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Events: Fall 2006
Guest Lecturer: George Zinkhan, Coca-Cola Chair of Marketing, University of Georgia
"The Evolution of Marketplaces and Quality of Life: the Good Life and the American Dream"
November 20, 2006
4:00pm, Brown-Alley Room Weinstein Hall
Sponsor: Prof. Nancy Ridgway, Robins School of Business
Guest Lecturer: Professor Stephen Barker
November 14-16, 2006
In English 399 / Philosophy 380: "Philosophy as Theater / Theater as Philosophy"
Assistant Professor of English, Ilka Saal / Professor of Philosophy, Gary Shapiro
School of Arts and Sciences
Guest Lecturers: Xu Wenli and Tatiana Carayannis
November 8-9 (Wenli) and November 16 (Carayannis)
In PLSC 400: The International Politics of Peace
Assistant Professor of Political Science Melissa Labonte
School of Arts and Sciences
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.-Breast Cancer Walk
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 1:00 p.m.
The University of Richmond campus
Guest Choreographers: Andrea Del Conte and Barbara Duffy
October-November, 2006
In the University Dancers company class, fall 2006
Myra Daleng, Director of Dance
School of Arts and Sciences
"The Community Action Poverty Simulation"
Tuesday, September 26, Alice Haynes Room
Sponsor: Bonner Center for Civic Engagement, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond Chaplaincy
"Fight for What's Right Week"
September 21-28, 2006
Sponsors: UR-AID, WILL, Center for Civic Engagement
Sophomore Student Retreat: "Moving Through College with Vision and Purpose"
August 25-27, 2006
Richmond Hill
Sponsor: University of Richmond Chaplaincy
"Destination Unknown?: The Sophomore Experience," with speaker Robert Eggers
August 25-27, 2006
Sponsors: University of Richmond Career Development Center, University of Richmond Chaplaincy
Speaker Series: "Medicine, Mortality, and Meaning"
A series of six public lectures that will focus on the topic of "Medicine, Mortality, and Meaning," and that will deal with important issues explored by the Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee in his novel Age of Iron (1991). The series seeks to make clear in concrete ways that the concerns of "medical science" and the concerns of imaginative literature--and the other arts--can be mutually illuminating. Lectures 4 through 6 will take place in Spring 2007.
Lecture 1: Prof. Arnold Weinstein (Brown University)
"Literature and Mortality"
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
7:30 PM, Robins Pavilion of the Jepson Center
Lecture 2: Professor David Attwell (University of York)
"Mortal Politics: J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron"
Monday, November 13, 2006
7:30 PM, Robins Pavilion of the Jepson Center
Lecture 3: Dr. Mary Polce-Lynch
"Nothing Left Unsaid: Final Words and Legacy Letters"
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
7:30 PM, Robins Pavilion of the Jepson Center
Speaker Series: Race, Identity, and Community in Contemporary American Fiction and Culture"
Sponsor: Professor Suzanne Jones, English Department
For her course "E400: race, Identity and Community in Contemprary American Fiction and Culture," fall 2006.
More information can be found at http://commonground.richmond.edu/events/QuestSpeakerSeries.htm.
Speaker: John Greagory Brown
Thursday, September 7, 7:30pm, Brown-Alley Room
Brown's award-winning novel Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery (1994), which is set in New Orleans, concerns the myth of white racial purity. Director of Creative Writing at Sweet Briar, Brown has written two other novels, The Wrecked, Blessed Body of Shelton Lafleur and Audubon's Watch. His talk is titled A Disrupting Darkness: Race and the Odd Morphology of Regret. Essentially, he says of his plans for the evening, I want to talk about why Ithink race emerged as an issue in my work without my consciously setting out to deal with it.
Speaker: Reginald McKnight
Thursday, October 19, Time TBA, Keller Hall Reception Room
Professor at the University of Georgia, where he teaches both creative writing and literature, McKnight is the prize-winning author of two novels, Get on the Bus and He Sleeps, and three collections of stories: The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas, White Boys, and Moustapha's Eclipse. He is an essayist as well as a fiction writer, drawing on his own peripatetic background (born in Germany, he has lived all over the U.S. as well as in Senegal). He will speak about African-American identity. On Friday, October 20, from 1:35 to 2:25 in Ryland Hall 204, he will speak informally with interested students about writing fiction.
Speaker: Kriss Turner
Tuesday, November 14, 7:00, location TBA.
Turner is a screenwriter, who has written for a number of television shows, including Cosby, The Whoopie Show, and Everybody Hates Chris. She wrote the screenplay for Something New, a film about interracial dating, which will be shown before her talk, which is titled From 42.4% to Something New: Scripting the Interracial Romantic Comedy. On Monday, November 13, at 4:00 in Ryland Hall 500, she will speak informally with interested students about breaking into Hollywood, especially about writing and producing television sitcoms.
Speaker Series: WILL/WGSS 2006
ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE
Speaker: Sandra Steingraber
"First Environment: Women's Bodies and Toxic Trespass"
Thursday, September 28, 2006, 7:00 pm, Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
Women's bodies are the first environment for us all. As a biologist, author, and cancer survivor, Steingraber will explore the ways in which low-level exposures to toxic chemicals are undermining women's reproductive choices -- from pesticides that sabotage fertility to toxins that find their way into breast milk.
Speakers: Vernice Miller-Travis and Andrea Simpson
"A Woman's Worth: Race, Gender, and Class in the Environmental Justice Movement"
Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 4:00 pm, Whitehurst Living Room, Richmond College
Vernice Miller-Travis, National Executive Director of Groundwork USA, and facilitator Andrea Simpson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond, will explore the challenges faced by working-class women of color in the environmental justice movement -- a social movement that seeks redress for the unequal distribution of toxic wastes in black and brown communities.
Speaker: Marilou Awiakta
"Weaving Survival with Peace: Selu (Corn) as a Teacher"
Thursday, November 2, 2006, 4:00 pm, Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall
Writing in the tradition of Art for Life's Sake, Awiakta blends poetry, storytelling, and essays with her Cherokee/Appalachian heritages to advocate how Cherokee and other Native American philosophies are applicable to contemporary problems. These philosophies, she advises, help bring balance and healing to the environment and humanity.
Film: "Salt of the Earth" (1953)
Screening: Wednesday, November 15, 2006, 4:00 pm, Jepson 118
This Cold War era film tells the true story of striking Chicano zinc miners and their wives, women who eventually led the picket line. Controversy surrounded the film, for much of the general public viewed striking miners as Communist-influenced, and many who worked on the film were blacklisted from working in Hollywood films. Discussion to follow.