Spring 2019 Honors Lecture Series

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Spring 2019 Honors Lecture Series

Letters

(UH 3000, CRN# 10039)

Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 p.m.

Honors Amphitheatre (Room 106) Unless otherwise noted below

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! 

January 14, 2019
 Welcome and Introduction 

Philip E. Phillips (Honors) 

January 28, 2019

A Mirror of Today’s Political Fray in Letters from 50 Years Ago 
Kent Syler (Albert Gore Research Center) 
YouTube Video

February 4, 2019
 Understanding How Tennesseans Experienced War through Letters at the Albert Gore Research Center 

Louis Kyriakoudes (Albert Gore Research Center) 
YouTube Video

February 11, 2019
 Class Visit to the Albert Gore Research Center (Beyond-the-Classroom Experience) 
February 18, 2019
 A Republic of Letters: American Political Correspondence 

John Vile (Honors) 
YouTube Video

February 25, 2019
Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina: A Tale of Two Revelations 

Eric Klumpe (Physics and Astronomy) 
YouTube Video

March 11, 2019

Jane Austen and the #MeToo Movement 
Douglas Murray (English, Belmont University)  
YouTube Video

March 18, 2019
What’s Old is New Again: Lessons from Words of War, Peace, and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century France 

Joan McRae (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) 
YouTube Video

March 25, 2019

Words in the Clouds: How We Talk to Each Other in Digital Spaces 
Kate Pantelides (English)  
YouTube Video

April 1, 2019

“Don’t Write Agnes”: Narrating Race, Gender, and Professional Identity in Jim Crow Alabama 
Mary Hoffschwelle (History)  
YouTube Video

April 8, 2019

National Fellowships and Scholarships 
Laura Clippard (Honors) 
YouTube Video 

April 15, 2019
Student Presentations 
YouTube Video - Roque Marcelo
YouTube Video - Alexis Marshall
April 22, 2019

Student Presentations 
YouTube Video - Andrew Towle
YouTube Video - Rachel Reece

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