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2007-2008

October 13-14, 2007
Sociology of Music Performance in the Twenty-First Century
Featured speaker, October 13, Saturday
Young Musicians and Their Careers: Highlights from the Longitudinal Study of Music Involvement, 2001-2007
Shoshana Dobrow, Assistant Professor of Management Systems, Fordham University
Dr. Dobrow's research addresses the question of why people make seemingly irrational decisions to pursue extraordinarily competitive, challenging music career paths. This presentation will offer highlights from an ongoing longitudinal survey study of talented young musicians. Dobrow investigates the nature of subjective orientation - the sense of calling.

Contact: Janet Rarick rarick@rice.edu or x4854.

October 26, 2007
Venturing Beyond the Beyond: A Symposium on the Visual Imagination and Mystical Hermeneutics of Elliot R. Wolfson

Bringing together a panel of distinguished scholars, this symposium will take Elliot R. Wolfson’s groundbreaking writings on Jewish mysticism and his related paintings and poetry as points of departure for lectures focused on the reenvisioning of embodiment, time, beauty, ritual practice, angelic presence, and issues of transgression, law and honesty. The symposium intentionally coincides with Dr. Elliot Wolfson's (NYU) appointment as a senior fellow in the Humanities Research Center. Dr. Wolfson himself will offer concluding reflections on the papers.

Contact: Jeffrey J. Kripal jjkripal@rice.edu or Marcia Brennan mbrennan@rice.edu.

January 25-27, 2008 - The First Annual Conference of the Leibniz Society of North America

This major conference is designed to coincide with Hans Poser's (TU-Berlin) appointment as Lynette S. Autrey Visiting Professor in the Humanities Research Center. The Leibniz Society of North America (LSNA) endorsed this as the inaugural conference in its initiative to launch an annual conference series, with the aim of further energizing and improving Leibniz scholarship on this continent.

Contact: Mark A. Kulstad at kulstad@rice.edu.

March 21-22, 2008 - Writing the History of Human Rights in 20th-Century Europe

Lora Wildenthal and Daniel Cohen in Rice’s Department of History have organized this conference to showcase new historical work on human rights and to address the difficulties of writing histories of human rights.  Sessions will address the fin de siècle and the first world war, the interwar period and the second world war, and the post-1945 period.  Topics addressed include, among many others, “The Soviets at Nuremberg:  International Law, Propaganda, and the Making of the Postwar Order,” “Jewish displaced persons and refugee policy,” “Advocating Dignity: Historical Perspectives on Human Rights Struggles and Global Politics,” and “East and West German responses to struggles for independence and national liberation in Africa, Asia, and the Americas.”

Contact: Lora Wildenthal at wildenth@rice.edu or Daniel Cohen at gdcohen@rice.edu

March 27-29, 2008 - The Genesis of Syntactic Complexity

This interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together work on language evolution, historical change, language acquisition, and evolutionary biology, as well as cognitive and neurological studies. Sponsored primarily by the Department of Linguistics.  The conference is open to all, but a registration fee is required.

Contact: Masayoshi Shibitani at shibo@rice.edu.

April 12-14, 2008 - Orality and Literacy VII: Oral-scribal dimensions of scripture, piety, and practice in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Benefiting from the distinct field of oral traditional literature, which concers itself with the study of compositional, performative, and aesthetic aspects of living oral traditions and texts dependent on them, the conference proposes to examine the three faiths in their historically appropriate media context, seeking to overcome assumptions about the verbal arts that are entrenched in typographic modes of thinking.  The conference will provide the philological, textual study of the monotheistic religions with fresh insights and significant challenges as it seeks to reexamine the largely Western paradigm of the three monotheistic faiths as quintessential religions of the book.  Co-sponsors include the Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance, the Office of the Dean of Humanities, and the History and Religious Studies Departments. 

Contact: Paula Sanders sanders@rice.edu or Werner Kelber kelber@rice.edu.

2006-2007

April 13-14 - The Birds Now

Participants:
Lee C. Edelman - Chair of the English Department, Fletcher Professor of English Literature, Tufts University
Tom Cohen - Chair of the English Department, SUNY Albany
Susan Lurie - Associate Professor of English, Rice University
Joshua D. Gonsalves - Assistant Professor of English, Rice University

Click here for the symposium website and complete schedule

March 24-25 - Autrey Symposium - Aristotelian Natural Philosophy

Focused on the research interests of Pierre Pellegrin, Autrey Visiting Professor, Rice University Humanities Research Center

Participants:
Robert Bolton, Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University
Sean Kelsey, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Falcon, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Concordia University
Mary Louise Gill, Professor of Philosophy and Classics, Brown University
Robin Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

Contact: Donald Morrison, donaldm@rice.edu or x2714

Click here for a schedule of events.

March 23-24 - Autrey Symposium - The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political, and Cultural

Participants:
George Baca, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Africana Studies, Goucher College
Colin Dayan, Robert Penn Warren Professor in the Humanities, Vanderbilt University (Webcast)
Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University (Webcast)
José E Limón, Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature, University of Texas at Austin
Suzette Spencer, Assistant Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Jennifer Wilks, Assistant Professor of English, University of Texas at Austin

Contact: Joseph Clarke, clarkej2@rice.edu or x2787

Click here for a schedule of events.

October 12-13 - Apocalypticism and Crisis in Ancient Judaism

Participants:
George Nickelsburg, Professor Emeritus of Religion, University of Iowa - "Enoch and the Beginnings of Apocalypticism"
Matthias Henze, Watt J. & Lilly G. Jackson Associate Professor in Biblical Studies, Rice University - "Baruch and the Decline of Apocalypticism"


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2005-2006

April 1 - México y Estados Unidos: nuevas posiciones y contraposiciones

Speakers:
José Antonio Aguilar Rivera (CIDE, Mexico City): "La persuasión multicultural en México y Estados Unidos"
Rebecca Biron (University of Miami): "Modernities on Parade: William Faulkner and Elena Garro"
Robert McKee Irwin (UC Davis): "Border Studies/Estudios de la Frontera: el legado de Anzaldúa"
Mauricio Tenorio Trillo (University of Chicago): "De la 'brown Atlantis' y los intelectuales mexicanos"
Javier D. Durán (University of Arizona): TBA
María Socorro Tabuenca (Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Ciudad Juárez, Mexico): TBA

Contact: Maarten van Delden, maarten@rice.edu or x2481.

April 1 - Intersections of Opera and Film

Speakers:
Jeongwon Joe (Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music): "Film Divas and the Gendered Dichotomy Between Vocal and Instrumental Music"
Michal Grover-Friedlander (Tel Aviv University): "Callas Forever: The Afterlife of an Operatic Voice"
Marcia J. Citron (Shepherd School, Rice Univ.): "Cavalleria rusticana as the Climax of Coppola's Godfather Trilogy"
Helen M. Greenwald (New England Conservatory of Music): "The Opera That Would be Film: Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place"

Screenings:
"Callas Forever" (introd. by Profs. Grover-Friedlander and Joe)
"The Godfather" (introd. by Prof. Marcia Citron)

Contact: Marcia Citron, x3209 or citr@rice.edu

March 9-28 - Beggars and Choosers: Motherhood is Not a Class Privilege in America
Women's History Month Exhibit

Lecture: Rickie Solinger, co-curator and historian - "Nine Ways of Looking at a Poor Woman"

Contact: Lora Wildenthal, wildenth@rice.edu

March 24-25 - Things/Matter: The Object and Its Representation in Literature and Art

Keynote Speaker: Susan Staves, Professor Emerita of English Literature, Brandeis University

For additional information, click here.

December 15-17 - Title: Changing Perceptions of the Public Sphere

Click here for the conference web site and program.

Contact: Christian J. Emden

October 28-29 - The Anthropology of Intellectuals

Speakers:
James D. Faubion (Rice University)
Lesley Fordred Green (University of Cape Town, Smithsonian)
Dominic Boyer (Cornell University)
Douglas Holmes (SUNY Binghamton)
Paul Rabinow (U. C. Berkeley)
George E. Marcus (Rice University, U. C. Irvine)

Contact: James D. Faubion, jdf@rice.edu, x3384.

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2004-2005

Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in Later Greek Antiquity
See schedule
April 15-16, 2005

Disciplinary Flashpoints: Conversations Between History and Literature
April 1-2, 2005

Figurations of Knowledge: The CSC in the Context of Higher Learning
Werner Kelber, The Director of the Center for the Study of Cultures and the Isla Carol and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies at Rice University
March 14, 2005

Beyond Tradition and Modernity: Gender, Genre, and the Negotiation of Knowledge in Late Qing China
www.ruf.rice.edu/~betramod
March 4-6, 2005

Reinventing Hispanism in the Age of Globalization Symposium
http://hispanicstudies.rice.edu/spanish.cfm?doc_id=5135
February 26, 2005

Southern National Bank Conference, "The Transformation of the South in the Twentieth Century"
February 25-27, 2005

Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series
Doug Greenberg, President and CEO of the Shoa Foundation
February 10, 2005

The Late Medieval City: Architecture and Urbanism
January 29, 2005

Working Across the Disciplines: Writing a History of the Early West African States and Empires, 800-1500 C.E.
(Part of the Early West African States and Empires Workshop)
David Conrad (Professor of History at SUNY Oswego)
Paulo Farias (Professor of History at University of Birmingham - England)
Roderick McIntosh (Professor of Anthropology at Rice University)
Susan Keech McIntosh (Professor of Anthropology at Rice University)

November 9, 2004

Language in Use: Culture, Society, and Change Workshop
October 23-24, 2004

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2003-2004

  • Annual International Symposium and Meeting of the Modern Austrian Literature and Culture Association
    April 22-25, 2004

  • Tenth Biennial Linguistics Symposium
    March 31-April 4, 2004

  • Beyond the Clash of Civilizations: Missionaries, Conversion, and Tolerance in the Ottoman Empire Conference
    April 2-3, 2004

  • Afghan Women after 9/11 Symposium
    Sonali Kolhatkar, "Building Empire on the Backs of Women"
    Meena Nanji, screening of clips from her film "A Grain of Sand"
    Anne Brodsky, "An Incomplete Liberation: RAWA, Afghan Women, and the Need for Continued Resistance"
    March 18-19, 2004

  • Locating Pop Cultures: Negotiating Place, Interrogating Class, Constructing Identity Graduate Student Symposium
    March 12-13, 2004

  • The Return of the Repressed: Working through Freud in Religious Studies
    December 5-7, 2003

  • Technology, Cognition, and Culture Lecture Series
    Stephen Murphy, Professor of Medieval Art and Gothic Architecture at Columbia University
    November 4, 2004

  • 38th Annual Western Literature Conference
    October 29-November 1, 2003

  • Orality and Literacy III: Memory International Conference
    October 10-12, 2003

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2002-2003

  • Women and Gender in Islamic Societies Lecture Series
    DR. AZIZAH AL-HIBRI, Professor of Law at University of Richmond
    "The Qur'anic Worldview: A Womanist Perspective"
    April 21, 2003
    http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20030421alhibri.html

    DR. AMINA WADUD, Professor of Religious Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University
    "Text, Gender and Reform in Islam"
    March 31, 2003
    http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20030331wadud.html

    ZAINAB SALBI, Founder and President of Women for Women International
    "Understanding a Refugee Woman's Reality"
    March 26, 2003
    http://www.rice.edu/webcast/speeches/20030326salbi.html

  • The Young Leibniz International Conference
    April 18-20, 2003

  • Heidegger and Transcendental Philosophy Conference
    April 3-5, 2003

  • Tradition and the Challenge of Modernity: Politics, Poetics and Gender in Late Qing China, 1840-1911
    March 7-9, 2003

  • Rice Women's Conference
    Connecting, Communications and Networking
    February 7-9, 2003

  • "The Jewish Museum Berlin: Historical Roots and Contemporary Relevance"
    W. MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL
    Director of the Jewish Museum, Berlin

    November 12, 2002

  • "Literature in the Twenty-first Century: A Technological Revolution"
    Part of the Technology, Cognition & Culture Lecture Series
    N. Katherine Hayles (Professor of English at University of California, Los Angeles)
    October 24, 2002

  • 6th Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language: Language, Culture, and Mind
    Keynote speakers: JOHN LUCY (Univ of Chicago, Max Plank Institute for Psycholinguistics)
    SUSANNA CUMMING (University of California, Santa Barbara)
    RONALD LANGACKER (University of California, San Diego)
    For more information, please refer to the website at http://www.rice.edu/csdl.
    October 11-14, 2002

  • International Herder Society Conference
    September 26-28, 2002

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2001-2002

  • Queer and There: Travel and Commodified Desires
    An interdisciplinary symposium on lesbian and gay tourism. Featured Dennis Altman and Jasbir Puar.
    April 13, 2002

  • Memoria: Memory and Commemoration in Medieval Christianity and Judaism
    The Neil J. O'Brien Conference for Medieval Studies
    www.ruf.rice.edu/~medieval/memoria.html
    April 7-9, 2002

  • The Two Cultures - Plus One
    Part of the Lecture Series "Technology, Cognition and Culture"
    Neal Lane
    Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rice University
    April 2, 2002

  • Ninth Biennial Rice University Symposium on Linguistics
    Speech Perception in Context: Beyond Acoustic Pattern Matching
    March 13-16, 2002

  • Central Texas Philosophy of Science Consortium Meeting
    March 1, 2002

  • Shifting Terrains: Translations and Identity-Formations in an Era of Transnationality
    2002 Rice Graduate Symposium, Dept. of English
    Further information (including symposia program): www.ruf.rice.edu/~englsymp
    February 22-23, 2002

  • Africa and the African Diaspora: Past, Present, Future
    44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
    November 15-18, 2001

  • Written Text and the Rise of Literate Culture in the Ancient World
    Second part of the April 2000 conference, "Written Text and Transformations of Thought and Expression in Classical Greece"
    November 1-3, 2001

  • Moonlight on the Ganges: Interpreting the Exotic in Early American Popular Song
    Lecture-Recital
    Thomas E. Jenkins (Trinity University)
    Assistant Professor of Classical Studies; Former Woodrow Wilson Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at Rice University
    Karim Al-Zand (Rice University)
    Visiting Assistant Professor, Shepherd School of Music
    October 24, 2001

  • Minding Bodies
    First part of the Lecture Series "Technology, Cognition and Culture"
    Mark C. Taylor (Williams College)
    Cluett Professor of Humanities, Director of the Center for Technology in the Arts and Humanities
    October 22, 2001

  • New Modernisms III
    3rd Annual Conference of the Modernist Studies Association
    Further information: MSA Website
    October 12-15, 2001

  • Shotguns
    A Symposium and Exhibition Studying African-American Culture, Contemporary Architecture and Community Keynote Address by bell hooks
    October 11-13, 2001

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2000-2001

  • Cameroon Transitions and Transformations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of a Society at the Crossroads
    Friday, April 6, 2001, 3:00-8:00pm
    Saturday, April 7, 2001, 8:30am-4:00pm
    Sunday, April 8, 2001, 8:30-12:00noon

  • Memory of Violence and the Violence of Memory in the Middle East and North Africa
    Conference exploring the intersection of memory, violence, and politics, initiated by the thesis that historical narratives situate themselves at the intersection of competing collective memories.
    March 23-25, 2001

  • Narrative 2001: An International Conference
    Conference bringing together some 300 international scholars in English, foreign languages, law, history, and philosophy.
    March 8-10, 2001

  • Economic Planning in Republican and Early PRC-China: Path-Dependency and Institutions
    Transition Economics Speaker Series 2001
    One-day conference investigating the Republican Chinese and early PRC context of the institutional origins of socialist economic planning.
    February 24, 2001

  • Asian American Literature and Films
    Symposium bringing together writers and filmmakers for a discourse on transformative identity politics in the Asian American arena.
    February 23-25, 2001

  • C. Vann Woodward's Origins of the New South
    Symposium addressing different aspects of Woodward's seminal work, published in 1951.
    February 23-25, 2001

  • Wisdom and Wisdom Literature in the Ancient Mediterranean
    Symposium with guest speakers Richard Martin (Stanford University, Classics) and William Hansen (University of Indiana at Bloomington, Classical Studies and Folklore Studies).
    February 17, 2001

  • The Dead Sea Scrolls
    Conference hosted by Matthias Henze (Religious Studies, Rice U.) that will deal with the Qumran Scrolls found in Israel in the 1940s and shrouded in controversy ever since.
    February 10, 2001

  • The Future of Feminist Critique: Ethics, Agency, Politics
    An interdisciplinary conference exploring how feminist analysis can speak to fundamental questions about the nature of subjectivity, the ethical claims of difference, the meaning of social justice, and the efficacy of political action. November 3-5, 2000
  • Written Text and Transformations of Thought and Expression in Classical Greece (conference)


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