2008-09 Academic Lectures & Presentations
All Lecture Series events are free and open to the public.
SEPTEMBER 2008
“Railroads and the Birth of Fargo and Moorhead”
Minnesota Sesquicentennial Lecture Series
Thursday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Carroll Engelhardt, professor emeritus of history
“Mobile Theatre: Corpus Christi Plays of the Middle Ages and Postcolonial Influences on Australian Drama”
Student Lecture Series
Monday, Sept. 22, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Lisa Marquardt ’09, Burnsville, Minn.
Dr. Dawn Duncan, English, faculty sponsor
"A Desperate 19th Century Housewife: From Confessions to Shopping Sprees to Freedom"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Tuesday, Sept. 23, 4:30 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Ray Rawson, French & Russian
“Beyond the Farmstead: The Social Worlds of Minnesota’s Swedish Immigrant Women”
Minnesota Sesquicentennial Lecture Series
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Joy Lintelman, history
"Student Seminar on Business Ethics: Succeeding without selling your soul"
Religious Voices Series
Thursday, Oct. 2, 6:30 p.m.
Dr. David Miller, Director of Princeton University Faith and Work Initiative and Professor of Business Ethics, Princeton University
Faculty Colloquium Series
Tuesday, Oct. 14, 4:30 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Barbara Witteman, education
“Creating a Liberal Arts Math Course to Help Students Become Responsibly Engaged in the World”
Centennial Classroom Scholar Research Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 16, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Jessie Lenarz, mathematics and computer science
Student Co-Inquirers: Ellen Kramer ’09, Sioux Falls, S.D., and Samantha Briggs ’10, Fargo, N.D.
Professor R.E. Fuglestad Memorial Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 23, 7 p.m.
Knutson Campus Center Centrum
Dr. Carol Olson, senior vice president of pharmaceutical development and chief medical officer, Immtech Pharmaceuticals Inc.
“Filling in the Blanks: Postmodernism in Josefina Aldecoa’s Trilogy”
Student Lecture Series
Tuesday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Catherine Eickhoff ’09, Chanhassen, Minn.
Dr. Mary Rice, Spanish, faculty sponsor
“The Involvement of Hippocampal Cortactin in Associative Memory Formation”
Centennial Scholars Research Lecture
Thursday, Oct. 30, 7 p.m. Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Mikel Olson, psychology
Student Co-Inquirers: Katherine Randolph ’09, Shakopee, Minn., and Tyra Fom ’10, Ikoyi Lagos, Nigeria
“The Heart of Christianity”
2008-09 Oen Fellowship Scholar and Religion 100 Enrichment Lecture
Religious Voices Series
Thursday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m.
Knutson Campus Center Centrum
Dr. Marcus Borg, professor emeritus of philosophy, Oregon State University
“Capitalist Commodification: How the Logic of Capitalism Makes Sex Trafficking Inevitable”
Student Lecture Series
Monday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dana Rognlie ’10, Sabin, Minn.
Dr. Kenneth Foster, political science, faculty sponsor
"Investigating Cell Signaling in the Human Parasite Trypanosoma brucei, the Pathogen Responsible for African Sleeping Sickness"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. John Flaspohler, biology
"Making a Muslim Community in the Midwest"
Centennial Scholars Research Lecture
Thursday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Matthew Lindholm, sociology
Student Co-Inquirers: Kera Halvorson ’09, Belgrade, Minn., and Bethany Santema ’10, Blaine, Minn.
"America's Pianist in Living Color"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Robert Chabora, music
Richard G. Werth Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m. • Knutson Center Centrum
Friday, Feb. 6, 3 p.m. • Knutson Center Centrum
Dr. Peter Agre, winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in chemistry, vice chancellor and professor, Duke University and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Video Case Studies: Using ‘School Films’ to Explore Issues in American Education”
Centennial Classroom Scholar Research Lecture
Thursday, Feb. 19, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Michael Wohlfeil, education
Student Co-Inquirers: Nicholas Birchem ’09, Lisbon, N.D., and Crystal Wright ’09, Baxter, Minn.
"Female Plantation Management in the Old South"
Faculty Colloquium Series
Tuesday, Mar. 10, 4:30 p.m.
Knutson Center Centrum, Jones Conference Suite A & B
Dr. Nikki Berg Burin, history
“Folding Cytochrome c within Sol-gel Glasses: A Characterization of Compact Protein States”
Centennial Scholars Research Lecture
Thursday, March 19, 7 p.m.
Birkeland Alumni Lounge
Dr. Eric Peterson, chemistry
Student Co-Inquirers: Michael Erbele ’09, Fargo, N.D., and Brock Jas ’09, Mandan, N.D.
"Art and Revolution in 16th Century Netherlands: Bruegel, Bakhtin and the Comedies of Resistance"
Dovre Center Faculty Lecture
Religious Voices Series
Tuesday, April 7, 7 p.m.
Jones Science Center, Fuglestad Auditorium
Dr. Peter Schultz, art
Religion 100 Enrichment Lecture
Religious Voices Series
Details and presenter to be determined
Laura Hoverson
lhoverso@cord.edu
218-299-3257
2008-09 Academic Lectures
