The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Lecture Series will continue on March 28 with assistant professor Michael Voltaire, whose lecture will be titled “From the Womb to the Tomb: Zygotic Development and the Dying Process”.
The free lecture is open to all NSU students, faculty and staff, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Adolfo and Marisela Cotilla Gallery, second floor gallery of the Alvin Sherman Library. Light refreshments will be served.
Using a broad, multidisciplinary approach, Voltaire will discuss the controversy surrounding the moment life begins, and the moment the human body begins to die. Voltaire feels that his work as a human developmentalist, in addition to the material covered in his human development courses at NSU, will give him a body of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Voltaire is aware that his topic is highly controversial, and said, “My intent is not to add fuel to the fire of the debate regarding whether life begins at conception, but rather to explain zygotic development as part of the life process.”
According to James Doan, professor of humanities at the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences, Voltaire’s topic fits well into the college’s 2012-2013 academic theme, “Life and Death”.
This will be Voltaire’s second faculty lecture in the series; he spoke about “Human Nature: An Integrated Perspective” in the 2008-2009 academic year.
The series brings to students the knowledge and expertise of the more than 120 full-time faculty members in the Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences. For more information, contact James Doan at 954- 262-8207.
