Wayne State University Humanities Center
2005-2006 Lecture Schedule
The Wayne State University Humanities Center sponsors a year-long series of lunch hour, “brown bag” talks by distinguished scholars on all aspects of the humanities. The talks are free and open to the public, and attendees are welcome to bring lunch to the informal lectures. This series of 54 lectures will be held on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm, in Room 2339 of the Faculty Administration Building, on Anthony Wayne Drive, on the Wayne State campus.
Brown Bag Lecture Schedule
Fall
September 14 Sergio Rivera Ayala, Assistant Professor, Spanish, “Race and Power in XVII Century Colonial Mexico”
September 20 John Corvino, Assistant Professor, Philosophy, “How to be a Humean Moral Realist”
September 21 Renata Wasserman, Professor, English, “The Color of History: Black; Brazilian; Writers Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto”
September 27 Joella Gipson, Professor, Education, “Three Perspectives for Education in Poverty Areas Outside the US”
September 28 Sharon Vasquez, Dean of Fine, Performing and Communication Arts, “Movement and Meaning: A Look at Laban Movement Analysis”
October 4 Ken Jackson, Associate Professor, English, “Is it God or the Sovereign Exception?: Giorgio Agamben and Shakespeare’s King John”
October 5 Haiyong Liu, Assistant Professor, Near Eastern and Asian Studies, “The Initial Stage and Parameter-resetting in Second Language Acquisition of Chinese”
October 11 Jeff Rice, Assistant Professor, English, “Digital Detroit”
October 12 Nancy Christ, Director, Research Collaborations, Office of Research & Vance Briceland, Information Officer II, Office of Research, “Research Collaborations: How to Find Partners and Funding”
October 18 Bob Sedler, Distinguished Professor, Law School, “Freedom of Speech: United States vs. the Rest of the World”
October 19 Robert P. Holley, Professor, Library and Information Sciences, “You CAN Always Get What You Want and Usually Pay Much Less than You Expected: The Out-of-print Book Market in the Internet Age”
October 25 Terese M. Volk, Associate Professor, Music, “Congdon’s Early Music Education Materials”
October 26 Non-Sententials Working Group, “The Syntax of Nonsententials: Multiple Perspectives”
November 1 Monte Piliawsky, Associate Professor, Education, “An Invisible Voice of the New Left: Life Cycle Political Socialization of a White, Working-Class Radical Woman”
November 2 Loraleigh Keashly, Associate Professor, Psychology, “Aggression at the Service Delivery Interface: The Evolution of Patient-Staff Hostility”
November 8 Anca Vlasopolos, Professor, English, “Intercourse with Animals: Feminized Nature and Sadism in Balzac, Melville, Whaling Journals, and 1920’s Footage of Albatross Hunts”
November 9 Bruce Russell, Chair, Philosophy, “Against Relativism”
November 15 Robin Boyle, Professor, Geography and Urban Planning, “Plenty of Emptiness: Cities and Vacant Land”
November 16 Alvin Saperstein, Professor, Physics, “Science and Religion: the Two-Brain Student”
November 22 Danny Postel, Journalism, Columbia College Chicago, “Reading Habermans (and Lolita) in Tehran: Iran\'s Intellectual Encounter with Modernity”
November 29 Bill Harris, Professor, English, “Reading from a Work in Progress”
November 30 Frances Ranney, Associate Professor, English, “Making Good on Our Promise(s): Women’s Studies as a Site for Collaborative Research in the Arts and Sciences”
December 6 Christopher J. Peters, Associate Professor, Law School, “Can Constitutional Rights be Under- or Overenforced?”
December 7 Brad R. Roth, Associate Professor, Political Science, “State Sovereignty and International Legality”
December 13 Janine Marie Lanza, Assistant Professor, History, “Sharing the Wealth: Families and Inheritance in Early Modern Paris”
December 14 Robert Burgoyne, Professor, English, “Ancient Rome, Cinema, and the Historical Imaginary: Gladiator”
Winter
January 10 Arthur Marotti, Professor, English, “The Personal Anthologizing of Poetry in Manuscript in Early Modern England”
January 11 Margaret E. Winters, Professor and Chair, Romance Languages & Geoffrey Nathan, Associate Professor, Linguistics, “The Semantics of ‘Applied’ in Linguistics and Elsewhere”
January 17 Bart Miles, Assistant Professor, Social Work, “Power, Pictures, and Production: Exploring Homeless Peoples Experiences Through Visual Methods”
January 18 Julie A. Washington, Professor, Audiology and Speech Pathology, “Language and Literacy: When the two don’t intersect for Minority children”
January 24 Michael Scrivener, Professor, English, “Habermas and Literary Theory”
January 25 Marilyn Zimmerman, Associate Professor, Art and Art History, “People of Detroit: A Living Project”
January 31 Ronald Aronson, Distinguished Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, “Living without God”
February 1 Juanita Anderson, Assistant Professor, Communication, “African Cinema”
February 7 Ronald Brown, Associate Professor, Political Science & R. Khari Brown, Assistant Professor, Sociology, “The Effect of Interfaith Contact on Religious Pluralism and Support for Interfaith Alliances among Black and White American Christians”
February 8 Victor Figueroa, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages and Literatures, “A Kingdom of Black Jacobins: Alerjo Carpentier and C.L.R. James on the Haitian Revolution”
February 14 Stanley Shapiro, Professor Emeritus, History, “Charles Lindbergh’s Image and Celebrity”
February 15 Donyale Griffin, Lecturer, Communication, “The Commodification of Hip-Hop\'s Messages and Images in the 21st Century”
February 21 Jorge Chinea, Associate Professor, History & Director, Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies, “Transatlanticism: Re-Historicizing Puerto Rico and Cuba from a Global Perspective”
February 22 Ollie Johnson, Assistant Professor, Africana Studies, “Afro-Brazilian Politics: Challenges and opportunities”
February 28 Norah Duncan IV, Associate Chair, Music, “Organ Recital with Commentary on African and African-American Music”
March 1 Jeff Rebudal, Assistant Professor, Dance, “Traditional and the Post-Contemporary in Dance: Study of the Movement
Relationship between Filipino Indigenous Dance Forms and Western Contemporary Modern Dance”
March 7 Jeffrey Abt, Associate Professor, Art & Art History, “Graphic Knowledge: James H. Breasted and the Legibility of Ancient History”
March 8 Peter Riley Bahr, Assistant Professor, Sociology & Porsche VanBrocklin-Fischer, Graduate Student, Sociology, “Online Survey Techniques: Expediency at the Cost of Validity?”
March 21 Kypros Markou, Professor, Orchestral Studies, “Nationalism in Music in a Global World”
March 22 Sandra Hobbs, Assistant Professor, French, “Nationalist Discourse and the Colonial Subject in Noel Audet’s 1992 novel Whitewater (L’eau blanche)”
March 28 Hans Hummer, Assistant Professor, History, “Lay Literacy in Early Medieval Europe”
March 29 Anne Rothe, Assistant Professor, German and Slavic Studies, “Beyond Halbwachs: Collective Memory and/as Counter-Memory”
April 4 Jacalyn Harden, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, “Dark Mouth, White Breast: Race, Nature, Motherhood, Technology”
April 5 Peter Riley Bahr, Assistant Professor, Sociology, “Race and Remediation in Two-Year Colleges: What Do We Know, and What Do We Need to Know?”
April 11 Adrian Hatfield, Lecturer, History, “Science, Art and the Contemporary Sublime”
April 12 Joe Rankin, Chair, Criminal Justice, “Families and Crime”
April 18 Sarah Bassett, Associate Professor, Art History & Brian Madigan, Associate Professor, Art History, “The numinous image in the ancient Mediterranean world, being a collaborative investigation into the design and function of holy images in the polytheistic and monotheistic cultures of the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Byzantium, Part II: Greece, Rome, Byzantium”
April 19 Bob Yanal, Professor, Philosophy, “Hitchcock\'s Vertigo and the Tristan Legend”
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