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2006-2007 Speaker Series
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Dr. Karen Blair, History Department
Title: "True History of CWU"
Blair has researched official documents along with interviews by alumni, trustees, donors, retired faculty, student leaders, staff members and administrators to write the first comprehensive overview of the school since Professor Samuel Mohler published The First Seventy-Five Years in the 1960s. The impact of academic, political, and economic forces on Central's development can be dissected to illuminate the virtues and problems of today's institution. This presentation will provide a sampling of Blair's findings.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker BLAIR.pdf |
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Professor Keith Lewis, Art Department
Title: "Bawdy Bauble: Grandma's Brooch as Sexual Emissary"
Beginning with a brief overview of his earlier work — dealing with wearable representations of the body as surrogates for Gay male identity and commentaries on the AIDS pandemic — Professor Lewis will then present an ongoing body of work more closely allied to traditional jewelry forms and incorporating a broader socio-sexual discourse.
Location: Science, room 142
Flyer: CAH speaker LEWIS.pdf |
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Jeffrey Dippmann, Philosophy Department
Title: "To Ride the Wind with Liezi: New Perspectives on Immortality from the Daoist Classic "
The Liezi was designated a Daoist classic in the eighth century CE. One of the principal sources drawn upon is the Zhuangzi, out of which several entire episodes are copied, although in slightly altered form. This presentation examines the hermeneutics of the relationship between these two seminal texts, particularly in the case of the Daoist immortals, or xian. In addition to explicating a variety of reproduced tales, it also argues that the Liezi's author carefully chose and edited those selections in such a way as to subtly change and augment the overtly religious elements contained in the original.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker DIPPMANN.pdf
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Christopher Schedler, English Department
Title: "Consuming to Excess: Windigo Cannibalism in Gerald Vizenor's Bearheart"
While white anthropologists have recorded and analyzed cases of "windigo psychosis" among the Ojibway tribe, in his novel Bearheart, the Chippewa writer Gerald Vizenor reverses the anthropological gaze, attributing cannibalistic desires to members of the dominant white culture, who plague his Indian and mixedblood pilgrims on their quest through a post-apocalyptic American landscape.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer:
CAH speaker SCHEDLER.pdf
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Professor Jason Knirck, History Department
Title: "The Dominion of Ireland : Ireland , the British Empire and anti-colonialism"
This presentation will focus on the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921, the agreement that gave southern Ireland a limited form of independence within the British Empire.As a result of this settlement, those
Irish nationalists who accepted the Treaty had to reconcile their pragmatic support for the Treaty with Irish nationalism's recent criticisms of the British Empire in particular and of imperialism and colonialism in general.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker KNIRCK.pdf
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Professor Rong Luo, Visiting Scholar with the English Department
Title: "Teaching English Reading to Chinese College Students"
This presentation first gives a brief introduction to English language teaching and English reading teaching in China, then it focuses on
reading models. Finally, it gives a detailed sample lesson to show how Chinese teachers teach reading to college students.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker LUO.pdf
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Professor Chenyang Li, Philosophy Department
Title: "Early Development of the Ideal of Harmony in Chinese and Greek Philosophy"
In this presentation, Chenyang Li will share his
research on the ideal of harmony in ancient China. He will also engage in
a comparative analysis of the similarities and
differences between Chinese concepts of harmony
and those in ancient Greek philosophies
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer:
CAH speaker CHENYANG LI.pdf |
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Dr. Charles Li, English Department
Title : " Linking Linguistics with Literature: Independent Evidence &
Significant Findings on the Chaucer Canon "
Charles' most recent research project explores the interplay between linguistics and literature and
examines three key issues: how historical linguistic changes led to changes of literary form, how modern
linguistics has contributed to the shaping of modern literary criticism, and how we can study styles of
the language in literature. This presentation will
provide a sampling of Charles' findings from
his poetic metrical studies that attest the Chaucer canon.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker CHARLES LI.pdf
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Ms. Nancy Worden
Title: "Profession Artist: A Real Job for Real Adults"
Ms.Worden will talk about her career and the realities of the life of a working artist. She will address and hopefully demystify how to promote your art and build working relationships with dealers, collectors, critics and museums. Nancy Worden is an internationally recognized artist and 2004 Distinguished Central Alum (Class of 1977). Her jewelry is represented by the William Traver
Gallery in Seattle and is included in major public and private collections throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker Worden.pdf
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Professors Phil & Judy Backlund
Title: "Pakistan: More similarities than differences"
Judy and Phil Backlund spent three weeks in
December 2006 teaching communication, ESL,
and teaching strategies to thirty-two Pakistani
mathematics doctoral students.This presentation will cover the
teaching experience, cultural points, women in Pakistan, and the degree of similarities
between our two cultures.
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer: CAH speaker Backlunds.pdf
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Professor George Bellah, Theatre Arts Department
Title: "Budai Xi: Reviving the Tradition of Taiwanese Hand Puppetry"
Sponsored by grants from the Department of Theatre Arts, Asia-Pacific Studies, and the College of Arts and Humanities, Associate Professor George Bellah recently finished a week of research in Taipei, Taiwan on Chinese and Taiwanese theatrical arts. Recent international interest is focused on preserving and reviving certain puppetry arts. Is budai xi still in decline and will it become extinct or is it experiencing a renaissance?
Location: Science, room 216
Flyer:
CAH speaker Bellah.pdf
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