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Kimberly Dozier
CBS News Correspondent injured in Iraq and author
Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report - and Survive - the War in Iraq
Monday, April 21, 2008
7:00 p.m.- Stern Center, Great Room
Terrorism has made news reporting very dangerous. Reporters have become the targets of terrorist acts, where they once only stood next to targets. Being embedded has also made the role of correspondent more complex, raising such questions as which ’side’ we’re on, whether we are legitimate targets when shadowing the military or insurgents, and the ethics of going on a raid to kill insurgents. Also, the ... Read more...
The New Mediterranean Symposium
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Various Locations
Student Comments
Denisa Lazarescu ‘08
Tahar Lamri
The Pilgrimage of the Voice
Award winning author and noted artist Tahar Lamri presented within the second part of the symposium the short story titled “The Pilgrimage of the Voice” which was interpreted in four different languages: standard Italian, as well as Mantovano, Romagnolo, and Venetian dialects. Sitting on the floor, surrounded by students and professors, Tahar Lamri read his story while accompanied by Cafe Mira lead singer, Reda Zine who played ... Read more...
President Bill Clinton Campaigning for Hillary Clinton
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m
The Kline Athletic Center
Student Comments
Caitlin Rice
Former President Clinton did an excellent job of detailing what makes Hillary Clinton’s plans for America distinctive. On the event in general, I thought it was great to see so many people there and so excited–regardless of whether they were Democrat or Republican. Having former President Clinton speak on behalf of Hillary was an excellent opportunity as I feel it drew an open minded crowd.
Through this experience and leading the Dickinson Student for Hillary Group on campu ... Read more...
Mark Alexander, Senior Advisor for Senator Barack Obama
Thursday, March 27, 2008 - 1:00 p.m.
Stern Center, Great Room
Student Comments
Jonathan Roberts
Benjamin Rush and his colleagues understood that American democracy would only survive if its citizens were informed. By bringing representatives of the major candidates to campus, and allowing us to hear their arguments, we can make better-informed decisions about what is politically important to us. I think most Dickinsonians read the news and stay on top of what candidates are doing, but it’s rare that we have the chance to hear it straight from them. That’s unique, and an extraordinary opportunity, and I’m grateful to the C ... Read more...
Cynthia Enloe
2007 Susan Strange Award Winner in International Studies, Clark University, Worcester, MA
Morgan Lecture
Women and Men in the Iraq War: What Can a Feminist Curiosity Reveal?
Monday, March 24, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
We are all inundated with news about the Iraq war, but too often the only women shown are mothers and wives weeping - without ever asking them what they think or what they now will do. By asking feminist questions about BOTH American and Iraqi women, about their own thoughts and their complex experiences, we are more likely to get a truly realistic understanding of men’s actio ... Read more...
Erika Doss
University of Notre Dame
Memorial Mania: Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
Thursday, March 20, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Concentrating especially on recent 9/11 memorials, war memorials, and on issues such as fear, terror, security, and tribute. This program considers how “memorial mania” has altered the style and substance of America’s contemporary public sphere and assumptions of national identity.
Issue in Context
Since the Revolutionary War, the building of American nationhood has involved the design and presentation o ... Read more...
Robert Cook-Deegan, M.D.
Duke University
Genomics and Intellectual Property: Life in the Information Jungle
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Controversies about gene patents and methods in genomics have led U.S. and international organizations to produce guidance about patenting and licensing genomic inventions. However, case studies show that patents are neither necessary nor sufficient for “some” kinds of genomic invention. The rich stories of genomic invention do not yield precise guides about optimal incentives for invention or to ensure broad and fair access to resulting goods and services.
T ... Read more...
Drinking Age Debate
Legal Age 21 after 23 Years: Has it Worked? Is it Working?
Thursday, March 6, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Holland Union Building, Social Hall
John McCardell, Founder and Director, Choose Responsibility
Chuck Hurley ‘67, Chief Executive Officer, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD)
Douglas Edlin, professor of political science, moderator
Link to NBC Nightly News Coverage of this program
Results from ballots passed out at the Drinking Age Debate Program:
57 People Voted for Lo ... Read more...
Stephen Adler
Editor-in-Chief, BusinessWeek Magazine
Rush Award Lecture
The Future of Media
Thursday, February 28, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
This program will focus on how technology, law, and new consumer habits are changing the way we learn about the world, and what these changes will do to the way we live, work, and choose our leaders.
Issue in Context
Today, much of how we communicate is digitized. E-mail allows people who are often many miles apart to exchange news instantly. Instant messaging and video conferencing allows people to talk in ... Read more...
Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
Thursday, February 21 - 7:00 p.m.
Stern Center, Great Room
Hans Dellien, Women’s World Banking
Camilla Nestor, The Grameen Foundation
Benjamin Powell, Agora Partnerships
Craig Weeks ‘77, J. P. Morgan Chase (moderator)
Microfinance, the provision of small-scale loans to enterprising individuals in developing countries came into being in the latter half of the 1900s. Two organizations currently involved in channeling those types of financial resources are the Grameen Foundation and Women’s World Banking. Social entrepreneurship, repres ... Read more...
Transnational Gender and Sexuality Symposium
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Various Times
Stern Center, Great Room
This one-day symposium offers perspectives from three scholars critically exploring sexuality and gender identities in relation to shifting cultural and national boundaries.
10:30 a.m. - Denise Brennan, Georgetown University
Love Work and Sex Work in the Dominican Republic
Suggested Readings:
1. Nicole Constable’s book: Romance on A Global Stage
2. Barbara Ehrenreich and Arlie Hochschild’s edited volume: Global Woman: Nannies ... Read more...
Cindi Katz
City University of New York, Graduate Center
Writing on the Wall: From Disaster to Doing Something
Thursday, February 7, 2008
7:00 p.m. - Holland Union Building, Social Hall
Hurricane Katrina scoured the political economic landscape of New Orleans revealing the toll of decades of disinvestment in and ‘hostile privatism’ toward social reproduction in a city riddled with corrosive inequalities around class, race, and gender. Business and government have failed to address the social and economic needs of poor and working people in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina. The toll can be seen in the unevenness of neighborh ... Read more...
Daniel Desmond
Deputy Secretary of the Office of Energy and Technology Deployment, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium - 7:00 p.m.
Keynote Speaker for “Focus the Nation”
Co-sponsored by Environmental Studies Department and Dickinson SAVES
Visit this link for more information on Dickinson’s Focus the Nation programs.
Issue in Context
Global warming is a phenomenon believed to occur as a result of the build-up ... Read more...
Rory Kennedy
Pandemic: Facing AIDS
Monday, December 3, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
The scope of the global AIDS epidemic is staggering. Over the last 20 years, the disease has killed nearly 22 million people. Behind these statistics are the stories of millions of people, each of whom must face the challenge of AIDS in their own way. Rory Kennedy followed the lives of five people living with AIDS in different parts of the world–India, Russian, Thailand, Uganda and Brazil. Their experiences put faces behind the numbers, and connect audiences with the heartache and ... Read more...
Guerrilla Girls
Monkey Business
Performance
Thursday, November 29, 2007
7:00 p.m. - The Depot
The Guerrilla Girls are feminist masked avengers in the tradition of anonymous do-gooders, like Wonder Woman and Batman. They use facts, humor and outrageous visuals to expose sexism, racism and corruption in politics, art, film and pop culture. Co-sponsored by Women’s Studies and The Zatae Longsdorff Women’s Center.
Issue in Context
Sexism and racism are pervasive throughout the world of art and popular culture. Women artists and artists of color are greatly under-represent ... Read more...
Karin Morin
Associate Professor, social/gender geography, Bucknell University.
Women, Religion and Space: Making the Connections
Thursday, November 15, 2007
4:30 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
In this talk, Karen Morin ‘triangulates’ among the scholarly domains of geography, women’s studies, and religious studies, suggesting ways to draw out the geographical implications of the study of women and religion. The talk highlights the ways that religions regulate women spatially, and how religious women negotiate and define spaces and their sense of themselves in them. Co-sponsored by the anthropology and ... Read more...
Lisa Sherman ‘79
Metzger-Conway Fellow, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Logo TV.
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Changing Hearts and Minds: Media as a Bridge Builder for LGBT America
For the past several decades, the media has been an important and powerful tool for humanizing LGBT Americans, gradually replacing stereotypes and caricatures with authentic portrayals and depictions of LGBT people characters. In the past several years, media specifically for the LGBT audience has come to the forefront, notably with the launch of Logo, the new 24/7 ad-supported television and broadband channel from MTV networks. ... Read more...
Sara Lennox
Director of the Social Thought and Political Economy Program and professor of German Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Reading Transnationally: The German Democratic Republic and Black Writers
Thursday, October 25, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Keynote speaker for the conference of the same name. Many of the African-American authors GDR publishers prmoted after the war were deeply influenced by Soviet models of proletarian internationalism, national self-determination, and masculine subjecthood. GDR scholars could thus appropriate such Black writers texts to provide confirmation of official GDR notions ab ... Read more...
Yolanda Lopez, political artist
The Virgin of Guadalupe on the Road to Aztlan
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Artist-provocateur and activist, Yolanda Lopez, will discuss the trajectory of her work, including her famous “virgin of guadalupe” paintings, in the context of her experiences with the Chicano civil rights movement, feminism, and contemporary immigration debates. Co-sponsored by Latin American Studies, American Studies and sociology Department.
Issue in Context
The Virgin of Guadalupe is one of the most revered Roman Catholic symbols in Mexico. She is believed to be an ... Read more...
Julie Nemecek and Bear Bergman
Gender and the Search for Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Part I - Common Hour
“Transgender Issues” - Facilitator, Prof. Christine Talbot
12:00 p.m. - Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall
Part II - “Gender and the Search for Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Julie Nemecek, consultant, former associate professor and minister and S. Bear Bergman, writer, activist, performer, will use their own compelling stories and current research to discuss the barriers gender causes for the realization of the “unalienable rights” en ... Read more...
Dana Priest
Author and National Security Correspondent with The Washington Post
The Media as Junkyard Dog: One Journalist’s Journey From Secret CIA Prisons to the Walter Reed Scandal
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
4:30 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Dana Priest, Pulitzer Prize winner, and the reporter who “broke the story” on Walter Reed Hospital. What is the role of the mainstream media during a time of war and growing government secrecy? Priest takes us through the obstacle course, with all its trapped doors and moral dilemmas she encounters everyday in reporting during a time of great national angst and fear of terrorism. Co-spo ... Read more...
Carmencita “Chie” Abad
No More Suffering From Sweat
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Chie will discuss the horrible working conditions she endured in the U.S. territory of Saipan while making clothing for the Gap. In her struggle to unionize workers, she was forced to leave the island and is now working to educate Americans about inhumane factory conditions worldwide. Co-sponsored by campus academic life (first year seminars/learning communities) and the sociology department.
Issue in Context
Where did you buy the clothes you are wearing today? It is possible your clothes were made in a garment factory by unde ... Read more...
Sister Helen Prejean
Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues
Thursday, October 4, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking and Death of Innocents: Wrongful Executions. Sister Helen is a Southern storyteller who brings you on a journey and shares her experiences involved with her death penalty ministry while working with the poor. She is the author of Dead Man Walking and Death of Innocents: Wrongful Executions. Book signing to follow. Co-sponsored by The Legislative Initiative Against the Death Penalty, Unitarian Universalists of the Cum ... Read more...
Vinton Cerf
Priestley Award
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Social, Technical and Economic Consequences of the Internet Evolution
Vinton Cerf, one of the founding fathers of the internet, will discuss new internet products and services that may be appearing over the next decade. He will also explore the business consequences of dramatic changes in the economics of computing, networking and international demographics. Dr. Cerf will receive the Priestley award for his key technical and managerial role in the creation of the Internet, in particular, for leading the development of the TCP/IP p ... Read more...
Judge Marjorie O. Rendell
United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 43rd First Lady of Pennsylvania
The Constitution Day Address: The Constitution and Civic Responsibility
Monday, September 24, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
As a federal judge, First Lady and citizen, The Honorable Marjorie O. Rendell is passionate about civic learning. She has said, “We are the newest guardians of our democracy. It is important that we rededicate ourselves to the creation of those “voices of the people” proficient in understanding and willing to sacrifice for the rights and responsibilities embodied i ... Read more...
Stephanie Black
Life and Debt
StephanieBlack092007
Thursday, September 20, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Film showing and discussion with the filmmaker.
The film features Jamaica, land of sea, sand and sun, and a prime example of the impact economic globalization can have on a developing country. Using conventional and unconventional documentary techniques, this searing film dissects ... Read more...
Admiral Dennis Blair
Omar Bradley Chair
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
The American Use of Military Force Since the Fall of the Berlin Wall
When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 there were hopes for a peaceful new world order and even predictions of the end of history. As it turned out, the United States has sent major military forces into action nine times in the 19 years since then. Two major conflicts are continuing today in Afghanistan and Iraq. Admiral Blair will address how the United States has used military force in recent years, successfully and unsuccessfully, and how to think about what the c ... Read more...
Lance Simmens
Global Warming
Tuesday, September 11
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
The scientific evidence on global warming is as disturbing as it is definitive. Increasing carbon emissions challenge our planet and all who inhabit it, a challenge that is here and now and that we must both acknowledge and address. Taking off from the documentary film, An Inconvenient Truth, the presentation by Simmens, special assistant to Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, speaks to the average citizen.
Issue in Context
Global warming refers to the rise of the average temperature of the earth’s atmosphere and oceans and has b ... Read more...
Jackson Katz, educator and filmmaker
Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity
Thursday, September 6
7:30 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Mr. Katz explores the relationship between the social construction of masculinity and the widespread violence in American society, including the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech, Columbine, and elsewhere. Katz will provide the audience with conceptual and practical tools for reading both negative and positive media images critically, especially those connected with masculinity and violence. Co-sponsored by the sociology and anthropology departments.
Issue in Context
The past fifty years have seen s ... Read more...
“Tough Guise: Violence, Media, and the Crisis in Masculinity” - Film Showing
Wednesday, September 5
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
The first educational video to systematically examine the relationship between pop-cultural imagery and the social construction of masculine identities in the United States at the dawn of the 21st century.
Jackson Katz, educator and filmmaker will present a lecture on Thursday, September 6. Click here for more information about this lecture.
For a film clip, visit http://www.mediaed.org/videos/MediaGenderAndDiversity/ToughGuise/#
Film Showing: The Situation
Saturday, March 24, 2007 - The Carlisle Theatre
Panel Discussion - 7:00 p.m.
Film Showing - 7:45 p.m.
Discussion with Director, Philip Haas - 9:30 p.m.
Local Newspaper Reviews
The Sentinel
The Patriot-News
About the Film
The Situation, the first U.S. feature film that focuses on the occupation in Iraq, attempts to portray the conflict fairly and accurately. The film is co-written by director Philip Haas and journalist Wendell Steavenson, who spent a year reporting from Iraq. Str ... Read more...
Energy Politics and Policy
Monday, April 16, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Metzger-Conway Fellow
Jeanne Lopatto, director of Government and International Affairs at Westinghouse Electric Company
Ms. Lopatto advises the chairman on international policy issues and programs related to regulatory assistance to foreign countries for nuclear safety and radiation protection, non-proliferation activities, and export licensing. She also acts as liaison for the chairman’s office and other federal agencies including the Departments of Energy, State, Homeland Security, and others. She will provide an energy perspective from insi ... Read more...
Transforming Self-Interest: How Organizations Provoke Social Justice Commitments
Thursday, April 12, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Margaret Levi, University of Washington, Jere L. Bacharach Professor of International Studies
Organizational membership sometimes changes the beliefs people hold about the nature of the world and, consequently, their behavior. This seems to be what is happening among some terrorist groups and a subset of religious, political, and labor organizations. Levi investigates this problem with an in-deph investigation of several unions in the United States and Australia, whose members routinely engage in political and social activities that do not have obvious, immediate payoffs to the membership i ... Read more...
Local Air Quality: Past, Present & Future?
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
“Continuing the Conversation”
All are welcome to stay for The Clarke Forum’s student led follow-up discussion immediately following the presentation.
Philip Carey, M.D., pulmonary specialist
Thomas Au, environmental attorney
Colonel (Ret.) Paul J. Cunningham, Clean Air Board
Omar Shute, executive director, Cumberland County Economic Development Corporation
Jesse Keen, vice president, Keen Transport, Inc.
R. Russell ShunkRead more...
Getting to Green?: Pennsylvania’s Commitment to Renewable Energy
Thursday, March 29, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Mike Ewall, director, ActionPA
Tom Tuffey, director, Citizens for Pennsylvania’s
Future Center for Energy, Enterprise and the Environment
Michael Heiman, facilitator, geographer and professor of environmental studies, Dickinson College
A discussion of Pennsylvania’s electricity provision, reform and contribution to global greenhouse gas emissions. Panelists will discuss the alternatives state laws allow, and the advances that have been made in wind and solar energy. An open discussion will follow.
Issue in ContextRead more...
Addressing Climate Change: A Least-Cost Strategy
Thursday, March 22, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Benjamin Rush Award
Roger W. Sant
Roger W. Sant is co-founder and chairman emeritus of The AES Corporation, one of the world’s largest global power companies operating in 27 countries. Mr. Sant was assistant administrator for energy conservation and the environment at the Federal Energy Administration as well as director of the energy productivity center, affiliated with the Carnegie Mellon University.
Issue in Context
Over the past two centuries, “greenhouse gases” which trap heat in our atmosphere have caused global temperatures to increase. The concentration of “greenhouse gases” is formed from deforestation and the burning of fossil fuels. “Greenhouse gases” are critical to life for they allow the planet to remain warm. In recent year ... Read more...
In a Post 9/11 World, is Religion Safe?
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Pflaum Lecture
Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of Missions and World Christianity at Yale University History Department
The lecture will assess the role of religion in the new world order and suggest how historical study can help illuminate present-day challenges.
Co-sponsored by the history department
“Continuing the Conversation”
All are welcome to stay for The Clarke Forum’s student led follow-up discussion immediately following the presentation. Refreshments prov ... Read more...
World Music Concert: Tracing Music from Africa to the American Continents
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
8:00 p.m. - Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall
Osubi I. Craig, traditional West African percussionist, performing artist, musical accompanist, arts educator and advocate
1:30 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.
Students and the public are invited to the World Music Class led by Professor Wlodarski
Weiss Center - Rm. 235
The group breaks down the composition of rhythmic music in Africa and demonstrates its direct influence on modern American music from African drums to Hip-Hop. The program continues with a musical examination of the links between Afro-Brazilian percussion, Afro-Cuban percussion, and West Afric ... Read more...
The Interaction of Regulation, Markets, and Technology: Consumer Empowerment in the Electric Power Industry
Tuesday, February 27, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Lynne Kiesling, senior lecturer of economics at Northwestern University and research scholar, Interdisciplinary Center for Economic Science at George Mason University
Widespread electric power was one of the most dramatic achievements of the 20th century, and throughout its life there has been great tension among regulation, markets, and technological change. This talk will explore those tensions, with specific applications to regulatory, economic, and technological change in the early 21st century. Digital technology has transformed how we live our lives in many wa ... Read more...
Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq
Monday, February 26, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
Thomas E. Ricks, Pulitizer-prize winning journalist, The Washington Post, and author
As the title, “Fiasco” suggests, Thomas E. Ricks views the American war in Iraq as a misguided exercise in folly and incompetence. His book provides a detailed and comprehensive critique for anyone interested in understanding how the United States came to go to war in Iraq, how an insurgency emerged, and how these events will affect the future of the United States. Ricks will discuss his findings and respond to questions from the audience.
Co-sp ... Read more...
Oil, War, and Geopolitics: The Global Struggle Over Disappearing Petroleum
Thursday, February 22, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Stern Center, Great Room
Michael Klare, Five Colleges professor of peace and world security studies
As we move deeper into the 21st century, the global demand for energy in all its forms is rising at breakneck speed, but the global supply is failing to keep pace, producing intensified competition between the major consuming nations — especially the United States, China, Japan, and the European powers — for access to the available supply. On top of this, the center of gravity of world energy output is moving inexorably from the Global North to the Global South, producing increased anxiety and un ... Read more...
The Neoliberal City
Thursday, February 1, 2007
7:00 p.m. - Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of Geography, Department of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
The global economic transformations that have occurred since 1970 or so are increasingly being referred to in terms of the rise of a “neoliberal” form of political economy (privatization, the withdrawal of the state from social provision, the inculcation of an ethic of personal responsibility). The urban consequences of this transformation have been the focus of considerable attention, but the New Yo ... Read more...
Open House and Reception
Monday, December 4, 2006
Open House and Reception
Please join us as we celebrate our name change from The Clarke Center to the Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues.
249-255 W. Louther Street, Carlisle
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Humans First Altered Climate Thousands (Not Hundreds) of Years Ago
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Humans First Altered Climate Thousands (Not Hundreds) of Years Ago
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Issue in Context
The earth’s climate naturally goes through periods of warming and cooling. Currently, the average temperature of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate. The most common conjecture of environmental scientists is that human actions are accelerating the natural warming of the planet. The amount of greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) and methane (CH 4 ), present in the atmosphere has increased, due in part to human consumption of fossil fuels such as oil, coal and natural gas. Most scientists attribute this increase to the population growth and the industrialization of the past few hun ... Read more...
Concert: Works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Saraste
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Concert: Works by Beethoven, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Saraste
Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall, 4:00 p.m.
Program
Ludwig Van Beethoven, Sonata No. 8, Op.30
Sergei Prokofiev, Sonata in D major, Op. 94
Intermission
Maurice Ravel, Sonata for violin and cello
About the Performers
Richard Amoroso
Violinist Richard Amoroso joined The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1998. Born in 1970 to a musical family, he is well-known for his involvement in the Philadelphia musical community and for his extensive work with young people. A former pupil of past Philadelphia Orchestra concertmasters, Norman Carol and William de Pasquale, Mr. Amoroso continues in the long and rich tradition of these artists.Recent eng ... Read more...
Bilingual Education Symposium
Thursday, November 16, 2006
Bilingual Education Symposium
Common Hour
Part I: Historical, Demographic and Legal Trends
Grace Jarvis, Professor of Spanish, Dickinson College
Marcia Kile, ESL Coordinator, LIU
Tina Trozzo, World Languard Program Chair, CASD
Weiss Center, Rubendall Recital Hall, 12:00 pm
Part II: The National Debate
Raul Gonzalez, National Council of La Raza
Don Soifer, Lexington Institute
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 pm
Issue in Context
Started in 1968 by the federal government, bilingual education programs are designed to educate students whose first language is one other than English. The goal of these programs is to help students bec ... Read more...
Afghanistan Beyond the Burqa
Thursday, November 9, 2006
Afghanistan Beyond the Burqa
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Issue in Context
A free and compulsory education is viewed by many as one of the most fundamental of all human rights. However, at least 125 million worldwide children are denied basic education and one in three adults remain illiterate, according to the Global Campaign for Education.
Under the Taliban, basic education declined between 1996 and 2001, causing an increased percentage of illiteracy and low rate of school attendance. School curriculum was restricted, schools were destroyed and female education was banned. The government closed all of the girls’ schools in the country and prevented female teachers from working. Some girls we ... Read more...
Women Confronting Globalization
Wednesday, November 8, 2006
Women Confronting Globalization
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
Issue in Context
Ninety percent of Mexico ’s potable water comes from Chiapas, but many communities have no access to fresh water. Similarly, Chiapas is Mexico’s top producer of hydroelectric energy and a major producer of natural fuels, and yet most of Chiapas ‘ indigenous people live without electricity. The Zapatistas, a largely non-violent revolutionary group struggling for the autonomy of indigenous people, has spent the last two decades raising awareness of local conditions domestically and internationally. Early in the Zapatista’s history, women joined the ranks and many rose to leadership positions, eventually ... Read more...
From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster Figure
Thursday, November 2, 2006
From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster Figure
Stern Center, Great Room, 7:00 p.m.
Issue in Context
What does one associate with an Italian-American: pasta, large families, nice clothes, masculine men, and the mafia? These are some of the common stereotypes Americans have had about Italians living in the United States since they began arriving in the late 19 th century. Violence, sexism, machismo, overt sexuality and an obsession with abundance have characterized the persona of the Italian-American gangsters of yesterday in films such as The Godfather or Goodfellas. Represented as highly physical, the images of Italian men have helped construct what it meant to be an American man. The â ... Read more...
The Plain People of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
The Plain People of Pennsylvania
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, 7:00 p.m.
Issue in Context
Early this fall, the murder of five students in an Amish schoolhouse thrust a community and its culture into the international media spotlight and sent shockwaves through the Pennsylvania communities that had for so long coexisted with these peaceful people. Despite our vicinity to this culture, there is little understanding of these people who are known for their conservative dress and restricted use of modern technologies, such as electricity and cars.
About the Speaker
Donald B. Kraybill is Distinguished College Professor and Senior Fellow in the Young Center for Anabaptist and Pietist Studie ... Read more...