2009-10
December 10, 2009
Anna Brickhouse, Associate Professor of American Studies and Hemispheric Studies, University of Virginia
For information about attending this talk, contact Caroline Levander. Dr. Brickhouse will also participate in the conference Humanism and Revolution.
2008-09
November 7-8, 2008
Rethinking Empire and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
University of Maryland Graduate Student Conference
This conference will explore a host of transnational cultural exchanges within the nineteenth-century Americas. Rice University will be represented by Caroline Levander, Professor of English and Director of the Humanities Research Center, Cory Ledoux, a PhD candidate in English, and Marie Parks, a recent graduate of Rice in English. Dr. Levander will chair a panel, "Gender, Class, and Empire on the Borderlands," as well as participate in a faculty roundtable on the hemispheric implications of the conference's topic. Mr. Ledoux will present his paper "Young Republics: The Haitian Revolution in the Shaping of Early American Literature," while Ms. Parks will present her paper "Shades of White on San Juan Hill: Nation-Race in the Writings of Richard Harding Davis and Finley Peter Dunne."
2007-08
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, the 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.
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, the 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.
2006-07
September 2006
Beginning-of-the-year reception, Rice Art Gallery
Imagining the Border and Migration from Mexico City: The Intersection of Romance and National Identity
Christina Sisk, University of Houston
Global Hispanism Workshop, Hispanic Studies Department
American Literary History 18.3, Special Issue: Hemisphere and Nation
Caroline F. Levander and Robert S. Levine, eds.
October 2006
José Villalobos, Texas A&M University
Co-sponsored by the HRC Global Hispanism Workshop and Hispanic Studies Department
Panethnic Boundary Formation in Asian American Organizing
Dina Okamoto, University of California
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, co-sponsored by Sociology Department
Transnational Film Theory and Latin American Cinema
Kathleen Newman, Associate Professor of Cinema and Spanish at the University of Iowa
November 2006
Contexts of Reception, Religion, and Immigrants’ Everyday Lives: Latin American Immigrants in Phoenix, Arizona
Cecilia Menjivar, Arizona State University
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, co-sponsored by Sociology Department
December 2006
Familial Acculturation in Immigrant Families
David Cort, University of California
CORRUL Brown Bag Lunch, co-sponsored by Sociology Department
Writing Freedom: An African Mother and her Creole Daughters in the Era of Haitian Revolution
Rebecca Scott, the Charles Gibson Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Law at the University of Michigan
Scott’s book Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba after Slavery appeared from Harvard UP 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.
March 15-16, 2007
Absolutism, Christianity, and Afro-Creole Consciousness, 1570-1640
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.
March 19, 2007
Culture & Politics in the New Venezuela
Patricia Abdelnour, Cutural Attache for the Venezuelan Embassy
March 23-24, 2007
Autrey Symposium - The Hacienda and the Plantation: Historical, Political and Cultural Legacies
Faculty Organizer: 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)
July 2006
Alex Lichtenstein attended the Tepotzlán Institute for the Transnational Study of the Americas
2005-06
October 27, 2005
Putting the "Lone Genius" to Rest: Producing Collaborative Knowledge through Humanities Research Networks
Paula Moya, Associate Professor of English, Stanford University, and coordinating member of the Future of Minority Studies Research Project
November 11, 2005
Innovative Approaches to the Study of Race and Slavery
David Blight, Professor of History and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University
February 2, 2006
Problematic Citizens: Diasporic Representations of the Caribbean World
Silvio Torres-Saillant, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Latin American Studies Program, Syracuse University
February 9-12, 2006
Disciplinarity in a Multi-Disciplinary Setting
Sawyer Seminar -Towards a Center for the Americas
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.
March 23, 2006
Verene Shepherd, Professor of History, University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica
March 31, 2006
The Americas as a Historical Essay
Mauricio Tenorio, Profesor Investigador, División de Historia, CIDE, México, and Professor of History, University of Chicago
2004-05
October 15, 2004
The Small Town and American Culture
Miles Orville, Professor of English and American Studies, Director of American Studies Program, and Director of the Masters of Liberal Arts, Temple University
November 1, 2004
Beyond Exceptionalism: The Americas in the UK
John Beck, Professor of English Literature, Language, and Linguistics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
23 January, 2005
Colloquium workshop on Atlantic Scholarship
Vincent Carretta, Professor of English, University of Maryland, and Fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African-American Research, Harvard University
14 February, 2005
Literature of the Americas: Comparative Approaches
Lois Zamora, Professor of English, History, and Art History, University of Houston
March 14, 2005
American Studies: Where Are We Going?
Evelyn Hu-Dehart, Professor of History and Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, Brown University
April 11, 2005
The African Diaspora and the Decline of the African-American Novel
Kenneth Warren, the William J. Friedman & Alicia Townshend Friedman Professor of English, University of Chicago
|
