December 3rd, 2009

From Bartlomiej Sapeta, TDS: The KSC Architecture Club and Architecture Program are proud to present a lecture by Paul King, “The Interlocking Fields of Architecture and Sustainability,” on Tuesday, December 8, at 6 p.m. in the Mable Brown Room, Student Center.

Paul King, a principal and lead designer with Einhorn, Yaffee, Prescott Architecture & Engineering PC, has more than 25 years of experience in the design of college and university facilities, laboratories, corporate headquarters, and governmental buildings, as well as residential, retail, transportation, and hospital facilities both in the U.S. and internationally. Recent projects include the New Visual and Media Arts Building at Keene State; a 322-bed residence hall and a 60,000-square-foot data center, both at Boston College; a 200,000-square-foot interdisciplinary science building at Hamilton College; and a 48,000-square-foot research facility at The Jackson Laboratories. In addition to his design work, Paul has been a guest critic at colleges and universities including the City College of New York, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, Syracuse University, the University of Maryland, and the University of Miami. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia. For additional information, please contact Bartlomiej Sapeta, 8-2847.

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At 6 p.m.
on Wednesday, November 18,
Tristam Johnson will present “Making Cents and Relieving Poverty in Latin America” in Morrison 110.

Johnson has worked for the past two decades in nine countries throughout South and Central America. His work focuses on community development related to health, education, microenterprise, governance, and natural resource protection. He will present on creating hope and opportunity with regards to poverty relief in Latin America through small entrepreneur investments. Refreshments will be served! This event is sponsored by the KSC Geography Department. For more information, contact Jo Beth Mullens, 8-2547.

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Louise Derman-Sparks (courtesy photo)

On Wednesday, October 7, at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room in the Student Center, Louise Derman-Sparks will present “Teaching Children to Resist Prejudice: Why Do We Still Need To Do This?” as part of Keene State’s Diverse Lectures from the Field series. She will repeat this lecture on Thursday, October 8, at 4 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room; both events are free and open to the public.

Louise Derman-Sparks, now professor emerita, was a long-time human development faculty member at Pacific Oaks College in Pasadena, California. She first worked with young children and families as an early childhood education teacher and program director, and she is the author and co-author of several books, including Anti-Bias Curriculum: Tools for Empowering Young Children; Teaching/Learning Anti-Racism: A Developmental Approach (with Carol Brunson Phillips); In Our Own Way: How Anti-Bias Work Shapes Our Lives; Future Vision, Current Work: Lessons from the Culturally Relevant Anti-Bias Education Leadership Project; and “What if All the Kids Are White?” Anti-bias/ Multicultural Education with Young Children and Families (with Dr. Patricia Ramsey).

Ms. Derman-Sparks speaks, conducts workshops, and consults widely throughout the United States and internationally. A former member of the governing board of the National Association for the Education of Young Children, she currently serves as a member of the national board/staff collective of Crossroads, an interfaith and community-based anti-racism training organization, and on the National Diversity Advisory Council of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Keene State College’s Diverse Voices from the Field lecture series is dedicated to bringing speakers who represent diversity in education to the College. For more information on Diverse Voices in the Field, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Felicia Favreau at 8-2301.

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Dr. Lauret Savoy will present “Alien Land Ethic: The Distance Between,” Keene State College’s 2009 Janet Grayson Lecture in Literary Studies, on Monday, April 27, at 6 p.m. in the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery Conference Room. An hors d’oeuvres reception to honor Janet Grayson, KSC professor emerita, will precede the lecture at 5.30 p.m.

Lauret Savoy is professor of Geology and Environmental Studies at Mount Holyoke College. A woman of African-American, Euro-American, and Native-American heritage, she writes across threads of cultural identity to explore their shaping by relationship with and dislocation from the land. Her books include Bedrock: Writers on the Wonders of Geology, The Colors of Nature: Culture, Identity, and the Natural World, and Living with the Changing California Coast.

In this talk, Dr. Savoy connects her father Willard Savoy’s 1949 novel of racial passing, Alien Land, with the environmental ethics of another famous book published in that same year: Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac. Her work considers how braided strands of human history and geologic-natural history contribute to stories we tell of land’s origin and history, and to stories we tell of ourselves in the land and of relational identity. Sponsored by the Department of English and the School of Arts and Humanities, the annual Janet Grayson Lecture in Literary Studies is named in honor of Dr. Grayson, professor emerita of the KSC Department of English. For more information contact Dr. William Stroup at wstroup@keene.edu or 8-2692.

Courtesy photo; Dr. Lauret Savoy

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Dr. Stephen Shalom, professor at William Patterson State University, will present Keene State College’s 2009 Sidore lecture, “Can We End the Unending Conflict? Reflections on Israel and Palestine,” on Monday, April 27, at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center. This lecture was originally scheduled for March 2, but was cancelled because of the snowstorm.

Professor Shalom has written and spoken widely on U.S. foreign policy and on the Middle East. Among his books are Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention after the Cold War and Which Side Are You on? An Introduction to Politics. He is the editor of a dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power: the Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. He serves on the editorial board of New Politics and is a regular contributor to Z Magazine and ZNet. He was in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon this past year.

The Sidore Memorial Foundation and the Sidore Series have been established to support campus presentations by speakers on emerging ideas and to enhance faculty efforts to challenge students and the wider community to participate in dialogue around original and sometimes controversial issues facing society.

This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the presentation. For more information, contact Linda Baker at 8-2611.

Courtesy photo; Professor Stephen Shalom

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From Kim Schmidl-Gagne, Academic Affairs: What is the climate on the KSC Campus for returning Veterans? Are we doing what we should to welcome them into the KSC family and help them with college? As the new GI Bill is implemented, what can we do to help make this a more veteran-friendly campus?

A panel of three veterans will share their experience at KSC on Friday, April 17, at 1 p.m. in the Mountain View Room. This event is sponsored by the Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism, the Office for Diversity and Multiculturalism, and the Student Development/Dean of Student’s Office. A light lunch will be provided.

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Celebrate scholarship and creativity at the Arts and Humanities lecture on Tuesday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes S203.

Susan Wade (History) will present “Gertrude’s Little Bed: The Creation of Sacred Relics from Mundane Objects in the Early Middle Ages,” a paper that examines how the little bed of Saint Gertrude of Nivelles became a saintly relic and opens new ground in our understanding of the importance of seeing to medieval spiritual belief. Cookies and punch will be served.

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Award-winning author Jack Beatty will present “America’s Two Gilded Ages: Reflections on Then and Now,” Keene State College’s 2009 Mason Library Lecture, on Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room, Student Center.

Beatty, a news analyst on the National Public Radio program On Point, will speak on the Gilded Age, comparing the economic situation of that time with our own. A senior editor of The Atlantic, he is the author of several books, including Age of Betrayal: The Triumph of Money in America, 1865-1900, and is the editor of Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America, An Anthology of Readings on the History of the American Corporation.

The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Wallace E. Mason Library and The Keene Sentinel. For more information on the lecture, contact Cheryl Spangler at 8-2723 or cspangle@keene.edu.

Courtesy photo, Jack Beatty

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From Kim Schmidl-Gagne, Academic Affairs: On Wednesday, March 25, anti-racist writer and activist Tim Wise will speak from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room.

Wise has provided anti-racism training to teachers nationwide and has trained physicians and medical industry professionals on how to combat racial inequities in health care. He has also trained corporate, government, entertainment, military, and law-enforcement officials on methods for dismantling racism in their institutions. He has served as a consultant for plaintiff’s attorneys in federal discrimination cases in New York and Washington State and is the author of Between Barak and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama.

This event is sponsored by the Office of Diversity and Multiculturalism, the Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism, Common Ground, the School for International Training, and a grant from the Pepsi Fund. For more information, contact Kim Schmidl-Gagne at 8-2768.

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From Brinda Charry, English: Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma has led to campus-wide discussion on the growth, distribution, and consumption of food. On Wednesday, March 25, journalist, author, food-policy expert, and activist Dr. Raj Patel will discuss the growing international food crisis and what can be done to stop it. Dr. Raj Patel has lived and worked in Zimbabwe, South Africa, and the United States and is best known for his 2008 book, Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System. He has been a visiting scholar at Yale and the University of California, Berkeley, and his work as food-policy analyst and activist challenges our presumptions about the global food economy. Dr. Patel is currently a visiting scholar in the Center for African Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, a fellow at Food First, and a research associate at the School of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa.

Courtesy photo: Dr. Raj Patel

Sponsored by the Keene is Reading Program, this event is free and open to the public and will start at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room. For information or to request accommodation for a disability, please contact Brinda Charry, 8-2727.

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From Candice Wiggum, Student Development Office: On Tuesday, March 24, Larry Elbroch and Clifton Burdette, from the N.H. Post Secondary Education Commission, will present “The GI Bill and Veterans: A Review and Ideas to Help Colleges to be Ready, “ from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the Mountain View Room, Student Center. They will be talking about the GI Bill, what it means for veterans, and what colleges can do to be more welcoming. For more information, please contact Candice Wiggum, 8-2841.

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Jean Dominique Gumirakiza will present “Healing a World after Genocide,” on Tuesday, March 10, at 8 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room. A native of Rwanda, Jean Dominique Gumirakiza currently resides in Logan, Utah, where he teaches applied economics at Utah State University. The Holocaust and Genocide Awareness Club has invited him to campus to offer a workshop and a lecture focusing on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide through the lens of the children of the Burera School in Kigali, Rwanda. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Paul Vincent at 8-2722.

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From Candice Bosse, Modern Languages: Gabriela Bustelo, a contemporary Spanish novelist and translator from Madrid, will visit campus on Monday, March 9, to present her views on modern feminism. She will present “The Feminist Double Standard and Post-Feminist Identity Problem,” at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room.

Bustelo has published three novels and translated several English classics, including children’s books, into Spanish. She is one of the few Spanish women writing science fiction, and commercial culture, including film, advertising, television, and pop music are among her strongest influences. Her 2001 novel Planeta Hembra, set in New York, is a dystopia on the gender crisis and a satiric overview of feminism.

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Dr. Stephen Shalom, professor at William Patterson State University, will present Keene State College’s 2009 Sidore lecture, “Can We End the Unending Conflict? Reflections on Israel and Palestine,” on Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center.

Courtesy photo; Dr. Stephen Shalom

Professor Shalom has written and spoken widely on U.S. foreign policy and on the Middle East. Among his books are Imperial Alibis: Rationalizing U.S. Intervention after the Cold War and Which Side Are You On? An Introduction to Politics. He is the editor of a dialogue between Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar, Perilous Power: The Middle East and U.S. Foreign Policy. He serves on the editorial board of New Politics and is a regular contributor to Z Magazine and ZNet. He was in Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon this past year.

The Sidore Memorial Foundation and the Sidore Series have been established to support campus presentations by speakers on emerging ideas and to enhance faculty efforts to challenge students and the wider community to participate in dialogue around original and sometimes controversial issues facing society.

This event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow the presentation. For more information, contact Linda Baker at 603-358-2611.

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Paul Vincent (Holocaust and Genocide Studies) will launch a new campus lecture series with “The Voyage of the St. Louis: Refuge Denied or Refuge Achieved?” on Tuesday, February 24, at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes S203. Future speakers include:
• Elisabeth Roos (Theatre and Dance), “The Athena’s Closet Project,” Tuesday, March 24, at 4:30 p.m. in the Davis Room, Redfern Arts Center.
• Susan Wade (History), “Gertrude’s Little Bed: The Creation of Sacred Relics from Mundane Objects in the Early Middle Ages,” Tuesday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m. in Rhodes S203.

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From Katherine Tirabassi, English: On Thursday, February 12, Dr. Sam Smith will present “Hunger in America: WHY?” Part of the ongoing Keene is Reading program, this lecture will be from noon to 1 p.m. in the Mountain View Room, Student Center.

Although we have the most abundant and least expensive food supply of any nation throughout history, hunger continues to be an increasing problem in the United States, involving at least 1 of every 10 persons and 1 in 5 children. Dr. Smith will examine the historical background of hunger in the US, the effects on those involved, the attempted solutions, and our political attitudes.

Dr. Smith is a Professor Emeritus (Active) of Molecular, Cellular, and Biomedical Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 1961. He currently teaches Introductory Nutrition and a problem-based service-learning course called Food and Society, focusing on the cultural significance of food, emphasizing historical, psychological, social, political, and economic aspects. He has supervised numerous graduate students in cell biology and atherosclerosis and has published in this area as well. In 1983, Dr. Sam Smith was honored with the UNH Distinguished Teaching Award, and he was named the UNH Distinguished Professor in 1996. For more information, contact Dr. Katherine Tirabassi, at ktirabassi@keene.edu or 8-2924.

Courtesy photo: Dr. Sam Smith

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From William Stroup, English: Join us for a panel presentation and discussion on the use of animal flesh as food, one of the topics raised in Michael Pollan’s The Omnivore’s Dilemma. This book is the 2008–09 “Keene Is Reading” program selection, read by first-year students and other members of the campus community. The panel discussion will be in the Mountain View Room, Student Center, at 4 p.m. on Wednesday, January 28, and is free and open to the public — refreshments, too. For more information, call William Stroup at 8-2692.

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From Kim Schmidl-Gagne, Academic Affairs: Silvia Hernandez and Chris Thomas, teachers from Oaxaca, Mexico, will visit KSC to share stories of teachers organizing to build a powerful movement for democracy and accountability. They will be speaking in the Student Center’s Madison Street Lounge on Friday, November 7, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. (The film Granito de Arena will be shown following the event.)

Hernandez and Thomas wrote Teaching Rebellion: Stories from the Grassroots Mobilization in Oaxaca, a book of firsthand testimonies regarding the 2006 events in Oaxaca, Mexico. What began as a teacher’s strike demanding more resources for education quickly turned into a massive movement that demanded participatory democracy beyond the ballot box.

Silvia Hernandez is a sociology student who was active in the takeover and management of state media in Oaxaca during the social movement in 2006. She continues to work for alternatives to neoliberal development in southern Mexico. Chris Thomas spent two years collaborating with the autonomous school system in Zapatista communities in Chiapas. Learn more about this speaking tour at http://teachingrebellion.wordpress.com/.

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Gretchen Steidle Wallace, founder of Global Grassroots, a nonprofit organization that invests in social entrepreneurship to advance women’s wellbeing in poor countries, will be the guest speaker at Keene State College’s James D. Ewing World Affairs Lecture at 7 p.m. on Thursday, October 30, in the Mabel Brown Room of the Student Center.

Her talk, “Survivors of Conflict, Agents of Change: How Africa’s Women Are Using Grassroots Social Entrepreneurship to Rebuild from Genocide,” will explore her work as a social entrepreneur helping to empower women in genocide- and conflict-torn areas of the world. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Gretchen Steidle Wallace received a BA in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia (where she attended as a Jefferson Scholar), and her MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where she helped found what is now Tuck’s Allwin Initiative for Corporate Citizenship. The Allwin Initiative works to give business leaders a sense of corporate responsibility, service, business ethics, and knowledge of social enterprise.

She co-authored her brother’s memoirs, The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur, the story of former Marine Captain Brian Steidle, and produced a documentary film with the same title. She was honored by World Business Magazine and Shell as one of the top International 35 Women Under 35.

In 2004 Wallace led a team to South Africa to study the impact of HIV/AIDS, the work of social entrepreneurs combating the disease, and the opportunity for creative business investment in the epidemic. In the townships of South Africa, she discovered how critical a role the lack of women’s sexual and economic rights played in the continued spread of HIV. In late 2004, inspired by her work in South Africa and her brother’s tenure in Darfur as a military observer for the African Union, she incorporated Global Grassroots. Global Grassroots (www.globalgrassroots.org) uses consciousness practices, social entrepreneurship training, and seed funding to help women victims of conflict and genocide launch their own ideas for social change. In 2005, she returned to Africa to launch Global Grassroots’ initial work in the Darfur refugee camps of eastern Chad.

For more information on the lecture, or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact Pat Hitchner at 8-2112.

Courtesy Photo: Gretchen Steidle Wallace

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From Antje Hornbeck, College and Media Relations: Please join the College and Media Relations Office for “Decent Exposure: How We Can Help Get More People to Your Campus Event,” on Thursday, October 16 at 9 a.m. in the Mountain View Room.

We’ll have breakfast and a brief presentation on how to work with us to best publicize your events. Please RSVP: Antje Hornbeck at ahornbeck@keene.edu or 8-2102.

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On Wednesday, October 1, Dr. Diane Levin will explore the impact of media on children and teens and the sexualization of childhood in “So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What We Can Do About It.”

The lecture, part of Keene State College’s Diverse Lectures from the Field series, will start at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room in the Student Center.

Levin will give parents and educators the information, skills, and confidence they need to play a proactive role with children around sexual issues, including:

• stories that demonstrate how children internalize what they see and hear
• guidelines and sample conversations for talking with children about these sensitive subjects
• practical strategies for counteracting the disturbing messages that bombard children every day

Dr. Levin is professor of education at Wheelock College in Boston, Massachusetts, where she teaches the summer institute “Media Madness and Children,” and she speaks around the world on the impact of violence and media on children, families, and schools. Her work has been covered widely in the media, including the Boston Globe, Time Magazine, The New York Times, USA Today, and the Washington Post. More information on the speaker can be found at http://www.dianeelevin.com/.

Levin has written or co-written eight books, including So Sexy So Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids (with Jean Kilbourne); The War Play Dilemma; Teaching Young Children in Violent Times: Building a Peaceable Classroom; and Remote Control Childhood? Combating the Hazards of Media Culture.

Keene State College’s Diverse Voices from the Field lecture series is dedicated to bringing speakers who represent diversity in education to the College. For more information or to request accommodations for a disability, please contact the Education Department at 8-2301.

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Diane Levin

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Professor Christopher Browning will present the 11th Annual Holocaust Memorial Lecture, “Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness,” on Monday, September 22, at 7:30 p.m. in the Mabel Brown Room.

Professor Browning is the Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is known for his book Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland, and for his role as an expert witness in the libel defense of Prof. Deborah Lipstadt, author of Denying the Holocaust, who was sued by Holocaust denier David Irving in the late 1990s.

Other scholarship by Browning includes The Final Solution and the German Foreign Office (1978), Fateful Months: Essays on the Emergence of the Final Solution (1985), The Path to Genocide (1992), and Final Solution: The Evolution of Nazi Jewish Policy, September 1939-March 1942 (2004).

In 1999 Professor Browning gave the George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures at Cambridge University, since published under the title Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers (2000). In 2001 he delivered the first George Mosse Lecture at the University of Wisconsin, later published as Collected Memories: Holocaust History and Postwar Testimony (2003). Using the testimony of nearing 265 survivors, he is currently working on a case study of the slave labor camps in Starachowice in central Poland. For more information visit the Cohen Center or call 8-2490.

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Professor Christopher Browning

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