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September 2012

Thursday

September 13 at 8pm

LC Forum

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

 

Michelle Alexander, civil rights lawyer, advocate, and legal scholar

 

Wednesday

September 19 at 7pm

LC Forum

Augustine Romero, Director of Student Equailty for Tuscon Unified School District

 

"At War with the State in Order to Save the Lives of Our Children: Education a the Battleground for Arizona's Cultural War"

 

Tuesday

September 27 at 4:30pm

Willard Smith Library
(VL 125)

CSREG Faculty Colloquium

 

Alejandra Roncallo, International Relations

 

"Obama and Latin America"

 

October 2012

Wednesday

October 3 at 7pm

LC Forum

26th Annual Black Experiences Lecture

 

Barbara Smith, Pioneer/Activist

 

"Black Feminist Activism: My Next Chapter"

 

Thursday

October 4 at 3:30pm

Walls Lounge

Ron Buckmire, National Science Foundation

 

"A Black, Gay Mathematics Department Chair? Or How I Got Here From There"

 

Reception, followed by a talk

 

Thursday

October 11 at 7pm

Gallery Theatre

CSREG Pre-election Panel

 

"Queer Politics"

 

Panelists include:
Nikki Young (Women's and Gender Studies),
Bill McCoy
(Office of LGBT),
Vincent Stephens (Multicultural Student Services),
Saundra Morris (English)

 

Tuesday

October 16 at 7pm

Willard Smith Library

The Leanne Freas Trout French and Francophone Lecture Series

 

Léonora Miano, author of the critically acclaimed novels L’Intérieur de la nuit and Contours du jour qui vient (Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, 2006)

 

"Afropean: Fantasy or Reality?" || Event poster

 

Wednesday

October 17 at 7pm

Gallery Theatre

CSREG Pre-election Panel

 

"Global Economic Crisis and Social Inequality"

 

Panelists include:
David Kristjanson-Gural (Economics),
Hilbourne Watson (International Relations),
Geoff Schneider (Economics),
Alejandra Roncallo (International Relations),
Erdogan Bakir (Economics)

 

Monday

October 22 at 6pm

Gallery Theatre

CSREG Pre-election Panel

 

"A Conversation on Race in American Politics"

 

Panelists include:
Leslie Patrick (History),
Linden Lewis (Sociology),
Atiya Stokes-Brown (Political Science),
Nina Banks (Economics)

 

Thursday

October 25 at 4:30pm

Willard Smith Library

Carole Counihan, Millersville University and Visiting Prof of Food Anthropology in the Gastronomy MLS Program, Boston University.

 

"Men, Women, and Gender in Italian Food Activism"

 

Thursday

October 25 at 7pm

Community Room of the Barnes & Noble Bucknell Bookstore

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

 

"USP Lewisburg: A Contested Space?"

 

Leslie Patrick, Associate Professor of History, will moderate a panel consisting of: Jeff Thomas, Warden of the Federal Penitentiary; Dave Sprout, Paralegal with the Lewisburg Prison Project; Glenn Crook, former chaplain at USP Allenwood FCC; Karen Morin, Geography Professor Bucknell University; Dave Bartlett, President of AFGE Local 148, the American Federation of Government Employees.

 

November 2012

Wednesday

November 7 at
7:30pm

LC Forum

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

 

Christopher Wildeman, Dept. of Sociology, Yale University

 

Thursday

November 8

Willard Smith Library

 

Sylvia De Faveri, Brunel University in London, U.K.
"Street Gangs and Military Metaphors: The Kulunas of Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo)"

Friday & Saturday

November 9 & 10

 

Post-Racial America?: An Interdisciplinary Conference

 

Hosted by the Griot Center for Africana Studies

 

Keynote speaker: Farah Jasmine Griffin, the William B. Ransford Professor of English and Comparative Literature and African-American Studies at Columbia University

 

Thursday

November 15

LC Forum
7pm

2012-13 Social Science Colloquium:
Mass Incarceration in the United States

 

Reverend Walt Everett and Mr. Mike Carlucci