Faculty Lectures

Through the Alumni College Faculty Lectures program, alumni living in the Twin Cities area, or who happen to be in town, are invited on campus to hear Macalester faculty lecture on a range of current issues.

2007-2008 Schedule of Faculty Lectures

1	Laura Smith ’94 (Geography) Mortgage foreclosure patterns in the Twin Cities Details ↓	Thursday, Nov. 1, 2007
2	Jaine Strauss (Psychology) Mass Marketing: Research and Reflections on Body Image and Advertising Details ↓	Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008
3	Jim Dawes (English) That the World May Know the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement Details ↓	Thursday, April 17, 2008

November 1, 2007 – Laura Smith ’94 (Geography)

Mortgage foreclosure patterns in the Twin Cities
7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel

Laura Smith ’94 teaches courses on urban economic geography, North America and quantitative methods. She also teaches an urban GIS seminar that connects the class with a community-based project. Her recent research projects have focused on mortgage foreclosure patterns in the Twin Cities, transportation and development, and on issues of American Indian land ownership.

January 31 – Jaine Strauss (Psychology)

Mass Marketing: Research and Reflections on Body Image and Advertising
7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Board Room

Jaine Strauss is a clinical psychologist whose research focuses on gender. Her recent work is on women's "body talk" conversations, self-control styles in eating disorders, developmental trends in body objectification, and the impact of diet commercials on snack food consumption.

April 17 – Jim Dawes (English)

That the World May Know: the powerful and moving story of the successes and failures of the modern human rights movement
7 p.m. in Weyerhaeuser Memorial Chapel

Jim Dawes teaches U.S. and comparative literature. He is the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity (Harvard University Press, 2007) and The Language of War (Harvard University Press, 2002) as well as numerous articles on topics including literary and language theory, international law and human rights, trauma, literature and medical studies, Shakespeare, aesthetic theory, and pedagogical technique. Professor Dawes's teaching interests include, among other things, U.S. literature from all periods, literary theory and cultural studies, and interdisciplinary approaches to literary studies (ethics, law, psychology, sociology, philosophy, medicine, human rights).
Listen to a podcast interview with Jim Dawes »