The fifth season of the Northern
Kentucky University Six@Six Lecture Series will open this week with a look at
one of the region’s most significant issues, the heroin epidemic.
“Heroin Hits Home” is the title of
NKU psychology professor Dr. Perilou Goddard’s talk, scheduled for Wednesday at
6 p.m., at The Carnegie in Covington. Dr. Goddard will draw
on the latest scientific research to untangle the causes of the unprecedented
surge in heroin addiction.
Finally, Dr. Goddard will discuss
the progress being made by a coalition of community partners working to fight
the heroin epidemic and the work that still needs to be done.
“This lecture series is designed to
bring NKU’s faculty – and their expertise – to the community, educating all of
us about a variety of topics, from current events to history, from the sciences
to culture,” said Mark Neikirk, executive director of the NKU Scripps Howard
Center for Civic Engagement, which coordinates Six@Six. “It’s a special
privilege to start this fifth season of the series with Dr. Goddard sharing her
knowledge about how we might – as a community – be more effective in push back
against heroin’s plague.”
Six@Six began in 2008 with six
lectures at three community venues – The Carnegie, the Behringer-Crawford
Museum in Covington, and the Mercantile Library in downtown Cincinnati. Last
season, the series was expanded by adding six lectures by NKU students to
underscore the university’s increasing emphasis on student research. This
season will again include six student lectures, including:
“Whose art is it?”
Presenter: Victoria Russell, J.D.,
2014
Location: Behringer-Crawford Museum
Date: Thursday, September 25
“King Solomon’s Kitchen”
Presenter: Katherine
Crawford-Lackey, M.A. in Public History student
Location: Baker Hunt Art &
Cultural Center
Date: Monday, October 27
“From Fork to Field”
Presenter: Laura Adkins,
Communications senior; and Luke Freeman, Sociology senior
Location: Campbell County Public
Library – Carrico/Ft. Thomas Branch
Date: Thursday, November 20
“The Public Good of Public Parks”
Presenter: Caleb Patterson,
Education senior
Location: The Public Library of
Cincinnati and Hamilton County – Main Library
Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Thanks to Six@Six sponsors The
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, this lecture is open to the
public at no cost.
“An Un-Belizable Experience”
Presenters: Gabriella Locke,
Anthropology junior; and Nicholas Thaxton, Anthropology senior
Location: Baker Hunt Art &
Cultural Center
Date: Monday, March 16, 2015
“Facebook’s Revelatory Powers”
Presenter: Heather Hertzenberg;
Psychology senior
Location: Campbell County Public
Library – Carrico/Ft. Thomas Branch
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
All of the student lectures begin at
6 p.m. and last one hour, including time for questions. Admission is $6;
students can attend for free.
Along with the students and Dr.
Goddard, three other NKU professors will join Provost and Executive Vice
President for Academic Affairs Sue Ott Rowlands and a guest speaker from NKU’s
partner in
the series, The Associated Press, on
this season’s schedule. Their lectures include:
“Bromances, Buddy Films, and Chick
Flicks”
Presenter: John Alberti, Professor
and Director, Department of English Graduate Studies and Cinema Studies
Location: The Mercantile Library
Date: Thursday, October 9
“Beyond the Breaking News”
Presenter: Richard Pienciak,
National Investigative Editor, the Associated Press Investigative
Location: Northern Kentucky
University, Griffin Hall George and Ellen Rieveschl Digitorium
Date: Thursday November 6
“Gateway City: Covington, Kentucky
1815-2015”
Presenter: Paul Tenkotte, Professor,
Department of History
Location: The Carnegie
Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2015
“The Legacy of Lead”
Presenter: Kirsten Schwarz,
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science, Department of Biological Sciences
Location: Behringer-Crawford Museum
Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2015
“The Play’s the Thing”
Presenter: Sue Ott Rowlands, NKU
Provost and Executive Vice President
Location: The Mercantile Library
Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015
All of the faculty and guest
lectures begin at 6 p.m. and last 90 minutes, including time for questions.
Admission is $6; students can attend for free.
For more information or to purchase
tickets click here or contact
Collette Thompson at ThompsonC7@nku.edu.
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