Faculty Lecture Series

The Faculty Lecture Series of the Whitehurst Family Honors Program is a biannual event in which professors from different disciplines speak on a variety of topics around a common theme. The theme for fall 2020 is “Reactions.”

2021 Spring Series – “Birds”

APRIL 20
“Birds Aren’t Real – Conspiracy Theories”
Dr. Tamara Avant

APRIL 6
“Cultural Relativism and Birds”
Dr. Steve Fulks

MARCH 30
“Chickadee Calls”
Dr. Sheri Browning

MARCH 23
“The Physics of Flight”
Dr. John Dogbe

MARCH 23
“Being Charley: Embracing Differences”
Dr. Morghan Bosch

MARCH 16
“Birds and Biomechanics”
Dr. Steven Capehart

MARCH 2
“Birds in Books”
Rob Cagna

FEBRUARY 22
“Bird Symbolism in the Bible”
Dr. Rod Werline

FEBRUARY 22
“Noah and the Birds”
Blythe Taylor

FEBRUARY 15
“Birds in Language”
Shawn McCauley

FEBRUARY 8
“Birds as Dinosaurs”
Dr. Mark Basinger

2020 Fall Series – “Reactions”

SEPTEMBER 7
“Civil Rights in the 1960s”
Dr. Katie Deale

SEPTEMBER 14
“Market Economy”
Dr. John J. Bethune

SEPTEMBER 21
“Geerte Hofstede and Cultural Reactions to COVID-19”
Navpreet Singh Pooni

SEPTEMBER 28
“Caregiving”
Amanda Maynard and Dr. Steve Fulks

OCTOBER 5
“Sanford Meisner and Emotional Intelligence”
Dorothy Austin-Harrell

OCTOBER 12
“The Nervous System”
Dr. Jane Kolunie

OCTOBER 19
“Artists’ Reactions to War”
Susan Fecho

OCTOBER 26
“How Terrorist Organizations Form”
Dr. Suleyman Ozeren

NOVEMBER 2
“Actions and Reactions in Chemistry and Physics”
Dr. John Dogbe

NOVEMBER 9
“Epic Poetry”
Shawn McCauley

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