Seminars
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American Seminar |
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Before 1500 Seminar The Before 1500 Seminar welcomes participation and contributions from all faculty members and graduate students interested in the stuff of ancient and medieval cultures of East and West. Past presentations have included topics in French literature, medieval and ancient history, Spanish literature, Japanese medieval history, and Greek and Roman culture. Topics need not be confined to the period before 1500. If you would like more information, contact Caroline Jewers (French & Italian, 864-9076, cjewers@ku.edu); Pam Gordon (Classics, 864-2396, pgordon@ku.edu); or Emma Scioli (Classics, 864-2546, scioli@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule> |
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British Seminar All aspects of British history and literature, including politics, religion, culture, and intellectual and art history will be covered in this seminar. If you would like more information, contact Ann Rowland (English, 864-2584, arowland@ku.edu) or Karenbeth Zacharias (History, 913-484-6403, bfarmer@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule > |
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Early Modern Seminar |
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Gender Seminar The Gender Seminar studies gender as a basic concept in humanistic scholarship and/or as a fundamental organizing principle in social life. If you would like more information, contact Hannah Britton (Political Science, 864-9016, britton@ku.edu) or Omofolabo Ajayi-Soyinka (Women's Studies, 864-2691, omofola@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule> |
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Globalization(s) Seminar The Globalization(s) Seminar provides an opportunity for scholars across campus to exchange ideas and scholarship on any issue associated with globalizations—past and present, large-scale and small-scale, near and far, real and imagined. We encourage diverse approaches to understanding the global, and we welcome participants from all disciplines. For more information or to offer suggestions please contact Erik Herron (Political Science, 864-9027, eherron@ku.edu) or Eric Hanley (Sociology, 864-9412, hanley@ku.edu). *The Globalization Seminar has been suspended for the Fall 2009 semester due to a transition in the directorship. It will resume in Spring 2010. |
| Health & Humanities Seminar This seminar provides a platform for the multi-disciplinary discussion of issues at the health-politics-society-lived experience crossroads, and will foster an ongoing and mutually rewarding interdisciplinary dialogue by focusing on health-related issues such as health and migration; health and the emergence of new technologies; disease and race; health, disease and social memory; health and social trust; history of epidemics; diseases in the context of globalization, amongst others. If you would like more information, please contact Tanya Hart, American Studies/Women’s Studies (864-2083; tanyah@ku.edu) or Ebenezer Obadare, Sociology (864-9405; obadare@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule > |
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| Inequality Seminar This seminar brings together humanists and social scientists studying social inequalities in wealth, education, housing, health, and crime. In addition to investigating competing empirical explanations of these inequalities, and the historical, political, and ideological contexts that have perpetuated and sustained them, we critically discuss and assess some of the ethical, legal, and public policy prescriptions for dealing with social inequalities. By working together we aim to provide a forum to explore possibilities for fruitful collaborate research between humanists and social scientists and to stimulate and encourage such activity. The theme for Fall 2009 is Educational Inequality. If you would like more information, contact Derrick Darby (Philosophy, 864-1969, ddarby@ku.edu) or Donna Ginther (Economics, 864-3251, dginther@ku.edu) View Seminar Schedule > |
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| Latin American Seminar The Latin American seminar takes a different regional or topical focus every one or two years within the larger Latin American context, and with an interdisciplinary approach. Our focus in Fall 2009 is “Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean.” The ongoing seminar will feature scholarship in the humanities as well as the social and physical sciences. KU faculty and graduate students who would like to present a paper in the seminar or want to suggest a speaker should contact Peter Herlihy (Geography, 864-4292, herlihy@ku.edu), Brent Metz (Anthropology, 864-2631, bmetz@ku.edu) or Elizabeth Kuznesof (History/Center of Latin American Studies, 864-4213, kuznesof@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule > |
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Nature & Culture Seminar The Nature & Culture Seminar brings the perspective of the humanities to bear on past and present environmental issues, including research on the changing perception and value of nature in human life and on various models using, consuming, and managing the earth. If you would like more information, contact Karl Brooks (History, 864-9464, kbrooks@ku.edu) or Greg Cushman (History, 864-9449, gcushman@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule> |
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Peace, War & Global Change Seminar The Peace, War & Global Change Seminar provides a forum for those with interests in approaches at national and international levels to avoid, ameliorate and conclude organized conflicts; the origins, conduct and effects of warfare; the philosophical and practical dimensions of efforts to resolve inter-societal conflicts; and both broad analyses and case studies of the manifestations of what is commonly termed “globalization.” If you would like more information, contact Ted Wilson (864-9460, taw@ku.edu) or James Willbanks (jim.willbanks@us.army.mil). View Seminar Schedule> |
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Performance & Culture Seminar The Performance & Culture Seminar shares research about the broad spectrum of the human activity we call “performance,” referring to theatre, film, dance, music and even including ceremonies and rituals, popular entertainment, sports, play, etc. If you would like more information, contact Stuart Day (Spanish & Portuguese, 864-0286, day@ku.edu) or Henry Bial (Theatre & Film, 864-2767, hbial@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule> |
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Philosophy & Literature Seminar This seminar explores questions concerning two mainstays of humanistic study--philosophy and literature (including relevant cultural studies)--and their inter-relationships, interactions, and interfaces. Topics may include considerations of philosophical or theoretical aspects of literature, literary aspects of philosophy, and the relative definition of each domain in a variety of cultures or historical periods, or by different groups and voices. If you would like more information, contact Richard Cole (Philosophy, emeritus, 842-6085, nobledog@aol.com) or William O. Scott (English, 864-2504, wscott@ku.edu). View Seminar Schedule> |
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Andean & Amazonian World Seminar This seminar, an outgrowth of the 2003-2006 faculty exchange between KU and the University of San Marcos in Peru, provided a forum to examine the complex interweave uniting Andean and Amazonian languages, landscapes, cultures, expressive traditions and historical legacies. While Peru was a focus, other Andean and Amazonian countries (Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Brazil) were also considered. If you would like more information, contact Bartholemew Dean (Anthropology, 864-2648, bdean@ku.edu), Peter Herlihy (Geography/Center of Latin American Studies, 864-4292, herlihy@ku.edu), Elizabeth Kuznesof (History/Center of Latin American Studies, 864-4213, kuznesof@ku.edu) or John Simmons (Natural History Museum, 864-4508, jsimmons@ku.edu). View Previous Seminars: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
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Indigenous & African Experiences in the Americas Seminar The Indigenous & African Experiences in the Americas Seminar explored the intersectional analysis of race, ethnicity and culture and challenges the existing binary concepts of race. If you would like more information, contact Zanice Bond de Pérez (864-7884, zbperez@ku.edu), Jim Leiker (jleiker1@jccc.net) or Julia Good Fox (749-8404 ext. 325, jgoodfox@haskell.edu). View Previous Seminars: 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
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Poetics Seminar The Poetics Seminar brought together scholars, critics and poets from the University and the surrounding community for discussions of “poetics,” an emerging field that stands at the intersection of literary criticism, literary theory and poetic practice. If you would like more information, please contact Jonathan Mayhew (Spanish and Portuguese, 864-0287, jmayhew@ku.edu). View Previous Seminars: 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
Featured Resident Fellow
Keri Behr
Richard and Jeannette Sias Graduate Fellow
Behre will spend the 2009–2010 academic year in residence at the Center completing her dissertation project, titled “Appetite and Authority on the Early Modern English Stage.”
Featured Publication
A Passion for Nature: The Life of John Muir
by Donald Worster
Moving Encounters: Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature
by Laura Mielke
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