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"Global Democracy: A Look at Asia"
Participants: Merle Goldman, Boston University; Lowell Dittmer, University of California at Berkeley
31 January 2007

"Immigration and National Identity: Lessons for/from Political Theory" Participants:Stephen Macedo, Princeton University; Alejandro Portes, Princeton University; Jorge Gracia, SUNY Buffalo; Nadia Urbinati, Columbia University; Arthur Applbaum, Harvard; Mathias Risse, Harvard; Michael Blake, University of Washington; Maurizio Viroli, Princeton University; David Hollinger, Berkeley; Rob Reich, Stanford University; Juliet Hooker, University of Texas; Jose Antonio Aguilar, CIDE Mexico City; Amaney Jamal, Princeton University; Takeyuki (Gaku) Tsuda, University of Arizona; Noah Pinkus, Duke University
23-24 Februrary 2007

"20th and 21st Century French and Francophone Studies"
Participants:Henry Rousso (Institute for Contemporary History, Paris), Pierre Assouline, and Pascal Bruckner
21-24 March 2007

"Justicia en Juarez! Gender Violence, Maquiladoras, and Border Issues"
Participants:Maria Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba, Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Juarez; Julia Mararrez Fragosa, Colegio de la Frontera Norte; Elvia Arrioloa, Northern Illinois University; Diana Washington, El Paso Times; Marisela Ortiz, Nuestra Hijas de Regreso a Casa
10 April 2007

"The Americas and the State of Poetry"
12-14 April 2007

"South Asian Film and Performance Symposium"
Participants:Suman Mukhopadhyay, Sudipto Chatterjee, Jyotika Viri, Indiri Peterson
26-27 April 2007

"Digital Textual Studies: Past, Present, and Future"
Participants: Jerome McGann, Morris Eaves, Julia Flanders, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Kenneth Price, Peter Robinson, Peter Schillingsburg, and Martha Nell Smith
19-21 October 2006

"Gender and Latina Discourse: Vernacular Rhetorics, Language, and Expressive Culture"
Participants: Norma E. Cantú; Marcia Farr; Dolores Delgado Bernal; Shayla Rivera.

21-22 April 2006
"The TAMU Donne Acquisition"
6-7 April 2006
"Musicology, Musical Culture, and Performance of the 17th and 18th Centuries"
Participants: Laurel Zeiss, Baylor University; Jane Dahlenburg, University of Central Arkansas; Seth Nelson, University of Michigan; Alexander Silbiger, Duke University; Mary Heiden, University of North Texas; Lenora McCroskey, University of North Texas.
25 March 2006
"Staging Modernism"
Participants: James Rosenheim, Department of History, Texas A&M University; Katherine E. Kelly, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Penny Farfan; Aparna Dharwadker; Bridget Elliott; James Harding; W. Anthony Sheppard; Shane Vogel; Marian Eide, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Judith Hamera, Department of Performance Studies, Texas A&M University; Melanie Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Victoria Rosner, Department of English, Texas A&M University
3 March 2006
"Europe and Anti-Semitism"
Participants: Robert R. Shandley, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Melanie Hawthorne, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Christopher Flood, University of Surrey; Victor Arizpe, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University; Stephen Atkins, Sterling C. Evans Library, Texas A&M University; Nathan Bracher, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Samuel Moyn, Department of History, Columbia University; Elisabeth Rich, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Ralph Schoolcraft, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M University; Susan Suleiman, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University; Richard J. Golsan, Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures, Texas A&M Univeristy; Alain Ilan Greilsammer, Director, European Studies Center, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
24 February 2006

"4th Annual Book History at A&M Workshop"
22-27 May 2005

"Louisa May Alcott"
Participants: Beverly Lyon Clark, Wheaton College; Sarah Elbert, SUNY at Binghampton; Joel Myerson, University of South Carolina; Jan Turnquist, Director of Orchard House, Concord, MA; Larry Reynolds, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Lynne Vallone, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Claudia Nelson, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Amy Earhart, Department of English, Texas A&M University
22 April 2005
"Center for Health Systems and Design Lecture Series"
Craig Zimring (Georgia Institute of Technology), "The Role of the Built Environment in Physical Activity and Obesity,"
4 April 2005
Victor Regnier (University of Southern California), "Ten Innovative Ideas from Northern Europe for Housing the Frail Elderly"
11 April 2005

"Europe Today"
Participants: Alexander Stephen (Ohio State University); Jean-Phillipe Mathy (University of Illinois); Claudio Fogu (University of Southern California)
11 February 2005
"Don Quixote Illustrated: Textual Images and Visual Readings"

Participants: Steven Escar Smith, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Texas A&M University; Eduardo Urbina, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University; Rachel Schmidt, Head University of Calgary; Patrick Lenaghan, Curator of Prints and Photographs, Hispanic Society of America; Stephen Miller, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University; Frederick de Armas, Department of Spanish, University of Chicago; Enrique Mallén, Department of Hispanic Studies, Texas A&M University; Richard Furuta, Department of Computer Science, Texas A&M University.
28-29 March 2005.

"University Writing Center Literacy Symposium: Literacy Across Cultures"
Participants: Nancy Grimm, Department of Humanities, Michigan Technological University and Beverly Moss, Department of English, Ohio State University. This symposium focused on issues of diversity, global citizenship, and intercultural communication (print, oral, and electronic) as these relate to teaching academic and professional writing. Of particular interest is the role of the support services (such as writing centers or multicultural services) and the role of university faculty in supporting diversity.
7-8 October, 2004.

"Walt Whitman at Texas A&M: A Celebration and Symposium"
Participants: Susan Belasco, Department of English, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Ed Folsom, Department of English, University of Iowa; M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Department of English, Texas A&M University; Jerome Loving, Department of English, Texas A&M University; John McDermott, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University; Kenneth M. Price, Department of English, University of Nebraska - Lincoln; Robert D. Richardson, Jr., Independent Scholar; Alan Trachtenberg, Department of English, Yale University; Daneen Wardrop, Department of English, Western Michigan University. 2-3 April 2004.
"La Lucha - The Struggle for Hispanic Civil Rights, 1920 - Present"
Participants: Richard Griswold de Castillo, San Diego State University; Patick Carrol, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Tom Kreneck, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Maria Eva Flores, Our Lady of the Lake University; Cynthia Orozco, Eastern New Mexico State University; Guadalupe San Miguel, University of Houston; Anthony Quiroz, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Martha Cotera, Independent Scholar. 10-11 March 2004.

"Citizenship Unbound"
Participants: Roberto Suro, Director of the Pew Hispanic Center; Carlos Blanton, Department of History, Texas A&M University; Elisabeth Ellis, Department of Political Science, Texas A&M University; Sarah Heath, Department of History, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Juliet Hooker, Department of Political Science, University of Texas - Austin; Benjamin Johnson, Department of History, SMU; Christina Kirklighter, Department of English, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Antonio La Pastina, Department of Communication, Texas A&M University; Linda Radzik, Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University; Susan Swan, Department of English, Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi; Clarissa Hayward, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University; David Corey, Department of Political Science, Baylor University; David Miller, Department of Political Science, Nuffield College, Oxford University; David Gutiérrez, Department of History, University of California - San Diego. 14 November 2003.

Fall 2002

"'Southern Literature'/Southern Cultures: Historicizing Southern Literary Studies"
Participants
: Trudier Harris-Lopez, J. Carlyle Sitterson Professor of English, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Michael Kreyling, Professor of English, Vanderbilt University; John Lowe, Professor of English, Louisiana State University-Baton Rouge; Patricia Yaeger, Professor of English, University of Michigan. 16 November 2002
"Curious Things"
Invited Speakers: Barbara Benedict, Professor of English, Trinity College (Hartford); Bill Brown, Professor of English, University of Chicago; Cynthia Wall, Associate Professor of English, University of Virginia. 12 October 2002

Spring 2002

"Politics and Aesthetics of Memory"
Keynote Speakers: Larry Reynolds, Thomas Franklin Mayo Professor in Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University; Jeffrey Schnapp, Pierotti Professor of Italian, Director of the Standford Humanities Laboratory, Stanford University; Lutz Koepnick, Associate Professor of German, Washington University; Susan Suleiman, Dillon Professor of French, Harvard University. 20 April 2002
"The Next 125 Years: What Will the Future of the University Look Like?"
Participants
: George Walker, Vice President and Dean of the University Graduate School, University of Indiana; Joseph Jewell, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Texas A&M University; Candace Schaefer, Dean of Distance Education, Blinn College; Daniel Sui, Professor of Geography, Texas A&M University; John M. McDermott, Professor of Philosophy, Texas A&M University. 17 April 2002



Fall 2000

"Literacies and Literary Representations: Posing Questions, Framing Conversations about Language and Hispanic Identities"
Invited Speakers: Juan Guerra, Professor of English, University of Washington; Jaime Armin Mejia, Professor of English, Southwest Texas State University. 5-6 October 2000

Fall 1999

"Rewriting Literacies: Changing Communities, Shifting Discourses in the Twenty-First Century"
Featured Speakers: Akua Duku Anokye, Visiting Associate Professor, Arizona State University; Andrea Lunsford, Professor of English, Ohio State University; M. Jimmie Killingsworth, Professor of English, Texas A&M University; Ira Shor, Professor of English, City University of New York Graduate School; C. Jan Swearingen, Professor of English, Texas A&M University; Victor Villanueva, Professor of English, Washington State University.
22 October 1999