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The Hall Centers primary mission is to
stimulate and support research in the
humanities, arts and social sciences,
especially of an interdisciplinary kind, at
the University of Kansas. The Center brings
together faculty and graduate students with
common interests from various disciplines to
enable them to build on each others ideas and
to share their knowledge within the university
and with the wider community.
The Centers collateral mission is to sponsor
special programs that engage the university
and the wider community in dialogue on
issues that bring the humanities to bear on
the quality of life for all citizens. It creates
events on and beyond campus that seek to
understand our past, present and future, our
values and identities and the essential issues
we face as individuals and communities.
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Book Celebration Attendees
From the Director . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
From the Associate Vice Provost for Research. . . . . 5
Humanities Lecture Series, 2006-2007 . . . . . . . . . . 6
An Evening with Andrei Codrescu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The Fork in the Fork of the Road. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
The God Delusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Grooming Citizens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Making Sense of Moral Conict . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Culture & History Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Difcult Dialogues at The Commons
KnowledgeFaith & Reason . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
God, Darwin & Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Judicial Independence & Kitzmiller. . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A World Safe for Diversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Faith, Reason & Assumption. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Argument for Intelligent Design . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Panel Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Public Outreach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
The Impact of Womens Leadership . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Oral History at Work. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Placing a Face on the Immigration Debate . . . . . 16
Operation Homecoming. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Friends & Faculty . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Faculty Development . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Celebration of Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Conicting Memories of the Holocaust . . . . . . . . 21
Shifting Borders Conference. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2006 Fall Faculty Colloquium. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Book Subvention Awards. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
20062007 Hall Center Research Fellows . . . . . 24
Hall Center Faculty Research Travel Grants. . . . . 25
External Funding for Humanities Projects . . . . . . 26
The Year Ahead . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
20072008 Humanities Lecture Series. . . . . . . . 28
Friends of the Hall Center. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Letter from the Chair of the Friends Council . . . . 30
Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Join the Friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Financial Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Contributors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Administration. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Advisory Board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Executive Committee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
20062007 Hall Center Staff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
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Victor Bailey, Director, Hall Center for the Humanities
The past academic year witnessed a number of important developments for the Hall
Center. The Hall Family Foundation generously funded the creation of an integrated
humanities grant development ofce. Kathy Porsch and the graduate student interns,
who do so much to help our constituent faculty apply for and secure external grant
funding, moved their base of operations to the garden level. There is ofce space for
a second full-time grant ofcer in this complex, and we hope to ll it sooner rather
than later with a person whose task it will be to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary
research projects, as distinct from single-investigator proposals.
Also this year, we launched The Commons, a KU partnership among the Biodiversity
Institute, the Hall Center for the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of Art, to
explore the relationships between nature and culture across the sciences, humanities
and the arts. In Fall 2006, we held the rst Difcult Dialogues at The Commons on
Knowledge: Faith & Reason, a lecture series that provided a stage for many of the
principal actors in the Dover, Pennsylvania court case about teaching the theories of
evolution and intelligent design. The series offered diverse views on the proper roles
of reason and faith, and engendered a civil dialogue about some volatile issues in
American life.
Through the leadership of KU Provost Richard Lariviere, The Commons will be based
in Spooner Hall starting in August. Next years theme will be the environment, and
already we have scheduled a Law School symposium, a University Lecture Series
(under the auspices of the University Honors Council), and a class for freshmen
honors students, all of which will explore aspects of global climate change and the
environment. We think this initiative is bold and boundary-shifting. Its success will
be judged by the extent to which it mobilizes research, education and public dialogue
about the interaction of nature and culture across different disciplinary domains.
In the spirit of If you build it, they will come, we encourage requests for the use of
Spooner Hall that will further the goal of bringing together researchers, students and
the public in ways that highlight the interplay between science, the humanities and
the arts.
Another launch occurred this year, the Simons Public Humanities Fellowship, made
possible by a substantial endowment from the Simons family of Lawrence. In the
Fall, we hosted Derek Schmidt, Kansas Senate Majority Leader, who pursued a
course of study on globalization and India; in the Spring, Von Hardesty, curator at
the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum, explored the impact
of Sputnik (launched in 1957) on American social and cultural life. We are now
looking forward to the Fall 2007 visit of Katja Esson, an independent lmmaker from
New York. Her Ferry Tales was nominated in 2004 for an Academy Award for Best
Documentary Short. Simons fellows interact with KU faculty and present their work to
public audiences.
Finally, the Friends of the Hall Center has gone from strength to strength. We are now
receiving around $60,000 each year, all of which is applied to the development, and
occasional celebration, of faculty research and publications. It is gratifying to hear
these friends say they are pleased to be on the inside and supportive of a humanities
center that before seemed off-limits to them.
My sincere thanks go to all our friends and contributors whose generous and ongoing
support of the Hall Center makes possible the kind of events highlighted in this
Annual Report.
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Joshua Rosenbloom, Associate Vice Provost for Research and Professor of Economics
Nineteen years ago this August I arrived in Lawrence, Kansas to take up my rst
academic position as an assistant professor in the Department of Economics.
One of the rst people that I recall meeting at that time was another newly-hired
faculty member, Victor Bailey; and one of the rst places I became familiar with
on the KU campus was the Hall Center for the Humanities, where Victor and I both
participated in a newly established social and economic history seminar. Now Victor
is the Director of the Hall Center, and I have the pleasure of working with him in my
role as Associate Vice Provost for Research.
Over the years I have personally beneted from the Hall Centers activities in so
many ways. The social and economic history seminar, and then other seminars that
the Hall Center has sponsored have provided a stimulating intellectual environment
and a place to interact with faculty from many different parts of the University. A
Hall Center Humanities Fellowship provided me much needed time to work on a
book manuscript. In 2005 I had the chance to work with an extremely talented
group of faculty as director of the Centers Fall Faculty Colloquium, which that year
concentrated on the theme of Capitalism and Culture.
As important as the Hall Center has been to me personally, it is obvious to me that
my experiences only begin to scratch the surface of its activities. For KU faculty
and the public with an interest in the Humanities broadly dened, the Center has
offered a dazzling array of opportunities. The ongoing seminars, the Humanities
Lecture Series and the collaborative effort with the Biodiversity Institute to sponsor
the Difcult Dialogues at The Commons series are among the more visible of these
activities. At least as important are the many ways in which the Center contributes
to faculty development through a variety of fellowships, travel awards, grant writing
workshops and other assistance.
As impressive as the Centers ongoing activities is the commitment of Victor and the
rest of the Hall Center Staff to the continued growth and evolution of the Centers
activities. This year the Center played host to the rst two Simons Public Humanities
Fellows: Derek Schmidt and Von Hardesty. These fellowships offer an opportunity
for people outside of the academy to devote time to scholarly study, and offer the
university community the opportunity to interact with fascinating individuals with
unique perspectives on a host of issues.
The Hall Center is an institution in which all of us associated with the University of
Kansas can be proud. Over the years it has become a vibrant center of scholarly
activity and public outreach and it will continue to excel in these activities in the
years to come.
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A year to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, author, poet and NPR
commentator Andrei Codrescu spoke on August 28 to a packed house at the Lied Center
about living in his heavily mediated and medicated city.
Codrescu, infusing his observations with humor and satiric commentary, noted the
difculty of conveying the ever-changing mood of the citys residents in the months
since the storm. The media, he said is not equipped to show both the hope and the
depression currently in the city.
Addressing the many mistakes made during the disaster, Codrescu decried the blame
game, and the insertion of race and class into post-Katrina politics. In past calamities,
the poor were never counted, never considered, rarely mediated, never evacuated
and never represented, said Codrescu. With Katrina, he argued, we have missed an
opportunity to shine a light on a whole slew of social and economic problems, focusing
instead on faux nostalgist plans for bringing back the city that do not include bringing
back the poor. Katrina was an equal opportunity destroyer, he said, and efforts to
rebuild must take into account the contributions all segments of the population made and
make to the genius of New Orleans.
Codrescu also celebrated the artistic expression that has owered in the city after the
hurricane, while recognizing that explaining that creative impulse is not always easy.
Knowing how to make poetry and music out of misery is difcult to explain, he said but
New Orleans is a countercultural city in the context of an America that places a high
value on efciency. The very characteristics that make the culture of New Orleans worth
preserving are also impediments to moving forward with reconstruction. Its a paradox,
Codrescu said, but as it is with things you love, you can try to lighten the horror by
pointing out the paradoxes.
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Nuruddin Farah
Flying halfway around the world to present his lecture The Fork in the Fork of the Road
on September 12, novelist Nuruddin Farah charmed a Woodruff Auditorium audience with
his metaphors of writing as journey and migration.
Born into the oral tradition of Somalia, Farah learned the written languages of Arabic,
Italian and English at school, and as a result reached the rst of many forks in the road.
Forced to leave his native land for political reasons in 1974, Farah chose to remain in the
limbo of what he termed the international departure lounge. He lived continuously in the
land of imagination writing about Somalia from outside its geographical borders in order
to be free from the censorship of its government. In the country of my imagination, he
said, I dont need a passport. I dont need a visa. I am totally the master of it. I can go in
and out as I please.
While inside the land of his imagination, Farah feels totally isolated from outside realities
and able to spend his time writing and distilling the experience of Somalia from afar.
Writers are engaged in migrating daily between the reality of a country which they share
with everyone else, he said, and the one of their imagination, which is exclusively theirs
and in which they reside for as long as the muse may demand.
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Over 1700 people lled the Lied Center on October 17 to hear Richard Dawkins present
views from his new book, The God Delusion, as part of both the Humanities Lecture
Series and Difcult Dialogues at the Commons.
In a talk laced with cynicism, Dawkins rst examined the viewpoints of Intelligent
Design advocates and countered them by arguing that, however statistically improbable
the origins of the universe might be, the existence of an Intelligent Designer is more
improbable. Dawkins then discussed natural selection and scientic theories concerning
the origins of the universe, explaining that, as scientic knowledge grows, what worries
theologians is that gaps in knowledge shrink and God has nowhere left to hide.
Dawkins argued that a universe with a God would be a totally different kind of universe;
the scientic laws that govern us simply cannot explain the miracles attributed to God.
The only reason some claim that science and religion both have roles but must maintain
separate spheres is because there is no scientic evidence supporting religious claims.
Whether God exists, however, is strictly a scientic question, he said, albeit one science
cannot answer yet. While the God hypothesis is a statistical improbability, scientic
explanations are simple and probable. I believe that one can produce a very, very strong
case that the likelihood that any sort of supernatural intelligence exists is very, very low.
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Nancy Cott and Kim Warren
On the heels of the New Jersey Supreme Court decision upholding same-sex unions,
historian Nancy Cott spoke November 2 at Woodruff Auditorium about the changing role
of marriage and its legal status in American history. Can one [institution] embody both
governance and freedom, both the public and private, state and religion, status and
control? asked Cott. Marriage does.
In the United States, marriage has long been thought to serve public order. Yet marriage
has equally served as a marker of individual freedom, Cott said. Two individuals choose
to enter a mutually binding marriage contract, but paradoxically a third party, the
government, is also a party to the contract and bestows a unique status on those people
who are being married.
When religion is thrown into the mix of what is in essence a contractual relationship,
Cott noted, things tend to get interesting. Marriage requires the state, but for most
Americans, it also invokes religion. But God doesnt dene marriage, the state does, she
said.
Another theme of the lecture was the changing nature of marriage through time. Its
simply not the case that marriage has been the same since time immemorial. Citing the
end of slavery and the civil rights and womens rights movements, Cott pointed out that
changes in historical circumstances and social mores have dictated an almost continuous
revision of marriage law and practice.
Current debates over the extent to which same-sex partners should be afforded the
same legal status and privileges accorded to male/female marriages are rmly within the
historical tradition of discussions about and adaptations of the place and role of marriage
in the United States.
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Conict, whether in the world or the nation, dominates current news, much of it over values
and morals. Kwame Anthony Appiah discussed Making Sense of Moral Conict as part of the
Humanities Lecture Series on March 1 at the Kansas Union Ballroom.
Appiah presented his views on three interrelated causes of disagreements that arise over values:
a failure to share a vocabulary, different interpretations of that vocabulary and the application of
different weights to a value. However, when notions of right and wrong are actually put to work, they
are thickly enmeshed in complications of particular social contexts, he said.
Conict, Appiah continued, is more likely to occur when different cultures interact. If we are
to undertake moral conversations between people across societies, we must expect such
disagreements; after all, they occur here at home. Among our neighbors, we may not share the
same value denitions, but we are used to each others patterns. Indeed our political co-existence
depends on being able to agree about practices while disagreeing about their justication.
Finding agreement about practices between cultures is possible because values such as kindness
and generosity are universal, and Appiah suggested that sustained conversation will help.
Conversation doesnt have to lead to consensus about anything; its enough that it helps people
to get used to each other, he said. When it comes to change, what moves people is often not an
argument from a principle or a long discussion about values, but just a gradually acquired new way of
seeing things.
Russians have experienced a sixteen-year long rollercoaster ride while searching for a new
post-Communist identity, said Professor Maria Carlson on April 10 at Woodruff Auditorium.
The identity that they ultimately adopt remains a matter of the utmost importance for the
rest of the world, Cold War or no, she argued.
According to Carlson, Russia is a high-context culture, one that emphasizes networks and
history. Members of high-context cultures not only keep in touch, they keep score, she said.
In contrast, low context-cultures, such as Anglo-American culture, are linear, objective and
direct. It is difcult for low-context cultures to understand high context cultures; you dont
have the knowledge of the relationships, the contextual references and the shared histories
that create meaning.
To understand high-context societies, the study of their language, culture and globalization
are what matter. Nothing reveals who you are and what you are more than the language
which you speak, said Carlson. Learning a language not only allows a better understanding
of the thought patterns of a society, it also exposes one to its culture and history. Although
low-context cultures may appear to export themselves well via mechanisms of globalization,
it is also important to realize that technologies like the Internet have magnied national
identities a thousand-fold, with Webs in many different languages. Let us not be too
low-context to miss this, she cautioned.
Minimizing the importance of cultural factors is a classic low-context response. If we do not
comprehend how they view themselves or how they view us and why, we cannot advance.
High context cultures such as Russia, China, Korea, Iran, Egypt, Brazil and Mexico all matter.
As high context cultures, they may nd it more comfortable and productive to communicate
with each other than with us, said Carlson. The challenge we face is to prepare ourselves
to stay relevant, not only to our own American culture, but relevant to a world of cultures and
languages intensied by instant communication and technology.
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The Commons is a KU partnership among
the Biodiversity Institute, the Hall Center for
the Humanities and the Spencer Museum of
Art. The Commons explores the relationships
between nature and culture across the
sciences, humanities and the arts.
Images: Kwang Jean Park,
Yin and Yang courtesy of the
Spencer Museum of Art Fund 2001.
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A year after beginning the remarkable
odyssey of presiding over the landmark
intelligent design case Kitzmiller v. Dover
Area School District, Judge John E.
Jones III spoke to a Woodruff Auditorium
audience on September 26 as part of the
Difcult Dialogues series.
Now known as the judge who decided
the case that became the epicenter of
a legal and cultural clash that attracted
attention from almost every corner of the
world, Jones uses that fame to highlight
an important state of affairs that he
discovered during the trial: many Americans
do not know how the judiciary works.
As an example, Jones noted that when
he was assigned the case, many people
speculated that his conservative
background would affect his ruling.
I do have personal beliefs, but they
are completely irrelevant, he said and
pointed out that judges must follow
legislation, Supreme Court precedent and
the Constitution when deciding cases.
The rule of law is not a conservative
or liberal value. It is assuredly not a
Republican or Democratic value. Rather it
is an American value, said Jones.
Sound-bite driven punditry, however, has
led many Americans to believe that judges
frequently allow their personal views to
inuence their decisions. One result of
this erroneous perception has been an
increase in personal attacks and death
threats made against judges, including
Jones himself, when the issues involved
in a case touch on deeply held beliefs.
To combat this disturbing trend, Jones
argued that we need to ratchet down
the inammatory commentary that has
become common.
Jones also advocated better public
education to solve the problem. As we
spend time, as we did in the Dover case,
debating what to put in the science
curriculum in our schools, he said, we
had better start paying attention to the
curriculum in civics and government as well.
A crowded Kansas Ballroom was the
venue for the opening lecture of the
Difcult Dialogues at The Commons
Series, presented by Kenneth Miller on
September 7. Miller, a professor of biology
at Brown University, spoke about God,
Darwin and Design and his experiences
during the recent debates over evolution
and intelligent design.
During the highly publicized Kitzmiller v.
Dover Area School District case, Miller
testied on behalf of the plaintiffs who
led their suit against a Pennsylvania
towns School Board in an attempt to
keep intelligent design theory from being
taught in high school biology classes.
The trial, which ended in a victory for the
plaintiffs, resulted in what Miller called the
complete collapse of intelligent design as
a scientic theory and the exposure of it as
a religious doctrine posing as science.
Evolution is under attack not because it is
shaky science, said Miller. Using examples
taken from research in comparative
genetics, he demonstrated the process
by which scientists have demonstrated
that two chromosomes associated with
chimpanzees fused at some point in our
evolutionary past to create a single human
chromosome. Pointing to images displayed
on a screen behind him, Miller noted: You
can literally see the scotch tape holding
these two chromosomes together. There is
absolutely no doubt we share a common
ancestor.
Miller also discussed his views on the
relationship between science and religion.
From his perspective as a scientist and
a Christian, he said that it is a ction
that evolution and religion have to be in
opposition to each other. Citing great
thinkers from St. Augustine to Gregor
Mendel, Pope Benedict XVI to Darwin
himself, Miller argued for the co-existence
of faith and reason. Science itself in many
ways is the child of faith in that Western
religions have allowed humans to step
back and observe nature and posited the
view that by understanding the mechanics
of the world one can glorify God. For Miller,
one of the things that faith gives the
scientist is a reason to pursue science.
Kenneth Miller
Chancellor Robert E. Hemenway
and Judge John E. Jones III
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Although he joked about his familys brewing
background, sociologist and author Os
Guinness wasnt joking on October 4 when
he urged a packed Woodruff Auditorium to
participate in a global public square so
that differences in viewpoint can be debated
effectively.
The church-state relationship that is
the brilliance of the rst Amendment,
is one of the most important legacies of
Americas democratic experiment Guinness
said, but the country is failing to address
the increasing tensions between church
and state because of the ongoing culture
wars. Exploding pluralism, an expanding
governmental role in peoples lives and
a recently emerged strict separationism
have all contributed he argued, but he also
believes that many Americans are tired of
these wars. Neither side talks to the other
side. Theyre talking about the other side to
their own side. Persuasion, not coercion, is
missing in the debate.
Guinnesss proposed solution is the creation
of national and global public squares
where people can discuss signicant
issues in a civil manner. In the square,
debate would emphasize not the roots of
the difference, but the consequences and
implications, he said. Guinness likened
these discussions to a boxing match,
where a ght takes place with formalized
rules. Civility is understanding the rules of
engagement within which you have tough
democratic debate.
Leadership, vision and application are
needed for America to create a civil society
thats tough, robust and debating, but within
a framework of a common appreciation
for the rights and respect of others, said
Guinness.
A lack of understanding about the roles and
limitations of science and religion in explaining
the material world is perhaps part of the
reason why we have the problem with creation
and evolution, said Eugenie Scott, Executive
Director of the National Center for Science
Education who spoke November 16 at the
Kansas Union Ballroom.
Science is limited to explaining just the
natural world and limited to explaining through
natural causes, she said, noting that this
is accomplished through controlled testing
and inferences explaining observable facts.
Religion, however, is a set of rules and beliefs
about a non-material universe, one that
transcends the material world. One cannot
control for supernatural powers by denition,
whether they exist or not, said Scott. You
cant put God in a test tube.
The fact that science has not yet provided
answers to every question is one of its
advantages; admitting that there are some
things that we might not be able to explain
doesnt give us warrant for taking anything
off the table. The strength of science is that
explanations can grow and change as new
information is gained through testing.
Testing allows frontier scientic ideas to
become core beliefs, but a fringe idea like
intelligent design, Scott argued, fails because
it cannot be tested and confuses what is
unexplained with those phenomenon that are
unexplainable through the scientic method.
Scott also noted her concern that science is
being hijacked in pursuit of ideologies, both
theistic and atheistic. It is essential, she said,
to render unto science that which is sciences
and not confuse it with ideological concerns.
Os Guinness
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Although snow initially forced a postponement of his lecture,
the nal speaker in the Difcult Dialogues series, professor of
biochemistry Michael Behe, eventually spoke on December 7 at
Crafton Preyer Theater. After discussing his role as a witness for
the defense in the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial,
Behe presented his case for intelligent design. My argument is
not that Darwinian processes dont explain anything; its that they
dont explain everything.
Design is not a mystical conclusion, according to Behe, but rather
something that can be deduced from the physical structure of a
system. The more purposeful the arrangement of its parts and the
more intricate the functions a system performs, the greater the
likelihood of design becomes. A scientic hypothesis does not
have to generate new experimental approaches, said Behe. It
just has to be a true description of whats happening in nature.
Intelligent design, in Behes view, does not preclude the Darwinian
theory on common descent and natural selection. Data show,
for example, that natural selection has resulted in the mutation
of red blood cells to combat malaria. For Behe, however, this is
an example of a system breaking down, rather than the creation
or origin of a new system. Darwinian processes are excellent
as explanations for the degradation of systems, he argued, but
natural selection provides no insights into how a structure might
have been put together in the rst place.
The question Im interested in is not how do you degrade a
complex system, it is how do you make a functional, elegant,
sophisticated and complex system in the rst place? said Behe. I
think that design is required for those elegant systems to be made.
Any time anyone asks why something is the way it is, its a
contribution to knowledge, said KU Provost Richard Lariviere at
the nal event in the Difcult Dialogues series, a panel discussion
held December 7 at the Hall Center. Faith, he said, has frequently
given rise to those types of questions.
Paradoxically, answers to such questions can also challenge
beliefs that form the basis of faith and result in conicts, in
society and within individuals, over the proper roles of reason
and faith. The current debate over the teaching of evolution and
intelligent design is just one example of such tensions and the
ways they play out within the political sphere.
For Kansas Senate Majority Leader and Simons Public Humanities
Fellow Derek Schmidt, there are two possible approaches one
may take in reaching a policy decision in areas that involve moral
judgments. One is through a reliance on personal faith and
the other is via a reasoned consideration of the information at
hand while keeping in mind the fact that elected ofcials must
represent their constituents. Putting faith into politics, he noted,
can be like putting the proverbial square peg into a round hole.
Kansas State Board of Education member Sue Gamble noted that
mandating education standards likewise requires a reasoned,
rather than faith-based approach. For purposes of science class,
we are limited to the natural world. [Religion] cannot be dealt with
in science class because science is a limited discipline.
For Edward Wiley, professor and senior curator of Ecology and
Evolutionary Biology at KU, there is public confusion about the
denition of science and its relationship to faith. Science is not
theistic. Science is not atheistic. Science is simply agnostic.
Universities can and must play a role in educating the public,
dispelling confusion and providing a forum for civil discourse
between those who disagree on such important matters. This is a
community of reason with room for faith, said Lariviere.
Bishop Scott Jones of the United Methodist Church, agreed.
Connecting academics with the broader culture, he argued,
will help foster the moderate, tempered consideration of ideas
that leads to a fully functioning civil society. Supporting those
institutions that are creating an environment in which these
conversations can take place will lessen the tensions inherent in
the quest for knowledge through reason and faith.
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During the Womens Leadership Lecture on March 6 at the Dole Institute of Politics,
former Senator Nancy Kassebaum Baker revealed that it was actually her mother, rather
than her father, the late Governor Alf Landon, who encouraged her to enter politics at a
time when few women ran for ofce.
While Kassebaum Baker noted that women have made great strides in the last few years
and that the good thing is that its no longer a big deal for women to be in such leadership
positions, they still face many unique challenges. As leaders, she argued, women should
not forget the importance of their historical roles in caring for community and family.
Thats just as important a leadership role as serving as the President of the United
States, said Kassebaum Baker, and utilizing their skills in nurturing, caring and negotiating
allows women leaders to better establish connections and understand those with whom
they might not agree, she continued. This ability to work with others has disappeared in
government today and should be championed by women in leadership positions.
Kassebaum Baker also argued that women can and should lead and teach future
generations, and, as a result, help them become better communicators. As role models,
women can inuence a generation with the essential qualities necessary for the creation
of a civil society that can effectively engage in globalization. Its the kind of leadership
you long for today.
Oral History at Work: The View From Within was the theme of the eighth annual
Oral History Workshop held on March 26 at the Kansas Memorial Union. Keynote
presentations included lectures and screenings of KU Professor Carol Ann Carters lm on
the Western Kentucky Centennial Project and Byron Hurts documentary Hip Hop: Beyond
Beats and Rhymes. Anthropologist Tobias Hecht discussed ethnographic interviewing in
his keynote address and presented one of the many workshops.
The author of After Life, Hecht discussed the difculties he faced in interviewing Bruna, a
young Brazilian transvestite. What happens when truth is entangled with invention? he
asked. Although everything was consonant with the world in which she lived, not all of it
was what we would call true. In the end, Hecht felt that ction could portray Brunas story
better than true ethnography.
During the workshop, participants discussed why people might lie. We are all actors,
but that doesnt mean were liars, Hecht noted. People lie for themselves because they
want to be a different person. In ethnographic interviewing, he said, you start to gure
out more or less what is true the more time you spend with someone.
Interviewing was also important in Hurts documentary where more than 150 people were
lmed in an attempt to capture different voices to present a fair, sincere and balanced
look at manhood and violence in hip hop culture. Additionally, noting that it is easier to
receive criticism from someone who knows the genre, Hurt interviewed himself, arguing
that it was important to me to establish that I loved [hip hop]. He agreed with Hecht
that the more time one spends in the interview process the better the yield. Whatever
lessons you learn, you take into your next production.
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William Poy Lee did not plan to write about immigration, but his book, an account of
his mothers life as a Chinese immigrant, was completed just as the issue exploded
in America. I consider The Eighth Promise an accidental chronicle of the immigration
experience over two generations, he said during his April 13 lecture at the Hall Center.
Reading several humorous sections from his recently published book, Poy Lee examined
his mother Poy Jens citizenship process: I didnt speak American and the oral test was in
American, she said. It was impossible to learn the American language and the answers
to the questions at the same time. To pass, she learned just the key words phonetically.
My mother doesnt speak English to this day, said Poy Lee, so I ask myself as I hear
these debates, should this disqualify her from becoming a citizen?
Poy Lee also said he believed his mother truly became a citizen long before taking the
tests. Needing uniforms for an improvised Boy Scout troop, but lacking the money to buy
them, Poy Lees mother gave the children old Chinese Nationalist uniforms she had kept.
What she saw was My kids are in America, this is where they have to make it, and they
need uniforms, he said. That was the time when she internally crossed from being a
foreigner to an American.
With these anecdotes in mind, Poy Lee then posed several questions about current
immigration policy: Is it good for individuals to lose the best of their root culture in the
name of assimilation? Are multi-lingualism and multi-culturalism the new basic skills in
an era of globalization? If so, then how applicable is the melting pot theory? In answer
to these questions, he suggested that the old paradigms of national borders and
immigration may no longer be applicable. William Poy Lee and Poy Jen
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A special preview of the PBS documentary
Operation Homecoming: Writing the War
Time Experience, part of the America
at a Crossroads series, was screened
March 14 at Woodruff Auditorium, and
followed by a panel discussion.
Compared to past war memoirs that
were often written years after the events,
today a soldier can write the same
day the action takes place in a blog or
email, said KU professor and panel
moderator Theodore Wilson. Although
current accounts are more accessible
through these media, they still are written
for intensely personal reasons. The
documentarys executive producer Tom
Yellin agreed, What struck me the most
was how much the writers were grappling
with things writing was a way to express
themselves and just get it out.
In creating a documentary based on
soldiers writings, Yellin said that he
felt a tremendous responsibility to
them; we tried to capture this sense
of uncertainty that the soldiers
were feeling. Soldier/author and
panelist Colby Buzzell noted that
he initially was reluctant to watch
the transformation of his words in
the documentary, but was pleased
by the result. While the lmmakers
worked hard to be true to the
memoirs, their additional challenge
was making a lm that people would want
to see. You have to do it well and make it
compelling, said Yellin.
Several panelists expressed hope that
the documentary would contribute to a
greater awareness of the U.S.s current
military operations. In spite of all the rst
hand written accounts, America isnt
paying much attention, said Professor
and panelist Roger Spiller. Its critical
that these perspectives are gotten
across. Soldier/writer Jack Lewis agreed:
It becomes our responsibility to know
that we send people to do pretty horrible
things. Every citizen owns every bit of that.
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Opposite page clockwise from the
top: Inti-Illimani Workshop; Janet
Crow and Charles Battey; Carol
Nazar, Don Johnston and Richard
Lariviere; Alesha Doan, Elaine
Sharp and Tanya Hart.
This page from the top: Donna and
Rex Martin; Omri Gillath and Elif
Andac; Richard Dawkins and Blue
Valley North High School Students.
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The Fifth Annual Celebration of Books was held at the Hall Center for the Humanities on
April 18. More than 60 people attended to recognize 45 authors, artists and editors from
the humanities, social sciences and ne arts faculties at KU.
Three of the celebrated authors, Ann Cudd, professor of Philosophy and Womens
Studies, David Bergeron, professor of English and Karl Brooks, associate professor of
History and Environmental Studies, talked briey about the research and writing process
and answered audience questions.
Because there is little money in academic publishing, the authors addressed other
reasons why they wrote their books. Cudd and Bergeron both wrote about questions in
their elds that had not been previously addressed. A case encountered in his previous
law practice provided the impetus for Brooks rst book.
All three authors described the lengthy process of research and writing; Cudd, whose
book provides an integrated theory of the causes of social oppression, said it took her ten
years; Brooks book, which analyzes the Hells Canyon Dam controversy, is the culmination
of a childhood interest in the source of electricity; and Bergerons, which details the
practice and signicance of patronage in early modern English drama, is the result of a
cumulative process that started 20 years ago.
Each of the presenters cited Hall Center support as an important contribution to their
success, noting that research fellowships and on-going faculty seminars provided both
the time and space where ideas could evolve and be nurtured into a book. It was a
privilege to write and a great deal of fun, said Brooks, who then smiled and offered to
autograph copies for the audience.
Holocaust reparations have captured quite a bit of media attention, but little is
remembered or publicized about the ill-treatment of Jews in the period immediately
after World War II. During a September 15 lecture at the Hall Center, Rene Poznanski
and Daniel Blatman, visiting Israeli scholars at the United States Holocaust Memorial
Museum, discussed the situations Jews faced when they returned to their homes in
France and Poland.
After French liberation, the experiences of returning prisoners of war and resistance
ghters received attention, but little thought was given to returning Jews, said Poznanski.
Although Jews were not actively persecuted in a systematic or widespread way, the
national press ignored the Jewish experience in what Poznanski termed a conspiracy
of silence. Jews felt and resented that silence. The history of the Jews was not part of
the history of the French people, she said. The Jewish press, however, did preserve the
Jewish experience and in time the silence of the rst years has faded into oblivion and
the Jewish people have now become French.
In contrast to the French experience, returning Polish Jews faced outright hostility from
their neighbors, Dr. Blatman argued. At rst, the Jews strongly empathized with Polish
suffering, he said, but that quickly changed in view of the violence against them. Polish
myth established the Jewish people as beneting from Stalinization and sympathizing
with the Soviets. This myth, combined with pre-war anti-Jewish sentiment, helped spur
pogroms against the Jews. In the past decade, after the collapse of Communism, Poles
have done much soul-searching. To get past the history of the Soviet regime, said
Blatman, Poland must face the Jewish question.
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In November 2006, the Hall Center for
the Humanities, together with Haskell
Indian Nations University, hosted the nal
event of the Shifting Borders of Race and
Identity Project. This three year grant,
funded by the Ford Foundation, was one
of many innovative programs housed at
the Hall Center. This particular project,
which fostered further collaboration
between the University of Kansas and
Haskell Indian Nations University, was
among the nations cutting-edge initiatives
to examine the intersections of African
Americans and First Nations people. The
First and the Forced: Indigenous and
African American Intersections Conference
was a three-day event which began on
Thursday, November 9, 2006 and ended
on Saturday, November 11, 2006.
An international community of over one-
hundred students, activists and scholars,
including members of the Warriors
Project, Haskell Indian Nations student
body and Descendants of the Freedmen
of the Five Civilized Tribes, convened in
Lawrence to share their experiences and
the research they have done that reects
the multilayered intersections between
African-descended and First Nations
people. Conference participants enjoyed
an interdisciplinary and intergenerational
assortment of panels, roundtables,
curriculum development sessions,
documentary lms and performances.
Speakers for the event included Tiya
Miles, University of Michigan professor
and author of Ties that Bind: The Story of
an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and
co-editor of Crossing Waters, Crossing
Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian
Country; James Riding In (Pawnee Nation),
Arizona State University professor and
editor of Wicazo Sa Review: A Journal
of Native American Studies; Tall Oak,
community activist and historian (Absentee
Mashantucket Pequot and Wampanoag)
from Charlestown, Rhode Island; William
Katz, curriculum consultant and author of
Black Indians: A Hidden Legacy; Elizabeth
Rhodes, Xavier University of Louisiana
professor and author of Lagniappe for the
Future: An Ethnographic Case Study on the
Mardi Gras Indians of New Orleans; and
Jos Bravo de Rueda, North Carolina A&T
professor of Spanish whose work includes
research on the intersections of African-
descended people and the Indigenous
peoples of Peru. University of Kansas
professors on the program included
Maryemma Graham, Joyce McCray
Pearson, Stacy Leeds, Kevin Willmott,
Chico Herbison and Tanya Golash-Boza.
Pamyua, NAMMY award-winning world
music artists based in Alaska who
combine Inuit harmonies with the
African djembe, performed traditional
dances on Friday evening at Woodruff
Auditorium. On Saturday, University of
Massachusetts English professor, poet
and jazz acionado Ron Welburn led a
seminar titled Afro-Indigenous Musicians
in Jazz as a part of the Hall Centers
Indigenous and African Experiences in the
Americas Seminar series. Also featured at
the conference was the Power and Place
exhibit, which transformed oral history
interviews conducted by Shifting Borders
oral historians, Carmaletta Williams and
Mike Tosee, into a provocative walk into
history. This exhibit is currently traveling
across the country to various Tribal
Colleges and Historically Black Colleges
and Universities. The nal event for the
conference, co-sponsored by the Lied
Center, included a performance by Ulali,
an internationally renowned First Nations
women a cappella trio.
The Shifting Borders Project has provided
a much-needed space for academics,
community scholars and individuals
to study and reect upon both the
contentious and collaborative experiences
between African American and First
Nations people. Though the project has
ended, its signicant impact will continue
to be felt in upcoming projects, research
and contemporary discussions. The Hall
Center is pleased to have contributed to
the growth of this meaningful discourse
and continues to maintain the Shifting
Borders website which includes an
extensive bibliography, workshop and
seminar papers, visual clips from previous
events and two e-book compilations of
essays and oral interviews.
Zanice Bond de Prez, Co-director, Shifting
Borders of Race and Identity
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The 2006 Fall Faculty Colloquium,
Representing the Middle East, was
co-directed by Garth Myers and Robin
Rowland and included a diverse and
dynamic range of scholars. The formal
participants came from KU Libraries as
well as the Departments of African &
African-American Studies, Geography,
Communication Studies, History, French
& Italian, Anthropology and Religious
Studies, with regular attendance by other
faculty from these units and others,
notably from Sociology professors
Brian Donovan and Elif Andac, emeritus
professor of Religious Studies Dan
Breslauer and Communications Studies
PhD candidate Z Hall. Professors Garth
Myers, Robin Rowland, Majid Hannoum,
Margaret Rausch and Samira Sayeh, along
with PhD candidate Karenbeth Zacharias
and librarian Scott MacEathron, presented
papers on a variety of topics.
Garth Myers wrote about Representations
of Mogadishu in the contemporary lm
Black Hawk Down and the novels of
Nuruddin Farah, who in the fall appeared
in the Hall Centers Humanities Lecture
Series. In his paper, Robin Rowland
focused on how symbolic practices shape
the Israeli/Palestinian conict. Scott
McEathron presented a paper in which
he demonstrated the inuence of maps
on the Middle East, while Samira Sayeh
discussed the image of the region that
was created at a 1931 International
Exhibition in France. Majid Hannoum
focused on the inuence of colonialism as
a form of knowledge-structure, while both
Margaret Rausch and Karenbeth Zacharias
discussed issues of identity as they relate
to the creation of the modern Middle East.
The participants engaged in lively debates
in every session, often extending beyond
the 5:00 pm closing and beyond the
seminar room into the Hall Center parking
lot, arguing constructively with one another.
This is quite in keeping with the guiding
spirit behind this colloquium, and the
architect of it, the late Dr. Deborah Misty
Gerner, in whose name we carried on.
Garth Myers & Robin Rowland, co-directors
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VICE PROVOST FOR RESEARCH
The Eighth Annual Vice Provost for
Research Book Subvention was
awarded this spring to Mechele Leon,
Assistant Professor of Theatre and Film.
The University of Iowa Press will publish
her book Molire and the French
Revolution in their series Studies in
Theatre History and Culture.
This book is a study of Molires
reputation during the French Revolution
as seen through productions of
his plays, biographical literature,
political and cultural commentary
and memorializations. As in the case
of Shakespeare, Molires status
as national poet has been achieved
through time and by means of
reformulations of his reputation that are
neither consistent nor coherent. This
study aims to uncover the revolutionary
recongurations of Molires image
that have contributed to his enduring
signicance in French culture.
Chapters examine the effects of
his popularity as one of the most
frequently performed playwrights in
the revolutionary theatre, how his plays
were at times banned or subjected to
correction by wary theatre managers
and zealous playwrights, and how
his characters and themes were
appropriated, retooled or pressed into
service for the revolutionary cause.
Close readings of revolutionary-era
biographical literature reveal the
emergence of a revisionist interpretation
of Molires life, not as a privileged
recipient of royal sponsorship and a
beneciary of the cultural institutions of
absolutism, but as a man of the people
who drew inspiration from common folk
and shunned aristocratic values.
The nal chapter explores how
revolutionaries not only revised his
corpus, but exhumed his corpse
disinterring his remains from the grave
where he was buried a century before
and entombing them in a museum
built to display the vandalized remains
and relics of Frances monarchial
past. The lesson of this research on
Molires afterlife, Leon argues, is
that reformulating the theatrical past
sustains theatre as national heritage.
THE FRIENDS OF THE HALL CENTER
For the rst time this spring, the Friends
of the Hall Center made possible a
second book subvention. The Friends
Book Subvention went to Elizabeth
MacGonagle, Assistant Professor of
History. The University of Rochester will
publish her book Crafting Identity in
Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
In an examination of historical patterns
over four centuries, the book reveals
both continuities and changes in the
crafting of identity in southeast Africa.
It challenges conventional approaches
to the study of ethnicity and tribalism
in Africa by showing that contemporary
ethnicity is not merely a creation of the
colonial and postcolonial eras, but has
much deeper roots in the precolonial
past. By focusing on collective
historical experiences that affected
ethnic identity before the inuence of
European colonialism, MacGonagle
contends that the long history behind
ethnicity reveals African agency as
central to the formation of tribalism.
With this rst comprehensive history
of the Ndau of eastern Zimbabwe and
central Mozambique, the book moves
beyond national borders to show how
cultural identities are woven from
historical memories that predate the
arrival of missionaries and colonial
ofcials on the African continent.
Drawing on archival records and oral
histories from throughout the Ndau
region, the study analyzes the complex
relationships between social identity
and political power from 1500 to 1900.
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Sherrie Tucker
Hall Center Residency, Fall 2006
Time and space; the time to think beyond
a single chapter; the space to work quietly
with only those books and les needed for
completing the manuscript: thats what I hoped
for as I anticipated my semester as a Hall
Center Fellow in Fall 2006.
Dance Floor Democracy: the Social Geography of Memory at
the Hollywood Canteen is the name of my second book, the
project I brought with me to the Hall Center. It is an oral history
of social dancers at the Hollywood Canteen, a USO-like nightclub
where workers in the lm industry entertained military personnel
during World War II. Because my interviewees shared memories
from over sixty years ago, and because these memories were
about World War II, yet recalled and narrated during another
time of war, the evidence I had collected was complex; and I had
shifted my thinking about swing culture, nationalism, memory
and war several times in the course of research. Add the typical
complications of working on a book-length project over a six-year
period in which writing and research occupied a place on the
same plate as adjunct teaching for two years, landing my rst
tenure-track job, making two cross-country moves, and navigating
third-year review and tenure.
The day I received my Hall Center keys, I carted into the clean and
peaceful ofce: a box full of partially transcribed taped interviews,
four drawers of research data les, assorted drafts of chapters,
and arm-loads of selected books from my be sure to incorporate
this piles at home. Because my writing up to this point had come
in those typical summer bursts separated by long stretches of
teaching, I began the semester fearfully aware that the pieces of
the book might not t together anymore, and that other chapters
had yet to be written would I remember what was supposed to
go into them? Would I agree with my previous outlines and notes?
I didnt know. But I did know that the Hall Center Fellowship was
the life-raft I needed in order to save my book.
In addition to the time and space I had hoped for, my semester
as a Hall Center Fellow provided the opportunity to share my
work with other fellows, funding to hire a research assistant
to transcribe the rest of my interviews, access to fast printers
and technical support and the precious ability to utilize all of
this research support without changing my place of residency. I
used this opportunity to follow a strict schedule that would allow
me to work on each chapter writing, re-writing and focusing
on the connections between them a process that involved
re-envisioning the outline from where I had started six years
previously. Even though I did not complete all of the chapters,
I was able to write a through-line that I can now follow. I began
my Hall Center residency unsure of whether the pieces I had
accumulated would make sense, taken together; I left with a
long-view, sharpened connections, long stretches of new writing
throughout the manuscript that integrate the chapters into the
sustained form that makes a book a book and a reconstituted
vision for the entire book that will allow me to complete Dance
Floor Democracy by the end of the summer.
I am extremely grateful for the Hall Center residency for the time
and space, research and writing support, and wonderful people
who have made it possible for me to complete this book.
Lin Stanionis
Hall Center Residency, Spring 2007
Much of my artistic production pushes at
the limits of materials and process and so
in the making there are always setbacks
and unanticipated outcomes as well as the
possibility of no outcome at all. The Fellowship
leave allowed me to take risks with the work,
Lidded Tureen and Tray, both technically
and intellectually, that I might not have done otherwise due to
obligations and time constraints. This period of time to focus
completely on my work has fostered the intense dialogue
between material, method and intellect necessary to the creative
act. The Fellowship has been most importantly for me, an
opportunity to allow the intuitive nature of creativity to unfold, to
engage the unexpected, and embrace those unanticipated things
that ultimately bring poetry and nuance to a work.
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research fellows this year. We asked
Sherrie Tucker, associate professor of
American Studies, and Lin Stanionis,
associate professor of Design, to provide
a fuller account of their time in the Center.
Sally Cornelison
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Holy Bodies: Saints, Art, and Popular
Religion in Florence, c.14001700
Tamara Falicov
Associate Professor, Theatre & Film
Book project on the Latin American lm
market
Sherrie Tucker
Associate Professor, American Studies
Dance Floor Democracy: the Social
Geography of Memory at the Hollywood
Canteen
Tara Welch
Associate Professor, Classics
Tarpeia: History of a Myth
Creative Work Fellowship:
Lin Stanionis
Associate Professor, Design
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Luis Corteguera, Associate Professor of History. Corteguera will
spend the summer of 2007 in Spanish libraries and archives
working with primary source material for his book project Talking
Images in the Spanish Empire. In Madrids Archivo Histrico
Nacional (AHN) he will examine the papers of the Spanish
tribunals of the Inquisition dealing with reports of iconoclasm and
attacks on religious images as well as cases of reputed idolatry
and miracles involving sacred objects. These materials will build
on and serve as comparisons to evidence he has already gathered
from Mexican Inquisition records. Corteguera also will spend
time in the Biblioteca Nacional and other museum and university
archives and libraries in Madrid and Barcelona examining rare
books, manuscripts, early modern treatises on art and materials
that describe devotional practices involving religious images.
Michelle Heffner Hayes, Associate Professor of Dance. Hayes
attended the 11th Annual Festival Flamenco de Jerez, February 23
March 2, 2007, in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain. Hayes is revising her
dissertation, Bailando la historia/Flamenco Bodies Dance History,
as a book. The work deals with representations of the female
amenco dancer at key moments in the international history of the
art form. This years festival in Jerez focused on women in amenco,
with performances by the worlds most prestigious artists, as well
as young artists from the new generation of amencas. Hayes also
continued her professional training in amenco dance, studying in
special workshops on tangos and guajira, forms that she taught and
performed at KU as a part of the University Dance Company Concerts
at the Lied Center, April 2829, 2007.
Ann C. Huppert, Assistant Professor of Architecture. Huppert is
completing a book on the Italian architect and artist Baldassarre
Peruzzi (14811536). The book focuses on Renaissance
drawing and developments in artistic practice and architectural
theory in the sixteenth century. Peruzzis work provides insights
into Renaissance education, while his combined interests in
antiquarianism, mathematics and representation all reect the
broader context of architects striving to establish themselves
within the intellectual world of humanism. The Hall Center Travel
Grant will support research in Florence to complete the chapter
that examines the role of perspective and practical mathematics
in Peruzzis architectural design and the relationship of these
elds to the increasing professionalization of Italian architectural
practice in the Renaissance.
Laura Hobson Herlihy, Lecturer in Latin American Studies.
Herlihy will travel to Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua to collect a
life history of Myrna Cunningham, a leading social activist for
indigenous peoples around the globe. This is the nal part of a
project Indigenous Feminism: Merging Motherhood and Self-
Determination on the Nicaraguan Atlantic Coast. The project
collects, transcribes and translates the oral narratives and
testimonies of twenty indigenous and Afro-descendent women
leaders in Puerto Cabezas, the capital of Nicaraguas North
Atlantic Autonomous Region (RAAN). The main research question
asks how RAAN women have transformed their traditional
authority within matrilocal groups into formal political leadership.
MarieAlice LHereux, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture
and Urban Planning. LHereux will travel to Estonia for her
project Repackaging the City: Urban Environments in Estonia
under Soviet Occupation. She will draw from the archives of
the Estonian Soviet Ministry to uncover the complex history of
town development in Estonia during the later period of Soviet
occupation, the implications for the social life of the people and
the ramications for future development as the power of the
Soviet Union faded in the late 1980s.
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Hall Center travel grants provide KU faculty members with the opportunity to conduct research and scholarly consultation that
cannot be accomplished in any other way than by travel to appropriate locations where materials and collaborators reside.
Luis Corteguera, Elizabeth MacGonagle and Philip Barnard
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I NDI VI DUAL AWARDS
Marta Caminero-Santangelo, English: St. Anthony Educational Foundation Grant, Conference Proposal: Nuestra America in the U.S.?:
Communities in Transition.
Sally Cornelison, Art History: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant, Medici Power and Popular Piety: Giambolognas
St. Antoninus Chapel at San Marco, Florence.
Luis Corteguera, History: Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens Mellon Postdoctoral Research Fellowship; and
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, Talking Images in the Spanish Empire.
Gregory Cushman, History: Fulbright Scholar Program, Hungary, The Ethical Dimensions and Environmental History of Agriculture.
Tanya Golash-Boza, Sociology: Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois, Chicago, African American Studies Department, Yo Soy
Negro: Locating Afro-Peruvians in Local and Global Discourses of Blackness.
Erik Herron, Political Science/CREES: Council for the International Exchange of Scholars (CIES), Fulbright Research and Teaching
Fellowship, Research and Teaching Comparative Politics, Elections, and Party Systems.
Ann C. Huppert, Architectural History, School of Architecture and Urban Design: American Philosophical Society Franklin Research
Grant, Perspective, Practical Mathematics, and the Professionalization of Architecture in Sixteenth-Century Italy.
Marni R. Kessler, Art History: New York Academy of Medicine Audrey and William H. Helfand Fellowship in the Medical Humanities,
Anxiety and the Maternal Substitute: Edgar Degass New Orleans Paintings.
Burdett A. Loomis, Political Science: The Dirksen Congressional Center Congressional Research Award, The Fight of his Life: Bob Dole
and the 1974 Kansas U.S. Senate Campaign.
Ebenezer Obadare, Sociology: American Sociological Association Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline Grant, Miss Bells Girls:
Gender, Emigration, and the Socio-Cultural Aspects of the Decline of Health Services in Nigeria.
Naima B. Omar, African & African-American Studies: American Institute for Maghrib Studies, Diossia and Bilingualism as Loci for
Negotiating Linguistic Selves, Simultaneous Identities, and Multiple Political and Social Roles in Political Discourse.
Hagith Sivan, History: University of Pennsylvania Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Fellowship, Jews of the West.
Crispin Williams, East Asian Languages & Cultures: The American Philosophical Society Franklin Research Grant; The American Council
of Learned Societies East Asian Archaeology/Early History Fellowship, The Wenxian Covenant Texts: Critical Insights into Early Chinese
Religious Belief and Political Organization.
Svetlana Vassileva-Karagyozova, Slavic Languages & Literatures: Czech Academy of Sciences.
Michael Zogry, Religious Studies: American Academy of Religion Individual Research Grant, Playing or Praying?: The Cherokee Anetso
Ceremonial Complex and the Performance of Cultural Identity.
I NSTI TUTI ONAL AWARDS
Arienne Dwyer, Anthropology: National Science Foundation, Workshop: Towards the Interoperability of Language Resources.
So-Min Cheong, Geography: Korea Maritime Institute, Analysis of Coastal Management Practices in the U.S. and Canada.
So-Min Cheong, Geography: Korea Ocean Research and Development Institute, Study of Marine Policy on the Geological and
Geophysical Characteristics in Yellow Sea and East China Sea (& South Sea of Korea).
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The following faculty won individual and institutional awards.
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Carol Ann Carter, KU Professor of Art Yellow Square with Cloud (detail)
The Very Small
Things of Life:
An Evening with
Alexander
McCall Smith
ALEXANDER MCCALL
SMITH
September 24
Lied Center
Alexander McCall Smith is the bestselling
author of the No. 1 Ladies Detective
Agency series and The Sunday Philosophy
Club. His delightful German professor
series, Portuguese Irregular Verbs, The
Finer Points of Sausage Dogs and At the
Villa of Reduced Circumstances, was
published in the United States in January
2005. He is also the author of childrens
books, including the Akimbo series, about
a boy in Africa, and the Harriet Bean
books. McCall Smith was born in what is
now Zimbabwe and was educated there
and in Scotland. For many years he was
Professor of Medical Law at the University
of Edinburgh and has been a visiting
professor at a number of universities.
The Promise of
Happiness
SARA AHMED
October 22
Woodruff Auditorium
Sara Ahmed, Professor
in Race and Cultural
Studies at Goldsmiths
College, University of London, is the
author of more than 30 articles and
book chapters and four books, including
The Cultural Politics of Emotion and
Differences that Matter: Feminist Theory
and Postmodernism. Ahmed works at
the intersection between feminist theory,
critical race and postcolonial theory and
queer studies. Her lecture will explore
how happiness works as a promise that
directs us towards certain objects as if
they provide the necessary ingredients for
a good life.
The China Miracle:
How Did It Happen
and How Durable
Is It?
ORVILLE SCHELL
November 8
Kansas Union Ballroom
Orville Schell has devoted his professional
life to reporting on and writing about
Asia. His written work includes some 15
books, 10 of them about China. He has
also published in The New York Times
Magazine, Harpers, The New Yorker, Time,
Wired and Foreign Affairs, and has been
a contributor on China for PBS, NBC and
CBS, where a 60 Minutes program of his
won an Emmy. He is currently working on
issues of continuing political and economic
reform in China. Schell is Director of the
Asia Societys newly established Center
on US-China Relations in New York and
a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at
the John F. Kennedy School, Harvard
University. Schells lecture is supported by
the Sosland Foundation of Kansas City.
The Eternity of the
Poem
PAUL MULDOON
February 27
Woodruff Auditorium
Paul Muldoon is the
winner of the 2003
Pulitzer Prize for his poetry collection
Moy Sand and Gravel. Muldoon has
been described by The Times Literary
Supplement as the most signicant
English-language poet born since the
second World War. He is the Howard G.B.
Clark 21 Professor at Princeton University
and Chair of the University Center for the
Creative and Performing Arts. Muldoon
has also been Professor of Poetry at
the University of Oxford, where he is an
honorary Fellow of Hertford College.
Among the
Unbelievers:
Muslims in Europe
IAN BURUMA
April 2
Woodruff Auditorium
Ian Buruma, an author,
journalist and cultural commentator, was
educated in Holland and Japan where he
studied history, Chinese literature and
Japanese cinema. In 1970s Tokyo, he was
an actor and butoh dancer, before turning
to a career in documentary lmmaking and
photography. In the 1980s, he worked as
a journalist and spent much of his early
writing career traveling and reporting from
all over Asia. He is the author of Murder
in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo Van
Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance and
has published articles in The New Yorker,
The New York Times and The Financial
Times. Buruma is currently Henry R.
Luce Professor of Democracy, Human
Rights and Journalism at Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His talk
is the Frances and Floyd Horowitz Lecture
devoted to issues related to our multi-
cultural society.
Art@Work: Mapping
Transformation
CAROL ANN CARTER
April 24
Alderson Auditorium
Carol Ann Carter,
Professor of Art at
the University of Kansas, has shown her
artwork nationally and internationally in
numerous individual and group exhibitions.
Her creative work, which began in intaglio
printmaking, advanced to mixed media
painting and ber construction in 1984.
She is currently working in multimedia
installation-performance, mixed media
and digital imaging and video and is
interested in collaboration across cultures
and disciplines in the arts. Her lecture
is supported by the Friends of the Hall
Center.
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The 20072008 Humanities Lecture Series will include Alexander McCall Smith, Sara Ahmed, Orville Schell, Paul Muldoon, Ian Buruma
and Carol Ann Carter. Each lecture is free, open to the public and begins at 7:30 p.m. on the date indicated below. Several speakers will
also take part in a public colloquium on the morning following their evening lecture. The series is co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio
and partially underwritten by the National Endowment for the Humanities
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Dear Friends,
By May 2007, we had a total of 507 Friends who contributed $59,869 this year to enhance
the work of the Center. For 20062007, the Friends Council committed a total of $34,500 to
be used to enhance the Hall Centers faculty development programs. This provided support
for the 12 faculty seminars, funds for a graduate student intern to assist with program
arrangements, additional support for faculty travel grants, a second book subvention award
and the sponsorship of the Book Celebration of Faculty Authors and the KU speaker in the
Humanities Lecture Series. An additional $15,000 was allocated for administration, recitals
and reception costs.
Highlights of the springs programming for the Friends were the Book Celebration on April 18
and Maria Carlsons KU Lecture for the Humanities Lecture Series on April 10, 2007. I hope
you were able to take part in these activities.
On May 1, over 130 Friends came together on a beautiful spring evening for our Annual
Meeting. We added a tent extension to the conference hall to provide room for Chuck Bergs
jazz combo and for additional seating. It was a tremendously successful experiment.
The following new Council members were added for three year terms: Philip Schrodt, Professor
of Political Science; Edwyna Condon Gilbert, Associate Professor Emerita of English; Del
Shankel, Professor Emeritus of Microbiology; and Alexander Burden, Development Director for
the Truman Presidential Museum and Library. Shelle McCoy will be our new chair. Shelle is on
the Hall Center Advisory Board and has served one year on the Friends Council. She is from
Topeka and Im sure she will serve us well.
David Bergeron, Professor of English, introduced Garth Kimbrell, an English major
from Wichita, who is the recipient of the 2006 Norton Scholars Prize for his essay on
Shakespeares play Coriolanus. David explained that this prize is awarded annually for
an outstanding undergraduate essay on a literary topic. Nearly 200 students nationwide
entered this years competition. Garth shared with us some of his experiences as the winner
of this prestigious award. He also shared with us memories he will carry with him from the
Humanities Lecture Series. We wish him every success as he continues his education at
Stanford.
Victor Bailey presented the 2007 Friend of the Hall Center award to Charles Battey. Chuck
has served on the Hall Center Advisory Board since its inception in 1986 and as chair since
1995. He has been a driving force in all of the major funding initiatives for the Center since
that time. Chuck has served on many search committees for Directors, and he willingly
served on the Building Committee for the new facility. He truly is a Friend of the Hall Center.
As I conclude my year as Chair, I would like to add a special thank you to the Hall Center
staffers, who frequently welcome us into their space. Jeanie Wulfkuhle who attends to every
little detail to make our meetings and events so very special; Jay Coffman who handles
the accounts for the Center and also acts as general factotum; Betty Vincent, who always
welcomes us with a smile and makes us feel that we were the very person she was hoping to
see; and the many student interns who are balancing their Hall Center responsibilities with
course work and rarely let us know that they need to be home studying! I am so thankful for
Victor and Jasonne for their examples, their leadership, and their sincere desire to make the
Hall Center the very best.
Janet S. Crow, Chair, Friends Council
Friends of the Hall Center for the Humanities
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Membership list and giving
levels as of June 6, 2007
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Ross & Marianna Beach
Donald & Adele Hall
Richard & Jeannette Sias
Dolph & Pam Simons
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Chuck & Joan Battey
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Lynn & LaFaun Anderson
Victor & Kathryn Bailey
Beverly Boyd
Lavina Creighton
Mary-Elizabeth Debicki
Becky & Harry Gibson
Randy & Lori Gordon
William J. Harris & Susan K. Harris
Daniel & Martha Housholder
Mr. & Mrs. Maurice Joy
Jim & Kathy Martin
Dr. Michael T. & Shelle McCoy
Robert S. & Charlotte Mueller
Carol & Ed Nazar
Barbara Nordling
Estelle & Morton Sosland
Charles L. Stansifer & Mary P. Miller
John & Linda Stewart
Fenton Talbott
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Kenneth & Katie Armitage
Janet & Dudley Crow
Geraldo de Sousa & David Bergeron
Tom & Jill Docking
Nancy Helmstadter
Bill & Carolie Hougland
Don & Alice Ann Johnston
Hammond McNish
Keith & Laura Nilles
Ren & Theresa Newcomer
Jeannette Terrell Nichols
Frank & Judith Sabatini
Phil Schrodt
James Woelfel & Sarah Trulove
George & Eleanor Woodyard
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Marc & Ellie Asher
Beverly A. Smith Billings
Robert & Wilma Bowline
Dr. Ronald K. & Genie Calgaard
Maria & Thomas Carlson
Paul Carttar & Mary Frances Ellis
Anna Cienciala
Edith W. Clowes & Craig L. Huneke
William Comer
Mr. & Mrs. Gerald L. Cooley
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Bill Crowe
(in memory of Nancy P.
Sanders)
Ernie & Debby Cummings
Rich & Coleen Davis
John E. Diehl
Carroll & Virginia Edwards
Steven & Jean Epstein
Larry & Jacqueline Gadt
Mrs. William Gilbert
(in memory of William
Gilbert)
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Chuck & Kathy Heath
Gunda & Dave Hiebert
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Loveland
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Perkins
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Seuferling
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Marty Smith
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Mr. & Mrs. Mike Sullivan
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George S. & Beverley M.
Wilson
Donald & Beverly Worster
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John T. & Maria K. Alexander
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Alfano
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Lily Bailey
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Joanie & Joe Bauman
Howard & Marguerite
Baumgartel
Frank J. & Barbara Becker
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Chuck & Beth Berg
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(in memory of Evelyn
Lange Brinkman)
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Burden
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Lois E. Clark
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Richard & Marjorie Emerson
Cole
Sally Cornelison & Dan
DePardo
Luis Corteguera & Marta
Vicente
Glen F. & Judy Greer Davis
Sally Davis
Stanley & Alice Jo DeFries
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DeGeorge
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Pasik-Duncan
Susan E. Earle & John Pultz
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Katherine Eddy
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(in memory of Mildred
Boulden)
Diane Fourny
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Roitman
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Henry
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Hale
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McCluskey-Fawcett
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Shmalberg
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Melchiore
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Fischer
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(in memory of family)
J.J. Harrington & Maria Ana
Garza
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Hummert
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Joshua Rosenbloom & Leslie
Bennett
Jean Rosenthal & Dave
Kingsley
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Carol Rupe
Norman & Mary Ann Saul
Derek & Jennifer Schmidt
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Artie Shaw
Esther M. Smith
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Fowler
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(in memory of Jerry
Stannard)
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Steere Yacher
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Muriel Cohan & Patrick
Suzeau
Betty Laird
Russell & Paula Leffel
Mrs. Dale N. Lingelbach
Stefany Samp
Jacquelyn Samp
Ilse Steinhardt
Dr. Alice V. White
(in memory of Andrea
Morrows beloved cat)
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Friends of the Hall Center for the Humanities
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The mission of the Friends of the Hall
Center is to complement the work of
the Center and its Advisory Board by
developing a broad base of support
through individual and community
involvement and contributions.
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Attend private sessions with visiting
speakers.
Enjoy invitational music recitals by KU
faculty and students.
Volunteer at the Hall Center.
Be recognized as a member.
Help to enrich the humanities
programming in the university and
community.
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Janet Crow, Chair, 2006-2009
David A. Ambler, 2006-2007
Mary-Elizabeth Debicki, 2006-2008
Harry T. Gibson, 2006-2009
Alice Ann Johnston, 2006-2008
Jim B. Martin, 2006-2008
Shelle McCoy, 2006-2009
Robert Mueller, 2006-2007
Barbara Nordling, 2006-2009
Marty Smith, 2006-2007
Linda Stewart, 2006-2008
George Woodyard, 2006-2007
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Mail this form with your tax-deductible
check, payable to KU Endowment
Association Hall Center Friends, to:
Jim Mechler
P.O. Box 928
Lawrence, KS 66044-0928
1-800-444-4201
100% of your gift will be used
to benet the area of your choice
at the University of Kansas.
www.kuendowment.org
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Fiscal Year July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007
Foundations
Hall Family Foundation
The Sosland Foundation
William T. Kemper Foundation
Individual Contributors
Ross and Marianna Beach
MaryElizabeth Debicki
Floyd and Frances Horowitz
Walter and Connie Menninger
Philip Schrodt
(in memory of Deborah Misty Gerner)
Elizabeth Schultz
Morton and Estelle Sosland
Ilse Steinhardt
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Advisory Board
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Chair, Charles W. Battey (KN Energy, Inc. [Ret.], Overland Park, KS)
Ross Beach (Kansas Natural Gas and Douglas County Bank,
Lawrence, KS)
Robert A. Creighton (Brown, Creighton and Peckham, Atwood, KS)
Richard Davis (KC Masterpiece Restaurant, Kansas City, MO)
Jill Sadowsky Docking (A.G. Edwards, Wichita, KS)
Michael D. Fields (William T. Kemper Foundation, Kansas City, MO)
Tracy Foster (The Hall Family FoundationVice President, Kansas
City, MO)
Randy Gordon (Gardere Wynne Sewell LLP, Dallas, TX)
William Hall (The Hall Family FoundationPresident, Kansas City, MO)
Martha Selfridge Housholder (Dermatologist, Wichita, KS)
Don Johnston (Intrust Bank, Lawrence, KS)
Jim Martin (President, KUEA [Ret.], Lawrence, KS)
Shelle McCoy (Topeka, KS)
Robert S. Mueller (Partner [Ret.], Ernst & Young, Lawrence, KS)
Thomas V. Murray (Lathrop & Gage LC, Overland Park, KS)
Carol Nazar (Wichita Community Foundation, Wichita, KS)
Warren Newcomer (Newcomer Funeral Service Group, Topeka, KS)
Pamela Simons (Lawrence, KS)
Estelle Glatt Sosland (Kansas City, MO)
John H. Stauffer (Stauffer Communications, Inc. [Ret.], Topeka, KS)
Deanell Reece Tacha (U.S. Court of Appeals, Lawrence, KS)
Barbara Wunsch (Kingman, KS)
Board Member Emerita
Constance Menninger (Topeka, KS)
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Victor Bailey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Director and Charles W. Battey
Distinguished Professor of Modern
British History
Jasonne M. Grabher . . . . . . . . . . Associate Director
Kathy Porsch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Grant Development Ofcer
Jeanie Wulfkuhle. . . . . . . . . . . . . Program Administrator
Jay Coffman. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accountant
Betty Vincent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Administrative Assistant
Ford Foundation Grant Ofcer. . Zanice Bond de Prez
Student Interns. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Brandon Michael Ford
Owen Grieb
Jodi Holopirek
Kellee Kirkpatrick
Heather Moore
Ryan Rash
Alayna Ziegler
Annual Report Editors . . . . . . . . Victor Bailey & Jasonne M. Grabher
Contributing Writer . . . . . . . . . . . Heather Moore
Layout & Design . . . . . . . . . . . . . Shala Stevenson
Photography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jay Coffman
Steve Dick
Elizabeth Moore
Jeanie Wulfkuhle
Queries or responses may be directed to
Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . The Hall Center for the Humanities
900 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045-7622
Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785-864-4798
Fax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 785-864-3884
E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hallcenter@ku.edu
Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . www.hallcenter.ku.edu
The Hall Center Annual Report is published using private funds.
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Chair, Susan Earle (Spencer Museum of Art)
Philip Barnard (English)
Steven Epstein (History)
Tanya Hartman (Art)
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Erik Herron (Political Science/CREES)
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