Begun in 1982 by Armstrong State College’s Department of Languages, Literature and Dramatic Arts, the lecture series soon expanded to include faculty from other departments and continues to the present. Each spring a committee selects 8-10 lectures from proposals submitted by faculty across campus. Aimed at both the campus and wider community, many lecturers present a popular take on an academic specialty—such as a Criminal Justice professor on “Use of Deadly Force” (1987) or a lecture on Irish literature for St. Patrick ’s Day or a mathematician’s answer to “Does it pay to play the lottery?” Others are more personal such as when Dr. Evelyn Dandy answered the question, “What is it like to be the only one?” (1989.) And some draw on faculty members’ outside interests, such as historian Robert Patterson’s “Baseball as Metaphor.” In 1996 the series was named after Robert Ingram Strozier, alum and long serving member of Armstrong’s English faculty who spearheaded the creation of the series and was a lively contributor.
Videos from 2005
Light Induced Nano Transformations: The Good and bad of biologicaland environmental nanophotochemistry, Will Lynch and Delana Nivens
Jump-Starting a Dead Shark: Mangled Metaphors and Mixed Models of Faculty Renewal, Richard Nordquist
Videos from 2004
Is there a mathematician in the House? The apportionment problem in the U.S. House of Representatives, James Brawner
Friedl Dicker-Brandeis and the child artists of the Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, Robert Harris
Editing a Literary Journal: Southern Poetry Review at Armstrong, James Smith
Videos from 2002
The Impact of John Cage on Art and Music, Kevin Hampton and Jill Miller
Will This be the Chinese Century?, George B. Pruden
Videos from 2001
Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and the Search for Rubber in Florida and Savannah, Mark Finlay
Armstrong Atlantic State University: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, Thomas Z. Jones
Seeing is Belizing, Susan White and Janet Stone
Videos from 2000
Not My Child! Study of health behaviors of 9th grade students in Chatham County, Marilyn M. Buck and Sandy Streater
Videos from 1999
Hoping to Win the Lottery: Does it Pay to Play?, James Brawner
China’s Recovery of Macao: Another Wayward Territory Comes Home, George B. Pruden
On My Honor: The Legacy of Juliette Gordon Low, Camille P. Stern
Videos from 1998
From the Georgia Pine Cone to Historical Savannah Mathematics Everywhere, Jane Barnard
Report from Uzbekistan, Tom Howard
A Taste of Organic Chemistry: I Never Met a Sweetener I Didn't Like, Richard Wallace
Videos from 1997
Batting Bards, Christopher P. Baker
Listing to Voices and Structures: The Pin Point Community, Barbara Fertig and Chris Hendricks
Looking for Shorty: Industrial Espianoge in the American Steel Industry, 1909-1914, Mark Finlay
Videos from 1996
He who rules Easten Europe…Rules the World, Olavi Arens
Fusing the Five Elements: Alchemy, Allegory, and the Monkey King, Thomas Cooksey
Terrorism as Olympic Event, Dennis Murphy
Marrying Close Relatives: Advantages of Inbreeding in an Indian Community, Deborah Walker
Videos from 1995
Venom in the Garden of Eden: Joint-Footed Animals that Plague Homo Sapiens, Moonyean Brower
It All Runs Downhill: Personal Perspectives on Pollution, James T. Byrd
Bawdy Tales in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Fabliaux, Carol Jamison
A Lincoln-Douglas Debate, John Kearnes and Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Videos from 1994
The 7th Annual Sebastian Dangerfield St. Patrick's Week Talk and Irish Coffee Reception, Frank Clancy
Sweet Smell of Success: Artificial Perfumes and Fragrances, Robert Kolodny
Color, Patterns, Shapes, Scents, and Foul Play: Pollination in the Flowering Plants, Francis Thorne
Videos from 1993
6th Annual Sebastian Dangerfield Lecture, Frank Clancy
Medieval Books & Libraries, Bernard Comaskey
Videos from 1992
The Politics of Amercan Literature, Carol Andrews
Wage craft and the Measure of Man in Plato's Republic, Thomas Cooksey
Elephants and Donkeys Dancing in the Aisles—1992, or, Ignore that Man Behind the Curtain, Steve Ealy
Accenturate the Positive: A Visit with Johnny Mercer, Randall Reese
The United States Economy and Global Competativeness, Yassamand Saadatmand and John Kearnes
Videos from 1991
The Russian Revolution in Retrospect, Olavi Arens
The Fourth annual Sebastian Dangerfield St. Patrick's 's week lecture: A Scanalous Woman: Edna O'Brien, Frank Clancy
The Quaint and Curious Persian Gulf War, Dennis Murphy
The New Left: What is Left and What was Not, Robert Patterson
Writing Across the Curriculum at Armstrong: Attitudes and Applications, Rich Raymond
The Resurrection of Frankenstein, Lorie Roth
Oxygen and Oxidation, Cedric Stratton
The Eyes Have It: The Author Critically Reads His Poems, Robert Strozier
Videos from 1990
Cultural exchange visit to Soviet Georgia, James Anderson and Olavi Arens
Third annual Sebastian Dangerfield St. Patrick's week lecture about Christy Brown's Down All the Days (1970), Frank Clancy
Videos from 1989
Second Annual Sebastian Dangerfield St. Patrick's Week Lecture: the Ginger Man's Dublin, Frank Clancy
What is it Like to be the Only One?, Evelyn Dandy
Raku Pottery: From Inception to Completion, John Jensen
Saints, Strangers and Salzburgers: Religious Confrontation in Early Georgia, David Noble
Baseball as Metaphor, Robert Patterson
Reflections on the French Revolution, from 1989, Janet Stone
The Poetry of Self Discovery in the Stories of Bobbie Ann Mason, Robert Strozier
Videos from 1988
The Hot and Cold of It: Thermoregulation in Animals, Ronald Beumer
Preachers, Pedagogues, and Poltroons: H. L. Mencken and the Great American Circus, Richard Nordquist
Making Sense of Jazz, Randall Reese
Videos from 1987
Uncovering Patterned Behavior, Larry Babits
Nuclear Accidents, Frank Butler
The Use of Deadly Force, Michael E. Donahue
The History of Organic Pantamics, John Jensen
How Can I Decide if I Don't have the Facts, Dale Kilhefner
Samuri with a Briefcase, Steve Rhee
Legends of Arthur, the Once and Future King, Lorie Roth
How to Reckanize Good 'Ole Boys and Good 'Ole Girls, Robert Strozier
Videos from 1986
Dialect Differences: Do they Interfere?, Evelyn Dandy
Magazine Music: a Forgotten Avenue of Music, Bonny Miller
The Southern Lady: Myth and Manifestation, Mary Robertson
Rising and Falling: the Imagery of Awareness in the Poetry of James Dickey, Robert Strozier
Videos from 1985
Secrets of the Capitol Dome: What Textbooks Don't tell about Congress, Steve Ealy
Running Your Best Race, Joe Henderson
Women of Mystery, Lori Roth
Videos from 1984
1984--To and From: A Historical Introduction, James Land Jones
Ironic Parallels in the works of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Flannery O'Connor, Billie McClanahan
Absolute for Death: Comic Intent in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure, John Welsh
Videos from 1983
Language and the English Teacher: Is Change Leaving us Behind?, Hugh Brown
History Another Perspective, James Land Jones
Meditations on Change:Some Philosophical Problems in History, James Land Jones
Get Stewed: Books are a Load of Crap: the Poetry of Phillip Larkin, Richard Nordquist
The Four Modernizations: Development from the Chinese Perspective, George Pruden
Introducing Jane Austen, Lorie Roth
Vultures, Hyenas and Leopards Streaming Consciously to the Snows of Kilimanjaro, Robert Strozier
The Fabulous Dion Boucicault, John Suchower
The World's Longest Running Comedy, John Suchower
Intended Magic: The Satiric Curse and Rochester's The Imperfect Enjoyment, John Welsh
Videos from 1982
The Nature of Comedy in Modern Fiction, Brad Crain
The Great Gatsby: A Reading, James Land Jones
Noel Coward: the Talent to Amuse, John Suchower
