Friday, June 5
1:30–5 p.m.
Arrive on campus early Friday to take in brief lectures on a range of topics by some of Macalester's favorite faculty.
1:30–2:10 p.m.
John M. Cannon
Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy
“Rooting for the Little Guy: Tracing Galaxy Evolution Using Dwarf Systems”
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
Arjun Guneratne
Professor, Anthropology
“Adventures in Ornithology: Development of a Conservation Ethic in Sri Lankan Birding”
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, John B. Davis Lecture Hall
2:25–3:05 p.m.
Mark Davis
DeWitt Wallace Professor and Chair,
Biology
"Exotic and Alien Species: Biology or Ideology?"
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
Daylanne English
Professor, English
“Ticking, Not Talking: Against an Oral Tradition in Early African American Literature”
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, John B. Davis Lecture Hall
3:20–4 p.m.
Mark Mazullo
Associate Professor and Chair, Music
“Music and Morality in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro”
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
Chad Higdon-Topaz
Assistant Professor, Mathematics and Computer Science
“Self-Organizing Patterns In Nature”
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, John B. Davis Lecture Hall
4:15–5 p.m.
Ruthann Godollei
Professor, Art
“Art Cars: Public Art and the Museum of the Streets”
Weyerhaeuser Board Room
Shilad Sen
Professor, Computer Science
"Building Better Online Communities"
Ruth Stricker Dayton Campus Center, John B. Davis Lecture Hall