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Honors College

Lecture Series: Spring 2019

 Spring 2019 Honors Lecture Series
Letters
(UH 3000, CRN# 10039)
Mondays, 3:00 to 3:55 p.m.
Honors Amphitheatre (Room 106) Unless otherwise noted below

FREE and OPEN to the PUBLIC! 
January 14, 2019 Welcome and Introduction
Philip E. Phillips (Honors) 
January 28, 2019A Mirror of Today’s Political Fray in Letters from 50 Years Ago 
Kent Syler (Albert Gore Research Center) 
YouTube Video
February 4, 2019Understanding How Tennesseans Experienced War through Letters at the Albert Gore Research Center
Louis Kyriakoudes (Albert Gore Research Center) 
YouTube Video
February 11, 2019Class Visit to the Albert Gore Research Center (Beyond-the-Classroom Experience) 
February 18, 2019 A Republic of Letters: American Political Correspondence
John Vile (Honors) 
YouTube Video
February 25, 2019Galileo’s Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina: A Tale of Two Revelations 
Eric Klumpe (Physics and Astronomy) 
YouTube Video
March 11, 2019Jane Austen and the #MeToo Movement 
Douglas Murray (English, Belmont University)  
YouTube Video
March 18, 2019What’s Old is New Again: Lessons from Words of War, Peace, and Propaganda in Fifteenth-Century France
Joan McRae (World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures) 
YouTube Video
March 25, 2019Words in the Clouds: How We Talk to Each Other in Digital Spaces 
Kate Pantelides (English)  
YouTube Video
April 1, 2019“Don’t Write Agnes”: Narrating Race, Gender, and Professional Identity in Jim Crow Alabama 
Mary Hoffschwelle (History)  
YouTube Video
April 8, 2019National Fellowships and Scholarships 
Laura Clippard (Honors) 
YouTube Video 
April 15, 2019Student Presentations 
YouTube Video – Roqué Marcelo
YouTube Video – Alexis Marshall
April 22, 2019Student Presentations 
YouTube Video – Andrew Towle
YouTube Video – Rachel Reece

Contact Us

Honors College
Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building
Campus Box 267
1737 Blue Raider Drive
Murfreesboro, TN 37132

Main Office: HONR Room 205 (Dean’s Suite)

Main Office Phone: 615-898-2152
Email: uhc@mtsu.edu