Faculty Seminar Series

Faculty Seminar Series

Fall 2005

Wednesdays (unless otherwise noted)
Main Lounge, Moulton Union (unless otherwise noted)
12:00-1:00 p.m.

Wed. Sept. 14 HENRY LAURENCE (Government)
“The Politics of New Technology: Digital TV, Private Profit, and the Public Interest in the USA, UK, and Japan”

Wed. Sept. 21 THOM PIETRAHO (Mathematics)
“Popularity, the Power-Law, and How to Name Your First-Born Child”

Tues. Sept. 27 ANNE MCBRIDE (Biology/Biochemistry)
“Avoiding the Traffic Jam: Protein Modification and Movement within a Cell”

Wed. Oct. 5 CANDICE BOSSE (Romance Languages)
“Becoming: Cultures of Consumption and Female Subjectivity in Contemporary Spain”

Wed. Oct. 12 GARY GREEN (Visual Art)
“In-Situ: Photographs of Collected Objects”

Tues. Oct. 18 JULIA MAJOR (English)
“The Travailes of Truth: The Tempest, Tyndale, and Discourses of Early Modern Navigation”

Tues. Oct. 25 KIDDER SMITH (History/Asian Studies)
“The Philosophy and Sociology of Psychometrics: DSM-IV-TR and the Nes-don Phyag-rgya Chen-po’i Sgom-rim Gsal-bar Byed-pa’i Legs-bs’ad Zia-ba’i ‘od-zer, a Sixteenth-century Tibetan Meditation Manual”

Wed. Nov. 2 ERIC PETERSON (Chemistry)
“Going from a Wet Noodle to Coils, Helices, and Hairpins: How to Fold a Peptide”

Tues. Nov. 8 LANCE GUO (Government/Asian Studies)
“Why Chinese College Students Join the Communist Party in Droves”

Tues. Nov. 15 RACHEL BEANE (Geology)
“Volcanoes in Brunswick? And Other Research into our Geologic History”

Wed. Nov. 30 RACHEL STURMAN (History/Asian Studies)
“Property , Law and the Problem of Value: Family Stories from Nineteenth- Century Bombay”

Tues. Dec. 6 DAVID VAIL (Economics) “Spreading Prosperity to ‘the Other Maine’: Strategy to Overcome Persistent Regional Disparities”