Resident Fellows Seminar

H. Faye Xiao, East Asian Languages and Cultures  

"Seeking Second Chances in a Risk Society: Chinese Cinema of Divorce in the New Millennium" 

December 9, 12:00-1:30 p.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room

Please join us for the next presentation in the Hall Center 2011-2012 Resident Fellows Seminar series. H. Faye Xiao is spending her time in residence at the Hall Center working on her first book project, "Chinese-Style Divorces: Narratives of Gender, Class and Family in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Culture."

Attendance is limited to faculty and graduate students. Lunch is provided, but RSVP is required by December 2 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 785-864-4798. 

 Interdisciplinary Graduate Research Workshop

Jeremy Prichard, History 

"Implementing Research Methods in the Research Paper: One Instructor's Observations" 

December 2, 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. Please RSVP no later than November 28 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 785-864-4798.

 Fall Faculty Colloquium

Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective 

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

December 1, 9:00-10:30 a.m.

Hall Center Seminar Room 

The Hall Center's 2011 Fall Faculty Colloquium, "Consciousness in Interdisciplinary Perspective," encourages interdisciplinary dialogue about consciousness, which sits simultaneously at the forefront of the cognitive sciences and at the root of humanistic inquiry. Participants 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 is 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.   

 Upcoming Seminars 

Nov 28 Gender Seminar Sherrie Tucker & Kim Warren  

"Gender--Dead or Alive?!: Drs. Warren & Tucker Compare Bodies of Evidence" 

  Nov 30 Latin American Seminar  John Hoopes  

"Shamans of the Apocalypse: Mesoamerican Identities and the Invention of Sacred Tradition"

Dec 1 Modernities Seminar Allan Pasco  

"Balzac and Revolution"

Dec 2 Peace, War and Global Change Seminar Nick Sambaluk  

"The Life and Death of Dyna-Soar: Political and Policy Debates About the U.S. Air Force Space Plane Program, 1957-1963"