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Fall 2012
The City
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| Date |
Speaker |
Lecture Title |
| August 27 |
Philip Phillips |
Introduction |
| September 3 |
Labor Day - No Classes |
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| September 10 |
Philip Phillips, Honors College |
Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston |
| September 17 |
Robb McDaniel, Political Science |
Thought Polis: Ancient Athens and the Urban Imagination |
| September 24 |
Ron Messier, History (retired) |
The Islamic City Model: In Theory and on the Ground |
| October 1 |
June McCash, Foreign Languages (retired) |
The Strauses: An Immigrant Family in New York |
| October 8 |
Robert Bray, English |
When Tom Became Tennessee: New Orleans and the Invention of Tennessee Williams |
| October 15 |
Fall Break - No Classes |
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| October 22 |
Jonathan Thorndike, Honors Program at Belmont University |
Kyoto: Saved by the Americans but 'Destroyed' by the Japanese |
| October 29 |
Laura Clippard, Honors College |
Applying for National Fellowships |
| November 5 |
Roland Colson, Tennessee Department of Ciorrecions |
The Prison as City |
| November 12 |
David Lavery, English |
Doctor Who and London |
| November 19 |
Jimmie Cain, English |
The City of Hue and the Vietnam War |
| November 26 |
Guanping Zheng, Confucius Institute |
The Expansion of Chinese Cities and Its Impact |
| December 3 |
Honors Students |
Honors Thesis Presentation |
