LAS Dean's Lecture

The Office of the Dean in the School of Liberal Arts and Sciences would like to thank everyone who attended the Spring 2012 LAS Dean’s Lecture with Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey, whose lecture “Isn’t It Really Just About the Words?” addressed the role of visual rhetoric as it has worked with words to help all of us make meaning.

We look forward to seeing you at the next LAS Dean’s Lecture in the Fall of 2012!

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The LAS Dean's Lecture began in the Spring of 2009 as a forum for scholarly and intellectual voices both from within and outside of the Columbia College Chicago community. Past speakers include:

Spring 2009
Dr. Dominic Pacyga, Professor in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia. His lecture, "The Daleys of Chicago: A Study in Political Power," examined the extraordinary rise of Chicago's most powerful political family.

Fall 2009
Christie Hefner, former Chairwoman and CEO of Playboy Enterprises, Inc. Her lecture, "The Educated Citizen," addressed a variety of issues related to education, the importance of broad-based knowledge, and First Amendment rights.

Spring 2010
Dr. Jeanne Petrolle, Associate Professor of English at Columbia. Her lecture, "Women, Creativity, and Madness,” explored the thin line between madness and creativity in women artists.

Fall 2010
Jim DeRogatis, full-time lecturer in the Department of English. His lecture, "Meet the New Media ... Same As the Old Media?" addressed how the profound changes in media, and the ways in which we digitally communicate, have only enhanced the importance of good writing, reading a wide range of topics, careful editing, and critical thinking.

Spring 2011
Dr. Stephanie Shonekan, Associate Professor of Humanities and Ethnomusicology in the Department of Humanities, History, and Social Sciences. Her lecture, "Hip-Hip, Honky-Tonk, and the American Dream,” examined how the power of popular music provides a foundation with which to analyze matters of race, class, religion, and patriotism in modern day America.

Fall 2011
Allen M. Turner, Columbia’s Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Stephen Asma, Professor of Philosophy at Columbia College. The two debated the future of morality and ethics in our dangerous and changing world in "Are There Morals in Morality?"

Spring 2012
Dr. Kathleen Blake Yancey, Kellogg W. Hunt Professor of English and Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University. Her lecture, “Isn’t It Really Just About the Words?” addressed the role of visual rhetoric as it has worked with words to help all of us make meaning.