Fall 2020 Open Lecture Series Schedule
Please see the schedule below for this semester’s Introducing the Human Sciences lecture series. We meet Wednesdays from 12:20-1:10 pm. All are welcome to join us; for more information on how to attend, please contact Dr. Charles Sullivan. This Wednesday (8/26), Dr. Dennis Sepper (Human and Social Sciences) will be delivering the lecture: “What’s the Difference between Human Sciences and Social Sciences?”
The links to the recordings of select lectures will also be added here as the semester progresses.
(Note: Brackets in the schedule below indicate a topic has been selected, but not a final title for the presentation.)
8/19 | Introduction to Our Course | Dr. Charles Sullivan | Human and Social Sciences |
8/26 | What’s the Difference between Human Sciences and Social Sciences? | Dr. Dennis Sepper | Human and Social Sciences |
9/2 | [Qualitative Methods and Primate (Bonobos) Behavior] | Dr. Scott Churchill | Psychology |
9/9 | Our Evolving Understanding of Human Evolution | Dr. Deana Soper | Biology |
9/16 | Bernard Mandeville’s ‘Private Vices, Publick Virtues’, or How Hypocrisy Makes Us Sociable | Dr. Charles Sullivan | Human and Social Sciences |
9/23 | Understanding Infectious Disease in the Age of COVID-19. | Dr. William Cody | Biology |
9/30 | Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (Jean M. Twenge) | Dr. Amy Fisher-Smith | Psychology |
10/7 | Is Language a Good Model for Social Relations? | Dr. Dennis Sepper | Human and Social Sciences |
10/14 | Erving Goffman on the Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | Dr. Charles Sullivan | Human and Social Sciences |
10/21 | [Ariel and Caliban, Rodó and Retamar] | Dr. Mark Petersen | History |
10/28 | [Food Insecurity and CARES projects] | Dr. Tammy Leonard | Economics |
11/4 | [The Ethical Responsibility of the Human Scientist: The APA and Torture] | Dr. Scott Churchill | Psychology |
11/11 | [Epistemic Injustice] | Dr. Cynthia Nielsen | Philosophy |
11/18 | Conclusion to Our Course | Dr. Charles Sullivan | Human and Social Sciences |