RSS 1.0Faculty Lecture Series (MU)
The MU Libraries Faculty Lecture Series provides a forum for MU faculty to present original scholarship from across the disciplines, presented in an accessible fashion for an audience for non-specialists.
Items in MOspace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.
Recent Submissions
-
Genes, Culture, and Evolution
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2015) -
Hidden Child Holocaust Survivor
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2013) -
Nineteenth Century Humorists in Australia and the US
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2012)People in 19th century Australia and the United States often faced many of the same hardships, hazards and quirks of the environment. In both countries people often coped by laughing. This lecture will look at examples of ... -
How to Clip an Angel's Wings: Angels in America's Transfer from Straight Play to Opera
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2013) -
Jumping Hurdles: How to Succeed in Writing Gay Biographies
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2013) -
Composing music in the 21st century
(University of Missouri, MU Libraries, 2013) -
A Glimpse at Science in the Antarctic
(University of Missouri, MU Libraries, Faculty Lecture Series, 2012)The presentation will take a look at some of the USA's Antarctic science activities operated under the National Science Foundation's Polar Programs, how to do science in the Antarctic, the McMurdo logistics facility, a ... -
Sister Novelists in the Age of Austen: Jane and Anna Maria Porter
(University of Missouri, MU Libraries, Faculty Lecture Series, 2012)Jane and Anna Maria Porter were celebrated novelists who, for many decades, were more famous than their contemporary Jane Austen. Why did the Porter sisters' celebrity status dwindle, as Austen's literary star rose? Devoney ... -
Where did we come from?: new insights into our oldest ancestors
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2012)Perhaps no subject fascinates us more than the mystery of our origins and evolution. Teams of scientists working throughout the world are recovering record numbers of fossils of our earliest ancestors, and these fossils ... -
"Big winner": nuclear fear in the U.S. before and after 9/11 [videorecording]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2010)This lecture discussed the retrospective climate at the end of the twentieth century in which lessened fears of large scale death and destruction were the result of the end of the Cold War. An examination of Don DeLillo's ... -
Religion and the professions, or, why we all need to "get" religion [videorecording]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2011)This lecture addressed the importance of understanding religion by current and future professionals. -
Art and human nature [videorecording]
(University of Missouri--Columbia. MU Libraries, 2010)This lecture explored the two culture phenomenon between the sciences and the humanities, using the terms 'art' and 'human nature' to explore some terminiological tensions between the two cultures.