Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Michael Shellenberger, president of the Breakthrough Institute
Topic: Technological Innovation

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Jay Michaelson, author of God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality
Topic: Homosexuality versus Religion

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Ta-Nehisi Coates, contributing editor, and blogger for The Atlantic
Topic: The U.S. Political Scene and The Emancipation Proclamation 150 Years Later

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Jordan Motzkin, co-founder and CEO of Big Box Farms
Topic: Big Box Farms, Entrepreneurship, and Sustainable Urban Agriculture Read more

Additional Information about H. Brian Holland’s Lecture
Shepard Fairey’s HOPE poster remains an iconic image from the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. By repurposing iconic aesthetic elements of Soviet, Chinese and German propaganda posters, as well as those found in many domestic campaign posters, Fairey sought to create an ironic and idealistic message “designed to capture the optimism and inspiration created by Obama’s candidacy.” For Fairey and others—those interpretive communities sharing similar semiotic regimes—the aesthetic of the poster was interpreted through social conventions of the young, smart, and hip. Within his community, the message was positive and successful.

As various other interpretive communities encountered the posters, however, divergent flows of discourse developed, producing multiple distinct and often contradictory meanings and effects. Two distinct themes were dominant. The first focused on Fairey’s use of propaganda imagery and the underlying fears that Obama’s election would lead to the imposition of an alternate, non-capitalist economic system; the rise of a dominant, totalitarian government that would threaten basic liberties; and the elevation of a leader with cult-like status. The second theme, in some ways related to the first, accused Obama and his supporters of equating him to the messiah or a messiah-like figure.

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Michael Morrison, president and publisher, U.S. General Books & Canada at HarperCollins Publishers
David Hirshey, senior VP and executive editor, HarperCollins Publishers

So YOU Want To Work in Publishing

Friday, October 5, 2012
Biblio Cafe, Waidner-Spahr Library, 4:00 p.m.

A brief overview of the publishing industry with an emphasis on the job opportunities in the different areas of today’s global publishing companies. Q&A encouraged.

This event is sponsored by the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.

Biographies (provided by the speakers)

Michael Morrison is president and publisher, U.S. General Books and Canada at HarperCollins Publishers. He oversees the publishing operations of the U.S. General Books Group. In addition, his responsibilities include the oversight of HarperCollins Canada. He was appointed to this position June, 2008.

Morrison joined HarperCollins in January 1999 as vice president, associate publisher of HarperCollins and later became executive vice president, publisher of Morrow/Avon. He most recently served as president and group publisher of the HarperMorrow division. Morrison began his publishing career in the finance department of Simon & Schuster in 1982. He subsequently moved to Bantam, Doubleday and Dell as a Production Manager and then he became a marketing manager for many years. He returned to Simon & Schuster Read more

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Michael Oren, Israeli Ambassador to the United States

Foreign Policy: Israel the Ultimate Ally

Noon – Rubendall Recital Hall, or overflow seating in Weiss 235, Althouse 106 and on Channel 17

John Dower, Emeritus Professor of History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cultures of War

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Thursday, August 30, 2012

Asking for It: The Ethics & Erotics of Sexual Consent
Harry Brod, University of Northern Iowa
Location TBD, 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Gay Marriage and its Others
Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania
Location: TBD, 7:00 p.m.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Mary Ellen Borges Memorial Lecture
God is Not One
Stephen Prothero, Boston University
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.

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Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland

Dr. Jeffrey D. McCausland is a Visiting Professor of International Law and Diplomacy at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He served as the Director of the Leadership Initiative at Dickinson College from January 2004 thru November 2006. In this capacity he has conducted leadership development seminars for over two hundred educators from major urban school districts across the United States, hosted senior Indian and Pakistani officials for discussions and lectures on the ongoing disagreement between their two countries, and organized a major conference focused on the future of the Special Relationship between the United States and United Kingdom.

Dr. McCausland served for over thirty years in the United States Army. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1972 and was commissioned in field artillery. He is also a graduate of the U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Schools as well as the Command and General Staff College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. He holds both a Masters and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University.

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