monthly HGSA meeting

Our second open meeting of the semester will be on Monday, October 19, from 12:00 to 1:00 in HUMA 115. All are welcome to attend. We will be discussing the Humanities Student Workshop, changes to the HGSA spring conference, and upcoming info sessions.

info session: 90 second thesis

The 90 Second Thesis Competition is an opportunity to share your current research with a large audience of Rice Faculty, administrators, students, and alumni. Please join us Monday, November 2 at 11:00 (location TBD) for free coffee and a short talk with Elizabeth Festa, Associate Director of the Center for Written, Oral, and Visual Communication. She’ll be discussing the competition and it can benefit Humanities graduate students.

the rice humanities workshop

To help Humanities graduate students further develop as scholars, we’ve reconceptualized the HGSA research forums. The Rice Humanities Workshop is designed to provide feedback to works in progress. Once a month, we’ll get together to discuss a grad student’s conference presentation / job talk / paper / dissertation chapter, and then we’ll retire to Valhalla for some beer, wine, and snacks on us.

Our first Rice Humanities Workshop will be on Monday, November 9 at 5:30 in HUMA 327. If you’re interested in sharing your work in progress, please email us at hgsa@rice.edu with a brief description of your work by October 29.

Come out and support your colleagues in the humanities (and get some free beer, too)!

achievements

Mark Bebawi (History) will present a paper, “Accounting for the ‘Internal Other’ in Egyptian Nationalism 1911–1919,” at the 7th annual Graduate Conference on Power and Struggle, hosted by the University of Alabama. Bebawi will present a second paper, “Competing Muslim and Coptic Notions of Egyptian Nationalism,” at the African Nationalisms, History, and Development Conference at Founders College, York University.

Rachel Bracken’s (English) article, “The Eyes of Dr. T. J. Eckleburg and the Diagnostic Gaze as Moral Authority in The Great Gatsby,” has been published in Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, an interdisciplinary medical humanities journal.

Edwin Breeden (History) presented a paper, “The Enslaved at the Exchange: Uncovering and Interpreting Slavery at South Carolina’s Cradle of Liberty,” at the 2015 Slave Dwelling Project Conference in North Charleston, SC.

Lindsey Chappell’s (English) article, “Dickensian Dimensions of Time,” won the 2015 Hamilton Prize for the best graduate student essay in the field of Victorian studies. It will be published in the Spring 2016 issue of Victorian Review.

Chelsea Dacus’s (Art History) exhibition, “Fangs, Feathers, and Fins: Sacred Creatures in Ancient American Art,” will open this month at the MFAH.

Rachel Harmeyer (Art History) will present a paper, “The Social Network: Leigh Hunt’s ‘Hair Book’ and Aspirational Sentimentality,” at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States’ Victorian Self-Fashioning conference this month in Denver, CO.

S. Wright Kennedy (History) published a paper, “Historic Disease Data as Epidemiological Resource: Searching for the Origin and Local Basic Reproduction Number of the 1878 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Memphis, Tennessee,” in Annals of the Association of American Geographers a top geography journal.

Natasha Tze Mao (Art History) will present a paper from a chapter of her dissertation, “Italian Courtesans in Early Modern Interactive Art,” at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in Boston, MA. She also has been awarded a grant by the HRC for a trip to Philadelphia Museum of Art in February 2016.

David Murrah (Philosophy) presented a paper, “The Phenomenality of Value and the Problem of Pain and Sorrow,” as Modalities 2015: Politics and Poetics, the Rice University Department of English Graduate Symposium.

Sean Morey Smith’s (History) paper, “The Terrors of the Climate: Mortality, Race, and the British Politics of Empire in Sierra Leone,” was awarded the 2015 John L. Snell Memorial Prize for the best seminar research paper in European history by the Southern Historical Association.

Peter Zuk’s (Philosophy) paper,  “A Third Version of Constructivism: Rethinking Spinoza’s Metaethics,” was published in the October 2015 issue of Philosophical Studies.

Celebrate your achievements! Keep us informed about your conference presentations, fellowships, awards, and any other noteworthy academic news. Send an email to hgsa@rice.edu or your HGSA representative.

upcoming conferences & lectures

conferences:

  • Spiritual But Not Religious Conference, Mar. 18-20, 2016 [Religious Studies]

lectures in October & November:

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