Faculty Seminar Series

Faculty Seminar Series

Spring 2006

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

Wed. Feb. 1 SARA DICKEY (Anthropology)
“The Potent Nurturer: Political Meanings of an Indian Film Star Two Decades After His Death”

Wed. Feb. 8 ANNE HENSHAW (Anthropology)
“Learning Landscapes: Notions of Place, Time and Toponymy amongst Coastal Sikusilarmiut of Southwest Baffin Island, Canada”

Tues. Feb. 14 NAT WHEELWRIGHT (Biology)
“Tramps, Roadkills and Asymmetrical Incest Avoidance in Australasia”

Tues. Feb. 21 SHUQIN CUI (Asian Studies)
“Caught Between the Local and the Global: Anxiety and Uncertainty in Jia Zhangke’s Films”

Tues. Feb. 28 RANDY STAKEMAN (History / Africana Studies)
“Heritage Day: The Making of the Video”

Wed. Mar. 8 ERIC PETERSON (Chemistry)
“Going From a Wet Noodle to Coils, Helices, and Hairpins: How to Fold a Protein”

Tues. Mar. 28 LAURA HENRY (Government)
“Russia and the Kyoto Protocol: From Hot Air to Action on Climate Change?”

TA HERRERA (Economics)
“The Political Economy of Prudent Predation”

Wed. Apr. 12 JILL MASSINO (Gender and Women's Studies)
“Something Old, Something New: Marital Roles and Relations in Socialist Romania”

Wed. Apr. 19 BIRGIT TAUTZ (German)
“Elfriede Jelinek's Fairy Tale Princesses: Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Jackie O.”

Wed. May 3 ERIC CHOWN (Computer Science)
“More Soccer-playing Robot Dogs: Northern Bites Team Scrimmage”