MACON, Ga. — Mercer University’s Department of Political Science begins its Ninth Annual College of Liberal Arts Lecture Series at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 12, in the Choir Rehearsal Room of the McCorkle Music Building on Mercer’s Macon campus. This year’s theme is “Caring for God’s “Green” Earth: the Politics of Energy (In)Dependence and Global Warming” and will feature professors from across the University delivering timely lectures related to the theme.
The first speaker in the series will be Dr. Kevin Spigel, assistant professor of environmental science. Spigel will speak on “Climate Change: It Happened Before and It Will Happen Again.”
“This series is timely on a number of fronts, because we are wrestling with the issue of oil dependence through our foreign policy, simultaneously we are presented with what seems to be an overwhelming evidence there is global warming and that humans are likely the cause,” said Gregory Domin, associate professor of political science and event organizer. “So this series is meant to focus on awareness of those issues by presenting it across disciplines in the University, from science to politics to social policy to religion. From the breadth of topics we have slated, we hope this will be an exciting and timely series.”
Fall 2007
All events begin at 6 p.m. All lectures start at 6:00 p.m. and will be held in MUB 110 (Choir Rehearsal Room, McCorkle Music Building).
September 12
Kevin Spigel, Assistant Professor of Earth and Environmental Science
“Climate Change: It Happened Before and It Will Happen Again”
October 17
Dan Fischer, Associate Vice President for Budget and Analysis
“Life After Oil: How Our Cities and Economy Must Change”
November 14
Heather Bowman Cutway, Assistant Professor of Biology
“Invasive Species and Global Climate Change: Unintended Consequences of Species on the Move”
Spring 2008
February 13
Fletcher Winston, Assistant Professor of Sociology
“Contentious Climate Politics: The Environmental Movement’s Battle to Cool a Warming World”
March 19
Laura Lackey, Associate Professor of Engineering,
“God’s Good Green Earth”
April 16
Richard Wilson, Professor and Chair of the Roberts Department of Christianity
“Imagining a Politics of Creation”
About Mercer University:
Founded in 1833, Mercer University is a dynamic and comprehensive center of undergraduate, graduate and professional education. The University has 7,300 students; 11 schools and colleges – liberal arts, law, pharmacy, medicine, business, engineering, education, theology, music, nursing and continuing and professional studies; major campuses in Macon and Atlanta; four regional academic centers across the state; a university press; two teaching hospitals — Memorial Health University Medical Center and the Medical Center of Central Georgia; educational partnerships with Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Warner Robins and Piedmont Healthcare in Atlanta; an engineering research center in Warner Robins; a performing arts center in Macon; and a NCAA Division I athletic program. For more information, visit www.mercer.edu.
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