JMU Honors Program presents

Honors Symposium
Spring 2008
Topic: (Dis)union

5:00-6:00pm, ISAT 159, East Campus
James Madison University

This year is JMU's centennial year and this year's Honors Scholars’ applicants read the preamble to the constitution and were asked to discuss an issue representing whether or not we had achieved that "more perfect union." The theme of the symposium arises out of that utopian ideal and the more messy reality of dissent, pluralism, historical memory, and social crises in a democratic society.

Wednesday, February 6 – Ms. Adriana Yoto, Graduate Student in International Relations, The New School, New York. “Security Lifestyle: Malls, Gated Communities and the Privatization of Public Space.”

Wednesday, February 13 – Dr. Joseph Rumbo, Assistant Professor, Sociology, "Keeping (it) up with the Joneses: Masculinity and the marketing of male sex performance remedies"

Wednesday, March 19 –Dr. Bill Scheuerman, President, United University Professions and Professor of Political Science at SUNY Oswego, “Stealth Totalitarianism: Questioning the Academic Bill of Rights”

Wednesday, March 26 – Dr. Doris Gray, Lecturer in Women’s Studies and French, Florida State University – “Visions for the Future: Muslim Women in North Africa and France.” This speaker is sponsored by the Honors Program as well as Cross Disciplinary programs in Africana Studies, International Humanities, Women's Studies and Middle Eastern Communities and Migrations.

Wednesday, April 9 - Dr. Laura Katzman, Associate Professor, School of Art and Art History, “Picturing Puerto Rico under the American Flag: The New Deal Photographs of Edwin and Louise Rosskam”