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Sonya Clark, a craft artist and chair of the craft/material studies department at Virginia Commonwealth University’s School of the Arts, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Sept. 14, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium.

Leslie Marmon Silko will speak Sept. 8.

Short story writer Gary Lutz will kick off the Raymond Carver Reading Series on Sept. 15.

Symposia, seminars and concerts are built around the theme.

“Conflict: Peace and War” is the theme of the 2010 ���ϲ����� Symposium.

The Maxwell Policy Research Symposium, to be held June 10-11 at ���ϲ�����, will address the issue of long-term care insurance and services in the United States.

Linda Pembroke Kaiser will give a talk about her book “Pulling Strings: The Legacy of Melville A. Clark” Wednesday, June 2.

The webcast of the joint ���ϲ����� and SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry Commencement ceremony is now available for viewing at http://video.syr.edu/live.

Locally, hydrofracking (hydraulic fracturing) is a hot topic.

The Brookings Institution tabbed ���ϲ����� Chancellor and President Nancy Cantor to serve on a distinguished panel assembled to discuss its recently released major report, “The State of Metropolitan America: On the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation.”