Honors Lecture Series - Spring 2017

Spring 2017
Honors Lecture Series

Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture
(UH 3000, CRN# 10052)
Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 P.M.
Honors Amphitheatre (Room 106)

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Spring 2017 Lecture Series flyer
Date Speaker Lecture Title
January 23 Philip E. Phillips, Honors Associate Dean Welcome and Introduction
January 30 John M. Sloop, Communication Studies, Vanderbilt University Sex, Ghosts, and Soccer: A Case Study in the Contextual Critique of Public Argument
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February 6 Ken Paulson, Media and Entertainment Music Matters: Free Speech and Music Censorship
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February 13 Mary Evins, American Democracy Project Civil Discourse as Core Academic Value and Core American Value
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February 20 Keel Hunt, The Strategy Group Political Speech: How Candidates Win and Leaders Lead
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February 27 Odie Lindsey, Vanderbilt University Writing the War at Home: Postwar Fiction and the Legacy of Trauma
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March 6 SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS  
March 13 Frank Dobson, Vanderbilt University The Rhetoric of Race: Black Lives Matter
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March 20 John R. Vile, Honors Dean The Rhetoric of the 2016 Presidential Election
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March 27 Thomas J. Jurkanin, Criminal Justice The Current State of Police in Society
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April 3 Preston MacDougall, Chemistry Rhetoric of Climate Change
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April 10 Newtona (Tina) Johnson, English The Rhetoric of Belonging and its Impact within Higher Education
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April 17 Eric Klumpe Earth's Seven Sisters: The TRAPPIST 1 Planets
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April 24 Thesis Presentations, Honors Students Christopher "Ryan" Bearden, Brandon Ingram, and Ginny Whaley
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