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August 29: A&S Centennial Picnic

 September 2007

September 4: Frederic Lindley Morgan architectural history lecture

“Ancient Synagogues in the Land of Israel,” Jodi Magness, UofL Morgan visiting professor.

  • Jodi Magness, Kenan distinguished professor in religious studies at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will show archaeological remains of synagogues in Roman and Byzantine periods and decorations including mosaics, carved stone and even pagan motifs.
  • 6 p.m.
  • Speed Art Museum , 2035 S. Third St.
  • More info: http://art.louisville.edu/morganlecture/

September 6: Meet the Professor Luncheon

"Tracing the Underground Railroad" by Dean J. Blaine Hudson

  • The Underground Railroad carried hundreds of thousands of enslaved African Americans to freedom. But it is also the chronicle of thousands of “friends of the fugitive” – black, white and native American - who assisted fugitive slaves in violation of American law. Together they made the Underground Railroad one of the great human rights movements in world history.
  • A monthly series (First Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club
  • For reservations, and more information: (502)852-2247

September 6, 7: “Frederick Hart: Giving Form to Spirit” Opening Receptions

  • Thursday, September 6, in the newly renovated Schneider Hall galleries of the Hite Art Institute, the "Frederick Hart: Giving Form to Spirit" exhibition opens with a reception from 5 to 7 PM.

  • Additional sections of the show will also be on view in Grawemeyer Hall and Ekstrom Library on the Belknap campus of the the University of Louisville. The show will continue through November 18.

  • Friday, September 7, at the Cressman Center for Visual Art, as part of the monthly First Friday Trolley Hop, the Hite will host a reception for section of the Hart exhibition on display there, "Transforming Material" which deals with the artmaking processes involved in the creation of his sculpture. Hite glass students will also demonstrate casting techniques during the reception which is from 6 to 9 PM at the Center, located at 100 E Main Street in downtown Louisville.

  • For further information, visit the Hite website - www.art.louisville.edu or call (502) 852-4483.

  • Download Announcement card listing Frederick Hart exhibits and lectures: Hart Announcement (PDF)

September 8: Saturday Academy

  • Schedule for Sept. 8 session:
    • 11:00 - 11:30 am.: Congressman John Yarmuth
    • 11:30 am - 12:15 pm: African World Seminar - Dr. Blaine Hudson
    • 12:15-12:45 pm: Opening Day Community Reception
    • 12:45 - 2:00 pm: Race and Reality Series---"Where Do We Go From Here: The Supreme Court's Decision and JCPS"
      • Raoul Cunningham, NAACP
      • Suzy Post, Community Activist
      • Deborah Stallworth, Community Activist
      • Nancy DeMartra, Educator & Community Activist (invited)
  • The Saturday Academy is a University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences community outreach initiative that is co-sponsored by the Jefferson County Public Schools, Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton, the Kentucky African American Heritage Center and the Louisville Urban League.
  • Saturday Academy Sessions are free and open to the public, and meet in the DuValle Education Center Cafeteria, 3610 Bohne Avenue, in the Park DuValle Community, north of Algonquin at 35th Street.
  • For more information contact Marian Vasser at 852-2252 or mrvass01@louisville.edu or email Bani Hines-Hudson, Saturday Academy Coordinator @ bhineshudson@yahoo.com

 September 9: UofL at the Yearlings Club

“Health Issues Affecting Men of Color”

  • 4 p.m. networking and refreshments, followed by a 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. program
  • Presented in partnership with Kentucky African Americans Against Cancer. Free prostate and other health screenings will be offered in observation of Men’s Health Month.
  • The Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway
  • For more information, contact Reginald Meeks at 502-852-3042 or Reginald.meeks@louisville.edu

September 12: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

September 15: Saturday Academy

The Female Perspective Series: "Attacking the 'Tracking' of Welfare Policy, Practice and Perception"

  • 12:45 - 2:00 p.m.
  • Sessions are free and open to the public, and meet in the DuValle Education Center Cafeteria, 3610 Bohne Avenue, in the Park DuValle Community, north of Algonquin at 35th Street.
  • .Presenters:
    • Dr. Karen Christopher, U of L
    • Khalilah Collins, Women in Transition
    • Margaret Wright, Educator
  • The Saturday Academy is a University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences community outreach initiative that is co-sponsored by the Jefferson County Public Schools, Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton, the Kentucky African American Heritage Center and the Louisville Urban League.
  • For more information contact Marian Vasser @ 852-2252 or mrvass01@louisville.edu or email Bani Hines-Hudson, Saturday Academy Coordinator @ bhineshudson@yahoo.com

 

September 19: Women's and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, "Gender, Religion and Spirituality"

Dr. Mary Ann Stenger, Humanities

"Women, Religion, and Spirituality: Issues of Power in Global Perspective"

  • 3:00 - 4:15
  • Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
  • Free and open to the public

 

September 20: Department of English Thomas R. Watson Lecture

"Tragicomic Hope, African American Music, and Rhetorical Education", lecture by Dr. Keith Gilyard

  • 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. with reception to follow
  • Bingham Humanities Bldg, Room 300
  • Dr. Gilyard is the Thomas R. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professor

 

September 20: Frederic Lindley Morgan architectural history lecture

“Frank Lloyd Wright’s Racine,” by Mark Hertzberg

  •  Hertzberg, photography director of The ( Racine) Journal Times. and author-photographer of the books “Wright in Racine” and “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Hardy House,” will discuss how the famed architect’s commissions in that Wisconsin city represent his style’s wide range from Prairie to Usonian.
  • 6 p.m.
  • Speed Art Museum , 2035 S. Third St.
  • More info: http://art.louisville.edu/morganlecture/

 

September 22: Saturday Academy

"Power to the People: The KY Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression"

  • 12:45 - 2:00 pm
  • Presenters:
    • Shameka Parrish, Organizer
    • David Lott, activist
    • K. A. Owens, activist
  • Sessions are free and open to the public, and meet in the DuValle Education Center Cafeteria, 3610 Bohne Avenue, in the Park DuValle Community, north of Algonquin at 35th Street.
  • The Saturday Academy is a University of Louisville College of Arts & Sciences community outreach initiative that is co-sponsored by the Jefferson County Public Schools, Councilwoman Cheri Bryant Hamilton, the Kentucky African American Heritage Center and the Louisville Urban League.
  • For more information contact Marian Vasser @ 852-2252 or mrvass01@louisville.edu or email Bani Hines-Hudson, Saturday Academy Coordinator @ bhineshudson@yahoo.com

 

September 26: Latin American and Latino Studies Lecture

"Poesía, narrativa y música en la cultura puertorriqueña" by Dr. Manuel Martínez -Maldonado, Executive Vice-President of Research at UofL

 

September 26- 30: Theatre Arts Production

Interrogating the Nude

  • By Doug Wright, Directed by Jim Tompkins
  • Sept. 26- 30 at the Playhouse
  • Meet Marcel Duchamp and his twin, Rose Selavy, as they may have been in 1913 when the New York Armory show scandalized the American public and the art world. Man Ray shows up too. An unusual, witty and elegant play which re(de)constructs the Cubist masterpiece, "Nude Descending a Staircase." Strong language and nudity.
  • $12 for the general public, and $8 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

 

September 27: Axton Reading Series presents Richard Blanco

  • 7:30pm
  • Bingham Poetry Room
  • Locations and dates subject to change. Please call the English Department at (505) 852-6801 to confirm dates and times

Cuban-American Richard Blanco’s most recent collection, Directions to the Beach of the Dead, explores themes of cultural identity and place. One of America’s finest modern poets, he has been featured in The Best American Poetry 2000, Great American Prose Poems, and The Bread Loaf Anthology of New American Poets. His acclaimed first book of poetry, City of a Hundred Fires, won the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize. Blanco has received the John Ciardi Fellowship from the Bread Loaf Writers’Conference, a Florida Artist Fellowship, and a Residency Fellowship from the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

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October 2007

October 2: Frederic Lindley Morgan architectural history lecture

“Jerusalem in the Time of Jesus,” Jodi Magness, UofL Morgan visiting professor.

  • Jodi Magness, Kenan distinguished professor in religious studies at University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, will use slides and maps to help describe Herod’s massive building program and reconstruction of the Jewish temple in Jerusalem and discuss the layout and monuments, particularly the Temple Mount.
  • 6 p.m.
  • Speed Art Museum , 2035 S. Third St.
  • More info: http://art.louisville.edu/morganlecture/

 

October 3: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

 

October 3: Women's and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, "Gender, Religion and Spirituality"

Dr. Joyce Jackson, Department of  Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University

"African Diasporic Ritual Performance/Easter Rock"

  • 3:00 - 4:15
  • Belknap Research Building , Room 139
  • Free and open to the public

 

October 4: Meet the Professor Luncheon

"A Walking Tour of Ancient Rome" by Dr. Linda Gigante, Department of Fine Arts

  • Linda Gigante is a Professor of Fine Arts whose teaching and research focus on the art and culture of the Greco-Roman world. In her illustrated talk, Professor Gigante will lead you on a tour of three monuments of Ancient Rome: the Altar of Augustan Peace, the Colosseum, and the Roman Forum. In addition to providing background information on their historical and cultural significance, she will discuss recent discoveries and current controversies regarding these important landmarks in Rome’s urban landscape.
  • A monthly series (First Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club
  • For reservations, and more information: (502)852-2247
  • Webpage: Meet the Prof. October 2007

 

October 4: Axton Reading Series presents Adam Zagajewski

  • 7:30 p.m.
  • Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room
  • Locations and dates subject to change. Please call the English Department at (505) 852-6801 to confirm dates and times

Poet, novelist, and essayist Adam Zagajewski is one of Poland’s most famous contemporary writers. During the era of Soviet control, he was a member of the Generation of ‘68 and a leading poet of the Polish New Wave. Among his works translated into English are: Mysticism for Beginners, Tremor, and Canvas, as well as the prose collections, Two Cities and Solitude and Solidarity. His international honors include a fellowship from the Berliner Kunstlerprogramm, the Kurt Tucholsky Prize, a Prix de la Liberté, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Currently he is co-editor of Zeszyty literackie and Visiting Associate Professor of English in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston.

October 7, 2007: "Potential Images: Framing the Speed Art Museum's Contemporary Collection" by Julien Robson

October 11, 2007: A&S “Life of the Mind” Series presents Tony Kushner

  • Tony Kushner's Angels in America has received a Pulitzer Prize, two Tony Awards for best play, the New York and Los Angeles Drama Critics' Circle Awards, several Emmy Awards, and other honors too numerous to mention. London's National Theatre named it one of the ten best plays of the twentieth century, and Newsweek called it "the broadest, deepest, most searching play of our time." Mr. Kushner's other plays include Caroline, or Change, Homebody/Kabul, and Slavs!, which premiered at the 1994 Humana Festival of New American Plays.
  • Event details to be announced
  • More info: http://louisville.edu/a-s/centennial/kushner.html

October 12: "A Woman’s Place is in the Court: Female Advocacy and Identity in Old English Law"

Faculty Research Forum talk by Andrew Rabin

  • 3:30 pm, in Bingham Humanities Room 300
  • This talk by Andrew Rabin, Assistant Professor of English and Co-ordinator of the Medieval-Renaissance group, marks the return of FACULTY RESEARCH FORUM, a forum for talks by our faculty and the occasional guest on humanities and social science topics of interest to interdisciplinary audiences. Sponsored by Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society with assistance from the College of Arts and Sciences. Refreshments will be served.

October 14: “Beauty Formula: The Art of Frederick Hart” by Professor Wendy Steiner, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania

  • Sunday, October 14, 2 p.m.
  • Speed Art Museum Auditorium
  • Dr. Wendy Steiner is the Richard L. Fisher Professor of English and Founding Director of the Penn Humanities Forum at the University of Pennsylvania. Her talk will address the work of Frederick Hart, using it as one entry into a discussion of questions of aesthetics.
  • Dr. Steiner's visit is part of the "Accounting for Taste" series of talks presented by the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society, Hite Art Institute and the Speed Art Museum.

 

October 14: UofL at the Yearlings Club

“Black/Latino Community Issues”

  • Panelists will examine issues of common and differing interests and media portrayal of such issues.
  • 4 p.m. networking and refreshments, followed by a 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. program
  • The Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway
  • For more information, contact Reginald Meeks at 502-852-3042 or Reginald.meeks@louisville.edu

October 17-21: Theatre Arts Production

Cage Rhythm

  • by Kia Corthron, directed by Nefertiti Burton
  • Oct. 17-21 in the Thrust
  • Frank scenes of the daily life of female prisoners are juxtaposed against the lyrical imagery of the women's dreams and memories of their children. Cage Rhythm brings to life the race, gender and class inequities within the criminal justice system.
  • $12 for the general public, and $8 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

 

October 22: 6th Annual Latin American and Latino Studies Heritage Lecture

“Latino Immigration in the Midwest: The Fight for Decency and Dignity” by Dr. Dan La Botz

  • Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium
  • 4:30-5:30.
  • Free public lecture will be on the topic of Latinos in the US and will be presented in English.
  • Sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies, the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, The Department of Pan African Studies Department, the Department of Sociology, and the Social Change Program.

Independent scholar, writer and lecturer Dan La Botz will talk about the history and contemporary issues involved in Latino Immigration in his lecture. Focusing on the experience of Ohio immigrants, Dan La Botz will talk about the particular issues that Midwestern immigrants and more recently immigrants into the South have faced as they have established themselves as an integral part of our society.

Latino immigrants have come to the Midwest of the United States for over a hundred years, working harvesting beets and tomatoes, making steel and assembling automobiles. Many became citizens, served in the U.S. military and fought overseas. While they have raised families, built communities, and enriched our society with their culture and customs, they have had to fight for decent working and living conditions and for the dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.

 

October 23: "Challenges for New and Established Latino Communities: A Dialogue"

Panel Discussion on Latinos in the US

  • Ekstrom Library, Elaine Chao Auditorium
  • 4:30-5:30 p.m.
  • This free public discussion will be presented in English.
  • Sponsored by Latin American and Latino Studies, the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, The Department of Pan African Studies Department, the Department of Sociology, and the Social Change Program.

 

October 30, 2007: A&S “Life of the Mind” Event

“Ethical Challenges in Embryonic Stem Cell Research” by Dr. Ruth Faden

  • Dr. Ruth Faden will deliver the 2007 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, an A&S “Life of the Mind” event
  • Ruth Faden, M.P.H., Ph.D., is the Philip Franklin Wagley Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Executive Director of The Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She is also a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University.
  • 6:00 p.m., Speed Art Museum
  • More info: http://louisville.edu/a-s/centennial/faden.html

 

October 31: Women's and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, "Gender, Religion and Spirituality"

Dr. Julia Dietrich, Department of English
"The Mystical Writings of Julian of Norwich"

  • Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
  • 3:00 - 4:15
  • Free and open to the public

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 November 2007

November 1: Meet the Professor Luncheon

" Central Asia and the Politics of Oil" by Dr. Charles Ziegler, Department of Political Science

  • Charles Ziegler, Professor and University Scholar in the Political Science Department, is the founder of the Institute for Democracy and Development. Today, the United States, Russia and China are competing to gain access to Central Asia’s oil and gas resources. At the same time, Islamic fundamentalists scheme to radicalize local populations, and national leaders routinely suppress democratic aspirations. Yet optimists hope to re-invent the Great Silk Road! Few Americans know the complexities of this important region. Here’s your chance to visit exotic Central Asia without leaving Louisville.
  • A monthly series (First Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club
  • For reservations, and more information: (502)852-2247

 

November 9: A&S Hall of Honor Induction Ceremony and Centennial Celebration

 

November 11: UofL at the Yearlings Club

“Black Indians: The Case of Black Cherokee Indians”

  • Marilyn Vann, an Oklahoma activist and president of the Descendants of the Freedmen of the Five Civilized Tribes, will discuss her federal lawsuit to prevent black Cherokee removal from the Cherokee Nation. The program is presented during Native American History Month
  • 4 p.m. networking and refreshments, followed by a 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. program
  • The Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway
  • For more information, contact Reginald Meeks at 502-852-3042 or Reginald.meeks@louisville.edu

 

November 13: Frederic Lindley Morgan architectural history lecture

“German Baroque Architecture,” Tom Buser

  • Tom Buser, retired UofL associate professor of art history, will discuss how architects designed churches around their liturgical functions, planning the use of light, color and sound to serve people’s religious intent.
  • 6 p.m.
  • Speed Art Museum , 2035 S. Third St.
  • More info: http://art.louisville.edu/morganlecture/

 

November 14: Women's and Gender Studies Fall Lecture Series, "Gender, Religion and Spirituality"

Dr. Natalie Polzer, Humanities

"The Mikveh in Jewish Practice: Ritual Immersion, Menstrual Purity and Contemporary Women's Spirituality"

  • Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium
  • 3:00 - 4:15
  • Free and open to the public

 

Nov. 14-18: Theatre Arts Production

Angels in America, Part I, “Millennium Approaches,”

  • by Tony Kushner, Directed by Rinda Frye
  • Nov. 14-18 at the Playhouse
  • Winner of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize, this groundbreaking epic weaves the lives of fictional and historical characters into a dynamic nexus of social, sexual, and political revelations. Produced as part of the College of Arts & Science’s Centennial Celebration and its “Life of the Mind” series, which brings Kushner to campus on Oct. 11, 2007.
  • $12 for the general public, and $8 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

 

November 15: Axton Reading Series presents Dan Chaon

  • 7:30 p.m.
  • Ekstrom Library, Bingham Poetry Room
  • Locations and dates subject to change. Please call the English Department at (505) 852-6801 to confirm dates and times

Dan Chaon's novel You Remind Me of Me topped the best books lists of 2004 in The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, and Entertainment Weekly. His book of stories, Among the Missing, was a finalist for the 2001 National Book Award. Chaon’s stories, which depict the complex intricacies of human relationships, have been honored in Best American Short Stories of 1996 and 2003, the O'Henry Prize Stories, 2001, The Pushcart Prize 2000, 2002, and 2003, The Best Fantasy and Horror, 2004, and The Best American Non-Required Reading, 2005. His work has been translated into 10 languages. He was the 2006 recipient of the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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December 2007

December 6: Meet the Professor Luncheon

"Understanding the Debate on 'Intelligent Design'" by Dr. Tom Maloney, Department of Philosophy

  • Thomas Maloney, Professor of Philosophy and U of L Distinguished Teaching Professor, will explore Intelligent Design as a theory that proposes to address the gaps in the evolutionary record. To give a rational explanation of how the world evolved, the theory claims, one must point not only to necessary natural forces and chance, as did Newton and Darwin, but also to the occasional intervention of a non-natural designer. Evolutionists argue that Intelligent Design is unscientific and should not be taught in schools. Come join the debate!
  • A monthly series (First Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club
  • For reservations, and more information: (502)852-2247

December 9: UofL at the Yearlings Club

“Kwanzaa Jazz Event: Party with a Purpose”

  • 4 p.m. networking and refreshments, followed by a 4:30 p.m.-6 p.m. program
  • The Yearlings Club, 4309 W. Broadway
  • For more information, contact Reginald Meeks at 502-852-3042 or Reginald.meeks@louisville.edu

December 12: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

December 13: December Commencement

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January 2008

January 9: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

 

January 10: Meet the Professor Luncheon

Dr. Christopher Fulton, Art History, "Rodin's Thinker: a Masterpiece Among Us"

  • A monthly series (first Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club, $13
  • For reservations (required), and more information: (502)852-2247

January 13: UofL at the Yearling's Club Event

Care for Aging Parents and Relatives

If your parents suddenly needed daily care, what would you do? Or maybe it's your older sibling. The number of adults confronting this challenge escalates daily. Together with AARP, we consider the exploding phenomenon of children caring for parents.

Join us for our next UofL at the Yearling's Club event!

  • Yearling's Club, 4309 West Broadway
  • Sunday, January 13, 2008
  • 4 PM - 6 PM
  • Free and Open to the Public, light refreshments served
  • For more information contact: Reginald K. Meeks 852-3042 or reginald.meeks@louisville.edu
  • Flyer: Care for Aging Parents (PDF)

 

January 15: " Venezuela: Strategies of an Authoritarian Petro-State"

Talk by Gustavo Coronel, the International Energy Consultant and former Head of the Hydrocarbons Division of the InterAmerican Development Bank

  • Tuesday, January 15
  • 9:30 - 11:00 AM
  • Belknap Research Building, Room 139
  • Sponsored and hosted by the Department of Political Science

January 15: “Social Justice Research into Ohio Valley History: New Directions and Research”

A roundtable discussion and reception to recognize the publication of Ohio Valley History’s special issue, “Twentieth Century Social Justice Movements in the Ohio Valley” and the opening of Anne Braden’s Papers at the University of Louisville’s Ekstrom Library.

  • Wednesday, January 15, 2008, 5:00 pm
  • Location: Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, 2nd Floor, Ekstrom Library.
  • Parking available in the parking garage next to the Speed Museum
  • Hosted and sponsored by the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research and The Filson Historical Society.

Roundtable Participants will include:

  • James E. Cebula, Professor of History, Raymond Walters College of the University of Cincinnati
  • Catherine Fosl, Director of the Braden Institute and Associate Professor Women and Gender Studies, University of Louisville
  • J. Blaine Hudson, Dean, College of Arts and Science, University of Louisville
  • Daniel I. Hurley, Assistant Vice President for History and Research, Cincinnati Museum Center
  • Katherine Johnson, Archivist and Curator, University of Louisville
  • Tracy E. K’Meyer, Associate Professor of History, University of Louisville
  • Rhonda Mawhood Lee, Independent Scholar and priest in the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., Durham, North Carolina
  • Moderated by A. Glenn Crothers, Assistant Professor of History, University of Louisville Co-Editor, Ohio Valley History, Director of Research, The Filson Historical Society

January 17: Exhibition Opening at Cressman Center for Visual Arts

"ReSOURCE: Artists who use collecting to create or inspire their work"

Featuring Don Baum, Roger Brown, Raymond Graf,Niels Kohler, Kathleen Lolley, Rennie Sparks, Caroline Waite and Chris Ware
  • opening Friday, January 18, 2008
  • 6 - 8 PM
  • Cressman Center for Visual Art, 100 E. Main Street
  • For more information: Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville
  • Download Exhibition Flyer (PDF): Resource at Cressman Center, January 2008

January 18: CCHS Faculty Research Forum

"Dominion and Property: An Archeology of Roman Law" Presented by Professor A.J. Slavin, Humanities Professor Emeritus

  • Hosted by the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society
  • Details: CCHS

January 19, 2008: "Chief Justice John Marshall: Origins and Consequences of Judicial Review

  • An Alexander Hamilton Society Symposium
  • January 19, 2008
  • 10:30 a.m.
  • Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
  • More information: A&S Event

 

January 30-February 3, 2008: Theatre Arts Production

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum

  • music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim
  • book by Burt Shevelove and Larry Gelbart.
  • directed by Jim Hesselman
  • Jan. 30-Feb. 3 in the Thrust Theatre
  • Based on the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus, this Broadway musical follows the bawdy pursuits of a slave named Pseudolus to win his freedom by helping his master woo the girl next door.
  • $14 for the general public and $10 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

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February 2008

February 7: Meet the Professor Luncheon

Dr. Keith Mountain, Geography and Geosciences, “Glaciers, Ice Sheets and Climate Change: Implications for the Global Warming Debate”

  • A monthly series (first Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club, $13
  • For reservations (required), and more information: (502)852-2247

 

February 8: CCHS Faculty Research Forum

  • Hosted by the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society
  • Details: CCHS

 

February 13: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

 

February 13: Lake Baikal: A Journey to Siberia's Sacred Sea

Presentation by Peter Thomson, environmental journalist and founding producer of NPR's Living on Earth.

February 14: Axton Reading Series presents Jeffrey Bean

Jeffrey Bean is the 2007-2008 Axton Fellow in Poetry at the University of Louisville. His poems have appeared in numerous journals, in 2005 he won first prize for poetry in the Atlantic Monthly Student Writing Contest, his first collection, DIMINISHED FIFTH, will be published by David Robert Books in 2009.

February 21- 23: The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900

  • The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture since 1900 is now in its thirty-sixth year, and has become an international event attracting more than six hundred participants annually.
  • Website: Louisville Conference

 

February 22: Reading by Maud Casey, winner of the 2008 Italo Calvino Prize

 

February 27-March 2, 2008: Theatre Arts Production

Titus Andronicus

  • by William Shakespeare
  • Directed by Dennis Krausnick
  • Feb. 27-March 2 in the Thrust Theatre
  • This seldom seen drama of revenge, probably Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy and certainly his bloodiest, focuses on a fictional Roman general and the cycle of violence with his stalwart enemy Tamora, Queen of the Goths.
  • $12 for the general public, and $8 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

 

February 29: The Wittreich Family Lecture presents Simon Critchley

"To be or not to be is not the question: Beckett’s Film"

  • 3:30 p.m.
  • Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
  • Simon Critchley is Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research, New York
  • Download flyer (PDF): Critchley Lecture February 19, 2008

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March 2008

March 5: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

 

March 5, 2008: A&S “Life of the Mind” Event

Gottschalk Lecture in History presents Dr. James McPherson

  • James McPherson, Professor Emeritus of U.S. History at Princeton University, is one of the most prominent and respected historians of the US Civil War working today. A graduate of Johns Hopkins University, he has published a variety of books on subjects related to the Civil War that meet the highest scholarly standards, while also engaging a wide popular audience. He is most famous for his one-volume history of the causes and course of the war, The Battle Cry of Freedom, which won the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1989.
  • Event details to be announced

 

March 6: Meet the Professor Luncheon

Dr. John McLeod, History, "African Elites in India"

  • A monthly series (first Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club, $13
  • For reservations (required), and more information: (502)852-2247

 

March 6, 2008: Minx Auerbach Lecture in Women's and Gender Studies

Suzan-Lori Parks

  • Named one of Time magazine’s “100 Innovators for the Next New Wave,” Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most exciting and acclaimed playwrights in American drama today. She is the first African American woman to receive the Pulitzer Prize in Drama for the Broadway hit Topdog/Underdog and is a MacArthur “Genius” Award recipient, among her many other honors.
  • Information: 2008 Minx Auerbach Lecture

 

March 6: Morgan Lecture: "Louisville 2035" by architect Steve Wiser

March 18, 2008: Naamani Memorial Lecture

“Negotiating the Color Line: Southern Jews, Whiteness and the Rise of Jim Crow” by Prof. Eric Goldstein

  • 7:30 p.m. Ekstrom Library’s Chao Auditorium.
  • Free and open to the public
  • For more information, call Lee Shai Weissbach at 502-852-3755
  • See Also: Naamani Lecture 2008

 

March 18: Morgan Lecture, "The Architecture of Rear Window" by Sandy McLendon, freelance writer

March 21: Documentary screening, "Flow: For the Love of Water"

A special screening of the documentary "Flow: For the Love of Water," followed by a Q&A with its director Irena Salina. "An inspired, yet disturbingly provocative, wake-up call." Water is the very essence of life, sustaining every being on the planet. This documentary confronts the disturbing reality that our crucial resource is dwindling and greed just may be the cause. Sponsored by the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society and the Social Change minor.

  • Friday, March 21
  • 3-5 p.m.
  • Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
  • Free and open to the public

March 27: “Chat with Mentors: Jan Carew and Tchaiko Ruramai Kwayana. Black Studies in the Education System: Challenges and Successes”

This event will feature a dynamic exchange between veteran educators in Black Studies and students from 4-6 p.m. in the Ekstrom Library Chao Auditorium. One of a series of events hosted by the Department of Pan African Studies (PAS) celebrating the 5th anniversary of its Master’s Degree Program March 27--29, 2008. The theme for the celebration is “Redefining Scholarship Through the Black Experience.”

 

March 28: CCHS Faculty Research Forum: "Virginia Woolf Among Lunatics"

Suzette Henke, Department of English

Why have modern scholars so persistently analyzed Woolf's mental distress as virtually unique -- the affliction of a genius set apart from other men and women of the Victorian and Edwardian ages?  By examining case histories of women and men incarcerated in Britain's Holloway Sanatorium for the Insane, Professor Henke suggests analogies between Woolf's reported symptoms and those observed in patients admitted to institutional confinement at the turn of the century. Professor Henke offers an analysis of Woolf's narrative reformulation of both personal and historical trauma through the aegis of scriptotherapy.

  • 3:30 p.m., Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
  • Hosted by the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society
  • Details: CCHS

March 28: “Chat with the Community”

The is event will feature a lively discussion between graduates of PAS and the community held at the Yearlings Club 4309 W. Broadway from 6-8 p.m. One of a series of events hosted by the Department of Pan African Studies (PAS) celebrating the 5th anniversary of its Master’s Degree Program March 27--29, 2008. The theme for the celebration is “Redefining Scholarship Through the Black Experience.”

March 29: “Chat with Sistahs: Women in the Academy”

This event will feature female educators and students at the DuValle Education Center, 3610 Bohne Ave from 9:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. This event is held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Sistah Summit as a special Saturday Academy event. Tickets are $20 for students and seniors and $40 for the public ($50 after March 15). Call (502) 852-1397 for more information.

One of a series of events hosted by the Department of Pan African Studies (PAS) celebrating the 5th anniversary of its Master’s Degree Program March 27--29, 2008. The theme for the celebration is “Redefining Scholarship Through the Black Experience.”

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April 2008

April 3-4: "Social Justice & Engaged Scholarship" Symposium

Presented by the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research

 

April 3: Meet the Professor Luncheon

Dr. Sena Naslund, English, " Imagination and History in the Writing of Literary Novels"

  • A monthly series (first Thursdays) highlighting research and topics of interest in the College of Arts and Sciences.
  • Noon, University Club, $13
  • For reservations (required), and more information: (502)852-2247

 

April 3: Lucy M. Freibert "Thank You" event

Help thank English Professor Emerita Lucy M. Freibert for the gift of her collection of signed first editions and personal correspondence with contemporary women writers including bell hooks, Maxine Kumin, Marge Piercy, and Alice Walker.

  • 3:00 - 4:30 p.m.
  • Rare Books Colection, Ekstrom Library (lower level)
  • Free and open to the public
  • For more information, contact Jessie Roth at 852-6745 or jessie@louisville.edu

 

April 3: "Mathematics meets Wall Street: How high finance became safer and more dangerous at the same time"

Annual Bullitt Lecture in Mathematics by Dr. Philip Protter, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

  • Thursday April 3, 2008
  • 6 pm.
  • Strickler Hall 10

April 3: Barker Lecture presented by the Department of English

“Hellfire: Reading Flannery O’Conner with Jerry Lee Lewis” Presented by Ben Saunders, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English, University of Oregon

Ben Saunders is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Oregon, author of Desiring Donne: Poetry, Sexuality, Interpretation (Harvard University Press, 2006), and co-editor of Rock Over The Edge: Transformations in Popular Music Culture (Duke University Press, 2002).

April 3: Axton Reading Series Presents Marianne Boruch

Marianne Boruch has taught at Purdue Univrsity since 1987 and directed its MFA program from 1987 to 2005. Her work includes five collections of poetry, her awards include two Pushcart Prizes, the Terrence DePres Award from Parnassus, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.

April 8: Axton Reading Series presents Gerald Stern

April 9: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

April 9: Bingham Lecture 2008

“Founding Filibuster: Aaron Burr and the Conspiracy to Conquer Mexico”

presented by Nancy Isenberg

  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  • 3:00 p.m.
  • Chao Auditorium, Ekstrom Library
  • Free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow the lecture.
  • More information: Bingham Lecture 2008

April 9: First Annual Latin American and Latino Studies Showcase

  • Annual Celebration of LALS Lewis Scholars and Fellows, Panama Scholars, Interns, and Graduates
  • Guest Speaker: Dr. Gregory Hutcheson, 2006 Lewis Fellow “Counter-Tourism in Córdoba”
  • Wednesday, April 9, 2008
  • Belknap Research Building 139
  • 2:00-3:00
  • Reception by the Mayan Café
  • More information: LALS Showcase Flyer (PDF opens in new window)

 

April 9: Panel discussion on "Public Service Leadership"

Presented by the Metropolitan Louisville American Society for Public Administration (Metro Louisville ASPA) and UofL's Department of Urban and Public Affairs. This is a great opportunity to network with and learn from our community leaders.

Panel members include:

    • J. Barry Barker, Executive Director, Transit Authority of River City
    • Tom Burch, 30th District Kentucky State Representative
    • Cathe Dykstra, Executive Director, Project Women
    • Denise Troutman, Center for Women and Families

Wednesday, April 9th, 6:00-7:30pm, Ekstrom Library, Chao Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Please contact Dr. Leonard Bright if you have any questions: 852-4894 or dr.bright@louisville.edu

 

April 10: Axton Reading Series Presents Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego. She has written numerous books of poetry, twice received Fund for Poetry Awards and was a recipient of the California Arts Council Fellowship.

 

April 16- 20, 2008: Theatre Arts Production

The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God

  • Djanet Sears
  • Directed by Dr. Lundeana Thomas
  • April 16- 20 at the Playhouse.
  • Set in a 200-year-old Black community in Canada, this play will make you laugh and weep, and sometimes all at once. A country doctor struggles to make sense of the death of her child, the disintegration of her marriage, and her eccentric father’s astonishing crusade.
  • $12 for the general public, and $8 for faculty, staff, and students
  • Call the Box Office: 502-852-6814

 

April 18: A&S Faculty Awards and Reception

  • Awards Presentations and Reception to be held in the Belknap Research Building following Faculty Assembly.
  • Faculty Assembly will start at 2pm. in Humanities Room 100

 

April 25: CCHS Faculty Research Forum

  • Hosted by the Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society
  • Details: CCHS

 

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May 2008

May 10: University Commencement

May 14: Brown Bag Lunch with the Dean

  • "Brown Bag Lunches with the Dean" are held on the second Wednesday of each month (with a few exceptions)
  • 12:00 to 1:00 pm.
  • In Gardiner Hall 340.
  • All faculty, staff and alumni are invited; students are welcome. There will be no formal agenda, just informal discussion. The Dean's Office will provide soft drinks.

 

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted. For questions regarding these events, please contact the College of Arts & Sciences Dean's Office at (502) 852-2244 or email Brian Heckel. For parking information, please call Parking Administration at (502) 852-7275.

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