Musicology Distinguished Lecture presents Louise K. Stein, UM-Musicology 9/5/2008; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm Louise K. Stein: "Venus Amidst the Thorns: Zarzuela and the Erotic Politics of Monarchy"
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Michigan Medieval Seminar 9/19/2008; 9:30 am to 6:00 pm Michigan Medieval Seminar
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Center for Chinese Studies presents Madeline Chu, Kalamzoo College 9/30/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Madeline Chu: "The Three Kingdoms Heroes Re-Viewed"
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Center for Chinese Studies presents Joseph Dennis, Davidson College 10/7/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Joseph Dennis: "Local Gazetteers in Ming Dynasty Borderlands"
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Center for Japanese Studies presents Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado-Boulder 10/9/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Keller Kimbrough: "Horrors of the Medieval Imagination: The Illustrated Lives of the Demon Shuten Doji"
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Musicology presents William Prizer, University of California, Santa Barbara 10/10/2008; 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm William Prizer: "Cardinals and Courtesans: Secular Music in Rome around 1500"
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Center for Chinese Studies presents Shuen-fu Lin, UM-Asian Languages and Cultures 10/14/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Shuen-fu Lin: "A Premonition of the Fall of the Southern Song Dynasty (1127-1279): Reading a Song Lyric Composed in 1253 about Reveling on the West Lake"
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The Forsyth Lecture on Medieval Art presents Jannic Durand, Curator, Musee du Louvre 10/15/2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Jannic Durand: TBA on Byzantium reliqueries
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Armenian Studies Program presents "The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition" 10/16/2008; 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Conference: The Armenian Apocalyptic Tradition: A Comparative Perspective
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The Premodern Colloquium presents Christian de Pee, History, University of Michigan 10/19/2008; 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm Christian de Pee: "Purchase on Power: Imperial Space and Commodified Space in the Eastern Capital of the Northern Song, 960-1127"
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Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies presents Susan Juster, University of Michigan 10/23/2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm Susan Juster: "What's 'Sacred' about Violence in Early America?"
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Center for Chinese Studies presents Giovanni Vitiello, University of Hawai`i 10/28/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Giovanni Vitiello: "Libertine Masculinity: Homosexuality and Homosociality in Late Imperial Pornographic Fiction"
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Center for Japanese Studies presents Wayne Farris, University of Hawai`i 10/30/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Wayne Farris: "Daily Life and Demographics in Japan, 700-1150"
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History of Art presents HART Graduate Student Conference: Exploring the Ephemeral 11/7/2008; 10:00 am to 5:00 pm HART Graduate Student Conference: Exploring the Ephemeral
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Center for Japanese Studies presents Reginald Jackson, Yale University 11/13/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Reginald Jackson: "The Genji Scrolls 'Tangled Script' as Ideology"
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Romance Languages presents Susan Einbinder, Hebrew Union College 11/14/2008; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm Susan Einbinder: TBA
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Center for Japanese Studies presents Hitomi Tonomura, UM-History 11/20/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Hitomi Tonomura: "Samurai in Lament: Letters of a Family Man in the Fourteenth-Century War"
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MEMS Lecture Series presents Giuseppe Gerbino, Musicology, Columbia University 11/21/2008; 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm Giseppe Gerbino: "The Musical Language of Desire: Emotion and Cognition in Early Modern Italy"
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The Premodern Colloquium presents Giuseppi Gerbino, Musicology, Columbia University 11/23/2008; 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm Giuseppi Gerbino: "Eros, Beauty, and the Sense of Hearing in Renaissance Italy"
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Center for Chinese Studies presents Wen Yuhang, Kunqu Performer 11/25/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Wen Yuhang: Singing, Chanting, and Acting in Kunqu (Early Modern Chinese Theater)
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Frankel Center for Judaic Studies presents Elisheva Baumgarten, Bar Ilan University 12/2/2008; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Elisheva Baumgarten: "Gender and Piety: Practice and Belief in Medieval Jewish and Christian Communities in Northern Europe"
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Institute for the Humanities presents Katherine Ibbett, UM-Romance Languages and Literatures 12/2/2008; 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Katherine Ibbett: "Novel Feelings: Compassion and Toleration in Early Modern France"
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Science, Technology & Society presents Pascal Grosse, UM-Germanic Languages, Residential College 12/8/2008; 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm Pascal Grosse: "The Secular Brain and Its Discontents: Neuroscience and Religion from the Seventeenth Century to the Present"
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The Premodern Colloquium presents Michelle Miller, UM-Romance Languages PhD 12/14/2008; 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm Michelle Miller: "Humble Connectedness: Nourrisson Friends and Worldly Piety in the French Religious Novella, 1559–1629"
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Romance Languages presents Simon Gaunt, King's College London 4/2/2009; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Simon Gaunt: TBA
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