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2005-2006 Speaker Series

The CAH Speaker series provides opportunities for a faculty member or person from off campus to make a formal scholarly or creative presentation to which all faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited. One purpose of the series is to showcase the work of CAH faculty, and provide constructive feedback for works in progress.

Professors Joseph Powel, Judith Kleck, Katharine Whitcomb, and Teresa Kramer. Department of English Central Poets

Monday, October 24, 2005, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Professors Joseph Powell, Judith Kleck, Katharine Whitcomb & Teresa Kramer; Department of English
Title: "Creative Confluence: Central Poets Reading from their Work at Sarah Spurgeon Gallery"
Location: Randall Hall, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery

Dr. James Cook, Department of History and students; Mikelle Charlebois, Peter Ewaida, and Gregory Pyle

Tuesday, November 8, 2005 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. James Cook, Department of History and students; Mikelle Charlebois, Peter Ewaida, and Gregory Pyle
Title: "Water in the World's Most Populous Nation: Economic Development, Social Change, and Resource Management in Northwest China"
Location: Science Building, Room 142

Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, Department of Music

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Jeffrey Snedeker, Department of Music
Title: "New Wine for an Old Bottle: Contemporary Music for Natural Horn"
Location: Music Building, Recital Hall

Dr. William Folkestad, Department of Art

Tuesday, January 24, 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. William Folkestad, Department of Art
Title: "Aesthetic Imperatives and Recent Art Philosophy"
Location: Randall Hall, Room 117

Dr. Michael Ervin, Department of History

Tuesday, February 14, 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Michael Ervin, Department of History
Title: "Data Collection and Nation Building in Revolutionary Mexico: The Department of National Statistics"
Location: Science Building, Room 142

Picture of Dr. Roxanne Easley, Department of History

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 - 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Roxanne Easley, Department of History
Title: "Extraction and Investment: People of Mixed Heritage in the Russian American and Hudson's Bay Colonies"
Location: Science Building, Room 142

Picture of Professor George Bellah

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 - 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Professor George Bellah, Department of Theatre Arts
Title: "Vietnamese Theatre in Performance: An Introduction to Cai Loung and Water Puppetry"
Location: Science Building, Room 142
Cai Luong, or "renovated theatre", blends Southern Vietnamese folk songs, ancient music, Tuong [a classical theatre form based in Chinese Opera], and modern "spoken drama".
CAH speaker flyer Apr06 Bellah.pdf

Picture of Professor Lois Breedlove

Tuesday, May 9, 2006, 4:00 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.
Professor Lois Breedlove, Department of Communication
Title: "Giving Voice: Using media to reach students of marginalized groups - the Bridges Project experiment"
Location: Science Building, Room 142
Journalism has always had mottos such as "giving voice to the voiceless," "speaking truth to power," and "comfort the afflicted, afflict the comfortable." Traditionally, however, journalists saw these virtues as something they (usually white, middle-class men) did on behalf of others.
CAH speaker flyer Breedlove.pdf

Picture of Dr. Michael Ogden

Tuesday, May 23, 2006, 4:00 - 5:15 p.m.
Dr. Michael Ogden, Communication Department
Title: "Wenas Creek Mammoth: A Documentary Video Project"
Location: Science Building, room 147
Nearly seven years to the date after then Governor Gary Locke signed House Bill 1088 into law establishing the Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) as the "official fossil of the State of Washington," a local construction worker building a private access road for a ranch owner in the Wenas Valley near the town of Selah unearthed a large mammoth bone.
CAH speaker flyer Apr06 Ogden.pdf

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