Past Events ~ Fall 2008 - Spring 2009 |
Spring 2009 |
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James Hennessy '71
Future Tense: Social and Ethical Implications of the Coming Technological Revolution
Thursday, April 9, 2009
7 p.m.
Eben Holden Center |
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Ronnie Olesker, Assistant Professor of Government
St. Lawrence University
One Land - Three Peoples? Future Prospects for Jewish-Arab-Palestinian Relations in Israel
Monday, March 30, 2009
7 p.m.
Sykes Common Room |
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Center for Civic Engagement and Leadership Teach-in "Living with War" Friday
March 27, 2009
12:00pm - 4:30pm
Student Center, Winston Room
This event is funded by The Alcoa Foundation Cultural Affairs Program Fund. |
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Maria Pia Paganelli
Assistant Professor of Economics, Yeshiva University
Smithian Answers to Some Experimental Puzzles
Tuesday March 10, 7:30 p.m.
Hepburn Auditorium |
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Co-sponsored by Out at the Movies and the Hovey/Brown Endowment for the Arts
Ask Not, a film that reveals the stories behind "don't ask, don't tell," profiling closeted American sericemembers, followed by a discussion with the film's director
Monday, March 2, 2009
7 p.m.
Eben Holden Center
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Dr. Jerry Evensky
Professor of Economics, Syracuse University
Adam Smith on Trust, Faith, and the Human Prospect
Wednesday February 11, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Hepburn Auditorium |
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John Collins
Associate Professor and Chair of Global Studies
St. Lawrence University
Settler Colonialism and Its Discontents: Why Palestine Matters So Much
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Eben Holden Center
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Deesha Philyaw
Freelance writer
Sojourner's Question: Toward a (More) Inclusive Look at Women's Work
Monday, February 23, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Sykes Common Room |
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Elinor Tatum '93
Trustee and Editor/Publisher, The Amsterdam News
Community Newspapers in the Era of Barack Obama
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
8:00 p.m.
Eben Holden Center |
Fall 2008 |
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Bill McKibben
Author and Environmentalist
Deep Economy: Economics as if the Earth Mattered
Thursday, September 4, 2008
10:10 a.m.
Gulick Theatre
Conversation and Town Meeting
Building the Global Climate Movement
2:00 p.m.
Gulick Theatre
Reading from Recent Work
8:00 p.m.
Eben Holden
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Geoffrey Kemp and Dennis Ross
Middle East Challenges and the Next Administration
Monday, September 15, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Gulick Theatre
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Dr. Paul Zeleza
The Developmental and Democratic Challenges of Postcolonial Kenya
Monday, September 22
8:00 p.m.
Hepburn 218 |
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Deirdre McCloskey
Smith was a Virtue Ethicist
Wednesday, September 24
7:30 p.m.
Hepburn Audiotrium |
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John Harris
47 Months Down and One To Go: The 2008 Presidential Election
October 13, 2008
8:00 pm
Eben Holden |
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Linda Martín Alcoff
Can Whites Be a Part of the Rainbow?
October 14, 2008
8:00 p.m.
Eben Holden Center |
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Juan Cole
Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Presidential Contest
October 20, 2008
8:00 pm
Eben Holden |
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Peter Boettke, Economist
Adam Smith, the 20th Century Economy, and 21st Century Economics
October 21, 2008
8 p.m.
Hepburn Auditorium |
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Brad Baldwin, Frank Clifford and Kenneth R. Weiss
Waters in Peril: Ecological Changes Endanger the Health of the World’s Oceans, Lakes and Rivers
November 3, 2008
8:00 pm
Eben Holden Center |
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Saree Makdisi
Author and Scholar
Entering the Final Stage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
December 4, 2008
8:00 pm
Sykes Common Room |
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