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FAU To Offer “Public Intellectuals” Lecture Series
BOCA RATON, FL (Feb. 5, 2003) -- Focusing on topics from cyberdating to the Everglades, Florida Atlantic University’s Ph.D. in Comparative Studies Public Intellectual Program will offer a lecture series that will run through the spring semester.
The lectures, which are free and open to the public, are presented by FAU students and faculty and will all take place in the Social Sciences building, Room 105 at 4 p.m. on FAU’s Boca Raton campus, 777 Glades Road.
The following is the list of scheduled lectures:
Monday, Feb. 10 – “The Stories of America: In Search of National Values in Family Memorate,” presented by Caren Neile, doctoral candidate, Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies
Monday, Feb. 17 – “The Rhetoric of Andrei Codrescu: A Reading on Exilic Fragmentation,” presented by Noemi Marin, FAU assistant professor of communications
Monday, Feb. 24 – “The Architecture of Cyberdating: Personal Advertisement Photography and the Unworking of Community,” presented by Eric Freedman, FAU assistant professor of communications
Monday, March 10 – “AIDS, Community Organizations and Vertical Encompassment in the Florida Everglades,” presented by Max Kirsch, doctoral candidate in Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies
Monday, March 17 – “Women Ayurvedic Doctors in Nepal: A Case of Nonwestern Science,” presented by Mar Cameron, FAU associate professor of Women’s Studies
Monday, March 24 – “Art-Depression – Fiction: A Variation on Rene Thom’s Three Important Kinds of Human Activity,” presented by Prisca Augustyn, FAU assistant professor of languages and linguistics
Monday, March 31 – “Authorship on Trial in the Middle Ages: Christine de Pizan’s ‘Debate on the Romance of the Rose,’” presented by Marcella Munson, FAU assistant professor of languages and linguistics
Monday, April 7 – “An Approach to Professor E. Schuster’s Legacy: Applications of Her Pedagogical Philosophy and Educational Techniques,” presented by Ana Adriazola-Rodriguez, doctoral student in Ph.D. Program in Comparative Studies.
The lecture series is sponsored by the FAU Ph.D. in Comparative Studies Public Intellectual Program and the Public Intellectuals Student Association.
For more information call 561-297-0035.
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