center working on "Confessional Crises: Public Confession and the Politics of Authenticity," which examines the political consequences of labeling a text a "confession."
Attendance is limited to faculty and graduate students. Lunch is provided, but RSVP is required by November 4 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 864-4798.
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 The Eberhardt Colloquium in Honor of the Writing of Kenneth Irby
November 5, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Spencer Museum of Art, and the Hall Center
In this colloquium, presided over by William J. Harris, Associate Professor of English at KU, national and local scholars and poets will examine the life and work of Kenneth Irby, a major poet who teaches at the University of Kansas. Speakers on his life and works will include Lyn Hejinian (UC-Berkeley), Pierre Joris (SUNY-Albany), Ben Friedlander (University of Maine), Denise Low (Haskell Indian Nations University), and Joe Harrington (University of Kansas). Irby is the author of over twenty-five collections of poetry and has provided numerous contributions to various anthologies, as well as articles and reviews on contemporary poetry. He is the recipient of the Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative American Poetry, and in 2010 he received the prestigious Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
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 Fall Faculty Colloquium
Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective
Directors: Anna Neill, Associate Professor, English and Leslie Tuttle, Associate Professor, History
November 3, 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 attend Colloquium sessions.
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