Lyceum Lecture Series
In winter 1999 the Center launched a new annual lecture series, the Lyceum Lectures, to showcase interdisciplinary and collaborative work that exceeds the bounds of any one college at most universities, which typically group together into colleges or schools related pre-professional disciplines, such as Education or Engineering; the physical, life, and agricultural sciences, as in our own College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; and the humanities, arts, and social sciences (themselves often segregated in separate colleges, as at some of the other U.C. campuses). This expansion of our mission to promote interdisciplinary and collaborative work within the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences is also part of the University's outreach to the Riverside community in that these lectures are addressed not only to academics but to the community at large, focusing on topical issues in a language accessible to those not working directly in the scholar-lecturer's
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Brenda Marie Osbey - 2006 Title: After the Storm: New Orleans Culture & History Date: February 23, 2006
Brenda Marie Osbey is the author of All Saints: New and Selected Poems (LSU Press, 1997), which received the 1998 American Book Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, anthologies and collections including Essence, Renaissance Noire, Southern Review, Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology and The American Poetry Review. Her essays on New Orleans appear in The American Voice, Georgia Review, Bright Leaf and Creative Nonfiction. Osbey is also the recipient of several fellowships and awards and in Spring 2005, she was appointed Poet Laureate of the State of Louisiana.
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Barbara Metcalf -
2003 Professor of History, UC Davis Title: "Reinventing Islamic Politics in Interwar India" Date: February 19, 2003 Time: 5:00pm-6:00pm Location: Extension Center, Room E |
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BARBARA D. METCALF received her
doctoral degree from the Department of South and Southeast Asian
Studies, University of California, Berkeley. She is currently
Professor in the Department of History (since 1986), University of
California, Davis. A specialist in the history of South Asian Muslims,
she is the co-author of A Concise History of India (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2002), author of Islamic Revival in
British India: Deoband, 1860-1900 (Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1982 and 2nd edition, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2002);
translator and commentator on Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf 'Ali
Thanawi's Bihishti Zewar (Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1990); and editor and contributor to Moral Conduct and
Authority: The Place of Adab in South Asian Islam (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1984); and Making Muslim Space in
North America and Europe (University of California Press, 1996).
Her work has been supported by numerous awards and fellowships, among
them grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, John Simon
Guggenheim Foundation, National Humanities Center, and Fulbright
Program. She is a past president of the Association for Asian Studies
and past vice-president of the American Historical Association. View or Download Flyer: Barbara Metcalf Flyer |
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George J. Sanchez - 2002 Associate Professor of History, USC Title: "Heading Back to the Future: Latino History and Public Culture in Southern California" Date: March 4, 2002 Time: 5:00pm-7:00pm Location: Pentland Hills Conference Center B-107 and C-101 |
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Reflecting on the
tenth anniversary of the Los Angeles Riots, Dr. Sanchez will describe
the past tumultuous decade in Southern California, particularly as it
relates to the Mexican-origin population of the state. Events of the
past decade both reflect longstanding cultural and racial tensions in
the region that have marked Latino-white issues, as well as new
developments which are an indication of the future demographic
realities of California in the 21st century. Using both historical and
contemporary stories of southern California as his guide, Sanchez will
speculate on some of the particular challenges of interracial
relations that face our region in the coming decades. GEORGE J. SANCHEZ is Associate Professor of History, American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. He has just finished serving as the first fellow of the John Randolph and Dora Haynes Foundation of Los Angeles, which funds social science research on Los Angeles, and is currently President of the American Studies Association. He has a Ph.D. (1989) and M.A. (1984) from Stanford University in History; his B.A. (1981) is from Harvard College in History and Sociology. Sanchez is best known for his award-winning 1993 book, Becoming Mexican American: Ethnicity, Culture and Identity in Chicano Los Angeles, 1900-1945 (Oxford University Press). He currently serves as Director of the Program in American Studies and Ethnicity at USC, an innovative program which combines American Studies and Ethnic Studies. He works on both historical and contemporary topics of race, gender, ethnicity, labor, and immigration, and is one of the co-editors of the book series, American Crossroads: New Works in Ethnic Studies, from the University of California Press. He is currently working on a historical study of the ethnic interaction of Mexican Americans, Japanese Americans, African Americans, and Jews in the Boyle Heights area of East Los Angeles, California in the twentieth century. He was born in Los Angeles, a child of two immigrant parents from Mexico View or Download Flyer: George Sanchez Flyer |
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Dr.
Howard Brody - 2001 |
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DR. HOWARD BRODY is a Professor of Family Practice and Philosophy, and Director of the Center for Ethics and Humanities in Life Sciences at Michigan State University. Howard Brody received his M.D. degree from the College of Human Medicine, Michigan State University, in 1976, and his Ph.D. in Philosophy, also from Michigan State University, in 1977. After completing a residency in family practice at the University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, he returned to Michigan State University. There he helped to organize the Medical Ethics Resource Network of Michigan, serving as President of its Council from 1988-90, and he chaired the Michigan Commission on Death and Dying, 1994. He also headed a Task Force on Humanities in Family Medicine Education for the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine, 1981-86, served as President of the Society for Health and Human Values in 1988-89, and was appointed Senior Scholar in Residence for the American Academy of Family Physicians at the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research in Rockville, MD, in 1993-94. In 1995, he was elected to the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Brody has published numerous articles on medical ethics, family medicine, and the philosophy of medicine, and is the author of The Healer’s Power (Yale University Press, 1992), Stories of Sickness (Yale University Press, 1987), Ethical Decisions in Medicine (Little Brown, second edition 1981), and Placebos and the Philosophy of Medicine (University of Chicago Press, 1980). View or Download Flyer: Howard Brody Flyer |
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Dr. Ruth
Simmons - 2000
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DR. RUTH SIMMONS has a Ph.D.
from Harvard University in Romance Languages and Literatures.
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Dr. Arthur Kleinman,
Ph.D. MD
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1999
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DR. ARTHUR KLEINMAN, Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology, Professor of Psychiatry, and Chairman, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Professor of Social Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, has conducted cross-cultural research since 1968 on illness experience and health care in Chinese society and North America. More recently, he has studied political violence, other forms of social suffering, and their moral and policy implications. His research career began with ethnographic studies of local health care systems in Taiwan, China and the U.S. From this vantage point he organized an anthropological framework for studying illness experience, help seeking, clinical communication, the work of doctoring, and the culture of biomedicine. Thereafter he turned to cross-cultural comparisons of depression, somatization, the social course of chronic medical illness. More recently his research has widened to encompass the broader domain of suffering as sociosomatic experience that links together moral, political and psychophysiological conditions such as violence, trauma, and social breakdown. The author of more than 150 articles; author of 5 books; and editor or co-editor of 15 volumes; Kleinman most recently has directed the World Mental Health Report, supported by Carnegie Corporation, MacArthur and Rockefeller Foundations and the Milbank Fund, been a member of the Steering Committee of the APA-NIMH Taskforce on Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis, and Co-Chair, Committee on Culture, Health and Human Development, Social Science Research Council. In 1976 he founded the journal Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, which he edited for a decade. His major books include Patients and Healers in the Context of Culture (1980) for which he won the Wellcome Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Origins of Distress and Disease: Neurasthenia, Depression and Pain in Modern China (1984); The Illness Narratives: Suffering, Healing and the Human Condition (1988); Rethinking Psychiatry: From Cultural Category to Personal Experience (1988); and Writing at the Margin: Discourses between Anthropology and Medicine (1996). His co-edited volumes include: Culture and Depression (1985); Pain and Disability (1987); Health and Social Change (1994); World Mental Health (1995); Culture and Psychiatric Diagnosis (1996); and Social Suffering (1998 ). View or Download Flyer: Arthur Kleinman Flyer |
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A New Orleans native, Brenda Marie Osbey received a B.A. from Dillard University, a M.A. from the University of Kentucky, and also attended the Université Paul Valéry at Montpélliér, France. She has taught French, English and African World literatures at Dillard University; African American and Third World literatures at the University of California at Los Angeles; African American literature and creative writing at Loyola University; and has twice been appointed Visiting Writer-in-residence at Tulane University and Scholar-in-residence at Southern University. She currently conducts seminars and colloquia in literature, creative writing and New Orleans Black Culture at Dillard University.