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Fall 2012, Conference Center - Lower Level, Noon - 1:00 p.m.

 

September 20

Susan Voss, Engineering
Newborn Hearing Screening: Why Are There So Many False Positives?

September 27

Carol Christ, Roger Kaufman, Maureen Mahoney, Borjana Mikic, Joseph O'Rourke and Marilyn Schuster
Planning a Curriculum from Scratch: a discussion of the summer planning sessions between Smith and the Asian Women's Leadership University Project (AWLU)
Curriculum Summary*
Proposed Curriculum July 2012*

October 4

Scott Bradbury, Classics and John Brady, Geology
Teaching a Global Engagement Seminar in Greece

October 11

Women & Global Leadership Conference (no presentation)

October 18

Elliot Fratkin, Anthropology
What I Learned and Unlearned During My Fulbright Teaching in Ethiopia

October 25*

Michael Barresi, Biological Sciences
Fishing In the Lab for the Embryological Consequences of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
*This event takes place in Campus Center 205

November 1*

Donald Baumer and Howard Gold, Government
Parties, Polarization and the 2012 Election
*This event takes place in Campus Center 205

November 8

Otelia Cromwell Day (no presentation)

November 15

Andrea Hairston, Theatre and Afro-American Studies, with Pan Morigan
Redwood and Wildfire: From Novel to Performance Piece

November 22

Thanksgiving Break (no presentation)

November 29

Steve Goldstein, Government
Political Transition in China: What Lies Ahead

December 6

Floyd Cheung, English Language and Literature
What Does It Mean To Recover a ‘Lost’ Author?

December 13

Jina Kim, East Asian Studies
Intermedial Aesthetics: Photography, Sound, and Text in Early 20th Century Korean Yonghwa Sosol (Cinematic Novel)

*Password restricted

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