Center For The Humanities Just about every Monday night, professors, some students (who my friends allege to be grievous brown-nosers), and the occasional unknown weird person gather at Russell House to attend the Center for the Humanities lecture series. And OK, so I'm one of those alleged brown-nosers. I don't however, embrace the charge, and I'd like to take this opportunity to tell my friends to go fuck themselves. The Center for the Humanities holds probably the most regular lecture series on campus, with lectures by faculty fellows who teach only one class during their semester at the Center, but attend all the lectures and colloquia as well as presenting their own work; ressearch fellows, who come to from other institutions fo the semester; visiting lecturers; and the Mellon fellow, who stays at the Center for the whole year, teaching one course during that time. Each semester the series has a theme, such as Cultural Constructions of the State, Producing the Past, and, this semester, Discourses of Progress and Development: The Return of Religion. Although the Center's cultural studis focus does mean that very few scientists speak, it is otherwise resolutely interdisciplinary. ---Laura Clawson All Lectures are Monday Nights at 8:PM in Russell House. Colloquia are Tuesday mornings at 10:30 at the Center for the Humanities. Feb. 15 Feb. 22 Mar. 1 Mar. 22 Mar. 29 Apr. 5 Apr. 12 Apr. 19 Apr. 26 Elizabeth McAlister, Faculty Fellow. Martin Riesebrodt (Sociology, University of Chicago). Tessa Bartholomeusz (Religion, Florida State University). Brian Larkin, Research Fellow. Ann Pellegrini (English, Harvard University). Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Mellon Fellow. William Pinch, Faculty Fellow. Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi, Research Fellow. David Weisberg, Faculty Fellow. Premodern Anti-Judaism in the Post-modern Caribbean: 'The Jews,' Jesus and Zombis in Haiti Secularization and the Global Resurgence of Religion Dharma Warriors in Buddhist Sri Lanka Mediating the Sacred: Electronic Preaching and the Transformation of Muslim Identity in Northern Nigeria Getting Religion and Other Thoughts on Homosexuality Islamism and the Quest for Alternative Modernities Killing Ascetics: Godmen and Violence in Indian History Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Nuclear War in the 1950s No Word for Art