Directed by Rinda Frye

by Rinne Groff, Lucas Hnath, and Anne Washburn conceived by Amy Attaway and Sarah Lunnie

at the Owsley Brown II Theater at Lincoln Performing Arts School in partnership with Actors Theatre of Louisville, ZFX Flying Effects, Lincoln Performing Arts School, and Jefferson County Public Schools

Professor Weissbach's lecture will explore the history of Jewish life in small-town America, focusing on the heyday of small-town Jewish life in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The talk will describe how the smaller Jewish communities of the United States came into being and consider some of the characteristics that made them very different from the Jewish communities of America’s large and midsize cities.  By the 1920s, there were some five hundred smaller cities and towns in the United States with Jewish populations of at least 100 but fewer than 1,000, and the history of these smaller Jewish centers must be taken into account if we are to understand the richness and complexity of the American Jewish experience and appreciate the diversity of small-town society in times past.

This lecture includes a slide presentation focusing on the ways in which visual images related to small-town Jewish life can help enrich our understanding of the Jewish experience in smaller communities.

About the Naamani Memorial Lecture

The Naamani Memorial Lecture Series is supported by donations to the Naamani Memorial Lecture Fund. The series was established in 1979 to honor the memory of Professor Israel T. Naamani, long a beloved member of both the university community and the Louisville Jewish community.

Dr. Naamani first came to Louisville in 1948 to head the city's Bureau of Jewish Education, and he remained a key figure in local educational efforts throughout his life. He also taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Louisville for many years.

Ten years of Dr. Naamani's early life were spent in Palestine, and he was recognized as an expert on Middle East politics and particularly on Israel, having published widely on these subjects. His interests also included Hebrew language, Jewish studies in general and Islamic culture.

The Naamani Memorial Lecture is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served following the talk. Pay parking for the lecture will be available in the Speed Museum parking garage.

They are all featured in "Nous jouons Molière!" (Variations sur Molière), a one-act play to be performed in French by UofL students on April 9 and 11.

Written by Sylvaine Hinglais, the 40-minute play features a selection of some of the most celebrated scenes from the comedies of Moliere, France's leading comic playwright. Although written in the 17th century, Moliere's comedies are widely performed today and he remains one of France's leading literary figures.

The play involves a good deal of physical comedy and was selected to appeal to both an audience of native speakers and beginning language learners.

"Putting on a play in a foreign language can be daunting for language learners but the cast have worked extremely hard and their language skills and confidence in French have really increased -- one of the goals of the exercise," says director and Professor of French John Greene.

"Nous jouons Molière!" (Variations sur Molière) will be performed on Tuesday April 9 and Thursday April 1l at 2:50 pm in 205 Humanities. These performances are free and open to the public. Parking is available in the visitor lots on the Belknap Campus.

For more information, contact Professor John Greene at 852-0496 or jpgreene@louisville.edu.

The celebration will start with a panel where local leaders will debate about the legacy of the Latino leader.
We have planned a march (to honor César Chávez famous march to Delano in 1966) to take place on Friday 3/29 at 11 a.m., 12 p.m. and 1 p.m.
There will be a display of books and videos in our Library collection.
We will also screen documentaries related to Chávez, migrant workers and Chicano music.

2013 PBK Lecture

• March 26, 2013
• 6:00 p.m.
• Bigelow Hall, Miller IT Center (MITC). Campus Map, building #21
• Reception immediately following in the Hite Galleries, Schneider Hall. Campus Map, building #20
• A limited amount of free parking can be found in the two lots adjacent to Grawemeyer Hall. Additional free parking is located behind the J.B. Speed School of Engineering.

Saving Earth in the Age of Man: Conservation in a Human Dominated World.

The environmental movement has long been dominated by a focus on biological diversity and wilderness and a Western philosophy that sees humans as separate from and detrimental to nature. While great strides have been made in the past few decades most scientists will agree that conservationists have not managed to keep up with the vast scale of planetary change. In other words, despite our best efforts, our movement is failing.

In a planet of 7 billion people with growing economic and demographic shifts towards the South and the East, I argue that we need to reboot the environmental movement if we are to break out of our niche and become globally significant.  In particular, we need to include within the environmental movement three constituents whom we have in the past either ignored at best or despised at worst  and co-opt them as allies in conservation.

These constituents are:

• The business community with their increasing reliance on sustainable natural resources for growth.
• The rural poor with their non-replacable dependence on nature for basic services and provisioning.
• And finally, the youth, who are  impatient for change but are more disconnected from nature than ever before.

By seeking allies in these three constituencies we can build a global environmental movement with the resilience and resources needed to tackle the challenges ahead.  And by doing so now, we can take advantage of a unique opportunity in human history to create an impact that will resonate through the ages.

M. Sanjayan

Lead Scientist, The Nature Conservancy

CBS News Science and Environment Contributor

@msanjayan

M. Sanjayan is a scientist and global environmental leader.  He is the Lead Scientist for the world’s largest environmental organization, The Nature Conservancy, and holds a faculty research position at the University of Montana.  Sanjayan’s research interests focus on exploring the nexus between saving nature and the well being of people, wildlife ecology, and digital environmental education.  He has helped launch a digital platform for environmental education (www.natureworkseverywhere.org) with a following of over 200,000 students and teachers in just the first year alone.

In 2012, Sanjayan was named the Science and Environment Contributor for CBS News where he develops and contributes to a range of science, environment, and nature stories for “CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley” and “CBS This Morning.” His most recent stories include covering the ivory wars in Africa, global climate change, fire management in the west, and marine debris.

He is a Catto Fellow at the Aspen Institute and was recently named an influential alumnus (one of just 45) by UC Santa Cruz as part of their 45th anniversary celebrations.  He is also a senior advisor to the Clinton Global Initiative.

Sanjayan’s efforts have received extensive media coverage from National Geographic Adventure to the New York Times.  In 2007 Men’s Journal profiled him as an “Environmental Hero of the Year.” Outside magazine and Afar magazine recently published full-length feature profiles on him and his work.  His on-air media appearances include NBC’s Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS This Morning, NBC Nightly News, CNN, Fox News, and the BBC.  He has been featured in or hosted numerous documentaries including Planet Earth: The Future (BBC), Expedition Alaska (Discovery Channel), and Mysteries of the Shark Coast during “shark week” on Discovery Channel. His most recent hosting effort, a four part series on energy (Powering the Future) is now airing globally on the Discovery Channel.

He is currently at work hosting a multi-part series for PBS and National Geographic Television scheduled to air in 2014 and recently co-hosted a series of short films for BBC World News.   This fall, he will star in “Years of Living Dangerously”, a Showtime series that will address the impact of human-induced climate change through first-person narratives and explore solutions for the future.

He regularly writes for the Huffington Post and for Orion magazine and has published scholarly articles in numerous journals including Science, Nature, Conservation Biology, and Marine Policy.

Sanjayan is a sought after speaker on college and business campuses with recent appearances on stage at TED Global, International Women’s Forum, Aspen Environment Forum, Aspen Ideas Festival, Clinton Global Initiative, Google, and the Summit Series.

When not off on an expedition, usually to Africa or Asia, Sanjayan can be found fly-fishing, or hiking in Western Montana, where he tries to live.

Follow Sanjayan on twitter (@msanjayan)

More info http://www.nature.org/sanjayan

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