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Renaissance art, theater expert headlines 鈥楽ex and Power鈥 program at SU Nov. 10-11
The Ray Smith Symposium in 黑料不打烊鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences continues its yearlong examination of 鈥淪ex and Power from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment鈥 with a mini-residency by a gender and sexuality expert in art and theater….
Fedrizzi, Lyons to present ‘Pioneering Innovation for Sustainability: Food, Shelter and Community’ Nov. 11
The demands and trends of urbanization and sprawl, and the pressures it poses on our environment and resources are tasking communities to develop and implement sustainable solutions today, for the challenges of tomorrow. Fifty years from now, what will people…
Whitman alumna, IBM senior vice president to deliver IBM Centennial Lecture
Colleen Arnold ’81 M.B.A., senior vice president of application management services at IBM, will deliver the IBM Centennial Lecture on Tuesday, Nov. 1, on the 黑料不打烊 campus. Her address, “Opportunities and Challenges for the Next Generation,” will use examples…
Strategy and policy advisor Jason Yaley 鈥05 MPA 鈥06 to visit SU
The Alumni Speaker Series will wrap up the fall semester with a highly anticipated visit from Jason Yaley, A&S 鈥05 MPA 鈥06. Yaley works out of the Pentagon as strategy and policy advisor to the vice chairman of the Joint…
‘Democracy Now!’ host Amy Goodman to speak Nov. 3
The 黑料不打烊 Peace Council and 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Tully Center for Free Speech will present 鈥淚ndependent Media: Speaking Up for Democracy鈥 with “Democracy Now!” host Amy Goodman on Thursday, Nov. 3, at 7 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free…
Poet Jennifer Grotz to present next installment of Raymond Carver Reading Series
The Fall 2011 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues on Nov. 9 with poet Jennifer Grotz, a faculty member at the University of Rochester. Grotz will read from her latest work, 鈥淭he Needle鈥 (Houghton Mifflin, 2011), which explores both Polish and…
McMahon gives talk at human rights forum
Anthropology Associate Research Professor Felicia McMahon participated in the “I Am Unspoken” forum, giving voice to human rights violations.
Elisabeth Meyer artist lecture
The Window Projects at the Warehouse Gallery features an installation by Elisabeth Meyer consisting of organic forms embroidered onto an organza fabric.
Jeffrey Harris, Dean鈥檚 Professor of Finance at Whitman and former chief economist at U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to speak
Jeffrey Harris, Dean鈥檚 Professor of Finance in the Whitman School of Management, will deliver a lecture, 鈥淔inance in a Dodd-Frank World,鈥 on Wednesday, Nov. 2. Harris recently served as chief economist at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. The lecture…
Stone Canoe hosts public literary showcases in community
Poets and writers featured in Stone Canoe, A Journal of Arts, Literature and Social Commentary, will read from their works at two separate events scheduled locally.聽 Stone Canoe Poetry Night will take place on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 7- 8:30…