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All Humanities common lectures begin at 11:25 am.

August Lectures

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Date	Course	Lecture	Faculty	Location
Aug 22	HUM 324	Science and Enlightenment: Articulating Universal Laws	McClain, Spellman	LA
Aug 22	HUM 414	Cold War	Judson	HLH
Aug 25	HUM 124	Intro to Humanities Mesopotamia	Moseley	HLH
Aug 25	HUM 214	Community and Authority in the Medieval West	Gillum	LA
Aug 29	HUM 324	Enlightenment and Liberalism: the American Revolution	Pearson	LA
Aug 29	HUM 414	Poverty and Plenty Brief Notes	Browning	HLH

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Date	Course	Lecture	Faculty	Location
Sep 5	HUM 324	Latin America and Revolutionary Aesthetics	Canejo	LA
Sep 5	HUM 414	Human Rights, Ethics and Social Justice	Gibney	HLH
Feb 1	HUM 324	The French Revolution	Pearson	LA
Sep 8	HUM 124	Egypt	Hopes	HLH
Sep 8	HUM 214	Islam and the Muslim World	Downes	LA
Sep 12	HUM 324	Industrialization, Romanticism, and Alienation	McClain, McNerney	LA
Sep 12	HUM 414	Immigration	McEnany	HLH
Sep 15	HUM 124	China	Hardy	HLH
Sep 15	HUM 214	The University, Christianity, and the Medieval World	Wilson	LA
Sep 19	HUM 324	Native American Experience	Pearson	LA
Sep 19	HUM 414	Islam	Chapman	HLH
Sep 22	HUM 124	India	Ho	HLH
Sep 22	HUM 214	Cathedrasls and Crusades Peace and War Crusades Lecture Outline Crusades Lecture Table of Contents for Electronic Reserve Readings Crusades Lecture Bibliography	Dunn	LA
Sep 26	HUM 324	Racism, Slavery, and the Origins of Pan-Africanism	Judson	LA
Sep 26	HUM 414	Civil Rights/Black Protest Thought	Whitlock	HLH
Sep 29	HUM 124	Buddhism	Prof. Falls	HLH
Sep 29	HUM 214	Medieval Women	Ho	LA

October Lectures

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Date	Course	Lecture	Faculty	Location
Oct 3	HUM 324	Women and the Quest for Universal Suffrage	Prof. Campbell	LA
Oct 3	HUM 414	Postmodern Literature/Media	McNerney	HLH
Oct 6	HUM 124	The Iliad and Warfare	Hardy	HLH
Oct 6	HUM 214	Africa	Traboulsi	LA
Oct 10	HUM 324	Darwin and Social Darwinism	TBA	LA
Oct 10	HUM 414	Gender and Identity	Campbell, Allen	HLH
Oct 17	HUM 324	The Ottomans and the Making of the Modern Middle East	Traboulsi	LA
Oct 17	HUM 414	Postmodern Architecture/Culture	McClain	HLH
Oct 20	HUM 124	Greek City-States and Tragedy	Mills	HLH
Oct 20	HUM 214	Art and Culture in Asia	Ho	LA
Oct 24	HUM 324	Enlightening China and Japan: Western Imperialism in Asia	Ho	LA
Oct 24	HUM 414	Contemporary Art	Butler	HLH
Oct 27	HUM 124	Ancient Western Philosophy	Hook	HLH
Oct 27	HUM 214	European Renaissance: Humanism	McClain	HLH
Oct 31	HUM 324	Modernity and Modernism	McNerney Hobby	LA
Oct 31	HUM 414	Contemporary Music	Wilken	HLH

November Lectures

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Date	Course	Lecture	Faculty	Location
Nov 3	HUM 124	Persia, Zoroastrianism & Alexander the Great	Hopes	HLH
Nov 3	HUM 214	European Renaissance: Humanism and Art	Gillum	LA
Nov 7	HUM 324	Freud, WWI and the European Crisis of Consciousness	Uldricks, Nallan	LA
Nov 7	HUM 414	Environmental Ethics	Campbell	HLH
Nov 10	HUM 124	Second Temple Judaism	Hook	HLH
Nov 10	HUM 214	The Protestant Reformation	Ettari	LA
Nov 14	HUM 324	Facism in the Interwar Years and Beyond	McClain	LA
Nov 14	HUM 414	The Energy Military Connection	Sulock	HLH
Nov 17	HUM 124	Rome, Republic to Empire (lecture outline) The Government of Rome in the Republic (slide)	Hook	HLH
Nov 17	HUM 214	Counter Renaissance and Othello	Russell, Dunn	LA
Nov 21	HUM 324	WWII, the Holocaust, and Existentialism	Payne, Davis	LA
Nov 21	HUM 414	Citizenship	Pitts	HLH
Nov 24	HUM 124	Christianity	Moseley	LA
Nov 24	HUM 214	The Americas: to the 1600's	Pearson	LA

December Lectures

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Date	Course	Lecture	Faculty	Location
Dec 1	HUM 124	Art of the Classical World	McClain	LA
Dec 1	HUM 214	Counter Reformation, Royal Absolutism, and the Baroque	Sousa	LA
Dec 5	HUM 324	The New Physics	Konz	LA
Dec 5	HUM 414	Closing Panel	TBA	HLH

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