Previous Meetings' Minutes & Lecture Précis

 

 

DATETITLESPEAKER(S)
Meeting Minutes
May 21, 2003
Higher Education: Then and NowDonald Kagan
Meeting Minutes
October 2, 2003
Whatever Happened to the Rise of Globalization in the 1990s?Ernesto Zedillo
Meeting Minutes
October 26, 2003
Peaceable Kingdom or a Land Still Wild?
Connecticut and its citizenry from 1790 to 1830
Howard Lamar
Meeting Minutes
November 19, 2003
The Challenge of IslamGerhard Bowering
Meeting Minutes
January 14, 2004
American Race and Ethnicity: An Incomplete StoryChristopher Doob
Meeting Minutes
February 12, 2004
The Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University
Meeting Minutes
April 15, 2004
The Making of the President 2004
Meeting Minutes
May 19, 2004
American Grand Strategy: Its Past and Future
Meeting Minutes
September 22, 2004
The Science of Reading: Overcoming Dyslexia
Meeting Minutes
October 19, 2004
The President, the Supreme Court and the War on Terror
Meeting Minutes
November 16, 2004
Is Woodrow Wilson Turning Over in His Grave?
-Reflections on the Panacea of National Self-Determinism
Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2005
Crisis? What Crisis? The new Environment for Crisis Communication
Meeting Minutes
February 15, 2005
Why is the U.S. Targeted by Terrorism?
Meeting Minutes
April 12, 2005
Mallett and his Time Machine
Meeting Minutes
May 11, 2005
The Japanese Collection in The Peabody Museum of Natural History
Meeting Minutes
September 21, 2005
Songs by Harold Arlen
Meeting Minutes
November 2, 2005
Daily Life in Angkorean Cambodia Through Chinese Eyes:
A Thirteenth Century Chinese Traveler's Account
Meeting Minutes
November 15, 2005
The American School for the Deaf (ASD) and Hearing ImpairmentHarvey Colson
Meeting Minutes
January 18, 2006
Aid to Africa: A case of medical assistance to NigeriaJohn Nwangwu
Meeting Minutes
February 8, 2006
Lenin's Brother: 'Scientific' Ethics, Terrorism and SuicidePhilip Pomper
Meeting Minutes
March 30, 2006
Culture and IntelligenceRobert Sternberg
Meeting Minutes
April 11, 2006
Time Travel With Stone WallsRobert Thorson
Meeting Minutes
May 10, 2006
Environment, Health and Children:
The Origins of Inequality in the Distribution of Health
John Wargo
Meeting Minutes
November 8, 2006
Discovering King ArthurRobert Evans
Meeting Minutes
January 17, 2007
The Civil Rights Act of 1875: A Re-examinationAlan Friedlander and Richard Gerber
Meeting Minutes
February 13, 2007
Nineteenth Century Photographers, Scholars and
Travelers in Classic Lands
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak
Meeting Minutes
March 21, 2007
The Past and Future of Long Island SoundGaddis Smith
Meeting Minutes
April 10, 2007
Captain John Smith and the Campaign for New England:
A Case Study in Early Modern Place Branding
 Walter Woodward
Meeting Minutes
May 16, 2007
Managing Yale's EndowmentDavid Swensen
Meeting Minutes
October 23, 2007
Reflections on Thirty Years at the Watkinson Library:
Rare Books and the Liberal Arts
Jeffrey Kaimowitz
Meeting Minutes
November 7, 2007
The Rhetoric of ApartheidAnat Biletzki
Meeting Minutes
January 16, 2008
The Cancer of Ethnic Conflict Internationally: Causes and Cures

Harvey Feinberg, Professor Emeritus of History at Southern Connecticut State University

Meeting Minutes
February 27, 2008
Doing Evil For Good Reason:
The Psychology of Legitimized Aggression

Karl Scheibe, Professor of Psychology, Emeritus, at Wesleyan University

Meeting Minutes
March 25, 2008
Designer Babies

Dr. Alan DeCherney, Director of adult endocrinology at the National Institute of Health

 Meeting Minutes
April 09, 2008

 Reading Teens Reading Shakespeare:the Case of the Animated Tales
Gregory Semenza, Associate Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Meeting Minutes
May 7, 2008
The Creative Process of Poetry

John Hollander, the Poet Laureate of Connecticut and Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University

Meeting Minutes
September 10, 2008
The Coming Transformation: American Capitalism and the Environment

James Gustave Speth, Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor and Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University

Meeting Minutes
October 16, 2008
Student Athletes or Athletic Students:
Reflections on the Ideal of Sports and Liberal Arts Education

Paul Assaiante, Director of Athletic Development and College Relations at Trinity College

Meeting Minutes
November 5, 2008
Autism Spectrum:
Studies in Social Engagement in Children and Toddlers

Dr.Ami Klin, Associate Professor of the Child Study Center and Director of the Autism Clinic

Meeting Minutes
December 2, 2008
The Drive for Purity: The Emergence of an American Icon.
The American "science" of Eugenics in the 20th Century

Kathy Cooke, Professor of History at Quinnipiac University

Meeting Minutes
January 14, 2009
Homemakers and Partisans: Italian Women and War

Pina Palma, Professor of Italian, SCSU

Meeting Minutes
February 10, 2009
Recent Archeological Findings in the Praedia (Properties)
of Julia Felix in Pompeii

Christopher Parslow

Meeting Minutes
March 25, 2009
The Medical Mystery of the Heretic Pharaoh Akhenaten
and the 18th Dynasty

Irwin Braverman

Meeting Minutes
April, 22, 2009
The United States and the Middle East

Christopher Clark

Meeting Minutes
May 6, 2009
Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Systems for Treatment of Brain Tumors: The Integration of Engineering and Biological Systems

Mark Saltzman

   
   

 Meeting Minutes
November 11, 2009

 The Mummichog (Fundulus) as a Bio Indicator of the
Health of Long Island Sound Estuary
  Lisa Kaplan

 Meeting Minutes
December 1, 2009

 Leaving Connecticut, Shaping America: The Connecticut Diaspora, 1796-1820 and the Creation of National Identity
 Walter Woodward

  Meeting Minutes
March 2, 2010

 The Legacy of Clifford Beers, Advocate for the Insane:
How Far Have We Come?
 Alice Forrester

 Meeting Minutes
April 7, 2010

 Confirmation Obfuscation: Supreme Court Appointments in a Conservative Era
 David Yalof
Meeting Minutes
May 12, 2010
Public Opinion and the Supreme Court

Linda Greenhouse

 Meeting Minutes
September 14, 2010

 At the Pearly Gates:
Judgment, Heaven and Hell in "The New Yorker"
 Walter Cahn, Carnegie Professor Emeritus of Art History, Yale University

 Meeting Minutes
October 13, 2010

 Helping the U.S. Export Peace Instead of War
 Charles Pillsbury, Executive Director, Mediation Beyond Borders

Meeting Minutes
November 10, 2010

 Gender-Based Violence: an Anthropologist's Account
 Hilary Haldane, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Quinnipiac University

 Meeting Minutes
January 19, 2011

Genocide and International Intervention:
The Dayton Peace Accords and Bosnia 1995-2011
David Pettigrew, Professor of Philosophy at Southern Connecticut State University

  Meeting Minutes
February 22, 2011

"A Billion Years of Earth History
Preserved in Connecticut's Landscape."
Jay Ague, Professor of Geology and Geophysics at Yale University

  Meeting Minutes
March 30, 2011

"Aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico:
Deep Ocean Drilling and the Future of Energy Exploration."
Penny Vlahos, Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Sciences and Chemistry

 Meeting Minutes
September 14, 2011

 "Who Won the Second World War?
The Role of Middle Management."
 Paul Kennedy, the J. Richardson Dilworth Professor of History at Yale University

  Meeting Minutes
October 11, 2011

 "Robert Hooke, London's Leonardo"
 J. Michael McBride, Richard M. Colgate Professor of Chemistry, Yale University

   Meeting Minutes
November 16, 2011

 The Chinese Idyll of Franklin D. Roosevelt
 Ronald Heiferman, Professor of History, Quinnipiac University

   Meeting Minutes
January 25, 2012

 Our Polarized Party System and the Election of 2012:
The Outlook for American Democracy
 Arthur Paulson, Professor of Political Science at SCSU and Chairman of the department

    Meeting Minutes
February 15, 2012

 American Artists and the African American Book
 Robert Stepto, Professor of English, American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University
   
 Meeting Minutes
April 10, 2012
Why The Tea Party of 1773 Achieved
More Than The Tea Party of 2012
 
 Elvin Lim, Associate Professor of Government at Wesleyan University