Linfield Faculty Lecture Series
Six times during each academic year at Linfield University, individual faculty members have the opportunity to share their professional work and interests with colleagues and the broader community through the Faculty Lecture Series. The lectures occur in September, October, November, February, March, and April.
Lectures from 2021
Caring for the Climate Changed: Health, Environment, and Policy for the Common Good, Gary Laustsen
Research Explorations in Genomics: Developing and Supporting Student-Scientist Partnerships at Linfield and Beyond, Catherine Reinke
Disability and the COVID-19 Pandemic, Elizabeth Straus
Lectures from 2020
Institutional Expenditures and Student Graduation and Retention: The Obvious and the Unbelievable, Chris Dahlvig and Jolyn Dahlvig
Teaching Life on Earth in Two Semesters: A Story 4.6 Billion Years in the Making, J. Christopher Gaiser
Microbial Terroir: A Sense of Place for Microbes in the Vineyard, Jeremy B. Weisz
Lectures from 2019
The Fire Is upon Us: James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America, Nicholas Buccola
Emojis Mean What?, Kay Livesay
Lectures from 2018
Dead Wrong: Will the United States Repeat the Mistakes of the 2003 Iraq War in North Korea and Iran?, M. Patrick Cottrell
Things Falling Apart: Free Speech and the (In)Civility of Disruptions on College Campuses, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
Waiting for Peace: Creating a Documentary for Interactive Multimedia, Michael Huntsberger
Reckoning with the Myths of Samurai Baseball: Japan's National Pastime in Literature, Film and Manga, Christopher T. Keaveney
Free Electrons!, Bill Mackie
Language, Memory, and Story: Writing across the Genres, Joe Wilkins
Lectures from 2017
Is Truth Dead? Fact You!, Kaarina Beam
Scenographic Illusions II: Designing for the Theatre, Tyrone Marshall
The Lur of Prillar Guri, Joan Haaland Paddock
From Farmer to Financial Giant: Shibusawa Ei'ichi's Blend of Confucianism and Capitalism in the Industrialization of Japan, John H. Sagers
Symbiosis in the Sea: Studying Relationships between Marine Sponges and Marine Microbes, Jeremy Weisz
Lectures from 2016
What, If Anything, Is a Tyrannosaurus Rex?, Leonard Finkelman
Lectures from 2015
Stratospheric Ozone Depleting HCFC 142b, Ten Years Later: Global Warming Consequences, Alternatives and What's to Come, James J. Diamond
Making Paintings, Making Poems, Lex Runciman and Ronald Mills de Pinyas
Lectures from 2014
Old Witches and New Saints: The Supernatural in Modern Mexico, William Bestor
The Anxious Canon: Post 9/11 Literatures, Reshmi Dutt-Ballerstadt
From Clumsy Failure to Skillful Fluency: An East-West Analysis and Solution to Sport's Choking Effect, Jesús Ilundáin-Agurruza
The Girl in the Pool and Other Problems: Excerpts from a Novel in Progress, Anna Keesey
Culture and the Global World: Educating the Citizen of the 21st Century, Violeta Ramsay
Lectures from 2013
Community Media in the 21st Century: Participatory Culture and the Revitalization of Democracy, Michael Huntsberger
Reducing Stigma toward the Transgender Community: An Evaluation of a Humanizing and Perspective-Taking Intervention, Tanya Tompkins
Lectures from 2012
X-treme Housing Assessment in Guatemala, Jeff Peterson
Eco-terrorism or Eco-tage: An Argument for the Proper Frame, David Sumner and Lisa Weidman
