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THE RICE THRESHER NEWS FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2.2007
PAST PRESIDENTS AT RICE
Bill Clinton is not the first president to speak at
Rice. These are a few of the presidential
addresses at Rice in the last fifty years:
John F. Kennedy:
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In the most famous speech
ever given at Rice, Kennedy
spoke at Rice Stadium in
1962 to encourage space-
age spending. Kennedy
said the United States
needed to develop aero-
space technology to re-
main a major world power.
Jimmy Carter:
Carter came to Rice in 1987
to talk about "Policy and
Management in the White
House." He discussed both
his and previous presidents'
ways of running the executive
branch. Carter also gave the
commencement address in
1993, in which he discussed
global conflicts.
Richard Nixon:
Nixon spoke to students
before the 1968 election
about his plan for the Viet-
nam War and his campaign
for "law and order." Here,
students march in protest.
George H.W. Bush:
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Bush gave the 87th Com-
mencement address in
2000, encouraging students
to get involved in their
communities and find a
sense of duty. He was also
briefly an adjunct professor
at Rice in the late 1970s
and hosted the 1990 World
Economic Summit with then-
G-7 leaders at Rice.
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LATOUR
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lying science to culture
Anthropology Professor Chris
Kelty, who nominated Latour for
the Distinguished Visiting Scholar
honor with History Professor
John Zammito over a year ago,
said Latour's focus on science and
technology studies should inter-
est undergraduates of a variety
of majors.
Latour is currently a sociology
professor at l'lnstitut d'Etudes
Politiques de Paris, but he has
held positions in anthropology
and began his academic career
in philosophy.
'The advantage of
including undergrad-
uates in this thing
is that it raises the
level of intellectual
discussion on campus.'
- Chris Kelty
Anthropology professor
The majority of his published
work focuses on the relationship
between science and culture, and
his 1987 book Science in Action:
How to Follow Scientists and Engi-
neers Through Society is used as a
key text in sociology of scientific
knowledge contexts. The book is
an example of Latour's ability to
explain and engage students in
discussing science as both an
object and a method of study —
one of the abilities Kelty said is
unique to Latour among scholars of
his prestige.
"Bruno is one of few academics
who is conversant in contemporary
science and engineering," Kelty
said. "He understands science and
technology and has something
to say about how it relates to
politics and how it relates to the
transformation of society, about
how to think about it and how to
study it."
Latour's broad-ranging analysis
underlies his most famous cultural
commentary: In the 1980s Latour
proposed Actor-Network Theory,
which asserts that societies work as
networks of relationships between
objects and people, who all act and
are acted upon to create culture.
The idea can apply to scientific com-
munities, bodies of government or
any group that can be considered
to have a culture of its own.
To meet with Latour in a small
discussion setting, send an e-mail
to aallen@rlce.edu.
English graduate student David
Messmer, who is assisting Latour
next week, said the combination of
Latour's prestige and accessibility
makes him particularly unique
among academics.
"Anybody on campus should
have some connection with his
work," Messmer said. "He does
work with philosophy, anthropol-
ogy, history. You'd be hard pressed
to find a discipline in which he
hasn't engaged."
The HRC reaches out
The Humanities Research
Center, which changed its name
last year from the Center for the
Study of Culture, is beginning an
effort to engage undergraduates
more intimately in intellectual and
academic activity, Bailar said.
In addition to Latour's visit,
Bailar said the HRC is offering up
to 20 undergraduate fellowships
next year, each of which will allow
an undergraduate to work closely
with a visiting scholar.
HRC Distinguished Visiting
Scholars are sponsored by grants
from the National Endowment for
the Humanities, and Latour is one
of two NEH-funded speakers to
visit Rice this semester.
Bruno Latour
Social theorist Paul Gilroy will
come to campus March 26-30,
and the HRC may choose under-
graduate fellows to assist his visit
as well.
Allen said Latour's visit will
include a number of opportunities
for students to talk with Latour
one-on-one, over lunches, in semi-
nar-style discussions and during
a tour of the Museum District
Sunday afternoon.
Latour and undergrads
Kelty said he hopes these dis-
cussions will have a lasting impact
Rice's intellectual culture, espe-
cially among undergraduates.
"The advantage of including
undergraduates in this thing is
that it raises the level of intellectual
discussion on campus," he said.
"It may change the intellectual
climate on campus.... That's what
I hope."
Kelty said Latour's engaging
lecture style may help to foster dis-
cussion because Latour makes his
subjects accessible to students.
"Bruno is quite well known for
being an extraordinary lecturer and
especially a teacher in an under-
graduate setting, so the seminars...
won't be arcane or completely
outside people's experience," he
said. "Students should be able to
access them."
LATOUR'S FEB. 5-9 VISITING FELLOWSHIP SCHEDULE
Chris Kelty's class
11am - 12:30pm
Lunch with Under-
graduate Fellows
12:30pm - 1:30 pm
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US
Chris Kelty's class
11am - 12:30pm
Seminar: "The Politics
of Multinaturalism"
4pm - 6pm
Humanities 117
Round table
discussion
8pm-9pm
Ketley Lounge
Tour of lab
2pm - 3pm
Public lecture: "Political Truth:
Lippman's Phantom and
Dewey's Great Community"
4pm - 6pm
Herring Hall 100
Seminar: "Collective Experiments"
4pm - 6pm
Humanities 118
Making Things Public:
Screening and Discussion
4:30pm - 6:30pm
Anderson Hall
Christopher Hight's class
lpm - 3pm
Seminar: "Cosmopolitics"
4pm - 6pm
Rayzor Hall 123
denotes an event open to the public
11am 12pm 1pm 2pm 3pm 4pm 5pm 6pm 7pm 8pm
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