Rice: Unconventional Wisdom
Lectures

Time Event
February 22 through February 22 The Alchemy of Occupation: Karl Lowenstein and the Legal Reconstruction of Germany, 1945-46"
Speaker: Rande Kostal
Sponsor: History
November 23
9:00 AM
High-level Tasks to Correct, Low-level Robot Control
Speaker: Hadas Kress-Gazit
Sponsor: Computer Science
December 01
4:00 PM
Scientia Institute: Networks of Knowledge
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Baraniuk
Sponsor: Scientia
December 01
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Hinduism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Shira Lander
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
December 03
2:30 PM
Dr. Chris Love - MIT - "Resolving heterogeneity in populations of cells by integrated single-cell analysis: Implications for biomanufacturing and human immunology"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
December 03
5:00 PM
Health Care Reform: Finding the Best Approach
Open to the Public / Registration Required
Speaker: William Niskanen, Joseph Bak
Sponsor: James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy
December 08
12:00 PM
Ed Snow on Cy Twombly, featuring translations of Rainer Maria Rilke
Speaker: Edward A Snow
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
December 09
11:30 AM
December 2009 Lunch Bunch
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Sponsor: Staff Advisory Committee
January 07
7:00 PM
The Early Zionist Artists: Utopian Ideas in the Modern Land of Israel (Part 1)
Open to the Public / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Alec Mishory
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 10
10:00 AM
Salomone Rossi: A Jewish Composer in the Italilan Court
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Lavenda
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 14
2:30 PM
Dr. Terry Papoustakis - University of Delaware - Title "A case for Differentiation Engineering: Understanding and Engineering the Differentiation Program in Clostridia"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
January 14
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Catholicism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Shira Lander
Sponsor: The Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
January 14
7:00 PM
The Early Zionist Artists: Utopian Ideas in the Modern Land of Israel (Part 2)
Open to the Public / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Alec Mishory
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 17
10:00 AM
Max Bruch's Kol Nidrei: A German Protestant writes Sacred Jewish Music
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Lavenda
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 19
4:00 PM
Scientia Institute
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Scientia
January 19
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Baha'i
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Ata Anzali
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
January 21
2:30 PM
Dr. Dave Kitko - Procter & Gamble - "Surfactant Synergies in Consumer Products"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
January 21
7:00 PM
The Early Zionist Artists: Utopian Ideas in the Modern Land of Israel (Part 3)
Open to the Public / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Alec Mishory
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 24
10:00 AM
Between Worlds: Jewish Music in Contemporary, Secular America
Open to the Public
Speaker: Richard Lavenda
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 26
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Sikhism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Ata Anzali
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
January 28
2:30 PM
Dr. Eric Dufresne - Yale University - Title TBA
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
January 28
7:00 PM
The Early Zionist Artists: Utopian Ideas in the Modern Land of Israel (Part 4)
Open to the Public / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Alec Mishory
Sponsor: Jewish Studies
January 29
12:00 PM
Artist Talk
Open to the Public
Speaker: El Anatsui
Sponsor: Rice University Art Gallery
February 04
2:30 PM
Dr. Mahendra Sunkara - University of Delaware- Title TBA
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
February 09
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Judaism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Shira Lander
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
February 12
4:00 PM
Poetry is Dead, Long Live Poetry
Speaker: Maureen McLane
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
February 12
4:00 PM
The State of Exception as a Political and Logical Problem
Speaker: Andrew Norris
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
February 16
4:00 PM
Scientia Institute
Open to the Public
Speaker: John H. Byrne
Sponsor: Scientia
February 16
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: African-American Religions
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Margarita Guillory Simon
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
February 22
4:30 PM
The Alchemy of Occupation: Karl Lowenstein and the Legal Reconstruction of Germany, 1945-46"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Rande Kostal
Sponsor: History
February 23
4:00 PM
VISEN Distinguished Lecture - David A. Patterson
Speaker: David A Patterson
Sponsor: VISEN
February 23
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Zoroastrianism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Ata Anzali
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
February 25
2:30 PM
Dr. Erik Fernandez - University of Virginia - Title TBA
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
February 25
4:00 PM
Jerome McGann. Philology in a New Key: Information Technology and the Transmission of Culture
Open to the Public
Speaker: Jerome McGann
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
February 26
5:00 PM
Intentions and Wrongful Discrimination
Speaker: Deborah Hellman
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
March 09
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Orthodox Christianity
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Dr. Shira Lander
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
March 10
4:00 PM
Distinguished Lecture Series: Adam Arkin
Speaker: Adam Arkin
Sponsor: Computer Science
March 11
2:30 PM
Dr. Carlos Rinaldi - Univ of Puerto Rico - "Magnetic Nanoparticles in Time Varying Magnetic Fields: Rotational Brownian Motion, Magnetorheology, and Nanoscale Viscosity Measurements"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
March 11
5:00 PM
Women's History Month Lecture
Open to the Public
Speaker: Linda Gordon
Sponsor: History
March 16
4:00 PM
Scientia Institute
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Scientia
March 18
2:30 PM
Dr. Phillip Westmoreland- North Carolina State University- Title TBA
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
March 18
4:00 PM
Wolfe Lecture: TBA
Speaker: Scott Sheffield
Sponsor: Mathematics
March 19
5:00 PM
Regarding Doing Being Ordinary
Speaker: J. David Velleman
Sponsor: Humanities Research Center
March 23
7:00 PM
World Religions Lecture: Buddhism
Open to the Public / Registration Required / Admission Charge
Speaker: Ann Gleig
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
March 24
7:30 PM
Bridge Builders Lecture Series: "Building Tolerance in America's Youth During a Time of Crisis"
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
April 08
2:30 PM
Dr. Chris Voigt - UCSF - Title TBA
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
April 13
7:30 PM
Bridge Builders Lecture Series: "A Perspective on the Holocaust: The role of Ethics and Morality for the Military Professional"
Open to the Public
Speaker: Colonel Edward B. Westermann
Sponsor: Boniuk Center for Religious Tolerance
April 14
8:00 PM
President's Lecture Series presents Marian Wright Edelman
Open to the Public
Speaker: Marian Wright Edelman
Sponsor: President's Lecture Series
April 20
4:00 PM
Scientia Institute
Open to the Public
Sponsor: Scientia
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