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Last Manuscript Professor John McWilliams, Humanities, will give a Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture.

Brandon Baird and Marcos Rohena-Madrazo, Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Program in Linguistics will give a Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture titled, “He Sounds Like He Plays Soccer: Perceptions of Spanish-accented English.”

Irina Feldman, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, and Nikolina Debrova, Department of Film and Media Culture, will give a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series: We offer an interdisciplinary reading of Korean auteur Bong Joon Ho’s 2013 Snowpiercer. Set in a dystopian near future, in which an attempt to fight global warming has triggered a new Ice Age, this sci-fi film paints a powerful picture of the brutal inequalities of globalized capitalism.

Jeff Byers as the Philip Battell Stewart and Sarah Frances Cowles Stewart Professor of Chemistry, will be lecturing on “High Energy Radicals.” His lecture will be appropriate for a non-technical audience.

Krista Miranda, Dance Program, will give a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series titled, “’I wasn’t made to click. But with you I Click”: Constructing the Prosthetic Body in Claire Cunningham’s Dance Theater”.

Gary Margolis, Executive Director Emeritus, College Mental Health Services; Department of English and American Literatures will give a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series titled, “Time Inside: Poems of the Prohibited, Poetry Reading, and Reflections from Teaching in a Maximum Security Prison”.

Seeking the All-Sufficient Word: Frankenstein, Heart of Darkness, and Disgrace Inaugural Lecture Professor Cates Baldridge, Department of English and American Literatures

Roots of Power: Ethnobotany and the Social Production of Space in Tropical Agrarian Societies There is great cultural continuity in the usage and significance of a particular plant species across tropical Africa. The Dracaena plant relates to property rights, grave marking, and peace symbolism throughout the region – not as a broad swath of meaning, but rather as a landscape element and social practice that appears again and again in diverse societies.

Dima Ayoub, Department of Arabic, will give a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series titled, “Cartographies of Translation: Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love Between English and Arabic”.

This lecture will examine Ahdaf Soueif’s novel The Map of Love alongside its Arabic translation, Kharitat al-hubb (translated by Fatma Musa) in particular focusing on the translatability of translational literature into Arabic.

Dog Meat Politics: Masculinity and Power in a Vietnamese Town Israel Institute Visiting Professor Nir Avieli, Program in Modern Hebrew will give a Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture. There were only a couple of semi-clandestine dog-meat restaurants in the town of Hoi An in Central Vietnam in 1999. In 2004 there were dozens, serving mostly male members of the newly emerging Hoianese middle class. In this article, based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Hoi An since 1998, I follow the sudden popularity of dog meat in town and discuss its meanings.