CMU School of Drama


Thursday, September 18, 2008

Upcoming Lectures

Thursday, September 18

4:30pm – Adamson Wing Auditorium, 136A Baker Hall

Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Professor, Annenberg School of Communications, University of Pennsylvania

What the Rhetoric of the 2008 Campaign Reveals and Conceals

The lecture will analyze the convention acceptance addresses and advertising aired between the conventions and the date of the Carnegie Mellon lecture.

Sponsored by Carnegie Mellon’s Department of English, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, Heinz School of Public Policy, and The Humanities Center, and also the University of Pittsburgh’s Department of Communication


Saturday, September 20

8:00am – 5:00pm, Duquesne University campus

RACHEL CARSON Legacy Conference (co-sponsored by CMU)

Green Chemistry: Solutions for a Healthy Economy

Registration information*: http://www.rachelcarsonhomestead.org

*Interested students should contact Cathy Ribarchak (x8-8677; cr2) in the Office of the Vice Provost for Education for free registration.

Wednesday, September 24

4:30pm – Gregg Hall, Porter Hall 100

Steven Greenhouse, Labor and Workplace Reporter, New York Times

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

New York Times labor reporter, Steven Greenhouse, will discuss his new book which details how life has grown tougher for America’s workers, young and old, middle-class and low-wage, white collar and blue collar, male and female, and what this painful trend will mean in this fall’s elections. He also examines how much of the American workforce is working more but earning less. Wages have stagnated, health and pension benefits have grown stingier, and job security has shriveled.

Thursday, September 25

4:30pm – Gregg Hall, Porter Hall 100

Harriet Fulbright, President, J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center

Toward a More Peaceful World

Harriet Mayor Fulbright is President of the J. William & Harriet Fulbright Center, a non-profit organization which serves to advance the work of Ms. Fulbright’s late husband, Senator J. William Fulbright, and to continue her own lifework. The purpose of the Fulbright Center is to promote world peace and nonviolent means of resolving conflicts through international collaborations and education programs. The Fulbright Center partners with higher education institutions and interested individuals — students, teachers, scholars, and leaders — throughout the world in a range of services from assisting in building enriched study abroad programs to actively engaging higher education institutions in international peace making. Her lecture will focus on the growth and strength of the Fulbright Program and international education as a whole. It will emphasize its importance and give specific examples of those whose lives were transformed by study abroad. She will also discuss some international programs that have created greater international understanding, laying the groundwork for a more peaceful world.

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