Middlebury
College
Faculty Lecture Series
2009-2010
All lectures will be held in The Orchard (Room 103), The Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest
All are welcome to attend
Wednesday, September 23, 4:30 p.m.
Kevin Moss, Department of Russian, “Queering Ethnicity in the First Gay Films from ex-Yugoslavia”
Wednesday, October 21, 4:30 p.m.
John Hunisak, Department of History of Art and Architecture, “‘Panis angelicus fit panis hominum’ (may the bread of angels become mankind’s bread): images of food in representations of the New Testament”
Wednesday, November 11, 4:30 p.m.
Peter Hamlin, Department of Music, “Sources of Musical Inspiration from Across the Curriculum”
Wednesday, November 18, 4:30 p.m.
Tamar Mayer, Professor of Geography, “Uighurs and Contested Landscapes in Xinjiang”
Wednesday, January 13, 4:30 p.m.
Matt Dickerson, Department of Computer Science, Program in Environmental Studies and New England Young Writers Conference at Bread Loaf, “C.S. Lewis, Narnia, and Agrarianism: Could a Mythopoet and Christian Apologist Really Have Anything Important (and Positive) to Say About Ecology?”
Wednesday, January 27, 4:30 p.m.
Cates Baldridge, Department of English and American Literatures, “Ambassadors to a Mythical Kingdom: The Portuguese Encounter with ‘Prester John’ in 16th Century Ethiopa”
Wednesday, February 10, 4:30 p.m.
Fernando Rocha, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, “What Does It Take to be a Fictional Writer: Authorship as Becoming”
Wednesday, February 24, 4:30 p.m.
Jane Chaplin, Department of Classics, “The Man Who Came Between Augustus and Livy: Portrait of an Epitomator”
Wednesday, March 10, 4:30 p.m.
Elizabeth Morrison, Department of Religion, “Confucians vs. Buddhists: The Place of Buddhism in Traditional Chinese History”
Wednesday, April 7, 4:30 p.m.
Lorraine Besser-Jones, Department of Philosophy, “On Being Virtuous and Acting Well”
Wednesday, April 21, 4:30 p.m.
Heidi Grasswick, Department of Philosophy, “‘Science Says’: Problems of Trust Across the Expert-Lay Divide”