University Lectures

Monday, November 17th JOURNEYS LECTURE 4:30pm McConomy Auditorium, UC Bill Elliott, Vice President Emeritus A Reflection of 38 Years at Carnegie Mellon Elliott first began working for Carnegie Mellon as director of admissions. He brought a number of changes for recruiting students to the university while in that position, such as starting the now-popular sleeping bag weekends, in addition to initiating new programs to build diversity in the student body. The changes that Elliott enacted have helped to increase the number of applications Carnegie Mellon receives each year; as a result, the university now annually sets records for the number of applications received, this year receiving over 22,000 applications for a first year class of about 1500.

Monday, November 17th 7pm Doherty Hall 1112 Lyn Beth Neylon JD; LL.M.; Legal and Gender Specialist What Will it Really Take to Realize the Universal Declaration of Human Rights? Human Rights Work on the Ground Neylon oversaw women's legal rights projects in Benin and Rwanda from 2004 until January 2007. She was the Associate Director of the Washington Kurdish Institute, and previously ran a human rights consulting business in Washington, DC, working with NGOs and government agencies on a variety of human rights issues. In the past she was the Legal Counsel for the Committee on Health, Education, and Social Affairs for the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia, and also was the Legal Counsel investigating human rights abuses by the police force in the Republic of Palau. Lyn was also the direct of Human Rights USA, a domestic human rights education initiative, and the co-founder of Human Rights Access (HRX), a local nonprofit. Additional Areas of Expertise: General International Human Rights Law; Women's Rights in Africa; Gender issues; Grassroots Activism and Organizing; Human Rights Education. Co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh

Wednesday, November 19th 8pm McConomy Antonia Juhasz Tyranny of Oil

Activities Board presents a lecture with Antonia Juhasz. Antonia is an acclaimed writer and leading expert on the oil industry. She will be speaking about the content of her new book "The Tyranny of Oil: The World's Most Powerful Industry--And What We Must Do To Stop It". Here is a website with more information about her work: www.TyrannyofOil.org Admission : Free www.activitiesboard.org

Thursday, November 20th 4:30pm Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall Nancy Duarte + Ryan Orcutt of Duarte Design Natural Born (Visual) Storytellers We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, means our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. In this presentation you'll learn how to step away from your traditional content development process, fold in compelling stories and deliver presentations in your own uniquely human way. Co-sponsored by the School of Design

Thursday, November 20th 4:30pm Giant Eagle Auditorium, 51A Baker Hall+ live webcast at www.library.cmu.edu Dan Hood, Research Showcase Outreach Coordinator Authors Rights, Research Showcase Dan Hood, Research Showcase Outreach Coordinator, will define "institutional repository" (IR), cover the history of IRs, and highlight notable advances in open access publishing relating to IRs. The discussion will include an in-depth demonstration of Carnegie Mellons new institutional repository, a progress report, and discussion of future directions for the repository and related services. This event will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and anyone contributing the university's research output.

Friday, November 21st 5pm McConomy Auditorium, UC Dr. Herbert Lachmayer, Austrian scholar Enlightenment and Inspiring Decadence in the Court of Franz Josef the II This event is part of Vienna Days, a collaboration between Carnegie Mellon School of Music, the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to celebrate music director Manfred Honeck's inaugural year in Pittsburgh.

Monday, November 24th JOURNEYS LECTURE 4:30pm Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall Gloriana St. Clair, Dean, University Libraries My Reading and Writing Life CMU Dean of University Libraries Gloriana St. Clair will define the forces shaping her career and life. Reading, writing, and the interplay between them have competed and colluded in her journey. As a diploma recipient in literature, St. Clair regularly leads discussions of her favorite works at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (Carnegie Mellon) and in other book discussion venues. As an academic librarian serving in various sci/tech institutions nationally, she also edited the flagship journal, College & Research Libraries, (1990-1996), and was the managing editor of the Journal of Academic Librarianship (1996-2000).