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1998-1999 Brown Bag Lectures
  • November 10: Julie Longo, History (on behalf of John Bukowczyk, History) – “Urban Education, the University, and the Liberal Arts”
  • November 24: Jorge L. Chinea, Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies; History – “The Immigration of Maritime Maroons in Puerto Rico, 1656-1800”
  • December 8: Osumaka Likaka, History – “Colonialism and the Collective Memory”
  • January 5: Olivia Washington, Nursing– “Improving Chemically Dependant Women’s Perceptions of Freedom, Self Efficacy and Employability: Using Cognitive/Didactic and Experiential Group Therapy”
  • January 19: Ellen Barton, English – “The Practice and Micro-Practices of Referrals in American Medicine”
  • February 2: Herman Rapaport, English – “The Theory Mess”
  • February 16: Gordon Barrick Neavill, Library & Information Science – “The Canon in the Marketplace: Sales of Modern Library Editions, 1920-1960”
  • March 2: Jerry Herron, English – “Detroit: A Short History of Forgetting”
  • March 30: Frances Trix, Anthropology – “The Freedom to Wear Religious Garb: The Trial of Baba Sirri”
  • April 13: Brad Roth, Political Science; Center for Legal Studies – “Coercion in the Quest for Substantive Human Freedom”
  • April 27: Walter F. Edwards, English – “Rap and Reggae Lyrics as Poetry”