An Official Employee Publication From the Office of University Relations

Hallmark Symposium
6 p.m. Mondays. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Sponsored by Department of Art & Design. Call 864-4401.

Sept. 10 — Pat Flynn, metalsmith.
Sept. 24 — Paul Sahre, graphic designer.
Oct. 8 — Christopher Budd, interior designer and architect.
Oct. 22 — Dorothy Dunn, Smithsonian Institution.
Nov. 5 — Anne Wilson, textile artist.
Nov. 19 — Marc Ulriksen, illustrator.
Dec. 3 — Gus Kayafas, photography.

Tours du jour
12:15 p.m. Thursdays. Spencer Museum of Art. Call 864-4710.

Sept. 13 — “American Indian Art.” Andrea Norris, art museum. White Gallery.
Sept. 27 — “Japanese Prints from the Collection.” Cori Sherman, art museum. South balcony gallery.
Oct. 4 — “Alberto Vargas: The Esquire Pinups.” Steve Goddard, art museum. Kress Gallery.
Oct. 11 — “New Latin American Works at the Spencer Museum.” Patrick Frank, art history.
Oct. 25 — “New Petah Coyne Work at the Spencer Museum.” Susan Earle, art museum.
Nov. 1 — “Recent Acquisitions in the Asian Collection.” Mary Dusenbury, art museum.
Nov. 8 — “Photographs from the Collection.” Elissa Anderson, art museum. North balcony gallery.
Nov. 15 — “Asian Art.” Kwangwon Choe, art museum.
Nov. 29 — Samantha Schramm, art museum.

Merienda lecture series
Noon. Thursdays. 318 Bailey Hall. Sponsored by Center of Latin American Studies. Call 864-4213.

Sept. 13 — Tinker Field research grant awardees.
Sept. 20 — “Influence of the Banana Company in the Brunca Region in Costa Rica.” Donna Luckey, architecture.
Sept. 27 — Tinker Field research grant awardees.
Oct. 4 — “The Crisis in Nicaraguan Higher Education.” Greg Douros, Latin American studies.
Oct. 11 — “Cuba: Faces and Places.” Richard Gwin, Lawrence Journal-World.
Oct. 25 — “Local Tradition, Scarce Water and the Batateira Irrigators: Conflict and Cooperation in Semi-Arid Brazil.” Mitchell Mathis, Mitchell Center for Sustainable Development.
Nov. 1 — “The Influence of African Music and Religion in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.” Clarence Henry, music & dance.
Nov. 8 — “Dialogues on Midwives, Medicine and Measurement in Rural Costa Rica.” Gwynne Jenkins, anthropology and women’s studies.
Nov. 15 — “Poetry and Technology in Latin America.” Jill Kuhnheim, Spanish & Portuguese.

Laird Brown Bag Lectures
12:30 p.m. Thursdays. Regionalist Room, Kansas Union. Sponsored by Center for Russian and East European Studies. Call 864-4236.

Aug. 30 — “The Alma-Ata Demonstrations of December 1986.” Michael Stefany, history.
Sept. 6 — “The Russia America Company.” Aleksandr Petrov, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.
Sept. 13 — “The Caucasus: Where Worlds Collide.” Natalie Riegg.
Sept. 20-Dec. 13 — TBA.

Higuchi Memorial Lectures
Rudy Tanzi, Harvard University. Sponsored by School of Pharmacy. Call 864-3591.
Oct. 4 — “Alzheimer’s Disease: From Genes to Drugs in This Decade.” 9:30 a.m. Budig Hall.
Oct. 5 — “Decoding Darkness: The Search for the Genetic Causes of Alzheimer’s Disease.” 5:30 p.m. Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union.

Humanities Lecture Series
Sponsored by Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Oct. 4 — “Humanism in America.” Edward W. Said, Columbia University. 7:30 p.m. Kansas Union ballroom.
Oct. 5 — “Orientalism: East-West Identities.” Edward W. Said, Columbia University. 10 a.m. Hall Center conference room.
Nov. 15 — “The Color of Sex: Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality in America.” Joane Nagel, sociology. 7:30 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium, Kansas Union.

Other lectures
Sept. 12 — “Victoria’s Values: Marking the Centenary of Queen Victoria’s Death.” Victor Bailey, history. 7:30 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Sponsored by Hall Center. Call 864-4710.

Sept. 27
• “The Future of Area Studies.” Kenneth Prewitt, New School University. 12:30 p.m. Malott Room, Kansas Union. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.
• “Lost Siberia: The Vanishing Vistas of the Russian East.” William Brumfield, Tulane University. 7 p.m. Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union. Sponsored by Center for Russian and East European Studies. Call 864-4236.

Oct. 11 — “War Goddesses: Women, World War II, and the Vargas Girl.” Maria-Elena Buszek, Santa Monica College. 7 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Call 864-4710.

Oct. 16
“War, Morality, and Deception: An Auschwitz Perspective.” Rudolf Vrba, University of British Columbia. 8 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Sponsored by Department of German and the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Oct. 25
“Modigliani Reconsidered.” Kenneth Wayne, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y. 7 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Call 864-4710.

Nov. 1
“The Pin-up Art of Alberto Vargas: Erotic Representations of American Life.” Maureen Honey, University of Nebraska.
7 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Call 864-4710.

Nov. 5
Timothy Colton, Harvard University. 7:30 p.m. Location TBA. Sponsored by Center for Russian and East European Studies. Call 864-4236.

Nov. 29
Murphy Lecture. “Variations on a Theme: Georgia O’Keefe’s Serial Images.” Wanda Corn, Stanford University. 7 p.m. Spencer Museum of Art auditorium. Call
864-4710.