Faculty Seminar Series

Spring 2003

January 29
Jon Goldstein
(Economics):
"Occupational Choice in the North Maine Woods: Where Have All the Loggers Gone?"

February 5
Peter Coviello
(English):
"Vernacular Utopias: Pop Music and American Adolescence."

TUESDAY February 11
Mark Battle
(Physics):
"How we learn about the movement of the atmosphere."

February 19
Chris Potholm
(Government):
"The Geopolitical Implications of War with Iraq."

February 26
Joanna Bosse
(Music):
"'Man Killed by Tango!': Modernity, Exoticism, and Polite Society"

TUESDAY March 4
David Vail
(Economics):
"Taxes in Maine: From Revolt to Reform"

March 26
Allen Wells
(History):
"Deliciously Dialectical Bananas"
**location change, March 26th only Daggett Lounge, Thorne Hall**

April 2
Kristen Ghodsee
(Gender and Women's Studies):
"And If the Shoe Doesn't Fit? (Wear It Anyway): Economic Transformation and Western Paradigms of 'Women in Development' in Post-Communist Central and Eastern Europe"

April 9
Anatoly Sachenko
(Visiting Fulbright Scholar):
"Ukraine and Computer Sciences"

April 23
Jane Knox-Voina
(Russian):
"Siberia's Asian Indigenous Cultures:
Extinction or Survival in the 21st Century"

April 30
Hanetha Vete-Congolo
(Romance Languages):
TBA

May 7
Ann Kibbie
(English):
"Money Talks: Narratives of Currency in Eighteenth-Century England."