Camille Serchuk is Professor of Art History and Chair of the Department of Art and Design at Southern Connecticut State University

January 21, 2026 | Meeting 1516 | Mutation, Mediation, Meditation: Early Modern World Maps and their Frames, presented by Camille Serchuk

Examining how frames and border motifs shaped understanding and legibility of early modern world maps. 
photo of Hans G. Dam, Ph.D.

November 19, 2025 | Meeting 1515 | Unsung Ocean Heroes: Copepods, Crucial Animals to the Biosphere, presented by Hans G. Dam, Ph.D.

Unsung Ocean Heroes: Copepods, Crucial Animals to the Biosphere Copepods, tiny crustaceans, are the most abundant animals in...

October 9, 2025 | Meeting 1514 | Dionysos in the City Square presented by Milette Gaifman, PhD

Dionysos in the City Square: from Ancient Athens to the United States Presented by: Milette Gaifman, Ph.D., Andrew Downey...

May 21, 2025 | Meeting 1513 | Earl Patrick Bellinger, Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Yale University, Looking Inside of Stars: The Science of Asteroseismology

April 22, 2025 | Meeting 1512 | Sonia E. Sultan, Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science, Wesleyan University | Re-thinking the Organism-Environment Relationship: A Case Study with Plants

Sonia E. Sultan is a plant evolutionary ecologist whose research focuses on the developmental interplay between genetic and...

February 19, 2025 | Meeting 1511 | Kimberly Przeszlowski, Ph.D. Optimizing Policing: The Role and Impact of Real-Time Crime Centers in Modern Law Enforcement and Violent Crime Case Clearances

Kimberly Przeszlowski, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Quinnipiac University

January 22, 2025 | Meeting 1510 | Jason W. Smith, Ph.D. Associate Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University

Naval Gazing: Remembering the Maine and the Ordinary Origins of American Empire, 1898-1916