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Sept. 4 — Panel discussion. “What Peer Reviewers Say About Successful Grant Proposals.” 3:30 p.m. Centennial Room, Kansas Union. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Sept. 14 — Panel discussion. “Hall Center Competitions.” 3:30 p.m. Centennial Room, Kansas Union. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call
864-4798.

Oct. 5 — Conference. “Elites, Institutions, and the Fate of African Democratizations.” All day. Daisy Hill Room, Burge Union. Sponsored by African Studies Resource Center. Call 864-3745.

Oct. 8 — Conference. “Composition and Literature: Teaching Traditions in a Time of Transition.” All day. Sponsored by Continuing Education. $.
Call 864-5823.

Nov. 9 — VIS Faculty Seminar. “Peace as Separating Forces: U.N. Peace-Keeping Forces 1988.” Bruce W. Menning, General Staff College. 3:30 p.m. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Nov. 16 — VIS Faculty Seminar. “The Peace Prize and Peace Studies Today.” Pieter van den Dungen, University of Bradford. 10:30 a.m. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Also 1 p.m.
Call 864-4798.

University Forum
Noon. Wednesdays. ECM Center, 1204 Oread Ave. Call 843-4933.

August 29 — “Gene Therapy.” Robert Weaver, molecular biosciences.
Sept. 5 — “My Life as Lawrence City Commissioner.” Mike Rundle, Lawrence mayor.
Sept. 12 — “The Selling of the University, Part III.” David Katzman, American studies.
Sept. 19 — “The Moral Obligation to Resist Oppression.” Ann Cudd, philosophy.
Sept. 26 — “University Governance: Is It Really Working?” Jim Carothers, English; Robert Minor, religious studies; and Sandra Wick, Honors Program.
Oct. 3 — “Globalization and the Atmosphere: Managing Our Common Resource.” David Braaten, physics and astronomy.
Oct. 10 — “Career vs. Vocation.” Thad Holcomb, Ecumenical Ministries.
Oct. 17 — “Responses to Homelessness.” Helen Hartnett, social welfare, and Keith Staples, homeless advocate.
Oct. 24 — “Human Adaption in Harsh Geographic Areas.” Robert W. McColl, geography.
Oct. 31 — “Halloween, All Saint’s, and All Soul’s.” The Rev. Joseph S.T. Alford, St. Anselm’s Canterbury. Noon.
Nov. 7 — “Feminist Theology: What Is It?” The Rev. Heather K. Hensarling, United Methodist Campus Ministry.
Nov. 14 — “Barriers to Recruitment and Retention of Minority Students, Faculty, and Staff.” Justin Mills, student body president, and Marlene Elliot, education.
Nov. 28 — “Legislative Report on the 107th Congress.” Rep. Dennis Moore.
Dec. 5 — “Diversity in KU International Students.”
Dec. 12 — “Future of the College of Education.”
Dec. 19 — “The Graying of HIV/AIDS.” Jane P. Fowler, National Association of HIV Over Fifty.

African Studies Seminar
4 p.m. Thursdays. Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union. Sponsored by African Studies Resource Center. Call 864-3745.

Sept. 6 — “Community Radio in Ghana and Its Impact on Women in Ada.” Adrienne Rivers, journalism.
Sept. 13 — “Human Rights in Africa: Problems and Prospects.” Abdullahi An-Na’im, Emory University.
Oct. 25 — “Media Law in Africa: Case Studies of Ghana and Burkina Faso.” Tom Volek, journalism.
Nov. 8 — “Broadcast Policy in Reference to the Privatization of Media in Ghana.” Araba Sey, communication studies.

Globalization, Ethics, and Culture Colloquium
3:30 p.m. Thursdays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

August 30 — Introduction.
Sept. 6 — Common reading.
Sept. 13 — “Globalization, Ethics, and Culture.” Richard DeGeorge, philosophy.
Sept. 20 — “Toward a Solid Politico-Economy for Managing Catastrophic Globalization.” David Burress, Policy Research Institute.
Oct. 4 — “Conceptualizing Globalization, Culture, and Ethical Action: A Means of Enriching Business and Management Theory and Practice.” Jill Kleinberg and Catherine Schwoerer, business.
Oct. 11 — “Globalization and the Digital Divide: Some Ethical Considerations.” Nobleza Asuncion-Lande, communication studies.
Oct. 25 — “The Commercial Internet and Cultural Protectionism.” Douglas Houston, business.
Nov. 1 — Thomas Donaldson, Wharton School.
Nov. 8 — “Throwing Eggs at Windows: National Sovereignty and International Legal Integration in the New Century.” John Head, law.
Nov. 15 — “Globalization and American Legal Norms.” Sidney Shapiro, law.
Nov. 29 — “Globalization and American Immigration.” Norman Yetman, American studies.
Dec. 6 — Conclusion.

Nature and Culture Symposium
3:30 p.m. Fridays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

August 31 — “The Day the Goldfinch Died: Stories of Pesticides, Nature, and the Flesh in Reactions to ‘Silent Spring.’” Maril Hazlett, history.
Sept. 14 — “Ecofeminism.” Jim Cheney, University of Wisconsin at Parkside.
Oct. 5 — “Beyond the Yawp: The Nature of Modernist Verse.” Robin G. Schulze, Pennsylvania State University.
Oct. 26 — “Environmental History in the Classical World.” J. Donald Hughes, University of Denver.
Nov. 30 — “‘Our Precious Bodily Fluids’: Fluoridation, ‘Silent Spring,’ and the American Right.” Brian Drake, history.

American Seminar
3:30 p.m. Wednesdays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Sept. 5 — “The Automation of Information and the Decentering of the Individual.” Brian Drake, history.
Oct. 24 — “To Exchange Languages and Ideas: Indigenous Fugitives from Eastman to Warrior.” David Anthony Tyeeme Clark, American studies.
Nov. 7 — “Home Front, War Front, History: Four Texts of the First World War.” Janet Sharistanian, English.
Nov. 14 — “The Shaping of American Urban Built Environments: Economic Growth as a Hegemonic Discourse.” Noel Rasor, American studies.
Nov. 28 — “The Politics Industry and the Decline of Governance.” Noel Rasor, American studies.

Early Modern Seminar
3:30 p.m. Mondays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Sept. 10 — “Social Control and the Reader in ‘El Criticon’” Patricia Manning, Spanish and Portuguese.
Nov. 5 — “Silent Persuasions: Body Ideology in the Jane Austen Film Adaptations.” Bonnie Blackwell, Texas Christian University.

Before 1500 Seminar
4 p.m. Tuesdays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Sept. 11 — “Let the Punishment Fit the Man: The Role of Status in T’ang Law.” Wallace Johnson, East Asian languages.
Oct. 30 — “The Face Behind the Mask: Cosmetic and Physiognomy in Medieval Medicine.” Walton O. Schalick, Washington University.
Nov. 13 — “Sex, Lies, and Paternity Suits in Late Medieval Spain.” Debra Blumenthal, history.
Dec. 11 — “Female Piety and Private Prayer: An Investigation of the Private Prayer Books from the Cistercian Convent of Weinhausen, circa 1400-1550.” June Meacham, history.

Poetics Seminar
4 p.m. Wednesdays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

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Philosophy and Literature Seminar
3:30 p.m. Mondays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.
Sept. 17. — “Plato Between Art and Philosophy.” Thomas Tuozzo, philosophy.
Oct. 22 — “Translation and Meaning: Three Jewish Authors.” Daniel Breslauer, religious studies.
Nov. 19 — Michael Hagemeister, University of Frankfort/Oder.

Gender Seminar
3:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Sept. 18 — “Machete Penises and Devouring Vaginas: When the Ethnographic Exotic Becomes the Erotic.” Brent Metz, humanities & western civilization.
Oct. 2 — “Deformed Desires.” Anita Superson, University of Kentucky.
Nov. 13 — “Sex, Lies, and Paternity Suits in Late Medieval Spain.” Debra Blumenthal, history.

British Seminar
3:30 p.m. Mondays. Hall Center conference room. Sponsored by the Hall Center. Call 864-4798.

Oct. 1 — “Pageant and Parliament in March 1604: The Intersection of Politics and Entertainment.” David Bergeron, English.
Dec. 4 — “Shakespeare’s Deputies and the Court of King James.” Maureen Godman, Washburn University.