September 10

Marilyn R. Schuster, Provost and Dean of the Faculty
"Smith by Design: integrating our strengths"

September 17

Jill de Villiers, Sophia & Austin Smith Professor, Psychology, and
Jay Garfield, Doris Silbert Professor, Philosophy
"How Could Anyone Ever Learn this Language? Evidentials in Tibetan"

September 24

Ambreen Hai, English Language and Literature
"Family and Migration in Contemporary South Asian American Literature: Jhumpa Lahiri's Unaccustomed Earth"

October 1

Dawn Fulton, French Studies
"Capital of the Twenty-First Century?: Immigrant Narratives of Paris"

October 8

Margie Anderson, Biological Sciences
"How to get a free lunch: making connections in the natural sciences"

October 15

John Connolly, Philosophy
"Does St. Augustine's Case for Original Sin Make Sense?"

October 22

Nicholas Horton, Mathematics and Statistics
"A Pakeha's Report Back from Te Rimu Tah: Observations of New Zealand"

October 29

James Lowenthal, Astronomy
"Star Formation Near and Far"

November 5

Donald Baumer and Marc Lendler, Government
"Governing in Prose: One Year After the Obama Election"

November 12

Fernando Armstrong-Fumero, Anthropology
"Settlement Patterns and Yucatec Maya Landscape Memory: My Foray into Things I usually Leave to the Archaeologists"

November 19

Anca Holden, German Studies
"The Question of 'German' Cultural Identity in the 21st Century: Herta Müller and the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature"

December 3

Linda Kim, Art
"The Races of Mankind: Sculpture and Race Exhibits in the 1930s"

December 10

Susan Etheredge, Education and Child Study
"Reflections on Leaves and Letters: Smith Students and Kindergartners Learning Together in the Lyman Plant House"

Presentations sponsored by the Committee on Academic Priorities