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Spring 2012 IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

Fridays 1:00-1:50, AD 119 (MacArthur Campus Auditorium)

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to campus.

Group	Date	Lecturer	Presentation Title
A	01/13/12	Dr. Kevin Lanning	Boundaries in Personality and Politics
A	01/20/12	Stephen McCulloch	Marine Mammal Research and Conservation: An Overview of Careers in Marine Mammal Medicine and Biology
A	01/27/12	Mr. Jason Athas	Understanding Your Credit History and Credit Score
A	02/03/12	Dr. Timothy Steigenga	From Jacaltenango to Jupiter: Religion, Politics and the History of the El Sol Resource Center
B	02/10/12	C.J. Kwan	Study Abroad and You
B	02/17/12	Gloria Shusterman	Mr. Jacobson Goes to the White House: A Daughter's Memory
B	02/24/12	Dr. Jeffrey Buller	Higher Education in Saudi Arabia
B	03/02/12	Steve Hunsicker	Peace Corps: Life is Calling. How Far Will You Go?
	03/09/12	SPRING BREAK
B	03/16/12	Dr. Mark Tunick	Unwanted Attention: Privacy and Free Speech in the Age of YouTube
C	03/23/12	Dr. Miguel Vázquez	The Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims in Spain
C	03/30/12	Dr. Mark Crain	Pulpit to Pump: Prohibition and the Ascent of Gasoline
C	04/06/12	Dr. Warren McGovern	Extreme Algebra
C	04/13/12	The Honorable Carole Y. Taylor	Honors College Symposium for Research and Creative Projects: "Journey to the Bench"
C	04/20/12	Dr. Rachel Corr	Fieldwork in Andean Ecuador
	04/23/12		Final paper due to your advisor by 5 pm

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2011 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2011

Group	Date	Presentation Title	Lecturer
A	01/14/11	Beer, Bread & Immortality	Dr. Paul Kirchman
A	01/21/11	Turtles to Seagrass: Moving Down the Food Chain	Kathryn Tiling
A	01/28/11	Peace Corps: Life is calling. How far will you go?	Steve Hunsicker
A	02/04/11	The Max Planck Florida Institute: Exploring the Frontiers of Science	Dr. Claudia Hillinger
B	02/11/11	Bioactive Molecules	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
B	02/18/11	How I Met Your Aten	Alex Lange
B	02/25/11	Unintended Consequences	Dr. Keith Jakee
B	03/04/11	Conservation of Florida's Endangered Flora & Fauna	Dr. Jon Moore
X	03/11/11	Spring Break
C	03/18/11	Zeus and Prometheus: Greek Adaptations of the Ancient West Asian Myth	Dr. Kurt Raaflaub
C	03/25/11	Aristotle and Descartes: from Psyche to Cogito	Dr. Daniel White
C	04/01/11	The Origins of Terrorism in Russia	Dr. Christopher Ely
C	04/08/11	Eyewitness Memory	Dr. Julie Earles
X	04/15/11	Honors College Symposium (LLS Auditorium)	Professor Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
X	04/22/11	An Oedipus for the Rest of Us	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
X	04/22/11	Paper due to your advisor by 5 p.m.

Fall 2011

Group	Date	Presentation Title	Lecturer
A	08/26/11	Panel discussion - The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot	Dr. Quintyne, Dr. Strain, Dr. White
A	09/02/11	The Blood of Strangers: Stories from Emergency Medicine	Dr. Frank Huyler
A	09/09/11	My Time in Africa	Stephen Jones
A	09/16/11	Global Warming and the Myth of Hydrogen	Dr. Michelle Ivey
B	09/23/11	Archaeological Adventure in Sicily at Ancient Paliké	Dr. Brian McConnell
B	09/30/11	Career Exploration: Finding the Right Fit	Sara McHale
B	10/07/11	The Adaptive & Maladaptive Aspects of Emotion	Dr. Laura Vernon
B	10/14/11	The Art of Representation	Dr. Amy McLaughlin, Prof. Dorotha Lemeh
C	10/21/11	Ants!!!	Dr. James Wetterer
C	10/28/11	What can you do with a concentration in Economics?	Dr. Keith Jakee
C	11/04/11	Named Scholar Recognition Ceremony	Frank Cerabino
X	11/11/11	Veteran's Day - University Holiday	No Forum
C	11/18/11	Retrospective: First Semester at “The HC”	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
X	11/23/11	Paper due to your advisor by 5 pm	No Forum
X	11/25/11	Thanksgiving Break - University Holiday	No Forum

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2010 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2010

Group	Date	Title	Speaker
A	01/15/10	Losing the News	Alex S. Jones
A	01/22/10	Facebook is not your BFF: What College Students Need to Know	Dr. Sameer Hinduja
A	01/29/10	Inspiration	Alex Lange
A	02/05/10	Maturation of an Idea: Universities in France and the United States from 1200 to the Present.	Dr. Michael Armstrong
B	02/12/10	The Reciprocal Relevance of Psychology and Politics	Dr. Kevin Lanning
B	02/19/10	Formulating Research Topics: One Historian’s Journey	Dr. Chris Strain
B	02/26/10	Quants: Making the Transition from Theory to Practice	FPL Guest Speakers
B	03/05/10	The Fundamentals of Financial Literacy	Jason Athas
X	03/12/10	Spring Break
C	03/19/10	Nietzsche’s Eternal Return	Dr. Daniel White
C	03/26/10	History of Drug Development and Clinical Trials	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
C	04/02/10	Woman-Woman Marriage Practices Among the Gikuyu People of Kenya	Dr. Wairimu Njambi
C	04/09/10	HC Symposium	Dr. Jackie Ogden
C	04/16/10	Women’s Mosques at the Crossroads of Asia	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
X	04/20/10	Final Paper Due to Advisor by 5 p.m.
X	04/23/10	Altar Ego: Reading the Ara Pacis	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Fall 2010

Group	Date	Title	Speaker
A	08/27/10	Discussion of Finding Mañana	Dean Buller and Dr. McGovern
A	09/03/10	A Very, Very Brief Introduction to Econometrics	Dr. Kanybek Nur-tegin
A	09/10/10	Play Nice in the Sandbox	Sean Pierce & Jenna Johnson
A	09/17/10	On Personality Assessment: Lessons from Studies of Politicians, Professors, Poets and You	Dr. Kevin Lanning
B	09/24/10	The Art of Effective Communication	Alan Gray
B	10/01/10	Career and Internship Possibilities	FPL Team
B	10/08/10	Spanish Republican Exiles in the Dominican Republic	Dr. Carmen Cañete Quesada
B	10/15/10	Creating Pathways of Success	Johanna Martin, Asst. Director, Career Development
C	10/22/10	Named Scholars Ceremony	Special Guest Speaker
C	10/29/10	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigations	Dr. Eugene Smith
C	11/05/10	Enticing the Criminal: The Problem of Entrapment	Dr. Mark Tunick
C	11/12/10	Innovation and Entrepreneurship	Hayden Trepeck
X	11/19/10	Special End-of-Term Event
X	11/26/10	Thanksgiving Break

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2009 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2009

Group	Date	Title	Speaker
A	01/09/09	When 1+1=0: An Introduction to Modern Algebra	Dr. Ryan Karr
A	01/16/09	John Brown, Slavery, and the Roots of the Civil War	Dr. David Reynolds (LLS Smith Scholar in Residence)
A	01/23/09	Entrepreneurship and Risk Management	George Stamas
A	01/30/09	I'll be Back: The Terminator and American Epic Literature	Dr. Michael Harrawood
B	02/06/09	First Person Narrations of the Loss of Self: War Literature and the Limits of Language	Dr. Hilary Edwards
B	02/13/09	Anchors & Surfboards: What makes the dynactin complex so complex?	Dr. Nick Quintyne
B	02/20/09	The Historical Origins of Terrorism	Dr. Chris Ely
B	02/27/09	Ritual and Rebellion in the Colonial Andes	Dr. Rachel Corr
	03/06/09	Spring Break
C	03/13/09	Vistula String Quartet
C	03/20/09	From Guatemala to El Sol: Immigration and Transnational Community	Dr. Tim Steigenga
C	03/27/09	A Little Bit of Game Theory	Dr. Kanybek Nur-tegin
	04/03/09	Symposium	TBA
C	04/10/09	Pulling Fish from the Freezer: Recent Research in Antarctica	Dr. Jon Moore
	04/14/09	Final Paper Due to Advisor by 5 p.m.
x	04/17/09	Walk like an Egyptian	Dr. Jeffrey L. Buller

Course Requirements:

Attendance: You should attend all of the forum presentations. Attendance will be taken either at the beginning or the end of each forum. In addition, the attendance policy is subject to the honor code. Please arrive 10 minutes before the forum is to begin as tardiness is disrespectful to the speaker and your classmates. If you are late, you will not receive credit for attendance.

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Assignment: A single 4-page paper critically analyzing three talks, one from Group A, one from Group B, and one from Group C is to be turned into to your advisor no later than Monday, April 16, 2007 by 5 p.m. After being graded, this paper will be placed in your Writing Portfolio.

Course Evaluation:

This course is graded S/U. You need a minimum of 70 points to pass the course with a grade of satisfactory. Attendance is 60% of the grade and the paper is 40% of the grade. You will receive 4.25 points for each of the 14 forum talks you attend and your paper will be graded on a scale of 0 to 40.5 points.

What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is an interactive online learning tool that allows you to receive course content, take tests and quizzes, participate in online dialog with your fellow students, and more. As with any other computer program, there are a few things you must know prior to using the program to enhance your learning experience. Please take a few moments to read the following instructions before trying to login to the course.

Blackboard user accounts are set up automatically for all students
Not all courses at FAU use Blackboard-- please check with your instructor
When you log into Blackboard you will only have access to the courses you are enrolled in that use Blackboard
Logging into Blackboard is done IN ADDITION to registering for your courses with the FAU Registrar.

Login Information
The universal URL to all Blackboard courses is: http://blackboard.fau.edu
After clicking on this URL you will be taken to the Blackboard (Bb) page on the FAU server where you can log into Blackboard.
Your username is your FAUNet ID. If the you do not know your FAUNet ID. You will need to enter your social security # and PIN in order to obtain your FAUNet ID. Your initial password for Blackboard is your PIN (PINs are by default set to 2 zeros followed by the 2-digit DAY and 2-digit YEAR of birth).
Your email address in Blackboard will be set as your FAU email address. To forward email to another account you should go to MyFAU email and select "auto forward" under “options”.

NOTE: You will use the same username and password for all FAU Blackboard courses that you are enrolled in.

Finding the course web site: The courses that you are enrolled in will be listed under the "My Courses" area. Click on the course title in order to enter the course. You may not see all of the courses that you are registered for listed here since not all courses at FAU use Blackboard-- please check with your instructor.

NOTE: Students who are having trouble logging into Blackboard should contact the IRM Helpdesk at 561-297-3999 or 399@fau.edu.

See also http://itss.fau.edu/BBMaterials/BB_Support_Student.htm.

Fall 2009

Date	Presentation Title	Lecturer
08/28/09	10th Anniversary Celebration	Cynthia Avari, Justin Pacific, Walteria Tucker
09/04/09	Discussion of Blink	Dr. Michael Harrawood
09/11/09	State Parks and Jim Crow, or America’s Best Idea Meets America’s Worst Idea	Dr. William O’Brien
09/18/09	Using Campus Services to Enhance Your Academic Success	Student Life Staff
09/25/09	Play Nice in the Sandbox	Sean Pierce
10/02/09	The Secret Literature of the Last Muslims in Spain	Dr. Miguel Vazquez
10/09/09	Careers in Environmental Studies	FPL Guest Speakers
10/16/09	Life After the HC	Sandra Lazo de la Vega, Jocelyn Sabbagh
10/23/09	Not Just Necessities: Making Your Internship Fun and Your Thesis Doable	Katy Smith
10/30/09	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigations	Dr. Eugene Smith
11/06/09	John Locke and the Right to Bear Arms	Dr. Mark Tunick
11/13/09	Named Scholar Ceremony	Prof. Mirta Ojito
11/20/09	Retrospective: First Semester at “The HC”	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
11/23/09	Final Paper Due by 5 pm
11/27/09	Thanksgiving Break

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2008 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2008

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	01/11/08	The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue: a note on Shakespeare	Dr. Michael Harrawood
A	01/18/08	Putting Square Images through Round Wires	Dr. Eugene Belogay
A	01/25/08	Conservation of Gopher Tortoises and Their Habitat Along the East Coast of Florida	Dr. Jon Moore
A	02/01/08	Comparison of Higher Education Systems in the U.S. and France	Dr. Michael Armstrong
B	02/08/08	Online Social Networking & College Students	Dr. Sameer Hinduja
B	02/15/08	When 1+1=0: An Introduction to Modern Algebra	Dr. Ryan Karr
B	02/22/08	Consuming Caribbean Bodies: Literary Examples	Dr. Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín
B	02/29/08	The First Terrorists	Dr. Chris Ely
X	03/07/08	Spring Break
C	03/14/08	The American Identity	Dr. Sheldon Hackney
C	03/21/08	Jim Crow and State Parks in the South, 1934-1966	Dr. William O’Brien
C	03/28/08	Eyewitness Memory for Events	Dr. Julie Earles
X	04/04/08	Honors College Research Symposium	Dr. Tracy Caldwell
C	04/11/08	Art in the Digital Age	Prof. Dori Lemeh
X	04/15/08	Final Paper Due by 5 p.m. to Advisor
X	04/18/08	What Becomes a Legend Most?	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Course Requirements:

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Course Evaluation:

Blackboard user accounts are set up automatically for all students
Not all courses at FAU use Blackboard-- please check with your instructor
When you log into Blackboard you will only have access to the courses you are enrolled in that use Blackboard
Logging into Blackboard is done IN ADDITION to registering for your courses with the FAU Registrar.

NOTE: You will use the same username and password for all FAU Blackboard courses that you are enrolled in.

NOTE: Students who are having trouble logging into Blackboard should contact the IRM Helpdesk at 561-297-3999 or 399@fau.edu.

See also http://itss.fau.edu/BBMaterials/BB_Support_Student.htm.

Fall 2008

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	08/29/08	Panel discussion of the FAU Freshman Reading Selection, Nickel and Dimed	Dr. Kevin LanningDr. Chris Strain
A	09/05/08	Global Warming and the Myth of Hydrogen	Dr. Michelle Ivey
A	09/12/08	The IRONy of Aging	Dr. Paul Kirchman
A	09/19/08	Freedom to Break the Laws: One solution to the “Free Will Problem”	Dr. Amy McLaughlin
B	09/26/08	Them!	Dr. Jim Wetterer
B	10/03/08	Some Economics of Sports	Dr. Keith Jakee
B	10/10/08	A Brief History of Pi	Dr. Robin Jordan
B	10/17/08	Named Scholar Ceremony: "Consumer Product Safety"	Ann Brown
C	10/24/08	Ethnomathematics – What is this?	Dr. Terje Hoim
C	10/31/08	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigations	Dr. Gene Smith
C	11/07/08	An Election Post-Mortem	Dr. Martin Sweet
C	11/14/08	Enticing the Criminal: the problem of entrapment	Dr. Mark Tunick
X	11/21/08	Retrospective: First Semester at “The HC”	Dr. Jeffrey Buller
	11/26/08	FinalPaper Due to Advisor by 5 p.m.
	11/28/08	Thanksgiving Break

Course Requirements:

Attendance:

Because of the nature of this class, you should plan to attend all of the forum talks. Please arrive 10 minutes before the forum is to begin. Please do not be late, since entering the auditorium late is disrespectful to the speaker and your classmates. Attendance will be taken either at the beginning or the end of each forum talk (and sometimes it is taken at both the beginning and the end). Leaving a presentation early or arriving late counts as an absence. The attendance policy is subject to the honor code. You will receive 4 points for each of the 13 forum talks you attend. If you are late or if you leave early, you will not receive credit for attendance and will be violating the Honor Code. Please turn off all cell phones and beepers (or set them to silent setting) when you enter the auditorium. You may use laptops in class only to take notes or for activities closely related to the course material. Use of laptops or other electronic devices to play games, surf the Internet (unrelated to that day’s topic) unless requested by the speaker), check e-mail, listen to music, or perform any other action not related to the course is a violation of the Honor Code.

Excused Absences:

A student will receive an excused absence in this course only for the following two reasons:

a: Illness, as documented by an excuse from a physician that is submitted to the dean’s office in the HC building.
b: An approved campus activity that occurs during the time when Forum meets, as documented by an email sent to Dean Buller by Dr. Tunick, Heather Bishara, David Flanigan, Dr. Metianu, or Sean Pierce.

Please note that no student can receive more than three excused absences during any term. Any excused absence above the maximum of three will be graded as an unexcused absence.

Assignments:

There are four required Blackboard™ assignments in this course. Each is worth up to 2 points of your final grade.
Blackboard assignment #1 is due by the beginning of class on Friday, September 5, 2008. (See below for details.)
Blackboard assignments 2-4 will be announced in class and will be due by the start of class one week after they are announced.
Paper - A single 4-page paper critically analyzing three talks, one from Group A, one from Group B, and one from Group C is due by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 and is to be turned in to your advisor. This paper will be placed into your Writing Portfolio.

Course Grading:

This course is graded S/U. A minimum of 70 points on a 100-point scale is required to pass the course with a grade of satisfactory.

52 points        Attendance
40 points        Paper
  8 points        Blackboard Assignments
100 points

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2007 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2007

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	January 12	Cellular Aging: Do We Burn Out or Fade Away?	Dr. Paul Kirchman
A	January 19	What I did on my Sabbatical	Dr. Stephanie Fitchett
A	January 26	Ripples in Spacetime	Dr. Mark Rupright
A	February 2	The Adaptive & Maladaptive Aspects of Emotion	Dr. Laura Vernon
A	February 9	Andean Cultural Studies at FAU	Dr. Rachel Corr
B	February 16	Music Inspired by the Art of the Children of the Holocaust	Dr.Carolyn Bryan & Dr. Sandra McClain
B	February 23	Fragrances and Perfumes	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
B	March 2	The Three Gorges Dam: China's Modernization and Historical Heritage Preservation	Dr. Yu Jiang
X	March 9	Spring Break
C	March 16	When 1+1=0: An Introduction to Modern Algebra	Dr. Ryan Karr
C	March 23	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Cancer Cell Division	Dr. Nicholas Quintyne
C	March 30	Believing is seeing, or is it?	Prof. Dorotha Lemeh
C	April 6	Some Economics of Repugnant Markets	Dr. Keith Jakee
X	April 13	Symposium 2007	Dr. Christopher Strain
X	April 20	An Oedipus for the Rest of Us	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Course Requirements:

Attendance: You should attend all of the forum presentations. Attendance will be taken either at the beginning or the end of each forum. In addition, the attendance policy is subject to the honor code. Please arrive 10 minutes before the forum is to begin as tardiness is disrespectful to the speaker and your classmates. If you are late, you will not receive credit for attendance.

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Course Evaluation:

Blackboard user accounts are set up automatically for all students
Not all courses at FAU use Blackboard-- please check with your instructor
When you log into Blackboard you will only have access to the courses you are enrolled in that use Blackboard
Logging into Blackboard is done IN ADDITION to registering for your courses with the FAU Registrar.

NOTE: You will use the same username and password for all FAU Blackboard courses that you are enrolled in.

NOTE: Students who are having trouble logging into Blackboard should contact the IRM Helpdesk at 561-297-3999 or 399@fau.edu.

See also http://itss.fau.edu/BBMaterials/BB_Support_Student.htm.

Fall 2007

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	August 31	Panel discussion of the FAU Freshman Reading Selection, “The Orchid Thief”	Dr. Laura Barrett, Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes, Dr. Jon Moore
A	September 7	Privacy in Public Places: Does GPS Surveillance Provide a Plain View?	Dr. Mark Tunick
A	September 14	Global Warming and the Myth of Hydrogen	Dr. Michelle Ivey
A	September 21	Ernest Hemingway – Latent Feminist	James McGarrah, MFA
B	September 28	The Spanish Poetry of the Last Muslims in Spain	Dr. Miguel Vázquez
B	October 5	Periodic Table of the Elements	Dr. Veljko Dragojlovic
B	October 9	Named Scholar Ceremony (1-3 p.m.)	Lucia Robson
B	October 16	Emotion: Adaptive or Maladaptive?	Dr. Laura Vernon
C	October 26	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigations	Dr. Eugene Smith
C	November 2	Visual Ethnography	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
C	November 9	Study Abroad and Global Citizenship	Dr. Cathy Meschievitz
C	November 16	Killing Them Softly: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the U.S. Supreme Court	Dr. Martin Sweet
	November 23	Thanksgiving
	Novmber 26	Final Paper Due by 5 p.m. to Advisor
X	November 30	Retrospective: First Semester at “The HC”	Dr. Jeffrey Buller

Course Requirements:

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Attendance:

You are encouraged to attend all of the forum talks. Please arrive 10 minutes before the forum is to begin. Please do not be late, since entering the auditorium late is disrespectful to the speaker and your classmates. Attendance will be taken either at the beginning or the end of each forum talk. The attendance policy is subject to the honor code. You will receive 4 points for each of the 13 forum talks you attend. If you are late or if you leave early, you will not receive credit for attendance and will be violating the Honor Code. Please turn off all cell phones and beepers (or set them to silent setting) when you enter the auditorium. You may use laptops in class only to take notes or for activities closely related to the course material. Use of laptops or other electronic devices to play games, surf the Internet (unrelated to that day’s topic or unless requested by the speaker), check e-mail, listen to music, or perform any other action not related to the course is a violation of the Honor Code.

Assignments:

Blackboard assignment #1 – Due by the beginning of class on Friday, September 7, 2007. (See below for details.)
Blackboard assignment #2 — Due when announced in class.
Paper - A single 4-page paper critically analyzing three talks, one from Group A, one from Group B, and one from Group C is due by 5 p.m. on Monday, November 26, 2007 and is to be turned in to your advisor. This paper will be placed into your Writing Portfolio.

Course Grading:

This course is graded S/U. A minimum of 70 points on a 100-point scale is required to pass the course with a grade of satisfactory.

52 points        Attendance
40 points        Paper
    4 points        Blackboard Assignment #1
   4 points        Blackboard Assignment #2
100 points

Blackboard user accounts are set up automatically for all students
Not all courses at FAU use Blackboard-- please check with your instructor
When you log into Blackboard you will only have access to the courses you are enrolled in that use Blackboard
Logging into Blackboard is done IN ADDITION to registering for your courses with the FAU Registrar.

NOTE: You will use the same username and password for all FAU Blackboard courses that you are enrolled in.

NOTE: Students who are having trouble logging into Blackboard should contact the IRM Helpdesk at 561-297-3999 or 399@fau.edu.

See also http://itss.fau.edu/BBMaterials/BB_Support_Student.htm.

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2006 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2006

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	January 13	“I'll be back!”: Repetition, Doubling, Incest and Revenge in The Terminator	Dr. Michael Harrawood
A	January 20	Transportation and Immigration in Latin American and U.S. Latino Literatures	Dr. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin
A	January 27	Arson Investigation – Optimizing Analysis Conditions	Dr. Eugene Smith
A	February 3	TBA	Dr. Chris Strain
A	February 10	The Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims in Spain	Dr. Miguel Vazquez
B	February 17	Consumer Package & Products: Reflections on a Career *LOCATION IS LLS Auditorium, MA 109*	Ray Viault, Former Vice-Chairman of General Mills
B	February 24	Bronze Inscriptions and Confucianism in Early China	Dr. Yu Jiang
B	March 3	TBA	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
	March 10	SPRING BREAK
B	March 17	Fishes and Corals on the New England Seamount	Dr. Jon Moore
B	March 24	How the World Got Rich Quick	Dr. Travis Lybbert
C	March 31	The Persistence of Unconstitutional Laws	Dr. Martin Sweet
C	April 7	Indescribable violence, truth, and what it means to be human: Why you should care about the literature of war	Dr. Hilary Edwards
C	April 14	When 1 + 1 = 0: A Modern Twist on Classical Algebra	Dr. Ryan Karr
C	April 21	What Can We Learn from the Post-WWII Allied Occupation of Japan?	Dr. William Londo

Course Requirements:

Attendance: Attendance is 60% of your grade. Therefore, we suggest you attend all of the forum presentations. Attendance will be taken either at the beginning or the end of each forum. In addition, the attendance policy is subject to the honor code. Please arrive 10 minutes before the forum is to begin as tardiness is disrespectful to the speaker and your classmates. If you are late, you will not receive credit for attendance.

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Assignment: A single 4-page paper critically analyzing three talks, one from Group A, one from Group B, and one from Group C is to be turned into to your advisor no later than Monday, April 24, 2006. After being graded, this paper will be placed in your Writing Portfolio.

Course Evaluation:

This course is graded S/U. You need a minimum of 70 points to pass the course with a grade of satisfactory. Attendance is 60% of the grade and the paper is 40% of the grade.

Fall 2006

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	August 25	Can the study of personality be scientific?	Dr. Kevin Lanning
A	September 1	Playgoing in Shakespeare's London: 1574-1642	Dr. Michael Harrawood
A	September 8	The moral obligation to obey the law	Dr. Mark Tunick
A	September 15	Lived Religion, Transnational Identity and Collective Action among the Maya of Jupiter	Dr. Tim Steigenga
B	September 22	The Maldives Mystery	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
B	September 29	Image Compression: Putting Square Images through Round Wires	Dr. Eugene Belogay
B	October 6	The Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims of Spain	Dr. Miguel Vázquez
B	October 13	Castaways, Stowaways and Illegal Immigrants	Dr. Jon Moore
C	October 20	Africa: A Personal Perspective on Democracy and Education	Harry A. Johnston, former state senator, U.S. Congressman, and Special Envoy to the Sudan
C	October 27	The War on Terror: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties	Prof. Donald Downs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
C	November 3	Optimizing Conditions for Arson Investigation	Dr. Eugene Smith
	November 10	Veteran's Day
C	November 17	Nietzsche and the Poetry of Technology	Dr. Dan White
	November 23	Thanksgiving Recess

Course Requirements:

Please silence your cell phones and pagers upon entering the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

Assignment: A single 4-page paper critically analyzing three talks, one from Group A, one from Group B, and one from Group C is to be turned into to your advisor no later than Monday, November 20, 2006. After being graded, this paper will be placed in your Writing Portfolio.

Course Evaluation:

This course is graded S/U. You need a minimum of 70 points to pass the course with a grade of satisfactory. Attendance is 60% of the grade and the paper is 40% of the grade. You will receive 5 points for each of the 12 forum talks you attend and your paper will be graded on a scale of 0 to 40 points.

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2005 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2005

Date	Title	Lecturer
January 14	“Mountaineering Under 7,000 Feet”	Dr. Jon Moore & HC student Katie Olds
January 21	“Andean Cultural Studies at FAU”	Dr. Rachel Corr
January 28	“Nature of Consciousness”	Dr. Edgar Mitchell
February 4	"Japanese Spirit: Cultural Differences between Japan and the US from the Perspective of Their Educational Systems"	Mitsutoshi Sekita, Cultural and Educational Affairs Officer, the Consulate General of Japan
February 11	“Bollywood: Culture and Film in South Asia”	Dr. Jacqueline Fewkes
February 18	“Lonely Avenue: From the Top”	Dr. Michael Harrawood
February 25	“The Little House in Moscow”	Dr. Chris Ely
March 4	“Rights Politics: The Creation, Rejection, and Disintegration of American Constitutional Rights”	Dr. Martin Sweet
March 11	SPRING BREAK
March 18	“Freedom to Break the Laws: Peirce's Solution to the Free Will Problem”	Dr. Amy McLaughlin
March 25	“The Poetry of the Last Muslims in Spain”	Dr. Miguel Vázquez
April 1	“Can Culture Excuse Crime?”	Dr. Mark Tunick
April 8	“Do You Have What It Takes To Be Successful in Your Career?”	Millie McCoy
April 15	Wilkes Honors College Research Symposium	Dr. Julie Earles -chair
April 22	"Earth Day Forum"	Nathaniel P. Reed (introduced by Dr. Christian Weisser)

Fall 2005

Group	Date	Title	Lecturer
A	August 26	CANCELLED DUE TO HURRICANE KATRINA	Dr. Michael Harrawood
A	September 2	“ Mt. Koya from the Bottom Up”	Dr. William Londo
A	September 9	“Privacy”	Dr. Mark Tunick
A	September 16	“What do we know about global warming?”	Dr. Bill O’Brien
B	September 23	"You'll never take me alive Cu!"	Dr. Paul Kirchman
B	September 30	“From Oz to West Egg: The Rise of the New American Fairy Tale”	Dr. Laura Barrett
B	October 7	Named Scholar Recognition Ceremony “An Insider’s View of Success”	Betty DiVosta
B	October 14	“From Abstract to Narrative: Function and Art in Early Dynastic China”	Dr. Yu Jiang
C	October 21	"Einstein's Miracle Year"	Dr. Mark Rupright
C	October 28	“Arson Investigation – Optimizing Analysis Conditions”	Dr. Eugene Smith
C	November 4	"Florida's Wacky History and Why You Should Care"	Eliot Kleinberg
	November 11	Veteran’s Day
C	November 18	"Ethnomathematics - What is this?"	Dr. Terje Hoim
	November 25	THANKSGIVING RECESS

Note: Please turn off all cell phones and beepers (or set them to silent setting) when you enter the auditorium. No laptops allowed.

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2004 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2004

19-Jan	Dr. Jim Wetterer	Travel with My Ants
16-Jan	Bob Ponton (Glassblower from UW-Milwaukee)	Batman, the Lone Ranger, and the Chemist
23-Jan	Dr. Chris Strain	The Death and Life of Malcolm X
30-Jan	Dr. Terje Hoim	Exploring the Numbers: Rapid Math Tricks and Tips
6-Feb	TBA	TBA
13-Feb	Dr. James Jakubow	Behavioral Treatments for the Maladaptive Behavior of Foster Children in the Department of Children and Families
20-Feb	Dr. Rakesh Mogul	No Earth Bugs on Mars
27-Feb	Dr. Paul Kirchman	SOD, DNA, and YOU
5-Mar	Ambass. Nancy Brinker	International Relations
12-Mar	(Spring break; no talk)	(Spring break; no talk)
19-Mar	Dr. Mark Tunick	The Moral Obligation to Obey Law
26-Mar	Ken & Daria Dolan	America's 1st Family of Finance
2-Apr	Dr. Bill O'Brien	Social Issues in Ecosystem Restoration
9-Apr	Dr. Stephanie Fitchett (organizer)	H. L. Wilkes Honors College Research Symposium
16-Apr	Dr. Julia Burdge	The Chemistry of Color

Fall 2004

Aug 27	Dr. Sho Konishi	Secrets of the Dead Body in Tokugawa Japan: The Emergence of the Japanese Red Cross
Sept. 3	Dr. Michael Harrawood	Lonely Avenue (Cancelled due to Hurricane Frances)
Sept. 10	Dr. Jon Moore	Mountaineering Under 7.000 feet [Cancelled due to Hurricane Frances]
Sept. 17	Dr. Tim Steigenga	Religion and Transnational Community: From Jacaltenango to Jupiter
Sept. 24	Dr. Nancy Poulson	Can I Ever Go Home Again?
Oct. 1	Dr. Kevin Lanning	Equality, Security, and Privacy: Attitudes in post-9/11 USA
Oct. 8	Dr. Dan White	The Classical Epic and the Philosophic Imagination
Oct. 15	Dr. Eugene Smith	Arson Investigation-Optimizing Analysis Conditions
Oct. 22	Dr. Miguel Vazquez	The Poetry of the Last Muslims in Spain
Oct. 29	Attorney Bob Montgomery	Traveling Down Tobacco Road; followed by the Wilkes Honors College Named Scholar Presentation
Nov. 5	Dr. Mark Rupright	The Pull of Gravity
Nov. 12	Dr. Travis Lybbert	Access to Essential Medicines in Poor Countries
Nov. 19	Speaker's Forum Series	General Marcie Harris
Nov. 26	Thanksgiving Recess

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2003 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2003

Jan 10	The Cherokee and Obscure Property Law	Prof. Ted Murphy
Jan 17	TBA
Jan 24	TBA
Jan 31	Biogeography of Deep-sea Fishes Off New England	Prof. Jon Moore
Feb 7	Undergraduate Research in Psychology	Prof. Kevin Lanning
Feb 14	Simulating Gravitational Waves	Prof. Mark Rupright
Feb 21	The Death and Life of Malcolm X	Prof. Chris Strain
Feb 28	Florida's Poet Laureate and Nominee for Nobel Prize in Literature and for a Pulitzer Prize	Dr. Edmund Skellings
March 7	SPRING BREAK: No Forum
March 14	Drawing, Poetry, and Other Elements of Navigation	Prof. Amy Broderick
March 21	Reading Descartes' Meditations	Prof. Dan White
March 28	The Russian Roots of Terrorism	Prof. Chris Ely
April 4	Courtliness and Cultural Exchange	Prof. Laine Doggett
April 11	Student Research Conference	Prof. Stephanie Fitchett, organizer
April 18	Colonizing Bodies: A Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-FGM Discourse	Prof. Wairimu Njambi

Fall 2003

Aug. 29	UPMC - Juvenile Fire Starters	Dr. David Kolko
Sept. 5	The Ghost in the Machine: Terminator 3 and mind-body dualism	Dr. Michael Harrowood
Sept. 12	The Aging Mind	Dr. Julie Earles
Sept. 19	To Throw the Blessing: Prayer and Poetics in Andean Ritual	Dr. Rachel Corr
Sept. 26	Embedded TV Journalist	Tim Malloy & Eric English
Oct. 3	Rare Species Conservatory Foundation	Dr. Paul Reiloo
Oct. 10	Gender and Race in Contemporary Caribbean Literature	Dr. Mary Ann Gosser Esquilín
Oct. 17	What I did on my summer vacation?	Dr. Jon Moore
Oct. 24	Named Scholar Recognition
Oct. 31	Arson Investigation - Optimizing Analysis Conditions	Dr. Eugene Smith
Nov. 7	Sin and Redemption: Woman's Body, Necrophilia, and Spanish Islam	Dr. Miguel Vázquez
Nov. 14	The Trial of Major Ridge	Dr. Ted Murphy
Nov. 21	The Confluence of Words and Images in Literature	Dr. Laura Barrett
Nov. 28	THANKSGIVING RECESS

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2002 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2002

January 11	The Russian Idea	Prof. Ely
January 18	Who wants to be a millionaire?	Prof. Mellor
January 25	Postmodernism	Dr. James McMahon
February 1	Image Compression Basics: Putting Square Images Through Round Wires	Prof. Belogay
February 8	On Drawing and Discovery	Prof. Broderick
February 15	Greenways and Gophers	Prof. Moore
February 22	How far is it?	Prof. Rupright
March 1	The Washington Center	Sandy Butler Whyte
March 8	Spring Break
March 15	Shamanism and Power in Post-Colonial Societies	Professor Corr
March 22	Fat Points and Blow-Ups	Prof. Fitchett
March 29	Some Psychological Issues in the Study of War, Peace, and Terrorism	Prof. Lanning
April 5	TBA	TBA
April 12	Thinking about Nature's Value	Prof. Mwangi wa Githinji
April 19	Medea Furens: Justice, Power, and Rage	Prof. White

Fall 2002

August 23	Organic Chemistry: Architecture, Art, Language and Puzzle	Prof. LuAnne McNulty
August 30	Panel on summer internships from The Community Foundation and The Abacoa Project	Prof. Stephanie Fitchett, organizor
September 6	How we read Shakespeare	Prof. Michael Harrawood
September 13	Can culture excuse crime?	Prof. Mark Tunick
September 20	Putting Square Images through Round Wires	Prof. Eugene Belogay
September 27	Transnationalism and the Maya in Palm Beach County	Prof. Tim Steigenga
October 4	Special Forum on Iraq, sponsored by student government senate: 1-3 pm.	Hossein Alizadeh, Tim Collie, Khidhir Hamza, Michelle McGovern, Rear Admiral Thomas E. Morris (retired), Walid Phares
October 11	Poetics of the Erotic in Caribbean Literature	Prof. Mary Ann Gosser Esquilin
October 18	Named Scholar Recognition Ceremony	Willie E. Gary
October 25	Sustainable Development: from Rio to Johannesburg	Prof. Bill O'Brien
November 1	Mitochondria and Aging	Prof. Paul Kirchman
November 8	Too Many Teardrops: An Economic Analysis of american Indian Removal 1750-1850	Prof. Edward Murphy
November 15	TBA: Wall Street Journal columnist and author	Ken Wells
November 22	Poetic Pilgrimages: From Baghdad to Andalucia	Prof. Miguel Vazquez
November 29	Thanksgiving Recess

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2001 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2001

January 12	Prof. Chris Ely	The Trial of the (last) century
January 19	Peter Kranz	Human Conflict: A Race Relations Study that made a Difference
January 26	Prof. Dan White	Oedipus and the enigma of the enlightenment
February 2	Jerome Williams	Challenging Equal Rights in a Country Town
January 9	Amy Broderick	Drawing, The Primary Sense
February 16	Jon Moore	Mountains in the Deep: Exploring the New England Seamounts
February 23	Timothy Swanson, Wachovia Bank	Investing in the Current Economic Climate
March 2	Dr. Martha McCaughey, Assoc Professor of Women's Studies, Virginia Tech	Getting Physical in Theory and Practice: The Importance of the Body in Feminist Studies
March 9	Prof. Mark Rupright	Was Einstein Right?
March 16	Spring Break
March 23	David Ramus, novelist	TBA
March 30	Dr. Jackie Kern	The Artist as Learner: Journey Through Creativity & Find Self
April 6	Dr. Michael Harris, Associate Professor of Anthropology, FAU.	Ethnographic Fieldwork in Coastal Ecuador
April 13	Prof. Eugene Belogay	Image Compression: Putting Square Images through Round Wires
April 20	Pat Welch, Executive Director of Pine Jog	The Pine Jog Environmental Education Center

Fall 2001

August 24	Witches and Wisewomen: Reading,Thinking , and Writing in the Middle Ages and Beyond	Prof. Doggett
August 31	Image Compression Basics: Putting Square Images through Round Wires	Prof. Belogay
September 7	Privacy in the Face of New Technologies of Surveillance	Prof. Tunick
September 14	From Oz to West Egg: The New American Fairy Tale	Prof. Barrett
September 21	Religion, Politics, Pentecostals and Gender in Latin America	Prof. Steigenga
September 28	Shining Light on the Last Two Rows of the Periodic Table	Prof. Hopkins
October 5	My Journey into and through Women's Studies	Prof. Njambi
October 12	Miscegenation in Puerto Rican Literary History	Prof. Gosser-Esquilin
October 19	Aging: Is it Better to Burn Out or Fade Away	Prof. Kirchman
October 26	National Scholarship Recognition Ceremony; followed by "Zest for Life" (special guest speaker)	Madeleine Singer
November 2	The Aging Mind	Prof. Earles
November 9	Spain through the Looking Glass: the Clandestine Literature of the Last Muslims of Spain	Prof. Vazquez
November 16	Violence and Nonviolence in the Civil Rights Movement	Prof. Strain
November 30	Guest Speaker	Mr. Len Rivkin

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

2000 Archive

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Spring 2000

January 14	Crossing Boundaries	Dr. William P. Mech
January 21	The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue	Dr. Michael Harrawood
January 28	Giving Birth to a University	Robert Friedman
February 4	Deconstructing the Quilt: Teaching and Learning about Women Artists	Dr. Jackie Kern
February 11	Study Abroad at F.A.U.	Dr. William Stronge
February 18	Can I Ever Go Home Again?	Dr. Nancy K. Poulson
February 25	Enthymemes and other Arcana of Rhetoric	Dr. Melissa Sprenkle
March 3	Phat Points or Fat Points?	Dr. Stephanie Fitchett
March 10	Open Forum to Discuss Student Issues
March 24	What Poetry Does for Language	Peter Davison
March 31	Aging and Intelligence	Dr. Julie L. Earles
April 7	Travels with my Ants	Dr. Jim Wetterer
April 14	Similes/Smiles	Dr. Kristen O. Murtaugh
April 21	The Case of the Missing Currency	Dr. Case Sprenkle

Fall 2000

August 25	Prof. Kevin Lanning	On Individual Differences and the Individual:The Two Disciplines of Personality Psychology
September 1	Sharon Merchant/Ken Pruitt	The Legislative Process
September 8	Prof. Mark Tunick	The Moral Obligation to Obey the Law
September 15	Prof. Chris Strain	White Scholars, Black History
September 22	Prof. Blake Mellor	Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
September 29	Prof. LuAnne McNulty	Becoming an Organic Chemist
October 6	Prof. Mary Ann Gosser-Esquilin	Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature and the Color Line
October 13	Dr. Scott Kelso, founder and chair FAU's Center for Complex Systems	Complex Systems: a discussion of issues from Dr. Kelso's new book Dynamic Patterns: The Self-Organization of Brain Behavior
October 20	Prof. Melissa Sprenkle	Anglo-Saxons on the Mind
October 27	Prof. Jim Wetterer	Study Abroad in Ecuador and Costa Rica
November 3	Prof. Rachel Corr	Food as Ritual Metaphor: Symbols of Death and Rebirth in Andean Ecuador
November 10		University Official Holiday: Veteran’s Day
November 17	Prof. Laine Doggett	Who are Tristan and Isolde?
November 24		University Official Holiday: Thanksgiving
December 1	Prof. Bill Green	Journeys Of The Chemical Elements: An Antarctic Perspective

IDH 1020 Honors College Faculty Forum

1999 Archive (Inaugural Forum)

All talks are open to the community. Click here for a map and directions to the campus.

Fall 1999 (Inaugural Forum)

August 27	Prof. Mark Tunick	Problems in Political Theory
September 3	Prof. Jim Wetterer	Planet of the Ants
September 10	Prof. Kevin Lanning	Personality and Knowledge
September 17	Prof. Mary Ann Gosser Esquilin	Livin' la Vida Loca, or Why I Study Caribbean Literature
September 24	Prof. Laura Barrett	The Confluence of Word and Image in American Literature
October 1	Prof. Dan White	Prisoners of the Text: Logic and Metaphor in the Representation of Self and World
October 8	Prof. Melissa Sprenkle	Oral Storytelling: From Medieval Castles to Modern Kitchens
October 15	Prof. Paul Kirchman	Genes and Longevity
October 22	Prof. Bill Green	Geochemical Processes in Antarctic Lakes
October 29	Prof. Tim Steigenga	Religion and Politics in Latin America: The evolution of a research agenda
November 5	Prof. Mwangi wa Githinji	The Moving of Great Brimanwood to High Dunsinane Hill and other tales from economics
November 12	Prof. Chris Ely	Who was the Russian Peasant?
November 19	Prof. Blake Mellor	To Have or Have Knot