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Volume 39, No. 1 |
Saturday Scholars lectures free to UI community, public
All presentations are free and open to the public. They will begin at 10 a.m. in room 40 Schaeffer Hall. Each session will last about an hour.
This year’s program includes:
Sept. 8 “Work, More Work, Work Everlasting!” Benjamin Hunnicutt, professor of health, leisure, and sport studies
Sept. 22 “Iowa Physicians in the Depression,” Susan Lawrence, associate professor of history
Oct. 6 “Do Infant Rats Cry? And Why Should We Care?” Mark Blumberg, professor of psychology
Oct. 20 “The Civility Trap: America’s Nostalgia for a More Civil Time,” Melissa Deem, assistant professor of rhetoric and women’s studies
Nov. 3 A reading from the novel Carry Me Across the Water, Ethan Canin, professor of English
Nov. 17 “Lessons on Empowerment: Listening to the Voices of Entrepreneurial Women,” Salome Raheim, Director of the School of Social Work
Additional information is available at www.clas.uiowa.edu/alumni/saturday_scholars.
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by Mary Geraghty Kenyon