The University’s Honors College will present a three-part spring research series starting at 6 p.m. tonight in the West Laville library, said Associate Dean Granger Babcock.

Associate professor Darius Spieth will present his research on record-breaking artwork sold from 1775 to 1825, according to the Honors College website.

Babcock said the series is a way to introduce students to faculty members conducting cutting-edge research who could become future mentors.

The second part of the series will be a presentation by professor Gundela Hachmann at 6 p.m. on Jan. 31. Edward Song will give the final presentation of the series at 6 p.m. on Feb. 7, Babcock said.

All three parts of the series will take place in the West Laville Library.

Hachmann will give her research on Yoko Tawada’s novel “The Naked Eye,” which is about a Vietnamese girl stranded in France during the time of the Iron Curtain’s fall, according to the website.

Song’s lecture will be his final research presentation to the Honors College because he is leaving the University at the end of the semester, Babcock said. In “Do We Have to Obey the Law?” he will discuss the state’s ability to force citizens to obey the law and an alternative based on fairness, according to the website.

Academic adviser Marybeth Smith said the research series will connect students to faculty and introduce them to research that is “thinking outside the box.”

“We’re really looking to get students involved or interested in research early on in their career in the Honors College,” she said.

The Honors College will also have two movie screenings later this semester, the first of which is the 1944 documentary “The Negro Soldier” to be shown on Feb. 21, Babcock said.

“We’re really looking to get students involved or interested in research early on in their career in the Honors College.”
-Liberty’s Toll on Beauty’s Price: The Impact of the French Revolution on the Parisian Art Auction Market given by associate professor Darius Spieth
-Tonight at 6 p.m. in the West Laville Library
-All students welcome