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Think Tank

 
"Just bring an open mind and an empty stomach!"
 
Think Tank is a student-directed organization sponsored by the Levitt Center that strives to increase dialogue between professors and students outside the classroom. On Fridays, students and other members of the Hamilton community gather for lunchtime discussions, which are facilitated by a faculty member.

Hamilton Seniors Deanne Katz and Katie Naughton are the Co-Directors of Think Tank for the 2007-2008 academic year.  Deanne and Katie have coordinated a wide-ranging and fascinating program of topics for lunches this year:

Spring 2008 Think Tank topics:
February 1 - Russell Marcus, Philosophy:  "Why Do Pigs Eat ...Poop?"
February 8 - Steve Yao, Asian American studies: "'Ethnic Studies' at Hamilton"
February 15 - Jenny Irons: "Can Whiteness be Dismantled?"
February 22- Susan Mason: topic TBA
February 29 - Katheryn Doran: topic TBA
March 7 - Gordon Jones: topic TBA
April 4 - Sally Cockburn: topic TBA
April 11 - Katharine Kuharic, slide show: topic TBA
April 18 - Franklin Sciacca and David Gapp: "The 1812 Garden"
April 25 - Peter Rabinowitz: topic TBA
May 2 - Stu Hirshfield: topic TBA
Fall 2007 Think Tank topics:
October 5 - Marianne Janack, Philosophy: "Everyone Knows that C is the Average Grade"   
October 19 - Natalia Connolly, Physics: "Dark Matter -What Is It?"
October 26 - Donald Carter, Africana Studies: "Jena 6"
November 2 - Robin Kinnel, Chemistry: "The Financial Times Crossword"
November 9 - Alan Kim, Philosophy: "Phenomenology"
November 16 - Robert Simon, Philosophy: "The Ethics of Sport and Perfomance Enhancing Drugs"
November 30 - Al Kelly, History: "The Joys of Collecting Quotations"
December 7 - Dan Chambliss, Sociology: "Is College Worth this Price?  Accountability and What It Might Do"


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News Highlights

Jennifer Earl
Jennifer Earl, Director of the Center for Information Technology and Society and an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara will present "Protest on the Information Highway: Trends in Online Activism," Tuesday, April 15 at 7:30 pm in the Science Auditorium (G027).
February 28th, 2008.