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Texas A&M University

How Do We Keep Knowing? Lecture Series

27 February 2008, Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.
Lawrence Grossberg
(University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Economies, Discourses and Contexts: On Avoiding the Bottom Line, " Glasscock Building, Room 311.

25 March 2008, Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Michael Schudson
(University of California - San Diego), "Journalism in an Era of 'Truthiness'," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

3 April 2008, Thursday, 7:00 p.m.
Lecture in collaboration with the New Modern British Studies Working Group, Dror Wahrman (Indiana University), "How Do We Keep Knowing? An Eighteenth-Century End-run Around an Impossible Goal," Glasscock Center Library, Room 311.

5 November 2007, Monday, 7:30 p.m.
Alvin Goldman
(Rutgers University), "Social Epistemology: Theory and Applications," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

12 November 2007, Monday, 7:00 p.m.
Elliott R. Wolfson (New York University), "Knowing the Unknowing: Mysticism and the (A)temporal Quest for Gnosis," Glasscock Center Library, Room 311.

Glasscock Center Lectures

29 January 2008, Tuesday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Roundtable on ethics in intercollegiate athletcs, "Ethics, Money and Intercollegiate Sport," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

12 February 2008, Tuesday, 4:00 p.m.
Suzanne Poirier
(University of Illinois at Chicago), "Stories Out of School: Memoirs and the Emotional Education of Medical Students," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

16 October 2007, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
Inaugural Buttrill Endowment for Ethics Lecture by
Jan Boxill (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Sport as a Public Forum for Ethics," MSC Forsyth Center Galleries.

22 October 2007, Monday, 10:00 a.m.
Glasscock Center Publishing Workshp by Jennifer Frangos
(Associate Editor, The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation), Glasscock Building, Room 311.

30 October 2007, Tuesday, 3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Glasscock Center Humanities Roundtable: "Common Feast, Separate Tables or Bum's Rush? A Roundtable on the Humanities and the Social Sciences."
Featuring Sarah Gatson (Department of Sociology), Jyotsna
Vaid (Department of Psychology), Dror Goldberg (Department of Economics), Kim Hill (Department of Political Science), Cynthia Werner (Department of Anthropology) and moderated by Cary Nederman (Department of Political Science). Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Glasscock Book Prize Lecture

13 February 2008, Wednesday, 4:00 p.m.
Lois Zamora
(University of Houston), "The Baroque Self: Frieda Kahlo and Gabriel García Márquez," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Glasscock Center Visiting Fellows

24-28 March 2008, Monday - Friday
Visiting Fellow Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego) was in residence in the Glasscock Center. He gave a presentation titled "Journalism in an Era of 'Truthiness'" on Tuesday, 25 March, at 7:30 p.m. in the Glasscock Building, Room 311.

Digital Humanities Lectures