Welcome

Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 2:00 in the new Crabbe Library Research & Instruction Commons Conference Room for an hour of collegial, moderated conversation over text, video or audio material on various topics selected by EKU faculty.
Refreshments kindly provided by EKU Student Government Association and EKU Libraries.
Click here and here for past Colloquium discussion series items.
Fall 2012-2013
Please click here for the upcoming Colloquium schedule.
Fall 2011
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Friday, Sep 2, 2011: What is reasoning good for?
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Sep 16, 2011: How Spiritual Leadership Increases Professional Effectiveness In Schools
Moderator: Dr. Sherwood Thompson -
Friday, Sep 30, 2011: Feeling the Future?
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Oct 14, 2011: How does visual thinking work in the mind of a person with autism? A personal account
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Oct 21, 2011: The Mismeasure of Morals
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Pianalto -
Friday, Oct 28, 2011: Histories and Futures of Publicly Engaged Scholarship
Moderator: Dr. Jennifer Wies -
Friday, Nov 11, 2011: Education and Democratic Citizenship: Capabilities and Quality Education
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Dec 2, 2011: Divine Command Theory
Moderator: Dr. Mike Austin -
Friday, Dec 9, 2011: Know Thyself?
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen
Spring 2012 -- 2pm on selected Fridays in Crabbe Library 204G
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Friday, Feb 17, 2012: Neuromania, Darwinitis, determinism, and freedom
Moderator: Dr. Frank Williams -
Friday, Mar 2, 2012: Why Cognitive Enhancement Is in Your Future (and Your Past)
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Mar 16, 2012: Silent Conditions: Agnostic Questions for Theists and Atheists
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Tuesday, Mar 27, 2012: Doodles and Depictions: A Graphic Language
Moderators: Stefanie Ashley & Karen Russell -
Friday, Mar 30, 2012: After-Birth Abortion
Moderator: Dr. Mike Austin -
Friday, Apr 13, 2012: The Rise of the New Groupthink
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Apr 27, 2012: Japanese Aesthetics
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen
SPRING 2011
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Friday, Jan 28, 2011: Being Unimpressed with Ourselves: Reconceiving Humility
Moderator: Dr. Mike Austin -
Friday, Feb 4, 2011: The New Atheists' Narrow World View
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Feb 11, 2011: Does everyone need a college degree?
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Feb 18, 2011: What is Marriage?
Moderator: Dr. Todd Hartch -
Friday, Feb 25, 2011: Natural Law
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Mar 25, 2011: The College Debt Trap
Moderator: Dr. Eric J. Fuchs -
Friday, Apr 15, 2011: Free Will in Social Psychology
Moderator: Dr, Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Apr 29, 2011: 'Veiled Threats' and 'Beyond the Veil: A Response'
Moderator: Dr, Minh Nguyen
Fall 2010
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Friday, Sep 10, 2010: Does Religion Originate in the Brain?
Moderator: Dr. Mike Austin -
Friday, Sep 17, 2010: "Fear and Loathing in America": Did the good doctor get it right?
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Sep 24, 2010: Broken Scales: Obesity and Justice in America
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Oct 1, 2010: The Meat Eaters
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Pianalto -
Friday, Oct 15, 2010: Doping and Performance In Focus
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Oct 29, 2010: A Marriage Tale
Moderator: Dr. Todd Hartch -
Friday, Nov 12, 2010: Personal Identity
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Dec 3, 2010: War
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen
Spring 2010
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Friday, Jan 22, 2010: Blocking the Transmission of Violence
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Jan 29, 2010: Green Guilt
Moderator: Rob Sica -
Friday, Feb 5, 2010: The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis
Moderator: Bruce MacClaren -
Friday, Feb 12, 2010: Patriotism as Idolatry
Moderator: Dr. Mike Austin -
Friday, Feb 19, 2010: Presidential assassinations of U.S. citizens
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Feb 26, 2010: Paradoxes of Happiness
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Mar 19, 2010: Professor is a Label that Leans to the Left
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen -
Friday, Mar 26, 2010: The Happiness Machine
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Apr 2, 2010: Marji: Popular Commix Heroine Breathing Life into the Writing of History
Moderator: Dr. Tammy Horn -
Friday, Apr 9, 2010: The Meaning of Life
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen -
Friday, Apr 16, 2010: Meditation: A Technique for Enhancing ScholarshipModerator: Dr. Sherwood Thompson
Fall 2009
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Friday, Sep 4, 2009: Art and Negative Affect
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen -
Friday, Sep 11, 2009: Drug Decriminalization in Portugal
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Sep 18, 2009: The Man Who Saw Through Heaven
Moderator: Dr. Richard Freed -
Friday, Sep 25, 2009: Moral Certainty
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Pianalto -
Friday, Oct 2, 2009: Searching for the ‘Popular’ and the ‘Art’ of Popular Art
Moderator: Dr. Minh Nguyen -
Friday, Oct 16, 2009: The Impact of Coal on the Kentucky State Budget
Moderator: Dr. Melissa Fry Konty -
Friday, Oct 23, 2009: The Great American Bubble Machine
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Oct 30, 2009: What's Happening to Women's Happiness?
Moderator: Dr. Mark Konty -
Friday, Nov 13, 2009: Empathy in the Virtual World
Moderator: Dr. Matthew Winslow -
Friday, Nov 20, 2009: Where the Wild Things Are
Moderator: Dr. Laura Newhart -
Friday, Dec 4, 2009: Freedom and Decency
Moderator: Dr. Greg Engstrom -
Friday, Dec 11, 2009: Ethics and Vulnerablity in "Watchmen"
Moderator: Dr. Tammy Horn
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