Glasscock Center Events at a Glance
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SPRING 2013 SEMESTER
Co-Sponsored Events | Working Group Events | Seminar Events
Wednesday, 23 January 2013, 9-10 a.m.
Wednesday Morning Coffee Hour
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Monday, 28 January 2013, 12-1 p.m.
Graduate Student Grant Writing Workshop
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Faculty Grant Writing Workshop
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 20 February 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Visiting Scholar Lecture
Nicolas Werth | Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Senior Fellow, Institute of Contemporary History (IHTP), Paris
"Soviet Society at War"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Thursday, 21 February 2013, 3-5 p.m.
Visiting Scholar Seminar on Stalinism
Nicolas Werth | Research Director, National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS); Senior Fellow, Institute of Contemporary History (IHTP), Paris
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 4-5 p.m.
14th Annual Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship
Award Presentation and Lecture
Simon Gikandi | Robert Schirmer Professor of English, Princeton University
"Slavery and Modern Identity"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Thursday, 28 February 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Outside Reader Lecture
David William Foster | Regents' Professor of Spanish, and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University
"Guille and Belinda: A Lesbian Arcadian Romance, a Photobook by Allesandra Sanguinetti"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
WWII Initiative Film Festival: Two Recent Films on the Holocaust
2:30-4:30 p.m.
Saviors in the Night (Unter Bauern)
Q&A at 4:30 with director Ludi Boeken
Robert M. Gates Ballroom, Room 2400, Memorial Student Center (MSC)
7-9 p.m.
La Rafle (The Roundup)
Q&A at 9 p.m. with French journalist Annette Levy-Willard and Glasscock Center director Richard J. Golsan
Robert M. Gates Ballroom, Room 2400, Memorial Student Center (MSC)
Thursday, 21 March 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Featured Guest Lecture
Debarati Sanyal | Associate Professor, Department of French, University of California, Berkeley
"Holocaust Memory and the War on Terror: The Case of Boualem Sansal"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Thursday, 4 April 2013, 4-5:30 p.m.
Carrol O. Buttrill ’38 Endowed Fund for Ethics Roundtable
"Ethics, Athletics, and Academics: Institutions, Coaches and Players"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 4-5 p.m.
Featured Guest Lecture
Rebecca Wittmann | Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Toronto
"Nazism, Terrorism, and Criminal Justice in Postwar Germany"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311 Glasscock Building
Friday, April 19, 2013, 9 a.m.-12 p.m.
The Civil War, its Legacies, and Representations
Adam Arenson | Assistant Professor of History, The University of Texas at El Paso
Lorien Foote | Professor of History, University of Central Arkansas
Randal Fuller | Chapman Professor of English, The University of Tulsa
Larry Reynolds | Distiguished Professor of English, Texas A&M University
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311 Glasscock Building
Past Events
FALL 2012 SEMESTER
29 August 2012, 3:30-5 p.m.
Glasscock Undergraduate Summer Scholars Presentations
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
5 September 2012, 3:30-5 p.m.
Glasscock Center Meet and Greet
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
12 September 2012, 4-5 p.m. (reception begins at 3:30)
Opening Faculty Colloquium
James Rosenheim | Professor, Department of History, Texas A&M University
"The Financial Records and Memoranda of Edmund Herbert, 1708-1733"
University Club, 11th Floor, Rudder Tower
13 September 2012, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Graduate Grant Writing Workshop: Social Sciences
Kevin Glowacki and Cynthia Werner will be leading the workshop for graduate students in the social sciences.
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
14 September 2012, 2 p.m.
Cushing-Glasscock Graduate Award Presentations
Brian Altenhofen | Department of Communication
Deborah L. Pfuntner | Department of English
Carlos Rodríguez González | Department of Anthropology
Mayo-Thomas Room, Cushing Memorial Library
20 September 2012, 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Graduate Grant Writing Workshop: Humanities
Margaret Ezell, Robert Griffin, and Mary Ann O'Farell will be leading the workshop for graduate students in the humanities.
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
26 September 2012, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Faculty Grant Writing Workshop
Brian Linn and David Vaught will be leading the grant writing workshop for faculty in the humanities and social sciences.
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
26 September 2012, 7-8 p.m.
Keynote Address for "World War II in Context: Conflicts, Moral Dimensions, and Trials of History"
Thomas M. Hatfield | Dean Emeritus and Director, Military History Institute, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
"Leadership in War and Peace: Texas A&M in the Life of Earl Rudder"
Memorial Student Center, Room 2400
3 October 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Carrol O. Buttrill '38 Endowed Fund for Ethics Lecture
Michael Bess | Chancellor's Professor of History, Vanderbilt University
"Scientists and their Moral Responsibility for their Inventions: The Cases of Leo Szilard and Bill Joy"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 9-10 a.m.
Morning Coffee Hour
José Luis Bermúdez | Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Texas A&M University
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Visiting Scholar Lecture
Pascal Bruckner | Essayist and novelist
"Memorial Patriotism, Paradoxical Patriotism"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Thursday, 8 November 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Featured Guest Lecture
Henry Rousso | Institut d'histoire du temps présent (IHTP, Paris) and Visiting Professor at Yale University
"Eichmann in Jerusalem: No Ordinary Defendant"
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
Wednesday, 14 November 2012, 9-10 a.m.
Morning Coffee Hour
Michael Benedik | Interim Dean of Faculties and Associate Provost, Texas A&M University
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building
28-30 November 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Co-Sponsored Conference
North American Sartre Society 19th Biennial Conference
3rd Floor, Glasscock Building and Whitley Suite, Evans Library
Tuesday, 4 December 2012, 4-5 p.m.
Graduate Colloquium Series
Jennifer Heth | Department of History
“Commemorating Imperialism: TR and the American Museum of Natural History”
Glasscock Center Library, Room 311, Glasscock Building