The Brown Bag Lecture series begins at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 3, with Dr. Linda Brigance from the Department of Communication offering the main course, “Metaphors and Meaning-making: The Rhetoric of Place at Women’s History Museums.”
The lectures continue throughout the fall semester and resume in February 2008 on the first Wednesday of each month at noon in Williams Center Room S-104.* The series is sponsored by the Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, and features new creative and scholarly work by members of the SUNY Fredonia faculty. Each 30-minute talk and/or presentation is followed by a brief discussion and refreshments.
The lectures are free and open to campus and community members. Classes are also welcome to attend. For more information, contact Dr. David Kinkela at 716-673-3876.
In addition to Dr. Brigance, offerings include:
• November 7
Associate Professor James Stevens, Department of English; “The Shock of the Other: The New World?”
*this presentation to be held in Williams Center Room G-144.
• December 5
Dr. Dale Tuggy, Department of Philosophy; “Apparently Contradictory Religious Beliefs”
• February 6
Dr. Joni Milgram-Luterman, School of Music; “Guided Imagery and Music”
• March 5
Dr. Ellen Litwicki, Department of History; “From Emerson’s Portion of Thyself to the Gift Registry: Defining the Gift”
• Dr. Leesa Rittelmann, Department of Visual Arts and New Media; “Feminism and Fascism: The Portrait Photography of Erna Lendvai-Dircksen, 1915-1945”
• Associate Professor Helen Meyers, Department of Theatre and Dance; “Choreography and the Specific Image”
