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Past Speakers
2006–2007
September
Scott Lewis—The New Way To Read and Report News
The speaker is an editor of voiceofsandiego.org, the only professionally staffed, nonprofit online news site in California which focuses on local news & issues.
October
Gary C. Jacbson—The President, The War, and the 2006 Midterm Election
The speaker is a Professor of Political Science at UCSD, specializing in the study of United States elections, parties, interest groups, and Congress.
November
Richard C. J. Somerville—Climate, Climate Change, and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The speaker is theoretical meteorologist at Scripps Institute of Oceanography & a Fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Meteorological Society.
January
Sharon Darrough—Refugees, Worldwide and in San Diego
The speaker is Development Manager. for the local branch of the International Rescue Committee.
February
Sandra Joss—Beyond the Dreamings: Becoming Aboriginal in an Urban Art World
The speaker, an SDIS member, anthropologist, and Australian, is studying aboriginal artists whose work reflects their dislocation from indigenous areas.
March
Victor Ramirez—The Power of the Executive Branch of Our Government and Its Effect Upon Our Citizens
The speaker, an SDIS member, is a retired judge and was a local candidate for Congress in 2006.
2005–2006
September
Matthew Kuefler—The History of Sexuality, The Journal and the Field
The speaker is an Associate Professor in SDSU's Department of History. He edits the Journal of the History of Sexuality.
October
Frazer Cocks—Paul Strand, 1917 1945: The Bowery vs. the Middle Landscape
The speaker is Director of Dimensions of Culture Program at UCSD's Marshall College. He spoke about American photographer and cultural critic, Paul.Strand.
November
Wayne Fanebust—The Case of the Missing Corpse: Grave-robbing in the Gilded Age
South Dakota attorney and historian and long distance SDIS membe spoke on the true and still unsolved theft of the body of New York millionaire A.T. Stewart.
January
John Halperin—The Biographer's Revenge
Centennial Professor of English at Vanderbilt University spoke on the return to historicism and biographical criticism and the decline of literary theory.
February
Willard Wells—Apocalypse When? A Calculation of Human Survivability
SDIS member discussed his mathematical formula for predicting the end of humankind.
March
Alice Marquis—Art Czar: The Rise & Fall of Clement Greenberg
SDIS member discussed Clement Greenberg's influence on 20th century Art.
April
Gabriel Jackson—Rewards and Frustrations of Biographical Research on Juan Negrin, Wartime Prime Minister of the Spanish Republic
Retired UCSD professor of history & former chairman of the Faculty Senate. He currently resides in Spain, where he has been honored for his studies of that country and has been a columnist for the Spanish national daily El Pais.
May
A Scholarship Sampler
Steven Allen—on the creation of a culture mall in Lake Elsinore
Thomas Samaras—on human body size and its ramifications
Judith Strupp Green—on the American Anthropological Association's latest meeting
Donna Boyle—on the National Coalition of Independent Scholars' conference about writing & marketing non-fiction
2004–2005
September
Sandy Lakoff—Bush vs. Kerry: Two Different Sides of a Common Coin
The Speaker is founding chairman of UCSD's Political Science Department, now Emeritus.
October
Scott Paulson—Large Outreach in Miniature Dimensions
The Outreach coordinator for UCSD arts libraries and is founder of the Toy Piano Festival, the Paper Theater Festival,
the Short Attention Span Chamber Music Series, and other "Masterful Miniscule Moments."
November
Carol B. Gartner and Lawrence M. Gartner—Diphtheria and The Doctors Jacobi
The speakers are SDIS members; she is a Professor Emerita of English & former Dean at Purdue University; he is a Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics and Obstetrics/Gynecology at University of Chicago.
January
Fred Moramarco and Bruce Boston—The Sun Never Sets On The English Language
The speakers are editors of the journal, Poetry International.
February
Norman Sperber—Taking a Bite Out of Crime
The speaker is one of the founders of forensic dentistry.
March
Herbert York—The Non Proliferation Treaty: Original Intentions, Evolution, and Current Situation
The speaker is the recipient of Enrico Fermi award for contributions—under four presidents—to arms control policy.
April
Avrum Stroll—Where Did the Universe Come From and What Is It Expanding Into?
The speaker has been chairman of UCSD's Department. of Philosophy & consultant to National Endowment for the Humanities.
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