 | Archive of past Community Conversations lectures:
Winter Quarter 2012
Guilty Pleasures: Books We Love to Read
LCC faculty, staff and community share their love of books and their favorite authors.
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January 12
Stainless Steel Rats and
Other Wonders of Science Fiction
by Klint Hull, M.A.
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January 19
Alan Moore and the
Deconstruction of Mythic Individualism
by Dennis Shaw, Ph.D.
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January 26
Sylvia Plath: What’s in the Words?
by Alexis Franz, M.A.
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February 2
Stephen King: Stories Not For the Timid
by Adam Wolfer, Ph.D.
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February 16
Gothic Fiction
by Joan Herman, M.A.
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February 23
Laura Ingalls Wilder: America’s Childhood
by Courtney Shah, Ph.D.
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March 1
Denis Johnson: Literary Bad Boy Makes Good
By Joe Green, M.A.
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March 8
How a College Instructor Justifies Reading Ann Rice
By Hiedi Bauer, M.A.
Fall Quarter 2011
Community Partnerships
Representatives of local social service agencies and businesses, will discuss how they work with citizens and one another to change lives in the Lower Columbia region.
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September 29
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA)
Corie Dow, Executive Director > learn more about CASA
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November 3
The Homeless
Melissa Taylor, Senior Managing Planner, Cowlitz-Wahkiakum Council of Governments (CWCOG) > learn more about CWCOG
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November 10
Life Works: Developmentally Disabled Adults
Marti Johnson, Executive Director, Life Works > learn more about Life Works
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December 1
Victims of Crime
Sherrie Tinoco, Executive Director, Emergency Support Shelter > learn more about Emergency Support Shelter
Spring 2011
Exceptional People - LCC faculty discuss people who changed our thinking or changed the world
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April 21
Truth is Powerful and It Prevails: Sojourner Truth
Courtney Shah, Ph.D.
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April 28
Shattered Illusions: Levi Strauss and the Search for the Primitive
Dennis Shaw, Ph.D.
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May 19
Karl Marx: The Man Behind the Ideas
David Benson
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June 2
Linus Pauling: Echoes of His Influence in Today’s World
Armando Herbelin, Ph.D.
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Winter 2011
Law, Order and the Public Good
Schedule of Topics: printable version
Fall 2010
The Green Earth: Our Playground & Responsibility
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October 7
Climate Change
Dr. Louis LaPierre, LCC Biology and
Environmental Science faculty
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October 14
Sustainability and the Built Environment
Andy Rovelstad, Leavengood Architects
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October 21
Water Quality Issues
Josh Johnson, Stormwater Manager for
the City of Longview, and Van McKay, Senior Engineer for the City of Kelso
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October 28
Insects and Human Food Security
Scott Black, Executive Director of The Xerces Society
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November 18
Air Quality & You
Laurie Hulse-Moyer, Air Quality Specialist with the Southwest Clean Air Agency
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Spring 2010
Wings on the Human Spirit: The Visual and Performing Arts
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April 8
The Arts in a Community
Gian Paul Morelli, Columbia Theatre for the Performing Arts
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April 15
What Time Collects: Photography as Art
Bob Farr, photographer, Kelso
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April 22
Politics, Propaganda and Music
Gary Nyberg, Ph.D., LCC Music faculty
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April 29
Music and Dance in the Balkans
Daniela Ivanova-Nyberg, Ph.D., dance researcher and anthropologist
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May 6
The Play’s the Thing
Don Correll, MFA, LCC Drama faculty
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May 13
An Exploration in Dance
Megan Jasurda, LCC Dance faculty
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May 27
Theatre as Consciousness
Kurt Beattie, A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle
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June 3
Why Poetry?
Joseph Green, M.A., LCC English faculty and poet
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June 10
Blues With a Feeling
Dale Groff, M.Ed., and Dennis Shaw, Ph.D., LCC faculty
Winter 2010
Looking Back: Obama's First Year
Fall 2009
The Examined Life: The World of Great Ideas
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October 1
I Think, Therefore I Am Uncertain
Richard Kelley, S.T.L.
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October 8
Economics Systems Isms vs. Isms
Jim Franz, M.A.
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November 5
The Evolution of Psychology
Carol Pahlke, Ph.D.
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Math: Descartes' Other Contributions
Jeff Lucas, M.A.
Spring 2009
The Good Life: Food, Nutrition & Environmental Wellness
Winter 2009
The New Frontier: Science, Medicine and the Future
- January 8
Public Health and Vaccinations: A Shot in the Dark
Courtney Shah
- January 22
Science Fiction Evolving into Science Fact
Klint Hull & Louis La Pierre, LCC Faculty
- January 29
Advantages in Surgical Technology: The Cutting Edge
Dane Moseson, M.D.
- February 12
Genetics: the Right (and Wrong) Stuff
Robert Sandstrom, M.D.
- February 19
Eugenics and the Legal System: the Underbelly of a Good Birth
Jerry Zimmerman, LCC Faculty
- February 26
Gerontology: Who Will Care For Me?
Richard Kirkpatrick, M.D.
- March 5
Technology and Education: The Wired Future, or Brother Can you Spare a Mouse
Cable Green
- March 12
Bioethics: Easy Answers, Tough Questions
Geary Greenleaf & Kyle Hammon, LCC
- March 19
Pharmacology: Brave New World Revisited
Adam Wolfe, LCC Faculty
Fall 2008
Elections 2008: Exploring the Critical Issues
- September 25
Setting the Tone
Jerry Zimmerman, LCC Faculty
- October 2
Smashing the Class Ceiling: Race and Gender
Courtney Shah, LCC
- October 9
Food, Gas, Mortgages: The Role of the Economy in the 2008 Campaign
Jim Franz, LCC Faculty
- October 16
How Big is Your Carbon Footprint? The Politics of the Environment
Dave Cordero and Louis La Pierre, LCC Faculty
- October 23
Critical Paths: American Health Care
Jim Meskew, Independent Consultant
Alicia Thompson, Deputy Director, Community Health & Communicable Diseases
- October 30
The Struggle for Conscience, Conviction and Kind: Religion & American Politics
Dennis Shaw, LCC Faculty
- November 6
Framing the Issues: Media Coverage in Politics
Bob Gaston, Former Managing Editor, Longview Daily News
Bob Martinson, Former Local News Editor, Pittsburg Post-Gazette
Cal FitzSimmons, Editor, Longview Daily News
- November 18
Law & Order: The Future of the Courts
Jerry Zimmerman, LCC Faculty
- November 20
American Foreign Policy: What Does the Future Hold?
David Benson, LCC Faculty
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