RTC Colloquium: The Postcolonial Condition

Published November 25, 2016

RTC colloquium event poster The Department of Humanities is pleased to announce a Rhetoric, Theory and Culture Colloquium to be held on Friday, December 2 titled “The Postcolonial Condition.” Associate professor of French and cultural studies, Ramon Fonkoué will first present his talk “The Postcolonial Condition in the 21st Century: A Non-Citizen at Home, a Locus of Paradigm Shift in the World” followed by RTC students Yunana Ahmed and Nancy Henaku presenting “Performativity in African Scam Messages: A Feminist Discourse Analysis.” Scott Marratto will be providing commentary to the presenters.

Please join us 4 p.m. Friday, December 2 in the Great Lakes Research Center room 202.

An Open Letter to the Michigan Tech Campus Community

Published November 21, 2016

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Colleagues,

A group of faculty convened last Tuesday evening and decided we would like to make a public statement affirming our commitment to the stated values of Michigan Tech. This letter will be published in print and on-line editions of the Lode. I invite you to join us in signing the statement below.

An Open Letter to the Michigan Tech Campus Community

In this historical moment, we as Michigan Tech faculty want to reaffirm our commitment to the vision and mission of this University. We stand by a vision of Tech as a global institution that promotes a shared world in which justice, sustainability and prosperity are real possibilities for everyone. We find inspiration in our students and hope to inspire them in turn to create this future. We commit ourselves to addressing the challenges of our country and the world through innovative, interdisciplinary and engaged scholarship, research and educational practices that give every student and every teacher abundant opportunities to learn. In all aspects of our roles as Michigan Tech faculty, we promote mutual respect, inclusivity and dialogue and we seek to sustain a culture of collegiality, safety, support and openness across diverse perspectives, traditions and identities

Signed,

Sarah A. Green, Chemistry

Nancy Langston, Department of Social Sciences and School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science

Diane Shoos, Humanities

Patricia Sotirin, Humanities

Ann Brady, Humanities

Stephanie Carpenter, Humanities

Kelly Boyer Ontl, Social Sciences

Faith A. Morrison, Chemical Engineering

Josh Loar, Visual and Performing Arts

Noel Urban, Civil & Environmental Engineering

Susanna Peters, Social Sciences

Kathy Halvorsen, Social Sciences/School of Forest Resources and Environmental Sciences

Carol MacLennan, Social Sciences

David Watkins, Civil and Environmental Engineering

Lynn Mazzoleni, Department of Chemistry

Libby Meyer, Visual and Performing Arts

Scott Marratto, Humanities

Richelle L Winkler, Social Sciences

Claudio Mazzoleni Physics

Add your signature through this link.

Dr. Margaret Noodin on indigenous language

Published November 16, 2016

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Social Justice Lecture – Dr. Margaret Noodin

Location: Great Lakes Research Center: 202 (Lobby & Room)

Time: Reception will start at 5pm followed by the presentation at 5:30pm

Dr. Noodin will present on indigenous language, Native student resources, and readings from her book Weweni. Dr. Noodin has a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics. She is also an Assistant Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion.

Johnson at

Published November 15, 2016

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L. Syd M Johnson (HU) gave a flash talk and presented a poster on “The Catch-22 of CTE: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues,” and presented a poster co-authored with Adam Shriver (Penn) on “Preliminary Report from the Penn Animal Research Neuroethics Workshop” at the International Neuroethics Society Annual Meeting in San Diego.

Van Kooy Two-Book Review Published

Published November 15, 2016

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The BARS Review (British Association for Romantic Studies) published Dana Van Kooy’s (HU) two-book review of William Brewer’s “Staging Romantic Chameleons and Imposters (2015) and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon’s New World Drama: The Performative Commons in the Atlantic World” (2014).

Kasson Fiss Presents Paper

Published November 14, 2016

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Laura Kasson Fiss (HU, Pavlis Honors College) presented a paper entitled “Clubs for the Unclubbable: Humor and Literary Sociability among Doyle, Zangwill, and Others” at the North American Victorian Studies Association conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

Social Justice Lecture Series: Margaret Noodin

Published November 11, 2016

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Social Justice Lecture Series: Margaret Noodin

The Social Justice Lecture Series welcomes Margaret Noodin to the Great Lakes Research Center.

Join the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and Noodin for a lecture about Native American culture, native students on our campus, and Noodin’s work.

Noodin has a Ph.D. in Literature and Linguistics. She is also an Assistant Professor of English and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All are welcome to this free event.

There will be a reception at 5 p.m. with the lecture starting at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17 in GLRC Room 202.

Sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion.

Fiss, Galliah, and Swartz Present Research Papers

Published November 10, 2016

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On Nov. 3-6, Andrew Fiss (HU), Shelly Galliah (HU) and Anna Swartz (HU) presented research papers in Atlanta, Georgia, as part of the joint meetings of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts (SLSA), the History of Science Society (HSS), and the Philosophy of Science Association (PSA).

Fiss presented as part of the panels titled “The Gendered Body: Medicine and Biology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries” and “Performing Science,” the Womenss Caucus feature about the intersections of theater and STEM education.

Galliah presented “John Oliver’s ‘Real Climate Change Debate’: Creatively Using Comedy to Intervene on a Manufactured Scientific Controversy,” as part of a panel about “Wild Learning.”

Swartz presented “The CSI Effect: Are Jurors Starstruck by Forensic Science?” which contributed to the panel about “History, Science, and their Publics.”

This travel was partially supported by the History of Science Society and the Department of Humanities.

Summer Study Abroad Information Meeting

Published November 7, 2016

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If you’re interested in studying abroad this summer, you may be interested in Crossing Borders: Study Abroad this Summer 2017 in Cumbria, England. Stop by the program information session on November 16 from 4-5 pm in Walker 134.

Humanities Colloquium Seminar

Published November 7, 2016

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As part of the Humanities Colloquium Series, Michele Speitz, professor, Furman University, will lead a seminar discussion of three essays: Langdon Winner’s “Technologies as Forms of Life,” John Tresch’s “Introduction to The Romantic Machine: Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon” and Susanne Stratling and Jocelyn Holland’s “Introduction: Aesthetics of the Tool—Technologies, Figures and Instruments of Literature and Art.”

This seminar is from 4 to 6 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 10) in Wadsworth Hall’s Cherry Room.

For copies of these articles, contact Dana Van Kooy. Refreshments will be provided.