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Thursday, September 5 Dan Pierce Dr. Pierce discusses his new book, Corn from a Jar: Moonshining in the Great Smoky Mountains. |
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Thursday, September 19 Christopher Hennon Using Crowd Sourcing to Determine Hurricane Intensity More researchers are now seeking lay people to assist in the analysis and even interpretation of data. This approach, called "crowd sourcing", is used by Cyclone Center - a project that re-examines the intensity of global tropical cyclones back to 1978. Dr. Hennon will give an overview of crowd sourcing and Cyclone Center, preliminary results, and a demo of the website (www.cyclonecenter.org). |
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Thursday, October 17 Alvis Dunn |
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Thursday, October 31 Don Locke “Increasing Multicultural Understanding in a Post-Racial World” Dr. Locke is author of Increasing Multicultural Understanding: a Comprehensive Model.
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Thursday, November 7 Tommy Hays The author will talk about his new novel, What I Came to Tell You. A middle grade novel that’s for older readers, even adults, as well. It’s set in Asheville. For more information see www.tommyhays.com. “What I Came to Tell You is as sweet and steely as the best of Southern story-telling, filled with love, loss and heart-warming redemption.”
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Thursday, November 21 Leah Dunn, University Librarian A panel discussion on issues related to copyright and digital media.
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Thursday, January 31 Merritt Moseley ACADEMIC NOVELS Merritt Moseley has made a long study of the class of books variously called academic novels, campus fictions, or university novels. In this talk he will give a bit of history and taxonomy of the genre and explain why we should all read more of them.
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Thursday, February 7 Jackie Langille Geologic investigations in the Himalaya: Insights into the formation of the highest mountain range on Earth The Himalaya formed during the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates that began 50 million years ago. The building of the Himalaya has involved a dynamic interplay between crustal thickening, as a result of collision between these two tectonic plates, and crustal thinning and extension. This talk will discuss the formation of the Himalaya and the causes of crustal extension in this mountain range that formed due to collision.
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Thursday, February 21 Megan Miller Economic Class Today in a Fox News Generation and in the Athens of Aristophanes
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Thursday, March 21 Tracey Rizzo Associate Professor – History Body and Gender in the Age of Empire Tracey Rizzo and co-author, Steven Gerontakis, a History major, trace spheres of intimate life in the age of European Imperialism in order to locate the formation of modern intersecting identities at the intersections of world history.
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Thursday, April 11 Leah Mathews
The Talk at Tailgate Markets:
How Interactions Affect Purchase Behavior
Leah Greden Mathews and students Rachel Carson, Kelly Giarrocco, Zoe Hamel and Matthew Waisen will present results from their research on how the interactions people have at tailgate (farmers) markets influence purchase behavior. The research, conducted during summer and fall 2012 at Asheville-area farmers markets, is supported by the Sarah and Joseph Breman Professorship of Social Relations.
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