Events
HUHC Seminars
Each semester HUHC offers exciting educational opportunities in varying disciplines. HUHC seminars are small, discussion based courses, taught by professors from around the university, who are invited to come teach their dream course. Like Culture & Expression, these seminars often tend toward either greater multidisciplinary or greater particularity in the definition of the topic (see listings and descriptions of recent and future seminars below.) With class sizes limited to no more than 20 students, they are special opportunities to learn by sharing the enthusiasm of professors who are working on well-defined topics in their areas expertise. In some instances seminar credit may count toward a major or minor with departmental approval.
FALL 2008
The 2008 Race for the Whitehouse
Professor Meena Bose, Kalikow Professor of Presidential Studies, Political Science
America’s Constitution
Professor Eric Lane, School of Law
Character and the Good Life
Professor Ira Singer, Philosophy
Philosophy of Food: Discourses and Practices of Edibility
Professor Ralph Acampora, Philosophy
Twentieth-Century Creativity and the Female Artist
Professor Susan Lorsch, Department of English
America Viewed from the Musical Stage
Professor Jim Kolb, Drama Department
Baseball Management: Management Innovation in Professional Baseball
Professor Richard Puerzer, Engineering Department
Poetry on the Edge: The Latin American Avant-Garde
Professor Miguel-Angel Zapata, Romance Languages and Literatures
SPRING 2008
Transforming Love’s Body: Science, Medicine, and Technology and the Evolution of Modern Sexuality
Professor Lou Kern, Department of History
Free Will
Professor Anthony Dardis, Philosophy Department
America’s Constitution
Professor Eric Lane, School of Law
The Politics of Comedy: Comic Freedom and Subversive Laughter from: Aristophanes to Borat
Professor Pellegrino D’Acierno, Comparative Language and Literature
The U.S. Supreme Court: The Evolution of its Power and its Impact on our Daily Lives
Professor Glen Vogel, Department of Accounting, Taxation and Legal Studies
Consumer Behavior Across Countries
Professor Boonghee Yoo, International Business
The Artist’s Practice
Professor Peter Plagens, Department of Art History and Fine Arts
SPRING 2007
History and the Holocaust: Art, Memory and Representation
Professor Stanislao G. Pugliese, History Department
Reading Orientalism: How the West and Middle East View Each Other
Professor Daniel Varisco, Anthropology
Challenges in American Foreign Policy
Professor Bernard Firestone, Dean, HCLAS, Department of Political Science
Professor James Klurfeld, Department of Political Science
FALL 2007
Haunted America: The Dark Side of the American Dream
Professor Paula Uruburu, Department of English
Neighborhoods, Watersheds and Public Health: Understanding Environmental Health through Service Learning in Urban Settings
Professor Margaret Hunter, Engineering
The American Dream: The Modern City and Its Suburbs
Professor Robert B. Sargent, Department of English
Defense and Foreign Policy in Post 9/11 America
Professor David Frinquelli, Department of Political Science
Six Great Paintings
Professor Laurie Fendrich, Department of Art History and Fine Arts
Truth (and Lies)
Professor Peter Fristedt, Philosophy Department
Christian Mysticism
Professor Phyllis Zagano, Department of Religion
SPRING 2006
Fundamentals of Forcasting
Professor Irwin Kellner, Zarb School of Business
The American Revolution through British Eyes
Professor James Levy, School for University Studies
Bodies and Machines: Physical Culture, Technology, Body Image, and the Nature of the Human
Professor Louis Kern, Department of History
Statistics in Baseball
Professor Richard Puerzer, Department of Engineering
Debating Darwin: A Social History of the Creation vs. Evolution Controvers
Professor Daniel Varisco, Department of Anthropology
Daughters of Decadence
Professor Paula Uruburu, Department of English
Challenges in American Foreign Policy
Professor Bernard Firestone, Dean HCLAS, Department of Political Science
Professor James Klurfeld, Department of Political Science
FALL 2006
Sexual Difference and Narrative
Professor David Powell, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
The Democratization Process: Building and Sustaining Democracy in the 21st Century
Professor Tina Mavrikos-Adamou, Political Science
The Russian Idea and the West
Professor Igor Pustovoit, Comparative Languages and Literatures
History and Memory in the 20th Century
Professor Sally Charnow, Department of History
The Trouble with Artists
Professor Laurie Fendrich, Department of Art History and Fine Arts
Extraordinary Chemistry of Ordinary Things: Plastics and Polymers
Professor Ronald D’Amelia, Chemistry
SPRING 2005
The Experience of Modernity
Professor Pellegrino D’Acierno, Comparative Languages and Literatures
Food and Culture
Professor Kasmir, Anthropology Department
Evolutionary Psychology
Professor William Sanderson, Psychology
American Gothic, American Grotesque
Professor Paula Uruburu, Department of English
Literature of the American Musical
Professor Richard Pioreck, Department of English
Love and Its Cousins
Professor J. Stephen Russell, Dean, HUHC, Department of English
FALL 2005
The Double in Fiction and Film
Professor Susan Lorsch, Department of English
Women in Modern Europe
Professor Sally Charnow, Department of History
Are We Alone? Astrobiology and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Professor Stephen Lawrence, Department of Physics
Mapping the Nation: Cartography, Census, and Survey in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Britain
Professor Adam Sills, Department of Geography
The Lost World, or Dancing on the Volcano: The Weimar Republic and the Creations of Modernity
Professor Neil Donahue, Comparative Languages and Literatures
Leadership, Morality, Success and Failure in Business
Professor Luke Ng, Zarb School of Business
SPRING 2004
Business Ethics and Society
Professor Tara Radin, Zarb School of Business
Intellectuals and Exile: From Socrates to Said
Professor Stanislao G. Pugliese, Department of History
Behind the Mask: Creating a Literary Identity
Dr. Paula Uruburu, Department of English
1968: A Year of Rebellion
Professor Susan Yohn, Department of History
Clothed in Flesh: Constructing the Self in the Middle Ages
Professor J. Stephen Russell, Dean, HUHC, Department of English
Cognition and Learning
Professor Bruce Torff, Department of Curriculum and Teaching
FALL 2004
The Cognitive Basis for Human Decision Making
Dr. Charles F. Levinthal, Department of Psychology
Mirror Up to Nature: Imitation and Creation in Art and Literature
Professor Douglas Friedlander, Department of English
Professor David Pushkin, Department of English
Music, Women and Gender
Professor Heather L. Feldman, Department of Music
Ways of Knowing Science Wars, Science Peace
Professor Karyn Valerius, Department of English
World Literature and the Anatomy of Cultural Difference
Professor Barbara Lekatsas, Department of Comparative Languages and Literatures
SPRING 2003
Visual Literacy
Professor M. Hollander, Department of Art History and Fine Arts
Foundation of Disbelief
Professor John Teehan, Department of Philosophy
The Human Genome
Professor Joanne Wiley, Department of Biology
The Chinese Novel: The Dream of the Red Chamber
Professor Zuyan Zhou
FALL 2003
To Be a Woman & Artist: Female Creativity in Fiction
Professor Susan Lorsch, Department of English
Eugenics and Bioethics of the Well Born
Professor Louis Kern, Department of History
Character and the Good Life
Professor Ira Singer, Department of Philosophy
SPRING 2002
The New Testament and Early Christian Literature
Professor Alexander Burke, Department of English
Language: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Professor Evelyn Altenberg, Department of Speech, Language and Pathology
Storytelling: The Intersection of Anthropology and History
Professor Chris Matthews, Department Anthropology
FALL 2002
Disability in Literature
Professor G. Thomas Couser
Thinking Images and Words
Professor L. Otis, Department of English
Engines of Life
Professor Sina Rabbany, Department of Engineering
Professor Margaret Hunter, Department of Engineering
Hume and Kant
Professor T. Godlove, Department of Philosophy