9:30-10 A.M. CHECK-IN AND COFFEE
10-11 A.M.
COMPARATIVE RELIGION
HOW TO READ THE QU’RAN
DR. CHRISTOPHER TAYLOR is a Professor of Islamic Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Drew University. He served as acting executive director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) and as an instructor of Near Eastern Studies at Yale University. He is the author of In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt, as well as several articles on aspects of popular piety in Islam.
11:15 A.M.-12:15 P.M.
AMERICAN HISTORY
LINCOLN AND THE CRISIS OF THE UNION: 1860-61
DR. CHRISTOPHER GIBBS, professor in the L.I.F.E. program at Union County College, has published numerous articles and two books on American history, including The Great Silent Majority: Missouri’s Resistance to World War I, as well as five mystery novels set in the early 1920’s rural Missouri.
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12:15-1 P.M. LUNCH
1:00-2:00 P.M.
BRITISH LITERATURE
YEATS’ “LEDA AND THE SWAN”
DR. BERNARD MCKENNA, assistant professor of Modern Irish and British literature at the University of Delaware, has published two books and had scholarly work appear in numerous journals,
including Eire-Ireland and the Philological Quarterly. His current projects include a book-length study of language in Finnegan’s Wake.
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2:15-3:15 P.M.
BIOPHYSICS
THE BIOPHYSICS OF HEMOGLOBIN: HOW A MOLECULE CAN SHAPE DESTINY
DR. JOEL M. FRIEDMAN, M.D., PhD, is Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine
and Director of the W.M. Keck Biomolecular Laser Spectroscopy Center. He also heads up an NIH-funded blood substitute program project and the new and growing nanotechnology program at
Einstein.
