Schedule of Programs
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Daniel J. Desmond (Pennsylvania Office of Energy and Technology Deployment)
Focus the Nation: Global Warming Solutions
Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium - 7:00 p.m.
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
Cindi Katz (City University of New York, Graduate Center)
Writing on the Wall: From Disaster to Doing Something
Holland Union Building, Social Hall - 7:00 p.m.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008
Transnational Gender and Sexuality Symposium
**All sessions to be held in Stern Center, Great Room
10:30 a.m. Denise Brennan (Georgetown University) - Love Work and Sex Work in the Dominican Republic
1:00 p.m. France Winddance Twine (University of California, Santa Barbara) - Written on the Body: Hair and Heritage in Black Europe
2:30 p.m. Karen Kelsky (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) - The Personal is Personal: Predicaments of the Lesbian Feminist Subject in Japan
4:30 p.m. Panel Discussion
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Thursday, February 21, 2008
Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurship
Hans Dellien (Women’s World Banking)
Camilla Nestor (The Grameen Foundation)
Benjamin Powell (Agora Partnerships)
Craig Weeks ‘77 (J.P. Morgan Chase), moderator
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Vanessa Tyson (Consortium for Faculty Diversity Fellow)
Power and Influence in the House: Progressive Coalitions, Interracial Alliances and Marginal Group Politics
Lunch discussion - reservations required
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Rush Award
Stephen Adler (Editor-in-Chief, Business Week Magazine)
The Future of Media
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Somdatta Mondal (scholar-in-residence with Community Studies)
Walking in a Sari and Combat Boots: Texts and Contexts of South Asian Diasporic Cinema
Lunch discussion - reservations required
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Drinking Age Debate
Legal Age 21 after 23 Years: Has it Worked? Is it Working?
John McCardell (Choose Responsibility)
Chuck Hurley ‘67 (MADD)
Moderator, Douglas Edlin (Political Science)
Holland Union Building Social Hall - 7:00 p.m.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Dr. Robert Cook-Deegan (Duke University)
Genomics and Intellectual Property: Life in the Information Jungle
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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Thursday, March 20, 2008
Erika Doss (University of Notre Dame)
Memorial Mania: Issues of Commemoration and Affect in Contemporary America
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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Monday, March 24, 2008
Morgan Lecture
Cynthia Enloe (Clark University, Worcester, MA)
Women and Men in the Iraq War: What Can a Feminist Curiosity Reveal?
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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March 27, 2008
Mark C. Alexander (Senior Advisor for Senator Barack Obama)
Presidential Politics and the Obama Campaign
Stern Center, Great Room - 1:00 p.m.
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March 28, 2008
Diana Putman (U.S. Army War College)
Engendering Development: Experience from the Field
Lunch discussion - reservations required
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
The New Mediterranean Symposium
11:00 a.m. - Panel Discussion with Mark LeVine (University of California, Irvine); Marie Orton (Truman State University, Missouri); and Tahar Lamri (prize-winning author from Italy and North Africa) with Tullio Pagano, Assoc. Professor of French and Italian, moderating.
1:30 p.m. - Tahar Lamri
*** 11:00 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. sessions to be held in Stern Center, Great Room
7:00 p.m. - Culture Jam led by Mark LeVine
8:30 p.m. - World Music Concert - Cafe Mira
***7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. sessions to be held in Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Kimberly Dozier (CBS News)
Breathing the Fire: Fighting to Report–and Survive–the War in Iraq
Stern Center, Great Room - 7:00 p.m.
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