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Co-Sponsored Conference: Exploring New Media Worlds
More information can be found at the conference website. Contact: mediaworlds

Texas A&M Political Theory Conference: Must Political Theory Engage the Market? - A conference on Political Theory and the World of Production, 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Allen Building, Room 2115. More information can be found at the conference blog.

Co-Sponsored Conference: Exploring New Media Worlds
More information can be found at the conference website. Contact: mediaworlds
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American Culture Reading Group & Africana Studies Working Group joint meeting, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Blocker, Room 234. For more information, contact Kim Cox or Miranda Green-Barteet.

New Modern British Studies Working Group Lecture:
Deidre Lynch
(University of Toronto), 7:30 p.m., title TBA, Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information contact Mary Ann O'Farrell.

New Modern British Studies Working Group Colloquium featuring Deidre Lynch, Title TBA, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
featuring Ben Crouch, Executive Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311

Faculty Colloquium: Sabine Arnaud (EURO), "Narratives of Hysteria and the Shaping of Eighteenth Century Medicine as a Discipline," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Co-Sponsored Event: Timothy Williamson (University of Oxford), "Properties, Individuals and Contingency," 3:45 p.m. - 5:30 p.m., Rudder 501. For more information, contact Robin Smith.

Graduate Colloquium: Jesse L. Rester (English), "Political Skin: Reading the Maria/Hel Complex in Fritz Lang's Metropolis," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Co-Sponsored Lecture: Amita Baviskar (Delhi University), "Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India," 4:00 - 6:00 p.m., Blocker 203.

APPLICATIONS DUE: Co-Sponsorship Grants, Internal Faculty Fellowships, Graduate Stipendiary Fellowships, Faculty Stipendiary Fellowships, Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Award
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Spring Break Spring Break Spring Break

Spring Break

Closed for holiday.

Spring Break

Closed for holiday.

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Queer Studies Working Group meeting: 2:45 - 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Discourse Studies Spring Symposium: Comparative and Contrastive Rhetorics East and West: Problems and Prospects,
LuMing Mao (Miami University, Ohio), "Reading Chinese Fortune Cookie: Engaging Comparative Rhetoric Yin-Yang Discourse," 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. For more information, contact Jan Swearingen.

Discourse Studies Spring Symposium: Comparative and Contrastive Rhetorics East and West: Problems and Prospects, Hui Wu (Central Arkansas University), "China's First Treatise on Persuasion: the Philosophy of Guigusian Rhetoric," 3:00 - 6:00 p.m. For more information, contact Jan Swearingen.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go featuring John F. B. Wilson, European Commission Directorate-General for Energy and Transport, EU Fellow at Texas A&M,
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311

Faculty Colloquium: David Donkor (Performance Studies), "Little Ananse/Big Ananse: Performing the Trickster Ethos in a Circum-Atlantic Cultural Economy," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Digital Humanities Lecture Series:
CANCELLED

Peter Brantley
, (Director, Digital Library Foundation), "What Rupert Might Tell the DLF: Why Libraries Are Like Newspapers, and How We Avoid Lining the Pet Cage," 4:00 p.m., Evans Library, Room 204E.

South Asia Working Group
3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, contact Nandini Bhattacharya.

Co-Sponsored Event: Spend an Evening with the director of "The Confederate States of America" -- Kevin Willmott, 6:00 p.m., Evans Annex, Room 410. For more information, please contact Kimberly Brown.

 
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Visiting Fellow Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), in residence.

Co-Sponsored Event: Gabriel Peveroni, "Territorios Ocupados," 4:00 p.m., Academic Building, Room 130. For more information, please contact Sarah Misemer.

Glasscock Center Lecture Series
"How Do We Keep Knowing?"
Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego), "Journalism in an Era of 'Truthiness'," 7:30 p.m., Glasscock Center Library, Room 311 Glasscock Building.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go featuring Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego)
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311

Visiting Fellow Colloquium: Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) in residence.

Visiting Fellow Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) in residence.

Graduate Colloquium: Jared Peatman (History), "Gettysburg Remembers the Address, 1913," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Women's and Gender Studies Working Group Lunch Lecture: Eileen Cleere (Southwestern University), "Intensive Culture: Aesthetics and Purity in the Eugenic Novels of Sarah Grand," 12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Visiting Fellow Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) in residence.

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