Community Conversations is a free lecture series examining a current topic each quarter. Credit is available by enrolling in HUMN 106 with Jerry Zimmerman. Presenters are community members and LCC faculty. Lectures are held at 12 noon in the Wollenberg Auditorium in the Rose Center for the Arts.

Coming Winter Quarter 2010
Looking Back: Obama's First Year

Fall Quarter 2009
The Examined Life: The World of Great Ideas

September 24
The Mystery of Mysteries: Darwin's Search for the Origin of Species
Dennis Shaw, Ph.D.

October 1
I Think, Therefore I Am Uncertain
Richard Kelley, S.T.L.

October 8
Economics Systems Isms vs. Isms
Jim Franz, M.A.

October 15
Democracy: Power to the People
Courtney Shah, Ph.D.

October 22
The American Criminal Justice System: Crime and Punishment
Judge Stephen M. Warning

October 29
Architecture and a Sense of Place
John Crook, Architect

November 5
The Evolution of Psychology
Carol Pahlke, Ph.D.

November 12
Einstein's Space and Time: Reexamining the Obvious
Peteris Livins, Ph.D.

November 19
The World of Islam
Hazar Jaber

December 3
Math: Descartes' Other Contributions
Jeff Lucas, M.A.