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Main Page Contact Francisco Duque, 912.344.2971 For Immediate Release
AASU Announces 2008-2009 Faculty Lecture Series(August 28, 2008) The Armstrong Atlantic State University 2008-2009 Robert I. Strozier Faculty Lecture Series will kickoff on Friday, September 12 at 12:10 p.m. in University Hall 156 on the AASU campus, 11935 Abercorn Street. Kalenda C. Eaton, assistant professor of English, will present "Breakout, Before You Get Bumrushed!: Migration, Community Building, and Self-Defense in the Black American West, 1898-1968." The event is free and open to the public. Eaton's lecture will look at the post-Reconstruction period when groups of African American citizens discovered a "new Canaan" in the American West as they fled domestic terrorism and a lack of opportunity in the South. Ironically, the freedom the vast territory afforded the settlers also created a need for self-protection from external threats. This presentation will examine historical fiction chronicling the era and how three predominantly black communities in Oklahoma, Kansas, and northern California responded to the threat of violence. Specific novelists and playwrights discussed will include Jewell Parker Rhodes, Pearl Cleage, Toni Morrison, and Ishmael Reed. The Robert I. Strozier Faculty Lecture Series will continue throughout the 2008-2009 academic year with lectures on a variety of general interest topics presented by AASU faculty. All lectures are free and open to the public and take place in University Hall 156 at 12:10 p.m. The schedule is as follows: October 10 Learotha Williams and Barbara Fertig, Department of History, present "Interpreting the North End." November 14 Brent Feske, Department of Chemistry and Physics, and Scott C. Mateer, Department of Biology, present "Biocatalysis: Making Drugs with Little Bugs." December 5 Dorothee Mertz-Weigel, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, presents "Entertaining the Mind: A Medieval Cure for Melancholy?" January 23 Michael Mink, Department of Health Sciences, presents "The TV Diet: Toxic Food Choices Endorsed on TV." February 13 Bradley R. Sturz, Department of Psychology, presents "Mechanisms of Spatial Orientation and Navigation: Similarity in Real and Virtual Environments." March 6 Hans-Georg Erney, Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, presents "Human Extinction Fantasies." March 27 Kathleen M. Burke, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science, presents Micro-financing and U.S. Illegal Immigration Dilemma: Merging the Interests of Public Policy and Private Enterprise." April 10 Jason Tatlock, Department of History, presents "Kindled Kin: Burning and Burying Children in Ancient Mediterranean Religions." For further information on the 2008-2009 Robert I. Strozier Faculty Lecture Series, email Francisco.Duque@armstrong.edu |
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