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South Asia Working Group
Itty Abraham (University of Texas, Austin), 3:00 - 5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, contact Nandini Bhattacharya.

Digital Humanities Lecture:
Thomas Finholt
(University of Michigan), "Cyberinfrastructure and the Humanities: Using Advanced Information Technology to Explore New Modes of Thinking and Working," 4:00 p.m. Evans Library, Room 204E.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., featuring Daniel Conway (Head, Dept. of Philosophy), Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Faculty Colloquium: Nancy Klein (Architecture), "The Construction of Identity and 'Architectural History' on the Acropolis of Athens," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Africana Film Series: Oscar Michaeaux - An African American Film Pioneer. Screening "Within Our Gates" and "The Symbol of the Unconquered," 6:00 p.m., 417C EdMS, Evans Annex.

Digital Humanities Lecture:
Alan Liu
(University of California, Santa Barbara), "Knowledge and Web 2.0: The Transliteracies Project and Social Computing," 4:00 p.m. Evans Library, Room 204E.

Africana Film Series: Pearl Bowser (Society for Cinema & Media Studies), "Oscar Micheaux and His Circle: The Birth of an African American Movie Culture," 7:00 p.m., 410 EdMS, Evans Annex. For more information, contact Kimberly Brown.

New Modern British Studies Working Group Lecture:
Rebecca Walkowitz
(Rutgers University), "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the New Transnational Novel,"
7:30 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information contact Mary Ann O'Farrell.

APPLICATIONS DUE: Co-Sponsorship Grants, Cross-disciplinary Travel Grants, Research Matching Grants, Working Groups

New Modern British Studies Faculty Colloquium: Rebecca Walkowitz (Rutgers University), "The Transnational Turn in Modernist Studies," 2:00 p.m., Blocker, Room 203.

 
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Co-Sponsored Event:
Osvaldo Pardo
(University of Connecticut), "Colonial Mexican Imprint Collection: Fall Lecture," 4:00 p.m., Cushing Library. For more information, please contact Gregory Cuellar.

Co-Sponsored Event:
Tato Laviera (Poet), "African Veins Across the Continents," 5:00 p.m., MSC 292B. For more information, please contact Jose Villalobos.

 

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., featuring Steve Daniel (Professor of Philosophy and 'featured author'), Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Africana Studies Colloquium: Bertram Ashe (University Richmond), "Wacky Fun with Jar Jar Binks': Post-Soul Blaxploration in Aaron McGruder's The Boondocks," 4:30 p.m. For more information, please contact RESI.

Co-Sponsored Event:
Marcia Colish (Yale Univ.), "Synderesis and Conscience: Medieval Survivals and Transformations," 6:00 p.m., Donald R. Houston Conference Center. For more information, please contact Cary Nederman.

Co-Sponsored Event: Walter Goffart (Yale University), "Rome's Last Conquest: The Barbarians," 11:30 a.m., Donald Houston Conference Center, Research Park. For more information, please contact Cary Nederman.

"Five and Twenty" Glasscock Center Anniversary Celebration 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. MSC Room 206.

"Five and Twenty" Glasscock Center Anniversary Celebration 9:00 a.m - 12:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.
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  Inaugural Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Lecture:
Jan Boxill
(University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Sport as a Public Forum for Ethics," 3:30 p.m., MSC Forsyth Center Galleries.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., featuring Tito Guerrero (Vice President and Associate Provost for Institutional Diversity), Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Literacy Studies Working Group Seminar: Hersh Waxman (Education Research Center), "Classroom Learning Environment Differences in Reading between Resilient, Nonresilient, and Average English Language Learners," 12:00 - 1:00 p.m., Harrington Towers, Room 301. For more information, contact M. Joshi.

Faculty Colloquium:
Joan Wolf
(Women's Studies Program), "The Maternal-Industrial Complex: Risk, Breastfeeding, and Motherhood in America," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

American Culture Reading Group Meeting, 7:00 p.m. For more details please contact Kim Cox.  
Co-Sponsored Symposium: "Mexican Retablos Symposium: Miracle on the Border" 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. For more information, please contact Rosemary Hickman.
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Glasscock Center Publishing Workshop: Jennifer Frangos (Associate Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation), 10:00 a.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Co-sponsored Lecture:
Jennifer Frangos
(University of Missouri - Kansas City), "Cunning Stunts: Sex Between Women in Eighteenth-Century England," 7:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

 

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., featuring Pamela Matthews (Associate Dean of Liberal Arts), Glasscock Building, Room 311.

2007 Cushing/Glasscock Graduate Award Winner Presentations 4:00 p.m., Mayo Thomas Room, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives.

Graduate Colloquium: Victor E. Agosto Roldán (Hispanic Studies), "E-Poetry: Beyond the Paper and the Pen,"
4:00 p.m.,
Glasscock Building, Room 311.

 
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   Glasscock Center Humanities Roundtable: Common Feast, Separate Tables or Bum's Rush? A Roundtable on the Humanities and the Social Sciences
3:30 - 5:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Glasscock Coffee Come & Go
8:30 - 9:30 a.m., featuring Mike Cronan (Director, Office of Proposal Development) and Lucy Deckard (Associate Director),
Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Faculty Colloquium:
Larry Mitchell
(English), "Hemingway and Boxing: Reflections in a Mirror," 4:00 p.m., Glasscock Building, Room 311.

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