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FEB 3, Fred Loxsom
Our Vanishing Footprint
Location: Student Center Theatre

Members of the Green Campus Committee will present Eastern’s plan to achieve the goals of the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment. The main goal of this agreement is for each signatory campus to reach carbon neutrality (zero net emission of greenhouse gases) by 2050.

FEB 10, Khurshed Rastomji
Lecture/Recital
Location: Shafer Auditorium

A lecture-recital presentation of piano music from Spain, put in a historical and cultural context. Composers include Scarlatti, Albeniz, Granados, Gottschalk and de Falla.

FEB 17, Daniel Donaghy
Poetry Reading
Location: Science Building, Room 301

Professor Daniel Donaghy will read from and discuss his latest book of poetry, “Start with the Trouble.” Donaghy is also the author of “Streetfighting,” a Paterson Poetry Prize Finalist.

FEB 24, Al Duncan
Emotions Gone Wild
Location: Student Center Theatre

Al Duncan is the author of three books, including “My Success Journal For Young People” and “Get AL Fired Up!” He was born and raised in North Philadelphia, and by today’s standards would have been labeled an “at-risk” student. Today, he is a cross-generational communication specialist and youth empowerment advocate who brings high energy, high content and high impact to his motivational lectures.

MAR 3, Eric Martin
Balkanization
Location: Student Center Theatre

Professor Eric Martin will discuss opportunities and obstacles to change in the Balkans, based upon his research and teaching at the University of Belgrade as a Fulbright scholar.

MAR 10, Chris Torockio
Book Reading
Location: Student Center Theatre

Professor Chris Torockio will read from his original works of fiction, including “The Soul Hunters,” “Floating Holidays” and “The Truth at Daybreak.” He will also answer questions about the craft and business of fiction writing in today’s literary marketplace.

MAR 17, Reanae Mcneal
Location: Betty R. Tipton Room

McNeal is an international performing artist, award-winning playwright, inspirational speaker, lecturer, storyteller, performance art poet, musician, cultural/social activist and survivor. She is the founder and president of Imani Revelations and Beauty For Ashes Ministries.

MAR 31, Dina Temple-Raston
Location: Student Center Theatre

Dina Temple-Raston has been the FBI correspondent for NPR News since 2007. Her reporting can be heard on NPR’s newsmagazines.

APR 7, Nicole Rosseau
Location: Student Center Theatre

Nicole Rousseau is a sociologist and assistant professor whose work on the structural and institutional roots of race, class and gender inequalities, social rhetoric and identity formation, and Historical Womanist theory have been included in publications in the United States and South America. Her first book, “Black Woman’s Burden: Commodifying Black Reproduction,” was published in September 2009.

APR 14, Dennis Canterbury
Rethinking Africa
Location: Betty R. Tipton Room

The rethinking of development in Africa means a critical re-examination of the fundamentals of failed development theories and practices in the continent since its conquest by Europeans, with the view of finding workable alternatives to positively changing the socio-economic and political conditions in Africa. Professor Dennis Canterbury will analyze relevant theoretical issues and discuss concrete socio-economic matters in Africa.

APR 21, Maria Aponte
Brown Hips , Red Lips , Hot Skins
Location: Betty R. Tipton Room

Born and raised in New York City’s East Harlem, Aponte has worked extensively in Latino Theatre. She wrote and performs her one-woman show, “Lagrimas de Mis Madres,” a biography of the women in her family that also deals with discrimination against women of color.

APR 28, Jamel Ostwald
Mission Accomplished
Location: Webb Hall, Room 110

Professor Jamel Ostwald will discuss the 17th and 18th-century debate over the proper way to wage war, and the enduring appeal of decisive battle to modern Western military culture. His book, “Vauban Under Siege," won the Society for Military History’s 2009 Distinguished Book Award in Non-American History.

MAY 5, Ichinohe Dance Co.
Location: Betty R. Tipton Room

The Saeko Ichinohe Dance Co. has been merging traditional Japanese movement, music and costumes with modern Western movement since 1970.

 
Locations
  • Shafer Auditorium is in Shafer Hall on High Street
  • The Paul E. Johnson Sr. Community Conference Room is on the second floor of the J. Eugene Smith Library
  • The Theatre and Betty R. Tipton Room are on the upper level of the Student Center
  • The Science Building Auditorium is in Room 104 of the Science Building