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        Thu, 3/21 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Story as Survival        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        Wed, 2/28 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Reading (like a translator?): The War-time Poetry of René Char        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Sandra Bermann, Comparative Literature                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        December 6, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Women’s Property and the Downward Spiral into Fraud: Questioning the Persistent Narrative of Progress in Women’s Legal Status        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Laura F. Edwards, History                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2023-24 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – Painting in Common: Works of Love from Denmark’s Modern Breakthrough        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Bridget Alsdorf, Art & Archaeology                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 28, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – The Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth: Painting & Performance, Then & Now        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Stephen F. Teiser, Department of Religion                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 8, 2023 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – “ The Harvest Indeed is Great, but the Labourers are Few”: Strangers in the Medieval Countryside        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            William Jordan, Department of History                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 16, 2022 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            2022-23 Old Dominion Public Lecture Series – The Less Selfish Gene: Forest Altruism, Neoliberalism, and the Tree of Life        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Rob Nixon, English, High Meadows Environmental Institute                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 19, 2021 · 4:30 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Pride and Prejudice: not altogether ‘light & bright & sparkling’        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Susan J. Wolfson, English                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 25, 2021 · 12:00 pm         · Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Rabbinic Reactionaries in the Sephardic Diaspora: Notes on a Social Type        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Yaacob Dweck, History; Judaic Studies                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 3, 2021 · 4:30 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Lycurgus, Solon, Charondas…Figuring the Legislator in Platonic Political Thought and its Aftermath        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Melissa Lane, Politics                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 11, 2021 · 12:00 pm         · via Zoom    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Series: Racist research: What does respect for researchers require?  What should academic freedom allow?        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Elizabeth Harman, Philosophy; The University Center for Human Values                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 4, 2020 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: Blood Flowers: Recolonizations        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Vance Smith, English                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 12, 2020 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: The Division: John Doar, the Justice Department, and the Civil Rights Movement        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Kevin M. Kruse, History                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        December 3, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Public Lecture: Darwin’s Diagram        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Rachael Z. DeLue, Art and Archaeology                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        November 13, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Old Dominion Public Lecture Series: Me Versus Them        
    
    
    
    
            
    
            Steven Mackey, Music                    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        April 2, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 219 Aaron Burr    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Sean Wilentz: The Politics of Early American Abolitionism        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        March 13, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Michael Flower: Seven Types of Fiction in Historical Narrative: Or, Why You Cannot Trust Herodotus or Thucydides        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                                
            
            
            
                        
    
                
    
    
    
    
        February 13, 2019 · 4:30 pm—6:00 pm         · 010 East Pyne    
    
    
    
        
    
        
            Simon Gikandi: On Art and Suffering        
    
    
    
    
    
    
            
    
            
    

                            
    

                    
    
            
    
        
    
    
    

    


    
    
    
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