Meet the Professor - Spring 2020
The Liberal Studies Project presents a monthly lunch & lecture series
WHERE? University Club.
HOW MUCH? $15/person and $10/students. Check only. Includes lunch.
HOW TO REGSITER? Contact Janna Tajibaeva at 852-2247 or janna@louisville.edu no later than the Monday before each event.
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January 9Lee DugatkinThomas Jefferson, Andre Michaux and the Expedition That Nearly Made Lewis and Clark a FootnoteBiology professor Lee Dugatkin will share the story of how Jefferson became entangled in a natural history and political adventure involving a French botanist and explorer he dispatched on a North American journey to the Pacific Ocean. |
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February 6Brandon McCormackMad with Supernatural Joy: Black Religio-cultural Praxis in the WakePan-African studies and comparative humanities professor McCormack, who researches African American religions and culture, will start from sociologist-author W.E.B. DuBois' description of slave religion in his classic "Souls of Black Folk" in his talk. |
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March 5Jason NaylorLouisville's Urban Heat Island: More Than Just Hot AirGeography and Geosciences professor, Jason Naylor will discuss how some studies have identified Louisville as having one of the fastest growing heat islands in the country and the impact the city itself has on not only temperature but also local rainfall, thunderstorms and even severe weather. |
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April 2Maryam MoazzenA Garden Beyond the Garden: The Mystical Vision of Paradise in Classical IslamComparative Humanities professor, Maryam Moazzen, who teaches Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, will discuss how Muslim theologians and philosophers, as well as Sufi mystics, have re-examined and debated the fate of human beings in the hereafter. |
