Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities

The West Before Lewis and Clark: Three Lives

Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
7:00 pm
The Gallery, Memorial Union

The Donald Benson Memorial Lecture Fund for Literature, Science, and the Arts has selected Elliott West to present the 2012 lecture. Professor West will present the journey of three people as he tells the history of the West. Through the eyes of a French teenaged boy, a Native American woman, and a young New Mexican mother, West unravels the stories and plights of these people from the late 1680s to the departure of Lewis and Clark up the Missouri River.

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CEAH announces Seed Grant Recipients 2011-2012

Elisa Rizo (Assistant Professor, Spanish) and Madeleine Henry (Professor Classical Studies) will examine the use of Greco-Roman traditions in literary and other cultural productions of Spanish-speaking Africans and Afro-Latin Americans. Their transdisciplinary endeavor will help illuminate discussions of colonial encounters and decolonizing strategies on the part of Afro-Hispanics. In a series of conference papers and essays, they will examine the use and manipulation of classical idioms in imperial enterprises and in Black political and aesthetic activity. Based on theoretical approaches that delve into questions of cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, race, ethnicity and gender, the ultimate aim of this project is to foster a better understanding of current societal issues such as nation/border formation, displacement, migration, membership, community building, civic participation, women's rights, and revolutionary thought.

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Sandra Norvell
Phone: 294-1594

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CEAH Funding Deadlines

FACULTY
March 19, 2012
Small Grant Support for Senior Faculty

March 19, 2012
Research Grants for Assistant and Associate Professors