Friday Afternoon Lectures

Each fall and spring we offer a series of lectures open to anyone. Our lectures are announced here and via the Student Honors Activities Council (SHAC) e-mail distribution list.

If you have a suggestion for a lecture or you would like to volunteer to present a lecture, please contact:

Edward McCord
emccord@pitt.edu
412-624-6886

 
FALL 2009 SCHEDULE (Term 2101)
  Date

Lecture Topic

  September 4 No Lecture
  September 11 at 2:15 pm (3500 CL) Carbon Sequestration and Energy
William Harbert, PhD, Department of Geology and Planetary Science
  September 18 No Lecture
  September 25 No Lecture
  October 2 at 2:15 pm (3500 CL) The Witness's Tape Recorder, and Other Myths of Holocaust Literature
Lina Insana, PhD, Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures
  October 9 No Lecture
  October 16 at 3:15 pm (3500 CL) A Bootcamp Grammar: Monoglossia and Marine Recruit Training
William Marcellino, Doctoral Candidate, Department of English (Rhetoric), Carnegie Mellon University
  October 23 No Lecture
  October 30 at 3:15 pm (3500 CL) Ethics and the CIA
Frank Hofmann, Graduate School of Public and Interantional Affairs
  November 6 at 3:15 pm (3500 CL) Taste: The Aesthetics of Food and Music. A Lecture-Demonstration
Peter Machamer, PhD, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
  November 13 3D: Danger, Damage, and Deception
Frank Marsh, Intelligence Analyst and Trainer, US Department of Justice
  November 20 South Africa By Sound
Margaret Krauss, A&S '09
  November 27 No Lecture (Thanksgiving Break)
  December 4 What Took You So Long? Excavating and Writing about the Cathedral of Florence
Franklin Toker, PhD, Department of History of Art and Architecture
  December 11 No Lecture
     

 

PREVIOUS LECTURES

Spring 2009 Schedule (Term 2094)

Fall 2008 Schedule (Term 2091)

Spring 2008 Schedule (Term 2084)

Fall 2007 Schedule (Term 2081)

Spring 2007 Schedule (Term 2074)

Fall 2006 Schedule (Term 2071)

 

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