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Spring 2008
Thursday, January 17
Traveling Tales and Mediating Images in the Early Modern Spanish World
Kenneth Mills, Professor of History, Director of Latin American Studies (University of Toronto)
Co-editor with Anthony Grafton of two collections Conversion: Old Worlds and New and Conversion in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages: Seeing and Believing, Dr. Mills’ current research examines religious change and the proliferation of local Christianities in Spanish South America.
Tuesday, February 19, 4:00 p.m.
Taking a New Head: 19th-Century Images of Black Women’s Head Adornments
Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Basset Professor of Art and Art History and Professor of African and African American Studies (Duke University)
The talk will focus on headties and bonnets in black diasporic portraiture and is based on Powell's forthcoming book Cutting A Figure: Fashioning Black Portraiture.
Wednesday, April 9
Crania Americana and the Ghost of Incas Past
Ruth A. Hill, Associate Professor of Spanish (University of Virginia)
Dr. Hill aims to illuminate the genealogy and ideological purchase of the popular notion that the majority of Latin Americans are racially mixed unlike the majority of North America.
Fall 2007 Tuesday, September 25 Intervening in Student Learning Abroad: the Georgetown Consortium Study
Michael Vande Berg, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer (Council on International Educational Exchange)
Monday, October 22
Private Bodies/Public Texts: The Spectacle of Narrative
Karla FC Holloway, William R. Kenan Professor of English (Duke University)
Dr. Holloway’s research and teaching interests focus on African American cultural studies, biocultural studies, ethics and law. She is the author most recently of a memoir BookMarks: Reading in Black and White.
Monday, November 5
On the Eve of 1492: The Expansion of Japheth and the Aesthetic Beginnings of the Modern/Colonial World
J. Kameron Carter, Assistant Professor in Theology and Black Church Studies (Duke University Divinity School)
Dr. Carter draws on patristic and medieval approaches to theology in engaging the contemporary theological and cultural imagination. His forthcoming book is Race: A Theological Account, in which he considers the modern construction of race as a theological problem.
March, 2007
Autrey Symposium:
"The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political and Cultural Legacies"
Faculty Organizer: Dr. Joseph Clarke, Autrey Visiting Professor at Rice
Participants:
Joan Dayan (opening keynote, Vanderbilt, English)
Michael Hanchard (closing keynote, Northwestern, Political Science)
Marc Edelman (CUNY Graduate Center, Anthropology)
Jennifer Wilks (University of Texas, Austin, English)
Suzette Spencer (University of Connecticut, English)
David Scott (Columbia University, Anthropology)
Sidney Mintz (Johns Hopkins, Anthropology)
15–16 March
Herman Bennett: Associate professor of Latin American History, Rutgers University and the author of Africans in Colonial Mexico: “Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640.
Lecture on black family in colonial Mexico and graduate workshop on emerging issues in the history of the African diaspora.
Time and Place, TBA.
19 March, Time and Place TBA
Patricia Abdelnour, Cutural Attache for theVenezuelan Embassy
"Culture & Politics in the New Venezuela."
December 2006
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, co-sponsored by Sociology Dept.
“Familial Acculturation in Immigrant Families”
David Cort, University of California
Americas Colloquium Meeting
Rebecca Scott, The Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
"Writing Freedom: An African Mother and her Creole Daughters
in the Era of Haitian Revolution”
Scott’s book Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery appeared from Harvard University Press in fall 2005, and it won the Frederick Douglass Book Prize in 2006. She is currently doing research on Plessy v. Ferguson and the vernacular understandings of rights in the nineteenth-century Atlantic world. She is coauthor of "The Right To Have Rights: The Claims-Making of Former Slaves in Cuba," Annales (Paris) (Summer 2004) and "Property in Writing, Property on the Ground: Pigs, Horses, Land and Citizenship in the Aftermath of Slavery, Cuba, 1880-1909," Comparative Studies in Society and History 44 (October 2002). She is also co-author, with Frederick Cooper and Thomas Holt, of Beyond Slavery: Explorations of Race, Labor, and Citizenship in Postemancipation Societies. Professor Scott is a member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2004 she received a Guggenheim fellowship. At the Law School she teaches on the law in slavery and freedom, and on the changing boundaries of citizenship after slavery.
November 2006
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, co-sponsored by Sociology Dept,
“Contexts of Reception, Religion, and Immigrants’ Everyday Lives:
Latin American Immigrants in Phoenix, AZ”
Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University
October 2006
Global Hispanism Workshop, Hispanic Studies Department
José Villalobos, Texas A&M University
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, Co-sponsored by Sociology Department
“Panethnic Boundary Formation in Asian American Organizing”
Dina Okamoto, University of California
Americas Colloquium Meeting
“Transnational Film Theory and Latin American Cinema”
Associate Professor of Cinema and Spanish at the University of Iowa.
September 2006
Beginning-of-the-Year Reception, Rice Art Gallery
Global Hispanism Workshop, Hispanic Studies Department
Christina Sisk, University of Houston
"Imagining the Border and Migration from Mexico City: The Intersection of Romance and National Identity"
American Literary History, 18.3, Special Issue: Hemisphere and Nation, Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine, eds. Click here to see the table of contents.
July 2006
Alex Lichtenstein attended the Tepotzlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas
31 March 2006
Mauricio Tenorio: Profesor Investigador, División de Historia, CIDE, México; Professor, Department of History, The University of Chicago.
“The Americas as a Historical Essay”
23 March, 2006
Verene Shepherd: Professor of History at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
9-12 February, 2006
Rice faculty Alex Byrd, Caroline Levander, Alex Lichtenstein, Tony Pinn, and Maarten van Delden visit the University of Toronto’s Center for the Study of the United States and Ibero-American Studies Program.
"Disciplinarity in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting"
Sawyer Seminar: Towards a Center for the Americas
2 February, 2006
Silvio Torres-Saillant: Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Syracuse University
“Problematic Citizens: Diasporic Representations of the Caribbean World”
11 November, 2005
David Blight: Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University
“Innovative Approaches to the Study of Race and Slavery”
27 October, 2005
Paula Moya: Associate Professor of English at Stanford University and coordinating member of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project
“Putting the ‘Lone Genius’ to Rest: Producing Collaborative Knowledge through Humanities Research Networks”
11 April, 2005
Kenneth Warren: William J. Friedman & Alicia Townshend Friedman Professor of English at the University of Chicago
“The African Diaspora and the Decline of the African-American Novel”
14 March, 2005
Evelyn Hu-Dehart: Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University
“American Studies: Where Are We Going?”
14 February, 2005
Lois Zamora: Professor of English, History, and Art History at the University of Houston
“Literature of the Americas: Comparative Approaches”
23 January, 2005
Vincent Carretta: Professor of English at the University of Maryland and Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research at Harvard University
Colloquium workshop on Atlantic Scholarship
1 November, 2004
John Beck: Professor of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne
“Beyond Exceptionalism: The Americas in the UK”
15 October, 2004
Miles Orville: Professor of English and American Studies, Director of American Studies Program, and Director of the Masters of Liberal Arts at Temple University
“The Small Town and American Culture”
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