College of Arts & Sciences

The Harriet Elliott Lecture Series

Harriet Elliott Lecture Series Archive:

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Greening Greensboro: How the Sustainable Cities Movement Can Make Our City and Region More Liveable
Keynote Speaker: David Owen, Staff Writer for The New York Times
Presented by the Department of Geography
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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Harriet Elliott Lecture Series

Our genetic past and gemonic future: Connecting the science of human origins to contemporary life.
Keynote Speaker: John Hawks, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison
Presented by the Department of Anthropology
March 23, 2011

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Women and Conflict
Keynote Speaker: Barbara Martinez Jitner, Filmmaker and Human Rights Activist
Presented by the Department of Sociology
Thursday, March 25, 2010

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Human Rights: Past, Present and Future
Keynote Speaker: Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Solder”
Presented by the Department of History
October 30-31, 2008

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Why Do You Say That?!#: Challenging Communication to Transform Public Life
Keynote Speaker: David Zarefsky, Professor at Northwestern University
March 19-20, 2008

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Regional Economic Development in the New Millennium: The Role of Geography, Politics and the Creative Class
Keynote Speaker: J.W. Harrington, Economic Geographer
March 30, 2004

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Inequality in American Life: National Impacts, Backyard Realities
Keynote Speaker: Katherine Newman, Professor at Harvard University
Presented by the Department of Sociology
March 24, 2003

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Reinventing the Workplace and Community
Keynote Speakers: Matthew Fox, Founder and President of the University Creation Spirituality, and Katherine Miller, Professor of Speech Communication at Texas A&M University
2000

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The Fallible Eyewitness: Psychological and Legal Implications
Keynote Speaker: Elizabeth Loftus, Professor at the University of Washington
October 28-29, 1999

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Cyber Space
Keynote Speakers: John Barlow, Co-Founder of Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Orson Scott Card, Novelist
September 22-24, 1992

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You Say You Want A Revolution
Keynote Speaker: James Miller, Lecturer at Harvard
April 10, 1989

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