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Tuesday, March 16, 2021
The future, as conceptualized by the dominant paradigm of modern industrial civilization, no longer exists, if it ever did, as a viable possibility. This is largely due to the complex of crises that confront us today: climate change, biodiversity loss, and increasing social inequality, to name only three. In this talk, Dr. Vandana Singh gives an account of her journey towards a transdisciplinary, justice-centered conceptualization of climate change that began with a trip to the Alaskan Arctic in 2014. She describes how the integration of key scientific ideas with wider considerations of justice and equity allows us to harness the imagination toward alternative visions of diverse sustainable futures.
Register HERE to receive the Zoom link.
Lyceum Lecture Proposals
In an effort to highlight sabbatical activities, faculty research, and teaching interests, CELTSS is proud to sponsor the Lyceum Lecture series. The FSU Lyceum continues a distinguished tradition:
- In 1862 Josiah Holbrook, an educational reformer, established the first American Lyceum in Millbury, MA, named after the Lyceum of Aristotle in ancient Greece. Holbrook invited local people to organize a society to prepare papers on “useful” subjects such as science, history and literature, and lecture to friends and neighbors on a weekly basis during the winter months.
- The basic goals of the Lyceum remain intact: to impart scientific and humanistic knowledge deemed vital to the moral and intellectual improvement of the individual and the community.
In AY 2020-2021, one speaker will be chosen for this event and will be presented with a stipend of $250.
Lyceum speakers provide dynamic, engaging presentations of their work and research interests at a level suitable for a general audience that may include Board of Trustee and Foundation Board members. Lyceum events inform our trustees about the value of sabbaticals and funding for research and teaching innovation.
In September 2020, we will invite applications from faculty members who have completed sabbatical activities, received CELTSS funding, and/or participated in ongoing CELTSS workshops that have promoted their professional development. Preference will be given to speakers with recent sabbaticals and/or major scholarly developments.
If you are interested in applying for consideration, we will ask you to submit your Lyceum Application no later than Friday, October 16, 2020. Items included in Lyceum application:
1. A brief autobiographical sketch and c.v.
2. A 500 word abstract of your work and proposed lecture, which includes:
a. Description of your project
b. Description of how the sabbatical experience enabled you to complete this work, if applicable
c. Description of the benefit of this experience to your academic career and/or institution
The committee will notify all applicants after the selection process is completed.
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Lyceum Lecture Series
Fall 2009
Tell Me What You Eat and I’ll Tell You What You Are
Janet SchwartzSpring 2010
Leslie Starobin
What Can I Tell a Five Year OldFall 2010
Ira Silver
How Much Good am I Doing? Bittersweet Charity and America’s PoorSpring 2011
Robert Alter
Round the World Ticket: A Photographers’ JourneyFall 2011
Vandana Singh
Beyond the Ordinary: Science Through the Lens of StorySpring 2012
Lisa Eck
“I am the Other’s Other”, Cross Cultural Literacy in India and ChinaSpring 2013
The Quakes of Christchurch, Natural and Social
Elaine HartwickFall 2013
Can’t You Put on a Little Lipstick
Laura OsterweisSpring 2014
Minorities in China
Mary-Ann Stadtler-ChesterFall 2014
Raising Spirits: Victorian Ghost Stories
Lynn ParkerSpring 2015
Food Agriculture and Water Rights: Report from the West Bank, Palestine
Susan MassadFall 2015
Families As They Really Are
Virginia RutterSpring 2016
A Poetry Reading from Johnny & Maggie
Evelyn PerryFall 2016
How Radio Made Brian Friel a Playwright
Kelly MatthewsSpring 2017
In Search of Vincent Van Gogh: An Art Historian’s Pilgrimage to the Netherlands and France
Erika SchneiderFall 2017
“A Vassal to his Majesty”: Loyalty, Betrayal, and Slaves’ Pursuit of Freedom in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Jamaica
Lissa BollettinoSpring 2018
Are all the deer on Nantucket really descended from just three deer?
Richard BeckwittFall 2018
Hidden Stories Behind Social Problems
Ira SilverSpring 2019
Is Your Piggy Bank Too Big? International Reserve Accumulation in Latin America
Luis RoseroFall 2019
Be Like Water (就像水一样): Inside Stories from Fulbright Scholars in China
Shin FreedmanSpring 2020
Rethinking the Global Citizen at FSU
Alexander (Sandy) Hartwiger