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High Noon at the<\/strong><\/p>\n Upcountry History Museum<\/strong><\/p>\n 2017 Fall Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n All lectures begin at noon on Wednesdays and last one hour.\u00a0 For more information, contact Furman\u2019s University Communications office at 864-294-3107 or vince.moore@furman.edu.<\/u><\/p>\n <\/p>\n October 11<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cPearl Harbor: What Were the Japanese Thinking?\u201d<\/p>\n Jim Leavell, Herring Professor Emeritus of Asian Studies, Furman University<\/p>\n Why did the Japanese so boldly open the Pacific War by attacking Pearl Harbor? What inspired them to launch such a dramatic move? What role did economic sanctions play in causing the event, and what mistakes were made by the Japanese as well as the Americans?\u00a0 Dr. Leavell will have the answers.<\/p>\n October 18<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cClimate Change: Between Nature and Society\u201d<\/p>\n Brannon Andersen, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences<\/p>\n Climate change is a major challenge facing society. After a brief summary of the mechanisms and evidence of climate change, Dr. Andersen will examine the underlying societal causes of climate change and offer solutions.<\/p>\n October 25<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAmerican Foreign Policy in the Age of Donald J. Trump\u201d<\/p>\n Brent Nelsen, Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Furman University<\/p>\n Has President Trump changed the direction of American foreign policy? What has changed, and what has remained the same? How are the world powers adjusting?\u00a0 Dr. Nelsen will answer these questions as he evaluates the first 10 months of the Trump era.<\/p>\n November 1<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAre You Fake News? Belief, Outrage and Incivility in the New Media Environment\u201d<\/p>\n John Armstrong and Brandon Inabinet, Communication Studies<\/p>\n Dr. Armstrong, an expert in broadcast communication, will take a look at examples of \u201cfake news\u201d incidents in early modern media to help contextualize the contemporary problem. Dr. Inabinet, an expert in political rhetoric, explains how persuasive use of these new tools propelled the rise of right-wing extremism globally and in the election of Donald Trump in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" High Noon at the Upcountry History Museum 2017 Fall Schedule All lectures begin at noon on Wednesdays and last one hour.\u00a0 For more information, contact Furman\u2019s University Communications office […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6953,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}