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. |
