Rice to honor MacArthur-winning professor Kiese Laymon April 10
Rice President Reginald DesRoches, Provost Amy Dittmar and School of Humanities Dean Kathleen Canning invite all members of the Rice community to a special reception at Cohen House April 10 to formally honor English professor Kiese Laymon, recipient of a 2022 MacArthur Fellowship.
An interactive sculpture paying tribute to African American history and the ongoing struggle for racial justice will be on display at Rice University throughout the month of March.
An interactive sculpture paying tribute to African American history and the ongoing struggle for racial justice will be on display at Rice University throughout the month of March.
Rice Professor Kiese Laymon, acclaimed author and 2022 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” awardee , is set to be recognized by Rice Athletics during the final men’s basketball game of the season March 4 against the Florida International University Panthers at 2 p.m. in Tudor Fieldhouse. Following the game, attendees will be treated to a free screening of “Bill Russell: Legend” featuring narration written by Laymon.
Rice acquires rare replica of William Blake printing press
Rice University is the only place in North America where you can find an authentic, functional replica of the star-wheel copper-plate rolling press that famous Romantic poet and artist William Blake used to produce his masterworks.
During Black History Month, artists work with historians to tell story of slave trade
Daniel Domingues, associate professor of African history and co-manager of SlaveVoyages, joined forces with Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts Feb. 18 to host a workshop to help create a new visual identity for the award-winning online database of the global slave trade.
Rice Owls win big at Grammy Awards
Rice historian Doug Brinkley and alumna Germaine Franco took home the gold at the 65th annual Grammy Awards Feb. 5 in Los Angeles.
First event in new Humanities lecture series examines Jainism, comparative religion
The School of Humanities, in collaboration with the departments of Transnational Asian Studies and Religion, is set to host Rice’s first-ever Bhagwaan Mahavir Lecture in Jain Studies Feb. 3.
Rice to host Islamic historian Nebil Husayn for fourth annual Kazimi Lecture
Whether you’re a Muslim, a scholar of religion or simply someone interested in the lessons history can teach us about contemporary debates around religion and politics, Rice’s fourth annual Kazimi Lecture in Shi’i Studies Feb. 23 by Nebil Husayn is sure to provide plenty to ponder.
Rice’s Houston Asian American Archive highlighted in new exhibition
A wide variety of items from Rice University’s Houston Asian American Archive (HAAA) are now highlighted in a new public exhibition at the Julia Ideson Gallery at the Houston Public Library downtown.
Research on televised opera, slave voyages honored with National Endowment for the Humanities grants
A Rice University musicologist and history professor are among the recipients of 2023 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for their research projects on televised opera and tracking historical slave trading voyages.
International Shakespeare troupe returning to Rice Feb. 2-4
The world-acclaimed Actors From The London Stage, the international touring theater troupe based in London and at the University of Notre Dame, will be in residency at Rice Jan. 31-Feb. 4. The troupe will perform “Romeo and Juliet” at Hamman Hall on campus at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2-4.
DesRoches outlines 2023 goals to faculty
President Reginald DesRoches delivers his inaugural State of the University
Puppetry workshop brings Owls, performers together for larger-than-life performance
Thanks to a collaboration between the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts and the Department Modern and Classical Literatures and Cultures within the School of Humanities, the Orange Show Center for Visionary Art and Bread and Puppet Theater — one of the oldest nonprofit political theater companies in the country — Rice students got the chance to play roles in a larger-than-life puppet show Nov. 22.
In appreciation of the Alexander family of Houston's longtime support of Jewish Studies in the School of Humanities and the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library, Rice will name the Houston Jewish History Archive the Joan and Stanford Alexander South Texas Jewish Archives effective Jan. 1.
