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April 2024
Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Daniel Rood
REGISTRATION REQUIRED - All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester on the Honors listserv Book: THE STORM IS HERE: AN AMERICAN CRUCIBLE by Luke Mogelson Discussion Leader: Dr. Daniel Rood, Associate Professor of History Date: Monday, April 1, 6:00-8:00pm Location: Moore Hall 116 Description: After years of living abroad and covering the Global War on Terrorism, Luke Mogelson went home in early 2020 to report on the social discord that the pandemic was bringing to the…
Find out more »Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Janet Frick
REGISTRATION REQUIRED - All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester on the Honors listserv Book: THE BOY WHO WAS RAISED BY A DOG by Bruce Perry and Maia Szalavitz Discussion Leader: Dr. Janet Frick, Associate Professor of Psychology Date: Thursday, April 4, 6:00-8:00pm Location: Moore Hall 116 Description: How does trauma affect a child's mind—and how can that mind recover? Child psychiatrist Dr. Bruce D. Perry has helped children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, murder…
Find out more »Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Tina Carpenter
REGISTRATION REQUIRED - All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester on the Honors listserv Book: WHY THEY DO IT: INSIDE THE MIND OF THE WHITE-COLLAR CRIMINAL by Eugene Soltes Discussion Leader: Dr. Tina Carpenter, EY Faculty Fellow and Professor of Accounting Date: Thursday, April 11, 6:00-8:00pm Location: TBD Description: From the financial fraudsters of Enron, to the embezzlers at Tyco, to the insider traders at McKinsey, to the Ponzi schemer Bernie Madoff, the failings of corporate…
Find out more »Honors Book Discussion with Dr. Monica Sklar & Dr. Amanda Walls
REGISTRATION REQUIRED - All book discussion sign-ups announced at the beginning of the semester on the Honors listserv Book: THE DRESSMAKERS OF AUSCHWITZ by Lucy Adlington Discussion Leader: Dr. Monica Sklar, Assistant Professor of Textiles, Merchandising, and Interiors, and Dr. Amanda Walls, Lecturer of Hebrew Language and Literature Date: Wednesday, April 17, 6:00-8:00pm Location: Moore 116 Description: At the height of the Holocaust twenty-five young inmates of the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, mainly Jewish women and girls, were selected to…
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