Fall 2024 Faculty Lecture Series: Unveiling New Perspectives
Hartwick College’s Faculty Lecture Series returns this fall, offering a diverse range of thought-provoking talks from distinguished faculty members across various disciplines.
The series begins Friday, September 13, with Assistant Professor of Psychology and Department Chair William Kowalczyk and the presentation “Sex and Drugs but No Rock and Roll.” Kowalczyk will present an overview of his work, including an assessment of drinking behaviors and the antecedents and consequences of drinking. He will also discuss the connection between social media and mental health and how identifying as involuntarily celibate impacts mental health and feelings of power.
On Friday, October 13, Associate Professor of Biology Stephanie Carr ’06 will discuss “Coming from a Land Down Under: Researching New Life from the Marine Subsurface.” During her presentation, Carr will discuss her and her students’ research on microorganisms in the marine subsurface of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, which stretches along the coast of Washington and Oregon in the Pacific Northwest.
The fall edition of the lecture series concludes on Friday, November 8, with “Seeking Sources,” a talk led by Associate Professor of Art and Department Co-Chair Richard Barlow. The discussion will focus on Barlow’s large-scale chalk drawing installations, all centered on the surface of water. The first of these, Sequana, was installed at the Wassaic Project in New York and depicted ripples on the surface of the Susquehanna River. In the summer of 2023, his research took him to the spring-fed source of the River Seine, once a temple dedicated to the Celtic goddess Sequana. In the summer of 2024, Barlow continued this research in the United Kingdom, visiting several other spring sources of rivers associated with ritual sites.
All talks in the Faculty Lecture Series will take place in Eaton Lounge, Bresee Hall, from 12:20 – 1:15 p.m. Admission is free and open to the public.
For more information, visit the Series webpage or contact Associate Professor of English Bradley J. Fest at festb@hartwick.edu.
