The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, January 14 Is Google Making Us Stupid? The Unintended Consequences of Information Technology Paul Marty, Professor of Information Tuesday, February 11 A Gender of One, a Sexuality of Many: Hedwig and the Practice of …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, September 10 Punishment, More Punishment, and Still More Punishment: What Has the Era of Punitive Criminal Justice Policy Achieved? Daniel P. Mears, Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology Tuesday, October 15 More than Diversity, …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, January 15 Building Student Resilience: FSU’s New Online Toolkit Karen Oehme, Director, Institute for Family Violence Studies, College of Social Work Tuesday, February 12 Performing History in Times of Crisis: The Reshaping of American …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, September 11 Community-Integrated Care: Faith Community Worker-led, Skills Building and Support for Caregivers of Older Adults with Dementia Rob Glueckauf, Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Social Medicine Tuesday, October 16 Deep-Sea Coral Communities on …
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The Faculty Luncheon Series, established 1981, is Florida State University’s longest running, regularly occurring, interdisciplinary lecture series. Open to the public, this is a unique opportunity to enjoy lunch and learn about the research and creative activities of FSU’s faculty. The Spring 2018 schedule features the following distinguished speakers reflecting on their research and creative …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, September 12 “Doing Our Bit”: Older Feminists’ Activism in London Anne Barrett, Professor of Sociology and Director, Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy Tuesday, October 10 What Does an Atheist Theologian Even Do??? …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, January 17 Islam Elsewhere: Reflections on West African Hunters, the Dilemmas of Fieldwork, and the Closing of the American Mind Joseph Hellweg, Associate Professor of Religion Tuesday, February 14 Variations on a Theme: Women …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, September 13 American Tribes: How Football Explains Our Fractured Politics Diane Roberts, Professor of English Tuesday, October 11 Making Sense of the 2016 Election Carol Weissert, Professor of Political Science Tuesday, November 15 Why …
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The FSU Faculty Luncheon Series features distinguished speakers reflecting on their scholarly research and creative activities at Florida State University. Tuesday, January 12 The Role of Computations in Science and Engineering Max Gunzburger, Professor of Scientific Computing Tuesday, February 9 Why We Collect: Objects and the Stories They Tell Lisa Ryoko Wakamiya, Associate Professor of …
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FSU Writes! The Fall 2015 FSU Faculty Luncheon Series will highlight the importance of writing as a significant component of scholarship at Florida State University, with distinguished speakers reflecting on their recent publications. Tuesday, September 15 City of Noise: Sound and Nineteenth-Century Paris Aimée Boutin, Professor of French Tuesday, October 13 Gender and the Novel: …
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Science, Technology, and the Humanities at FSU The Spring 2015 FSU Faculty Luncheon Series will focus on the intersection of science, technology, and the humanities at Florida State University, with distinguished speakers reflecting on the importance of building bridges between science and the humanities in their research. Tuesday, January 13 SHARDs: Science and Humanities in …
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Full STEAM Ahead! STEM and the Arts at FSU The Fall 2014 FSU Faculty Luncheon Series will focus on the importance of STEAM — STEM and the Arts — at Florida State University, with distinguished speakers reflecting on the connections between art and science in each of their respective programs and research areas: Tuesday, September …
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The Relevance of FSU Research The Spring 2014 Faculty Luncheon Series will feature the directors of four prominent research programs discussing different aspects of “The Relevance of FSU Research.” Tuesday, January 14 Felicia C. Coleman, Director, FSU Coastal Marine laboratory “Rebirth of the FSU Marine Lab: Forecasting the Future of Marine Science at FSU” Tuesday, …
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The Persistence of the Book The Fall 2013 series will feature faculty members speaking about their recently published books, and their thoughts related to the persistence of the book. Tuesday, September 10 Francois Dupuigrenet-Desroussilles, Director of the Interdisciplinary History of Text Technologies Program and Professor of Religion, will lead off the series with a talk …
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Colleagues at the Cutting Edge The Florida State University Spring 2013 Faculty Luncheon Series, “Colleagues at the Cutting Edge,” will feature two administrators discussing the challenges of their recently assumed positions and two professors discussing compelling recent events. “Engaging fresh voices on continuing issues makes the academic world both challenging and exciting,” said Bob Spivey …
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The Future of Scholarly Publishing This fall, Florida State University’s annual Faculty Luncheon Series will examine the state of scholarly publishing and the perception that the academic publishing industry is on the verge of major evolution. The scholarly publishing cycle, including the production and dissemination of research, functions in tension with traditional journal publishing, tenure …
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Why We Still Teach The topic for this spring’s series, “Why We Still Teach,” will be discussed by four distinguished and nationally recognized faculty members from Florida State. Amid years of university budget cuts, constant concerns about a faculty “brain drain,” and changing ideas about the purpose of higher education, the speakers will talk about …
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Unity in Diversity — An Academic Community Reflects on the Three Cultures: The Humanities, Social Sciences and Natural Sciences The theme of the upcoming fall series was inspired by a 1959 lecture by scholar C.P. Snow that explored the cultural divide between the natural sciences and the humanities, as well as a 2009 book by …
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Pathways of Excellence Tuesday, January 11 “Purging Disorder: Evidence for a ‘New’ Eating Disorder” by Professor PAMELA KEEL, Department of Psychology, a participant in the “Psychology and Neurobiology of Dysregulated Behavior” cluster Tuesday, February 8 “‘See me, feel me, touch me’: Who Says Digital Technology is a Good Thing?” by Professor ELAINE TREHARNE, Department of …
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The Future of Florida and Florida State University Tuesday, September 21 Jeff Chanton and Ian MacDonald, professors of oceanography, will present “Energy, Oil, Emissions and the Future of Florida,” and discuss the oil-spill catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico and the environmental implications of the disaster both in the immediate coastal region and around the …
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Unity in Diversity: An Academic Community Reflects on Environmental Ethics An anthology of the papers presented at this series is available online here: http://aboutrobertross.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/2008-09-Series-on-Environmental-Ethics.pdf September 16 A Perspective from History Frederick R. Davis, Assistant Professor of History October 14 Scientific Warnings Jeffrey Chanton, Professor of Oceanography November 18 Buying into Conservation: Intrinsic vs. Instrumental Value …
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The Constant Challenges of Academic Freedom September 11 Larry Abele, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs October 9 Steve Gey, Professor, College of Law November 13 Fred Standley, Professor Emeritus of English December 11 Discussion of Academic Freedom Dennis Moore, Moderator, Associate Professor of English January 15 Wayne Wiegand, Professor, College of Information, and …
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Distinguished Teaching Awardees September 12 Dr. Pamela “Sissi” Carroll, Dwight L Burton Professor of English Education; Chair, Department of Middle & Secondary Education; FSU Distinguished Teaching Award, 2006 October 10 Dr. James P Jones, Professor of History; FSU Distinguished Teaching Award, 1991 November 14 Dr. Eric C. Walker, Associate Professor of English; FSU Distinguished Teaching …
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Lawton Distinguished Professors September 20 James C. Smith, Professor Emeritus, Program in Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Lawton Professor, 1992 October 18 Jayne Standley, Professor, College of Music, Lawton Professor, 2005 November 8 Joseph Travis, Professor, Biological Sciences, Acting Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Lawton Professor, 1996 December 13 David Kirby, Professor, English, Lawton Professor, …
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Eppes Distinguished Professors
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Florida State University in Transition September 14 Larry Abele, FSU Provost October 19 Ellen Paffee Zwilich, Music November 9 Philip N. Froelich, Jr., Oceanography December 7 John P. Scholz, Political Science
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FSU in Transition
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Frank Rhodes’ The Creation of the Future
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Improving the Culture of Learning at FSU
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