2007-08 Academic Year

Fall Semester

Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Speaker: Ginger Withers
Topic: “The Ins and Outs of Neuron Development: Whitman’s Microscopy Detectives Discover New Clues”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Speaker: Pat Spencer
Topic: “Revising the Late-Glacial History of the Grand Coulee Region, Washington”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Speaker: Dana Burgess
Topic: “The Economics of Senecan Dialectic”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Speaker: Sharon Alker
Topic: “Empire and the ‘Brute
Creation’: The Limits of Language in Hogg’s ‘The Pongos.’
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Speaker: Chas McKhann
Topic: “Dying Badly: Funeral Rites for Tragic Death on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, October 3, 2007
Speaker: Sue Weiler
Topic: “Earth System Science: The Ultimate Team Sport”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Speaker: Robert Morrison
Topic: “Homocentric Orbs, Renaissance Astronomy, and the Jews”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Speaker: Deborah Wiese
Topic: “Experiences of Japanese Parents Returning to Japan after Living Internationally”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Speaker: David Schmitz
Topic: “Burning the King in Effigy: The Roots of American Nationalism.”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Speaker: Dayle Smith
Topic: “Metallized DNA: Harnessing Nature to Create the Next Generation of Electronic Components”.
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Speaker: Kirsten Nicolaysen
Topic: “Volcanoes, Archaeology and the Aleutian Islands”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Speaker: Chris Wallace
Topic: “Dendritic Divas and the Cellular Orchestration of Brain Information Storage”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Speaker: Jack Iverson
Topic: “Beaumarchais, the Barber of Seville, and the Culture of Calumny”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157

Date: Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Speaker: Jana Byars
Topic: “Concubinage and Alternative Sex Work in Early Modern Venice”
Time/Place: 12:00 Noon – Olin 157