December 

• The Beacon Hill Institute hosted the Conference on Metro Area and State Competitiveness on December 19, 2006 at 10am in the Sargent Hall Function Room (170) in the Law School.

• The Center for Women's Health & Human Rights hosted a free, one-day conference, on January 11, " Women's Health and Well Being: (How) Does a Human Rights Perspective Help?"  The conference featured, Jamie Fellner, Esq. Human Rights Watch, Linda Piwowarczyk, MD, MPH, Boston Center for Refugee Health and Human Rights, Evelyn L. Barbee, formerly of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, and Sukanya Ray, Department of Psychology, Suffolk University.
   
• The 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Exhibition was on display January 15-February 9, 2007, with reception held on January 25, 2007, 5-7:00pm in the Main Gallery at NESADSU. This exhibition features the finalists and winners of the 2006 Stephen D. Paine Scholarship awarded to seniors of art schools and BFA programs in the Boston Area.
   
• Salamander, in conjunction with the Massachusetts Cultural Council, presents the Artist Grant Reading Series at the Suffolk University Sawyer Library. The featured artists and 2006 grant winners include, Simeon Berry (poetry), Frannie Lindsay (poetry), and MaryO'Donoghue (fiction).  Tuesday, January 30, 2007 at 7-9pm, refreshments will be served. 

February

• Frances Mayes, author of the New York Times bestseller, Under the Tuscan Sun, spoke at Suffolk University on February 1, 2007 at 4pm in the Walther H. McLaughlin Moot Courtroom (4th Floor, Suffolk Law School). A book-signing and reception followed. This event was co-sponsored by the CAS Dean's Office and the Office of Enrollment and International Programs.

 
• The Philosophy Department hosted a lecture on "Unraveling the 'knot' of Wittgenstein's Tractatus," Matthew Ostrow, Wesleyan University (Philosophy Job Candidate) on February 12, 2007 at 4pm in the Munce Conference Room. 
   
• The Main Gallery at NESADSU presents Native New Yorkers: Jeffrey Gibson, Jason Ujan, & Mario Martinez, February 14 - March 22, 2007. Reception will be held on Thursday, Feb. 15, 5-7pm. This show focuses on three young Native Artists with extremely active and successful exhibition records, including numerous gallery and museum exhibitions.  The artists will discuss their work with the University Community.

   
• February 20, James Auburn, co-founder of the Boston Hip-Hop Alliance, will be giving the final lecture, "Hip-Hop's Response to Social Issues,"  in the Government Department's Hip-Hop and Politics series, 1-2:30pm in Sawyer 325. 

• Larry Heinemann, author of Black Virgin Mountain (2005) and Peco's Story (1987) which won the National Book Award, will be speaking at Suffolk on February 22, 2007 at 1:15pm in the Poetry Center, Sawyer Library.

March

• The Theatre Department presents Centennial: About a 100 Years.  An original performance written and directed by Wesley Savick, with choreography by Natalie Wombwell.
  March 1-3, 2007 at 8pm
  March 3-4, 2007 at 3pm

  Tickets are $15, $5 for Seniors, Students & Suffolk Community with ID.  Call 617-573-8680.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 5, 2007 the Government Department is sponsoring a Centennial Conference, The Transatlantic Relationship at the Dawn of the New Millennium.  Registration begins at 8:45am with opening remarks at 9:15am at Sargent 170 at the Law School.  For more details please visit
www.suffolk.edu/college.  If you plan to attend please RSVP to Nicole Vadnais at nvadnais@suffolk.edu. 
 
• March 8, Martha Collins, award-winning poet, will be reading from her new book, Blue Front at 1-2:30pm in the Poetry Center, Mildred Sawyer Library.
  
  
• March 19-23, Maxine Hong Kingston will be returning to the College as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar. For a complete listing of events please contact Nicole Vadnais, nvadnais@suffolk.edu.
   
• March 29, David Rivard, award winning poet, to speak at the Poetry Center.  Time TBA.

 

• PEN New England and the Boston Public Library hosted a memorial tribute to William Styron on Wednesday, December 13 at 6pm. The event featured Dean Kenneth S. Greenberg and 2007 College of Arts & Sciences Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Robert Brustein.
  

• Prof. Robert Allison, History Department, has had his class on Boston History at the Harvard Extension School turned into a podcast. This can be downloaded and viewed at http://itunes.extension.harvard.edu/.

• Sandra Barriales-Bouche, Humanities & Modern Languages, presented her paper, "The Ethical Response to a Silenced Past: The Use of the Personal Narrative in Between the Dictator and Me" at the conference "'Film and History' The Documentary Tradition'" in Dallas, Texas on November 8th

• John Kuntz, Theatre Department, who was recently in the New Rep's production The Santaland Diaries directed by Wesley Savick over the break, is currently appearing in the Actors Shakespeare Project's production of The Winter's Tale, January 25 - February 18, 2007 at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center. For more information see www.actorshakespeareproject.org.

• Richard Chambers, Theatre Department, recently designed the set for Trying at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre which runs January 11 - February 4, 2007.  He is currently working on I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document by a Lady from Rwanda at the Stoneham Theatre which runs April 5-22, 2007

• Peter Sartwell, Associate Dean, retired on January 11, 2007 after 33 years of service to the College of Arts & Sciences. Best of Luck, Peter!
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Oiste, Mass Vote, and Suffolk University have won the Competition to deliver the "Pipeline to Public Service" program funded by the Boston Foundation. This $375,000, 3-year program will train people of color to be candidates for political office. Suffolk's portion of the program will be about $35,000 a year for three years to provide classrooms, use of Blackboard, some lectures, and certificates for those who complete the program.  Assistant Professor Teri Fair, Government Department, led the presentation to the Boston Foundation and will direct the Suffolk part of the program.  Congratulations to Teri, who is a new addition to the Suffolk Community.
   
• John Kuntz, the Theatre Department's newest faculty member, has recently been nominated for an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) for Best Actor in a Small Company.

 

• Prof. Barbara Abrams paper, "Rosseau's Courageous Confessions" has been accepted for publication by The International Journal of the Humanities. 
   
• Prof. John Berg's chapter "Conventions for the Unconventional: Minor Party Conventions, 1992-2004," has just been published in Rewiring Politics: Presidential Nominating Conventions in the Media Age, ed. Costas Panagopoulos (Louisiana State University Press, 2007).
  

 

 

• Theatre Department senior, Jonathan Orsini, who recently performed in the fall with Company One's After Ashley, has picked up an IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) nomination for Best Actor in a Small Company.  Jonathan is currently touring  schools with Shakespeare Now, a professional theatre company, A Midsummer Night's Dream as Puck, directed by the Lyric Stage Company's Spiro Veloudos and will shortly appear as Ross in Macbeth, directed by the Publick Theatre's Diego Arciniegas.
   
• Theatre Department senior, Theo Goodell was recently invited to the Region I and Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival.  His play, Linoleum, was one of six 10- minute plays selected to compete on February 3, 2007.
   
• Theatre Department minor and work-study, Christina Watka, entered three pieces into the Copley Society of Art's 18th Annual Student Show, two of these pieces were selected and one is already an award winner. The two pieces will be on display February 8-March 3, 2007 at the Society's Upper Gallery at 158 Newbury Street, with an opening reception on Thursday, February 8, from 5:30-7:30.  For more information visit www.copleysociety.org.
  
  

 

• Theatre Department Alum, Jamie Montesano, is the choreographer for the Performing Arts Office's production of Urinetown this spring, April 19-21 in the C. Walsh Theatre.