224 past events with the speakers tag

Presented by Cheri Ellefson Terhume

Part of Women's Week 2013

Contact the Women's and Gender Studies Program at (765)285-5451 for disability accommodation or more information.

Sponsored by the College of Sciences and Humanities' Task Force on the Status of Women.

Part of Women's Week 2013

Contact the Women's and Gender Studies Program at (765)285-5451 for disability accommodation or more information.

Creativity expert Dr. Robert Root-Bernstein, Professor of Physiology at Michigan State University, and MacArthur Fellow, will present a provocative lecture based on his book Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World's Most Creative People. The lecture will discuss how scientists and others benefit from their participation in and engagement with the arts. Read more here.

• Lecture is FREE and open to the public. A book signing will follow the program.
• Dinner following the lecture is $40 for Friends of the Museum, $48 for non-members. PDF dinner RSVP here.

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Ken Carter is a coach, author, educator and inspiration for the movie Coach Carter which recounts Carter's decision to literally lock his undefeated, state play-off bound basketball team out of the gym and force them to hit the books. Carter is the founder and chairman of the Coach Ken Carter Foundation, a non-profit that promotes and provides education, training and mentoring programs for minority youth. He also founded the Coach Carter Impact Academy, designed to enable disadvantaged youth to reach their full academic and life potential.

Sponsored by Student Affairs, the Multicultural Center and the Office of Institutional Diversity

Free and open to students, staff, faculty, and the Muncie community.

The Department of English is proud to welcome Rachel Marie-Crane Williams to campus as part of the Marilyn K. Cory Lecture Series. She will deliver a public lecture on gender in comics on Wednesday, January 29, at 7:30 in BB 109.

Williams is an artist and teacher at the University of Iowa; her work as a researcher and creative scholar has always been focused on women's issues, community, art, and people who are incarcerated. American alternative/single creator comics and graphic novels have been at the heart of her creative scholarship for the past few years. Her graphic scholarship has been published by the Jane Addams Hull House Museum, the Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education, Southern Cultures, and the International Journal of Comic Art. Her current projects include a graphic novel about the Detroit Race Riots of 1943 to be published by The University of North Carolina Press in partnership with the Duke Center for Documentary studies.

Eric King Watts will examine how this genre is preoccupied with "end-of-days" fantasies that feed the motives of extreme preparedness groups. In particular, the talk will focus on "Zombie Preppers," a docudrama produced and aired on Discovery Channel as an example of how the genre composes a zombie outbreak as plausible. Lastly, the talk speculates on the potential communicative impacts brought about by repetitive exposure and intense consumption of the genre.

Delaware Christian Academy Presents: THIRD SATURDAY @ DeSoto
Community Festival & School Choice Fair
Vendors, Business, Churches, Schools, Music, Rummage, Food, & Much More
JUNE 21 8am-1pm At 8400 E. 400 North; visit online @ dcamuncie.net
FREE ADMISSION Booth Space still available for $5.00

Poetry Reading by writers from the Ball State English Department--at the Brother Animal. Featured writers include Brian Morrison, Melissa Hull, and Angela Jackson-Brown. All ages welcome. Enjoy some fine poetry and coffee.

Poetry Reading by writers from the Ball State English Department--at the Brother Animal. Featured writers include Brian Morrison, Melissa Hull, and Angela Jackson-Brown. All ages welcome. Enjoy some fine poetry and coffee.

Meeting sponsored by local chapters of ICPE, AAUW, and LWV.  Joel Hand of ICPE, state representative Sue Errington, and former chair of the board of Muncie Community Schools Tony Costello will shed some light on the current problems facing public education in IN.

The Ball State University Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies in conjunction with Muncie Public Library presents a free lecture and discussion series:

BIG Questions BIG Ideas
Thursday, February 19, 6:30-7:30pm
Dr. Abel Alves
Professor of History
Ball State University

"Studying the Human Animal: A Bigger History"

Too often humans have "cherry-picked" historical evidence to justify their quests for dominance-rationalizing patriarchy, imperialism, ultranationalism and religious extremism. We can better understand these historical behaviors, and our propensity to be altruistic too, through a recognition that we are animals subjected to the same evolutionary process as other creatures of the earth. As already stated by Charles Darwin in The Origin of Species, "There is grandeur in this view of life."

Free and open to the public. Kennedy Library | 1700 W. McGalliard Rd. | 765-747-8209 www.munciepubliclibrary.org

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