{"id":11436,"date":"2024-02-23T10:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/?p=11436"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T13:47:29","slug":"pop-culture-club-talks-in-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/2024\/02\/23\/pop-culture-club-talks-in-march\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Culture Club talks in March"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Feb. 23, 2024&#8211;Missouri Western\u2019s Pop Culture Club is hosting two talks on campus in March. Both events are free and open to the public.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\" wp-image-11437 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/okopal-1-310x279.jpeg\" alt=\"Dr. James Okapal\" width=\"212\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor of Philosophy Dr. Jim Okapal will present \u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Enhancement and Alienation in &#8216;Flowers for Algernon\u2019\u201d on March 1 at noon in Popplewell 207.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Associate Professor of Cinema Toby Lawrence will present \u201cJohn Cassavetes: Independent Cinema under the Influence\u201d on March 29 at 12:30 p.m. in Spratt 205.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"alignright wp-image-11438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/02\/tobyLawrence-310x279.jpeg\" alt=\"Toby Lawrence\" width=\"212\" height=\"181\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pop Culture Club is an event series sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, featuring faculty and staff from several disciplines across campus. Organizer Dr. Susan Martens said the events are valuable to everyone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe have literature, we have film, we have all kinds of things,\u201d Dr. Martens said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Following a short lecture about pop culture, attendees have time to talk in small groups. They talk about what they are watching, listening to and playing. Then there is question-and-answer time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two additional events will take place later in the semester in conjunction with a new partnership with the Rolling Hills Public Library.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">News release written by Patty Lashbrook, sophomore convergent journalism and public relations major.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Missouri Western State University is a student-centered learning community preparing individuals for lives of excellence through applied learning. Missouri Western is located in St. Joseph, Mo., and is committed to the educational, economic, cultural and social development of the region it serves. Visit <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">missouriwestern.edu<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 23, 2024&#8211;Missouri Western\u2019s Pop Culture Club is hosting two talks on campus in March. Both events are free and open to the public. Professor of Philosophy Dr. Jim Okapal will present \u201cEnhancement and Alienation in &#8216;Flowers for Algernon\u2019\u201d on March 1 at noon in Popplewell 207.\u00a0 Associate Professor of Cinema Toby Lawrence will present [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":11437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,48,60],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11436"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11843,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11436\/revisions\/11843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.missouriwestern.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}