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Minimally Counterintuitive Imagery from the Bible to Harry Potter

Presented by Tom Dolack, Visiting Assistant Prof. of Russian on Tues., March 17th at 12:30 in PDR. Read more…

Using Math, it’s easier to fix infinitely many holes than just one hole

Presented by Bill Goldbloom Bloch, Prof. of Mathematics, Wed., March 4th in PDR, 12:30 pm.

New Horizons at Pluto: What will we find this summer?

Presented by Geoff Collins, Prof. of Geology. Come and find out what we expect to find, what we might find, and what would be really…

A Time Machine for Texts is Invented at Wheaton: rolling window analysis and the pre-history of manuscripts

Tuesday, Feb. 17 at 12:30 pm in PDR. Read more…

Seamus Heaney, Francisco Goya, and Unveiling the Myth of History

The first of the Spring 2015 Faculty Lunch Talks is presented by James Byrne, Visiting Assist.Professor of English. All are welcome. Wed., Feb. 11 at…

Guardians of discourse: journalism and literature in Porfirian Mexico (1887-1912)

Kevin Anzzolin, Visiting Asst. Instr., Hispanic Studies analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico at the next Faculty Lunch…

Jewish flavor principles as culinary ‘Midrash’: how texts and tastes shape Jewish cultural identity

Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus, Prof. of Religion presents the next Faculty Lunch Talk. Thurs., Nov. 13th, 12:30 pm, PDR. Read more…

Anthropomorphism in dog owners: relationships to training and dog behavior

Kathy Morgan, Assoc. Prof. of Psychology presents the next Faculty Lunch Talk on Tues., Nov. 4 at 12:30 pm in PDR. Read more…

The Midterm U.S. Senate elections are next week…who will win? What difference does it make?

Prof. Jay Goodman, Pol. Sc., explains factors that will determine the outcome of next week’s elections at the next Faculty Lunch Talk. Thurs., Oct. 30th,…

Bangladesh a year and a half after the Rana Plaza disaster: joint liability and reforming the global garment industry

Prof. John Miller, Econ., discusses safety conditions following the tragic factory building collapse that killed 1139 Bangladeshi garment workers in 2013.

All together now: implementing and evaluating the Writer’s Workshop

Chera LaForge, Asst. Prof. Indiana Univ. East and Adam Irish, Mellon Post-Doc Teaching Fellow presents “…lessons learned from teaching experiments on adapting the Writer’s Workshop…

Context-specific approaches for image caption generation

Rebecca Mason, Brown/Wheaton Faculty Fellow in Math and Computer Science, presents the first Faculty Lunch Talk of Fall 2014 on Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at…