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Lecture Selections

As a member of the Rotunda Society, you have the opportunity to reignite your own desire for learning through interaction with and exposure to Dedman College’s esteemed faculty members and visiting lecturers. Please complete this form and select the lectures for 2004-05 that you would like to attend.


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Clements Center for Southwest Studies
Jan. 20, 5:30 p.m. - “Points of Viewing: Arthur Schott (1814-1875) and the U.S. Mexico Boundary” with Robin Kelsey, Harvard University
Feb. 3, 5:30 p.m. - “Taos, the Artist’s Paradise” with Peter Hassrick
March 3, 5:30 p.m. - “Formal and Reportage Portraits by Laura Wilson” with Laura Wilson
March 31, 5:30 p.m. - “New Urbanism in Dallas: Pragmatics or Profit or the Morals of Authentic City Experience” with Charissa Terranova, SMU
April 14, 5:30 p.m. - “From Adams to Adams: Redefining the American West?” with John Rohrbach, Amon Carter Museum
   
Collegium da Vinci
(preceding all Collegium lectures, cocktails are served at 6 p.m.
and dinner is at 6:30pm)
Nov. 21, 7:30 p.m. - “From Pythagoras to Walt Disney: Music and its Engineering Roots” with Scott Douglas, SMU
February 27, 7:30 p.m. - “Clinically Relevant Research at Baylor University Medical Center” with Michael Ramsay, Baylor University
March 20, 7:30 p.m. - “West Nile Virus: Molecular Insights into an Emerging Epidemic” with Michael Gale, U. T. Southwestern Medical Center of Dallas
April 17, 7:30 p.m. - “SPRING: The Strategic Partnership for Research In Nanotechnology” with John P. Ferraris, University of Texas at Dallas
   
Gartner Honors Lectures
Feb. 22, 1 p.m. - “Progress and Problems: From Ideas to Action” with Barbara Ehrenreich. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the Women’s Symposium. Those who attend must also be registered for the Symposium.
March 30, 6:30 p.m. - “Is Time Historical?” with Lynn Hunt, University of California, Los Angeles

The Gilbert Lectures
Jan. 27, time TBA “Meeke as is a Myade: Containing Violence in Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale” with Stephen Stallcup, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Feb. 1, 6:30pm Lecture and Booksigning with Lan Samantha Chang, lecture topic TBA
(reception preceding, 6 p.m., booksigning to follow)
   
Godbey Lecture Series
Featuring SMU professors and providing a forum for intellectual exchange between the University and the community
Spring 2005 - Event Titles to be Announced
   
American Airlines Asian Studies Lecture Series
Jan. 18, 4:00 p.m. - “Christianity in Pre-Modern Central Asia: New Discoveries” with Aleksandr Naymark, Hofstra University
January 24, 4 p.m. - Topic TBA, with Perry Link, Princeton University
   
Scott-Hawkins Lectures
Discussions with national leaders in the fields of humanities and the sciences
Date - Event Titles to Be Announced
   
Stanton Sharp Lectures
Feb. 26, 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. - “The Political Legacies of the American West”, details to be announced
   
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