Current
Friday, June 5 through Sunday, June 7 The 2009
Annual meeting of the Bertrand Russell Society
More information is available here.
The Right Use of Power:
Workshop on: dynamic & relational approach to ethical awareness &
sensitivity
Cedar
Barstow, M.Ed., C.H.T
Friday, June 12-16,
2009
More information here.
Contact:
Richard Cheney 860-832-2270;
cheneyris@mail.ccsu.edu
Recent
Through May 10. East Asian Spring Lecture Series.
Schedule/information,
here.
Friday, May 1, 7:30 pm, Welte Auditorium.
Anderson Cooper, host of CNN’s premier
primetime newscast, Anderson Cooper 360°, will be this year’s
Robert C. Vance Distinguished Lecturer. The lecture is free and
open to the public; tickets will be necessary for admission. More
information here:
http://www.ccsu.edu/Vance09.htm
Tuesday, May 5, 7:00pm
Vance Academic Center, Rm 105. The 2009 Milewski
Lecture in Polish History. “Poland, Auschwitz, and the Uses
of History,” Jonathan Huener, Ph.D. Contact:
jacquesm@ccsu.edu or (860) 832-3010.
Wednesday, May 6,
1 PM. Philbrick-Camp Room, Student Center:
First Annual Brian O'Connell Memorial Lecture.
Dr. Susan Hoban,
Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Earth Sciences and
Research Center: “From STEM to Stern(e): Actually, It Was the Other Way
Around; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education
today. Sponsored by Computer Science, Philosophy, Physics-Earth
Sciences. Departments, and the Office of the Vice President for
Institutional Advancement This lecture is part of the activities for the
International Year of Astronomy and the first of an annual series of
lectures in memory of Prof. Brian O'Connell of the
CCSU
Computer Science and Philosophy Departments. Information
here.
Tuesday, April 28 Merlin Mann,
creator of the popular productivity website 43folders.com & member of
comedy podcasting group You Look Nice Today. Series of lectures: 10am
“Broken Meetings—and How You’ll Fix Them” (Alumni Hall); 3pm
“Future-Proof Your Passion: The Job You Never Knew You Wanted” (Alumni
Hall); and 5.30 pm. "Inbox
Zero" (Alumni Hall, Student
Center).
Contact: Jason B. Jones (jonesjason1@ccsu.edu).
Tuesday April 28, 2009, 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM.
Vance 105, Finance Association presents Raymond
S. Nichols, FCAS, FCA, Consulting Actuary and formerly Senior
Vice President and Chief Actuary for AIG (New Hampshire),
“Loss Reserving Basics.” Contact: hyatsye@ccsu.edu.
Monday, April 27, 4:30 p.m., Torp. “The
Last Lecture: Forty-Two Years at CCSU,” CSU Professor Norton
Mezvinsky. Information
here. Contact: Matthew Warshauer, 2-2803.
Warshauerm@ccsu.edu.
Monday, April 20, 4:00 p.m., Vance 105 Middle East Lecture Series
Presents Dr. Tareq Y. Ismael,
Professor of Political Science, University of Calgary. Professor Ismael
will lecture on the current situation in Iraq.
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
2-2805.
Monday,
April 13, 2:00 PM, NC 336, Biology Seminar,
Andrew M. Stoehr,
PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary
Biology, Yale. “Butterfly Wing Patterns: A Look from the
Outside In and Back Again.” Contact: Tom Mione,
Mionet@ccsu.edu
2nd
ANNUAL GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY SYMPOSIUM
April 15-16, 2009
Information here.
Dr. S. Khalid
Shaukat,
Physicist and Astronomer at NRC Author of Moonsighting.com
“Astronomy of the Earth and Moon, and Importance of Birth of New Moon
in the Islamic Calendar.”
Wednesday, April 15, 7:00
PM, Room 231 Nicolaus Copernicus Hall. An International Year of
Astronomy event.
Contact:
Larsen@ccsu.edu
Thursday, April 16, 12:15 - 1:30pm,
Connecticut Room, Memorial Hall,
"THE REAL COST OF THE WAR ON DRUGS,"
Clifford Thornton, founder of Efficacy, a CT organization
devoted to drug policy reform. Sponsored by the Governor
William A. O’Neill Endowed Chair in Public Policy & Practical
Politics and The Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy.
Contact: Aileen Keays at
keaysaik@ccsu.edu
Susan Campbell Hartford Courant
columnist
speaking on her new book Dating Jesus
April
7, 12:30 pm
CCSU bookstore
Contact: Heather Munro Prescott
Prescott@ccsu.edu
Tuesday,
April 7, 3:00 pm, Alumni Hall, Student Center,
Ted
Turner, "The UN & Our Common Future." Tickets required;
information here: Ted Turner.
Wednesday, April 8, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM,
Vance 105, “Current US and World Economic Crisis,”
Edward Guay, former Chief Economist at Cigna. Presented by
the Finance Association. Contact: Syed A. Hyat,
hyatsye@ccsu.edu.
Women’s History Month
events,
www.ccsu.edu/CCSUnews/WHM09.htm.
A Woman's Place
is in the Dome:
Famous Women
Observers
Dr. Kristine
Larsen,
Tuesday, March 31, 7 PM
Copernicus lecture hall (room 231).
Contact 832-2938
School of Business - Executive Breakfast
Series “Profiting From Going Green”
Wednesday, April 1; Tuesday, April 21; Tuesday, May 12.
7–9 AM
Issues: From Red To Green: Transforming Role of Sustainability in
Corporate Strategy; Sustainability Accounting & Reporting;
Sustainability & Greening Through IT Management
Connecticut Room, Memorial Hall
Contact: Richard Cheney; 860.832.2270;
cheneyris@mail.ccsu.edu
Information and registration
here
Sheila Tobias,
author and science education consultant
The "Problem" with Women in Science: Why Is It So Hard To Convince
People There Is One?
Wednesday, April 1, 4pm
Philbrick Camp Room, Student Center
Contact Heather Prescott
Prescott@ccsu.edu
Mary Patrice Erdmans
CCSU
Professor of Sociology
“How
Are New Polish Immigrants Doing in the US? Educational & Occupational
Trends in the Past 40 Years”
The S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish Studies Annual
Fiedorczyk Lecture
Wednesday, April 1,
7:00pm
Vance Academic Center, Rm 105
Contact:
jacquesm@ccsu.edu
or 2-3010.
“Strategies for Peace, Global Sustainability & Conflict
Transformation: Teaching Peace Across Disciplines.”
Interactive symposium will present
college/university faculty with leading-edge information and proven
pedagogies to include peace in curriculums
Friday, April 3,
8:00 am –4:00 pm
Registration fee: $20
Schedule
here. Register
here. Contact: Carol Austad
austad@ccsu.edu.
Saturday, March 21,
8:00am – 3:00pm Student Center: 3rd Literacy Essentials Conference,
organized by the Department of Reading and Language Arts. Keynote
presenter: Dr. David Berliner, a Regents' Professor in the College
of Education at Arizona State University. Registration: $75 ($40 for
undergraduates). Contact Cara Mulcahy (mulcahy_cam@ccsu.edu)
and Julia Kara-Soteriou (karaiou@ccsu.edu).
Check
http://www.reading.ccsu.edu/
Public talk and book signing by
UConn Professor of Physics Ronald Mallett,
author of
Time Traveler: A Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make
Time Travel a Reality,
memoir by one of America's first African American PhDs in theoretical
physics.
Wednesday, March 18, 7 PM,
Founders Hall
Contact: Kristine Larsen,
Larsen@ccsu.edu
“Utilizing
Financial Reports to Diagnose a Turnaround”
Ruurd Leegstra,
Price Waterhouse Cooper
Wednesday,
March 18, 5:00 – 6:30 PM
Vance 105,
Contact: Syed Hyat,
Hyatsye@ccsu.edu
Ronald Mallett,
UConn Professor of Physics & author of
Time
Traveler:A
Scientist’s Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality,
Wednesday, March 18, 7:00 pm
Founders Hall
Contact: Kristine Larsen,
Larsen@ccsu.edu
Ms. Gloria
Steinem
Thursday,
March 19 2:00 pm
Torp
Theatre,
Davidson Hall
COEEA (Connecticut
Outdoor and Environmental Education Association),
in partnership with the CT Partnership in Sustainability Education and
CCSU’s School of Education, is holding its annual conference at CCSU.
The topic: Sustainability Education for the 21st Century. (More details
to come later.)
Thursday, March 19, 8:45—Alumni Hall.
Annual Women's History Month Luncheon
Tuesday, March 10, noon.
Bellin Gallery, Student Center
Documentary filmmaker
Judith Helfand,
Professor of Film and Television, New York University, "Don't Shoot
the Messenger: Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet."
Committee on the Concerns of Women and the Ruth Boyea Women's Center
Present .
Dr. Helfand will introduce and screen her latest film "Everything's
Cool" which describes growing concern about global warming in the
wake of the most dangerous chasm ever to emerge between scientific
understanding and political action.
Tickets for lunch: $20.00, available at Centix in the Student
Center. Seats available for those who want to hear the lecture
without purchasing lunch. At 2pm, in Alumni Hall. The film is free and open to the public.
Tuesday, March 17,
11:00 am-12:15 pm, Torp Theater, Carlos Cortes, Professor
Emeritus of History at UC Riverside and faculty member at Harvard
Institutes for Higher Education, will present to students on the media’s
role in our understanding and accepting of diversity. Author of the
Making—and Remaking—of a Multiculturist, Cortes will be doing a
faculty workshop in Founder’s hall from 2:00-4:00 on incorporating
diversity into the curriculum. And he is doing a one-man performance in
Semester’s (Student Union) from 7:00-8:00 pm. Contact: Carolyn Fallahi.
"Manufacturing
Operations and Quality Control"
Industrial Technology
Alumni Lecture Series,
Michael Kane,
Tiffany&Co.,
Wednesday, March 4
5:00 p.m.
NC 236
Contact: Paul Resetarits,
Resetarits@ccsu.edu
My Bipolar Road Trip in 4D, Inquiry into the Nature and Treatment of
Manic Depression—her own and others.
Wednesday, March 4, 7:00pm, Torp Theater
Lizzie Simon
Contact: Lila Coddington, CASD Coordinator & NAMI on Campus Club
Advisor 832-0078,
coddingtonL@ccsu.edu
The Modern Civil
Rights Movement in the US: 1954-1965
Felton O. Best,
CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director, African-American Studies
Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM,
Founders Hall, Davidson Administration Building
Contact: David Blitz
Blitz@ccsu.edu
“Critical Race Theory and Higher Education”
Professor
Daniel Solórzano
March 6, 9:30 a.m.-11:30
a.m
Student Center/Blue and White 133
Contact: Yhara Nieto-Zelinka 2-0178 or
st_nieto@ccsu.edu
or Moises Salinas at
salinasm@ccsu.edu
Saturday, March 7, 8 am to 4:30 pm,
Student Center, 3rd CCSU Conference for Language Teachers
- Bridging Cultural Identities
Contact: Dr. Carmela Pesca
at
pescac@ccsu.com.
To register go to
http://www.ccsu.edu/coned/Conferences%20and%20Workshops.htm
Saturday, February 28,
10:00am- 4:00pm (lunch provided), Student Center: An Unfinished
Conversation: How we can build community in a diverse environment.
Diversity workshop with Lee Mun Wah,
nationally acclaimed lecturer/trainer of diversity. Register at 2-1990
or e-mailing
kaupaslia@ccsu.edu
by Friday, February 20.
The Invisible Birds of
Ralph Ellison and the Future of Environmental Education, Biology Seminar
David Spector,
Professor of Biology
Monday, March 2, 2 P.M. Copernicus 236
Contact: Tom Mione,
Mionet@ccsu.edu
"After
Gaza: The Catastrophic Status of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”
Mark Perry,
author, foreign policy analyst and
Co-Director of Conflicts Forum, Washington DC & Beirut
Monday, February 23,
4:00 p.m. Founders
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
832-2805
"Una escritura entre el periodismo y la literatura" (lecture in
Spanish)
Ignacio Carrion,
writer and correspondent for some of the major newspapers in Spain, such
as El Pais, Abc and Cambio 16
Tuesday February 24, 4:00pm
Camp Room, Student Center
Contact: Paloma Lapuerta
LapuertaP@ccsu.edu
Sixth Annual Amistad
Lecture: “The African Struggle for
Empowerment: From
AMISTAD
to Barack Obama,”
Tuesday, February 24,
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Founders Hall, Davidson Building
Dr. Paul Tiyambe Zeleza,
President of the (U.S.) African Studies Association, Head of the
Department of African American Studies, Professor of African American
Studies and History, and Distinguished Professor at the University of
Illinois at Chicago.
Contact: Dr. Olusegun Sogunro at 832-2131 or Dr.
Gloria Emeagwali at 832-2815.
Remembering African Captivity and Resistance Through African Eyes: The
Black Public Sphere in White Public Space
(documentary film directed by
Haile Gerima)
Discussion with Professors
Warren Perry
and
Evelyn Phillips.
Thursday, February 26,
4:30 p.m. Vance 105.
Contacts:
Yhara Zelinka
nietoyhp@ccsu.edu or 860-832-0178; Warren
Perry at
perryw@ccsu.edu,
Evelyn Phillips at
phillipse@ccsu.edu.
Living Room Lecture series.
- “Internet Addiction: Digital Affliction for the Modern Age.”
Dr. David Greenfield
Monday, February 23,
7:30 pm,
Vance 105,
Contact: Laura Levine,
LevineL@ccsu.edu
“Blood and Guts: Small
Mammal Defenses Against Rattlesnake Predators.”
James Biardi,
PhD, Fairfield University,
Monday,
February 23,NC 336, 2:00 pm
Contact:
Mionet@ccsu.edu
Wednesday, February
18,
noon,
CCSU
Bookstore, Central Authors: Professor of Anthropology
David Kideckel
Getting By in Postsocialist Romania: Labor, the Body, and Working Class
Culture.
Contact: Gil Gigliotti,
Gigliotti@ccsu.edu
Ned
Lamont, Distinguished
Professor of Political Science & Philosophy and Chair, Arts & Sciences
Public Policy Committee
The Challenge of War & Recession: Barack Obama's First 30 Days
Wednesday,
February 18,
1:00 pm
Marcus White Living Room
Contact: David
Blitz,
Blitz@ccsu.edu; 832-2916
Thursday, February 19,
11:00 am. Founders. Todd
A. Smitherman, Assistant Professor and Licensed Clinical
Psychologist, Department of Psychology, University of Mississippi
The Psychology of Headache Medicine
Contact: Laura Levine,
LevineL@ccsu.edu
Wednesday, February
11, noon,
CCSU Bookstore, Central Authors: Professor of History
Heather Munro Prescott
Student Bodies: the Influence of
Student Health Services in American Society and Medicine.
Contact: Gil Gigliotti,
Gigliotti@ccsu.edu
Wednesday, February
11, noon, Student Center Alumni Hall.
Laughing
at Hard Times with Dr. Regina Barreca,
Speaker, Humorist, Best Selling Author and Professor, Lunch will be
provided. For purpose of food count please pick up complimentary tickets
at CENtix, Student Center Information Desk. For more information
please contact Jacqueline Cobbina-Boivin, Monique Daley, 2-1655.
Judy Shepard, gay rights
advocate & mother of Matthew Shepard
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
7:30 pm
Alumni Hall,
Student Center
Contact: Scott Hazan
Hazanscz@ccsu.edu
"State Terrorism in the Middle East"
Norman Finkelstein,
independent scholar
and author of several books on the Middle East
Thursday,
February 12
4:00 p.m.
Founders Hall, Davidson
Contact: Evelyn Newman Phillips 2-2617,
phillipse@ccsu.edu
“Aviary”
Michael Pestel
Thursday,
February 5- March 5
CCSU Art Galleries, Maloney Hall 2nd fl
a multi-media art installation and hands-on performance space for the
conceptual exploration of bird sounds we can no longer hear and a study
area for those that we can. The exhibition brings together a variety of
music ensemble set-ups, architectural structures, video projections and
audio installations. Opening reception February 5, 4 - 7 pm;
Artist Lecture preceding reception, 3 – 4; Artist performance during
reception, 4:30.
Contact: 832-2633; ro-mimi.gallery@hotmail.com;
Barack
Obama and Reflections of Lincoln
Peniel
E. Joseph, Associate Professor of
Africana Studies, Brandeis University
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
4:00 pm, Torp Theatre (tentative)
For other events in this series: here
Contact:
Felton O. Best, bestf@ccsu.edu
2-2190
“Drug Policy for the 21st
Century”
Wednesday, February 4
8:30 am– 4:30 pm Alumni Hall: Student Center
Keynote:
Ethan
Nadelmann, Drug Policy Alliance
Sponsors: Center for Public Policy & Social Research, Institute for
the Study of Crime & Justice and The Gov. William A. O’Neill
Endowed Chair in Public Policy & Practical Politics
Contact: Lyndsay Ruffalo, 832-1872
Click here to register online
Symposium: "'Inside' the
Mumbai Terror Attacks"
Panel: David
Kideckel, Anthropology; Paul Petterson,
Political Science; Nanjundiah Sadanand,
Physics-Earth Science
Wednesday, December 10,
Noon to 1:00 PM
Diloreto 109
Contact: David Kideckel, Kideckel@ccsu.edu
Tiffany Doan,
Department of Biology “Tropical Geography and Ecology in Peru”
Monday, December 8, Rm. 231 Copernicus, at 2:00 pm
The
Honorable
Madeleine Kunin,
former governor of VT, former US ambassador to Switzerland
Response panel: The Honorable Julie
Belaga, former gubernatorial candidate in CT and Regional EPA Director
and Import Export Bank Director, a CCSU Professor, and a CCSU Student
Wednesday, December 3, 2:00 PM
Torp
Theatre
Contact:
Pauline@Kezerconsulting.com (860) 388-5633
“The Geography of Wine: How
Landscapes, Cultures, Terroir, and the Weather Make a Good Drop”
Central Authors, Professor of Geography
Brian Sommers
Wednesday, December 3, Noon
Bookstore
Contact: Gil Gigliotti, Gigliotti@CCSU.edu.
“Rock
Magnetism and Chemical Remagnetization in the Central Appalachians”
Mark Evans
Thursday, Dec 4, 11:30 am
NC Planetarium Robert F. Voytek Memorial
Lecture
Refreshments served at 11:00AM.
Contact: Ali Antar,
antar@ccsu.edu
"Enslaved Infants and Brazilian Baptismal Practices in the
Colonial and Postcolonial periods"
A Case Study from the Parish
of Sao Jose do Rio das Mortes, 1750-1850.
Professor Douglas Libby of
the Department of History of the Federal University of Minas Gerais,
Brazil
Thursday, December 4,
2:00 p.m.
DiLoreto 200
hosted by The Latin American Studies
Committee
Contact: Mary Ann Mahony, mahonym@ccsu.edu for further details.
“The Latin American
Experience: From National to Transnational”
First Connecticut
Latin American Studies Research Conference
Friday, December 5, 9:00 am
Schedule: here
Contact:
MaryAnn Mahony, MahonyM@ccsu.edu
Sponsors: The Connecticut Latin Americanist
Partnership (The Yale Council on Latin American and Iberian Studies;
UCONN Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UCONN International Studies;
CCSU Latin American Studies Committee), CCSU Center for International
Education, and the Hartford Consortium for Higher Education.
Niloufar Talebi, poet; editor of Belonging: New Poetry by Iranians around the World
Tuesday, December 2, at 3:30 pm
Vance 105
Contact:
Gil Gigliotti mailto:Gigliotti@ccus.edu
“Social
Justice, Women of Color, and the HIV/AIDS Crisis”
Sheryl Lee Ralph, Actress,
Activist & Speaker
Monday, December 1, 2:00 PM
Vance Academic, Room
105
Contact: Monique Daly, DalyMO@ccsu.edu
"Marriage & Family Therapy in
the New Millennium:
Cutting Edge Opportunities & Innovations in MFT
Training at CCSU.”
Saturday, November 22, 1:30 – 5:00 pm
Founders Hall
Sponsors:
CCSU MFT Program and the MFT Graduate Student Association in Association
with Wheeler Clinic
Contact: Ralph Cohen: 2-2122;
cohenr@ccsu.edu
CSU-CIE
International Education Conference
Strengthening
International Education Across the CSU System
Friday,
November 21
Information & Registration:
here
Contact: Lisa Bigelow,
Associate Director, Center for International Education, CCSU:
860-832-2042
The Governor’s
Summit on Preventing Urban Youth Violence: Creating Solutions
through Innovative Collaborations Statewide
Governor M.
Jodi Rell
Rev. Shelley
D.B. Copeland, President and
CEO, Conference of Churches
Deborah
Smolover Esq., Lecturer
and Public Policy Consultant, Yale Child Study Center, National Center
for Children Exposed to Violence
Tio Hardiman
- Director, Gang Mediation and Community Organizing: CeaseFire
Tuesday, November
18, 8:45am (Registration begins at 7:30)
Student Center, Alumni Hall
Information
& Registration information here
Contact: Andrew Clark, clarkanj@ccsu.edu, 832-1871
Lebanon, Hezbollah, and the
Curse of State
Middle East Lecture Series
Issam Michael Saliba,
Senior Foreign Law Specialist
(Islamic law & laws of Arab states), Law Library of Congress
November 19, at 4:30 p.m.
Founders Hall
(Davidson Hall)
Contact: Norton
Mezvinsky, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
832-2805
Journalism Conference-- Where We Are; Where We’re
Going
Keynote Speaker: Adam Davidson, NPR correspondent
November 13
Founders Hall: 11 a.m-5 p.m. & Torp Theatre:
7-9p.m.
Schedule: here
Contacts: Vivian Martin MartinV@ccsu.edu Anthony Cannella Cannella@ccsu.edu
Phonological
Typology and Optimality Theory
Professor
Kazutaka Kurisu
of Kobe College (Japan)
Tuesday,
November 11, 5:00 PM
Vance Academic Center, Room 105
Contact: Seunghun Lee, lfile://leeseu@ccsu.edu/
Blueprint for Connecticut Prosperity
Bruce Katz, Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy
Program, The Brookings Institute, Washington, DC and
The Adeline M.
Alfred I. Johnson, Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy
Thursday, November 6, at 2:00 pm
Student Center 2nd floor, Room
1849
Contact: David Blitz,
http://www.ccsu.edu/conferences/Blitz@ccsu.edu, 832-2916
The Center for Africana Studies Annual Conference
"Foreign Intervention in Africa: The 21st-Century
Scramble"
Friday,
November 7,
9:30am -
4:00pm
Schedule: here
Torp Theater, Davidson Hall
Contact:
Evelyn Phillips, Phillipse@ccsu.edu; 832-2617
Suicide Warriors, Terrorism, and the
West: A Psychological Perspective
Jamshid A. Marvasti, MD, Psychiatrist,
Editor, Psycho-Political Aspects
of Suicide Warriors, Terrorism and Martyrdom
Monday, November
3, 4:00 PM
Robert C. Vance Academic Center Auditorium
(Room 105)
Contact: Farid Farahmand 2-2568; or Ali
Antar 2-2931
Family Farms in
Nicaragua: Prospects and Perspectives
Gloria
Alba Andino Lopez, distinguished Nicaraguan
community leader/development activist: with Witness for Peace
Information
here.
Thursday, October 30, 2:00 pm
Marcus White Living
Room
Contact: Sarah Stookey stookeysab@ccsu.edu
How the Latinos are
portrayed in the US media
Laurie Pérez, Anchor Fox News 61
Thursday, Oct. 30, 5:00pm
Student
Center, Second Floor, Room 1849
Contact: Antonio García, garciaa@ccsu.edu, 832-0056
Law and Ethics of War
Based Upon Judaic Sources.
Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, distinguished scholar and
rabbinical and legal authority
Thursday, October 30, 7:00 p.m.
Founders Hall (Davidson)
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
832-2805
Concert and Mini-lectures on
History on Andean Culture and Music.
Andean Music Group
Friday, Oct. 31 at 12:00 noon
Student
Center, Semesters
Contact: Antonio García, garciaa@ccsu.edu, 832-0056
CCSU Lecture: The
Latino community in the US: race and immigration.
Professor Ronald Fernández
Wednesday, October 29, 12:00
noon
Center for Caribbean & Latin American Center,
Elihu Burrit Library, Main Floor
Contact: Antonio García, garciaa@ccsu.edu, 832-0056
The Latino Vote in the
Presidential Elections, 2008
Professor Rodolfo de La Garza, Columbia University, Moderator: Professor David Blitz.
Thursday, October 23, 12:00pm
Sprague
Room, Student Center
Contact: Antonio García, garciaa@ccsu.edu, 832-0056
Genocide & State Terrorism in Africa
Dr. Edward Kissi, Assistant Professor, Africana
Studies, University of South Florida
Thursday,
October 23, 4:00 pm
Vance 105
Contact:
Evelyn Phillips, Phillipse@ccsu.edu; 832-2617
Disparity in Connecticut: Where Are We
Now and Where Are We Heading?
Connecticut Commission on Racial and Ethnic Disparity in the
Criminal Justice System along with
Central Connecticut State
University’s Institute for the Study of Crime & Justice
Wednesday,
October 22, 8:30 am-4:40 pm
Welte Auditorium
Information and registration:
www.ct.gov/redcjs/site/default.asp
Expanding the Boundaries of
Sport Media Research: An Exploration of Consumer Responses to
Representations of Women's Sports
Dr. Mary Jo Kane, Director,
Tucker Center for Research on Girls & Women in Sport, University of
Minnesota
Tuesday, October 14
Vance
105--4:00 p.m.
Contact: Heather Munro Prescott, 2-2809 prescott@ccsu.edu
Financial Crisis 2008: Panel
Discussion at CCSU
How did we arrive at the current
financial crisis? What is being done and can be done? How will this
affect Connecticut and CCSU? What lessons can we draw? What steps should
we take as an institution and as individuals? Join our panelists in
examining these and other issues.
When:
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2008, 12:00 - 1:00 PM
Where:
Robert C. Vance Hall, Room 105
Moderator: Ned Lamont, Arts and Sciences Public
Policy Committee
Panelists: Sarah
Stookey, Management & Organization
Paul Altieri, Economics
Larry Grasso, Accounting
Stephen Morris, Vice President, Legal and
Compliance, major Wall Street bank holding company
Daniel Richard, Student in Management and
Organization
Presidential Surrogates Election Debate
On behalf of Barack Obama: Ned Lamont,
2006 Democratic Candidate for Senate, Adjunct faculty, School
of Arts and Sciences
On behalf of John McCain: J. R. Romano, Financial Advisor, Past
Political Director, Connecticut Republican Party
Moderator: Paul Petterson, Chair, CCSU Department of
Political Science
Questions period to follow the debate
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008, 1pm – 2pm
Marcus White Living Room
Contact: David Blitz,
Blitz@ccsu.edu; 832-2916
US Ambassador David Scheffer
Lawyer/diplomat who served as
the first US
Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, during
President
Bill Clinton's second term
“U.S. Policy and International Criminal Court”
Tuesday, October 7, 2 pm
Torp Auditorium, Davidson Building
Contact: Evelyn
Phillips, Phillipse@ccsu.edu; 832-2617
Polish Genealogical
Conference
Featured Speakers: Professor
M.B. Biskupski, Dr. Stephen Morse, Romuald K. Byczkiewicz, Jonathan Shea,
& Matthew Bielawa
Friday-Saturday, October 3-4
Student Center
To register and for more information:
www.pgsctne.org/events_conferences.html
Contact: Diane Szepanski, Szepanski@ccsu.edu
Harry C. Boyte,
author of The Citizen Solution: How You Can Make a Difference; senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute of
Public Affairs and cofounder of the institute's nonpartisan Center for
Democracy and Citizenship
Thursday, September 25, two
presentations
For students and
faculty: "The Civic Solution: How You Can Make a Difference"
9:30-11:00 AM (Founders Hall)
For campus community: "Working
Together on Common Challenges Through Community Engagement Initiatives"
1:30-3:30 PM (Founders Hall)
Contact: Paulette Lemma,
832-2364; or Lemma@ccsu.edu
Election 2008: Will
the Environment Win or Lose?
A Panel Discussion
Panelists: Ned Lamont, 2006 Democratic candidate for US Senate &
CCSU adjunct professor of philosophy; Daniel Esty, Director of Yale
Center for Environmental Law and Policy; Rev. Tom Carr, Co-Founder of
Inter-religious Eco-Justice Network ; Chris Donovan, CT Speaker of the
House (invited); Andrew Roraback, CT Deputy Minority Leader Pro
Tempore (invited)
Moderator: Tom Condon, Hartford Courant
columnist and Deputy Editorial Page Editor
Monday, September 15
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Davidson Hall, Torp Theater
Contact:
Charles Button, Buttonche@ccsu.edu; 832-2788; or Gary
Ginsberg hologram7942@yahoo.com
CCSU Middle East
Lecture Series
“Syria, Israel and the Palestinians: Will There Be a
Peace Process in the Near Future?”
Norton
Mezvinsky, CSU Professor of History
Wednesday, September 17
4:00 p.m.
Founders Hall, Davidson
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
The Valkyrie & the Goddess: The
Warrior Woman in Fantasy
MYTHCON XXXIX: The Annual Conference of
the Mythopoeic Society
Friday, August 15, to Monday, August 18
Lectures & events will take place campus wide
Registration &
information: here
An Evening with Ned Lamont
"Business--Politics--Academics: Building Connecticut's Workforce"
Thursday, June 5, 6:00 pm
Memorial Hall, Constitution Room
Contact: 860-832-2586,
AhearnJ@ccsu.edu
Human Trafficking
Symposium
Monday May 12, 9:00 am -1:00
pm
Memorial Hall, Constitution Room
CT Dept. of Public Health
& the Center for Caribbean and Latin American Studies
Contact: Carmen
Lopez-Perry Lopez-PerryC@ccsu.edu; Ms.
Louise Smith, email louise.smith@ct.gov
The Status of
Syrian-United States & Syrian-Israeli Relations
Dr.
Imad Moustapha, the Ambassador of Syria to the United States
Tuesday, April 29, 4:00 p.m
Vance 105
Contact:
Norton Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu.
Remembering Norman
Mailer: Conversation with Barry Leeds, J. Michael Lennon & John Buffalo
Mailer
Thursday, April 24, 4:00 pm
Founders, Davidson
For more information: here
Contact:
Robert Dowling dowlingrom@ccsu.edu
The Socioeconomic Standing of the
Dominican People in The United States
Ramona Hernandez, Director of The Institute for
Dominican Studies at the City College of N.Y.
Tuesday, April 22,
12:00 to 2:00 pm
Marcus White Living Room
Contact: Moises
Salinas, salinasm@ccsu.edu , or
Carmen Lopez-Perry 860-832-0056
East Asian Studies Spring
Lecture Series
April 14-23
Schedule
Contact: Ki Hoon Kim, 832-2727; kimk@ccsu.edu
"The Existential Status of Democratic
Presidential Candidate Barack Obama"
Dr.
Riggins Earl, Professor of Ethics at the
Interdenominational Theological Seminary
The Carter G. Woodson
African-American Lecture Series
Thursday, April 17, 4:00 pm
Founders Hall
Contact: Felton O. Best 860-922-1747, BestF@ccsu.edu
Female Forms & Facets:
Artwork by Women from 1975 to the Present Featuring Judy Chicago with
Carolee Schneemann, Cindy Sherman, Penny Arcade, Janine Antoni, Lisa
Yuskavage, Judy Fox, Candice Raquel Lee, and Sara Risk
Exhibition and Presentations
Through April 18
Chen Art Galleries, Maloney Hall, 2nd floor
Information: Click here
"Vladimir Putin's
Legacy"
Professor Nicolai Petro,
University of Rhode Island
Monday, April 21, 2:00 pm
Founders
Contact: Matt Ciscel, Slavic/EE Coordinator, ciscelm@ccsu.edu
The Current Status of
the Israeli-Palestinian Situation
Asaf Shariv,
the Israeli Consul General in New
York
Tuesday, April 15, 4:00 p.m.
Torp Theater, Davidson
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky,
832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu.
Tax Reform and the Future of
Connecticut--Panel Discussion
Moderator: Ned Lamont
Panelists:
Dr. James Stodder, Lally School of Management and Technology, RPI at
Hartford;
and State Senator William H. Nickerson, Chief Deputy
Minority Leader, Connecticut State Senate
Tuesday, April 8, 10 am - 11:15 am
Clock
Tower Room, Student Center
Contact: David Blitz,
Blitz@ccsu.edu; 832-2916
Israel and Palestine
at 60th Anniversary: Is There a Solution?
Dr. Ghada Karmi,
one of world’s most renowned commentators on the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict and a well-known figure on British radio
and TV
Tuesday, April 8, 4:00 PM
Vance Academic Center, 105
Contact: Ali Antar antar@ccsu.edu; 2-2931
Latinos in Higher Education: The
California Experience
Dr.
Philip Garcia - Senior Director of Institutional
Research for the California State University, Office of the Chancellor.
Monday, April 7 - 4:00pm
Vance Academic
Center, Room 105
Contact: Moises Salinas, salinasm@ccsu.edu , or Carmen
Lopez-Perry 860-832-0056
June Baker
Higgins Gender Studies Conference
“Sexing the Vote: Gender, Sexuality, & Politics,”
April 3 & 4
Thursday, April 3, 5:15
pm: Film--“Running in High Heels,” film by Maryann Breschard
Torp
Theatre
Friday, April 4, Conference Schedule
Contact: Heather Munro Prescott, Prescott@ccsu.edu
Latin America in the Context of the
Americas: Changes and Challenges
Sergio Ramírez,
Nicaraguan writer and former Vice-President of Nicaragua
Wednesday, April 2 at 5:15 pm
Vance Academic Center, Room 105
Contact: Antonio Garcia-Lozada garciaa@ccsu.edu or Carmen Lopez-Perry
860-832-0056
Promoting Diversity in Higher
Education through Global Awareness
Moderator: Mathew Ciscel (English Department)
Speakers:
Beatriz Pastor -
Professor, Dartmouth College
Humphrey Tonkin - Professor of the Humanities
at the University of Hartford
Timothy Reagan
- Professor of Educational Leadership at CCSU
Monday, March 31, 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Founders Hall, Davidson
Administration Building
Contact: Paloma Lapuerta, 832-2884, lapuertap@ccsu.edu
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Pathways
to Peace
First International Academic
Conference
Friday-Saturday, March 28-29
CCSU Student Center
Information & Program: here
Contact: Moises Salinas, salinasm@ccsu.edu
Understanding Reproductive Justice
Loretta Ross activist, author and community
organizer
Tuesday, March 25,
5:15pm
Constitution Room, Memorial Hall
Contact: Monique Daley DaleyMo@ccsu.edu
The Black Power Movement in America–Past &
Present
Dr.
Peniel
Joseph, Brandeis
University, African and Afro-American Studies, & State University of New
York-Stonybrook, Africana Studies
Discussants:
Dr. Felton O. Best, director,
African American Studies, and Dr. Katherine
Harris, CCSU, Department of History
Thursday, March 13, 3:30 pm-5:00 pm
Founder's Hall, Davidson
Contact: Walton
Brown-Foster, 832-2961; brownw@ccsu.edu
GIS
Modeling in Medical Geography: A Case Study of SARS in Beijing
Dr. Ling Bian, Department of
Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo
Tuesday,
March 11
2:15 – 3:15
pm
Sprague
Room, Student Center
Contact:
Xiaoping Shen 832-2794; shenx@ccsu.edu
Guerrilla Girls on Tour:
Feminists Are Funny, with Gracie Allen, Aphra Behn, & Eva Le Gallienne
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Torp Theater
7:00 PM
Free & open to the
public
Information: Click
here;
View the Youtube clip here
Contact:
Prescott@ccsu.edu;
832-2809
The Justice System in
Connecticut:
It's Current Status and How You Can Get Involved:
Judicial Branch Career Opportunities (more
information)
Hon. Chase Rogers,
Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court
Hon.
Patrick L. Carroll III, Deputy Chief Court Administrator, and
Attorney
Melissa A. Farley, Executive
Director of External Affairs for the Judicial Branch
Chief Justice
Rogers will be introduced by
Ned
Lamont, Adj. Prof. in Political Science and Philosophy Depts.
Wednesday, March 5, 11:00 am
Philbrick-Camp
Room, Student Center
Contact: Ned Lamont,
lamontedm@ccsu.edu
The Challenge of Terrorism
Javier Ruperez, former Director, UN Anti-Terrorism Unit and former
Ambassador from Spain to United States
Yonah Alexander, Co-Director of the Inter-University Center for
Legal Studies in Washington and Director of the International Center for
Terrorism Studies, Potomac Institute For Policy Studies
Tuesday, March 4
4:00 PM
Vance Academic
Center, room 105
Contact: Norton
Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
Obama and Clinton—The Impact of
Gender & Race in the 2008 Presidential Election
Panel discussion
Participants:
Dr. Felton O. Best, director, African American Studies
(introduction)
Dr. Walton
Brown Foster,
CCSU Department of Political Science (moderator)
Attorney Shawn Council, CCSU Department of Philosophy
Dr. Daryl McMiller, University of Hartford Department of
Political Science
Professor Antonia Moran,
CCSU Department of Political Science
Dr. Evelyn Simien—University of Connecticut
Department of Political Science
February 28, 3:30–5:00
p.m.,
Bellin Gallery, Student Center
Contact: Walton
Brown-Foster, 832-2961; brownw@ccsu.edu
Immigration on the 21st Century: Legal
Challenges and Opportunities”
Maria Echaveste, J.D., Professor of immigration Law and Policy at the Law School at
Berkeley University California
Wednesday, February 27, 6:00-7:00 pm
Vance
Academic
Center, 105
Contact: Moises Salinas, 832-3104, salinasm@ccsu.edu or Carmen
Lopez-Perry, 832-0056
Fifth Annual Amistad Lecture
“BREAKING THE
CHAINS”
Dr. Runoko Rashidi, world traveler & Pan-Africanist Scholar
Tuesday,
February 26
3:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Founders Hall, Davidson
Building
Contact: Olusegun Sogunro 832-2131 or Gloria Emeagwali,
832-2815
The Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process:
Assessments by Two Europeans.
Dr.
Wolfgang Vorwerk, German Consul General of
Boston
Bruno Ficili,
world renowned peace activist from Sicily & past Nobel Peace Prize
nominee.
Tuesday, February 26, 4:00 pm
Vance
Academic
Center, 105
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
“‘Tinker-ing’ with
Irish Tradition: Synge, Joyce, Beckett, & Co.” (printable flyer)
Dr. Pascal
Bataillard,
Visiting Scholar,
Brown
University
Thursday, February 14, 2 pm
Vance
Academic
Center, 105
Contact: Angela Morales, MoralesA@ccsu.edu
Blogger Wars: How the New Media Are
Changing the Presidential Contest (printable flyer)
Panel
Discussion & Debate: What’s Hot and What’s Not!
Host:
Ned Lamont,
CCSU adjunct professor of political science & philosophy
Panelists:
Dan Gerstein
– political communication consultant and communication director for
Senator Joe Lieberman
Colin McEnroe – talk show
host on WTIC and columnist for the Hartford Courant
Mark Pazniokas – reporter
for the Hartford Courant
Tim
Tagaris – internet campaign manager for Chris
Dodd and Ned Lamont
Wednesday, February 13, 11:00 AM
Philbrick-Camp Room, Student Center
Contact: David Blitz,
832-2916, blitz@ccsu.edu
A Dialogue on the Politics of
Immigration
Facilitated by Jane Guskin and
David Wilson,
co-authors of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers
Tuesday, February 12, 5:15pm-7:00pm
Vance Academic Center, Room
105
Contact: Moises Salinas, 832-3104, salinasm@ccsu.edu
Marriage Makes a Word of
Difference (printable
flyer)
A new film by Emmy award-winning
director Fran Rzeznik
Sunday,
February 10, 6:30pm
Founders Hall, Davidson Administration
Building
Contact: (860) 525-7777, charmane@lmfct.org
Workshops, Talk, & Lecture on
“The State of the Media and the State
of Our Democracy”
Robert Jensen, associate professor, School of Journalism,
University of Texas at Austin, author of books on pornography, race, &
empire
February 7: schedule &
locations
Contact: Bill Yousman, 832-2684, yousmanw@ccsu.edu
Global Sustainability and Climate
Change Symposium
January
29-31
Location: CCSU Campus - Click here
to see 3-day schedule of locations
These events are free and open to
the public - Please Register by Jan-14th to attend. Click here to
Register
Contact: Charles
Button, 832-2788, buttonche@ccsu.edu
The Secret
Relations Between Iran, Israel and the United States
Trita Parsi,
Johns Hopkins University and president of the National Iranian American
Council
Tuesday,
January 29, 4:00 p.m.
Vance 105
Contact:
Norton Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
Surrogates Debate for Democratic
Presidential Candidates
Barack
Obama - presented by Ned Lamont, Adj. Prof. of Political
Science and Philosophy, CCSU
Hillary Clinton - presented by
Dan Malloy, Mayor of Stamford
John Edwards - presented by Phil Miller, First Selectman of Essex
Dennis Kucinich - presented by Carol Austad, Prof. of Psychology, CCSU
Tuesday, January 29, 11:00 AM
Marcus White Living Room
Contact Paul Petterson 832-2969 or PettersonP@CCSU.edu
Building Bridges III: An Examination of
Connecticut’s Re-entry Policy
Thursday,
January 17, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Schedule
Location: Welte Hall
Contact:
Andrew Clark
The Alturas Duo
Recital/discussion; playing South American and classical music, viola,
charango & guitar
Wednesday, December 12, 7:30 pm
Founders Hall,
Davidson
Contact: Ms. Carmen Lopez-Perry 860 832-0056: Lopez-PerryC@ccsu.edu
The Illegal Immigrant as the New
Terrorist in the Federal Court System: An Insiders perspective
Michael Kagan, Chief Court
Interpreter in the U.S. Federal Court in New Mexico
Thursday,
December 6, 6:00 pm
Contact: Dr. Moises Salinas, salinasm@ccsu.edu or Ms. Carmen
Lopez-Perry 860 832-0056
“Living With AIDS Does Not Define Who I Am”
Wednesday, December 5, 7:00 PM
Semesters, Student Center
Contact: Monique Daley, daleymo@mail.ccsu.edu,
860-832-1626
Pakistan, Pivotal State in Crisis
Dr. Husain Haqqani,
Professor and Director of International Relations Boston University
December 4, 2007, 5:00 PM
Vance Academic Center, Room 105
Contact:
Dr. Ali Antar, 832-2931, antar@ccsu.edu
Europe’s Immigration Conflict: A Crisis in
National Identities
Alexandra Benedetto (International
Studies, Graduate Student): “Islamic immigration in France”.
Giuliana O’Connell
(International Studies, Graduate Student): “Italian Ethnic and
Linguistic Minorities”.
Tim Rickard (Professor of
Geography): “British concerns about immigration and the national
identity”.
Karen
Ritzenhoff (Associate Professor of Communication): "Arabs
in France and the repression of the past: Michael Haneke's cinema of
glaciation extends to the immigrants."
Marie-Claire Rohinsky (Professor of
French): “France's immigration politics: a tinder-box”.
Thursday,
November 15, 4:00-6:00p.m.
Sprague Room-Student Center
Contact: Ángela Morales, 832-2887, moralesa@ccsu.edu
Perspectives on the
Jena 6 Panel Discussion
Moderator: Dr. Felton O. Best,
CSU Professor of Philosophy and Director of African American Studies
Thursday, November 8, 4:00 pm
Vance Academic Center, Room 105
Click
here for panel information
Contact: Dr.
Felton O. Best, 832-2190, bestf@ccsu.edu
Northeast Business &
Economics Association 34th Annual Conference
National & International
Scholars Address Business, Policy, & Education Issues
Thursday &
Friday, November 8 & 9, 8:30am-6:30pm
Student Center, various rooms
Click
here for more information
Contact: Dr. Mitchell Charkiewicz,
832-2733 mailto:charkiewiczm@ccsu.edu
“The Federal Law Known as Title
IX: What’s Fact Vs. Fiction Got To Do With It?”
Mary Jo Kane,
Ph.D., professor, School of Kinesiology; director, Tucker Center for
Research on Girls & Women in Sport,
College of Education & Human
Development, University of Minnesota
Tuesday, November 6, 4:00 pm
Founders Hall, Davidson Building
Contact: Heather Munro Prescott, Prescott@ccsu.edu
Alina Fernandez, Fidel Castro’s
Daughter
Tuesday, October 30, 12:30pm
Torp
Theatre, Davidson Hall
Contact: Women's Center, 832-1655; cobbina-boivinj@ccsu.edu
The Psychology of the
Israeli-Palestine Conflict
Wednesday, Oct 31,
2:00-3:00pm
Dr. Moises Salinas,
Professor of Psychology
Vance Academic Center, Room 105
Contact:
Dr. Laura Bowman, 832-3118; bowman@ccsu.edu
Alien Insects Recently
Discovered in Northeastern North America
Monday,
Oct. 29th , 3:15 pm
Chris T. Maier, Dept. of Entomology, CT Agricultural Experiment Station
Copernicus hall, Room 232
Contact: Barbara Nicholson, 832-2706; nicholsonb@ccsu.edu
The Present Situation in Iraq
Tareq Ismail, Calgary University in Canada
Monday, October 22, 5:00 pm
Founders Hall, Davidson Administration
Building
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
Diversity, Inclusion and
the Campus Environment (Panel Discussion)
David Blitz, Ph.D.,
Professor of Philosophy
Joanne DiPlacido, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology
Serafin Mendez-Mendez,
Ph.D., Professor of Communication &
Chair, Dept. of Communication
Moises Salinas, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Psychology & Director, Center for
Caribbean ands Latin American Studies
Evelyn Phillips, Ph.D.,
Professor of Anthropology & Director, International Studies
C. Charles Mate-Kole, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology & Director, Center for Africana Studies –
Moderator
Thursday October 18, 5:00 - 6:30pm
Marcus White
Living Room
Contact: Center for Africana Studies 832-2816
Women in the Aftermath of Militarism and War
Dr. Shahrzad Mojab,
University of Toronto
Dept. of Adult Education and Counseling
Psychology, Director of Women and Gender Studies Institute
Thursday,
October 18, 4:00 pm
Vance Academic Building, Room 105
Contact: CIE 832-2040 or Dr. Ali Antar, 832-2931, antar@ccsu.edu
Extra-pair Paternity in the Banded Wren, a
Synchronously Breeding Tropical Bird:
Using DNA to Understand Who
Fathers the Young in a Nest.
Becky Cramer,
Cornell University
Monday, October 15th, 3:15 pm
Copernicus Hall,
Room 232
Contact: Barbara Nicholson, 832-2706, nicholsonb@ccsu.edu
“Posada” - a 53 minute documentary film
directed and produced by Mark McGregor, S.J
In Posada, the
journeys of Densi, Johny and Wilber unfold in a dramatic pilgrimage as
teenagers from their homes
in Central America for the United States.
Alex Arevalo,
Immigration Counselor at Catholic Charities of Fairfield County will
have a Q&A at the end of the film.
Thursday, October 11, 6:30 pm
Torp Theater, Davidson Administration Building
Contact: Dr. Moises
Salinas, salinasm@ccsu.edu or Carmen
Lopez-Perry, lopez-perryc@ccsu.edu , 832-0056
Jenin, The West Bank
Juliano Mer Khamis, Artistic Director of The
Freedom Theatre
Tuesday, October 2, 3:30 pm
Black Box Theatre,
Maloney Hall
Contact: Joshua Perlstein, 832-3155, perlsteinj@ccsu.edu
Religion, War and Conflict.
Professor Benjamin
Beit-Hallahmi, Haifa University, Israel
Thursday, September 27, 2:00 pm
Marcus
White Living Room
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky, 832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
Public Forum on Iraq War
Ned Lamont, Adj. Faculty CCSU and former
Democratic candidate for Senate as panel chair, with panelists:
Brig.
Gen. (USA ret.) John Johns, author of
"Counter-Insurgency: Mission Impossible"
Michael O'Hanlon, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute, author
of "A War We Might Just Win"
Wednesday, September 26, 4:00 pm
Founders
Hall, Davidson Administration Building
Contact: David Blitz,
832-2916,
blitz@ccsu.edu, or Carol Austad
at 832-3101 austad@ccsu.edu
Islam and the West: is
There a Clash of Civilizations?
Dr. Raymond Baker
(Trinity College)
Dr. Fuad Shaban
(Petra University, Amman, Jordan)
Thursday, September 20, 4:00 pm
Robert C. Vance
Academic Center Auditorium (Room 105)
Contact: Norton Mezvinsky,
832-2805, MezvinskyN@ccsu.edu
