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Upcoming Distinguished Visiting Scholars
February 21, 2008 - Byllye Avery is a social activist focused on the health issues of African American women. She is the founder and president of the Avery Institute for Social Change and the founder of the National Black Women's Health Project.
 March 3-14, 2008 - Hugo Salcedo is an award winning playwright, poet, essayist, critic, and theatre director. He has earned a Ph.D. in Spanish and Latin American Literature from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain and a Masters Degree in Drama: Theory and Criticism from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, and he is currently a professor at the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California. His plays include San Juan de Dios (Saint John of God) and El Viaje de los Cantors (The Crossing).
 March 4, 2008 - Stephen Breyer is a Supreme Court Justice, appointed in 1994 by President Bill Clinton. Prior to his role as Supreme Court Justice, Breyer served as Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He became Chief Judge in 1990, originally appointed to the court by President Jimmy Carter in 1980. Justice Breyer has worked as a Supreme Court Law clerk under Justice Arthur Goldberg, served as a Justice Department lawyer (antitrust division), and Assistant Watergate Special Prosecutor, and Chief Counsel of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
 Spring 2008 - Stephen Charles Fried is a Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and author of eight books, the most recent being, Modern Liberty: And the Limits of Government (Nov. 2006). In addition, he has served as Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1995-1999), Solicitor General of the United States (beginning in 1985), Special Assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1984-1985), and has served in an advisory capacity to the U.S. Government, including the Department of Transportation (1981-1983), the Executive Office of the President (1982), and the joint State Department/U.S. Agency for International Development Mission to Rwanda (1975).
April, 2008 - Maxine Hong Kingston is an award-winning author of over seven books, including Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts, China Men, and her most recent Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. Kingston is a senior lecturer at the University of California Berkeley, where she teaches creative writing.
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Presentations, Publications, Exhibits & Professional Service
 Tahir Al-Bakaa, visiting scholar, spoke at the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in New York on "Targeting Iraqi Intellectuals," on Nov. 8, 2007.
On Nov. 14, 2007, Robert Allison (History Department) discussed his new book, The Boston Tea Party, with a group of Suffolk Alumni in the Poetry Center, Sawyer Library.
Also, in January, Allison will be offering a mini course on the American Revolution at the Salem Athenaeum in January.
Robert Bellinger (History Department) attended the 50th Anniversary Conference of the African Studies Association in New York City, Nov. 19-20, 2007.
Bellinger was also a member of the conference planning committee for the African American Historical and Genealogical Society National Conference, held in Burlington, MA, October 23-28, 2007. Bellinger organized a series of tours that presented conference attendees with the rich history of African Americans in New England through visits to historic sites and research institutions in Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. He also presented Genealogy and Family Meaning in West Africa: My Journey with the Faye Family of Dakar, Senegal, a paper based on his research in Senegal.
Matteo Casini (History Department) presented "The City is the Queen...": The Republic of Venice and Her Empire, on Nov. 29 as part of the History Department lecture series. The talk presented the history of the ancient Republic of Venice in the Renaissance and the early-modern period (fourteenth to eighteenth centuries).
Earlier in the month, Casini organized the conference, The "Majesty" of Power in Seventeenth Century Italy: Ritual, Representation, Art, at the Clark Library - The Center of 17th and 18th Century Studies at UCLA.
Sebastian Royo (CAS Dean's Office) has recently published "The Euro and Economic Reforms: The Case of Spain," in Joaquin Roy and Pedro Gomis-Porqueras, editors, The Euro and the Dollar in a Globalized Economy (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2007) and "Lessons from the Integration of Spain and Portugal to the European Union," in PS: Political Science and Politics (American Political Science Association, Vol. XL, No. 3, October 2007).
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Students & Faculty
Lecturer Stephen O'Neill's History of Piracy students were treated to authentic pirate food from the 17th and 18th century. On the menu were traditional ship's biscuits, pease porridge, and salmgundi, a spiced dish popular in pirate accounts. All were common fare for sailors and pirates. There was also a traditional, non-alcoholic version of punch, minus the pirates' favorite drink of rum. This special meal, created by O'Neill and Ryan McGrale, of No. 9 Park restaurant on Beacon Hill, used original records and period recipes to create the menu.
History faculty and students joined Julie Schniewind, Executive Education/Lifelong Learning, at the 2007 Boston History and Innovation Awards Dinner on Nov. 13, 2007, held at the Intercontinental Hotel. Representing Suffolk University were Professors Robert Bellinger, Yong Xue, Chris Rodriguez, Pat Reeve, and Stephen O'Neill, with undergraduates Tracie Recchino, Ethan Silvers, Rachel Plukas, Mike Nash and Sirenna Espirtiu. Honorees this year included, Akamai Technologies, Dr. Gururaj Deshpande, and the late Dr. William Hinton, son of slaves who became Harvard Uinversity's first African-American professor. Suffolk has a long partnership with the Boston History and Innovation Collaborative, which brings the story of Boston's innovative history both to teach and to plan New England's future economic developement
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| Awards, Achievements, & Recognition
Robert Brustein's (Distinguished Scholar in Residence) The English Channel, has been nominated for an American Theatre Critics Award for Best Play.
David Paleologos and the Suffolk University Political Research Center had their recent presidential election polls cited by Tim Russert, this past Sunday, Dec. 2 on his show, Meet The Press. To view the show's transcript, please visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22065949/page/4/ . Congratulations to David and his team in the Research Center.
Rachel Cobb (Government Department), in her capacity as faculty sponsor of our Pi Sigma Alpha chapter, was awarded $400 by Pi Sigma Alpha to organize a career workshop for Government majors this spring.
Roberto Dominguez (Government Department) received a $300 travel grant from the International Studies Association to attend their annual conference in San Francisco this spring.
Yong Xue's(History Department) daughter, Eva Tsun-Tsun Xue will be in this year's performance of the Boston Ballet's Nutcracker. Look for a tea doll in a red Chinese costume in Act I. She will be in the following 12 shows: Nov. 30 @7:30pm; Dec. 1 @1:00pm; Dec. 2 @ 5:30pm; Dec. 7 @7:30pm; Dec. 12 @ 7:30pm; Dec. 14 @ 12:00pm; Dec. 1 @ 1:00pm; Dec. 19 @7:30pm; Dec. 22 @1:00pm; Dec. 26 @1:00pm; Dec. 28 @ 7:30pm; and Dec. 29 @ 1:00pm. Congratulations to Yong, his wife, Wei and of course, Eva!
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December Events
Nov. 15 - Dec. 22, 2007-Ozpirations
 Art inspired by the Wizard of Oz.
The New England School of Art & Design,
75 Arlington St., Boston
Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday, 8am-11pm
Saturday, 9am-5pm
Sunday, 12pm-6pm
Monday, Dec. 3, 2007 - Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens
A show in celebration of the lives lost to AIDS told through free-verse monologues with a blues, jazz, and rock score. The book and lyrics by Tony Award - nominated Bill Russell and music by Janet Hood. The performance will benefit the AIDS action committee of Massachusetts. Sponsored by the Office of Diversity Services.
7:00pm, C. Walsh Theatre
$5 general admission
$3 students with ID
Tickets are available on campus at the HUB or may be reserved by calling the Office of Diversity Services, x8631.
Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 - Festival of Lights
A multicultural, interfaith celebration of the season. Sponsored by the Interfaith Center, featuring the Suffolk University Vocal Ensemble. 1 -2pm, Temple Street Park (Across from Donahue)
Friday, Dec. 7, 2007 -Share Your Story
A place for AHANA students to come together to talk, share, listen, and relate. Refreshments will be served.
2:00-3:00pm, Donahue 403
January Events
Jan. 14 - Feb. 9, 2008 - Stephen D. Paine Scholarship Award Winners Exhibition
Organized in conjunction with the Boston Art Dealers Association.
Reception: Friday, Jan. 18, 2008
NESAD (75 Arlington St., Boston)
Jan. 17 & 18, 2008 - Interior Design Thesis Presentations
10:00am-3:00pm each day; 4th floor gallery at the NESAD (75 Arlington St, Boston) Sponsored by the NESAD Interior Design Program.
Thursday, Jan 17, 2008- Rosanna DeMarco, Ph.D.: "Silencing the Self in Chronic Illness"
Co-Sponsored by the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights .
4:30-6:00 Linnehan Conference Room, 73 Tremont St., 12th floor.
Jan. 18-20, 2008- The Heart of New England
A speech and debate tournament for high school students, sponsored by the Forensic Team.
Thursday, Jan. 31, 2008- "BARCC and Internships in Women's Health"
Presented by Peggy Barret of the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Part of the Women's Health Graduate Program Interdisciplinary Series. Co-sponsored by the Center for Women's Health and Human Rights and Health Services and Health Education.
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