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Events for Brown Bag Series - 2004
Film - 'Adio Kerida' directed by Ruth Behar
1/6/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Ruth Behar, Anthropology


Lecture - 'Interactive Memoirs and Digital City Symphonies: Database Documentaries from the Labyrinth Project'
1/13/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Marsha Kinder, Cinema-TV, USC

Lecture - 'The Art of the Basement Tape: Pop Music from a Private Place'
1/20/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Albin Zak, School of Music

Lecture - 'Casting Shadows, redux'
1/27/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Edward West, School of Art + Design

Lecture - 'Words Stare Like a Glass Eye: From Literary to Visual to Disability Studies and Back Again'
2/10/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Tobin Siebers, Comparative Literature

Lecture - 'In-Running, Out-Flowing Web'
3/2/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Jim Cogswell, Art + Design, with Andrew Mead, Music, and Peter Sparling, Dance

Lecture - 'Fire and Blood for Violin and Orchestra: A Musical Portrait of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo'
3/9/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Michael Daugherty, School of Music

Lecture - 'A Sense of Security'
3/16/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Margo Mensing, Artist, Skidmore College

Lecture - 'Foreign Lands, Homelands, and the Borderland of Fiction: Placing Women in Turkish Literature and the Displacement of the Woman Writer'
3/23/2004; 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Elif Shafak, Turkish novelist, and Visiting Scholar at the University of Michigan

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Lecture - 'Telling It Like it Was, or Wished It Had Been'
3/30/2004; 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Mark Harris, Cinema-TV, USC

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education'
9/13/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Maris Vinovskis, History and Public Policy
Diversity Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Racial Integration as a Compelling Interest'
9/20/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Elizabeth Anderson, Philosophy
Diversity Series

Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Documenting Apartheid: Thirty Years of Reporting on South Africa'
9/21/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Peter Davis, documentary filmmaker, film historian, and author
Documentary and Film Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Limited Fork'
9/27/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Thylias Moss, poet, English
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Desperately Seeking Questions'
10/4/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

William Paulson, Romance Languages
Rethinking the Humanities Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The International Community Faces up to the Rwandan Genocide'
10/11/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

José Kagabo, African Studies, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Mellon Foundation Global Fellow
Featuring Our Fellows Series

Thursday Brown Bag Lecture - Waste and Material Culture: Living with Abandoned Things
10/14/2004; 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Gay Hawkins, School of Media and Communications, The University of New South Wales, Australia

CANCELLED Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Republican Experiment: Political Participation in the Americas of the Nineteenth Century'
10/25/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Hilda Sabato, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Featuring Our Fellows Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'On the Road with The Vagabonds'
11/1/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Nicholas Delbanco, author, English
Artists-at-Work Series

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Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Poetry for the Page, the Stage and the Human Voice'
11/8/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Arnold Weinstein, writer, New York City
Artists-At-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Piercing Maya’s Veil: Musical Symbols of Illusion and Truth in an Opera about the Buddha'
11/15/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Siglind Bruhn, music researcher
Featuring Our Fellows Series

CANCELLED Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Mapping Embodiment in the Early Modern West'
11/22/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Valerie Traub, English and Women's Studies
Featuring Our Fellows Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'From Harvey River'
12/6/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Lorna Goodison, poet, English
Artists-at-Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'The Life and Times of a Modernist Tibetan Monk'
12/13/2004; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Donald Lopez, Carl W. Belser Professor of Buddhist and Tibetan Studies
Featuring Our Fellows Series