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1999-2000 Brown Bag Lectures
  • October 5: Sandra VanBurkleo, History – “Statehood, ‘Coming of Age,’ and the Problem of the Woman Citizen in Frontier Washington, 1879-1913”
  • October 19: Charles J. Stivale, Romance Languages & Literatures – “Disenchanting Les Bons Temps in the Cajun Dance/Music Arena”
  • October 26: Robert Burgoyne, English – “Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum: From Contested to Consensual Memory”
  • November 2: Edward M. Wise, Law – “The International Criminal Court: Problems and Paradoxes”
  • November 16: Anca Vlasopolos, English – “Venus Live! Re-Membering the Hottentot Venus in Late-Nineteenth-Century Fashions and Late-Twentieth-Century Reflections”
  • November 30: Ronald Brown, Political Science – “The Black Christ, Black Citizenship, and Liberation Theology in the Antebellum South”
  • December 14: Jack Kay, Communication – “A Rhetorical Criticism of Cyberspace Hate Communities”
  • January 11: Chisamiso Rowley, Sociology – “Acculturative Rituals in African American Communities”
  • January 25: Henry Golemba, English – “Eating Machines”
  • February 8: Michele Ronnick, Classics, Greek, & Latin – “In Search of William Henry Crogman (1841-1931), Professor of Classics”
  • February 16: Charles Quist-Adade, Sociology – “Children of the Cold War: the Life and Plight of African Russians”
  • February 22: Fabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Romance Languages & Literatures – “Prolegomena to a Becoming-Free: Mapping Liberty Over bodies, Identities, and Multimedia”
  • March 7: Frederic Pearson, Political Science; Center for Peace and Conflict Studies – “Norms of Sovereignty and Human Rights: An Unresolved Dilemma”
  • March 14: Arthur Marotti, English – “Performing Conversion in Early Modern England”
  • March 21: Kathryne Lindberg, English; Africana Studies – “Negro Guns and Black Pens: The Re-Cycling of Revolutionary Lyrics and More”
  • March 28: Jorge L. Chinea, Center for Chicano-Boricua Studies; History – “The Discourse of Race and Class in a Hispanic Caribbean Plantation Society”
  • April 4: D’Jaris Coles, Speech Language Pathology – “Facilitating Language Development in Children Who Speak African American Vernacular English (AAVE)”
  • April 11: Michael Gordan, Romance Languages & Literature – “The Emblazoned Body: The French Renaissance Blason and its Cultural Correlatives”
  • April 18: Murray Jackson, WSU Board of Governors – “Detroit and Poetry”