Honors Symposium
Fall 2007

Honors Symposium
Fall 2007
Topic: (Dis)union


5:00-6:15pm, 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, August 29 – Dr. Jim Mazoue and Ms Sarah Cheverton, Center for Instructional Technology, “Technology Today” and “Blackboard Training for First Year Students.”

Wednesday, September 26 – Mr. Mark Usry, Associate Professor of Business Law, College of Business, “GLBT Rights in Virginia.”

Wednesday, October 3 - Mr. Joseph Opala, Visiting Assistant Professor in the History Department and Honors Program, and Mr. Gary Chatelain, Professor of Art and Art History, "Bunce Island: Using History and Computers to Confront the Reality of the Atlantic Slave Trade."

Wednesday, October 10 –Dr. Bill Scheuerman, President, United University Professions and Professor of Political Science at SUNY Oswego, “Stealth Totalitarianism: Questioning the Academic Bill of Rights.”

Wednesday, November 14 – Dr. Cheryl Talley, Associate Professor of Psychology, former chair of the CISAT Diversity Council, and chair of the planning committee for the 2008 JMU Diversity Conference, “Mr. Madison on Diversity and Democracy."

Wednesday, December 5 - Dr. Joann Grayson, Professor of Psychology and Virginia Distinguished Faculty of the Year, “Fracture in the Family: Child Maltreatment and Child Abuse Prevention.”