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2001-2002 Brown Bag Lectures
  • September 18: Lawrence Scaff, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Political Science – “Politics and the Order of Terror”
  • September 25: Christopher H. Johnson, History – “The Sibling Archipelago: Brother-Sister Love and Bourgeois Class Formation in Nineteenth-Century France”
  • October 2: Ellen Barton, Linguistics – “The Explicit Construction of Legal Consciousness as Advocacy: Developing a Relational Orientation Toward the Law in the Discourse of a Support Group”
  • October 9: Rodney Clark, Psychology – “Psychological and Physiological Effects of Environmental Stressors: A Focus on African Americans”
  • October 16: Tracy Fisher, Africana Studies – “Politics, Black Women, and Community in London”
  • October 30: Gerald MacLean, English – “Editing Restoration Poetry: Some Lo-Tech Solutions”
  • November 6: Ken Jackson, English – “Twin Shows of Madness in the Duchess of Malfi: Reconsidering the Influence of Bethlem (“Bedlam”) Hospital on Renaissance Drama”
  • November 13: Zanita Fenton, Law – “Science as a Means of Perpetuating Violence”
  • November 20: Jeffrey Abt, Art & Art History – “Drawing with the Masters: Optical Devices and the Origins of Pictorial Realism”
  • November 27: Richard Grusin, English – “Screen Space, Collage, and the Remediation of Modernism”
  • December 4: Marv Zalman, Criminal Justice – “Reflections on Racial Profiling”
  • December 11: Anca Vlasapolos, English – “The Voyage of Extinction”
  • January 8: Bruce Russell, Philosophy – “The Matrix: Knowledge, Reality, and the Good”
  • January 15: Joan Mahoney, Law – “Protecting Civil Liberties in the United States and Great Britain: The American Civil Liberties Union and the National Council for Civil Liberties”
  • January 22: Guy Stern, German & Slavic Studies – “Trials, Formal and Improvisational, in the Dramas of Bertol Brecht”
  • January 29: Sherilyn Briller, Anthropology – “Exploring Personhood and Social Justice: Ethical Issues for Research in Dementia Care Settings”
  • February 5: Ron Brown, Political Science – “The Legacy of Slave Resistance: Revisiting William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner”
  • February 12: Michele Ronnick, Classics, Greek & Latin – “New Developments in Classica Africana”
  • February 19: John Corvino, Philosophy – “Naughty Fantasies”
  • February 21: Saheed A. Adejumobi, Africana Studies – “Citizenship and Social Reform in the African Diaspora: Problems and Prospects”
  • February 26: Karen Tonso, Education – “Playing With Pros: An Alternative to the ‘Wasteland of Teenage Life’”
  • March 5: Donald Haase, German & Slavic Studies – “The Fairy Tale in Extremis: War, Exile, and Literary Tale in Germany”
  • March 19: Daphne Ntiri, Interdisciplinary Studies – “Street Advertising as a Change Agent in the Promotion of Literacy in Urban Centers in Benin”
  • March 26: Renata Wasserman, English – “Fitting the News for Print: Howells’ A Modern Instance, Lime Barreto’s Memorias do escribao Isaias Caminha and the Role of the Press”
  • April 2: Mike Smith, Walter P. Reuther Library – “Monopoly and Public Necessity: Franchises and Urban Development in Nineteenth-Century Detroit”
  • April 9: Lisa Vollendorf, Romance Lanugages & Literatures – “Good Sex, Bad Sex: Intimacy and Authority in Spain (1580-1680)”
  • April 16: Linda Moore, Dean, College of Fine, Performing & Communication Arts, Communication – “The Rhetorical Strategies of Countess Markiewicz in the Irish Independence Movement”