Fall 2009
November 12, 2009
Lecture by Dr. Peter Lawler, Dana Professor and Chair of the Department of Government and International Studies at Berry College
Public lecture:
Human Freedom and Dignity: Sources of Modern Greatness and Misery
November 12, 7-9 p.m.
Surge Building, Room 117A
November 11, 2009
Community Voices Series
Co-sponsored with The Virginia Tech Institute for Policy and Governance
Discussion Forum with Elisa Sabatini, Executive Director of Via International, and Andy Morikawa, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley
November 11, 12:00 - 1:00 P.M.
Graduate Life Center, Room B
Please join us for brief remarks followed by discussion by Elisa Sabatini, Executive Director of Via International, a transborder community development nongovernmental organization operating out of San Diego, California and Andrew Morikawa, Executive Director of the Community Foundation of the New River Valley, an innovative community-based philanthropy in western Virginia.
Both leaders bring long and rich experience to their community roles and each has also worked internationally as well as domestically. Each will draw on their experience to speak briefly to the major challenges confronting civil society organizations today and then be available to address questions and for general discussion. Please join us for what promises to be a thought provoking opportunity!
November 6, 2009
5:30 P.M.
The ASPECT GSA would like to invite you to the second ASPECT student and faculty social event next Friday, November 6th beginning at 5:30PM in the back of PK's Bar and Grill. This will be a great opportunity for ASPECT students to meet faculty that they may not have had a chance to meet. Please consider attending if you are available.
For the ASPECT graduate students, there will be a brief ASPECT GSA meeting before the social starting at 4:30PM in Lane Hall Rm. 132 to discuss plans for starting a graduate student presentation series. Any graduate students interested in participating in the series should attend.
October 26-27, 2009
Lecture and workshop by Dr. Arnold Farr, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Kentucky, and Director of the Herbert Marcuse Society
Co-sponsored by The Women and Minority Artists and Scholars Lecture Series
Public lecture:
Marcusean Theory and Liberation Praxis: Beyond the Pathology of One-Dimensionality
October 26, 5-7 p.m.
Surge Building, Room 117A
Workshop:
October 27, 2-5 p.m.
Graduate Life Center, Room C
If you plan to attend the workshop, please read the following beforehand:
Critical Theory, Chapters 5-9
Restricted Eros and One-Dimensional Morality
Repressive Tolerance
A Note on Dialectic
The Affirmative Character of Culture
Please email Tamara Sutphin to register for the workshop.
October 14-15, 2009
Through the endowed Hammond Lectureship in Religious Ethics and Society, the Religious Studies Program is bringing to campus October 14-15, 2009, Dr. Bart Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Professor Ehrman’s fields of scholarly expertise include the historical Jesus, the early Christian apocrypha, the apostolic fathers, and the manuscript tradition of the New Testament, and his public lecture (October 14, 7:00 p.m., 2150 Torgersen, reception following) is entitled “Is the New Testament Forged? The Real-life Authors of the Christian Scriptures.” You may learn more about Dr. Ehrman and this event at this web address: http://www.rc.vt.edu/religious/Hammond.html
Through the Hammond Lectureship and in cooperation with the ASPECT program, Dr. Ehrman will be the guest of a seminar on Thursday morning, October 15, focused on “Forgery: What’s involved? What’s at stake?” This seminar is especially for ASPECT graduate students and affiliated faculty and will meet from 10:00 till noon on October 15 in 502 Major Williams.
Space is limited to 20 ASPECT students and faculty, and registration is required by October 1 by e-mail to Tamara Sutphin in the ASPECT office.
October 2 - 3
Cranwell Center and Graduate Life Center
Southeast Regional Seminar for African Studies (SERSAS) Fall 2009 Meeting
VTAC is composed of over 60 faculty, staff and students with research, teaching, and/or activist interest in Africa. Members come from across the disciplines, and gather to share information, research, and teaching strategies. VTAC is pleased to host SERSAS for its first meeting at Virginia Tech since 1976.
For their generous financial support, we offer our thanks to: The College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, The Department of Sociology, Africana Studies, The Department of Political Science, The Department of History, The Department of Apparel and Housing Resource Management, The Institute for Policy and Governance, and The Alliance for Social, Political, Ethical and Cultural Thought
September 4
The ASPECT GSA would like to invite faculty and students to this year's first ASPECT social on Friday September 4th at 5:30PM at PK's. This will be a great opportunity for ASPECT faculty and returning students to meet and welcome our new graduate student cohort and to generally catch up with colleagues and friends. Please consider attending if you are available.
For the ASPECT graduate students, there will be a brief ASPECT GSA meeting before the social at 4:30PM in Lane Hall Rm. 132 to discuss plans for the next ASPECT Newsletter. Any graduate students interested in working on the newsletter are encouraged to attend.
ASPECT Working Paper Series
Cranwell International Center
Clay Street
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
October 6
Brett Shadle
"White Prestige in Early Colonial Kenya"
October 27
Max Stephenson
Marcy Snitzer
"Nature, Place and Imagination: Exploring the Imaginaries of Environmental and Ecological Justice"
December 8
Bettina Koch
"Fourteenth Century Western Political Theory and the Search for the Secular Islamic State: Marsilius of Padua “on” Abdullahi Ahmed an-Na‘im"
Papers in the Series are made available on-line prior to the scheduled event. All are welcome to participate; the "price of admission" for participating is reading the paper in advance. For further information, contact Wolfgang Natter, wnatter@vt.edu.