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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| November 13 | 3D: Danger, Damage, and Deception Frank Marsh, Intelligence Analyst and Trainer, US Department of Justice |
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| November 20 | South Africa By Sound Margaret Krauss, A&S '09 |
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| 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 |
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| 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)