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Spring 2006

Several of our past lectures have been recorded and rebroadcast by TPT, channel 17. These can now be viewed here through our media page.

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May

January

Marshal Arts Performance workshop with Phillip Zarilli, Professor of Drama at University of Exeter, 1/20/06

"Yellowface, Blackface, and Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Mikado'": A Lecture by Josephine Lee, 1/26/06

February

Discussion with Playwright Leigh Fondakowski, 2/2/06

"Textbooks and the Politics of Historical Memory": Panel Discussion, 2/8/06

"Whaling and Whaling Songs: The Rhythms of Maritime Life in Music and Memory": A Presentation by Lisa Norling and Robert Walser, 2/9/06

"Beyond the Jordan: Evidence for Early Hospitals among the Eastern Christians": A Lecture by Vivian Nutton, 2/10/06

The Theorizing Early Modern Studies Workshop Third Annual Graduate Student Roundtable, 2/16/06

Elliott Carter's "Figment for Cello", 2/16/06

"The Politics of Infectious Diseases: Global Surveillance and Early Warning Systems": Keynote Lecture by Stephen Morse, 2/16/06

"Vital Signs: Images of Healing in the Middle Ages": A Lecture by Melanie E. Holcomb, 2/17/06

"The Politics of Infectious Diseases: Global Surveillance and Early Warning Systems": Panel Discussions, 2/17/06

"Medieval Inventions: The Hospital?": Symposium

Film Screening of "Thirty Years of Sisterhood: Women in the 1970s Women's Liberation Movement in Japan", 2/23/06

March

Elliott Carter's "Riconoscenza per Goffredo Petrassi": A Lecture-Recital, 3/2/06

"Ethnic Memories in Post-Genocide Rwanda: The Prospects for Peaceful Cohabitation": A talk with Rene Lemarchand, 3/7/06

"The Social Life of Hmong Video": A Lecture by Louisa Schein, 3/9/06

TEMS Workshop: "Blinded by Science?: The Failure and Success of Edmund Burke's Empiricist Sublime": Presented by Eric Baker, 3/9/06

"The Meanings of Citizenship: Citizen, Alien, Terrorist--Historical thoughts on Internment." A Lecture by Mae Ngai, 3/23/06

Cinema and Society in the Arab World, 3/23-3/26/06

Reframing Scholarship in the Global Era: Questions of Nation and Place, 3/24-3/25/06

"The Banjo in Atlantic History to 1900": A Lecture by James Webb, 3/29/06

"Poetry of Witness/Poetry as Witness": Poetry Reading and Discussion, 3/30/06

Darfur Diaries: Message from Home, 3/31/06

April

"Would Ataxia Revise Abraham Lincoln's Legacy? Perspectives from History, Disability Studies, and Constitutional Law": Panel Discussion with Laura Ranum, John Howe, Pat McNamara, and Michael Paulsen, 4/5/06

"Libraries and University Presses in an Amazoogle Age": A Conversation with Wendy Pradt Lougee and Douglas Armato, 4/6/06

"Bear Island" -- A Conversation with Gerald Vizenor, 4/10/06

"Access to Higher Education": A Lecture by Steven Rosenstone, 4/13/06

TEMS Workshop: "The Aesthetics and Physiognomy of 'Black Humor': Graphic Satire and the British West Indies on the Eve of Abolition": Presented by Kay Dian Kriz, 4/13/06

Exploring Collaboration: Defining the Process, 4/14/06

"Dear Tari" - Screening of Film by Chieko Yamagami, 4/14/06

"1915 in Turkish and Armenian Memory": A Lecture by Elif Shafak, 4/17/06

"Step Across This Line": A Lecture by Salman Rushdie, 4/19/06

"Turkish Culture through Turkish Art": A talk by Henry Glassie, 4/20/06

"Friends or Foes? Social Relationships among Female Chimpanzees": A Lecture by Anne Pusey, 4/20/06

Arts and Diaspora, 4/21/06-4/23/06

"The Death of Milosevic and the Future of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia": A Lecture by Thomas Emmert, 4/24/06

"Indo-U.S. Relations after the Cold War": A Lecture by Achin Vanaik, 4/26/06

"Preparation for Martyrdom in the Early Church" - A Lecture by Oliver Nicholson, 4/27/06

"The House that Hijack Built": A Lecture by Adeena Karasick, 4/27/06

May

"Kung Fu Hustle and the Globalization of Asian Cinema": A Lecture by Christina Klein, 5/04/06