September 2008
Wed., September 3, 1-3 pm
Informal Gathering of Pol. Sci. Students and Faculty
Space outside Pol. Sci. Dept., W/5/70
Information, Guidance, and Light Refreshments Provided
Mon. Sept. 15, 11am, Healey Library, 11th floor
English Department presents a screening of the documentary film- The Times Were Never So Bad: The Life of Andre Dubus
A discussion with filmmaker, Edward J. Delaney, will follow the movie
Mon. Sept. 15 from 5:30-7:30 pm, Healey Library, 11th floor, 0011B
The Betty and Matt Flaherty Lecture with Arthur Krim, Urban Historian
Route 66: Iconography of an American Highway
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Wed. Sept 17 from 2:30-4:30pm, CC Ballroom
CLA Fall Faculty Reception
Wed. Sept. 24 from 3:00-5:00 pm
Welcome Reception for new Women’s Studies Faculty: Amani El Jack and Shoshanna Erlich
Wheatley-4-148 (former Wheatley Student Lounge)
October
GLOBAL VOICES READING SERIES
Thursday, Oct. 2—UMB Faculty member Askold Melnyczuk, 4:00 pm, UMB Bookstore
Monday Oct. 6—Urban Spaces Symposium: Constraint and Mobility in the City, 2:30-4:30 pm, Healey Library, 11th floor, 0011B
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Alumni Reading Festival
Wednesday, Oct. 15—Poets and alumni Glenn Sheldon, and Edie Aronowitz Mueller, 4:00 pm, UMB Bookstore
Alumni Reading Festival
Thursday, Oct. 16—Fiction writer and alumnus Steven Wingate, 3:00 pm, UMB Bookstore
Thurs., Oct. 23—The Wampanaog Indigenous Program at Plimoth Plantation, co-sponsored forum on Native history, 7 pm, Media Auditorium in the library
Erasing Indians: Investigating Accounts and Denials of Genocide and Ethnocide in Native New England
November
Monday, Nov. 3—Ecopoetics and Cultural History Symposium, 7:00- 9:00 pm, Ballroom
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Shaun O’Connell Lecture
Sunday, Nov. 16—Novelist Tom Perrotta, 2:30 pm, 1st fl Atrium, Campus Center
Sunday, Nov. 23—The Chamber Orchestra concert will be at Curry College
Monday, Nov. 24—Poet Kevin Young, 4:00 pm, UMB Bookstore
December
Tuesday, Dec. 2—Short story writer Amy Hempel, 12:30 pm, Harbor Gallery
Wed. Dec. 3, 2008 from 3:00-5:00 pm
Retirement Celebration for Professor Jean M. Humez, former Women’s Studies Chair
Chancellor’s Conference Room