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Colloquium Series Spring 2000
Levis Faculty Center Monday 8.00 pm |
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| 7 February |
Melissa Orlie |
Political Science
"Political Capitalism and the Consumption of Democracy"
Stephen Hartnett Speech Communication
Paul Hendrickson Philosophy |
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Background Reading: |
Michel Foucault, "Introduction," The Use of Pleasure
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| 6 March |
Adrian Cussins |
Philosophy :
"Games, Cognition, and Technologies: Meaning as Negotiable, Objectivity as Historical, and Other Trails through Concepts"
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Respondents: |
Gary Ebbs Philosophy
David Hopping Sociology
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Background Reading: |
John Haugland, "Objective Perception"
Edward Hutchins and Tove Klausen, "Distributed Cognition in an Airplane Cockpit"
Kaoru Iwamoto, Go for Beginners (selections)
John McDowell, "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule"
Noriyuki Nakayama, "The Clam Shells are Heavy"
Charles Perrow, "Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies" |
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| 4 April |
Pat Gill |
Communications Research and Women's Studies:
"Apprehending Criminals: Detecting in Seven"
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Respondents: |
Kal Alston Educational Policy Studies and Women's Studies
Joe Perry History
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Background Reading: |
David Fincher, dir., Seven (on reserve at the Undergraduate Library)
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| 1 May |
Panel Discussion: |
"The Twilight of Theory"
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Leon Chai English
Tim Dean English Stephanie Foote English William Maxwell English
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