Office of the First-Year
Experience / First Year Studies Program
Fall 2006 Undergraduate Lecture Series
"Cross
Currents"
All events will take place on on the RPI Campus
and are open to the public.
List of Speakers:
Tuesday, October 17th, 7-9pm, Sage 3510
When Government Worked: FDR and the Creative Politics
of the New Deal
Gray Brechin
Environmental Historian and Writer
Author of Farewell, Promised Land: Waking from the California
Dream
Monday, November 6th, 1-2pm. Sage 4203
The Dream of the Perfect Child
Joan Rothschild
Educator, Lecturer, and fuond of the field of "gender and
technology"
Author of Machina Ex Dea: Feminist Perspectivs on Technology
Thursday, November 9th, 7:30-9pm. DCC 308
Progress: Can There Be Too Much?
Bill McKibben
Environmentalist and Author of Wandering Home
Tuesday, November 28th, 12-2pm. Sage 3303
The Small-Mart Revolution
Michael Shuman
Vice President for Enterprise Development
Training & Development Corporation
Sponsored by the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences First Year Studies Program and Rensselaer's
Office of the First-Year Experience. Lecture by
Greay Brechin supported by endowment for Langdon Winner,
Phelan Chair; Lecture by Joan Rothschild supported by the
Linda Layne, Hale Chair.
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