Honors College

2012 Fall Honors Lecture Series

The City

Honors College Amphitheatre, Room 106 Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 p.m. 

 

Fall 2012 Lecture Series 

DATE

SPEAKER

LECTURE TITLE 
 

 August 27

Philip E. Phillips

Introduction

 September 3

Labor Day - NO CLASSES

 

 September 10

Philip E. Phillips, Honors College

 "Edgar Allan Poe and the City of Boston"

 September 17

Robb McDaniel

 "Thought Polis: Ancient Athens and the Urban Imagination"

 September 24

Ron Messier, Anthropology

 "The Islamic City Model - In Theory and on the Ground"

 October 1

June McCash, Foreign Languages

 "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

 

October 22 

Jonathan Thorndike, Honors Program, 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 Dept. of Corrections

 "The Prison as a 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

 "The Expansion of Chinese Cities and Its Impact"

 December 3

Honors Students, TBA

 Honors Thesis Presentations

 Honors Lecture Series Archive