Events

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November 2009

2 Queer + Public + Performance Autumn Reading Group

4 Daniel Rosenberg Cartographies of Time

5 Jeff Hurwit The Shipwreck of Odysseus: In Defense of Late Geometric Narrative Panel Developing Critical Thinking Skills: From Preschool to Adolescence Tonya Lockyer The Body and Everything it Carried

6 Rainn Wilson Soulpancake & Me Jeff Hurwit The Uses of the Past on the Athenian Acropolis AASRC Reading Group Meeting

10 New Books in Print: Stephen Majeski U.S. Foreign Policy in Perspective: Clients, Enemies and Empire Film Ðung Ðot (Don't Burn It) Lives, Memory, History: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After Film Screening & Info Session The Third Man and Spring in Vienna

12 Kevin Bott Graduate Education and Community Engagement: Emerging Agendas Lorraine McConaghy The U.S. Navy in the Antebellum West Elke Zuern Truth and Reconciliation through Memorial Building? Remembering Genocide and Resistance in Namibia Ray McGovern Why Accountability for Torture Is Crucial for Human Rights, Our Security, and Our Souls Peter Carroll Lives, Memory, History: The Spanish Civil War 70 Years After

13 Ingo Cornils (Leeds University) Hermann Hesse: From Outsider to Global Player Michael Hann The Dream of a Philologist: Deciphering the Buddhist Legend of Manicuda Jan Cohen-Cruz and Kevin Bott Platforms for Public Scholarship: Conceiving Practice, Organizing Policy

16 Maya Sonenberg Writing For Their Lives: Readings + Conversations Sharon Kaufman Critical Medical Humanities

17 Nancy Hooyman The Crisis in Eldercare: Gender, Racial and Age Bias Dipesh Chakrabarty Katz Lecture: Between Globalization and Global Warming: The Long and the Short of Human History

18 Dipesh Chakrabarty New Research: A Faculty and Graduate Student Colloquium

19 Sergio de la Mora Abjection and Violence in Contemporary Mexican Cinema "Civil Rights Songs" Radio Documentary Series Alan Dodson Performance and Analysis in Music Peter Leonard Designing Discoverability: New Directions in Article Tagging and Abstracting Konrad Jarausch Germany 1989: a new kind of revolution?

20 AASRC Reading Group Meeting Osmund Bopearachchi The Kushans and the Earliest Depictions of Brahmanical Divinities in Gandhara Student Exhibition Freedom Without Walls: Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989-2009 Conference Legacies of Unification: Remaking German Society and Culture Since the Wende.

21 "Civil Rights Songs" Radio Documentary Series Symposium Current Research on Indigenous Representations at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition

23 Stephanie Camp Toward a History of Black Beauty Pamela Z Performance and Conversation: A Writing for Their Lives Event

24 William Boltz Why not A-B-C? What ever happened to the alphabet in East Asia? Pamela Z Performance

26 "Civil Rights Songs" Radio Documentary Series

28 "Civil Rights Songs" Radio Documentary Series

29 Hedrick Smith Danz Lecture: Who are the NEW Polluters?

30 Todd Weir The Monist Century, 1845 to 1945: Science, Secularism, and Worldview

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