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Faculty Research Committee
Lecture Series, Previous Years

2007 – 2008

 

G. James Wen
Economics

Why Did China Retreat to Its Agrarian Past after the Song Dynasty?

Mark P. Silverman
Physics

Finding the Length of the Emperor’s Nose: A Test of Collective Knowledge

Clinton Bailey
Research Fellow

The Bible’s Bedouin Background

Paul Lauter
English

Multiculturalism and Immigration Shock

Dan Lloyd
Philosophy & Neuroscience

This Is Your Brain on Politics?

Barry Schaller
Public Policy

Bioethics on Trial: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology

Ellison Findly
Religion & Asian Studies

Religion and Textiles in Southeast Asia

James Trostle
Anthropology

Disease Transmission and Social Change: Anthropology Meets Public Health in Northern Coastal Ecuador

Luis Figueroa
History

Border City Boulevard: F.D.R. Avenue and Colonial Suburbanism in San Juan, Puerto Rico

Christoph Geiss
Physics

Pingo Scars: Remnants of Connecticut’s Glacial Past

 

 

 

2006-2007

 

Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven
Health and Human Rights

Developments in Human Rights Training for Health Professionals in South Africa

Lesley Farlow
Theater and Dance

Inside Out: Creating Movement/Theater with Former Inmates

Thomas Mitzel
Chemistry

You Need to Form a Bond and You Want to Form It Where?

Kristin Triff
Fine Arts

Patronage and Public Image in Renaissance Rome: The Orsini Palace at Monte Giordano

Erik Vogt
Philosophy

Some Notes on Event/Truth/Subject/Militant Community in Jean-Paul Sartre's Political Thought

Marco Cupolo
Modern Languages & Literatures

The Culture and Society of The Best of Youth

Scott Smedley
Biology

Hair-borne Chemical Defenses in Insects: When a Bad Hair Day Can Prove Fatal

Jonathan Gourley
Environmental Science

Finding Faults in Taiwan: Extensional Tectonics in an Active Arc-Continent Collision

Ellison Findly
Religion & International Studies

Textiles from Southeastern Asia: Crosscurrents and Assimilation
CANCELLED

Katherine Lahti
Modern Languages & Literatures

The Revival of the Archaic Greek Dithyramb in Early 20th-Century Russian Culture

 
 

 

2005 – 2006

 

 

Theresa Morris
Sociology

Institutional Racism and Organizational Change in the U.S. Banking Industry

Martha Risser
Classics

Feasting at Isthmia

Frank Kirkpatrick
Religion

Community Beyond Political Philosophy: The Political Thought of John Macmurray

Mary Lewis
Fine Arts

The Route to Les Lauves: Cezanne’s Studios and Evolving Studio Practice

Jonathan Elukin
History

Deceiving the Devil: Shylock and Salvation in The Merchant of Venice

Timothy Curran
Chemistry

Conformational Constraint: Putting Peptides on a Leash

Christoph Geiss
Physics

Soil Magnetism: What Iron Oxide Minerals Know about Regional Climate

Dan Lloyd
Philosophy

The Brain and Consciousness

Mark Silverman
Physics

The Inside Story of a Black Hole and Other Dark Matters of the Cosmos

Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven
Health & Human Rights

Developments in Human Rights Training for Health Professionals in South Africa
[postponed to 06-07]

 

 

2004 – 2005

 

Karl Haberlandt
Psychology

What Does Response Speed Tell Us about Memory?

Michael Sacks
Sociology

Baby Boomers, Suburbanizing Hispanics and the Shifting Ethnic Residential Divide in the Hartford Metropolitan Area

Jack Dougherty
Educational Studies

The Transformation of the Suburban Schools: Metropolitan Hartford in the 20th Century

Michael Lestz
History

Angkorean Cambodia through Chinese Eyes: Zhou Daguan’s Zhenla fengtuji

David Cruz-Uribe
Mathematics

The Mathematics of Dystopia: A Mathematician Reads Zamyatin’s We

Kathleen Archer
Biology

Living Together: The Sea Slug–Chloroplast Symbiotic Relationship

Paul Lauter
English

Teaching Lydia Sigourney??

Craig Schneider
Biology

The Biogeography of Bermuda Seaweeds: Endemism on a Small Archipelago

 

 

2003 – 2004

 

Janice Perlman
Comparative Urban Studies

Marginality from Myth to Reality: The Favelas of Rio de Janeiro, 1969-2003

John Mertens
Engineering

Energy and Air Pollution in the United States Since the 1990 Clean Air Act (And What We Should Do Now)

Mark Franklin
Political Science

Understanding Low Voter Turnout: Accidental, Incidental or Consequential?

Ellison Findly
Religion

In India, Trees Protect As They Are Protected

William Church
Chemistry

Parkinson's Disease: Why Do Those Cells Die? Genetic Predisposition and Environmental Exposure

James Trostle
Anthropology

Patterns of Disease and Culture

Jean Cadogan
Fine Arts

Agnolo Gaddi in Prato: Art and Industry

Jane Nadel-Klein
Anthropology

Seeing Gardens Through an Anthropologist's Eyes

 

 

 

 

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