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As part of Proust Project Sarasota, celebrating the 100-year anniversary of Swann's Way, Inge Wimmers of Brown University will give the lecture "Proust, the Arts, and Neuroscience." Elyane Dezon-Jones of Washington University in St. Louis will give closing remarks on "Reading Proust Tomorrow." Proust Project Sarasota is sponsored by New College of Florida, Sarasota County, Alliance Fran�aise de Sarasota and Book Store One.  

Tickets $15; free for New College students, faculty and staff

Order online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888

Florida is flat, and sea levels are rising. Join world-renowned climate scientists Pier Vellinga and Henry Pollack to learn the latest science and predictions for sea level rise in Florida. What factors affect sea level and how do they produce changes in sea level that are different from place to place? If sea levels continue to rise in Florida as predicted, how might we adapt to or mitigate the risks to our natural and built environments? What approaches are being tried in other parts of the world? Drs. Vellinga and Pollack will share their knowledge and experience with examples from the Netherlands, Australia, Vietnam, the Mekong Delta, the cities of Venice and London, and the east, west and Gulf coasts of the United States. Dr. Vellinga is professor in climate change and flood risk at Wageningen University and in climate change and societal implications at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. Dr. Pollack is professor of geophysics (emeritus) at the University of Michigan. Pier Vellinga has been lead author of several chapters and Henry Pollack a contributing author in the assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Sponsored by BDH Associates, LLC and Shafer Consulting. 

Free and open to the public

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U.S. Representative Vern Buchanan will host a forum on tax reform. Buchanan is Florida's only member of the powerful U.S. House Ways and Means Committee, which is reviewing current federal income tax law, and chairman of the small business working group. The forum will be moderated by WWSB/ABC 7 news anchor John McQuiston. The panel for the forum includes:

- Neal Boortz is a former nationally syndicated radio talk show host who co-wrote the Fair Tax Book with former Congressman John Linder. The book calls for the replacement of the income tax with a consumption tax.
- Dan Mitchell is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, which is a public policy research organization dedicated to the principals of individual liberty, limited government, free markets, and peace. Mitchell is an expert on tax reform and a strong advocate of a flat tax. 
- National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB)/Florida Chairman Jerry Pierce. The NFIB is is the leading small business association representing small and independent businesses. The NFIB supports modifications to provide tax relief and certainty to small businesses. 
- Susan Nilon is the general manager of WSRQ radio, a radio show host and writer who advocates a progressive tax that taxes wealthy individuals at a higher rate than low income individuals.

Tickets: $50

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State and local governments have yet to completely emerge from our nation's financial crisis, impacting their financial stability. Headlines these past few years have warned about state pension problems, cities defaulting on their debts and water and sewer systems entering bankruptcy. What is the current state of financial affairs for state and local governments and how will they be impacted by federal government fiscal issues? Join us as we answer these questions and more with our panels of public officials and industry experts. Presented with the Global Interdependence Center.

Open to New College faculty and staff only

Susan Bright, Visiting Fellow, New College of Oxford, Professor of Land Law and McGregor Fellow will give the talk "'Part Ownership': Where Does This Fit in Housing Discourse?" Why does home ownership matter to people? What are some of the ways in which the English government has developed new forms of low-cost home ownership? This talk will describe one particularly problematic model that is commonly known as 'part buy, part rent,' and will illustrate how a failure to understand how law works can create real injustices. We encourage you to bring your lunch; light refreshments will be provided by the President's Office.

Free and open to the public
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Join panelists from the American Association of University Women (AAUW), New College of Florida and the local community to discuss the importance of negotiating your first salary, disparities in pay and how gender influences our experiences in the workforce. Co-sponsored by the New College Gender Studies Program and the AAUW. Light refreshments will be provided.

Panelists include:
- Jane Blanchard, former president, Sarasota/Manatee NOW
- Sarah Hernandez, professor of sociology at NCF
- Diane Schrier, director of public policy for FLAAUW
- Miriam L. Wallace, professor of English/director of Gender Studies Program at NCF
- Rachel Weisman, 4th-year student at NCF

Academic Center, ACE Room 239

Free and open to the public
RSVP to humanities@ncf.edu by March 29 at 5 p.m.

Instructor: Shira Dentz, New College Writer-in-Residence Spring 2013

No other nonfiction form goes so deeply to the roots of personal experience, to all the drama and humor and unexpectedness of life, as the memoir. In this Memoir Intensive we'll explore our own and others' infinite worlds of memory and imagination. We'll read excerpts from a diverse selection of authors, writers who take us back to some corner of their past that was unusually intense, one which we begin to inhabit ourselves as we read. Creative writing exercises will be given to encourage our own crafting of memoir. We will develop greater compassion and awareness by considering the life experiences of others as rendered in our readings and writing; and hone our ability to give detailed, thoughtful feedback in our workshop. A creative writing workshop is a demanding and vulnerable enterprise. This is particularly true in creative nonfiction, a genre that often shrinks the distance between the "I" on the page and the writer in class. Taking the time to read and think about someone else's project cultivates intellectual generosity. Reading others' writing may also sharpen your editorial eye for your own work. Holding each other to high artistic/academic standards and encouraging each other in that effort is key to building a creative community, which is the heart of this workshop.

New College Fitness Center/Athletic Field

Free for current New College and Ringling College students; $10 all others

For more information, visit the Facebook event page or email Michael Long at michael.long@ncf.edu.

The intellectual hippies of New College and starving art students from Ringling College will converge for one common purpose on April 7th: to provide Sarasota with the most ironic flag football game known to man. The game will be played with passion and determination. This is not a joke. The Presidents of both Colleges, Larry Thompson, and Donal B. O'Shea have a lot riding on the outcome. The college president of the losing team is exiled to 20 minutes in a dunk tank after the game. Free admission for current students at NCF and RCAD. For all others, admission is $10. Includes BBQ and beverages all day. All proceeds go directly to the American Cancer Society. Support Sarasota's finest colleges and the American Cancer Society.

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