Faculty Seminars Fall 2024

Faculty Seminars are a wonderful way to learn more about your colleagues' research, creative project, or pedagogical innovation and to connect with colleagues in an informal, academic setting.


12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff
$4 cash buffet lunch or bring your own (buffet is first come, first serve)

Interested in presenting? 
Contact Janice Staples.
What: Targeted to non-specialist colleagues and approximately 1/2 hour.
When: Tues. or Weds., noon to 1 PM. 

Tues., Sept. 17 Abigail Killeen (Theater and Dance)
A Rescue Mission: Reversing Legacies of Harm in Actor Training

Wed., Sept. 25 Aviva Briefel (English/Cinema Studies)
"Ambulatory Gothic: House Tours in the Horror Film."

Tues., Oct. 1 Matt Klingle (History/Environmental Studies)
"Under Pressure: Toward an Ecology of Diabetes, Stress, and Discrimination"

Wed., Oct. 16 Nadia Celis, Paul Benham, Jennifer Snow (AI and Teaching)
"Experimenting with AI in the Humanities: Collaborating with Students and IT to Research Contemporary Writers"

Tues., Oct., 22 Morten Hansen (English)BD
"Disturbing the Neighbor: Jamaican Music and Global Bass Culture"

Wed., Oct 30 Fe McBride Physics and Astronomy)
"Ghost (-particle) Tales from a Black Hole: Are we being haunted from the depths of space?"

Tues., Nov., 5 Javier Cikota (History)
"Cannibals, Railroads, and Massacres-three vignettes from the "uncivilized" Argentine frontier"

Wed., Nov., 13 Patrick Rael (History)
"How Slavery is Represented in Modern Board Games"

Tues., Nov. 19 Holly Parker (Schiller Coastal Studies Center)
"Publicly Engaged and Place-Based Learning on our coast: what we do now and envisioning the future"

Wed., Dec. 4 Jayanthi Selinger (Asian Studies)
"Trials as Theater in Medieval Japan"