College for a Day
2021 Virtual Lecture Schedule
February 1 – June 1, 2021
Connecticut
COVID and the State of Science
Marc Zimmer
Mount Holyoke
Money Matters: Meaning, Power and Change in the History of Currency
Desmond Fitz-Gibbon
Searching for Dark Matter in the Darkest Galaxies
Jason Young
Sports Specialization for Children:
Better than Training as a Multi-sport Athlete?
David Allen
Smith
Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear
(research on the consequences of the sexualization and objectification of girls and women)
Tomi-Ann Roberts, Smith ’85
Skidmore
How Inequality and Culture Collide: A Converstaion with Two Sociologists
John Brueggemann and Andrew Linder
Will there always be blood, hair, and eyeballs on the floor?
Congress’s Quest for Unity in a Political Culture That Courts Conflict
Ron Seyb
(Please note: there will be a several minute delay before the start of this lecture)
Town and Triumph: Rome on Parade
Dan Curley and Gregory Spinner
Sweet Briar
Magic and Witchcraft in the Ancient World
Erin Pitt
Bees, Blooms, and Field Biology at Sweet Briar College
(Introduction by Dr. Meredith Woo, President)
Linda Fox
Vassar
17 different lectures on a VARIETY of topics!
Wellesley
Charged: The History of Batteries and Prospects for a Clean Energy Future
Jay Turner
Mills
6 different lectures on a VARIETY of topics!
Bryn Mawr
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