National Endowment for the Humanities
Distinguished Visiting Scholars

The Distinguished Visiting Scholars program provides access to the world's most distinguished and innovative scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Administered by the Humanities Research Center, the program is funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and other donors.

Bruno Latour
Professor at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques

Monday, February 5th - Friday, February 9th, 2007

Political Truth: Lippmann's Phantom and Dewey's Great Community
4PM, Herring Hall 100
Free and open to the public

Other events include:
February 5th - Seminar "The Politics of Multinationalism" 4PM Humanities 117
February 7th - Seminar "Collective Experiments" 4PM Humanities 118
February 8th - Film: Making Things Public 4:30PM Anderson Hall, Farish Gallery
February 9th - Seminar "Cosmopolitics" Rayzor Hall 123

Jean Comaroff and John L. Comaroff
Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago
John L. Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and Social Sciences, University of Chicago

      

Monday, March 28 - Friday, April 1, 2005

Jean Comaroff
Criminal Ac/counting: Quantifacts and the Production of the Unreal
Monday, March 28, 2005, 8PM in Herring 100

John Comaroff
Ethnicity, Inc.: On the Commodification, Consumption, and Construction of Cultural Identity in a Brave Neo World
Tuesday, March 29, 2005, 8PM in Herring 100

Both lecures are free and open to the public

Faculty-Student Seminars:
Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 4PM in Humanities 117: Millenial Captialism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Thursday, March 31, 2005, 4PM in Humanities 117: New Religious Movements in the Age of Neoliberalism

September 22-25, 2003

Public Lecture jointly sponsored by the President's Lecture Series:
Shame, Stigma, and Punishment
8PM, Grand Hall, Rice Memorial Center
Free and open to the public

Faculty-Student Seminars:
September 23, 2003: Inscribing the Face: Shame and Stigma, 4 PM, Humanities 117
September 24, 2003: Beyond the Social Contract: Justice and Mental Disabilities, 4 PM, Humanities 117
September 25, 2003: Capabilities, Fundamental Entitlements, and Women's Equality, 4 PM, Humanities 117
A reception will follow the seminar.

Susan Handelman
Professor of English, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

March 18 through 25, 2003

Drawing on biblical hermeneutics, ancient and contemporary philosophy, literary theory, theology and psychoanalysis, Susan Handelman has illuminated the relations between literary criticism and its roots in the Patristic and Rabbinic interpretive traditions.  Her work demonstrates the vitality literary criticism can regain when it views itself as the displacement and reemergence of ancient hermeneutical conflicts.

Teaching in the Face of Terror: Strategies of Survival, Humanistic Education, and Cultural Repair
March 19, 2003, 8PM
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Free and open to the public

Faculty-Student Seminars:
Tuesday, March 18, 4:00PM, Humanities 226: "Knowledge Has a Face," Part 1: "The Personal and the Pedagogical in Classical Jewish Sources and Postmodern Theory"
Friday, March 21, 3:00PM, Humanities 226: "Knowledge Has a Face," Part 2: "Academic Knowledge and Religious Discourse"
Monday, March 24, 5:30PM, Humanities 227: "The Student-Teacher Relation, the Construction of Knowledge, and the Rhetoric of Rabbinic Texts," Part 1
Tuesday, March 25, 4:00PM, Humanities 226: "The Student-Teacher Relation, the Construction of Knowledge, and the Rhetoric of Rabbinic Texts," Part 2

Michel Serres

Sciences and Humanities: The Case of J. M. Turner
Monday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Kyle Morrow Room, Fondren Library
Free and open to the public

Seminars:
(All the following seminars will take place at 4 p.m., Humanities 226)
Tuesday, April 9: Euclidean First Definitions
Wednesday, April 10: Space in Pluto's Timeus
Friday, April 12: Clinamen in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura
Wednesday, April 17: Pascal's Geometry

French philosopher Michel Serres will visit Rice April 6-20 as the Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Cultures. A member of the prestigious Academie Francaise, Serres has integrated scientific thought, especially mathematics, thermodynamics, and chaos theory, into his philosophy. His interdisciplinary works draw on the discoveries of the sciences as well as aesthetics, the arts, poetry, and literature.

Jan Assmann & Aleida Assmann
Jan Assmann is a professor at University of Heidelberg
Aleida Assmann is a professor at University of Konstanz

Aleida Assmann
Affect--Symbol--Trauma: Stabilizers of Memory
7.30-9:00pm, Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
Reception to follow in Kelley Lounge, 9.00-9:30pm

Jan Assmann
Monotheism and Memory: Freud's Moses and the Biblical Tradition
7.30-9:00pm, Farnsworth Pavilion, RMC
Reception to follow in Kelley Lounge, 9.00-9:30pm

Seminars:
"History and Memory" 7.00-9.00pm, Sewall Hall 352A
"Reinventing Tradition" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
"Paradigms of Learning" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226
"From Short Term to Long Term Memories" 7.00-9.00pm, Humanities Building 226