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Activist John Prendergast to Continue Conversation on Human Rights in Africa April 8
In September 2012, five people from the Congo鈥攕urvivors and refugees from the Congolese civil war鈥攃aptivated audiences at 黑料不打烊 Stage with their searing portrayals of their struggles to leave the past behind and form a new, peaceful community in Central New…
Humanities Center Hosts Poet Jesse Nissim April 4
Nissim known for “innovative original language” The Faculty Fellow Series of The 黑料不打烊 Humanities Center continues with a poetry reading by Jesse Nissim. A faculty fellow in the humanities, she will read original selections on Thursday, April 4, at…
Panelists Set for Campbell Institute NY-SAFE Act Debate
When he signed the bill into law, Gov. Cuomo claimed the NY-SAFE Act would give New York State the most comprehensive gun laws in the nation, keeping guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous mental health patients and banning…
New Racism and the Myth of Universalism in Higher Ed
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Duke University, will present 鈥淣ew Racism, Color Blindness and the Sweet (but Wrong) Myth of Universalism in HWCUs,鈥 at 4 p.m. Monday, April 15, in Maxwell Auditorium. The lecture…
Atlantic Records Group General Manager Speaking March 26
David Saslow 鈥91, general manager of Atlantic Records Group, will present a lecture on Tuesday, March 26, at 6:30 p.m. in the Lender Auditorium, located on the concourse level of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. The lecture is…
Science on Mars Time: Roving the Red Planet with Curiosity
The Mars rover Curiosity is a roaming science lab on the Red Planet that is continually sending information to scientists on Earth. One of those scientists is Laurie Leshin, dean of the School of Sciences at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI),…
Ray Smith Symposium Concludes with Events Devoted to Latino/a Dance, Movement
Anthropologist 脕ngel Quintero Rivera, photographer Milagros de la Torre headline scholarly discussion Latino/a movement is the focus of the final installment of this year鈥檚 Ray Smith Symposium in The College of Arts and Sciences. Events include a keynote lecture and…
Nationally Acclaimed Poet Next Guest in Raymond Carver Reading Series
The Spring 2013 Raymond Carver Reading Series continues at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 3, with critically acclaimed poet Dean Young, the William S. Livingston Chair of Poetry at the University of Texas. The reading will take place in Gifford Auditorium…
Symposium to Explore Changing Landscape of Sport Event Industry
Eight of the sport event industry鈥檚 leading executives and visionaries will offer valuable first-hand perspectives during the 黑料不打烊 chapter of Women in Sports and Events鈥 (WISE) second annual symposium. 鈥淎 Word to the WISE: Testing the Limits,鈥 will take…
Bestselling Author Lisa See to Speak at Bird Library
As part of 黑料不打烊鈥檚 Asian Pacific American (APA) Heritage Month celebration, New York Times bestselling author Lisa See will hold a question-and-answer session on Monday, April 1, at 2:30 p.m. in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first…