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