The Joyce and Elizabeth
Hall Center for the Humanities
Spring 1996 Communiqué
The University of Kansas
The Hall Center Communiqué is published twice
a year. It
circulates to humanities faculty at the University of Kansas, to
other humanities centers around the country, and to agencies that
fund humanities programs.
Editor: Elizabeth Barnhill. Queries, responses or
submissions may
be directed to the Joyce and Elizabeth Hall Center for the
Humanities, 211 Watkins Home, The University of Kansas, Lawrence,
KS 66045-2967; telephone (785) 864-4798; fax (785) 864-3884;
hallcntr@ukans.edu.
From the Director...
This semester the Hall Center undertakes the most ambitious of our
annual special events, a Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of
American Film. Featured in this celebration are lectures by Mike
Robe, creator of several award-winning television miniseries, and
Ken Burns, internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker, and a
faculty minicourse on "The American Cine-Century." The
Center is also organizing a program for Chancellor Hemenway's
inauguration.
On February 9-10, a symposium on "Black Women's Studies:
Retrospect and Prospect" will be held, during which time all
participants will have a chance to enter into a dialogue with
several noted black feminists from such disciplines as history,
English, religious studies, and film. During the spring semester
we will also be following up on nominations solicited for a
Visiting Humanities Professor and a Visiting Interdisciplinary
Scholar, two new positions the Center is sponsoring in an effort
to enhance both interdisciplinary teaching and interdisciplinary
research in the humanities here at KU. Adding these activities to
our normal programs and competitions, plus preparations for
another NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, guarantees that
Watkins Home will be an especially busy place this winter and
spring.
Whenever the Center undertakes projects such as these, the
initiation and responsibility devolve from KU faculty with the
Center in creative partnership. The idea of the Celebration of
American Film arose from a proposal from Theatre and Film to do a
minicourse on that topic. Communication Studies and the College of
Liberal Arts and Sciences took the lead in coordinating with the
Center the visit by Ken Burns, made possible by General Motors.
The Black Women's Studies Symposium involves the participation of
a half-dozen departments on campus as well as the Chancellor's
inaugural committee. The new visiting positions will be filled via
nominations solicited from the humanities faculty at large; the
funding for these positions comes from monies raised by the Center
from local foundations and friends of the humanities. As always,
we at the Center welcome--indeed depend upon--the input of our
colleagues at every stage of programming. We are especially
interested in your ideas about topics for future panels, seminars,
mini-courses, special events, and summer programs.--Bill
Andrews
In this
issue...
Center Undertakes New
Initiatives
With funding from the Hall Family Foundation, the Kemper
Foundation, and other friends of the humanities, the Center is
making progress on filling two new visiting positions, that of
Visiting Professor of the Humanities (VPH) and Visiting
Interdisciplinary Scholar (VIS), for 1996-97. The VPH will be in
residence at KU for one semester to teach two interdisciplinary
courses--an undergraduate proseminar and a graduate seminar on a
topic related to the visitor's research--under the auspices of the
Humanities Program. The primary responsibilities of the VIS will
be to consult with and counsel faculty, both individually and in
small groups, on their research, grant proposals, or current
developments in interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities,
broadly conceived.
Having solicited nominations from faculty, the Center is pleased
to announce that the Visiting Interdisciplinary Scholar for the
spring of 1996 will be Kwame Anthony Appiah, Professor of
Philosophy and African American Studies at Harvard University. On
March 6-7 Professor Appiah will be available to faculty as the
VIS. On the evening of March 7 he will give a public lecture as
part of the 1995-96 Humanities Lecture series, and on March 8 he
will lead two colloquia for faculty and students. Any faculty
member or group of faculty who wish to schedule a meeting with
Professor Appiah on March 6 or 7 should notify the Hall Center
immediately.
The Center is presently inquiring of nominees as to their interest
in serving as the Visiting Professor in the Humanities. Our goal
is to fill this position in the academic year 1996-97. Since we
plan to fill these visiting positions on an annual basis,
additional nominations for either of these positions are always
welcome. Please send your inquiries, nominees, or suggestions to
Bill Andrews, Director of the Hall Center.
In this
issue...
Ken Burns to Speak at Lied Center
Ken Burns, perhaps the most
famous contemporary American
documentary filmmaker, will speak at the KU Lied Center on
February 13 at 8:00 pm in conjunction with the Celebration of the
Centennial of American Film. Burns's subject will be "Sharing
the American Experience." This talk emerges from a lecture
tour,
underwritten by General Motors, that will take Burns to a series
of campuses in 1995-96, including Syracuse University, Pepperdine,
and the University of Southern California.
Burns is best known for his award-winning documentary series on
"The Civil War" (1990) and "Baseball" (1994).
He is currently serving as executive producer of a film history of the
American West, and is directing a series of filmed biographies of
notable Americans.
Burns's lecture is free; however, tickets will be required and
will be available in advance at the SUA office in the Kansas
Union.
In this
issue...
Fellowships Awarded for 96-
97
Research fellowships for 1996-97 have been awarded to Ann Cudd
(Philosophy), Peter Mancall (History), Timothy Miller (Religious
Studies), and Allan Pasco (French & Italian). The Creative
Fellowship for 1996-97 has been awarded to Charles Hoag (Music
& Dance).
Ann Cudd (Philosophy) is pursuing research on a book entitled
Oppression: An Economic and Philosophical Analysis, focusing
on the ways that economic and psychological forces are used for
gender, class, and minority group exploitation.
Peter Mancall's (History) project, "Two Richard Hakluyts and
the Creation of English America," centers on two cousins who
were the most important promoters of English colonization in North
America in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Timothy Miller (Religious Studies) continues his research on the
history of the American communal movement, 1965-1975, a subject
that has received earlier grant support from the NEH.
"Romantic Heroes and Horrors in the French Cultural
Matrix" is the title of Allan Pasco's (French and Italian)
research, in which he plans to study the cultural and historical
origins and psychological makeup of popular Romantic heroes, 1750-
1850.
With a Creative Work Fellowship, Charles Hoag (Music and Dance)
will compose a work of chamber music commissioned by the Lyric
Arts Trio of Kansas City, Kansas.
In this
issue...
Mike Robe Launches Film Centennial
Celebration
The first event in this year's
Celebration of the Centennial of American Film is a tribute to Mike
Robe, a native Kansan and KU graduate who has made his mark as a
Hollywood movie director and producer, on January 27, 1996, at the
Lied Center. The 8:00pm program will begin with a film
retrospective of Robe's work, followed by a dialogue between Robe
and John Tibbetts of Theatre and Film, and the presentation by
Chancellor Robert Hemenway of a Distinguished Kansan award to
Robe for his accomplishments. Admission to the program is free and
open to the public.
Mike Robe received his BS in journalism from KU in 1966 and an MA
in radio-television-film from KU the following year. A successful
television writer, he began his directing career in the 1980s,
winning critical acclaim for television movies such as Murder
Ordained (1987) and the four-hour miniseries Guts and Glory-
-the Rise and Fall of Oliver North (1989). In the 1990s Robe has
produced and/or directed televised versions of novels by Scott
Turow--The Burden of Proof (1992), and Larry McMurtry--
Return to Lonesome Dove (1993).
In addition to a lecture by Ken Burns on February 13 (see separate
article), the Celebration of the American Film Centennial will
feature an appearance by regional filmmaker 
John Altman, currently at work on a documentary
on the life of President Harry Truman, in the Spencer Museum of Art
Auditorium, February 29 from 7:00 to 9:00pm. With a panel of
faculty from Theatre and Film, Altman will discuss documentary
films in America today, his current work on the lives of Truman and
William Allen White, and will screen his work in progress.
On February 6, 13, 20, and 27, the spring faculty minicourse,
"The American Cine-Century: Mapping a Medium," will
take place under the leadership of Chuck Berg, Edward Small,
Catherine Preston, and Joe Anderson, all of Theater and Film. Among
the topics to be explored in the minicourse are: an overview of
American film history, a review of American experimental film, and
an analysis of the conventions of classical Hollywood cinema.
Preregistration for the course is required.
Additional activities associated with the American Film Centennial
celebration include a 10-hour film festival at the Kansas Union on
March 2, sponsored by the Student Union Association, and the
screening of an anthology of American documentaries in the Union
on February 24. Further information on programming offered by a
variety of departments and units in conjunction with the
Celebration of the American Film Centennial is being updated on
the Hall Center homepage on the World Wide Web as details become
available. In mid-January we also plan to distribute a Celebration
of the American Film Centennial calendar announcing related events
offered by the Center as well as other departments and units.
In this
issue...
Symposium on Black Women's
Studies
On February 9-10, 1996, the Hall Center will host a symposium on
Black Women's Studies as part of the weekend celebration of Robert
Hemenway's inauguration as the new Chancellor of the University of
Kansas. The purpose of the symposium is to examine and discuss: 1)
the rise of Black Women's Studies over the past 20 years, 2) the
impact of Black Women's Studies on the academy and on the general
culture, and 3) the future of Black Women's Studies in the 21st
century.
The leaders of the symposium are:
- Katie G. Cannon, Temple University, author of
Black Womanist Ethics (1988) and Katie's Canon: Womanism
and the Soul of the Black Community (1995).
- Soraye Mire, a Somali filmmaker, creator of Fire
Eyes (1994).
- Nell Irvin Painter, Princeton University, author of
Standing at Armageddon: the United States, 1877-1919
(1987), and a forthcoming biography of Sojourner Truth.
- Cheryl A. Wall, Rutgers University, author of Women
of the Harlem Renaissance (1995) and editor of the two-volume
Library of America edition of the writings of Zora Neale Hurston
(1995).
On February 9 in the Union, KU's departments of Religious Studies,
Theatre and Film, History, and English will engage Cannon, Mire,
Painter, and Wall, respectively, in discipline-specific colloquia.
On February 10 in the Ballroom of the Union the four speakers will
join in a dialogue among themselves and with the audience on
issues relating to Black Women's Studies in the academy and the
general culture.
The symposium is free and open to the public.
In this
issue...
Public Space to be Theme of 96 Faculty
Seminar
The 1996 Fall Faculty Seminar
will be organized around the theme,
"The Contested Terrain of Public Space: Past, Present and
Future." It will be directed by Tony Rosenthal (History).
Within the last decade, social scientists and humanists have
rediscovered space as a critical tool in the analysis of a broad
range of social processes. The focus of much new research has been
on the changing notion of public space. Scholars of technology and
literary studies have wondered at the importance of
"space" that has no physical "place," such as
collective memory and cyberspace. Economists and sociologists have
tried to understand the workplace as part of the public sphere and
what will happen to working class communities as centralized
workplaces disappear. Cultural geographers have exerted a new
influence on urban sociology and planning, asking questions about
gendered spaces in the city and
how class and race are mediated by spatiality in social conflicts.
Historians and political scientists have been examining the
implications of growth or decline in public space for the future
of democratic politics and issues related to privacy and control.
They have also been asking whether national identities relating to
borders are becoming irrelevant as that space is redefined by
multinational corporations, computers, and telecommunications.
Meanwhile, popular media such as film and television continue to
produce dystopic images of public space from "Blade
Runner" to "Nowhere Man," creating fertile terrain
for analyzing the conjunction of space and popular culture.
This seminar is open to scholars from all disciplines who are
working on topics that intersect with public space, either in the
ways suggested above or in other forms. It will meet on Thursdays
from 3:00 to 5:00 pm during fall 1996. Application forms will be
sent to faculty at the end of January. Applications, due April 2,
should be sent to 96 Faculty Seminar, Hall Center.
Participants in the seminar agree to attend all meetings, discuss
common readings, present original papers, and provide useful
criticism and suggestions to their colleagues in the seminar. Faculty
seminars are limited to eight participants; each will receive $500 in
the form of a travel grant or summer salary.
In this
issue...
From the Library... NEH Challenge Grant
Announced
For the past several years, the Libraries--and therefore KU
faculty and students--have benefitted from the same NEH Challenge
Grant to which the Hall Center also owes so much. Income from the
NEH endowment fund is used to purchase materials in the humanities
that are so expensive or specialized that state allocations are
not sufficient to acquire them. Each year, bibliographers, in
consultation with faculty, submit requests to the Collection
Development Council's executive committee, which reviews all
requests and recommends purchases to Dean Crowe.
This year, $26,298 has been allocated. The money will be used to
purchase several costly sets of books, two significant microfilm
sets, some manuscripts and historic photographs; and for general
strengthening of the Libraries' collections in Luso-Brazilian,
Spanish Peninsular, and Francophone African literatures; Third
World cinema; Eastern religions; and American religious
radicalism. The microfilm sets will make a portion of Princeton's
Latin American pamphlet collection and the papers of Edmund Burke
available at KU. Historical Kansas photographs and manuscripts of
a West Coast poet and critic will also be acquired.
Individual multi-volume titles to be acquired include
Perspectives on the History of British Feminism, The
Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley, Meijo no takara:
Treasures of Imperial Japan, The Complete Working Notebooks
of Pushkin, Simpliciana: Schriften der Grimmel-shausen-
Gessellschaft, and Language Reform.
In many cases, these acquisitions are intended specifically to
extend the Libraries' resources in the research areas of new
faculty members. We encourage faculty in the humanities to contact
bibliographers with suggestions for future acquisitions from the
fund.--Rob Melton, KU Libraries
In this
issue...
Travel Grants Awarded
The Hall Center travel grants selection committee has awarded
$5,000 for the period of January 1 through June 30, 1996. These
awards provide funds to Professors Surendra Bhana (History) for
travel to Durban, South Africa, to access archives and libraries
for his research on "The Racial Dimension in South Africa's
Urban Reconstruction: An Exploration of the Cato Manor Experience,
1930s to the Present"; Bartholomew Dean (Anthropology) will
spend seven months collecting oral histories from inhabitants of
eastern Peru's Chambira Basin for his project entitled
"Violence, Myth & Economy: The Cultural Production of
Upper Amazonian Societies"; Janice Kozma (French &
Italian) for travel to Nuoro, Sardinia, to complete the final stage of
research on "Grow Up! Arrested Maturation in the
Adult/Adolescent Male in Grazia Deledda's Novels"; Norman
Saul (History) to visit the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
to complete research on "A Time of Troubles: The United States
and Russia, 1914-1924," the third and final part of a long-term
research and publication plan; and Carl Strikwerda (History), who
will travel to Germany and France to visit archives with holdings
related to his research on "International Econoic Integration in
the Balance: France and Germany Before the First World
War."
These grants are provided to KU faculty members for research and
scholarly consultation that cannot be accomplished in any way
other than by travel to locations where materials and
collaborators reside. Applications for travel during the July 1
through December 31, 1996 award period are due at the Hall Center
by March 15, 1996.
In this
issue...
"African-American Migration and
American Culture"
1996 NEH Summer Seminar for
College Teachers
June 10 to August 2, 1996
Codirected by David M. Katzman & Cheryl Lester (American
Studies)
The seminar will use an interdisciplinary perspective to explore
African-American migration as a defining characteristic of
American life and culture. It will examine the origins,
development, experiences, meaning, and cultural impact of
nineteenth- and twentieth-century African-American migration.
Reflecting the interests of the codirectors, the seminar will
combine narrative history with cultural studies to explore the
meaning of black migration in the experiences of migrants and as
broadly represented in American life. Texts will be drawn from
contemporary sources as well as scholarly literature and from
literature, art, and popular culture. Methods will directly draw
on analysis from the fields of cultural studies, American studies,
African-American studies, women's studies, critical theory, and
psychoanalysis as well as from traditional disciplines in the
humanities and social sciences.
The seminar will meet at the University of Kansas from June 10th
through August 2, 1996. The twelve participants will receive
stipends of $4,000 to cover their expenses during the eight-week
period. The seminar is intended for teachers and scholars of
American and African-American studies, of American history and
literature, of cultural studies, or of any area in the humanities
or social sciences.
Applications must be postmarked by March 1, 1996, and invited
participants will be notified by telephone on March 29, 1996.
For further information and application form, contact:
Professors David M. Katzman and Cheryl Lester
Hall Center for the Humanities
211 Watkins Home
The University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS 66045-2967
Tel: (785) 864-4798---Fax: (785) 864-3884
E-mail: neh96ku@kuhub.cc.ukans.ed
u
NEH Applications also available online at
http://www.neh
.fed.us/documents/part.html
In this
issue...
Hall Center Hits 20th Anniversary
1996 marks the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Center
for Humanistic Studies at the University of Kansas. After
receiving a major endowment gift from the Hall Family Foundations
of Kansas City in response to a challenge grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Center became the Hall Center
for the Humanities in 1983.
In this
issue...
Reading Groups Offer Lively
Discussion
The Hall Center has schedules for four interdisciplinary reading
groups in the spring. These groups will meet throughout the
semester; schedules are included on the Hall Center calendar. New
members for any of these groups, which are devoted to lively
discussions of the presenter's paper, are always welcome.
The British Seminar will be launched with a reception in early
January, and will thereafter offer a varied program of papers by
KU faculty and distinguished visitors on all aspects of British
history, literature, art, religion and culture. Further details
are available from Jonathan Clark (History).
The Environmental Colloquium will return with a full schedule in
the spring. Donald Worster (History) will lead discussions on
humanistic and historical perspectives on environmental and
technological issues. Colloquia will be held in the Hall Center
conference room approximately twice a month.
The Social & Economic History seminar will feature
presentations
by faculty and graduate students from East Asian studies,
economics, English, history, and social welfare. The SEH seminar
is coordinated by Joshua Rosenbloom (Economics) and Carl
Strikwerda (History).
The Early Modern seminar, organized by Peter Mancall (History) and
Sherry Velasco (Spanish & Portuguese), will feature
presentations from the departments of history, French &
Italian, and Spanish & Portuguese, as well as a guest
presentation by Trevor Barnard (University of Canterbury,
Christchurch, New Zealand).
The Social & Economic History seminar, the Early Modern
seminar,
and the Departments of French & Italian and History will
cosponsor a guest presentation to be given by Thomas Kaiser
(History, University of Arkansas).
Further information about these or other groups sponsored by the
Hall Center can be obtained from the coordinators or by contacting
the Center. Papers presented at these groups are available in
advance from the Hall Center.
In this
issue...
Faculty Panels
The Hall Center will sponsor three faculty panels this semester.
The first will discuss Tony Kushner's prize-winning drama Angels
in America on January 25, 7:30pm, Upper Lobby of the Lied
Center.
Angels in America: Part I, Millennium Approaches and Part
II, Perestroika will be presented at the Lied Center on February
2, 3 and 4. Further details will be forthcoming.
A faculty panel will discuss "Feminist Methodologies" on
March 19 at 3:30 pm in the Kansas Room, Kansas Union. Moderated by
Cynthia Willett (Philosophy), panelists will include Ann Cudd
(Philosophy), Iris Smith (English), and Joey Sprague (Sociology).
Panelists will explore the significant challenges that these
methodologies are making to traditional concepts and methods in
the social sciences and humanities.
A faculty panel on "Africa and the Disciplines" will be
held on April 18 at 3:30 pm in the Kansas Room, Kansas Union.
Panelists will include Surendra Bhana (History), Patricia Darish (Art
History), John Janzen (Anthropology), Beverly Mack
(African/African American Studies), and Fiona McLaughlin
(Linguistics and African/African American Studies, moderator).
In this
issue...
Humanities Lecture Series
The Humanities Lecture Series will wrap up the 1995-96 season on
March 7 with a lecture by Kwame Anthony Appiah (African American
Studies and Philosophy, Harvard University), who will speak on
"Against National Culture: For Cosmopolitan Patriotism,"
at 7:30pm in Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union. He will discuss the
virtues of cosmopolitanism and defend its consistency with a
traditional American patriotism, characterized by an attachment not
to American civilization but to American citizenship and the
constitutional order. Defending an American patriotism that
celebrates an extensive cultural diversity within the United
States and of peoples elsewhere, he will argue that the only un-
American activities are political vices, not cultural ones.
Professor Appiah will also conduct two colloquia on Friday, March
8. The first, "National Conversations," will be held at
9:30am. "Race, Culture, Identity," a discussion of
Professor Appiah's Tanner lectures, will be at 1:30pm. Further
details on these events will be distributed in mid-February.
Preregistration is required for all colloquia held in conjunction with
humanities lectures. Readings and location of events will be
distributed to registered participants.
Humanities lectures are free and open to the public. Visiting
humanities speakers usually spend two days on our campus meeting
with colleagues in addition to delivering their lectures.
The Humanities lecturers for the 1996-97 series have accepted
invitations to speak at KU. They are Charles Eldredge (Hall
Distinguished Professor of American Art, University of Kansas) in
September 1996, Simon Schama (Old Dominion Professor of the
Humanities, Columbia University) in November 1996, Richard White
(McClelland Professor of History, University of Washington,
Seattle) in February 1997, and Rolena Adorno (Professor of Romance
Languages and Literature and Director of the Program in Latin
American Studies, Princeton University) in March or April 1997.
Dates and titles of lectures will be posted to our homepage as
they are confirmed.
In this
issue...
Three Proposals Funded by HTF
The Hall Fund for the Improvement of Teaching, an annual
competition established to support projects that promise a broad
and/or sustained impact on teaching and student learning in the
humanities at KU, has funded three proposals for 1996-97.
Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Garinger Academic
Resource Center received funding for "Emerging Technologies
and Foreign Language Education." The project will sponsor
three lectures with small-group workshops which will address the
growing technologies available in foreign language software as well
as the Internet's vast resources, and how to implement these
resources into teaching methods here at KU.
The Western Civilization Program will institute a Writing Fellows
project in Western Civilization 114/115 (Honors). The Writing
Fellows project will provide an opportunity for selected honors
students to work on writing projects among themselves, as well as
with faculty and their peers, while learning more about writing
and the teaching of writing in a context-specific environment.
"Teaching Research: A Faculty Development Workshop for
Classroom Instructors and Librarians" will be organized by the
Watson Library Reference Department. It will bring together library
staff and teaching faculty to develop instructional resource
materials aimed at integrating library research skills into current
curriculum.
In this
issue...
Film Celebration
Continues...
These events are sponsored
by
various campus organizations in conjunction with the Celebration of
the 100th Anniversary of American Film. This calendar will be
updated on the Hall Center homepage as additional events are
scheduled. The events presented here are all free and open to the
public.
- Tuesday evenings, January 23April 23, 7-9pm in the
Kansas Union--Spring 1996 African Studies Film Series will feature
screenings of films including: The Arab There, Coming To America, A
Dry White Season, Finzan, This Land is Ours (Nigeria), and Mandaabi
(Senbene). Sponsored by African/African American
Studies. For further information, contact Beverly Mack, 864-4225 or
bmack@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu.
- Thursday, February 8, 7:30-11:00pm, Dyche Auditorium. A
screening of Rashomon, to be followed by a panel entitled "Film
Rashomon: Appreciation and Analysis." Panelists will include
Ed Small (Film Studies), Andrew Tsubaki (Theatre & Film), and
Fumiko Yamamoto (East Asian Languages and Cultures). Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies. For further
information on this event, contact Andrew Tsubaki (Theatre &
Film), 864-3534 or tsubaki@falcon.cc.ukans.ed
u.
- Saturday, February 10, 4:00pm, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union--Screening of Fire Eyes, a documentary film by Somali
filmmaker Soraya Mire. Sponsored by African/African
American Studies. For further information, contact Beverly Mack,
864-4225 or bmack@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu.
- Saturday, February 24, noon-10:00pm, Woodruff Auditorium,
Kansas Union--A screening of An Anthology of Documentary Film.
SUA$. Sponsored by Student Union Activities and the
Hall Center. For further information, contact SUA Box Office, 864-
3477.
- Saturday, March 2, noon-10:00pm, Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas
Union--A Cycle of American Feature Films. SUA$. Sponsored by Student Union Activities and the Hall Center.
For further information, contact SUA Box Office, 864-
3477.
In this
issue...
Visit our WWW/Internet site at:
http://www.ukans.edu/~hallcntr
The Hall Center Homepage is online with information about the
Center, our various programs, our calendar (which is updated as
new information becomes available), and has links to other
humanities sites and resources.
In this
issue...
THE HALL CENTER FOR THE
HUMANITIES
SPRING 1996 MINI-COURSE FOR FACULTY
Session I. February 6--
The American Cine-Century: A Historic Overview
- Chuck Berg (Film Studies) will chart some of the larger trends
in the history of the American film as well as the academic
discourse that has developed in response to film's significant
cultural, economic and ideological influence.
- Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
- Session II. February 13--From the Heuristic Margin: Seven
Decades of Experimental Film/Video
- Edward Small (Film Studies) will argue that the experimental
genre can be viewed as a mode of "direct theory" without
the intervention of a separate semiotic system such as spoken or
written language.
- Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
- Session III. February 20--Responding to Hollywood: Films
from the Other America
- Catherine Preston (Film Studies) will look at the production of
films in Latin America as a political and aesthetic response to
Hollywood's cultural imperialism.
- Walnut Room, Kansas Union
- Session IV. February 27--How Conventional is the Classical
Hollywood Cinema?
- Joseph Anderson (Film Studies) will offer a new film studies
paradigm based in cognitive science founded on the argument that
some Hollywood "conventions," by meeting requirements
of the human perceptual system, allow universal access to the
classical
Hollywood cinema.
- Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
All sessions to be held Tuesdays from 3:30-5:30 pm --
Preregistration required. In
this issue...
Hall Center Deadlines:
The Spring 1996 Communiqué Calendar (pp. 5-6) will serve as
a reminder of the events you may wish to attend. Please clip this
calendar and post it to refer to throughout the semester. For
further information about specific events, please contact the Hall
Center by phone at (785) 864-4798, by e-mail at
hallcntr@ukans.edu, or watch
for updated information on our WWW/Internet homepage.
In this
issue...
THE JOYCE & ELIZABETH HALL CENTER FOR
THE HUMANITIES
The Center's policies are determined by an Executive Committee,
whose members are drawn from among Humanities faculty at the
University. The Center reports to the Vice-Chancellor for
Research, Graduate Studies, and Public Service. It is located in
Watkins Home, south of Watson Library on Sunflower Road on the KU
campus.
STAFF
William L. Andrews, Director
Janet S. Crow, Executive Director
Elizabeth A. Barnhill, Secretary
Susan E. Pauls, Secretary
Executive Committee: Stephen Goddard, Art History; John
Gronbeck-Tedesco, Theatre & Film; Allan Hanson, Anthropology;
Roberta Johnson, Spanish & Portuguese; Elizabeth Kuznesof,
Latin American Studies; Cheryl Lester, English; Lee Mann, Design;
Donald Worster, History. Ex-officio: Robert Bearse, Assoc. Vice
Chancellor--RGSPS; Peter Casagrande, Dean--Liberal Arts; Stan
Shumway, Associate Dean--Fine Arts; Vicky Unruh, Spanish &
Portuguese--Chair, 1995-97 Humanities Lecture Committee.
Advisory Board: Charles Battey--Chairman, KN Energy, Inc.;
Robert P. Cobb--Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas; Michael
Fields--William T. Kemper Foundation; Harold Herd--Justice, Kansas
Supreme Court; Clifford Hope, Jr.--Hope, Mills, Bolin, Collins &
Ramsey; John Laney--The Hall Family Foundations; Connie
Menninger--Kansas State Historical Society; Tom Murray--Barber,
Emerson, Springer, Zinn & Murray; James W. Scott--Kansas City
Star; Estelle Sosland--A Civic Volunteer; John H. Stauffer--Stauffer
Communications, Inc.; Deanell Reece Tacha--Circuit Judge, U.S.
Court of Appeals.
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