Special Programs and Events

Distinguished Guest Lectures Series Spring 2009
[only offered in Spring Semester]

1-16-2009  Tod Burnett, President, Saddleback College, Public Service at the Local, State, and National Levels

1-23-2009  Jeff Mason, Professor of Philosophy, Fullerton College, Philosophy and the Good Life

1-30-2009  James Steintrager, Associate Dean of Graduate Study and Reach, School of the Humanities, UCI, Execution by Laughter: The Satirical Tradition

2-06-2009   Calvin McLaughlin, Emeritus Professor Emeritus, Biological Chemistry and the School of Medicine, UCI, The Religion versus Science Controversy over Biological Evolution

2-13-2009                          NO CLASS: LINCOLN HOLIDAY

2-20-2009  Jacobo Sefami, Chair & Professor, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, UCI,
Jewish Experience in Mexico

2-27-2009  Pat Craig, Instructor of Fine Arts, Saddleback College, Van Gogh: The Man & the Myth

3-06-2009  Thaddeus Williams, Instructor of Philosophy, Emeritus Institute,Saddleback College, Religion, Reductivism, and Relativism: Humanity’s Quest for Meaning in the Twenty First Century

3-13-2009   Zuzanna Biz, UCI, Public Health, Educating Instead of Medicating in Public Health  

3-20-2009                          NO CLASS: SPRING VACATION

3-27-2009  Gary Luke, Professor of Literature, Saddleback College,Shakespeare’s Dark Lady of the Sonnets

4-03-2009  Fiona Sanchez, Conservation Manager, Irvine Ranch Water District,Southern California Water Issues: Now More than Ever, Conservation Counts

4-10-2009   Ralph E. Herold, Retired Lieutenant Colonel, Army Motion Pictures During WWII

4-17-2009  Douglas Westfall, Book Publisher, The Paragon Agency, Orange, CA,Two Weeks in San Francisco: The Story of 1906 Earthquake & Fire

4-24-2009  Ermanno Bencivenga, Professor, Philosophy, UCI, Philosophy as a Means of Liberation                

5-01-2009  Elijah Levy, Social Psychologist, Cultural Conceptions of Heroism: Charlie Chaplin

5-08-2008 David Rosen, Senior Vice President & Chief Academic Officer, Woodbury University, Gender, Education, and the Global Enterprise

5-15-2009 Carolyn Verleur, Emeritus Professor, Music, Santa Ana College, Music in the Age of Napoleon

Note: Speakers and Topics Subject to Change