Community Conversations Lecture Series

Community Conversations is a free lecture series examining a current topic each quarter. Credit is available by enrolling in HUM 106 with Jerry Zimmerman. Presenters are community members and LCC faculty.

Lectures are held at 12 noon in the Rose Center for the Arts, Wollenberg Auditorium.

Winter Quarter 2011
Guilty Pleasures: Books We Love to Read
LCC faculty, staff and community share their love of books and their favorite authors.

January 12
Stainless Steel Rats and
Other Wonders of Science Fiction
by Klint Hull, M.A.

January 19
Alan Moore and the
Deconstruction of Mythic Individualism
by Dennis Shaw, Ph.D.

January 26
Sylvia Plath: What’s in the Words?
by Alexis Franz, M.A.

February 2
Stephen King: Stories Not For the Timid
by Adam Wolfer, Ph.D.

February 9
Ken Follett: History and Imagination
by JoAnne Booth, M.S.

February 16
Gothic Fiction
by Joan Herman, M.A.

February 23
Laura Ingalls Wilder: America’s Childhood
by Courtney Shah, Ph.D.

March 1
Denis Johnson: Literary Bad Boy Makes Good
By Joe Green, M.A.

March 8
How a College Instructor Justifies Reading Ann Rice
By Hiedi Bauer, M.A.

For previous Community Conversations Lecture Series topics see Archive