The following is a list of meetings which are being held by the current Humanities Working Groups. These meetings are open to the public and both students and faculty are encouraged to attend. For a listing of the supported working groups and contact information for each group, please click here.

11 November, Wednesday, 1 p.m.
Africana Studies Working Group meeting, Anthropology Building, Suite 312.

13 November, Friday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
Women's and Gender Studies Working Group lunch lecture: featuring Michelle Taylor-Robinson (Political Science), "Pathways to Power in Presidential Cabinets: What are the Norms for Different Cabinet Portfolios and do Female Appointees Conform to the Norm? A Study of 5 Presidential Democracies," Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, please contact Nancy Sumpter.

13 November, Friday, 4-5:30 p.m.
Brain, Language, and Animal Behavior (BLAB) Working Group meeting at the home of Gary Varner to discuss "Using preference, motivation and aversion tests to ask scientific questions about animals' feelings" by Kirkden and Pajor (2006). For a copy of the article, click here (using "guest" and "enter" when propted). For an additional article about current understandings of avian brain evolution,
click here. For more information or directions, contact
Gary Varner.

16 November, Monday, 1 p.m.
Queer Studies Working Group meeting to watch and discuss Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others), a German silent film directed by Richard Oswald (1919), Evans Library Annex, Room 417D. You may want to read Richard Dyer's "Less and More than Women and Men: Lesbian and Gay Cinema in Weimar Germany" (New German Critique, no. 41, Autumn, 1990, pp. 5-60) before the meeting. To download a PDF of the article, visit the QSWG blog.

17 November, Tuesday, 12:30-2 p.m.
Medieval Studies Working Group meeting, Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, please contact Britt Mize.

17 November, Tuesday, 4 p.m.
Africana Studies Working Group meeting: to discuss Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought by Michael Hanchard, Glasscock Building, Room 311. For a copy of the book, please contact Shona N. Jackson or Mikko Tuhkanen.

19 November, Thursday, 4 p.m.
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: featuring Thomas Tweed, details TBA.

30 November, Monday, 12:30-2 p.m.
Medieval Studies Working Group meeting, Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, please contact Britt Mize.

1 December, Tuesday, 1-2 p.m.
South Asia Working Group meeting: to discuss a graduate working paper by Tanvi Madan (UT-Austin), "Between Defense and Development: US-South Asia Relations, 1964-1971," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

9 December, Wednesday, 12:30-2 p.m.
Religion and Culture Working Group meeting: to discuss a work-in-progress by Christie Maloyed, "Public Religion: The Religious and Political Thought of Franklin and Paine," Glasscock Building, Room 311.

9 December, Wednesday, 1 p.m.
Africana Studies Working Group meeting, Anthropology Building, Suite 312.

15 December, Tuesday 12:30-2 p.m.
Medieval Studies Working Group meeting, Glasscock Building, Room 311. For more information, please contact Britt Mize.