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Faculty Colloquium:
Leon Couch (Performance Studies),
"The Affections, Musical-Rhetorical Figures, and North-German Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music," 4:00 p.m.,
Glasscock Building, Room 107.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Lecture by Thomas Fudge (formerly of Canterbury College, New Zealand), "Hunting Witches and the Unbearable Burden of Proof,"4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building Room 107, History Library.

Comparative Colonialisms Working Group Meeting: Craig Kallendorf (English and EURO) presents his work in progress: “Virgil, Shakespeare, and Comparative Colonialisms,” Glasscock Building, Room 308A, 4:00 p.m.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Lecture and film screening by Yunah Hong, "Dangerous to Know: Anna May Wong," 7:30 p.m., Evans Library Annex Rm. 410, co-sponsored by the Korea Society (New York), the Women's Studies and Film Studies programs, Race and Ethnic Studies Institute, and the Women's and Gender Studies Working Group.

Applications Due:
Co-Sponsorship Grants,
Symposia/Notable Lecture Grants
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Humanities Informatics Lecture: Ruzena Bajcsy (University of California at Berkeley), "Information Technology for Humanities and Social Sciences," 4:00 p.m., Langford Building B Auditorium.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Lecture by Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary), "Gustave Doré's Vision of Spain in his Illustrations of Don Quixote," Mayo-Thomas Room, Cushing Memorial Library, 1:00 p.m.. Co-sponsored by the Department of Hispanic Studies, the Cervantes Project, and the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Lecture by John Howard (King's College, London), "Rewriting Queer Lives: History, Auto/Biography, and Subjectivity," 4:30 p.m., Evans Library Room 204E. Co-sponsored by the Queer Studies Working Group and the Women's Studies Program. For more information, please contact Anthony Mora, apmora@tamu.edu

Women's Studies Lunch Lecture Series:
Joan Wolf
(Political Science), "Is Breast Really Best? Science, Risk, and Gender in the Politics of Breastfeeding," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 300. To reserve your space and a helping of pizza, please send an email to claudia_nelson@tamu.edu by noon on Nov. 9.

Co-Sponsored Event:
Lecture by Niall Ferguson (Harvard University), "From Hegemony to Empire: The Dilemmas of American Power," 7:00 p.m., Museum Orientation Theater of the George Bush Museum.


 

"Shifting Boundaries: The Humanities Doctorate in the 21st Century," opening address by Niall Ferguson (Harvard University), 7:30 p.m., MSC Room 292. See the Shifting Boundaries page for more information or click here for a PDF file of the flyer.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: William Robinson, "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Opportunities, Challenges, and Hazards," Noon, Evans Library Annex, Room 410.

 

"Shifting
Boundaries: The Humanities Doctorate in the 21st Century,"
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Rudder Tower,
Room 401. See the Shifting Boundaries page for more information or click here for a PDF file of the flyer.

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Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Humanities Award Presentations 4:00 p.m., Mayo-Thomas Room of the Cushing Library.

Textual Studies Working Group Meeting: Amy Earhart (English, TAMU) presents her work in progress: “Selecting Appropriate Technical Tools for Digital Projects,” English Technology Center, 1:30 p.m.

Faculty Colloquium: Leah DeVun (History), "Gender, Generation, and the Hermaphroditic Christ: Alchemy and Medicine in the Late Middle Ages and Early Renaissance," 4:00 p.m.,
Glasscock Building, Room 107.
Graduate Colloquium:
Chris Sparks (Anthropology), "Inside, Outside, Upside Down: Understanding Social Networks in Context,"
4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 300.
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Humanities Informatics Lecture:
Christine Neuwirth
(Carnegie Mellon University), "Reading and Writing Spaces: Reflections on the Role of the Visual," 4:00 p.m., Evans Library, Room 204E.

Thanksgiving Holiday - Glasscock Center Closed.
Thanksgiving Holiday - Glasscock Center Closed.
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Faculty Colloquium: Victoria Rosner (English), "Tsitsi Dangarembga and Doris Lessing's Postcolonial Literary Legacies," 4:00 p.m.,
Glasscock Building, Room 107.

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