JANUARY
Wednesday January 26 4:30 pm UM Faculty Panel, “Haiti: One Year After the Earthquake” Ariel Armony (CLAS), Sanjeev Chaterjee (Communications), Louis Herns Marcelin (Anthropology), MarieGuerda Nicolas (Education), Kate Ramsey (History), CAS Gallery
FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 10 7 pm Stanford Distinguished Professor Martha C. Nussbaum, University of Chicago Law School, "Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities," Storer Auditorium
Wednesday, February 16 7 pm Robert Appelbaum, Lancaster University/Uppsala University (English), "Restaurants for the Rest of Us," CAS Gallery
Wednesday, February 23 4:30 pm Victor Bailey, The University of Kansas (History), Policing and the Social Order in Jack-the-Ripper's London, Richter Library
Friday, February 25 9:30 am Classics Symposium "Humanities through Classics: What Does the Future Hold?" Shadi Bartsch (Chicago),
Michael Halleran (William & Mary), Gregory Nagy (Harvard), Patrice Rankine (Purdue), CAS Gallery
MARCH
Thursday, March 3 2 pm: William Germano, The Cooper Union (English Literature), Publishing Workshop: "The Professional Scholarly Writer," (The Graduate School, English, History, MLL, Philosophy), CAS Gallery
Friday, March 4: Sandra Paquet Retirement Symposium "The Present Future of Caribbean Literary and Cultural Studies," (Atlantic Studies Research Group, CLAS, English, Hemispheric Studies Research Group) Keynote speaker: George Lamming; Michael Bucknor (The University of the West Indies-Jamaica), Donette Francis (Binghamton University), Rhonda Frederick (Boston College), Glyne Griffith (SUNY Albany), Paula Morgan (The University of the West Indies-Trinidad), Supriya Nair (Tulane University), Kezia Page (Colgate), CAS Gallery
Monday, March 21st 3:30 p.m.: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (English/Digital Humanities), New Directions in Digital Humanities, (Richter Library) Richter Library Conference Room, Richter Library
Thursday, March 24th 4:30 pm: Peter Lake, Vanderbilt University (History), The Political Origins of the History Play in Elizabethan England (Early Modern Studies Research Group, History, English), 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
APRIL
Friday – Saturday, April 1 - April 2 "Imagining Culture(s), Rethinking Disciplines" A Conference on Anthropology and the Humanities (Anthropology) Keynote: Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago). Featured Speakers: Erna Brodber (University of the West Indies), Shail Mayaram (Center for the Study of Developing Societies), Achille Mbembe (University of Witwatersrand), Mabel Moraña (Washington University)
Lowe Art Museum
DATE CHANGED Thursday, April 7 Tuesday April 5 3:30 pmJane Landers, Vanderbilt University (History), " The Atlantic Lives of Francisco Menéndez: Mandinga Captive, Yamasee Warrior, and Vassal of the Spanish King," (Center for the Humanities, The Department of History, the Program in Africana Studies, Atlantic Studies Research Group), 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
Thursday, April 7 4:30 pm Laurie Shannon, Northwestern University (English), “Night-Rule: Empires of the Nonhuman in Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Descartes,” (Animal Studies, English) 3rd Floor Conference Room, Richter Library
Friday, April 8 1:30 pm : Digital Humanities Workshop:WordPress, Zotero, and Refworks (Richter Library), Richter Library Faculty Exploratory - Explore powerful research tools to help you gather, organize, communicate and share your research.
Tuesday, April 12 3:30 pm: Antonio Correa Iglesias, President, Cátedra for the Study of Complexity, Cuba (Philosophy), "Complexity Theory in Cuba: History of a Difference," UC 245
POSTPONED Friday, April 15 4:30 pm : Johnetta Cole, Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art; President Emeriti of Bennett College for Women and Spelman College; Presidential Distinguished Professor Emerita, Emory University, " One Flower Never Makes a Spring: Why Diversity Matters," CAS Gallery
Friday, April 15 4:30 pm : Jane Rhodes, Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and Professor and Chair of American Studies at Macalester College, "From Jim Crow to Sigmund Freud: Transnationality, Psychoanalysis, and the remaking of a Black American," CAS Gallery
Thursday, April 21 12:30 pm : Workshop for Writing Grant Proposals for Postdocs and Dissertation Completion Fellowships, Stephen Halsey (History), Frank Palmeri (English), Wilson Shearin (Classics), Executive Board Room, School of Nursing and Health Studies
Friday, April 22 1:30 pm : Digital Humanities Workshop:WordPress, Zotero, and Refworks (Richter Library), Richter Library Faculty Exploratory - Explore powerful research tools to help you gather, organize, communicate and share your research.
