Monday, August 30, 2010
Fall 2010 Core Speaker Series announced
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Contact for more information:
Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Judy Chicago The following Monday, September 13, the artist Judy Chicago will present "The Dinner Party: A Journey into History" at 7:30 p.m. in Carter Hall in the University Center. In her lecture, Chicago will discuss the creation and ongoing relevance of The Dinner Party, her most famous work. (Read more about Judy Chicago's visit to USI.) Chicago's lecture is also sponsored by the Art Department, Community of Scholars Art Club, and Society for Arts and Humanities in collaboration with the Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science, and in conjunction with "Setting the Table: Preparing Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party," an exhibition on the creation of The Dinner Party including Chicago's first drawings. The exhibition will be on display at the museum September 12 through November 28. Constitution Day There will be a public reading of the U.S. Constitution beginning at noon on Friday, September 17 - Constitution Day. USI faculty, staff, and students will read the document in its entirety. This event will be held in the Eagle's Nest in the University Center. Berger Lecture Marilyn Ruth Signe Skoglund, associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, will deliver the 2010 College of Liberal Arts Berger Lecture at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 14, in Carter Hall. Skoglund will present "When Art Goes to Court," a lecture about what happens to the definition of public art when society lacks a uniform belief system. Before moving to Vermont in 1973, Skoglund earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Southern Illinois University and worked as a graphic designer for R. Buckminster Fuller. In 1981, Skoglund completed a four year clerkship at the Office of the Attorney General for Vermont and was admitted to the Vermont Bar. She worked in the Office of the Attorney General from 1978 to 1994, when she was appointed to the trial bench by Governor Howard Dean and presided in Family, Civil and Criminal courts around the state. She was appointed an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1997. Student Development Fall Lecture Bill Strickland, author of Make the Impossible Possible: One Man's Crusade to Inspire Others to Dream Bigger and Achieve the Extraordinary, will present the Office of Student Development Programs Fall Lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, October 26, in Carter Hall. Strickland's book was this year's selection in the Bonding through Books program, read by students in the living learning communities in USI housing. Strickland is president and CEO of Manchester Bidwell Corporation and its subsidiaries, a MacArthur Fellowship "genius" award winner, and founder of the Grammy-winning MCG Jazz, the most successful jazz subscription series in America. Author Sena Jeter Naslund Sena Jeter Naslund will read from and discuss her novel Adam and Eve at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 10, at USI (room TBA). Naslund is writer in residence at the University of Louisville, program director of the Spalding University brief-residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing Program, Kentucky Poet Laureate, and founding editor of The Louisville Review and the Fleur-de-Lis Press. She is the author of several other novels including Four Spirits and Abundance.The event is sponsored by Library Services. Bus trip The University Core Curriculum is also sponsoring a bus that will take students to a lecture by Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner, sponsored by the University of Evansville International Speaker Series and the City of Evansville's Celebration of Diversity Series, of which USI is a sponsor. Hosseini will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 21, at the Centre. For more information, call Dr. Mark Krahling, director of the University Core Curriculum, at 812/464-1712. |
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