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William Geiger, “How Can One Small Electron Make Such a Big Difference?”
Professor, Department of Chemistry Molecules taking part in chemical and biochemical reactions receive their energy either thermally (i.e., heat), photo-chemically (light), or through electron transfer...
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C. William Kilpatrick, “The Mystery of White-nose Syndrome”
Howard Professor of Zoology and Natural History of the Department of Biology Of the nine species of bats that occur in Vermont, only two were of conservation concern prior to the 21st century. By the...
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Tina Escaja “Optics as Metaphor; The Printer at the Far End of the Romance...
What does it mean to be a woman then and now, at two turns of the century? What does it mean to be a feminist, a scholar, a brown, thick-accented woman in American academia? Escaja’s lecture invites...
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Philip Baruth “A Brief Series of Impolitic Remarks, Potentially Culminating...
Satire is always hungry for pieties: commonplaces we learn and repeat without ever asking how, public figures we esteem without ever quite understanding why. For this reason, there is a certain...
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“Americanitis: American Movies and Soviet Cinema”
If Americans ever think about Soviet cinema, they either imagine dreary propaganda films or remember world-class avant-garde directors like Sergei Eisenstein and Andrei Tarkovsky. Some Soviet movies...
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“How Clothes Make the Man: Textile Art in Ancient Central Asia”
William Mierse, Professor of Art and Art History The lack of surviving textiles is one of the major gaps in our understanding of ancient art. We know that they were important. But the archaeological...
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Agamemnon in Africa, Ulysses in Ulaanbaatar: Classics Gone Global
M. D. Usher, Chair and Professor of Classics Two Continents. Two Epic heroes. Two classical scholars. Classics Professor Mark Usher discusses how the work of maverick Classicists Milman Parry...
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Sustainable Environment, Sustainable Democracy, Sustainable Politics
Professor Robert V. Bartlett, Gund Professor of Liberal Arts, Department of Political Science Professor Robert V. Bartlett, Gund Professor of Liberal Arts in the Political Science Department....
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From Snowflakes to Semiconductors
Professor Randall Headrick, Professor of Physics Crystallization is the name for processes by which atoms and molecules organize themselves into patterns ranging from simple to intricate. In modern...
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Gay Identity and the Act of Reading in The Well of Loneliness
Valerie Rohy, Chair and Professor, Department of English This lecture examines the retroactive formation of gay identity through the act of reading in a famous lesbian novel of the 1920s, Radclyffe...
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“The Court Transformed: How It Happened; Why It Matters”
Garrison Nelson, Professor of Political Science The U.S. Supreme Court has undergone a major transformation over the course of its 224-year history. Between 1789 and 1962, 47 percent of appointees to...
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Becoming Black: A Meditation on Racialization
Emily Bernard, Professor of English “Becoming Black: A Meditation on Racialization”Professor Bernard‘s daughters weren’t born black; they are Ethiopian by birth. Blackness is the social condition...
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Corruption, Ottoman Style
Bogac Ergene, Associate Professor of History We know corruption when we see it. Or do we? Professor Ergene will address how the Ottoman state and society defined political and administrative...
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