EPIC Tuesday Luncheon Conversations
12:00 p.m.–1:30 p.m.
September 4 Unstructured conversation
September 11 "Update on the Reconstruction of the State System of Education in Afghanistan"
Jo Shepherd, Professor Emerita of Education, TC
Read article (PDF)
September 18 Unstructured conversation
September 25 "Magnetic Levitation Transportation"
F. H. (Bud) Griffis, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering
October 2 Unstructured conversation
October 9 "Perpetual Motion"
Sven R. Hartmann, Professor Emeritus of Physics
October 16 Unstructured conversation
October 23 "A History of Cellular Telephony"
Mischa Schwartz, Charles Batchelor Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering
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October 30 "In China and Eastern Europe After the Cold War"
Stefan H. Robock, Calkins Professor emeritus of International Business
November 6 Election Day—University holiday
November 13 "Narrative Struggle Against the Sequencing of Language"
Mirella Servodidio, Professor Emerita of Spanish Literature
November 20 Unstructured conversation
November 27 "Equity and Access in American Higher Education: Past, Present, and Possible Futures"
Roger Lehecka, Executive Director, Columbia 250, Retired
December 4 Unstructured conversation
December 11 "Italy and Fascism in World War II: From Mussolini's Declaration of War on France, England, and the United States to His Downfall and Execution"
Luciano Rebay, Giuseppe Ungaretti Professor Emeritus of Italian
