MSU authors confront global challenges, discuss solutions through fall Faculty Book Talk series
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STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi 大象APP faculty members will tackle issues ranging from remote warfare to underrepresentation in public relations to the biology of wetland plants in this semester鈥檚 MSU Faculty Book Talk series hosted by the College of Arts and Sciences.
Free to all, the first talk is 3:30 p.m. Sept. 20 in Mitchell Memorial Library鈥檚 John Grisham Room and will include a public reading and book signing.
Peter DeGabriele, an associate professor in MSU鈥檚 Department of English, will present selections from his recently released University of Virginia Press publication 鈥淒rone Enlightenment: The Colonial Roots of Remote Warfare.鈥 His book delves into drone warfare and questions about responsibility, war and sovereignty.
鈥淭he MSU Faculty Book Talk series hopes to highlight and celebrate academic books and the MSU faculty who write them,鈥 said Eric Vivier, MSU associate professor of English and series director.
鈥淪cholarly monographs remain the gold standard of research for many disciplines in the humanities and social sciences,鈥 said Vivier, who is also a faculty fellow with MSU鈥檚 Judy and Bobby Shackouls Honor College. 鈥淭hey represent years of careful thinking, planning and writing; their publication can refresh scholarly conversations and alter intellectual paradigms in ways that journal articles cannot. We need academic books, and we need to support those who write them.鈥
Additional talks to follow this semester include:
鈥擮ct. 20, 3:30 p.m., Grisham Room: Melody Fisher, MSU Department of Communication associate professor, 鈥淭he Untold Power: Underrepresented Groups in Public Relations鈥澛(Business Expert Press, 2022)
鈥擭ov. 17, 3:30 p.m., Room 1220, Old Main Academic Center: Gary Ervin, MSU Department of Biological Sciences professor, 鈥淭he Biology of Aquatic and Wetland Plants鈥澛(CRC Press, 2023)
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