Lecture Series
Each year the Institute sponsors numerous faculty presentations intended to inform the university and wider community of the high quality research and diverse academic interests represented across our campus. These informative lectures are open to students and the general public.
Faculty interested in participating may contact an Institute Board member or watch for periodic calls for lecture submissions.
The Upcoming ICS Lectures
Wendy Lee
"The Crisis of American Democracy and Why Hydraulic Fracturing Epitomizes It: Profiteering and the Good American"
October 23 (5:00PM, Andruss Library)
2012 Lecture Series
Rezza Noubary
"Do Diagnostic Tests Do What They Are Supposed to Do?"
October 9
John Hintz
April 25
"Gas Springs Eternal: The Marcellus Shale and Pennsylvania's Unconventional Future"
Margaret O'Connor
February 29
"Teaching Entrepreneurship in Poland, 2011"
2011 Lecture Series
Peter Doerschler
November 16
"Do Muslims in Germany Really Fail to Integrate? Muslim Integration and Trust in Public Institutions"
Michael C. Hickey
October 17
"Interrogation, Torture, and the Pursuit of Terrorists under Stalin: Boris Podvitskii and the Smolensk Terrorist Group, 1937-1938"
Cristina Mathews
September 9
New Notes on Electronmagnetism
Brian Johnson
March 14
"Breaking Brokeback: Exposing Hollywood's Heterosexual Preference"
Margaret Stewart
March 24
"Educating the Student-Veteran of War: A Comparison of Three Eras of Veterans in Higher Education and Strategies to Enhance Teaching Today’s Student-Veterans"
Alexander Chenault
April 11
“The Legal, Social, and Economic Benefits of the Early Twentieth Century Black Labor Movement”
Special ICS Guest Lecture: Dr. Boris Lanin (Russian Academy of Education), "Reforming Literary Education in Post-Soviet Russia," March 1, 2011.
2010 Lecture Series
Yanhui Pang, China’s Special Education — From Discrimination to Civil Rights
Jeniece Lusk, Whose Change Is It?Nightmare on Elm
Christopher Podeschi, Environmental Sociology and Explorations in the American Culture of Nature
Kurt Smith, Navigating the Kingdom of Darkness: Early Modern Explorations of the Unconscious
2009-2010 Lecture Series on Culture and Environment
Dr. Bin Lu (Peking University) "The Youngtze River Project and its Environmental Impact”
M. Safa Saracoglu, Cattle Thieves?: Understanding Nineteenth Century Circassian Refugees in their Socioeconomic Environment
Gregory Mueller, Green Works: Environmental Concerns and Creative/Scholarly Projects in Literature and the Visual
Todd Borlik, Green Works: Environmental Concerns and Creative/Scholarly Projects in Literature and the Visual
Claire Lawrence, Green Works: Environmental Concerns and Creative/Scholarly Projects in Literature and the Visual
Wendy Lee, Religious Fundamentalism and Environmental Destruction
Jeanette Keith
2009 Lecture Series
Eric M. Stouffer, "Now where did I put my keys . . .?”: Latent learning in the brain
Yanhui Pang and William Obiozor, Special Education Programs in Nigeria and China: The Journey So Far
John M. Hranitz, From Biological Invasions to Molecules and Man
Christina Francis, Seeing Red: Blood in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
Jason Genovese and Vincent Genovese, The Pottsville Maroons and the NFL's Stolen Championship of 1925
Richard Ganahl and Sharon Santus
Joan Miller
2008 Lecture Series
Maggie O’Connor, Requirements for Marketing Specialty Coffee in the U.S.
Williams Ekema Obiozor, The Application of Hip-Hop Culture in the Classroom
Sheng Ding, At the Crossroads: the Status of U.S. China Relations
Steven Hales, Moral Relativism and Evolutionary Psychology
Kevin Ball, Modeling Individual Differences in Vulnerability to Drug Addiction
Michael Hickey, When Illegal Aliens were Jews
2007 Lecture Series
Diana Zoelle, Human Rights as Literalized Metaphor
Danny Robinson, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s A Wonder Book and Tanglewood Tales
Sheng Ding, Cultural Power and the Rise of Chinese Language
Karl Kapp, Passing the Digital Baton: Tools for Transferring Know-How from the Boomers to the Gamers
Heather Feldhaus and Pamela Donovan, You Can’t Always Get What You Want, But You Might Get What They Need: Struggles for Balance Between Community Based and Academic Research
Timothy McConnell, Treating obesity and its Consequences in Underserved Overweight Populations
2006 Lecture Series
Richard, Ganahl, Webcasting Worldwide: A Study of Innovation among Leading Webcasters in Thirteen Countries
Stephanie Schlitz, The Copenhagen Sagas
Conrad Quintyn, The Existence or Non-existence of “Race”? A Forensic Anthropological Perspective