Professorial Lectures
Cinema Boldly: Kluge & Kairos
Peter Lutze, Ph.D. (Department of Communication)
The film director and television producer Alexander Kluge has been a major cultural figure in Germany since the 1960s. Lawyer, teacher, and literary figure, his prodigious output in varied media…
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Policy Experiments in Property Tax
David Herzig, LL.M. (School of Law)
There was a long-standing belief in baseball that scouting was the best way to find major league talent. This belief was challenged by Billy Bean, made famous in the book…
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The Death of the Common Law
David R. Cleveland, LL.M. (School of Law)
Our legal system is known as a common law system. Judicial opinions establish the law entirely on some issues and provide necessary development of the law on other issues, publishing…
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Brand Damage
Curtis W. Cichowski, LL.M. (School of Law)
Once little more than a welcome consequence of good business, brand has become the profit prerequisite. Brands have matured into economic engines. They drive market-share, they drive investment, and they…
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Observations on Ethnicity and Ancestry in the United States, 2010-2012
Jon Kilpinen, Ph.D. (Department of Meteorology)
A wealth of data from the 2010 U.S. Census and estimates from the 2012 American Community Survey provide us with important insights on race, ethnicity, and ancestry. County-level maps of…
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Early Christian Views of Mental Health and Their Influence on Contemporary Western Thought
Jim Nelson, Ph.D. (Department of Psychology)
Mental illness has been recognized as a problem since classical Greek and Roman times. During the classical period, three worldviews offered a foundation for different visions of mental health. The…
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Mistake after Mistake after Mistake
Michael Watters, Ph.D. (Department of Biology)
A largely chronological parade of failures, flops, frustrations, blunders, miscalculations, missteps, oversights, surprises and goofs while researching mutation, morphology and growth in Neurospora crassa.
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From Page to Stage; The Journey of a Costume Designer
Ann Kessler, MFA (Department of Theatre)
Just how are costume designs created from the play script to a realized production? In this talk Professor Kessler will give a glimpse into the imaginative world of costume design…
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In the Shadow of the Anvil: Two Decades of Convective Field Studies at Valparaiso University
Bart Wolf, Ph.D. (Department of Geography and Meteorology)
I have been conducting spring convective storm field study courses annually since 1994 and have logged 56 weeks and nearly 200,000 miles on the road with nearly 600 students. A…
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Liturgical Renewal for Such a Time as This
Lorraine Brugh, Ph.D. (Department of Music)
North American Lutherans find themselves uniquely poised to become the liturgical churches’ leaders for the upcoming decades. Following the reforms of the Second Vatican Council in the 1960’s, American Roman…
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