Author: Huenemann

LPCS colloquium, April 25

Each year, the Department of Languages, Philosophy, and Communication Studies sponsors an undergraduate colloquium. The idea is to have a mini-conference at which students present papers they’ve worked on. Often, students in the same class will band together and present their papers, or their thoughts about a topic they have found interesting. Or individual students can put together posters conveying their ideas, and hang around them to explain them to interested folks. So start thinking about what you might like to present. There are awards for best papers.

The deadline to submit a 100-word proposal of what you are planning to do is April 1. Please submit to sarah.gordon (at) usu.edu. If you have any questions, just speak with any faculty member in the department.

Ethics of war, taught by a general

An interesting NYT article here. Excerpt:

And while the hardware is new, the questions are not. The assigned readings, dealing with the ethics of war, include Thucydides and Thomas Aquinas. In his first lecture, Dr. Latiff went back in time to 1139, when Pope Innocent II banned the use of that era’s cutting-edge armament, the crossbow, against Christians. He mentioned the American decisions to firebomb Dresden and drop atomic bombs on Japan in World War II. Drawing closer to his own era, he spoke of Agent Orange, the toxic defoliant used in the Vietnam War.

Brad Gregory lecture

Brad Gregory is a USU alumnus and now Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. He will be speaking today (Friday) from 12 to 1 in Library 101, under the title “Conflict, Community, and consumption: The Making of Modernity in the Reformation Era.” This will be a very interesting lecture which takes up the problem of maintaining community through religious revolution. Everyone is welcome!