Events Archive
MillerComm Lecture Series
Amy Kaplan
Exodus, the best-selling 1958 novel and 1960 film, marketed the new state of Israel to Americans. Exodus crated an Israeli myth of origins that appealed to American conceptions of its own revolution. This myth of Israel's "specialness" mirrored American exceptionalism in the Cold War. Created in…
Terri Kapsalis
Hysteria’s four-thousand-year history deeply inflects our ideas about gender and illness. The ancient Greek myth of the traveling uterus, Freud's Dora, and the French-Victorian vibrator all reveal hysteria as a cultural symptom. This multi-media production offers a history of hysteria with humor,…
Marcus Karel
Dr. Karel, internationally known for his research on water activity in foods and on optimization of food processes, has been selected as this year's Louis B. Howard lecturer in the Department of Food Science. He has been a consultant to Manned Spacecraft Center, NASA, since 1969.
Michael D. Kennedy
Since the 2015 publication of Globalizing Knowledge, Professor Kennedy has engaged in a number of global conversations with radically different scopes of imagination, principles of design, and visions of consequence in the articulation of transformative knowledge cultures. In this presentation, he…
Kate Kennedy
Whilst 1914 is now seen as the year in which the world changed forever, 1915 proved to be the most momentous year for the young generation of English poets and composers caught up in the war. In 1915, poet Siegfried Sassoon served in France while Wilfred Owen and Ivor Gurney enlisted. Rupert Brooke…
Derrick de Kerckhove
Derrick de Kerckhove is a pioneer and futurist in digital technology and virtual reality whose theory of connected intelligence has gained worldwide notoriety in the search for a new electronic alphabet. He pushes at the frontier of cyberspace in terms of the physiology and psychology of human…
Rashid Khalidi
In World War II's aftermath, and continuing for 45 years of US-USSR rivalry, the Middle East was strongly shaped by the Cold War, its local as well as international politics showing that rivalry's direct impact. The expansion of US power in the Middle East, and the region's crucial strategic…
Elias Khoury
'Nakba,' catastrophe, commonly refers to the massive exodus of Palestinians after the formation of Israel in 1948. In Elias Khoury's account, Nakba does not refer to a historical moment. Rather, he considers it to be is a process that began in 1948 and is perpetuated in literary depictions of…
Sergei Khruschchev
Sergei Khrushchev, son of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, will discuss US-Soviet relations during the height of the Cold War, recounting world-historic events that he often personally witnessed at his father's side.
Hosted by: Russian and East European Center
In conjunction with: Campus Honors…
Janice Kiecolt-Glaser
Seventh Annual Lyle Lanier Lecture in Psychology. This lectureship is in honor Lyle Lanier, who served as Head of Psychology, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Cosponsored by: Office of the Chancellor, Office of the…
John Brady Kiesling
Career U.S. diplomat John Brady Kiesling's February 27, 2003 resignation letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell–published in the New York Times–represented a rare voice of dissent as war with Iraq loomed. Kiesling will discuss strategies for repairing America's damaged international…
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Journey with one of America's preeminent folklorists to uncover the cultural and culinary secrets of one of the nation's most recognizable food items.
Hosted by: Program in Jewish Culture and Society
In conjunction with: Department of Anthropology, Department of French, Department of History,…
Madhu Kishwar
A leading figure in the Indian women's and human rights movements and founder/editor of the journal Manushi, Madhu Kishwar reviews women's struggles in post-independence India and prospects for Indian women in the next century.
Madhu Kishwar's talk is part of a year-long series of events in…
Philip Kitcher
As molecular biologists race toward the goal of mapping and sequencing the human genome–discovering more and more about human heredity and human physiology–they are unearthing a treasure trove of knowledge that not only alters our conception of ourselves but also promises extensive power to…
Naomi Klein
Naomi Klein will outline a provocative interpretation of how the neoliberal project in Latin America was imposed, starting with the Pinochet regime in Chile, conceived as the first laboratory of the ideas of Milton Friedman and his "Chicago Boys." She then discusses Argentina and the impact of the…
Richard G. Klein
Cosponsored by Office of the Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs; Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and the Graduate College; School of Life Sciences; Department of Anthropology; Department of Geography; Department of Geology; Center for African Studies; Program for the Study of Religion…
Natalie Kofler
Professor Kofler will argue how scientific and value-based knowledge can inform technology decision-making in ways that are both context-dependent and global in scope. The inadequacy of dominant theories in environmental ethics to support such decision-making will also be presented and an…
Donald Kohn
Critical to the contemporary human genetic experimentation agenda is human gene therapy, that is, inserting alien DNA into a patient's body to achieve a therapeutic effect. Donald Kohn provides an assessment of the compelling human dimensions associated with medical interventions to save children's…
Vitaly Komar
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Alexander Melamid
Vitaly Komar and his partner, Alexander Melamid, are possibly the best known dissident artists of the postwar USSR and are among the world's most celebrated and iconoclastic artists today. Here Komar examines artistic images of the two most mythologized "founding fathers" of the US and the USSR,…
Lily Kong
This talk grows out of Lily Kong's fascination with Shaw Brothers, the Hong Kong–and Singapore–based Chinese film company whose media empire is a major powerhouse in contemporary Asia. The Shaw Brothers' contributions to the film industry and beyond open up a multitude of issues about…
Lawrence Kritzman
Kritzman examines how contemporary policies for the arts and education in France have raised important issues concerning the definition of culture and its political consequences. French public intellectuals including Agasinski, Bourdieu, Debray, Finkielkraut, Fumaroli, Pennac and Wievorka will be…
James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler is a leading commentator on the state of America's cities. In The Geography of Nowhere and Home from Nowhere, he exposed the depressing realities of post-war suburban sprawl. His remedy centers on the hope for a "new urbanism," the return of compact, walkable cities—the kind…
Regina Kunzel
Regina Kunzel will discuss the archives of St. Elizabeth's Hospital, the federal hospital for the mentally ill in Washington, DC, and what it reveals about the encounters of sexual and gender variant people with psychiatry and psychoanalysis in mid twentieth-century America. Her talk brings new…
Jean-Claude Kuperminc
After almost one hundred and fifty years, the struggle for equal rights for Jews remains one of the Alliance Israélite Universelle's priorities. Whether making formal diplomatic approaches to the governments of countries where Jews were oppressed, providing assistance to those wishing to emigrate,…
Marta Kutas
A leading expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience, Marta Kutas will describe her lab's research showing that while brain waves cannot be used to read people's minds they themselves can be read, and in so doing we can learn more about how our daily experiences influence the organization of the…