Commonwealth Center Sponsored Events

Friday, January 27, 2012
Faculty Research Forum presents Masolo, Department of Philosophy

3:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300

Reading Shaaban Robert: Convinced that the post-post colonial condition is long overdue, Masolo's current interests are to generate local debates through readings of indigenous authors and intellectuals.  It is in this light that he engages in the translation into English of this prominent East African writer's works.

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - Phi Beta Kappa Lecture Series presents Pulitzer Prize Winner, Eugene Robinson

6 - 9 p.m., Comstock Auditorium, UofL School of Music

Eugene Robinson writes a twice-a-week column on politics and culture for the Washington Post, contributes to the PostPartisan blog, and hosts a weekly online chat with readers. In 2009, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary for “his eloquent columns on the 2008 presidential campaign that focus on the election of the first African-American president, showcasing graceful writing and grasp of the larger historic picture.” Mr. Robinson’s lecture will concern his most recent book, Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America (2010), a study of the current fracturing of the African American populace into four distinct, and too often detached, socio-economic groups.  He is also the author of Last Dance in Havana (2004), and Coal to Cream: A Black Man’s Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race (1999).

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Friday, February 17, 2012 - Faculty Research Forum presents the 2010 Anne Braden Institute Faculty Research Award Winners: Dr. A. Glenn Crothers, Dr. Nicole E. Seymour, and Dr. Jennie E Burnet

3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300
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Friday, March 23, 2012 - Faculty Research Forum 
Speaker and Title TBA
3:30 - 5:30 p.m., Bingham Humanities, Room 300

Friday, April 20, 2012 - Annual A&S Faculty Book Party

Location: Schumaker Research Building, Room 130 - Immediately following the A&S Faculty Awards