McMicken Lecture Series Speaker Steve Carlton-Ford to Discuss Military and Society
McMicken College of Arts and Sciences sociology professor Steve Carlton-Ford will present a cross-national perspective of military spending at 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 20, at the Taft Research Center, 1 Edwards.
Carlton-Ford's talk will detail how military spending impacts civilians particularly in the areas of child mortality, life expectancy and other areas of human development. Carlton-Ford received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and held a post-doctorate position in developmental psychology at the University of Minnesotas Institute of Child Development. Currently he is professor and head of the University of Cincinnati Department of Sociology.
The inaugural McMicken Lecture Series will conclude with a March 11 lecture from UC philosophy professor Tony Chemero at 3 p.m., Tuesday, March 11, in Room 220 at the MainStreet Cinema in Tangeman University Center. His talk is titled: The Human-Environment System. Where does a person end and the world begin?
All events in the series are free and open to the public.
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