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Renowned interior designer Thom Filicia, a 1993 graduate of ���ϲ�����’s College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), will sign copies of his new book, “American Beauty: Renovating and Decorating a Beloved Retreat”(Clarkson Potter), on Friday, Nov. 9, from 4-5:30…

National political commentator and scholar Adolphus Belk Jr. ’97 will present “How I Got Over: Lessons from One Man’s Journey to Success,” 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15, in 219Sims Hall. The lecture is part of the 2012 Fall Colloquium series…

The Ray Smith Symposium titled “Moving Borders: The Culture and Politics of Displacement in and from Latin America and the Caribbean,”  continues Nov. 8-9 with events pertaining to issues of “Homeland.” (A cluster of events under the umbrella of “Borders”…

���ϲ����� Symposium continues its fall theme of “Memory-Media-Archive” with a special reading by poet B. H. Fairchild. Winner of the prestigious National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Award, Fairchild will speak at the Downtown ���ϲ����� YMCA (340 Montgomery St.) on Wednesday,…

Critically acclaimed, best-selling memoirist Mary Karr will present the next installment of the Fall 2012 Raymond Carver Reading Series, Wednesday, Nov. 7, at  5:30 p.m. in Gifford Auditorium in Huntington Beard Crouse (HBC) Hall.  The reading will be preceded by a question-and-answer…

Ethics and climate change is the theme of an upcoming lecture in ���ϲ�����’s College of Arts and Sciences. Stephen Gardiner, a renowned philosopher at the University of Washington in Seattle, will discuss “Geoengineering and Moral Schizophrenia” on Friday, Nov….

Sandra Cordova Micek ’91 (@scmicek), senior vice president of marketing for USA TODAY, will visit the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications on Tuesday, Nov. 6, as a guest of the Eric Mower Advertising Forum. She will speak at 6:30…

���ϲ����� alumna Patricia E. Clark ’89, G ’93 vividly remembers the sights, sounds and smells of the fried chicken dinners the women in her church packaged up and sold to help pay the rent and other church expenses.“We would…

On Oct. 10, the Villa Rossa Lecture Series at ���ϲ����� in Florence hosted Vladimir “Vladi” Luxuria, an Italian actress, writer, politician and television host. The lecture, entitled “Across Ocean and Gender, Discovering the Unknown,” explored her time spent traveling…

The Oct. 18 session of the Institute for Retired People (IRP) will feature Sharon Contreras, superintendent of the ���ϲ����� City School District. She will discuss the district’s five-year plan for ensuring the success of the city’s students. The IRP program…