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24 October, Friday, 3:30 p.m.
Don Rutherford
, "The Wisdom of the Moderns: The Science of Happiness in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy," Rudder Tower 501.

17 January, Friday, 9:00 a.m.
Michael Eric Dyson
(Georgetown University), keynote lecture at the First Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Breakfast, George Bush Presidential Conference Center.

4 February, Monday, 5:15 p.m.
John J. McCusker
(Trinity University), "Money and the Economics of Success in Early British America," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

7 February, Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Jeffrey Lesser
(Emory University), "How Shizuo Ozawa became Mario Japa: Ethnicity and Guerilla Movements in Brazil." Details TBA. For more information, please contact Joseph Jewell.

13 February, Wednesday, 12:00 p.m.
Suzanne Poirier
(University of Illinois at Chicago), "Memoirs of Medical Education and the Taboo of Emotions," Reynolds Building, Lecture Hall 1 - presented by the Department of Humanities in Medicine & the College of Medicine, Texas A&M Health Science Center.

21 February, Thursday, 3:30 p.m.
France Winddance Twine (University of California at Santa Barbara), “Hair, Heritage, and Habitus: Bodies as Social Products”, 3:30 p.m., Whitely Suite, Evans Library.

21 February, Thursday, 4:00 p.m.
Heidi Brayman Hackel
(University of California - Riverside), " 'Dumb Eloquence': Muteness and Gesture in Early Modern England," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

21 February, Thursday, 5:15 p.m.
Hyonjin Kim
(Seoul National University, Korea), "From La Chanson de Roland to Orlando Furioso: A Renaissance of the Saracens?," Third Annual EGSA Colloquium Keynote Address, Glasscock Building, Room 311.

21-22 February, Thursday and Friday
Segrario Del Carmen Cruz Carretero
(University of Puebla, Mexico), "African Roots in Veracruz," MSC Room 211. More information TBA.

27 February, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Daniel De Simone (Library of Congress), "A Heavenly Craft: The Woodcut in Early Printed Books," Mayo Thomas Room, Cushing Library

27-28 February, Wednesday & Thursday
Imam Johari Abdul Malik
(former Muslim Chaplain at Howard University), "They Came Before Columbus: African Roots in Ancient America," 7:00 - 8:15 p.m., Rudder 302 (2/27) and 6:00 - 7:15 p.m., MSC Forsyth Gallery (2/28).

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

6 March, Thursday, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Amita Baviskar
(Delhi University), "Cows, Cars and Cycle-rickshaws: The Politics of Nature on the Streets of Delhi, India," Blocker 203. For more information, please contact Nandini Bhattacharya.

20 March, Thursday, 6:00 p.m
Spend an evening with Kevin Willmott, director of "The Confederate States of America," Library Annex, Room 410. For more information, please contact Kimberly Brown.

25 March, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Gabriel Peveroni
(Writer), "Territos ocupados," Academic Building, Room 128. For more information, please contact Sarah M. Misemer.

4 April, Monday, 4:00 p.m.
Marwan Rashed
(École Normale Supérieure), "Socrates in the Phaedo and Aristophanes," 501 Rudder Tower. For more information, please contact Robin Smith.

7 April, Monday, 4:00 p.m.
Marianne Pade
(University of Aarhus, Denmark), "Script as a Marker of Cultural Identity," Evans Library 204C. For more information, please contact Craig Kallendorf.

29 April, Tuesday, 3:00 p.m.
Christopher Yohmei Blasdel
(International House of Japan), "Seeking Spirituality in the Performing Arts of Japan: Music, Dance, and Theater as Paths to Self-Knowldege, Glasscock Library Room 311. For more information, please contact Martin Regan.

30 April, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Nancy L. Easterlin
(University of New Orleans), "Narrative Thinking, Human Wayfinding, and Literary Stories," Blocker Building, Room 153. For more information, please contact Brett Cooke.

 

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