Brown Bag Series
Fall 2007

Honors Brown Bag Talk Series
Fall 2007

Wednesdays 12:20-1:10
Taylor 302, 306, 404

September 5: Mr. Kai Degner, Executive Director of The Arts Council of the Valley, will present “Building Community Within & Beyond.”
Taylor 404

September 12: Dr. Mary Thompson, Assistant Professor of English, will present “Learn Something From this: The Problem of Optional Ethnicity in America’s Next Top Model.”
Taylor 306

September 19: Dr. Lamont King, Associate Professor of History, will present “The Salience of Ethnicity in Northern Nigeria.”
Taylor 306

September 26: Dr. Barry Falk, Professor of Economics and Director of the JMU Honors Program, presents “Honors Education and the Future of Honors at JMU.”
Taylor 302

October 3: Dr. Joanne Gabbin, Professor of English, Director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center, and Director Emeritus of the Honors Program, will present “Poetry as Activism.”
Taylor 306

October 10: Dr. Bob Kolvoord, Professor of Integrated Science and Technology and Learning, will present "Mapping a Difference: Can the Eyes Lie?"
Taylor 404

October 17: Mr. Art Dean, Director, Center for Multicultural Student Services, will present “Navigating Diversity (Tips for success).”
Taylor 306

October 24: Dr. Jim Steele, Professor of Sociology, will present “The Pastoral Motif in American Writing.”
Taylor 306

October 31: Dr. Celeste Thomas, Outreach and Consultation Specialist, Counseling and Student Development Center, and Assistant Professor of Psychology, will speak on “The Nuts and Bolts of College: Adjusting to Your First Year.”
Taylor 306

November 7: Dr. Cullen Sherwood, Professor of Geology and Environmental Science, presents "Geology Solves a Mystery at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello."
Taylor 306

November 14: Dr. Irvine Clarke, Professor of Marketing and Head of the Department of Marketing, will speak on "International Marketing."
Taylor 306