The Contemporary Issues Forum brings experts and participants
in the making of news to St. Lawrence University.

Past Events

The Contemporary Issues Forum presents:

Ethan Bronner
Deputy Foreign Editor - The New York Times

War and Terror: How The New York Times Covers Today's Big Stories in the Middle East

Thursday, February 14, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Gulick Theatre

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Bakari Kitwana, author and co-founder of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention

Why White Kids Love Hip Hop: Wangsters, Wiggers, and Wanabees, The New Reality of Race in America

Tuesday, February 26, 2008
7:30 p.m.
Eben Holden Center

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Anthony Shadid, Middle East Correspondent for the Washington Post

"The Long War: Loss and Nostalgia in the Middle East"

Wednesday, March 12
8 p.m.
Eben Holden Center

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Meeting Resistance, a film about who was behind the emerging post-war violence in Iraq, followed by discussion with the film's directors

Monday, March 31
8 p.m.
Eben Holden Center

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Julia Pascal, author, playwright, director and teacher in the St. Lawrence University Program in London

Jewish Mothers and Daughters

Wednesday, April 2
8 p.m.
Herring-Cole Hall

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Seeds of Peace: Empowering Leaders of the Next Generation

Friday, April 4
7 p.m.
Eben Holden Center

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

An Evening with Christopher Hitchens, author, journalist and critic

Thursday, April 10
8 p.m.
Eben Holden

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:
A Centre for Diversity and Social Justice Special Event

Faces of Homelessness

Tuesday, April 15
7:30 pm in
Eben Holden Center

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

Dr. Pierre Desrochers, Department of Geography, University of Toronto at Mississauga

"The Environmental Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profit"

Wednesday, April 23
7:30 pm in
Hepburn Auditorium

The Contemporary Issues Forum presents:
An Alcoa Foundation Cultural Affairs Program

Ambassador Richard Hecklinger '65
From Canton to Bangkok: An SLU graduate's reflections on U.S. foreign policy

Monday, April 28
8 p.m. in
Sykes Common Room

The Contemporary Issues Forum Presents:

NBC News Special Correspondent Tom Brokaw

Life Is Not Virtual

Wednesday, April 30
2 pm in
Gulick Theatre