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Dedicated to bringing the best of Smith College to your hometown, the AASC Faculty Speakers Program is one of our most popular outreach programs. It has enabled Smith clubs and groups all over the United States and abroad to engage with outstanding faculty, administrators, alumnae, and students on a broad range of topics in a wide selection of disciplines.
Questions, ideas, or comments about the Faculty Speaker Program? Contact Annie Croteau, program coordinator for alumnae engagement, at 800-526-2023, ext. 4 or acroteau@smith.edu.
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- Speaker availability varies depending upon prior commitments and other
factors. Requests are filled accordingly.
- If you are interested in a speaker or topic not listed, please inquire so that
we can help.
- Please contact the Alumnae Association—not the speaker—so arrangements and
expenses are accounted for.
- All arrangements after initial contact are to be made between the speaker and the
club/group. It is the responsibility of the club/group to keep the speaker and the
Alumnae Association informed about program plans.
- The Alumnae Association would like to receive feedback on your program. We will
contact you directly after the event.
- The Alumnae Association provides for round-trip air travel, ground transportation,
meal expenses, and overnight accommodations for speakers.
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| Note: Smith College alumnae and students are also available as speakers. |
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Audrey Smith
Dean of Enrollment
Admissions and/or financial aid; college selection or future demographics
of the college going population; overview of the current Smith student population |
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Andrea Hairston '74
L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and professor of Afro-American studies
How Do We Conjure the Wondrous World We Believe In? Researching and
Writing Redwood and Wildfire, an Historical Novel; The Magic If: Speculative
Theatre and Film from RUR to Avatar; Minstrel Shows from Daddy Rice to
Big Momma's House: American Popular Culture's Long Running Hits; Realist
Historical Novel about Turn of the 20th Century Theatre and Film Artists
in Georgia and Chicago |
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Louis Wilson
Professor of Afro-American studies
Issues Facing Modern South Africa |
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Daniel Horowitz
Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of American Studies
Betty Friedan ’42 and Smith College; The Anxieties of Affluence
in Recent U.S. History |
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Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz
Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor Emerita of American Studies
Rereading Sex: Battles Over Sexual Knowledge and Censorship in 19th-Century
America; Why Do We Feel Good? Why Do We Feel Bad? Understanding Illness
and Emotion from a 19th-Century Perspective; Book discussion:
Wild Unrest: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the Making of "The Yellow Wall-Paper,"
by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz |
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Richard H. Millington
Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman Professor of American Studies, professor
of English language and literature
American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure |
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Donald Leonard Robinson
Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American
Studies
Obama's Predicament; Exporting Constitutional Democracy: Why Were Japan
and Iraq So Different? What Chance Does Egypt Have?; Town Meeting
Democracy: How Did It Develop in New England? Does It Still Work?
Would It Work Elsewhere?
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Donald Joralemon
Professor of anthropology
Native South Americans; Shamanism; Medical Anthropology (Ethnomedicine);
Medical Ethics |
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John Davis
Associate provost and dean for academic development, Alice Pratt
Brown Professor of Art
American Art at Smith College |
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Craig M. Felton
Professor of art
Will tailor topic to suit audience |
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Caroline M. Houser
Professor emeritus of art
New Discoveries: Revisions in the Art of Ancient Greece; Originals,
Copies, and Fakes; Did He Strip the Virgin Bare? A Mystery about the
Athena Statue in the Parthenon |
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Linda Kim
Visiting assistant professor of American art
American Women Artists; American Sculpture; Race in American and
European Modern Art; History of Museums; Art and Anthropology |
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Chester Michalik
Professor emeritus of art
Contemporary Urban Japan: A Visual Presentation |
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Margaret E. Anderson
Professor of biological sciences
Neuroscience Flourishes at Smith College; Preparing for a
Career in the Health Profession |
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Michael J.F. Barresi
Assistant professor of biological sciences
Stem Cells and Their Amazing "Potential"; Environment and Embryos:
Assessing the Effects of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill on Fish Embryonic
Development |
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C. John Burk
Elsie Damon Simonds Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences
Victorian Gardens Lost and Found; Evolution in a Landscape: Smith
College Botanic Garden; The Botanic Garden: A Peculiar Institution;
Audubon's Garden: Botanical Illustration in The Birds of America |
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Robert Dorit
Associate professor of biological sciences
Breast Cancer; Growing Problem of Antibiotic Resistance; Bioterrorism;
Women and Science: What is Smith’s Role; Human Genome Project |
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Adam Charles Hall
Associate professor of biological sciences
Molecular Bases of Neurological Disorders; Molecular Bases of General
Anesthesia: The Highs and the Lows |
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Virginia Hayssen
Professor of biological sciences
Why White Cats are Often Deaf and Other Oddities of Coat Color |
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Laura A. Katz
Elsie Damon Simonds Professor of Biological Sciences
The AEMES Program at Smith College: Opening Doors to Women of Promise;
Microbes Shake The Tree of Life and Alter Our View on Genome Evolution |
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Robert B. Merritt
Professor of biological sciences
Alfred Blakeslee and the Genetics of Taste |
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Richard F. Olivo
Professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (Smith College);
associate director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
(Harvard University)
Teaching with the Web: From E-mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the Classroom:
Making Connections with Students |
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Paulette Peckol
Louise C. Harrington Professor of Biological Sciences
Finding Nemo: Ecology and Conservation of Coral Reef Fish; Hurricanes
and Global Warming: Now the Corals Really Are in Hot Water
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Stylanos P. Scordilis
Professor of biological sciences, special assistant to the president for Ford Hall
Ford Hall Centers and Interdisciplinarity: A New Concept for the Liberal Arts;
Exercise and Gender: Are Male and Female Skeletal Muscles the Same? |
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L. David Smith
Professor of biological sciences
Biological Invasions, Particularly in Marine Ecosystems |
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Stephen G. Tilley
Myra M. Sampson Professor of Biological Sciences
Mountains, Molecules, and Salamanders: Discovering Biological
Diversity in the Appalachians |
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Steven Williams
Gates Professor of Biological Sciences
Book discussion: Tears of the Cheetah and Other Tales from the Genetic Frontier, by J. O'Brien |
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Michael Marcotrigiano
Director of the Botanic Garden, professor of biological sciences
Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Shaping Plants
That Shape the Landscape; Perceiving a Colored Landscape |
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Tracey A. Putnam
Chief gardener
Woody Plant Evaluation for the Home Landscape; Too Much of a Good
Thing is Wonderful: Growing Peonies, Roses, and Clematis |
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Madelaine Zadik
Manager of education and outreach, Botanic Garden
Botanic Garden of Smith College: Past, Present, and Future; Planting Seeds and
Ideas: Education at the Botanic Garden of Smith College; Book discussion –
Virginia Woolf: A Botanical Perspective. |
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Katherine Queeney
Associate professor of chemistry
How to See on the Nanoscale |
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Kevin M. Shea
Associate professor of chemistry
From the Moonstone to Organic Chemistry: Crystals in Detective Stories |
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Margaret Bruzelius
Dean of the senior class and second-semester juniors
Can Girls Have Adventures? What Does it Mean to be a Hero in Young Adult
Fiction; Ursula Le Guin, Robert Louis Stevenson, Frances Hodgson
Burnett, Philip Pullman |
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Sabina Knight
Associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature
What Americans See: Chinese Fiction in Translation; Chinese Literature:
A Very Short Introduction; Changing Responses to Aging in Fiction from China,
Taiwan, and Tibet; Book discussion: Summer of Betrayal, by Hong Ying; Balzac
and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie; The Heart of Time: Moral Agency
in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, by Sabina Knight; Chinese Literature: A
Very Short Introduction (forthcoming),by Sabina Knight |
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Katwiwa Mule
Associate professor of comparative literature, director of
African studies
Women's Spaces, Women's Visions: Politics, Poetics, and Resistance in
African Women's Drama |
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Nicholas R. Howe
Associate professor of computer science
Machine Vision: How Computers Can Understand the World Through
Images; Handwriting Recognition: From the Bodleian Library through
George Washington’s Letters |
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Jina Kim
Assistant professor of East Asian studies
Korea in the 21st Century: A Return to History?; Representation of North
Korea in South Korean Cinema; How Modern were Modern Girls?: Colonialism,
Gender, and Consumerism in Early 20th Century East Asia |
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Sabina Knight
Associate professor of Chinese and comparative literature
What Americans See: Chinese Fiction in Translation; Chinese Literature:
A Very Short Introduction; Changing Responses to Aging in Fiction from
China, Taiwan, and Tibet; Book discussion: Summer of Betrayal, by Hong
Ying; Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress, by Dai Sijie; The Heart of
Time: Moral Agency in Twentieth-Century Chinese Fiction, by Sabina Knight;
Chinese Literature: A Very Short Introduction (forthcoming),by Sabina Knight |
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Thomas H. Rohlich
Professor of Japanese
Taking the First-Year Seminar Abroad: The Kyoto Interterm Trip |
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Sujane Wu
Assistant professor of Chinese
Tea and Food Culture; Chinese Poetry and Painting and their Relationship;
Chinese Films and Taiwanese Films |
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Robert K. Buchele
Professor of economics
The Mondragon Cooperatives: A Sabbatical Reseach Report;
The Mondragon Cooperatives are a network of approximately 120
worker-owned enterprises employing around 47,000 worker-owners in
the Basque region of Spain. They are a Mecca of the cooperative movement
and researchers interested in viability of producer cooperatives in a highly
competitive globalized capitalist system. |
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Deborah Haas-Wilson
Marilyn Carlson Nelson Professor of Economics
The Affordable Care Act: Our Changing Health Care System |
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Thomas A. Riddell
Associate professor of economics
A Year Away From Smith: In Search of the Perfect Image (photographs
from a year on sabbatical in the U.K. and elsewhere; Book discussion:
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, by Alexandra Fuller |
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Andrew S. Zimbalist
Robert A. Woods Professor of Economics
Economics of Sports, including College Sports and Title IX; Labor Relations
in Sports; Franchise Valuation and Strategies; League Governance; Baseball,
Football, Basketball, Nascar, Tennis; Book discussion: Equal Play: Title IX and
Social Change; The Bottom Line: Observations and Arguments on the Sports
Business; In the Best Interests of Baseball: The Revolutionary Reign of Bud Selig;
National Pastime: How Americans Play Baseball and the Rest of the World Plays
Soccer; May the Best Team Win: Baseball Economics and Public Policy |
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Sue J. M. Freeman
Professor of education and child study, psychologist
Women and Leadership; Women and Money; Women’s Transitions |
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Alan L. Marvelli
Professor and Director Emeritus of the Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech
The Impact of Cochlear Implants on the Lives of Profoundly Deaf Children
and Their Families |
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Richard F. Olivo
Professor of biological sciences and neuroscience (Smith College);
associate director, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and
Learning (Harvard University)
Teaching with the Web: From E-Mail to Digital Video; Emotion in the
Classroom: Making Connections with Students |
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Cathy Weisman Topal
Lecturer in visual arts education
Children, Clay, and Sculpture: The Power and Potential of Clay in the
Classroom; Thinking With a Line: A New Art and Literacy CD-ROM for Early
Childhood Educators |
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Andrew J. Guswa
Associate professor of engineering; director, Center for the
Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDS)
Smithies in Action: Environment, Engineering, and Liberal Education;
Quenching Our Thirst: Water for a Changing World; Forests in the Mist:
Water Resources of Monteverde, Costa Rica; The Art of Engineering:
Robert Maillart’s Bridges |
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Susannah Howe
Design clinic director
Smith Pioneers: The Picker Engineering Program; Engineering Design
Clinic: The Capstone Project Experience for Engineering Students |
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Borjana Mikic
Rosemary Bradford Hewlett 1940 Professor; director of the
Picker Engineering Program; advisory board member and past director,
Sherrerd Center for Teaching and Learning
Smithies in Action: Ten Years of Engineering at Smith; New Frontiers in
Teaching and Learning at Smith |
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Ann Boutelle
Senior lecturer of English language and literature, founder of The
Poetry Center, Grace Hazard Conkling Poet in Residence
Creating a Poetry Center at Smith; Emily Dickinson's Manipulation of Space in
Her Poems |
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Dean Flower
Professor of English language and literature
Landscape, Ecology, and the Necessity of Poetry; Lolita and Censorship;
Inscribing the Oxbow: Local Landscape as Text |
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Jefferson Hunter
Helen and Laura Shedd professor of English language and literature,
professor of film studies
From Brighton Rock to The Singing Detective: British Crime Films |
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Gillian Murray Kendall
Associate professor of English language and literature
The Shakespeare Project; Popular Shakespeare; Queen Elizabeth I
and Self-Fashioning |
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Naomi Miller
Professor of English and the Study of Women and Gender
Representing Women in the Renaissance; Reimagining Shakespeare for
Children and Young Adults; Mother and Others in Early Modern; Lady
Mary Wroth. Book discussion: An Unknown Woman, by Vanora Bennett,
The Creation of Eve, by Lynn Cullen; Renaissance historical fiction
novels of Sarah Dunant. |
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Richard H. Millington
Sylvia Dlugasch Bauman professor of American studies, professor
of English
American Literature, the Liberal Arts College, and the Invention of Leisure |
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William Allan Oram
Helen Means Professor of English language and literature
Developments in English at Smith; The Utopias of Ursula K. LeGuin;
Teaching Science Fiction at Smith; Teaching Shakespeare |
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Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, member of Smith's program in
the history of science and technology
Where Our Punctuation Came from (And Where It's Going); Historical
Reflections on How Authors Make Their Money; Book discussion: Pride
and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, by Jane Austen;
Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust, Decline and Fall, Vile Bodies,
by Evelyn Waugh |
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Cornelia Pearsall
Associate professor of English language and literature
Sylvia Plath ’55 at war in the Smith Archive; Book discussion: Victorian
Sexuality, by Oscar Wilde; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland , by Lewis
Carroll; A Room of One's Own, by Virginia Woolf; Wuthering Heights,
by Emily Brontë |
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Charles Eric Reeves
Professor of English language and literature
Genocide by Attrition in Darfur; Sudan at Its Moment of Historical Truth;
Book discussion: A Long Day’s Dying: Critical Moments in the Darfur
Genocide, by Charles Eric Reeves
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Sharon Cadman Seelig
Roe/Straut Professor in the Humanities, English language and literature
Noticing: Or What You Can Do with an English Major; Reading the Earth:
Venturing Beyond the Classroom; Missing, Marginal, Mutilated: Tracing
the Lives of Early Modern Women |
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Patricia Lyn Skarda
Professor of English language and literature
Smith in Literature and Popular Culture; Telling and Retelling: Modern
Novels and their Literary Antecedents; The Enduring Legacy of The
Biblical Book of Job; Book discussion: Little Women, by Louisa May
Alcott; March, by Geraldine Brooks; The Little Women, by Katherine
Weber; The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Double Bind,
by Chris Bohjalian |
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Michael T. Thurston
Professor of English language and literature
To Live Deliberately: The Function of Poetry at the Present Time; Book
discussion: Voigt Kyrie, by Ellen Bryant; The Dead, by James Joyce;
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, by Marjane Satrapi |
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Ellen Doré Watson
Director of The Poetry Center, lecturer in English language and
literature
The Poetry Center at Smith: A Sampler of Poets and Programs; How
Do Poems Mean? Trends in Contemporary Poetry; Dogged Hearts
(poetry reading and discussion: establishing voice in persona poems);
Shaking Loose/Shaping Up: A Poetry Workshop (making poems happen);
Translator as Actress: Becoming Adélia (translating Brazilian poet
Adélia Prado) |
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Andrew J. Guswa
Associate professor of engineering; director, Center for the
Environment, Ecological Design and Sustainability (CEEDS)
Smithies in Action: Environment, Engineering, and Liberal Education;
Quenching Our Thirst: Water for a Changing World; Forests in the Mist:
Water Resources of Monteverde, Costa Rica; The Art of Engineering:
Robert Maillart's Bridges |
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Iris Newalu
Director of Smith College Executive Education
Women's Leadership Programs; Corporate Women's Leadership Initiatives;
Smith's Involvement in Executive Leadership Development |
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Christine J. Davis
Senior coach, tennis
Tennis: A Lifetime Sport |
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James H. Johnson
Professor of exercise and sport studies
Analyzing Your Lifestyle: Fear or Fun; The Ancient Olympics’ In?uence on
the Modern Games; From the 776 B.C. Greek Palestra to the Modern
Fitness Gym |
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Christine M. Shelton
Professor of exercise and sport studies, co-chair for the Project on Women and
Social Change
Women's Education Worldwide: Why Educate Women? Women and Sport;
International Sport Issues for Women; Coaching Education; Title IX; Women
and Leadership |
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Donald Siegel
Professor of exercise and sport studies
Project Coach: Youth Development Through an Innovative Urban Sports
Program |
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Anouk Alquier
Lecturer
French Popular Culture, France in the 21st Century; The French Identity;
Fact or Myth?; Teaching and Learning French at Smith |
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Martine Gantrel
Professor of French studies
Edith Wharton and Marcel Proust: Why They Never Met |
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Jonathan Gosnell
Associate professor of French studies
France in America; America in France; French Empire and its Aftermath |
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Ann Leone '71
Professor of French studies and landscape studies
Reading Literary Gardens in French: French Studies and the Study of
Cultural Landscapes at Smith |
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Hélène Visentin
Associate professor of French studies
Art and Politics in the French Renaissance: The King and the City; Court
Performances in the Age of Louis XIV; Baroque French Theater |
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John Brady
Mary E. Moses professor of geology
Geology of the Smith College Campus; Precambrian Geology of the
Tobacco Root Mountains in Southwest Montana; Topics related to geology,
landscape, resources, climate, and energy. Will tailor topic to suit audience. |
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Robert Burger
Achilles Professor of Geology
What Does the Future Hold? An Overview of Natural Hazard Risk,
Including Rapid Climate Change; Global Warming: Using the Past to
Understand What the Future Holds; Book discussion: Surviving Armageddon:
Solutions for a Threatened Planet, by Bill McGuire |
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Hans R. Vaget
Helen and Laura Shedd Professor Emeritus, professor emeritus of
comparative literature
Fateful Attraction: Hitler and Wagner; What is German About German Music?;
Anti-Semitism, Memory, and the Construction of German Culture in America;
The Operas of Wagner in Gilded-Age America; The Last Emperor of
Classical Music: Richard Strauss |
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Joseph George McVeigh
Professor of German studies
From Weimar to War: Popular Education and Propaganda in Germany 1928–1941.
This lecture is based on an exhibition McVeigh curated for the Rare Book Room
in the Neilson Library in spring 2009. It examines one of the most widespread
forms of popular education in Germany during the late Weimar period—cigarette card albums—and how they evolved into a popular propaganda medium during the Third Reich; How Ozzie and Harriet Saved Europe After World War II |
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Martha A. Ackelsberg
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, professor of the study
of women and gender
Who's Political? Whose Politics? Reflections on Contemporary Democracy;
Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community Activism
at the U.S.-Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women's Community
Activism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory; Teaching
about the Politics of Wealth and Poverty |
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Mlada Bukovansky
Associate professor of government
The United Nations in World Politics; Perspectives on U.S. Hegemony in
World Politics; U.S./European Relations |
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Donna Robinson Divine
Morningstar Family Professor of Jewish Studies, professor
of government
Any topic related to the Middle East; Middle East Conflict, Iran, Iraq;
Book discussion: Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to
Mandate Palestine, by Donna Robinson Divine |
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Alice L. Hearst
Associate professor of government
The State, the Law, and the Family; Children’s Rights in Domestic
and International Law; Children, Adoption, and the Politics of Belonging:
Transnational/Transracial Adoption and Identity; The Boundaries of
Multiculturalism |
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Donald Leonard Robinson
Charles N. Clark Professor Emeritus of Government and American
studies
Obama's Predicament; Exporting Constitutional Democracy: Why
Were Japan and Iraq So Different? What Chance Does Egypt Have?;
Town Meeting Democracy: How Did It Develop in New England? Does
It Still Work? Would It Work Elsewhere? |
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Lester K. Little
Dwight W. Morrow Professor Emeritus of History
The Three Pandemics of Plague in History (So Far); The Middle
Ages Aren’t What They Used to Be |
Douglas Lane Patey
Sophia Smith Professor of English, member of Smith's program in
the history of science and technology
The Emergence of the Modern Division between the Arts and the Sciences;
The Secret Life of Isaac Newton, Alchemist |
Howard Allen Nenner
Roe/Straut Professor Emeritus in the Humanities
Future of the British Monarchy; Elizabeth I’s Refusal to Marry; Regicide and
Memory; The Execution of Charles I |
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Giovanna Bellesia
Professor of Italian language and literature
Italian Women Writers; Immigrant Women Writers in Italy Today;
Translation Theory and Practice |
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Justin Cammy
Assistant professor of Jewish studies, comparative literature,
Middle East studies; director, program in Jewish studies
Israel at 60: Zionism Then and Now; The New Anti-Semitism; Report from
the Cultural Frontier: Yiddish in America; Book discussion: The Yiddish
Policeman’s Union, by Michael Chabon |
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Ann Leone '71
Professor of French studies and landscape studies
Reading Literary Gardens; Every Fourth Household: Vernacular Gardens
in Northampton; From Jane Austen to Engineering: Landscape Studies
at Smith |
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Ginetta E.B. Candelario
Associate professor of sociology and Latin American studies
Not Just Pin Curls and Perms: The American Beauty Shop and Women’s
Community |
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Martin Antonetti
Curator of rare books
Collecting Rare Books; New Acquisitions to the Mortimer Rare Book Room;
Book Arts at Smith; History of Printing, Bookbinding, and Papermaking; Using
Rare Books in the Curriculum at Smith |
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Christopher B. Loring
Director of libraries
With the Internet, Why Libraries?; From Books to Bytes |
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Sherrill Redmon
Head of the Sophia Smith Collection, coordinator of special collections
Creating Women’s History, a video about the origins and mission of the Sophia
Smith Collection of Women’s History, Manuscripts and Archives; Voices of
Feminism, oral history project |
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Nanci A. Young
College archivist
History of the College; Women of Color at Smith; Photography on Campus |
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Pau Atela
Professor of mathematics and statistics
Art and Mathematics: The Case for MathStudio, An Ongoing Creative Studio
Space Focusing On Process and Dialog About Art and Mathematic |
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David Warren Cohen
Professor of mathematics and statistics
Teaching Mathematics as a Language; Current Reforms in Math Education
at the College Level; Mathematics as the Language of Nature |
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Katherine Taylor Halvorsen
Professor of mathematics and statistics
Consequences of the No Child Left Behind Act: Nationwide Standards
for the Kindergarten to Twelfth-Grade Mathematics Curriculum |
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Nicholas Jon Horton
Associate professor of mathematics and statistics
What Your Physician Should Know About Statistics (But Perhaps Doesn’t);
Maternal In?uenza and Schizophrenia: Teasing Out Interacting Causes;
Quantitative Literacy: What Every Smith Alumna Should Know |
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Judith Gordon
Assistant professor of music
Informal performance and lively conversation; solo piano and/or duo
programs with members of the Smith Chamber Ensemble; wide range
of repertoire available (grand piano needed) |
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Jonathan Hirsh
Senior lecturer, director of orchestral and choral activities
All groups available to perform (certain conditions apply) |
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Monica Jakuc
Elsie Irwin Sweeney Professor Emerita of Music
Women Composers Then and Now; Lecture recital of solo piano music
(grand piano needed) |
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Joel Pitchon
Associate professor of music
Robert and Clara Schumann: Music, Romance, and Marriage: A Revealing
Look at Their Letters; performances of piano; string trios; the “Kreutzer”
Sonata for Violin and Piano by Ludwig van Beethoven, includes a lecture
and a performance of the piece (a piano is required); the third and last
sonata for violin and piano by Robert Schumann
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William Petrie Wittig
Professor emeritus of music
American Music and Art (20th Century); What’s New (and Not!) about Pop Music |
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Jay L. Garfield
Doris Silbert Professor of Philosophy
Buddhist Philosophy, Cross-Cultural Interpretation: Smith’s Exchange Program
with the Central Institute of Higher Tibetan Studies; The Role of Pretense in
Children’s Cognitive Development |
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Albert Mosley
Professor of philosophy
African Philosophy; African American Philosophy; Animal Rights; Philosophy
of Technology |
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Piotr Decowski
Professor of physics
Big Bang – The Beginning of Everything |
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Nalini Easwar
Professor of physics
The Physics of Sand: Your Visit to the Beach Will Never Be the Same |
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Gary Felder
Associate professor of physics
Einstein’s Legacy: A New Vision of Space and Time; The Big Bang and
the Expanding Universe; Beyond the Big Bang: What We Know About the
Early Universe; If Only I Had a Brane: Life in More Than Three Dimensions |
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Malgorzata Z. Pfabé
Sophia Smith Professor of Physics
Nuclear Physics: Its History, Major Players, and Nuclear Power |
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Peter A. de Villiers
Sophia and Austin Smith Professor of Psychology
Autism Spectrum Disorders: Myths and Mysteries (And a Few Answers
From Recent Research) |
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Randy O. Frost
Harold Edward and Elsa Siipola Israel Professor of Psychology
Book discussion: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things,
by Randy Frost and Gail Steketee; Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive
Saving, Acquiring, and Hoarding, by Randy Frost, Gail Steketee and David Tolin |
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Maureen Mahoney
Dean of the college, adjunct professor of psychology
Book discussion: The Spiral Staircase, by Karen Armstrong |
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Philip K. Peake
Professor of psychology
Longitudinal Consequences of Preschool Self-Control, 30-Year Study |
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Joel S. Kaminsky
Professor of religion, co-director of Jewish studies
Humor in the Bible; Narrative Art in the Bible; Divine Favoritism in the
Bible; The Rabbinic View of Immortality; Early Jewish Biblical
Interpretation; Jewish-Christian Dialogue; The Treatment of the Other
in the Bible and Early Rabbinic Literature; Sibling Rivalry in the Bible;
Book discussion: Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept
of Election, by Joel S. Kaminsky |
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Suleiman Ali Mourad
Professor of religion, faculty director of the Global Studies Center
Islamic and Middle East History, Religion, and Culture; Muhammad;
the Qur’an; Jesus in the Qur’an and Islamic Thought; Jerusalem in Islam;
Symbolism of Jerusalem in Islam; Muslim Reactions to the Crusades;
Islam and Modernity; Jihad; Global Studies at Smith |
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Andy Rotman
Associate professor of religion
Can talk about religion, culture, politics, and film of the region (India specialist);
Book discussion: Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism;
Divine Stories, Translations from the Divyavadana, Part 1, by Andy Rotman |
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Jennifer Walters
Dean of religious life
Book discussion: The Ten-Year Nap, by Meg Wolitzer; The Maytrees, by Annie Dillard |
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Mary F. Hall
Professor and licensed independent clinical social worker
The Legacy of Slavery; Ending Racism: The Work Ahead; Substance
Abuse in Women |
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Carolyn Jacobs
Dean of the School for Social Work, Elizabeth Marting Treuhaft
Professor
Spirituality: Transformative Moments in Life Stories; Finding Hope: The Role
of Spirituality in Responding to Trauma |
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Thomas S. Litwin
Director of the Clark Science Center
1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition Retraced; Science in the Liberal Arts:
Curriculum and Construction for the 21st Century; Women in Science: Much
Accomplished, Much to Do |
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Rick Fantasia
Director of the Kahn Liberal Arts Institute, Barbara Richmond
1940 Professor in the Social Sciences
Alchemy for the Intellect: The Transformative Powers of the Kahn Institute;
War of the Worlds: Fast Food Meets Haute Cuisine in France; The Moral Basis
of a Predatory Society or Social Inequality for Fun and Profit: New Forms of
Exploitation for a New Century |
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Peter Isaac Rose
Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology;
senior fellow, Kahn Institute
Smith Clones in the Netherlands: The College as a Model for Reforming
Higher Education in Europe; Making a Difference: William Allan Neilson
and the Rescue of Refugee Intellectuals; With Few Reservations: Readings
from Guest Appearances and Other Travels in Time and Space; Is
Anti-Immigration the New Racism? Notes from the U.S. and Europe |
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Maria Estela Harretche
Professor of Spanish and Portuguese
Spanish Poetry in Exile: Power of the Memory; Magic Realism: From Page
to Stage; Federico Garcia Lorca, Playwright: Hidden and Revealed |
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Reyes Lázaro
Associate professor of Spanish and Portuguese
The "Caricatsculpture" of Captain Dreyfus in Paris |
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Andrea Hairston '74
L. Wolff Kahn 1931 Professor of Theatre and professor of
Afro-American studies
How Do We Conjure the Wondrous World We Believe In? Researching
and Writing Redwood and Wildfire, An Historical Novel; The Magic If:
Speculative Theatre and Film from RUR to Avatar; Minstrel Shows from
Daddy Rice to Big Momma’s House-American Popular Culture’s Long
Running Hits; Realist Historical Novel about Turn of the 20th Century
Theatre and Film Artists in Georgia and Chicago |
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Ellen W. Kaplan
Professor, theatre chair, director of Jewish studies
Crossing Borders: Making Theatre in China; Under the Gun: Dramatic
Narrative in Zones of Conflict; Theatre in Israel |
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Daniel Elihu Kramer
Assistant professor of theatre
Updating the Classics; Theatre and the Liberal Arts; Shakespeare on Film |
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Martha A. Ackelsberg
William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Government, professor of the study
of women and gender
Who's Political? Whose Politics? Reflections on Contemporary Democracy;
Who Votes? Who Cares?; Globalization Comes Home: Community Activism
at the U.S.-Mexico Border; Making Democracy Work: Women's Community A
ctivism and the Reconceptualization of Democratic Theory; Teaching about the
Politics of Wealth and Poverty |
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Marilyn R. Schuster
Provost and dean of the faculty, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in
the Humanities
Women Writers: Portraits and Self-Portraits (Writers such as Colette, Marguerite
Duras, Jane Rule, and Margaret Atwood); Rethinking Sexuality: Lesbian and
Gay Rights Movements before 1960 (De Martin and Phyllis Lyon The Daughters
of Bilitis and The Ladder; Resistance in an Age of Repression) |
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Susan R. Van Dyne
Chair, program for the study of women and gender
Sylvia Plath ’55 and Ted Hughes; Contemporary American Women Poets;
Telling Stories, Reading Lives; Women’s Studies and Citizenship in a Global
World; Memoirs of Difference: Claiming the Right to Write; Book discussion:
Alias Grace, by Margaret Atwood; The Stone Diaries, by Carol Shields;
The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters |
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