Spring 2012 Lecture Series
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Spring 2012Prison Writing |
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| Date | Speaker | Lecture Title |
| January 6 | MLK Day - No Classes | |
| January 23 | Philip Phillips, Honors College |
Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Tradition of Prisong Writing |
| January 30 | Philip Phillips, Honors College | Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and Philosophy's Consolation to the Prisoner |
| February 6 | Amy Kaufman, English | For This was Drawyn by a Knyght Presoner: Sir Thomas Malory and the Confined Body |
| February 13 | Robb McDaniel, Political Science | The Self-Incriminator: John Lilburne, the Star Chamber, and the English Origins of American Liberty |
| February 20 | Brett Hudson, English | John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, and Nonconformist Prison Literature |
| February 27 | Tom Strawman, English | Thoreau and the Principle of Passive Resistance |
| March 5 | Spring Break, No Classes | |
| March 12 | Nancy Sloan Goldberg, Foreign Languages | The Radicalization of Louise Michel |
| March 19 | Jane Marcellus, Journalism | Sue Shelton White, the Occoquan Workhouse, the the "Prison Special" |
| March 26 | John R. Vile, Honors College | Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers From Prison: A Twentieth-CenturyTheologian puts his Faith into Action |
| April 2 | Laura Dubek, English | The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American Quest for Freedom and Literacy |
| April 3 | Mark Jackson, English | Lead Belly |
| April 9 | Kari Neely, Foreign Languages | Medhi Zana and the Struggle for Kurdish Ethnic Identity |
| April 16 | Laura Clippard, Honors College | Understanding National Fellowships and Scholarships |
| April 23 | Honors Students | Honors Thesis Presentations |
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