Faculty Seminars Spring 2025

Faculty Seminars are a wonderful way to learn more about your colleagues' research, creative project, or pedagogical innovation and to connect with colleagues in an informal, academic setting.


12:00 - 1:00 pm
Main Lounge, Moulton Union
Open to faculty and staff
$4 cash buffet lunch or bring your own (buffet is first come, first serve)

Interested in presenting? 
Contact Janice Staples.
What: Targeted to non-specialist colleagues and approximately 1/2 hour.
When: Tues. or Weds., noon to 1 PM. 

Wed., Feb. 5 Dale Syphers (Pysics)
How AI Platforms Align with Different Roles and Disciplines

Tues., Feb. 11 Eric Chown (Digital and Computational Studies)
"Moral Dimensions of AI."

Wed., Feb. 19 Kate Campbell Strauss (Music)
"Give Way-Surrender and Trust in Collaborative Improvisation."

Tues., Feb. 25 Barry Logan (Biology), Frank Goodyear (BCMA) and Jennifer Pye (Director of the Monhegan Museum of Art & History)
"The Anatomy of an Art, Ecology & History Collaboration: The Monhegan Wildlands"

Wed., March 5 Jay Sosa (Gender, Sexuality, and Wormen's Studies)
"Chemical Intimacies and Embodied Experiments: Nitrite Inhalant (Poppers) in the 19th Century and Today."

Tues., March 25 Aretha Aoki (Theater and Dance)
"Listening, Choosing, Trusting in the Making of Izumonookuni"

Wed., April 2 TBD
"tbd"

Tues., April 8 Eileen Johnson (Environmental Studies)
"Strengthening Social Infrastructure to Build Community Resilience: Learning from last year's storms."

Wed., April 16 Aruna Kharod (Music)
"Musical Speciments: The Science of Instrument Collection in Colonial India"

Tues., April 22 Peggy Wang, Rachel Sturman, Shana Starobin, Abhilasha Kumar, Jake Moscato, Claire Harrigan, Nathalia Justo (2024-25 BCLT Fellows)
"Inclusive and Equitable Course Design"

Wed., April 30 Andy Rudalevige (Government and Legal Studies)
"Trump, Episode 2: The Imperial Presidency Strikes Back"