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Social Sciences Forum
Fall 2009 Lecture Series

The Social Sciences Forum presents topics and perspectives of vital interest to the social sciences community and beyond. Lectures are free and open to the public and will last approximately one hour, followed by a question and answer period and a reception. For more information, call 410-455-2916.

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  Wednesday, December 2 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

Health Care Reform

Robert Reischauer, President, Urban Institute

Sponsored with UMB/UMBC's Doctoral Program in Gerontology and The Hilltop Institute

     
     
  Wednesday, September 30 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor


C.P. Snow's “The Two Cultures”: A Fifty Year Perspective

G. Rickey Welch, Professor of Biological Sciences, UMBC & Joseph N. Tatarewicz, Associate Professor and Director, Human Context of Science & Technology Program, UMBC

Sponsored with UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow's “Two Cultures” Lecture

     
     
  Monday, October 5 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery


Politics, Expertise and the Two Cultures


Harry Collins, Distinguished Research Professor, Centre for the Study of Knowledge, Expertise and Science (KES), Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, UK

Sponsored with UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow's “Two Cultures” Lecture
     
     
  Monday, October 19 at 12pm
Fine Arts Building, Room 215


Seeking Lost Towns: Historic Archaeology in Anne Arundel County

Al Luckenbach, Director, Lost Towns Project, Anne Arundel County Archaeologist

Sponsored by The Department of Ancient Studies as part of Ancient Studies Week
     
     
 

Wednesday, October 28 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery


Snow, Two Cultures and the Science Wars

Steve Fuller, Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick, UK

Sponsored with UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow's “Two Cultures” Lecture

     
     
  Monday, November 2 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library 7th floor

Global Climate Change: Science, Polity, and Authority

Naomi Oreskes, Provost, Sixth College, University of California, San Diego

Sponsored with UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow's “Two Cultures” Lecture

   
     
 

Thursday, November 5 at 4:30pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery

The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Women's Migration and Social Transformations

Rhacel Parreñas, Professor of American Civilization and Sociology, Brown University
The Korenman Lecture, Sponsored by the Gender and Women's Studies Program

     
     
  Monday, November 9 at 4pm
Albin O. Kuhn Library, 7th Floor

The Two Cultures Today: An Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion on the Sciences and the Humanities

Susan Dwyer, Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park
Christoph Irmscher, Department of English, Indiana University
Manil Suri
, Department of Mathematics, UMBC
Tim Topoleski
, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMBC

Sponsored with UMBC's Dresher Center for the Humanities and the Human Context of Science and Technology Program
Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of C.P. Snow's “Two Cultures” Lecture
     
     
  Wednesday, November 11 at 7pm
University Center Ballroom

Immigration and African Diaspora Women

Nkiru Nzegwu, Professor of Africana Studies and Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture at Binghamton University SUNY

The W.E.B. DuBois Lecture, Sponsored by the Department of Africana Studies