Starting at 5:00p

Pre-Function Area - Fifth Floor

William Nericcio

President, AGLSP

Dr. Newell Boyd, Rice University

Introduction by Rebecca Sharp

Steven Burr

Editor, Confluence

Hana S. Elysia, San Diego State University

The Fifth Incident

Kelly A. Harrison, Stanford University

Colonial Astronomers and the Transit of Venus: An Exemplar of American Enlightened Thinking

The Awe of the Archive: Discovering a Hidden Chapter in the Invention of Race

In this talk, Andrew Curran will discuss how he and Henry Louis Gates Jr. both stumbled upon a long-forgotten cache of eighteenth-century manuscripts submitted to a contest on "the source of blackness.” Curran, who is an international authority on how the idea of race came into existence, is also eager to discuss the role that the history can play, today, in race relations.

Alberta's Hair Is Pink

Linda K. Allison, Rice University

Five Minutes in Heaven

Robert Lang II, San Diego State University

Mormons, Trains, and Therapists
Travis Poppleton, Harvard Extension