Schedule of Speakers - Spring 2013
Unless otherwise noted, events take place from 12-12:50 p.m. in Memorial Ballroom, Hall Campus Center.
| Date | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 28 | Virginia Cylke, PhD, associate professor of psychology | Gender identity and sexual orientation: Examining nature vs. nurture |
| Feb. 4 | David Oliver, PhD, David Oliver, former professor at MIT, author of The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World and Sacred Attraction: Meditations on God and Science | The free spirit in the machine: Constraint and freedom in the biology of human action |
| Feb. 11 | Jessica Gordon-Roth, PhD, visiting assistant professor of philosophy, Washington and Lee University | Can Locke respond to Reid's brave officer? |
| Feb. 18 | Gary Krapf, PhD, State Council of Higher Education in Virginia | Free will and the relationship to cognitive and behavioral psychology |
| Feb. 25 | Sean Collins, PhD, assistant professor of exercise physiology | Exercise, nutrition, and cognition: How they connect |
| Mar. 4 | Dominic Barrett, Director of the United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond and Shalom Farms | Free will in a food desert |
| Mar. 18 | Glenn D. Stone, PhD, professor of anthropology and environmental studies, Washington University in St. Louis. Event to be held in Sydnor Performance Hall, Schewel Hall. | Frankenfoods! |
| Mar. 25 | Christopher Bakken, PhD, associate professor and Chair of English, Allegheny College | From Greece to the garage: Case studies in subversive eating |
| Apr. 1 | Taylor Thompson '14 and Laura Dupuy, Director of Lynchburg Neighborhood Development Corporation | Homelessness in Lynchburg |
| Apr. 8 | Michael E. Mann, PhD, professor of meteorology and Director of the Earth System Science Center, Penn State University | Dire predictions: Understanding global warming |
| Apr. 22 | Cory Booker, JD, 36th Mayor of Newar, New Jersey; 2012 Stanford University Commencement Speaker (via YouTube) | A conspiracy of love |
| Apr. 29 | Eben Alexander, MD, neurosurgeon and author of Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey through the Afterlife | What does the phenomenon of consciousness reveal about free will? |
