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Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'TESTING on Sunspots'
1/9/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Jaq Chartier, Seattle Artist
Artists at Work Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'BUILDING A NEW ROME: The Imperial Colony of Pisidian Antioch'
1/19/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Professor Elaine Gazda, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and Department of History of Art
Collaborative Work-in-Progress

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - '"IF ALL ELSE FAILS ..."; Tonics, Clinics, and Miracles in Accra'
1/23/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

(28 min., 2005, R. Lane Clark, director)
Documentary and Film Series

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'RACE, STIGMA AND THE DIAGNOSIS OF SCHIZOPHRENIA'
1/30/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies and Director, Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine
Featuring Our Fellows Series

Louis Andriessen: An Interview with William Bolcom
2/6/2006; 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Louis Andriessen, composer and Netherlands Visiting Professor; an interview with William Bolcom, composer

"ANIMATION, MODERNITY, AND THE REPRESENTATION OF EDO CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY JAPANESE ART'
2/13/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Livia Monnet, Comparative Literature, University of Montreal
“Animation, Modernity, and the Representation of Edo Culture in Contemporary Japanese Art”

Monday Brown Bag Lecture - 'PASSING: Connectedness and Post-Holocaust Memory'
2/20/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

David Caron, Associate Professor, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Featuring Our Fellows Series

"CALDER AND THE TRANSATLANTIQUE"
Elizabeth Hutton Turner

3/7/2006; 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Artists at Work Series
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Curator, The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
“Calder and the Transatlantique”

“Master Juba, King of All Dancers! A Story of Black Stardom and Struggle from the Dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Culture Industry”
James W. Cook

3/13/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
James W. Cook, History and American Culture
“Master Juba, King of All Dancers! A Story of Black Stardom and Struggle
from the Dawn of the Trans-Atlantic Culture Industry”

“CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES, IMAGINED PASTS:
Examining the Conceptualization and Commodification of Mound Building Sites in the American Midwest

3/20/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Collaborative Work-in-Progress Series
Stella Nair, History of Art / Society of Fellows
Gustavo Verdesio, Romance Languages and Literatures
“CONSTRUCTED LANDSCAPES, IMAGINED PASTS:
Examining the Conceptualization and Commodification of Mound Building Sites in the American Midwest

“TAKING THE MEASURE OF CHARACTER: Statues and Normalization”
Marian Hobson

3/27/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Featuring Our Fellows Series
Marian Hobson, Professor of French at the University of London (St. Mary’s College).
“TAKING THE MEASURE OF CHARACTER: Statues and Normalization”

“Between Heaven and Earth:
The Paradox of Dual Accountability in Han Administration”
James Lee, Miranda Brown and Yu Xie

4/3/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Collaborative Work in Progress Series
“Between Heaven and Earth: The Paradox of Dual Accountability in Han Administration”
James Lee, History and Sociology
Miranda Brown, Asian Languages and Cultures
Yu Xie, Sociology

“Documenting the Sandanista Revolution Under Siege”
with a screening of “In the Absence of Peace”

4/10/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Documentary and Film Series
Michael Martin, Ethnic Studies, Bowling Green State University
“Documenting the Sandanista Revolution Under Siege”
with a screening of “In the Absence of Peace”
(48 min., 1988, Michael Martin, director)

Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Translating Subalterneity: Yet Another Role of English in India'
9/19/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Rita Kothari, English, St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad (Gujarat), India

Tuesday Brown Bag Lecture - 'Recovering Recollection from the Shadows of Empire: Writing Skills and the Tinnai School in Nineteenth-century South India'
10/3/2006; 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

Bhavani Raman
Featuring our Fellows Series