Speakers & Topics
Coffee (formerly known as Breakfast) and Lunch Discussions are held at The Luce Center (825 Houston Mill Road N.E.) in Room 130. Excluding University holidays, Coffee Discussions are from 9:30-11:00 AM every first Monday of each month and Lunch Discussions are from 11:30-1:00 every third Monday of each month. Although all are welcomed to attend either Discussion, reservations are required for Lunch Discussions. A themed lunch is provided for the suggested donation of $7. To RSVP, contact Isha.
For a list of upcoming speakers, please see our Calendar page. Past speakers are as follows:
2011
August Coffee: Richard Ward (Psychaitry), Glimpses of Modern China
August Lunch: Darryl Neill (Psychology), What does neuroscience say about the requirements for success in our society?
July Coffee: James Rilling (Anthropology), Comparative Higher Primate Neuroimaging and Human Brain Evolution
July Lunch: James Keller (School of Medicine), University Senate & Faculty Council Report
June Breakfast: Alexander Duncan (School of Medicine), Health & the Human Body
June Lunch: Merrily Baird (Author & Retired CIA Officer), Japan: Empire of Signs
May Breakfast: John Bugge (English), The Canterbury Tales: Chaucer's Epic Satire
May Lunch: Ron Johnson (Chemistry), Refugee Matters
April Breakfast: Richard Williamon (Physics, Planetarium), Hot Topics and Cool Discoveries in Astronomy
March Lunch: Gretchen Schulz (English, Oxford), Desdemona Down Through the Ages
March Breakfast: Ron Frank (Business), Singapore's Soft Authoritarianism
February Lunch: Robin Forman (Emory College Dean), Emory Students in the Twenty-First Century
February Breakfast: Arri Eisen (Biology, Ethics), Teaching Science to Tibetan Monks and Nuns
January Lunch: Gary Hauk (Emory Vice President), Emory's 175th Year
January Breakfast: Cancelled
2010
December Breakfast: Scott Stewart (Music), Music and the Movies
November Lunch: Bill Beik (History, 2009 Mellon Research Fellow), Louis XIV in the 1690s
November Breakfast: Bill Buzbee (Emory Law), The Environmental Probability
October Lunch: Jack Carew (Lifelong Learning Lecturer), The War in Afghanistan
October Breakfast: Jamil Zainaldin (Georgia Humanities Council), How Warm Springs (and FDR) Saved the Free World
September Lunch: Andre Nahmias (Psychiatry), The Miracle of Birth
September Breakfast: Stuart Zola(Yerkes), Memory and the Brain
August Lunch: Wally Kelleman(Kelleman Law Firm), Aging is Risky Business
August Breakfast: Polly Price (Law), The "Other" Courts: U.S. Circuit Judge Richard S. Arnold
July Lunch: Richard Ward (Psychiatry), What We Know and Don't Know About Dreaming
July Breakfast: Sally Wolff-King (English), William Faulkner: New Sources
June Lunch: Harry Vardis(Kennesaw State), One Foot Out of the Box
June Breakfast: Patrick Allitt (History), The Conservatives: Ideas and Personalities Throughout American History
May Lunch: Edward Garcia (Albert Ellis Institute), Our Emotional Muscle
May Breakfast: Scott Lilienfeld (Psychology), Blink or Think? When We Should - or Shouldn't - Trust Our Commonsense Intutions
April Lunch: Janice Benario (Georgia State), Top Secret Ultra: The Allies' Secret Weapon in the Battle of the Atlantic
April Breakfast: Cancelled
March Lunch: Carl Hug (Anesthesiology), Making Healthcare Decisions Near the End of Life
March Breakfast: Sidney Perkowitz (Physics), Hollywood Science: Good for Hollywood, Bad for Science
February Lunch: Ellen Idler (Sociology), Global Ratings of Health: Do Physicians and Patients Agree?
February Breakfast: Helen Mayberg (Psychiatry), Development of Deep Brain Stimulation for Treatment Resistant Depression
January Lunch: Jack Carew(CLL Lecturer), The Current and Future Status of the Healthcare Debate in the U.S.
January Breakfast: Anthony Martin (Environmental Studies), Searching for Life Traces in Ancient Australia