Arrive on campus early on Friday and enjoy a a series of mini-lectures from a few of Macalester's favorite professors in Weyerhaeuser Board Room and Carenegie 06. Here's the lineup:
1:30 - 2:10 p.m.
Raising Nonviolent Children,
School Shootings,
Bullying
Michael Obsatz
Associate Professor, Sociology
Extremely Urgent:
Nigerian E-mail Spam as African and World Literary Genre
David Chioni Moore
Associate Professor, International Studies and
English; Chair, International Studies;
Director of African Studies
2:35 - 3:05 p.m.
Rising Temperatures, Rising Gas Prices: U.S.
Global Warming Policy in the Age of the Sport
Utility Vehicle
Sarah E. West ’91
Associate Professor, Economics
The News Media and Race
During the Civil
Rights Era
Jane Rhodes
Professor and Chair, American Studies;
Dean for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
3:20 - 4:00 p.m.
The Discovery of Whiteness and Its Implications
for How We think About Race
Peter Rachleff
Professor, History
"Bubble" Bursts: Mortgage Foreclosures in the Twin Cities Metro Area
Laura Smith ’94
Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies
4:15 - 5:00 p.m.
Islam and the Hidden Injuries of Civilizational Discourse
Khaldoun Samman
Assistant Professor, Sociology
Alumni in Antarctica
Gerald E. Webers
Emeritus DeWitt Wallace Professor of Geology
