DIVISION II FACULTY LUNCHEON

PAST SEMINARS

Spring 2008

Thursday, January 31st

"Mark Twain and Social Theory"

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Joel Pfister

Professor of American Studies and English

Thursday, February 14th

"Not Dead Yet: The Bush Doctrine and Public Opinion"

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Doug Foyle

Professor of Government

Thursday, February 28th

"Perspectives on Photography, Evidence and Historical Interpretation"

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Jennifer Tucker

Professor of History, SiSP, FGSS

Thursday, March  27th

Presentation of the preliminary plans for the

Allbritten Center renovations and programs

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Don Moon

Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs
John E. Andrus Professor of Government
 

Thursday, April 10th

“Prostituting the Mutiny:  Sex-slavery and Crime in the Making of 1857"

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Vijay Pinch

Professor of History

Thursday, April 24th

"Real Effects of Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Japan"

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Masami Imai

Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Economics,

Assistant Professor of Economics,

and Assistant Professor, East Asian Studies

Thursday, May 8th

TBA

Fall 2007

Thursday, September 27th

"A note from a 'Note on Being and Time': Jean Beaufret,

Jacques Derrida and Heidegger's Nazi legacyin

post World War Two France"

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Ethan Kleinberg

Professor of History and College of Letters

Thursday, October 11th

"Marked Men and Women: Katrina Evacuees and Houston,

 One Year Later"

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Melanye Price

Professor of Government

Thursday, October 25th

"Social Mobility in the US"

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Daniel Long

Professor of Sociology

Thursday, November 8th

"Do Psychologists have Psychology?"

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Jill Morawski

Professor of Psychology, SiSP, FGSS and

Director of the Center for the Humanities

Thursday, November 29th

"Philosophy as Cultural Politics:

The Example of Richard Rorty"

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Michael Roth

President

Thursday, December 13th

"The Elites of Tuscany in the Early Modern Period"

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Judith Brown

Professor of History

Spring 2007

Thursday, March 8th :

" A Discussion of the Davenport Building and Programs"

Presented by:

J. Donald Moon

Professor of Government

Dean of the Social Sciences and Interdisciplinary Programs

Thursday, February 8th :

"The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change -

Another Source of Climate Risk?"

Presented by:

Gary Yohe,  Professor of Economics

Fall 2006

Thursday, September 28th :

"Beyond Incompetence: Washington's War in Iraq"

Presented by:

Jonathan Cutler, Associate Professor of Sociology

Thursday, October 12th :

"What are we looking for in our next President?

An open discussion of the presidential search. "

Presented by:

Alex Dupuy

Professor of Sociology

Member of the Presidential Search Committee

Thursday, November 9th :

"The Deluge of 1936: Social Upheaval in Middletown   "

Presented by:

Ron Schatz

Professor of History

Thursday, December 14th :

"Scholarly Communication in the Social Science"

Presented by:

Barbara Jones

University Librarian