USC Aiken to Highlight Work of Faculty Members Through Humanities and Social Sciences
Brown Bag Series
September 10, 2007
The Council of the USC Aiken College of Humanities and Social Sciences will sponsor a Brown Bag Series, highlighting the research projects of various faculty members within the College.
Dr. Tom Mack, coordinator of the Council, explained, “The Brown Bag Series was designed to showcase ongoing and completed scholarly projects by HSS faculty at all ranks. Since each presentation will focus on both content and process, the series should be of particular interest to junior faculty as they orchestrate their own research agendas.”
A list of sessions is as follows:
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Dr. Victor Manuel Durán (chair of the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures)
Research and Publication: An Anthology of Belizean Literature: English, Creole, Spanish, Garifuna
Thursday, September 13
12:15 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences Building , Room 116
Dr. Durán will discuss research methods utilized in writing this anthology and explain the process of publication; if time permits, he will read selections from the published text.
Dr. Maggi Morehouse (assistant professor of history)
Working in the Field: Conducting Oral Histories about Local History
Thursday, September 27
12:15 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences, Room 116
Dr. Morehouse will discuss her methods and findings from her summer oral history projects, collecting information from Aiken’s African Americans residents.
Dr. Katie Kalpin (assistant professor of English)
“I am Thine”: Negotiating Witches’ Agency in Early Modern British Drama
Thursday, October 25
12:15 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences, Room 116
Dr. Kalpin will rehearse her paper for presentation at the annual conference of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association later this fall.
Dr. Val Lumans (chair of the Department of History, Political Science, and Philosophy)
Writing a Historical Synthesis: Writing a Book Without (Hardly) Leaving One’s Desk
Thursday, November 8
12:15 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences, Room 116
Dr. Lumans will discuss writing his book, Latvia in World War II, focusing on his methodology, which entailed mostly reading and synthesizing secondary materials rather than primary research in archives. He will feature the USCA Interlibrary Loan Services as a research tool.
Dr. Steve Millies (assistant professor of political science)
Tradition and Technology: Just War and 21st Century Warfare
Thursday, November 29
12:15 p.m.
Humanities & Social Sciences, Room 116
Dr. Millies is at work on a co-authored book expected in 2008-2009. This summary of its arguments will also be represented at the March meeting of the International Studies Association.
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Each session is free and open to the public. Audience members are encouraged to bring their own lunches. For more information, please contact Mack at 641-3479 or tomm@usca.edu.
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