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Lectures

Thomas Palaima (University of Texas at Austin), "Writing Without Books," 25 May 2005.
Fernando Plata (Colgate University), "Optical Devices and Distorting Lenses: The World Upside-Down in a Newly-Discovered Mojiganga by Calder ón," 29 April 2005.
Sharon Vaughn (University of Texas), "The Effectiveness of a Three-Tier Intervention Model on Young Children with Reading Difficulties," 27 April 2005.
Michael Wierviorka (EHESS, Paris), "The Renewal of Anti-Semitism in France Today," 25 April 2005.
Karma Lochrie(Indiana University), "The 'H' Word: Female Sexuality Before Heteronormativity," 15 April 2005.
Paul Alexander, "James Dean: Life After Death? An Illustrated Lecture," 15 April 2005.
Mihai Coman (University of Bucharest, Romania), "Who's Afraid of Media Anthropology?," 13 April 2005.
Rachel Bowlby (University College - London), "Edith Wharton's Roman Fever," 12 April 2005.
Rachel Bowlby (University College - London), "Fifty Fifty: Freud, Female Subjectivity and the Danaids," 11 April 2005.
Jack Fletcher (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston), "Reading Instruction and the Brain: Linking Functional Neuroimaging and the Classroom," 6 April 2005.
Craig Zimring(Georgia Institute of Technology), "The Role of the Built Environment in Physical Activity and Obesity," 4 April 2005.
John Bryant (Hofstra University),"Rewriting Moby Dick: The Making and Editing of a Fluid Text," 4 April 2005.
István Bejczy, "Ancient Virtues, Christian Values: Fortitude and Humility in Medieval Moral Thought," 4 April 2005.
Stephanie Brown (Ohio State Newark), "'I was there, yet I was not there': Writing, Race, and Revisiting the '40s in A Lesson Before Dying," 1 April 2005.
Chris Flood (University of Surrey), "New Reactionaries and the Debate Over French Democracy," 29 March 2005.
Alec Tilley (Ret. Lt. Commander, Royal Air Force), "Ancient Warships of the Mediterranean," 10 March 2005.
Victor Regnier (University of Southern California), "Ten Innovative Ideas from Northern Europe for Housing the Frail Elderly," 7 March 2005.
Dr. Sabine Hake (University of Texas), "Cinema, Advertising, and the Avant-Garde," 3 March 2005.
Dr. Carla Mazzio (University of Chicago), "Shakespeare," at the Annual Texas A&M University Shakespeare Festival, 2 March 2005.
Dr. Delvyn Case (Boston College and Eastern Nazarene College), "Vocal Rhythm and the Stylistic Development of Rap," 2 March 2005.
Dr. Clifton Johnson (Tulane University), "The Birth and Development of the Amistad Research Center at Tulane University," 25 February 2005.
W. Speed Hill (Lehman College), "'The World with a Fence Around It': Asset or Liability?," 7 February 2005.
Walter Everett (University of Michigan), "Painting Their Room in a Colorful Way: The Beatles' Exploration of Timbre," 31 January 2005.
Alan Rudrum (Simon Fraser University), "Mad Cows and Calvinists: Theology and Cultural Practice in Early Modern Britain," 31 January 2005.
Margaret Kelleher, "Assessing Irish Women's Writing Post Field Day 4 and 5," 25 January 2005.
Margaret Kelleher (National University of Ireland, Maynooth), "The Construction of Irish Literary History," 24 January 2005.
Krin Gabbard (SUNY at Stony Brook) "Black Noise, White Face: Miles Davis and the Movies," 2 December 2004.
Laura Freixas (Spanish fiction writer) "Women Writers and the Mass Media," 15 November 2004.
Doug Barnett (Assistant Director, Center for Studies in Texas History, Texas State Historical Association) "Digital Collaborations: New Frontiers in Academic Discourse," 11 November 2004.
Peter Elmore (University of Colorado) "Letras Letales: Violencia y escritura en 'El caligrafo deVoltaire' de Pablo de Santis y 'Crimenes imperceptibles' de Guillermo Martinez," 9 November 2004.
William H. Clamurro (Emporia State University) "The Implications of Time in Don Quixote," 4 November 2004.
Nancy Kaplan (Director, School of Information Arts and Technologies, University of Baltimore) "Future Libraries, Future Literacies: What Children May Be Telling Us," 25 October 2004.
Dr. Gregory Barnett (Rice University) "Handel's 'borrowings' and the 'Handel' Gloria," 22 October 2004.
Joanne R. Gilbert (Alma College) "Last Laughs: Female Comics and the Performance of Power," 21 October 2004.
Jeffrey Cox (University of Colorado at Boulder) "After the Wars: Byron and the Melodrama," 12 October 2004. Sponsored by the New Modern British Studies Working Group, a Glasscock Center Working Group.
Danielle Caluwe (Free University of Brussels) "Glass and the Noblemen of Belgium: Archaeological Finds from Castle Sites in Flanders and the Former Duchy of Brabant" 11 October 2004.
Steven C. Walker (Brigham Young University) "How Hobbits Happen," 1 October 2004.
Martha Banta (University of California-Los Angeles) "Raw, Ripe, and Raw: 19th-century Pathologies of the American Aesthetic," 16 September 2004.
Christian Delage (Universite of Paris-VIII) and Vincent Guigueno "The Historian and Film: Writing History with and by Film," 13 September 2004.
John Unsworth (University of Virginia) "What is Humanities Computing and What is Not?," 10 September 2004.


Readings and Performances

EDGE, a one-woman show by Angelica Torn based on the writings/poetry of Sylvia Plath, 13-15 April 2005.
Kathleen Shimeta performance of art songs by Canadian-American composer Gena Branscombe, 10 March 2005.
Dale Taylor "Early Musical Instruments with Harpsichord," 9 November 2004.

Michael Mewshaw readingg from his new book, "Island Tempest," 2 November 2004.