Seminar Term Schedules 2008-2009
PLEASE NOTE:
The seminars listed below are from 2007-08. Seminars for 2008-09 will be posted here in the upcoming weeks.
SPRING 2008
(Fall 2007 Seminars listed below)
Sem Title |
Instructor |
Mtg Time |
1st Mtg |
Reg Mtg Place | 21f |
Unraveling HIV: One molecule at a time |
D'Souza |
Monday, 2-4 |
Feb 4 |
Fairchild 177, 7 Divinity Ave |
21j |
Human Evolution |
Pilbeam |
(CANCELLED) |
-- |
-- |
21q |
Nature and Imposters: Mimicry and Crypsis |
Canfield |
Thursday, 1-3 |
Jan 31 |
Zoological Museum, 26 Oxford St, Rm TBD |
22e |
Molecular Motors: Wizards of the Nanoworld |
Herschbach |
Thursday, 2-4 |
Jan 31 |
Mallinckrodt 217, 12 Oxford St |
22j |
Seeing By Spectroscopy |
Klemperer |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Mallinckrodt 217, 12 Oxford St |
22l |
Cliimate Change |
Huybers & Tziperman |
Wednesday, 3-6 |
Jan 30 |
Geological Museum, Rm 413, 24 Oxford St |
22m |
The Human Brain |
Dowling |
Wednesday, 3-5 |
Jan 30 |
Biological Laboratories, Rm 2080, 6 Divinity Ave |
22o |
Principles of Industrial Fermentation |
Verstrepen |
Monday, 4:30-6:30 |
2/4 |
Bauer Labs, Rm 203, 7 Divinity Ave. |
23g |
Darwin's Finches |
Donohue |
(CANCELLED) |
-- |
-- |
23k |
Insights from Narratives of Illness |
Groopman |
Thursday, 1-3 |
Jan 31 |
FSP Seminar Rm, 6 Prescott St, 2nd fl |
24j |
Planets Around Other Stars |
Lecar |
(CANCELLED) |
-- |
-- |
24x |
Global Mental Health |
Cohen |
Tuesday, 3-5 |
Feb 5 |
HIGH, 3rd fl Sem Rm, 104 Mt Auburn St |
25t |
AIDS in Africa |
Essex & Lee |
Tuesday, 1-3 |
Feb 5 |
Sever 212 |
25v |
Avian Influenza |
Lee & Essex |
Tuesday, 3-5 |
Feb 5 |
Sever 212 |
25w |
Responsibility, the Brain, and Behavior |
Schouten |
Wednesday, 7-9pm |
Jan 30 |
Barker Ctr 316 |
26k |
Euclidean Lattices and Sphere Packings |
Gross |
Monday, 2-4 |
Feb 4 |
Science Ctr 530 |
26m |
Developmental Origins of Physical and Mental Health and Disease |
Nelson |
Tuesday, 1-3 |
Feb 5 |
CHANGED:Sever 302 |
26s |
Mathematical Structures and Gödel's Completeness Theorem |
Sacks |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Emerson 318 |
26t |
Americans Explore: The United States Exploring Expedition |
Pfister |
Thursday, 1-4 |
Jan 31 |
Farlow Herbarium, Rm 1, 20 Divinity Ave |
30l |
George Balanchine: Russian-American Master |
Malmstad |
Wednesday, 3-6 |
Jan 30 |
Barker Ctr 373 |
30o |
What is College and What is It For? |
Barreira |
Wednesday, 3-5 |
Jan 30 |
Behav. Health & Acad.Counselling office, 7 Linden St |
31o |
Negotiating Identity in Postcolonial Francophone Africa and the Caribbean |
Priam |
Tuesday, 1-3 |
Feb 5 |
Boylston G-07 |
31s |
Heist: The Culture and Politics of Art Theft, Grave Robbery, and Looting |
Elphick |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
1 Bow Street, 317 |
32v |
The Art of Storytelling |
Foster |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Warren House Library, 102 |
34m |
Leonard Bernstein and His World |
Oja |
Wednesday, 1-3 |
Jan 30 |
Music Bldg, Rm 3 |
34n |
Cruelty to Animals: Art, Innocence, Suffering |
Emery |
Monday, 1-3 |
Feb 4 |
Dana Palmer House, Seminar Rm |
34q |
Languages of the Body: Physiognomy, Phrenology, and Hysteria in Western History and Literature |
Pearl |
Tuesday, 2-4 |
Feb 5 |
Barker Ctr 103 |
35v |
Eating and Drinking in the Classical World |
Topper |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Boylston 203 |
35w |
Language, Sex, and Culture |
Brown |
(CANCELLED) |
-- |
-- |
36m |
Noisy Art |
Krukowski |
Tuesday, 3-5 |
Feb 5 |
Carpenter Ctr, 401 |
37k |
China’s Confucian Classics: A Close Reading of Four Books |
Tu |
Wednesday, 3-5 |
Jan 30 |
Emerson 106 |
37p |
Reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace |
Buckler |
Monday, 1-4 |
Feb 4 |
Barker Ctr 373 |
38i |
Morality, That Peculiar Institution |
Berker |
Tuesday, 2-4 |
Feb 5 |
Emerson 307 |
39i |
Mephisto Goes to Hollywood: Thomas Mann's Doktor Faustus and Its Context |
Choi |
(CANCELLED) |
-- |
-- |
39u |
Printmaking, Art, and Communication |
Zerner |
Tuesday, 1-4 |
Feb 5 |
Fogg Art Museum, Van Renselaar Rm, 3rd fl. |
40g |
9/11–The Event and the 9/11 Commission Report |
May |
Wednesday, 4-6 |
Jan 30 |
Boylston G-02 |
40i |
The Supreme Court in U.S. History |
Fallon |
Wednesday, 4-6 |
Jan 30 |
Robinson 106 |
40n |
Art, Knowledge, and Faith at the end of the Nineteenth Century |
Smith |
Monday, 1-4 |
Feb 4 |
Gund Hall, 48 Quincy St, Rm 508 |
40q |
The Evolution of Cooperation |
Neugeboren |
Wednesday, 1-3 |
Jan 30 |
51 Brattle St, Rm 121 |
41i |
Technology, Self, and Society |
Sperling |
Tuesday, 1-4 |
Feb 5 |
Sever 105 |
41k |
Language and Politics |
Schaffer |
Thursday, 12-2 |
Jan 31 |
Hilles Library, Conf. Rm 2 |
41l |
Race and Psychoanalysis |
Neutill |
Monday, 2-4 |
Feb 4 |
FSP Seminar Rm 21, 6 Prescott St |
41z |
Who should help the global poor? |
Lenard |
Monday, 3-5 |
Feb 4 |
Emerson 307 |
42k |
Comparative Law and Religion |
Liviatan |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Lowell B14 |
42w |
The Book: From Gutenberg to the Internet |
Darnton |
Wednesday, 1-4 |
Note: Feb 6 |
Houghton Library
Seminar Rm (NOTE: meet in lobby to be escorted to rm) |
42z |
Shaping Modern China and India |
Khanna |
Tuesday, 1-3 |
Feb 5 |
Emerson 106 |
43x |
The Poor: Who Are They? |
Bird-Pollan |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
Hilles Library, Conf. Rm 2 |
44e |
Shouting Fire: Laws and Limits of Freedom of Speech |
Franks |
Wednesday, 1-3 |
Jan 30 |
Emerson 106 |
44j |
The Aztecs and Maya |
Carrasco |
Wednesday, 1:30-4:30 |
Jan 30 |
Peabody Museum, Conf Rm 52H |
45f |
American Splendor: Alternative American Comics |
Stanton |
Wednesday, 2-4 |
Jan 30 |
FSP Seminar Rm 21, 6 Prescott St |
45m |
The Concept of Race in Science and Medicine in the United States |
Hammonds |
CANCELLED |
-- |
-- |
47k |
Fixing or Faking Nature?: Environmental Restoration |
France |
Monday, 1:30-4:30 |
Feb 4 |
Gropius Room in basement of Loeb Library at Gund Hall, GSD, 48 Quincy Street
NOTE: bring HU ID for admittance |
48o |
The History and Practice of Ancient Greek Astronomy |
Schiefsky |
Wednesday, 3-5 |
1/30 |
Sever 104 |
48q |
Historical Dialogues from the Near East: Case Studies in Early Science |
Kheirandish |
Tuesday, 1-3 |
Feb 5 |
1 Bow Street, 317 |
49e |
Globalization: Critical Perspectives |
Webb |
Tuesday, 4-6 |
Feb 5 |
Robinson 105 |
49o |
Environmental Security: Environmental Degradation as a National Security issue |
Crouch |
NEW TIME: Friday, 2-4 |
Feb 1 |
Sever 111 |
FALL 2007
(Spring 2008 Seminars listed above)
Sem Title |
Instructor |
Mtg Time |
1st Mtg |
Reg Mtg Place | |
21o |
The Neurophysiology of Visual Perception | Hubel | Tuesday, 2-5 | 9/18 |
Medical School, Warren Alpert Building 213; for a schedule for the free shuttle bus, http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu_sch.shtml |
21s |
Germs | Mitchell | Wednesday, 1:30-4:30 | 9/19 |
Pierce Hall 114, 29 Oxford St |
21x |
Galaxies and the Universe | Huchra | Monday, 2-5 | 9/17 |
CFA Observatory, Pratt Conf Rm, 60 Garden St |
22i |
The Science of Sailing | Bloxham | Wednesday, 6-8pm | 9/19 |
Geological Museum, Sem Rm 418, 20 Oxford St |
23s |
The Seven Sins of Memory | Schachter | Monday, 1-3 | 9/17 |
William James Hall, 1251 |
23z |
A Short History of DNA | Kolter | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Memorial Hall 303 |
24e |
The Physics and Applied Physics Freshman research Laboratory | Golovchenko | Monday & Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/17 |
1ST CLASS WILL MEET AT SCIENCE CENTER LECTURE HALL A AT 3PM. Otherwise, the seminar will meet twice a week at the Rowlands Institute, 100 Edwin Land Blvd, Cambridge. A charter bus will pick up the students at 3pm at the Physics Department. |
24n |
Child Health in America | Palfrey | Monday, 4-6 | 9/17 |
Adams House Master's Residence, Apthorp House |
25g |
The Impact of Infectious Diseases on History and Society | Goldmann | Thursday, 7-9pm | 9/20 |
Barker Ctr 211 |
25k |
You Are What You Eat | Michels | Monday, 4-6 | 9/17 |
Robinson 106 |
25n |
Understanding Psychological Development, Disorder and Treatment: Learning through Literature and Research | Rappaport | Thursday, 3-5 | 9/20 |
FSP Seminar Rm, 6 Prescott St, 2nd fl. |
25p |
Neurotoxicology: Biological Effects of Environmental Poisons | Counter | Tuesday, 2-4 | 9/18 |
Science Center 112 |
25u |
The Atomic Nucleus on the World Stage | Glauber | Tuesday, 2-4 | 9/18 |
Jefferson 453 |
25w |
Responsibility, the Brain, and Behavior | Schouten | (MOVED TO SPRING) | ||
25z |
Stress and Disease: Biobehavioral Aspects of Health and Disease | Giddon | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Class on Nov 21 & Dec 12 will meet in Harvard Yard, Sever 103. Otherwise, meets at the Medical School at 190 Longwood Ave, Rm 502; for a schedule for free shuttle bus, http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu_sch.shtml |
26j |
The Universe's Hdden Dimensions | Randall | Tuesday, 1-3 | 9/18 |
Lyman 425 |
26o |
Superconductivity | Tinkham | Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/19 |
Lyman Lab, Rm 330 |
26u |
What is Mental Illness? | Kahn | Monday, 2:30-4:30 | 9/17 |
Beth Israel Hospital, Shapiro 247, 330 Brookline Ave; schedule for free shuttle, http://www.uos.harvard.edu/transportation/shu_sch.shtml |
30n |
Uncle Tom's Cabin and Moby Dick | New | Tuesday, 1-3 | 9/18 |
Barker Ctr 218 |
30q |
The Poetry of George Herbert and Gerard Manley Hopkins | Vendler | Monday, 3-5 | 9/17 |
Barker Ctr 218 |
30v |
American Reruns | Bercovitch | (CANCELLED) | ||
31g |
The Pleasures of Japanese Poetry: Reading, Writing, and Translation | Cranston | Wednesday, 2-5 | 9/19 |
EALC Dept, 2 Divinity Avenue, Rm 214 |
31j |
Skepticism and Knowledge | Elgin | Tuesday, 1-3 | 9/18 |
Emerson 106 |
31m |
In Pursuit of the Ordinary: Genre Painting in Boston-Area Museums | Koerner | Wednesday, 1-3 | 9/19 |
Sackler Museum, Rm 406 |
31n |
Beauty and Christianity | Kiely | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Sever 215 |
31t |
The Modern Image: Intersections of Photography, Cinema and Literature in Italian Culture | Minghelli | Thursday, 1-3 | 9/20 |
FSP Seminar Rm, 6 Prescott St, 2nd fl. |
31u |
American Road Narratives | Spellacy | Wednesday, 1-3 (and occasionally Monday, 7-9pm) | 9/19 |
Barker Ctr 211 |
32i |
The Films of Sergei Eisenstein | Weir | Thursday, 2-4 & Tuesday, 6-9pm | 9/18 |
(Th) Barker Ctr 373 & (Tu) Barker Ctr 211 |
32l |
Freud | Moran | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Emerson 310 |
32p |
Charles Dickens | Picker | Thursday, 1-3 | 9/20 |
Barker Ctr 316 |
33j |
Greece and the East | Russell | Wednesday, 3-6 | 9/19 |
Boylston G-07 |
33x |
Complexity in Works of Art: Ulysses and Hamlet | Fisher | Monday, 2-4 | 9/17 |
Sever 201 |
35i |
Drawing the Body | Mitchnick | Tuesday, 1-4 (occasionally until 5) | 9/18 |
Carpenter Ctr, 3rd fl, Studio A |
35j |
Eating and Feeding One’s Parents: Filiality in Traditional Chinese Literature | Idema | Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/19 |
Sever 101 |
35m |
The Story of the Stone | Li | Wednesday, 1-4 | 9/19 |
CGIS, S-003, 1730 Cambridge St. |
35v |
Poems and Photographs | Feuerstein | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Sever 112 |
36z |
Utopia and Anti-Utopia | Irele | Tuesday, 4-6 | 9/25 |
Barker Ctr 211 |
38g |
Back to Life: Lost Languages and Decipherment | Huehnergard | Thursday, 1-3 | 9/20 |
Sever 201 |
38j |
Medicine and Literature | Scarry | Tuesday, 2-4 | 9/18 |
Emerson 307 |
38o |
What Are We? The Metaphysics of Human Persons | Thomas | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Sever 207 |
38q |
Dreams of France, Dreams of Russia | Lin | Thursday, 4-6 | 9/20 |
Barker Ctr 128 |
38v |
Music and Film | Abbate | Monday, 2-4 | 9/17 |
Paine Hall, Rm. 3, 3 Kirkland St |
39j |
Rereading Jane Austen | Spacks | Wednesday, 1-3 | 9/19 |
Lamont Library 230 |
39l |
Art in Multiple Dimensions | Mirra | Thursday, 1-4 | 9/20 |
Carpenter Ctr, 2nd fl, Studio A (209) |
39x |
How to Design a Communication System: Human, Animal, and Artificial Languages | Nevins | Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/19 |
Boylston 303 |
40l |
Globalization and Global Justice | Ponniah | Monday, 3-6 | 9/17 |
Robinson 105 |
40o |
Changing the Land: Science and Culture at the Pleasure Ground | Tuross | Wednesday, 1-4 (occasionally meeting at Arboretum | 9/19 |
Peabody Museum, 11 Divinity Ave, Rm 56A |
40t |
Investigating an American Quilt | Ulrich | Monday, 2-5 | 9/17 |
FSP Seminar Rm 21, 6 Prescott St. |
41g |
The Faces of Human Rights in Latin America: Anthropological Perspectives | Macdonald | Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/19 |
FSP Seminar Rm 21, 6 Prescott St. |
41j |
Shakespeare's England | Sowerby | Monday, 2-4 | 9/17 |
Robinson 107 |
41q |
Medicine, Ethics, and Culture | Sperling | Tuesday, 1-4 | 9/18 |
Sever 105 |
41v |
The Algerian Revolution in Fact, Film, and Fiction | Miller | Monday, 3-5 | 9/17 |
Emerson 106 |
41y |
From Reform to Revolution: Youth Culture in the 1960s | McMillian | Friday, 1-3 | 9/21 |
Barker Ctr 128 |
42e |
Debating Immigration and Citizenship: Three Case Studies | Newendorp | Tuesday, 1-3 | 9/18 |
Emerson 318 |
42j |
Contemporary Immigration in America: Theories, Concepts, and Trends | Marrow | Thursday, 1-3 | 9/20 |
Emerson 106 |
42m |
The Cold War in Asia: Individuals, Families, Villages | Szonyi | Monday, 1-4 | 9/17 |
EALC Dept, 2 Divinity Avenue, Rm 214 |
42p |
Moral Dilemmas and the Law: Kieslowski's Decalogue | Skach | Tuesday, 1-3 with add'l time on Monday evening for films. | 9/18 |
Ctr for European Studies (CES), Cabot Rm, 27 Kirkland St. |
42s |
Jews on the Tube: Images and Integration in American Jewry | Greenblatt | Tuesday, 1-4 | 9/18 |
CGIS, S-003, 1730 Cambridge St |
42v |
Human Rights Between Rhetoric and Reality | Marks | Monday, 1-3 | 9/17 |
Emerson 106 |
43w |
History, Nationalism, and the World: the Case of Korea | Kim | Wednesday, 2-5 | 9/19 |
EALC Dept, 2 Divinity Ave, Rm. 212 |
43z |
Cyberspace in Court: Law of the Internet | Malone | Thursday, 3-5:30 | 9/20 |
Berkman Ctr, 2nd fl., Law School, 23 Everett St. |
44g |
Public Policy Approaches to Global Climate Changes | Cooper | Wednesday, 1:30-4 | 9/25 |
Emerson 106 |
44p |
Contemporary India: Fact and Fiction | Fonseca | Tuesday, 1-3 | 9/18 |
CGIS S-450, 1730 Cambridge St |
44t |
The Atomic Bomb in History and Culture | Mendelsohn | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Science Ctr, History of Science dept, Rm 359 |
46i |
The Art of Living: Consumer Cultures in Modern Europe | Schlosberg | Monday, 3-5 | 9/17 |
Sever 112 |
46p |
Human Rights in Peace and War | Leaning & Bhabha | Wednesday, 3-5 | 9/19 |
KSG, Rubenstein 219, Carr Ctr Seminar Rm |
47m |
Nationalism in Modern Western Europe | Prevelakis | Thursday, 2-4 | 9/20 |
Memorial Hall 302 |
47u |
Declarations of Independence: The Political Philosophy of the American Revolution | Armitage | Tuesday, 3-5 | 9/18 |
CGIS S-450, 1730 Cambridge St |
47v |
Understanding Capitalism Through Twentieth-Century History | Likin | Tuesday, 3-5 | 9/18 |
Emerson 106 |
48i |
State, Tribes, and Cities: Varieties of Political Organization | Dauber | Tuesday, 4-6 | 9/18 |
CGIS, N-109, 1737 Cambridge St |
49g |
The Holocaust: History, Representation, and Reaction | Madigan | Wednesday, 1-3 | 9/19 |
EALC Dept, 2 Divinity Ave, Rm 213 |
49n |
Measurements of the Mind: The Creation and Critique of the Psychological Test | Eby | Wednesday, 2-4 | 9/19 |
Adams House on Plympton St, Coolidge Rm. Use G entry in the Randolph Court Bldg. |
49p |
Childhood and Its Literary Culture | Tatar | Thursday, 2-4 | 9/20 |
Barker Ctr 133: Oct 11&25, Nov 8, Dec 6&20, Jan classes
Barker Ctr 218: all other dates |
49s |
United Nations, Past and Present: Can the UN be Fixed? Is the UN the Problem? | Power | Monday, 3-5 | 9/17 |
KSG, Rubenstein, Carr Ctr Conf Rm, 219 |