Fall Semester 2007
Tuesday, September 11
Donna Guy, History, Ohio State, "A Theory of Child Welfare in Argentina“, 204 Kirkhof Center, 2:30-4 PM, Coordinated by Latin American Studies
Monday, September 17
Teresa Rodriguez, Author of The Daughters of Juarez, 4PM Holland Campus Conference Room & 7 PM, Cook Dewitt Center, Coordinated by Women’s Center
Tuesday, October 16
Jonathon Kozol, “Advocating for Equity: Looking Beneath the
Curtain of No Child Left Behind”, 4:30-6 PM, 2nd Floor Eberhard Center, Coordinated by Integrative Learning, Multicultural Affairs, College of Education, and the College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Jed Horne, author of Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, Wednesday, October 24, 2007, 4- 5:30 PM, Grand River Room KC - Sustainability Week Lecture (Coordinated by Sustainability and Integrative Learning)
Thursday, November 1
Viewing and discussion of the film, Class Dismissed: How TV Frames the Working Class, 7-9 PM, 250 Kirkhof Center, Madela-Parks Lecture Series, Coordinated by African and African and American Studies in partnership with the Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy.
Monday, November 12
Poverty Simulation, Presented by the local non-profit – ACCESS, 250 Kirkhof Center, 2:30 PM and 6:30 PM, Coordinated by Women’s Center, RSVP required.
Winter Semester 2008
Thursday, January 17
Felice Yeskel, Engaging Classism in our Work, 9 AM-12 PM, Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center, part of the Excellence Series, RSVP required through Human Resources.
Felice Yeskel, Exploring Class in the Classroom, 2-4 PM, 201 Kirkhof Center, Coordinated by Pew Faculty Teaching and Learning Center.
Felice Yeskel, Learning through Memoirs: A Primer for The Glass Castle. 7-8:30 PM, Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center Coordinated by the Community Reading Project.
Thursday, January 31
Liz Borgwardt, Historical Perspectives on Human Rights and International Justice, Cook-DeWitt Center, 4:30 PM, Sponsored by the Honors College.
Wednesday, February 13
Betty Nguyen, Humanitarian Work: It Will Change Your Life, 4-5:30 PM, Grand River Room, Kirkhof Center, Coordinated by Multicultural Affairs.
Wednesday, March 19
2008 Community Reading Lecture, Jeannette Walls, Author of The Glass Castle, 4-5:30 PM, 250 Kirkhof Center, Simulcast to the Loosemore Auditorium, DeVos Center, Coordinated by the Community Reading Project.
Monday, March 31
Juliet Shor, Getting to Sustainability: Work, Consumption, and Everyday Life, 7 PM, 215/216 Kirkhof Center, Annual Synoptic Lecture Sponsored by the Liberal Studies Department.
Wednesday, April 2
The Williams Interdisciplinary Colloquium on the Community Reading, The Glass Castle, 3:30-5:30 PM, Pere Marquette, Kirkhof Center, Coordinated by Community Reading Project.
March 14-15
LAS Symposium, "Persistent Divides: Marginalization and Social Exclusion in Latin America and the Caribbean", Eberhard Center, Coordinated by Latin American Studies
April 4, 5, 10, 11 & 12 at 7:30 PM and April 6 at 2:00 PM
“Nickel and Dimed” by Joan Holden, GVSU Theater Mainstage Series.
Student Scholoarship Day - April 9th, 2008
In support of the Conversations on Poverty and Economic Justice, the Student Scholarship Day Committee wouldl ike to extend a special invitation to research and creative practice projects that explore these issues. For more information on SSD, go to www.gvsu.edu/ssd.
