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MARK YOUR CALENDARS
2006-07
Office of the Provost Lunch Program Series
for Department Chairs and Program Directors
Wednesday,
February 7, 2007
12-1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Optimizing Banner Data"
presented by:
Julie Weissman, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Laurinda Smith
Data Manager, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Brett Magill
Data Manager, Office of Planning and Decision Resources
Thursday,
March 22, 2007
12-1:30 p.m., BSC 352/353
"Globalizing:
Getting to the Next Level"
presented by:
Thomas Finan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, History and Interim Director,
International Studies
Seung Kim, Ph.D.
Professor and Director, Boeing Institute for International
Business, Cook School of Business
Lunch
will be served at 12:00 noon, followed by the program between 12:30-1:30
p.m.
Please RSVP to
Mary Ann Fox, 977-3718, foxma@slu.edu.
Reminders for the lunch programs will be emailed just prior to the
program date for those reserved.
Precommencement/Commencement
Information on College of Arts and
Sciences Website
For
up-to-date information regarding Precommencement and Commencement,
access the College of Arts and Sciences website
under Quicklinks for 2007 Graduating A&S Seniors.
FROM THE COLLEGE
First
Annual
Paul Garcia Lecture Series
In recognition of the founder of the Center for International Studies, the first annual Paul Garcia Lecture Series will present: "Catholic Social Teaching and US Immigration Policy: Church at the Border." The presentation will be on February 8th from 4:00 - 5:45 p.m. in the upper level of the Church.
Fr. John Stowe is an alumnus of Saint Louis University, an adjunct faculty member of the Tepeyac Institute and has served as Moderator of the Curia and Vicar General of the Diocese of El Paso since December 2002.
Iliana Holguin, Executive Director of Diocesan Migrant and Refuge Services in El Paso, is an immigration attorney heavily involved in the concrete border issues. Diocesan Migrant & Refugee Services, Inc. is a non-profit legal aid clinic providing free and low cost legal services to the indigent and low income members of the El Paso border community.
This presentation is sponsored by the Center for International Studies and the Department of Theological Studies and co-sponsored by: the departments of American Studies, Political Science, Sociology & Criminal Justice, the Manresa Program, The School of Law, and the College of Public Service.
For more information, email Mary Wolf or at 7-3576.
The
Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence -
Celebrating 10 years of
service to the Saint Louis
University teaching
community.
Difficult
Dialogues
How do you handle difficult situations
in the classroom?
Difficult
Dialogues is an interactive workshop exploring various classroom techniques
to facilitate controversial conversation and encourage cross-cultural
empathy through interactive theatre. Audience members will become active
participants, responding to classroom scenarios and practicing facilitation
skills. Don't miss this opportunity to improve your ability to address
Difficult Dialogues in
the classroom on February 7 from 3:30-5:00 p.m.
in BSC 253A. Refreshments will be provided. For additional information
contact Dr. Beth Hill, Reinert Center for Teaching Excellence at 977-3485
or by email.
Roads to Freedom - Europe Through Solidarity
The Saint Louis University Museum of Art and the Russian and East European Studies Program will be presenting Roads to Freedom - Europe Through Solidarity in the Judith and Adam Aronson Gallery of the SLU Museum of Art through Sunday, February 18, 2007.
Hours
are Wednesday through Sunday
11:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, by appointment only
This exhibit commemorates the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Solidarity movement by the workers of the Lenin Shipyard complex in Gdansk, Poland, in 1980. Presenting the historical context and personalities that made Solidarnosc possible, if not inevitable, Roads to Freedom illustrates Polish life under Soviet-style communism as a microcosm reflecting the experience of life behind the Iron Curtain.
For more information, call 977-2666 or visit the website.
Alpha Sigma Nu Jesuit Book Awards 2007
Scholarly works published in 2004, 2005, and 2006 in the category of "Professional Studies" including:
Architecture
Business and Administration
Communication
Education
Engineering
Foreign Service
Law
Social Work
- All faculty, administrators, or anyone with emeritus status at Jesuit institutions of higher learning are invited to apply
- Works will be judged on the basis of scholarship, effectiveness of presentation, and style
- Four cash prizes of $1,000 will be awarded
- All
submissions must be postmarked by March
1, 2007
Applications are available on the web.
January
15 - February 17
Nila Petty (Fine & Performing Arts, Studio) will be exhibiting
The Intended Fragment at Xen Gallery,
Gallery Two (401 North Euclid, St. Louis, MO 63108, 314-454-9561).
Nila Petty uses fragmented figures to convey a sense of history. These
clay forms, mounted on metal supports, reference museum displays and
provide a relationship between the partial figures. For more information,
visit
the website.
February
6 - April 3
Norma
Vogelweid, M.A., Department of Modern and Classical Languages,
offers the pre-departure course for students preparing to study abroad
and is now introducing a 1-credit re-entry course. For more
information, email Norma Vogelweid.
February
8
SLU
Film Studies Program Campus Film Series Spring 2007:
It's about children...
42 up (Michael Apted, Great-Britain, 1999), 7:00 p.m., Kelley
Auditorium, no cover. All films introduced by Film Studies or Related
Faculty.
February
8
The
Center for International Studies First Annual Paul Garcia Lecture
Series: "Catholic
Social Teaching and US Immigration Policy: Church at the Border."
The presentation will be from 4:00 - 5:45 p.m.
in the upper level of the St. Francis Xavier College Church.
February
9
Department
of Biology Seminar: Seema Sheth, Missouri Botanical
Garden, will present "Effects of Detectability on Estimates of
Geographic Range Size and Extinction Risk: Evaluating Patterns of
Threat in Bignonieae (Bignoniaceae) with Herbarium Data"
at 1:00 p.m. in Macelwane Hall 334.
February
15
Chairs
and Program Directors Meeting, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m,, Verhaegen 219.
February
20
Department
of Theological Studies 12th Annual DeLubac Lecture:
Dr. Mark Noll, Francis McAnaney Professor of History, Notre Dame University,
will present "Pope John Paul II: An Evangelical
Perspective" at 7:00 p.m. in Cook Hall - AB Auditorium.
Dr. Mark Noll is one of today's leading historians of American religion
and author or editor of more than thirty books. In 2005, he was named
by Time Magazine as one of the twenty-five most influential
evangelicals in America.
This lecture is sponsored by The Marchetti Fund.
February
23 - 25
J.J.
Mueller, S.J., associate professor of theological studies, will lead
faculty-staff retreatants in "Finding God Finding Us," a
weekend retreat at Mercy Center in West St. Louis County. The cost
is $50.00. The retreat is subsidized by Mission and Ministry. The
retreat opens Friday at 7:30 p.m. and closes Sunday at noon. Reservations
are requested by February 8, 2007. For more information, contact
Mary Flick or at 977-2428.
ACADEMIC NEWS
Faculty Publications, Presentations, Awards
American
Studies
Dr.
Matthew Mancini's book Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals:
From His Times to Ours has been selected as an Outstanding Academic
Title for 2006 by Choice magazine, which is published by the
Association of College & Research Libraries Division of the American
Library Association. Choice editors write: "Every year,
Choice subject editors single out for recognition the most
significant print and electronic works reviewed in Choice during
the previous calendar year. appearing annually in Choice's
January issue, this prestigious list of publications reflects the best
in scholarly titles and attracts extraordinary attention from the academic
library community."
Modern
and Classical Languages
Dr.
Evelyn Meyer (Assistant Professor of German) has written an introduction
to and published an edition of Hartmann von Aue's Iwein. Manuscript
A: Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg, Codex Palatinus Germanicus
397. This is part of a project of the Kompetenzzentrum für elektronische
Erschließungs- und Publikationsverfahren in den Geisteswissenschaften,
Universität Trier. The manuscript has been published on line:
http://www.fgcu.edu/rboggs/hartmann/Iwein/IwMain/IwHome.htm
Dr. Sandy Hamrick (Professor of French) authored a book chapter titled "L'Image de Cléopâtre dans Une Nuit de Cléopâtre" in Théophile Gautier, conteur et nouvelliste. Mélanges offerts à Claudine Lacoste-Veysseyre. Bulletin de la Société Théophile Gautier (2006).
Theological
Studies
Dr.
Julie Hanlon Rubio presented three papers in January: "Between
and Personal and Political: Families as Agents of Social Change";
"Women's Presence and Women's Absence in the Society of Christian
Ethics" at the annual meeting of the Society of Christian Ethics,
and "Praying with Children: Families as Faith Communities"
at an experts seminar titled, "Children's Voices: Children's Perspective
in Ethics, Theology, and Religious Education" held at the Katholieke
Universitetit, Leuven, Belgium. Her article, "Holy Families in
the Stories of Flannery O'Connor and Catholic Theology" was published
in the 2006 Annual of the College Theology Society.
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