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Lectures


Robert Boozman (University of Louisville),"A Defense of Leonard Bernstein's Interpretation of the Mozart Requiem," 21 April 2006.
Peter Lev (Towson University),
Film Studies Lecture: "Negotiating The Longest Day (1962): Hollywood, Three Governments, the Press and the Public," 6 April 2006.
Anthony Wright (University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston - Medical School),
"Testing Animal Intelligence and Cognition," sponsored by the Brains, Learning, and Animal Behavior Working Group, a Glasscock Center Working Group,4 April 2006.
Timo Airaksinen (Univeristy of Helsinki), "George Berkeley and the Explanation of the Forces of Attraction," 30 March 2006.
Fernando González Moreno (University of Castillo - La Mancha), Cervantes Project Lecture: "Don Quixote: An Allegorical and Emblematic Reading," 29 March 2006.
John Morrisson (Longy School of Music),
"The Sound Energy Aggregate Analytical Method," 24 March 2006.
Theodore Levin (Dartmouth University),
Music and Voices of Central Asia lecture: "Performance Studies and Cultural Advocacy: A Case Study from Central Asia," presented by the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 23 March 2006.
Astria Suparak, Lecture and film screening of "Quantum Leaps," 9 March 2006.
Susan Morrison (Texas State University), Women's Studies Lunch Lecture Series - "Gender and the Cultural Poetics of Excrement in the Middle Ages," 3 March 2006.
John Eaton (Emeritus, University of Chicago), Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, "On Different Tracks," 2 March 2006.
Falokun Fasegun, "Yoruba Religion on the Continent and in the Diaspora: a Comparative Analysis," 1 March 2006.
Michael Coppedge (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame), MSC Wiley Lecture Series: "Democratization: The Impact on Latin America," 23 February 2006.
Archie McDonald (East Texas Historical Association), William P. Clements, Jr. lecture, "Recent Texas Gubernatorial Elections," 22 February 2006.
Theodore Levin (Dartmouth University), Music and Voices of Central Asia Lecture: "Performance Studies and Cultural Advocacy: Tuvan Music and its Journey from Siberia to the West," 21 February 2006.

Bob Fleck (Oak Knoll Books), Cushing Lecture: "The Present and Future of the Antiquarian and Rare Book Market," 14 February 2006.

William Robinson (UC-Santa Barbara), "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Opportunities, Challenges, and Hazards," 11 November 2005.
John Howard (King's College, London), "Rewriting Queer Lives: History, Autobiography, and Subjectivity,"
8 November 2005.

Rachel Schmidt (University of Calgary), "Gustav Dor
é's Vision of Spain in His Illustrations of Don Quixote,"
7 November 2005
.
Yunah Hong, "Dangerous to Know: Anna May Wong,"
3 November 2005
.
Thomas Fudge (formerly of Canterbury College, New Zealand), "Hunting Witches and the Unbearable Burden of Proof," 3 November 2005.
Graham Parry (University of York, England), "The Origins of Antiquarian Studies in Britain," 31 October 2005.
Paul Greene (Pennsylvania State University), "Tropes of Passion and Transformation in Pakistani Sufi Music and Sufi Rock: Reconfigured Mysticisms, Transnational Musical Communities," 26 October 2005.
Tony Gleaton at Afro-Latino Links: Roots and Connecting African and Latino Cultures World-wide symposium, "Africa's Legacy in Mexico, Central America, and South America,"
21 October 2005
.
Tim'm West, "Memoir as Theory," 21 October 2005.
Marco Polo Hernandez Cuevas (North Carolina Central University) at Afro-Latino Links: Roots and Connecting African and Latino Cultures World-wide symposium, "The Seed In...Latino Nationality & Identity," 20 October 2005.
Jack Zipes (University of Minnesota), "How and Why We Eat Our Children," 14 October 2005.
John Patton
(Tulane University), "Rhetoric as Translation," 30 September 2005.
Pascal Bruckner,
"The Paradoxes of Anti-Americanism in Europe," 15 September 2005.
Anthony J. Badger (Cambridge University), "Southern New Dealers Face the World: LBJ, Albert Gore, Sr., and Vietnam
," 7 September 2005.

Readings and Performances

Music and Voices of Central Asia performance featuring Tengir-too (Mountain Music from Kyrgyzstan), the Academy of Shash Maqam (Court Music of the Uzbeks and Tajiks) and Homayoun Sakhi (Music of Afghanistan), presented by the Aga Khan Music Initiative in Central Asia, a program of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, 24 March 2006.
Music and Voices of Central Asia performance by Huun Huur Tu: Throat Singers from Tuva with Dr. Theodore Levin (Dartmouth University), 22 February 2006.