Refreshments will be available before each lecture. All are welcome to attend.
Thursday, September 18, 4:30 p.m.
David Stoll, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “The Bubble Economy of Nebaj: A Micro-Credit Experience In the Western Guatemalan Highlands and What It Tells Us About Solidarity”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, September 25, 4:30 p.m.
Pieter Broucke, Department of History of Art and Architecture, “The First Phase of Trajan’s Pantheon: the Design of Apollodorus of Damascus”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, October 30, 4:30 p.m.
Matt Dickinson, Department of Political Science, “Who Will Win the 2008 Presidential Election?: What Political Science Forecasts”
Dana Auditorium
Thursday, November 20, 4:30 p.m.
Claudio Medeiros, Department of Theatre and Dance, “Expressionist Excess or Melodramatic Desire? Towards a Performative Aesthetic for Nelson Rodrigues”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, December 4, 4:30 p.m.
Will Nash, Program of American Studies, “Second-Class in the Second City: Place and the Artistry of Space in Black Chicago”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, January 8, 4:30 p.m.
Jeff Byers, “Buckyballs, Tiny Machines, and Nanoputians - The Miniature World of Nanotechnology”
MBH 220
Thursday, January 22, 4:30 p.m.
James Fitzsimmons, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, “Death and the Classic Maya Kings: Landscape and Cults of Personality in the Maya Lowlands”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.
Jonathan Schroeder, Department of Geography, “Visualizing Patterns in U.S. Urban Population Trends”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, March 19, 4:30 p.m.
Brian Robison, Department of Music, “Simiaminimae: A String Quartet Apes Apes”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, April 9, 4:30 p.m.
Bert Johnson, Department of Political Science, “All Contributions, Great and Small: How the Campaign Finance System Shapes U.S. Politics”
vEnvironmental Center at Hillcrest 103
Thursday, April 16, 4:30 p.m.
Natasha Chang, Department of Italian, “Laughing Matters: Joking and Gender in Satirical Gazettes from the Italian Fascist Period”
Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest 103