Poetry Writing Workshop

Scott Wiggerman
Saturday, April 21, 2012, 9 am - Noon
Prothro Center for Lifelong Learning, Room 147
(Coordinated by John Pipkin)

The Writing Life

Tom Grimes
Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 4:00 pm
Mood-Bridwell Hall Atrium
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(Coordinated by John Pipkin)

Mud Offerings

A Chicanita has it out with the Virgen de Guadalupe
A solo play written and performed by Natalie Marlena Goodnow
This performance is sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology,
the Feminist Studies Program, the Theatre Department, Kappa Delta Chi sorority, and
Latinos Unidos
Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 5:30 pm
Sarofim School of Fine Arts Building, Heather Hall
Q&A follows the performance
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On Being a Writer

Elizabeth McCracken
Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 4:00 pm
Mood-Bridwell Hall Atrium
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(Coordinated by John Pipkin) 

An Alternative to the Alternatives: Why Current Approaches to
Sustainable Animal Agriculture Fail

Dr. Jimmy McWilliams
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00 pm
Mood-Bridwell Atrium
Reception immediately follows
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The Perfect Game (Das perfekte Spiel)

A Reading by Herbert Genzmer
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4:00 pm
Frank Smith Jr. Library, Prothro Room - 1st Floor
Snacks and drinks at the cafe downstairs after the reading
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The Hoard Crawford Lecture Series and the Department of English present

Dr. James McWilliams
Department of History
Texas State University, San Marcos
Thursday, March 22, 2012, 4-5:00 pm
Mood-Bridwell Hall Atrium
Reception to immediately follow lecture

History and Rhetoric
In the Quinatzin Map of Circa 1542

2011 International Studies Lecture Series
Dr. Eduardo de J. Douglas
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 4-5:00 pm
F.W. Olin Building, Room 110
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Chinese Cartographic Practices and Frontier Politics

2011 International Studies Lecture Series
Dr. Laura Hostetler
Thursday, November 10, 2011, 4-5:30 pm
F.W. Olin Building, Room 110
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“Fair Ophelia” in Victorian and Asian Visual and Performance Cultures

Dr. Alexander Huang
George Washington University
Friday, October 28, 2011, 1:00-2:00 pm
Mood-Bridwell Building, Atrium
Reception to Follow
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Watercolors and World History

Art in the Service of Empire

2011 History Colloquium
Dr. Laura J. Mitchell
Thursday, October 27, 2011, 4:30-5:30 pm
F.W. Olin Building, Room 110
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Camp Victory Afghanistan

A film by Carol Dysinger
Film screening and panel discussion
Monday, Sept. 26, 2011
4:30 to 6:30 pm
FW Olin Bldg. Room 105
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Jesse Daniel Ames Lecture 2012

Guest Lecturer, Dr. Dorothy Roberts
Race, Gender, and the New Biocitizen
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Contact:  Dr. Alison Kafer

History Colloquium 2011

Dr. Laura J. Mitchell
Associate Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Watercolors and World History: Art in the Service of Empire
 4:00 P.M. on Thursday, October 27, 2011
F.W. Olin Building, Room 110

This event is part of the month-long series
September 11, 2001: Memories, Legacies and Aftermaths Ten Years Later

Lawrence Wright will give a film screening of his HBO documentary
My Trip to Al-Qaeda
4:00-6:30 P.M. on Tuesday, September 6, 2011
F.W. Olin Building, Room 105
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Dr. M. Cristina Alcalde

The Woman in the Violence:  Gender, Poverty, and Resistance in Peru
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies
University of Kentucky
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 4:00 P.M.
Prothro Room, Smith Library Center    
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Dr. Meghana Nayak

Rethinking Global Politics:  Why it’s not always about the U.S.
1997 Southwestern University Graduate
Thursday, April 14, 2011, 4:00 P.M.
Mood-Bridwell Atrium
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Dr. Caroline Levander

2011 Howard Crawford Lecture, English Department
Professor of English, Director, Humanities in Research
Rice University
Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 4:00 P.M.
Mood-Bridwell Atrium
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Dr. Jason Sokol

Lecturer in the Department of African
and African American Studies
Harvard University
Monday, March 28, 2011, 4:30 P.M.
FW Olin Room 110
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Dr. Ricio Magana

Assistant Professor Anthropology, Rutgers University
National Center for Institutional Diversity Fellow, University of Michigan
Monday, March 7, 2011, 4:00 P.M.
Prothro Room
Smith Library Center
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Jesse Daniel Ames Lecture 2011

Silvia Henriquez
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health
Tuesday, March 1, 2011 4:00 P.M.
Red McCombs Campus Center
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Dr. Mel Y. Chen

Assistant Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies
University of California at Berkeley
Tuesday, February 22, 2011, 4:00 P.M.
Connie McNab Ballroom
McCombs Campus Center
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Daniel Carter

Post-doctorate fellow, University of south at Sewanee 
Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:00 P.M.
F. W. Olin Building, Room 110
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Mary Margaret Navar

Talk on Ethnographic Research Methods within the context of her
Anthropological Research in a Zapotec community in Oaxaca, Mexicoto
Wednesday, February 9, 1:50 P.M.
Contact:  Dr. Brenda Sendejo

Miranda Loud

Director and Producer of The Elephant Project, Phase II
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 6:00 P.M.
F. W. Olin Building, Room 110

John P. Mackey

Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
A. Frank Smith, Jr. Lecture Series
Monday, November 29, 2011 4:00 P.M.
Alma Thomas Theater
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Dr. Franklin Knight

History Colloquium
John Hopkins University
Wednesday, November 10, 2011 4:00 P.M.
Julie Puett Howry Center
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