Category Archives: Events

Champa Lhunpo returns to Hickman High School for Amnesty International meeting

Published: November 9, 2011

Champa Lhunpo, a teacher of Tibetan language and culture at the University of Kansas, will speak with students and the public at 3 p.m Thursday, Nov. 10  at Hickman High School during an Amnesty International meeting. Lhunpo has spoken on several occasions at Hickman about Tibetan culture and Buddhism. Lhunpo will be speaking about human rights issues in Tibet.

Time/Date: 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 10

Location: Hickman High School Dining Hall Annex (map)

For more information: George Frisell (via email) or Nicole Overeem (via email), faculty sponsors for Hickman chapter of Amnesty International

Also posted in Events 2010-2011

MU Professor Steven Starr to give Noel P. Gist seminar lecture against nuclear war

Published: October 30, 2011

Steven Starr, program director of the MU Clinical Laboratory Science program and senior scientist with Physicians for Social Responsibility, will give a lecture titled “Nuclear weapons still threaten human existence: the long-term environmental consequences of nuclear war” as part of the Noel P. Gist Brown Bag Seminar Series at MU.

Starr worked for 22 years in mid-Missouri clinical laboratories as a technologist in addition to his extensive advocacy work in opposition to nuclear warfare. Starr has published prolifically on the subject of nuclear war prevention and has testified before the U.N. General Assembly on the potential long-term environmental effects of such conflict. He maintains a multi-lingual website, nucleardarkness.org, that features much of the work he has produced as part of a passion that began during his childhood.

The Noel P. Gist Brown Bag Seminar Series occurs weekly at MU. The lunch meetings are named after sociologist Noel P. Gist, who sought to raise awareness of international issues on campus by inviting experts in various academic fields.

Date/Time:  12 to 12:50 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 3

Location: Room N52 of Memorial Student Union (campus map)

Cost: Free, and open to the public. Attendees may bring their own lunches to the seminar.

For more information: Contact Rebecca A. O’Neal, executive staff assistant at the MU International Center, via email or at (573) 882-6008.

 

Also posted in Events 2011-2012

Stephens College hosts Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays event Nov. 7

Published: October 22, 2011

Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays is a nationwide play reading featuring works from American playwrights such as Mo Gaffney, Jordan Harrison and Jeffrey Hatcher. The event seeks to raise understanding toward and awareness of the issues involved in gay marriage in America. Stephens College will host a reading of the eight short plays on Nov. 7, joining performances across the country and around the globe.

Date/Time: 7 to 10 p.m. Nov. 7 (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Location: Windsor Auditorium at Stephens College, 1405 E. Broadway (campus map)

Tickets: To obtain free general admission tickets to this event, contact the Windsor Auditorium box office on the campus of Stephens College or call (573) 876-7199 Monday-Friday from 1 to 3 p.m.

For more information: Visit the Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays website or Facebook page

Also posted in Events 2011-2012

MU Muslim Student Organization sponsors Haroon Moghul lecture for Islam Awareness week

Published: October 17, 2011

MU’s Muslim Students’ Organization engages in social, religious and educational activities that promote unity at MU and create awareness of Islam among Muslims and people of other faiths. In accordance with that goal, the group sponsors several events throughout the calendar year, including Islam Awareness week on campus. This fall, the MSO brings Haroon Moghul to MU to speak on Thursday, Oct. 27 in conjunction with this event that runs from Monday, Oct. 24 to Friday, Oct. 28. Moghul’s lecture is titled, “Who is afraid of Shariah?”

Haroon Moghul is a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University, specializing in Middle East, South Asian and African Studies. He is also senior editor at the Islamic Monthly, associate editor for Religion Dispatches and a fellow at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding. He currently serves as executive director of The Maydan Insitute. Moghul’s work has appeared in the Huffington Post, and his blog, Avari, has won numerous Bass Crescent awards honoring excellence in the Muslim blogosphere, including Best Muslim Blog, Best Thinker and Best Writing.

Date/Time: 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27

Location: S203 Memorial Union (campus map)

For more information: Visit the MU Muslim Students’ Organization website or contact the group via email.

Also posted in Events 2011-2012

Yale’s Stephen L. Carter gives Schiffman Lecture in Religious Studies on Oct. 17

Published: October 12, 2011

Author and Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter will give this fall’s Religious Studies lecture as part of the Althea W. and John A. Schiffman Lecture series on the campus of Columbia College, titled “God’s Name in Vain: Religion in Politics.” The lecture will be preceded by a Q&A session in Dorsey Gym at 3 p.m. and a reception in the Dulany Banquet Room at 6 p.m. The Lecture in Religious Studies draws noted scholars to Columbia College to lecture on the influence of religion in politics, culture and education. Each year, nationally and internationally renowned scholars speak to students, faculty, staff and members of the community about how religion has shaped and continues to shape major issues of our day.

Stephen L. Carter is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Yale University. He graduated from Stanford with a bachelor’s degree in history and obtained his law degree from Yale in 1979, where he returned to teach in 1982 after serving as a law clerk for Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has authored several books, including The Violence of Peace: America’s Wars in the Age of Obama in 2011. His upcoming novel, entitled The Impeachment of President Lincoln, is set for publication in 2012.

Date/Time: 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 17 (doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

Location: Launer Auditorium on the campus of Columbia College (map)

For more information: Visit the Schiffman Religious Studies Lecture homepage

Also posted in Events 2011-2012

  • Share, email or print

    EmailPrintShare


  • Jump to a discipline

    Jump to a resource format

  • Translate this page