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Lecture Series: Spring 2017

Spring 2017
Honors Lecture Series

Rhetoric in Contemporary Culture
(UH 3000, CRN# 10052)
Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 P.M.
Honors Amphitheatre (Room 106)


FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
DateSpeakerLecture Title
January 23Philip E. Phillips, Honors Associate DeanWelcome and Introduction
January 30John M. Sloop, Communication Studies, Vanderbilt UniversitySex, Ghosts, and Soccer: A Case Study in the Contextual Critique of Public Argument
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February 6Ken Paulson, Media and EntertainmentMusic Matters: Free Speech and Music Censorship
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February 13Mary Evins, American Democracy ProjectCivil Discourse as Core Academic Value and Core American Value
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February 20Keel Hunt, The Strategy GroupPolitical Speech: How Candidates Win and Leaders Lead
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February 27Odie Lindsey, Vanderbilt UniversityWriting the War at Home: Postwar Fiction and the Legacy of Trauma
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March 6SPRING BREAK – NO CLASS 
March 13Frank Dobson, Vanderbilt UniversityThe Rhetoric of Race: Black Lives Matter
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March 20John R. Vile, Honors DeanThe Rhetoric of the 2016 Presidential Election
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March 27Thomas J. Jurkanin, Criminal JusticeThe Current State of Police in Society
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April 3Preston MacDougall, ChemistryRhetoric of Climate Change
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April 10Newtona (Tina) Johnson, EnglishThe Rhetoric of Belonging and its Impact within Higher Education
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April 17Eric KlumpeEarth’s Seven Sisters: The TRAPPIST 1 Planets
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April 24Thesis Presentations, Honors StudentsChristopher “Ryan” Bearden, Brandon Ingram, and Ginny Whaley
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