Reading Groups

The Center for Critical Inquiry regularly organizes faculty Reading Groups in which small groups of faculty get together to informally discuss a book of mutual interest lead by a faculty discussants. All interested are welcome to attend. Also please continue discussion and engage with others by joining our free CCI forum. Please contact Cheryl Logan or Greg Grieve for more information, questions, or suggestions.

CCI Reads for 2009-2010

Theme: Sustainability and Democracy
Time & Location: Friday afternoons, 3-4:30 in the Faculty Center

September 18: Polluted Promises: Environmental Racism and the Search for Justice in a Southern Town by Melissa Checker
Discussant: Tom Jackson, Dept of History & Aaron Allen, School of Music

October 16: Fieldnotes from a Catastrophe by Elizabeth Kolbert
Discussant: Jay Lennartson, Dept of Geography

December 4: Liquid Life by Zygmunt Baumann
Discussant: Greg Grieve, Dept of Religous Studies & David Rogers

January 29: Defending the Master Race. Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grantby Jonathan Spiro
Discussants: Cheryl Logan, Dept of Psychology & Greg O'Brien, Dept of History

March 5: Sex,Economy,Freedom by Wendell Berry
Discussant: Hepsie Roskelly, Dept of English

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Past CCI Reads:

How Race is Made (Mark M. Smith)
September, 2006

Body and Emotion:The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas (Robert Desjarlais)
January, 2008

Appetites: Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China (Judith Farquhar)
April, 2008

Blood Done Sign My Name (Timothy B. Tyson)
November, 2008

Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln (John Stauffer)
February 2009, Featured Discussants:
Dr. Mark Elliott, Department of History
Dr. William Hart, Department of Religious Studies