This page is from 2007.  It will be revised when Fall 2008 events are known.

Rel 198-07

 


Events at UD 
for extra credit reports

This list is not exhaustive.
Other events may be eligible also.

Wed, Sept 12, 7:00 pm, Science Center Auditorium:  “Rockchoppers and Proddie Dogs:  Catholics, Protestants and Politics in Australia. "  Presented by Kristina Kerscher Keneally, U.D. alumna and member of the Australian cabinet.

Either of the Diversity Lecture Series this Fall [related to various "liberation theologies" in ch. 14 of the text].
    Maria Hinojosa Sept. 7, Fri. 7:30.  Boll Theater
    Juan Williams, Nov. 13, Tues., 8:00 KU Ballroom

Ramadan Fast-a-Thon, Sept. 21.  Fast a day for charity; then attend a dinner and a short presentation.
    See the following link on how to sign up for this.

Pre-rally meeting concerning protesting the death penalty.  Monday, Sept. 24.  7:30, Science Auditorium.

Annual protest trip to the School of the Americas is preceded by educational sessions to explain the trip.
    You need not go on the trip.  You can attend the sessions just to learn what the trip is about.
    The three educational sessions take place on the following dates, with KU locales:
        Thursday, September 20th: 8:30-9:30 PM in KU room 207  (the best to attend?)
        Tuesday, September 25th: 9:00-10:00 PM in KU room 222 (harder to understand w/o the first?)
        Tuesday, October 2nd: 8:00-9:00 PM in KU room 207 
     You can write a report on any one of these sessions.

David Borstein,  Sept. 28, Fri, 3:00, Frericks Center (where the academic convocation took place)
    Background issue:  the Islamic context of the original Grameen Bank

Gail Dines, Oct. 2, Tues,  KU Ballroom:  related loosely to feminist liberation theology

Humanities Symposium events, on New Orleans and Katrina:
    Inman Houston and J. D. Hill,  Sept. 21, Fri., 7:30,  Sears Recital Hall
    Ansel Augustine, Oct. 16, Tues, 7:30,  Sears Recital Hall
    Gregory Squires,  Oct. 18, Thur., 3:00 p.m., Sears Recital Hall

Amir Hussein and Fr. Elias Mellon,  Nov. 6, Tues.  Science Center 255 at 7:30. 
    The tentative title is “Globalization and Its Impact on Muslim-Christian Dialogue.”

November 6, 2007, Fr. R. Bentley Anderson will present a Black Catholic History Month address
"New Orleans Catholics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the Post WWII Years," Sears Recital Hall, 7:30 p.m.

[More options will be posted as they become known.]
This page last changed on Nov. 3, 2007