Brown Bag Lunches
‘17-‘18 Brown Bag Lunches The CWG’s Brown Bag lunches give professors and other researchers the opportunity to discuss their ideas with an interdisciplinary audience. The following Brown Bag lectures are hosted on the Center for Women and Gender’s website under the events tab. cwg.usu.edu /featured_speakers
Dr. Karen Lang
Buddha’s Daughters: The Women’s Roles in Buddhism
ABOUT BROWN BAG LUNCHES
Brown Bag lunches began many years ago with the Women and Gender Research Institute (WGRI, now part of CWG) to provide a forum for women to share their research and become acquainted with women researchers in other disciplines.
Dr. Karen Lang, professor of Buddhist Studies and Indian Religions at the Center of Asian Studies, University of Virginia, shared her research on the earliest women in Buddhism. “Female ordination is a right that Buddha gave us,” Lang said. “Ordaining women as Buddhist nuns continued until the middle ages when the ordination of women was lost.”
Dr. Lynne McNeill
Slender Man is Coming: The History and Significance of a Modern Horror Legend On October 31, 2017, as the audience munched Halloween cookies, Dr. Lynn McNeill, USU assistant professor of English, unnerved the group with a discussion of her research on Slender Man.
“Who is Slender Man?” She demanded. “Is he real and is he a real legend?” She discussed his introduction into pop culture; his fame on the folkloric website, Creepypasta; the 2014 Slender Man-inspired stabbing; and his press coverage thereafter.
Dr. Rebecca McFaul
Art, Collaboration, and Making it Matter: Lessons from a life in Chamber Music
As part of USU’s year-and-a-half focus on the arts, Associate Professor of Professional Practice and founding member of the Fry Street Quartet Dr. Rebecca McFaul discussed how art forms can raise awareness of science. She shared a creative project she and USU physicist Robert Davies developed focusing on changing climates. McFaul explained her deep satisfaction at being able to use her beloved medium to help make a compelling statement about the environment.
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