All lectures are free and open to the public and take  place in University Hall 156 at 12:10 p.m.

September 12, 2008
Kalenda C. Eaton, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, presents "Breakout, Before You Get Bumrushed!: Migration, Community Building, and Self-Defense in the Black American West, 1898-1968."

October 10, 2008
Learotha Williams and Barbara Fertig, Department of History, present "Interpreting the North End."

November 14, 2008
Brent Feske, Department of Chemistry and Physics, and Scott C. Mateer, Department of Biology, present "Biocatalysis: Making Drugs with Little Bugs."

December 5, 2008
Dorothee Mertz-Weigel, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, presents "Entertaining the Mind: A Medieval Cure for Melancholy?"

January 23, 2009
Michael Mink, Department of Health Sciences, presents "The TV Diet: Toxic Food Choices Endorsed on TV."

February 13, 2009
Bradley R. Sturz, Department of Psychology, presents "Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation and Navigation: Similarity in Real and Virtual Environments."

March 6, 2009
Hans-Georg Erney, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, presents "Human Extinction Fantasies."

March 27, 2009
Kathleen M. Burke, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, presents Micro-financing and U.S. Illegal Immigration Dilemma: Merging the Interests of Public Policy and Private Enterprise."

April 10, 2009
Jason Tatlock, Department of History, presents "Kindled Kin: Burning and Burying Children in Ancient Mediterranean Religions."

Descriptions of past lectures appear in the
Lecture Series Archive.