Common Reading Events:

• 08/17/2009 at 2:00 p.m.
  O-Week Faculty Welcome Address by Professor Alex Byrd (Stude Hall). To learn more about Dr. Byrd and his research, please visit http://history.rice.edu/faculty.aspx?id=104
  This event is closed to the public.

• 09/03/2009 at 7:30 p.m.
  Keynote address by Helene Cooper, author of The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of a Lost African Childhood (Tudor Field House). 
  This event is open to the entire Rice community. 

• Coming in September (Date TBA), 7:30 p.m.
  Screening of "Pray the Devil Back to Hell" (Rice Media Center).
  This powerful documentary film tells the story of the courageous Liberian women who came together to end a bloody civil war and bring peace to their shattered country. For more information about the film, please visit http://www.praythedevilbacktohell.com/v3/.