RECENT EVENTS SPONSORED OR CO-SPONSORED BY THE UH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY, TENNECO LECTURE SERIES, AND PATH
(1998-2002)

February 1998: Tenneco Lecture, School of Communication
Jason Lanier, visual artist, computer scientist, author, California
"The Future of Humanism in a Technological Society"

April 1998: Tenneco Distinguished Lecture Series
Fred D. Gray, attorney, Alabama
"Destroying Everything Segregated I Could Find"

April 1999, The Tenneco Community Symposium: "Families in Crisis"
Keynote, Alfred J. Kahn, Columbia University
"Child and Family Policy: Lessons for a Humane (or Coldly Calculating Society)"

September 1999: Tenneco Lecture, Center for the Americas
Rosa Maria Britton, Panama
"My Work in the Context of Panamanian and Spanish American Letters"

November 1999: Vietnam War Symposium (co-sponsor)

November 1999: Tenneco Lecture, School of Theatre
Master Class with Sir Peter Hall, Shakespearian actor, England

February 2000: The Tenneco Community Symposium: "Families in Crisis: Children, Adolescents, and Violence"
Keynote: Linda Gordon, University of Wisconsin, Madison
"The Politics and History of Domestic Violence"

February 2000: "Challenges to the Urban Environment: Historical Perspectives" A Symposium (co-sponsor)

April 2000: Tenneco Lecture, Graduate School of Social Work
Paula Caplan, Brown University
"Is There Such a Thing as a Normal Woman?"

October 2000: Arte Public Press and La Lucha: The Hispanic American Civil Rights Movement (co-sponsor)
Lectures by Henry Ramos (author) and F. Arturo Rosales (Arizona State University in Tempe)

November 2000: Tenneco Lecture, School of Theatre
Tony Church, actor, Royal Shakespeare Company, England
"Give 'Em A Bit of Mystery"

February 2001: Tenneco Lecture, Bauer College of Business
Bala Balachandran, Northwestern University
"Influence of a Firm's Capital Structure on its Disclosure Policy and Agency Costs"

February 2001: South Central Seminar for Early Modern Philosophy (co-sponsor)

February 2001: African American Studies Program (co-sponsor)
A Civil Rights Panel Discussion: "Issues of Race, Class, and Gender in the Civil Rights Movement"

March 2001: The Tenneco Community Symposium: "Families in Crisis: Immigration and the Family"
Keynote: Doris Meissner, Former Commissioner, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
"Family: The Cornerstone of United States Immigration Policy?"

April 2001: Department of English, Faculty Research Colloquia (co-sponsor)
Lester Faigley, University of Texas at Austin
"Public Discourse in a Risk Society"

September 2001: Women's Studies (co-sponsor)
Kathleen Woodward, University of Washington
"Figuring Age"

October 2001: School of Communication (co-sponsor)
William J. Mitchell, MIT
"E-TOPIA: Media and Architecture"

October 2001: Tenneco Lecture, School of Engineering
Henry Cleere, France and England
"World Heritage Sites"

October 2001: An International Symposium (Mexico City): " The City in North America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives on Public Works and Urban Services, the Environment, and Political Culture" (co-sponsor)

October 2001: History Department (co-sponsor)
"War on Drugs? Death Squads? Terrorists?"

November 2001: Women's Studies (co-sponsor)
Jan Todd, University of Texas at Austin
"Beware the Amazon: Women, Strength & Muscularity"

November 2001: African American Studies Program (co-sponsor)
African Studies Association Conference

February 2002: Tenneco Lecture (co-sponsor)
Ronald Takaki, University of California, Berkeley
"Why Multiculturalism Matters"

March 2002: Women of the Vietnam War Era Conference (co-sponsor)

April 2002: Tenneco Lecture, School of Theatre (co-sponsor)
John Russell Brown, Shakespearian director and scholar, England
"Shakespeare and the World"

April 2002: Women's Studies (co-sponsor)
Yvonne Gaudelius, Pennsylvania State University
"Performing 'Woman': Sights/Sites of Representation"

April 2002: The Tenneco Community Symposium: "Families in Crisis"
Keynote: Douglas Basharov, University of Maryland
"Welfare Reform Update: What's Happening to Children and Families"

April 2002: Women's Studies (co-sponsor)
Laura Fingerson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Agency and the Body in Adolescent Menstrual Talk"

May 2002: Mexican American History Workshop (co-sponsor)

October 2002: School of Music (co-sponsor)
Finn Winsloev, violist, Denmark
"Carl Nielsen and Rued Langgaard: Two Giants of Danish Music"
Recital and Viola Master Class

October 2002: Department of History (co-sponsor)
Noam Chomsky, MIT
"Changing Frameworks of World Order"

November 2002: Tenneco Lecture
Jonathan C. Brown, University of Texas at Austin
"Latin American Workers & Globalization in Historical Perspective"

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