Forthcoming Events

Monday, December 7, 2009

Galileo's Voices of Fiction as Vehicles of Truth

CRYSTAL HALL
Assistant Professor of Italian
Department of French & Italian
University of Kansas

4:30 p.m.
330 Strong Hall

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Dean's Graduate Instructor Lecture

RYAN GASTON
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities & Western Civilization Program
Ph.D. candidate, History
University of Kansas

7:30 p.m.
Malott Room, Kansas Union
Reception to follow

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Peace & Conflict Studies Lecture

ELIZABETH BORGWARDT

8:00 p.m.
Alderson Auditorium, Kansas Union
Reception to follow in the English Room


Past Events

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Dean's Graduate Instructor Lecture

William Lindsay White's Ideal American Man

DUSTIN GANN
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities & Western Civilization Program
Ph.D. candidate, History
University of Kansas

Monday, November 9, 2009

Meet and Greet

MARK RUDD
Peace activist and Author
Former Weatherman Underground member

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Twenty-Second Annual James E. Seaver Lecture
on Continuing Issues in Western Civilization 

Documenting the Undocumented: Stories of Migration, Border Crossing, and Unbelonging

MARTA CAMINERO-SANTANGELO
Professor and Chair
Department of English
University of Kansas

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Autumnal Equinox Walking Tour of Mount Oread

TED JOHNSON
Professor Emeritus

Friday, May 8, 2009

Perspectives on the Monuments of Mount Oread:
A Stop Day Walking Tour of Kansas University

TED JOHNSON
Professor Emeritus

Monday, May 4, 2009

HWC Annual Awards Ceremony

Thursday, April 2, 2009

A Chinese Ann Landers: the "Dear Diane" Letters and the Encounter of Chinese Young Women in Contemporary America

HONG CAI
Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies, University of Kansas

Thursday, March 5, 2009

The Power of Nonviolence

DAVID CORTRIGHT
President, Fourth Freedom Foundation
Research Fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies,
University of Notre Dame

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Ordinary Women, Ordinary Evil: The SS Aufseherinnen of the Nazi Camp System

SHELLY CLINE
Ph.D. Student, History, University of Kansas

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Nobody Loves a Fat Man:  Masculinity and Obesity in the Film Noir Cycle

CHRISTOPHER E. FORTH
The Jack and Shirley Howard Teaching Professor of Humanities & Western Civilization
University of Kansas

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Erasmus and Voltaire:   Why They Still Matter

RICARDO QUINONES
Josephine Olp Weeks Professor of Comparative Literature, retired
Claremont McKenna College
Visiting Professor of Humanities & Western Civilization (1998-2001)
University of Kansas

Friday, April 11, 2008

The Role of the 18th Century Scottish Enlightenment in Revolutionary War Period Medical Education

DR. GEORGE SHELDON
2008 Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Dean’s Graduate Instructor Lecture

Kansas Divide: The Question of Wind Energy in the Flint Hills

HOWARD GRAHAM
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Humanities & Western Civilization Program
M.A. student, American Studies
University of Kansas

Monday, February 25, 2008

Peace & Conflict Studies Lecture

Médicins Sans Frontiéres and the Shrinking Humanitarian Space

MICHAEL BARRINGER-MILLS
Field Administrator, Médecins Sans Frontieres