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Save the Date!
February 16
Jeff Moran
Humanities Lecture Series
"The Antievolution Controversies and American Culture"
7:30 p.m., The Commons, Spooner Hall
*Supported by the Friends of the Hall Center
March 14
Alain de Botton
Humanities Lecture Series
"Religion for Atheists"
7:30 p.m., The Commons, Spooner Hall
April 10
Jamaica Kincaid
Humanities Lecture Series
"Landscapes and Memory"
7:30 p.m., Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union
*The Frances and Floyd Horowitz Lecture
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 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 5 to hallcenter@ku.edu or 785-864-4798.
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 "Scholarship, Engagement, and the Future of the University"
December 6, 3:00-4:30 p.m.
Lied Pavilion
Reception to follow
Gregory Jay, Senior Director of the Cultures and Communities Program and Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, will talk about how his campus has addressed many of the challenges facing engaged scholarship, including questions of tenure and promotion, community partnerships, financial support, and the relationship between engaged research and learning. Jay's visit is part of an ongoing series of events on publicly engaged scholarship in the humanities, arts and design sponsored by the School of the Arts, the Lied Center, and the Hall Center. Look for more events in the Spring semester. For more information, please contact one of the consortium's campus contacts: Liz Kowalchuk, Associate Dean, School of the Arts, at kowalchu@ku.edu, or Kristine Latta, Associate Director, Hall Center for the Humanities, at klatta@ku.edu. |
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 Digital Humanities Seminar
Nina Vyatkina, Germanic Languages and Literatures "Longitudinal Language Learning: How the Digital Humanities Can Expand Your Research"
December 6, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Hall Center Seminar Room
Nina Vyatkina, Assistant Professor of German Applied Linguistics, will report on an ongoing project that aims to annotate, analyze, and make publicly available a digital longitudinal corpus of writing samples collected from American learners of German at dense time intervals over several semesters. She will show how Digital Humanities tools allow researchers to effectively access, explore, and represent linguistic data.
Open to faculty and graduate students only.
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Upcoming Seminars
Dec 5 Early Modern Seminar Erin Frykholm
"A False Dilemma: Self-Interest and Virtue in the British Moralists"
 Dec 8 Latin American Seminar Meghan Webb
"'Did You Hear the One About...': Humor and Migration Among the Kaqchikel and K'iche' of Guatemala"
Dec 9 Nature & Culture Seminar Marisol Cortez
"From the Bedroom to the Bathroom: Toward an Urban Environmental Gothic in American Horror Film"
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