2012 Spring Honors Lecture Series
All lectures are free and open to the public
Honors College, Room 106
Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 p.m.
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| DATE | SPEAKER | LECTURE TITLE |
| January 16 | MLK Day - No classes | |
| January 23 | Dr. Philip Phillips English | "Martin Luther King's Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Tradition of Prison Writing" |
| January 30 | Dr. Philip Phillips English | "Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy and Philosophy's Consolation to the Prisoner" |
| February 6 | Dr. Amy Kaufman English | " 'For This was Drawyn by a Knyght Presoner': Sir Thomas Malory and the Confined Body" |
| February 13 | Dr. Robb McDaniel Political Science | "The Self-Incriminator: John Lilburne, the Star Chamber, and the English Origins of American Liberty" |
| February 20 | Mr. Brett Hudson English | "John Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, and Nonconformist Prison Literature" |
| February 27 | Dr. Tom Strawman English | "Thoreau and the Principle of Passive Resistance" |
| March 5 | Spring Break - No Classes | |
| March 12 | Dr. Nancy Sloan Goldberg Foreign Languages | "The Radicalization of Louise Michel" |
| March 19 | Dr. Jane Marcellus Journalism | "Sue Shelton White, the Occoquan Workhouse, and the 'Prison Special' " |
| March 26 | Dr. John Vile Political Science | "Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers From Prison: a Twentieth-Century Theologian puts his Faith into Action" |
| April 2 | Dr. Laura Dubek English | "The Autobiography of Malcolm X and the African American Quest for Freedom and Literacy" |
| April 3 | Dr. Mark Jackson English | Lead Belly (special guest lecture on Tuesday afternoon) |
| April 9 | Dr. Kari Neely Foreign Languages | "Medhi Zana and the Struggle for Kurdish Ethnic Identity" |
| April 16 | Ms. Laura Clippard Honors Academic Advisor | "Understanding National Fellowships and Scholarships" |
| April 23 | Honors Students | Thesis Presentations Speakers to be announced |
