Research Dinners
Fall 2006
| Nicolle Hirschfeld | After the Gold Rush | September 28 |
| Andrew Kania | Pieces of Music: Works, Performances, and Recordings in Classical, Rock, and Jazz Music | November 8 |
| Harry Wallace | Pros and Cons of Narcissism | November 30 |
Spring 2006
| Dante Suarez | Complexity, Agency and a New Paradigm for Economics | January 24 |
| Erwin Cook | Near Eastern Sources for the Palace of Alkinoos | February 22 |
| Mark Lewis | Saturnian Rings, Cassini, and the Role of Simulation | March 23 |
| Jennifer Henderson | The Jehovah's Witnesses and Their Plan to Expand First Amendment Freedoms | April 18 |
Fall 2005
| Michael Fischer | Stanley Cavell and Criticizing the University from Within | September 28 |
| Mary Ann Tetreault | The Sexual Politics of Abu Ghraib | October 11 |
| Anene Ejikeme | Hogan Bassey: Boxing Champion & Nationalist Icon | November 10 |
| Kelly Lyons | Securing the Homeland from Invasive Species: What's Diversity Got to do with it? | December 1 |
Spring 2005
|
John McGrath |
Doctor-Patient Communication: The Influence of Electronic Medical Records |
January 26 |
| Ana Forcinito | Testimony, Memory and Witnessing: Survivors as Cultural Agents in the Argentine Post-dictatorship | March 9 |
| Aaron Delwich | Identity Formation in Virtual Worlds: A Case Study from Thailand | April 7 |
| Dan Walz | Fate, Fortune, and Retirement | April 26 |
Fall 2004
|
Luis Murillo |
Mexican Catholic: US Citizen |
September 9 |
| Christine Drennon | Unequal Education on an Uneven Playing Field: Property Tax Redistribution and Equity in Texas Independent School Districts | October 5 |
| Paula Hertel | How Cognitive Science Informs our Understanding of Depression | November 4 |
| Wen Xing | Graphic Interpretation of Early Chinese Divination | December 1 |
Spring 2004
|
Carl Leafstedt |
Great Art Meets American Indifference? Two Ways of Looking at Béla Bartók's Final Years in America, 1940-45 |
January 28 |
| David Ribble | What African Elephant-Shrews Tell Us About the Costs and Benefits of Monogamy | February 11 |
| Richard Newhauser | Curiosity and Limits to Inquiry in the Western Tradition | March 2 |
| Liz Ward | The Mesquite Line: From Interspiration to Installation | March 24 |
| Meredith McGuire | Beyond Syncretism: Rethinking Religious Hybridity | April 6 |
Fall 2003
|
Randall Nadeau |
Is There a Confucian Basis for Human Rights? |
October 7 |
|
Claudia Stokes |
Old Boston vs. New York: or, How to Turn Humiliation into a Full Professorship. |
October 23 |
|
John Heil |
Platonic Emotions: a Fair and Balanced Look. |
November 4 |
|
James Shinkle |
Plants in the Noonday Sun: DNA Damage and Repair in Plants." |
November 18 |
Spring 2003
|
Jennifer Mathews |
The (Rail) Road Less Traveled: Evidence for an Ancient Maya Causeway and Historic Railway in the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico |
February 25 |
|
Christopher Pearson |
Synthesis of the Arts or Crisis of Modernism? Discourses of Art, Architecture and Politics in the Building and Reception of UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 1952-58 |
March 27 |
|
Sammye Johnson |
Shaping and Reflecting Culture: Magazines for African-American, Hispanic, and Asian-American Audiences |
April 10 |
|
Kevin Nickels |
Beyond R2D2: State-of-the-Art Robots |
April 22 |
Fall 2002
|
Hsiu Chuang Deppman |
Politics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Chinese Literature and Film: Reading the Cultural Images of Concubines in the Works of Su Tong and Zhang Yimou |
September 25 |
|
David Lesch |
Golf in the Middle East: The Socio-Economic Benefits and Repercussions |
October 8 |
|
Sussan Siavoshi |
Freedom: Whose Right Is It? A View from the Islamic Republic of Iran |
October 29 |
|
Trish Simonite |
Absence and Presence: Landscape as Memory |
November 14 |
Spring 2002
|
Alida Metcalf |
Indians, Go-betweens, Europeans: The Struggle to Define the Colony in Sixteenth-Century Brazil |
February 25 |
|
David Spener |
A Critical Analysis of the Dominant Discourse about Migrant Smuggling on the U.S.-Mexico Border |
March 7 |
|
Glenn Meyer |
Perceptions of Lethality |
March 26 |
|
Mackenzie Brown & Charlene Moore |
Reanimating
the Dead: Violation or
Veneration? |
April 4 |
|
Saber Elaydi |
Time Discreteness and Theories of Evolution |
April 18 |