Faculty Seminar Series

Fall 2004

Wed. Sept. 15—Stephen Perkinson (Art History)
“French Painting Begins with a Portrait: Nationalism and the History of Portraiture in France, from 1350 to the Present”

Wed. Sept. 22—Marney Pratt (Biology)
“Invasive Species: Consequences of Adding New Species to the Mix”

Wed. Sept. 29—Mark Wethli (Visual Art)
“Recent Paintings”

Tues. Oct 5—Bill Hurst (Government)
“The Unmaking of the Chinese Proletariat: the Politics of Xiagang”

Wed. Oct. 13—Ray Miller (Russian)
“Education and the Slavic Renaissance at the Turn of the 19th Century”

Wed. Oct 20—Nancy Riley (Sociology)
“Bare Branches, Missing Girls, and the Politics of China’s Sex Imbalances”

Tues. Oct. 26—Mary Hunter (Music)
“The Ontology of the Music Lesson”

Wed. Nov. 3—Chris Potholm (Government)
“The Anti-Feminist Feminist: An Enduring Maine Archetype”

Wed. Nov. 10—Steve Meardon (Economics) and Tess Chakkalakal (English—Williams College)
“Richard Cobden’s American Quandary: Negotiating Peace, Free Trade, and Anti-Slavery”

Wed. Nov. 17—Sherrie Bergman (Library)
“Changes in Scholarly Communication”

Wed. Dec. 1—Charlotte Daniels (Romance Languages)
TBA

Wed. Dec. 8—Brian Linton (Chemistry)
“The Million Molecule March: Diversity-Based Approaches to Chemical Catalysis”