Dr. Howard G. Brown, Binghamton University A scholar will talk about the French Revolution for the Mary Boder History Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University on Friday, April 20. Dr. Howard G. Brown of Binghamton University will present “The Thermidorians’ Terror: Atrocities, Tragedies, Trauma” at 3:30 p.m. in Blum Student Union, room [...]
Dr. Christa Smith, associate professor of geography at Clemson University Dr. Christa Smith, associate professor of geography at Clemson University, will give two talks on March 29 and 30 as part of Missouri Western State University’s Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series. The presentations are free and open to the public. Dr. Smith’s [...]
Students and parents can learn more about the geography of Missouri when Missouri Western State University hosts the Missouri Giant Traveling Map in the Enright Community Rooms, Spratt Hall rooms 214-216, on Friday, Feb. 16. The map, measuring 17 feet by 21 feet, will be open to the public from 9 a.m. to noon. There [...]
Dr. Caitlin Carenen The Mary Boder History Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University will continue with a talk by Dr. Caitlin Carenen of Eastern Connecticut State University at noon Friday, Nov. 10 in Popplewell Hall, room 105. The talk, “Freedom Fighters or Terrorists? American Popular and Policy Responses to International Terrorism in [...]
Dr. Ingrid Luffman A geographer from East Tennessee State University will present a talk titled “Improving Public Health and Driving Economic Development Through Watershed Restoration” at 5:15 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 17 in Agenstein Hall, room 124, on the campus of Missouri Western State University. The talk by Dr. Ingrid Luffman, part of The [...]
Dr. Raymond Taras, Tulane University The Departments of History and Geography and Philosophy and Religion at Missouri Western State University will hold their first HGPR Scholars’ Day beginning at 1 p.m. Friday, March 31 in the Hoff Conference Rooms, Blum Student Union rooms 218-219. The mini-conference is free and open to the public. [...]
Dr. Zachary Taylor Dr. Zachary Taylor from the environmental sciences program at Berry College in Georgia is the next speaker in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Taylor’s talk, “Climate Change and Prehistoric Agricultural Decline in Costa Rica,” is at noon Friday, March 3 in Agenstein [...]
Dr. Michael Neagle The Department of History and Geography at Missouri Western State University will launch the Mary Boder History Speaker Series with a presentation on U.S. relations with Cuba at noon on Friday, Oct. 21 in Popplewell Hall, room 105. A brown bag lunch and discussion with the speaker will follow at [...]
A history student from Missouri Western State University will give a presentation about St. Joseph native Ruth Warrick at 1 p.m. Wednesday, June 8 at the Joyce Raye Patterson Senior Center, 100 South 10th Street. The presentation is free and open to the public, with light refreshments served. The presentation is sponsored by the St. [...]
Dr. Steven Ericson The use of geography and mapping to study and solve crime will be the focus of the next talk in the Interdisciplinary Nature of Geography Speaker Series at Missouri Western State University. Dr. Steven Ericson, lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Alabama, will speak on “Theoretical [...]
