OKLAHOMA SCHOLAR-LEADERSHIP ENRICHMENT PROGRAM

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FIRING THE SOCIAL JUSTICE IMAGINATION: DEPLOYING RESEARCH METHODOLOGIES & CREATIVITY IN ADVOCACY STUDIESAustin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College; Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States; Lindsey Churchill, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma.

September 12–13, September 26–27, October 31–November 1, 2015 at the University of Central Oklahoma 3 credits•

ENGAGING AND INFORMING CITIZENS ABOUT THE DEATH PENALTY IN THE U.S.Austin Sarat, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science, Amherst College; Janelle Grellner, Professor, University of Central Oklahoma; and Sister Helen Prejean, Author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States.

September 12–13, October 31–November 1, 2015 at the University of Central Oklahoma 2 credits

HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING: A CREATIVE APPROACHLindsey Churchill, Assistant Professor of History, University of Central Oklahoma

September 26–27, 2015 at the University of Central Oklahoma 1 credit

THE EXOTIC UNIVERSE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND THE MOVIE “INTERSTELLAR”Duncan Lorimer, Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, West Virginia University

January 4–8, 2016 at Oklahoma State University 3 credits•

ANTI-AMERICANISM: IMPACT AND POLICY IMPLICATIONSMonti Datta, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond

March 5–9, 2016 at the University of Oklahoma 3 credits•

LANDSCAPE AND MEMORY IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWESTAlison Fields, Mary Lou Milner Carver Professor of Art of the American West, University of Oklahoma

May 16–21, 2016 in Santa Fe, New Mexico 3 credits•

BIOSECURITY AND BIOTERRORJeanne Guillemin, Senior Advisor, Security Studies Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

February 3–7, 2016 at the University of Oklahoma 3 credits•

GALILEO, RENAISSANCE SCIENCE, AND THE ARTSMark Peterson, Professor of Physics and Mathematics, Mount Holyoke College

March 14–18, 2016 at the University of Oklahoma 3 credits•

2015–2016 Schedule