Brown Bag Lecture Series 2003-2004

The following talks are scheduled for the fall and winter semesters of the 2003-2004 school year. (Note: subject to change.) All Brown Bag talks will take place at 12:30 p.m. in the Humanities Center.

(Click on links to view abstracts, where available.)

• September 9 - Margaret Winters, Associate Provost, & Geoff Nathan, Associate Professor, English, "How Many Ounces in a Stanley Cup? On Butter, Sports Trophies, and Categorization"
• September 16 - Steve Winter, Professor, Center for Legal Studies,
  “What Makes Modernity Late?”
• September 23 - Charles Stivale, Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures; “Zydeco Will Never Die: Affirmation and Identity in Louisiana Nouveau Zydeco"
• September 30 - Avis Vidal, Chair, Geography and Urban Planning, “Social Capital and Community Development”
• October 7 - Cannon Schmitt, Associate Professor of English, Editor of Criticism, "Victorian Beetlemania"
• October 9 - Abby Butler, Assistant Professor, Music Education, “Remembering, Preserving, Discovering… The Legacy of the Brazeal Dennard Chorale.”
• October 14 - Sandra VanBurkleo, Associate Professor, History, “Breaking Promises: The Strange Case of Legislative Divorce in 19th Century America"
• October 21 - Eugenia Casielles, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literature, “Towards a Typology of Topics”
• October 28 - Jack Kay, Associate Provost for Assessment and Retention, “The Music of Contemporary Hate Groups: Cyberspace and the Language of Oppression”
• November 4 - Robert Thomas, Dean, College of Science & Interim Dean, College of Liberal Arts, “’Da Ja Ting’ (Big Family) - A Personal Perspective on Two Decades of Scientific and Cultural Exchanges With Friends From China”
• November 11 - Jerry Cleveland, Associate Professor, Theatre. "Witticism and the Devotee of the Antilles as seen by Derek Walcott: The Bliss of Ignorance or Living in Accord with the Nature of Things"
• November 18 - Barrett Watten, Associate Professor, English, “Modernism at the Crossroads”
• November 25 - Tamara Bray, Museum Director, Associate Professor, Anthropology, “Imperial Inca Inconography: The Art of Empire in the Precolumbian Andes”
• December 2 - Norah Duncan IV, Assistant Professor, Music, “New Trends in African American Spiritual Music”
• December 9 - Matthew Seeger, Associate Professor, Communication, “Lessons from Enron, Anthrax and 9/11: Crisis and Risk Communication in a Threatening World” (Co-sponsored by WSU’s Institute for Information Technology and Culture).
• December 11 - Robert Holley, Professor, Library & Information Science Program, “The Ethics of Scholarly Research and the Internet”
• January 13 - Carla Harryman, Senior Lecturer, English, “Rules and Restraints in Women’s Innovative Writing: Kathy Acker, Conceptualism, and the Intergenre.”
• January 20 - Michael Giordano, Associate Professor, Romance Languages & Literature, “The Visible and the Sayable in Selected Visual Media of the Renaissance”
• January 27 - Dana Seitler, Assistant Professor, English, “Hirsutical Exchange: Ape, Gorilla, Wolf, Man”
• February 3 - Michele Ronnick, Associate Professor, Classics, “Classical Elements in the Writing of Percival Everett, Contemporary African American Novelist”
• Febuary 5- Julie Klein, Professor, (Humanities) Interdisciplinary Studies, CULMA “Interdisciplinarity, Humanities, and Culture: The Changing American Academy.”
• February 10 - Gary Sands, Associate Professor, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs, “Well Made Places? Resident Satisfaction in New Urbanist Suburbs”
• February 12 - Sheila Lloyd, Assistant Professor, English, "Letting Daddy Do It to/for You and Other Obscenities of Black Political Cultures in the Writings of Chinua Achebe and W. E. B. Du Bois."
• February 17 - Beth Bates, Associate Professor, Africana Studies, “A Tale of Two Cities: Black Workers Challenge Paternalism in Detroit and Chicago, 1920’s - 1930’s”
• February 24 - Dennis Tini, Professor & Chair, Music, “Dennis Tini: The Man and His Music”
• February 26 - Dora Apel, Assistant Professor, Art & Art History, “Anti-lynching Images: Strategies of Representation and the Problem of the Abject”
• March 2 - Stuart Henry, Professor & Chair, Interdisciplinary Studies, CULMA, “Crime as a Collaborative Project: Personal Roles in the Creation of Crime”
• March 23 - Jean Andruski, Assistant Professor, Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology, Eugenia Casielles, Assistant Professor, Romance Languages & Literatures and Geoffrey Nathan, English, "The Nature of Bilingual First Language Acquisition"
• March 25 - Susan Widawski, Lecturer, Clothing Design, Art and Art History, “Identity and the use of clothing in displaced persons camps in Austria after WW II”
• March 30 - Jose Cuello, Associate Professor, History, “Is There an Underlying Common Structure to Racialized Societies in the Americas?"
• April 6- Mel Rosas, Professor, Art & Art History, “Magic Realism and Contemporary Latin American Painting”
• April 13 - Deryck M. Bernard, Humanities Center Visiting Scholar, Professor, Geography; Dean, School of Education and Humanities, University of Guyana, “The African Folk Music Tradition from Guyana: a Discourse and Performance”
• April 15 - Steven Ilmer, Associate Dean, College of Education, “Outcomes from University and K-12 school partnerships in Atlanta, Houston, Kansas City, St. Louis and Milwaukee: An initiative sponsored by the by the U.S Department of Education and the Great Cities’ Universities”
• April 20- Nancy Barrett, Provost, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, "The Economics of Gender"
• April 22- David Weinberg, Professor, History; Director, Cohn-Haddow Center for Judaic Studies, “Finding A Voice: Issues in Postwar European Jewish Recovery”