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Commencement 2008 Information:
Graduate Commencement:
Saturday, May 17, 2008 @ 1:00pm
Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
Speaker: Maxine Hong Kingston
For more information regarding Graduate Commencement, please contact Melissa Gately, mgately@suffolk.edu.
Undergraduate Commencement:
Sunday, May 18, 2008 @ 2:00pm
Bank of America Pavilion
For more information, please contact the Dean of Students Office at 617-573-8239.
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Ford Hall Forum, soon to embark on its second century of fostering public dialogue and honoring free speech, has established a new partnership with the Suffolk University College of Arts & Sciences. The lecture series' administrative offices have already taken up residence in the Fenton Building.year.
The Forum is now the nation's oldest free public lecture series. It began in 1908 as a series of Sunday evening public meetings hosted by George W. Coleman, a prominent Boston businessman. According to Coleman's vision, the lecture series would enable the "full, free, and open discussion of all vital questions affecting human welfare."
Suffolk University is providing the Forum with the opportunity to "come home" not only to Beacon Hill but also into an academic environment that shares a similar spirit and history of public education and civic dialogue.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, is scheduled to kick off the Forum's fall 2008 season in the C. Walsh Theater next September.Also appearing at future events on campus will be Gary Hershberg, CEO of Stoneyfield Farms and author of Stirring It Up: How to Make Money and Save the World, and Gwen Ifill, host of PBS' Washington Week in Review.
For more information on the history of the Ford Hall Forum, as well as the current season programming being held throughout the city, visit www.fordhallforum.org or contact Alex Minier at 617-557-2007..
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April Events
April 1, 2008 - Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising's Image of Women - A film screening and discussion by Nina Huntemann.
Sawyer 423 @ 1pm
April 1, 2008 - The Changing Relationship between the United Nations & the Non-State Actors - a lecture by Andrea Liese, Humbolt University, Berlin
Linnehan Conference Room @ 4pm
April 3, 2008 -I Got a Job Seminar - CJN alumni discuss their current jobs and how they got them.
Ridgeway 400 @ 1pm
April 3, 2008 - The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation - a lecture by Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institute.
A Ford Hall Forum Event.
Abbey Room, Boston Public Library @ 6:30pm
April 4, 2008 - Panel on UN Peacekeeping - featuring Nicole Delaney, senior policy development officer, the (UN) Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; Vincent John Smith, former regional chief of operations Middle East,/North Africa, UN Department of Peacekeeping; and Daniel Ryan, former field coordinator, International Rescue Committee, currently Suffolk Law School.
Linnehan Conference Room @ 2pm
April 7-18, 2008
- Graphic Design Undergraduate Exhibition - An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 11 @ 5-7pm.
75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116
M-F 8am-11pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-6pm
April 10, 2008 - Gender & American Visual Culture: From Talking Like a 'New Woman' to Looking Like a 'Modern Gal' - a lecture by T.J. Boisseau, an associate professor of Gender and Cultural History, Suffolk University alumna (BA '85)
McDermott Conference Room @ 1pm
April 10, 2008 - Racial and Gender Disparities in Health Services - a lecture by Dawna Thomas, PhD.
Linnehan Conference Room @ 4:30pm
April 10 - 13, 2008 - Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical - directed by Marilyn Plotkins. Please contact Brown Paper Tickets or call 1-800-838-3006.
C.Walsh Theatre - Thursday-Saturday 8pm & Saturday & Sunday 3pm
April 10, 2008 - Revolution Revised: Reflections and Connections of 1968/2008 - a panel discussion in association with Hair, featuring Kevin Bowen, director of the William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts, Boston; James Carroll, Distinguished Scholar in Residence, Suffolk University, award-winning author and Boston Globe columnist; Fred Marchant, professor of English, Suffolk University, director of the Creative Writing Program and co-director of the Poetry Center; Lauri Umansky (moderator), professor of History and associate dean of the College of Arts & Sciences, Suffolk University.
April 10, 2008 - UN Studies from Different Perspectives - a panel discussion featuring Judy Dushku, Government Department; Peter Smith, co-chair Coalition for a Strong United Nations; Lorraine Spreen, MA Public Administration/Political Science; and Luise Druke, Visiting Professor.
April 11, 2008 - UN Peacekeeping - lectures by Basma Fakri, Serif Turgut, and Bjorn Klouman Bekken, Linnehan Conference Room @ 2:30pm
April 13, 2008 - One Nation, One Standard: An Ex-Liberal on How Hispanics Can Succeed Just Like Other Immigrant Groups - a lecture by Herman Badillo, former deputy mayor of New York, and former US congressman. A Ford Hall Forum event. 
Old South Meeting House @ 6:30pm.
April 14 - May 5, 2008 - Faye Family - Senegalese drummers share the geuwel tradition as part of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program.
--4/14 - Drumming Workshop
Munce Conference Room @ 2pm
--4/16 - Drumming Workshop
Sawyer 1209 @ 2pm
--4/22 - Performance & Lecture
C.Walsh Theatre @ 1pm
Reception to follow in the Munce Conference Room - sponsored by the Center for International Education.
--4/23 - Sabar Dance Class Final - featuring the Fayes
Ridgeway Gym (Time TBA)
April 14 - 17, 2008 - Maxine Hong Kingston  - award-winning author returns to the College of Arts & Sciences as part of the Distinguished Visiting Scholars Program.
--4/17 - Roundtable Luncheon
The Poetry Center @ 1pm
--4/17 - Reading from her work
The Poetry Center @ 7pm
April 15, 2008 - Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 edited by Fred Marchant. Readings from and reflections on Stafford's early poems featuring, Jenny Barber; Kevin Bowen; James Carroll; John F. Deane; Earll Kingston; Maxine Hong Kingston; and Fred Marchant.
The Poetry Center @ 7pm
April 17, 2008 - News Dissecting from Boston to a Global Stage: A Multi-Media Pioneer Challenges His Profession and Calls for Media Reform - a lecture by Danny Schecter, two-time Emmy Award-winning producer. A Ford Hall Forum Event.
Old South Meeting House @ 6:30pm
April 17, 2008 - China Town Hall - Local Connections & National Reflections - A live webcast from Washington DC with Norman J. Ornstein (Resident Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute) and Ezra Vogel (Henry Ford II Professor of Social Science Emeritus at Harvard University).
--Reception: 6:15-6:45PM in Sawyer 323
--Webcast: 7:00-8:30PM in Sawyer A41
--Seating is limited. Please RSVP to mpower@suffolk.edu.
April 17, 2008 - RAMFEST - Suffolk Media Showcase, the CJN Department presents the Rammy Awards.
C.Walsh Theatre @ 4:30pm. Reception will follow in Donahue Lobby.
April 17, 2008 - Buliding Community: Through Public and Private Partnerships, a lecture by John Rosenthal, Boston Social Activist and real estate developer. Sponsored by the Sociology and Government Departments.
C. Walsh Theatre @ 1:00pm
April 22, 2008 - Fine Arts Undergraduate Exhibition - An opening reception will be held on Friday, April 25 @ 5-7pm.
75 Arlington Street, Boston, MA 02116
M-F 8am-11pm, Saturday 9am-5pm, Sunday 12pm-6pm
April 24, 2008 - Play Day! - Theatre Department Students new play reading festival.
Studio Theatre @ 1pm
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May 8, 2008 - Apollo & Dionysus Revisited: American Culture Since Woodstock - a lecture by Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Institute. A Ford Hall Forum Event
Old South Meeting House @ 6:30pm
May 29, 2008 - Banned in Boston: The Silent Speech of Margaret Sanger, presented by Cecile Richards, President of Planned Parenthood. A Ford Hall Forum Event.
Old South Meeting House @ 6:30pm.
June 5, 2008 - The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand the 21st Century American Politics with an 18th Century Brain, a lecture by George Lakoff, Professor of Cognitive Science & Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Rockridge Institute.
Abbey Room, Boston Public Library @ 6:30pm
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Professional & Scholarly Service, Publications, Exhibitions & Awards
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History Department's Robert Allison spoke to the Midyear Meeting of the
National Court Reporters Association at the Westin Hotel on the South
Boston Waterfront on April 4. He introduced them to Boston's history
with a talk on "Boston: Hub of the Solar System."
- Professors Matteo Casini and Patricia Reeve presented "Displaying Masculinity: Cases from Renaissance Italy and 19th Century America" at the March 27th, History Department Seminar Series.
- The Boston Area Colleges Election Improvement Project, a collaborative effort by professors of Suffolk University's Government Department, including Rachael Cobb, Harvard University Department of Government, and the Harvard School of Law, has recently been awarded $10,000 in FY 09 by the Rappaport Institute of Greater Boston. The Election Improvement Project is designed to "create innovative methods to improve the administration and oversight of voting and redistricting; to test and assess those methods in the city of Boston; and to promulgate the resulting methods and findings nationally and abroad."
 Lydia Martin's, NESAD, oil painting, Copper & Cobalt, has recently been awarded 2nd Place for Painting in Oil & Acrylic by the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Member's exhibition and will be on display in the Broom Street Gallery, SoHo, New York, from March 24-April 13, 2008.
- Professor Patricia Reeve is the Humanist for "On Equal Terms," a multi-media installation marking the 30th anniversary of the Executive Order mandating gender equity in hiring and training in the U.S. building trades. The project, conceived by Susan Eisenberg -- poet, nonfiction writer, tradeswoman, and Brandeis University Scholar in Residence -- is funded by the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy. The installation and related programming, which is sponsored by the Center for Women's Studies at Brandeis University, will open in October 2008.
- Chris Rodriguez, History Department, will be mentoring Deborah Searfoss, a Mexico-City born sophomore at Suffolk Univeristy, as she records the experiences of Latin American undocumented immigrants entering the United States for her McNair Scholar research project. Searfoss will be working with immigrants with the help of Latinos Unidos de Massachusetts (LUMA). In 2008, the US Department of Education awarded Suffolk University McNair Scholars funding, a program designed to prepare distinguished, first generation, under-represented, low-income students for graduate school.
- Bryan Trabold, English Department, has recently been awarded a 2008 National Endowment for the Humanities summer stipend award. Trabold will be continuing his research on two anti-apartheid newspapers, The Weekly Mail and The New Nation. Previously, he has written his dissertation and an article on this subject and will be working on a book. Trabold will be examining the archives of Harvard University and Boston University, looking at the time period from 1990-1994.
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Nicole L. Vadnais
Assistant Director of Communication
College of Arts & Sciences
Suffolk University
nvadnais@suffolk.edu
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