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Various groups on
campus will organize events during the quarter which are related to our course
or to the study of religion in our world. You are encouraged to attend, both as
a citizen of the University and as a student of religious studies this term.
You will receive extra credit if all of your regular assignments are submitted
and if, in addition to attending the event, you analyze and reflect on it in a
2-3 page paper. Introduce the speaker, date, and title of the event in the first
paragraph. In the body of your paper, explore the speaker's career more fully
(use links below) and summarize and analyze the presentation. To do this successfully,
break out paragraphs that address the following questions:
- What has the speaker published, and/or with what organizations is the the
speaker affiliated?
- What were the central points of the presentation?
- What
insights did the speaker offer?
- In what ways do the speaker's points relate
to our course?
In the final paragraph of your paper, evaluate
the speaker's presentation. What did you appreciate most? What did you learn?
Was there anything that was problematic about the presentation, or any points
you would argue with? Why? This paper should follow the formatting directions
for a short assignment available at Style
Sheet. The paper must be submitted within a week of the event.
Each assignment is worth at most 2 points, so students usually do 2 to get the
maximum grade. The following events are eligible for extra credit in
this class. The list will be updated weekly, so check back in regularly. If you
learn of any events that might be appropriate for extra credit, propose them to
the professor beforehand for approval.
Date | Time | Event |
January 13 Tuesday | 12:00-1:30
p.m. | "Difficult
Dialogue: Student Self-Segregation - Understanding the Complexities"
Kennedy Commons Dr.
Robin Hayes, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and Political Science at
SCU, facilitates a discussion of this problem on campus and in our society. Please
RSVP to Pauline Nguyen if
you plan to attend. Co-sponsored by the Office
for Multicultural Learning and the Ethnic
Studies Program. |
January 15 Thursday | 12:00-1:00
p.m. | "Bioethics
in a Global Perspective: Challenges for Catholic Social Teaching," Lisa Sowle
Cahill Wiegand Room, A&S Cahill
is an SCU alumna (class of 1970) and J. Donal Monan S.J. Professor of Theology
at Boston College. She has advised U.S. bishops on issues surrounding AIDS, presented
at the Vatican about women’s healthcare, and was an advisor to Barack Obama’s
presidential campaign. The recipient of the 2008 John Courtney Murray Award from
the Catholic Theological Society of America for her "outstanding and influential
contributions in diverse areas of Christian ethics," Cahill is the author
of eight books and editor of five others. She is a former president of the CTSA
as well as of the Society of Christian Ethics. Part of the Ethics at Noon series
sponsored by the Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics. |
January 15 Thursday | 4:00-5:00
p.m. | Questions
and Answers: An Ethicist's Concept of Identity Williman Room, Benson Center
Cahill will speak on Catholic notions of feminism, politics, peacemaking and ethics
in the 21st century. For her biography, see the entry above. Please RSVP to Pauline
Nguyen if you plan to attend. Part of the President's
Speaker Series, the identity-themed events hosted by the Provost's University
Council
on Inclusive Excellence, and the Office
for Multicultural Learning. |
January 15 Thursday | 7:30-9:00
p.m. | President's
Speaker Series: Lisa Sowle Cahill Louis B. Mayer Theatre Cahill will
speak on Catholic notions of feminism, politics, peacemaking and ethics in the
21st century. For her biography, see the entry above. Part of the President's
Speaker Series sponsored by the Office of the President of Santa Clara University. |
January 20 Tuesday | 7:30-8:30
p.m. | "The
Party's Over: President Obama's Global Challenges" Swig Hall, Sky
Lounge Several SCU professors will address the challenges faced by the incoming
Obama administration. Panelists include Drs. Jane
Curry (Russia/Europe), Dennis
Gordon (Latin America/Caribbean), Eric
Hanson (China), Michael
Kevane (Africa), and Farid
Senzai (Middle East). Sponsored by the CyPhi
Residential Learning Community, Swig International House, and International
Programs. |
January 21 Wednesday | 11:45
a.m.-1:00 p.m. | "Do
Innovations Like Beat Blogging and Citizen Journalism Improve Inclusion?"
Katharine Fong Kennedy Commons Lunch provided; RSVP required by January
15 (click here
to RSVP to Pauline Nguyen) Fong is Deputy Managing Editor of The San
Jose Mercury News. This event is sponsored by The
Women of Color Network, which is coordinated by the Office
of Multicultural Learning and the Women's
and Gender Studies Program. |
January 21 Wednesday | 12:00-1:00
p.m. | "Ownership
of Land, the Legal Concept of 'Adverse Possession,' and the U.S. Immigration Debate,"
Dr. Timothy Lukes and Ming Hoang Wiegand Room, A&S Lukes
is Professor of Political Science at SCU whose books have won awards from the
Women’s Caucus of the American Political Science Association and from the Asian
American Studies Association. Hoang is of Counsel, McKesson Corporation, and former
president of the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California. The
topic of their talk has been known as "squatters' rights." The principle,
more formally known as adverse possession, basically allows someone who has possessed
land for an extended period to claim it as their own. The two speakers will apply
the idea of adverse possession to the current national debate on immigration reform.
Here's a link
to an article they wrote on the topic in Washington University's Journal of
Law and Policy. Part of the Ethics at Noon series sponsored by the Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics. |
January 26 Monday | 5:00-7:30
p.m. | Dine
and Discuss: American History X (Film and Discussion) Parlor B, Benson
Center The film, American
History X (2007, dir. Tony Kaye), follows Derek Vineyard , the charismatic
leader of a group of young white supremacists, who lands in prison for a brutal,
hate-driven murder. Upon his release, ashamed of his past and pledging to reform,
Derek realizes he must save his younger brother, Danny , from a similar fate.
A groundbreaking controversial drama about the tragic consequences of racism in
a family. Sponsored by the Committee
on Multiculturalism in the RLCs of the Office
for Multicultural Learning. |
January 27 Tuesday | 11:45
a.m.-1:00 p.m. | "Science,
Religion, and the Human Person," Mark Graves Williman Room, Benson
Center Graves is a scholar in residence at the Jesuit School of Theology,
Berkeley, and research Fellow at SCU's Center for Science, Technology, and Society.
His topic addresses what science and religion contribute to a contemporary view
of the human person? Although many hold scientific and religious views as conflicting
or as independent, contemporary dialogue between Christian theology and the biological,
neurological, and cognitive sciences demonstrates novel integrations between mind,
brain, and soul. Somewhat surprisingly, an integrated perspective of soul as informative
relationships of the body resonates with both traditional Catholic teachings on
the soul and Buddhist conceptions of no soul. Part of the Winter Symposium series
sponsored by the Center for
Science. Technology and Society. |
January 27 Tuesday | 3:45-5:00
p.m. | Women's
& Gender Studies Winter Guest Speaker: Jewelle Gomez Benson Parlors
B&C Refreshments provided; RSVP required by January 23 (click here
to RSVP to WGST) Gomez,
"the vampyr everyone loves to love," is an activist and author of 8
books (including the award-winning The Gilda Stories [Firebrand, 1991]),
as well as plays and poetry. This event is co-sponsored by the Women's
and Gender Studies Program, the Creative
Writing Program, and the Provost's University
Council on Inclusive Excellence, as past of the Identity Theme programming. |
January 28 Wednesday | 6:00-7:30
p.m. | "Thinking
Outside the Boxes: How Do You Identify?" Sobrato Hall B How
do you define your identity? A panel of students who attended the Kip Fulbeck
lecture will share how they've come to understand their own identity. Please RSVP
to Pauline Nguyen if you
plan to attend. Co-sponsored by the College
of Arts and Sciences, the Department
of Art and Art History, the Provost's Council
on Inclusive Excellence, and the Office
for Multicultural Learning. |
February 5 Thursday | 12:00-1:00
p.m. | "Non-Paying
Patients and the Right to Heath Care: The Challenge of Trauma Medicine in the
United States," Harry Teter Wiegand Room, A&S Teter
is Executive Director of the American
Trauma Society. Part of the Ethics at Noon series sponsored by the Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics. |
February 9 Monday | 11:45
a.m.-1:00 p.m. | "Domestic
Violence and Racial Revolution in Leonora Sansay's Haiti," Dr. Michelle
Burnham Williman Room, Benson Center Lunch provided; RSVP required
by February 4 (click here
to RSVP to WGST) Burnham
is Professor of English at Santa Clara University. Several of her recent publications
have addressed the dynamics of colonialism and gender in the western hemisphere,
including - Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in
the World System (Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007)
- "Land,
Labor and Colonial Economics in Thomas Morton's New English Canaan,"
Early American Literature 41.3 (2006) 405-428
- "Textual Investments:
Economics and Colonial American Writing," in Blackwell Companion to Colonial
American Literatures (eds. Susan Castillo and Ivy Schweitzer; London: Blackwell,
2005) 60-77
- "The Periphery Within: Internal Colonialism and the Rhetoric
of U.S. Nation Building," in Messy Beginnings: Postcoloniality and Early
American Studies (eds. Malini Johar Schueller and Edward Watts; New York:
Rutgers University Press, 2003)
This event is sponsored by the Women's
and Gender Studies Program. |
February 10 Tuesday | 12:00-1:30
p.m. | "Difficult
Dialogue: Gender and Ethnic Specific Theme Parties: What's the Intrigue"
Williman Room, Benson Center Dr.
Alma Garcia, Professor of Sociology at SCU, facilitates a discussion of the
theme parties that brought SCU unwanted national attention two years ago. Please
RSVP to Pauline Nguyen if
you plan to attend. Sponsored by the Office
for Multicultural Learning. |
February 17, 19, 20 Tu, Th, Fr | 8:00-9:00
p.m. | "The
Life of St. Clare: A Theatrical Exploration," Dir. Mark Larson and Kristin
Kusanovich Mission Santa Clara, free of charge Larson and Kusanovich
teach theatre at SCU. This performance is part of a wider campus reflection on
our namesake, for whom we're named but whose story we rarely explore. This week-long
series of symposia and theatrical performances will explore the identity of
Clare, the extraordinary reality of her life and calling, and allow students,
staff, faculty and visitors to reflect on her spiritual journey in light their
own spiritual landscape to discover, ultimately, how her story converges with
or diverges from their own. |
February 19 Thursday | 4:00-5:30
p.m. | "Light
for Clare of Assissi: Light for Identity, Community and Humanity," coordinated
by Jean Molesky-Poz St. Clare Room, Library and Learning Commons Molesky-Poz
is a lecturer in the Religious Studies Department at Santa Clara. This event is
part of a wider campus reflection on our namesake; see the description above. |
February 19 Thursday | 7:30-9:00
p.m. | "No
Time to Think: On the Loss of Contemplative Time and the Possibilities for Regaining
It, " David M. Levy Kennedy Commons Levy
earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University in 1979 and a Diploma
in Calligraphy and Bookbinding from the Roehampton Institute (London) in 1983.
For more than fifteen years he was a researcher at the Xerox Palo Alto Research
Center (PARC), where his work, described in Scrolling Forward: Making Sense
of Documents in the Digital Age (Arcade, 2001), centered on exploring the
transition from paper and print to digital. During the year 20052006, he
was the holder of the Papamarkou Chair in Education and Technology at the Library
of Congress. A professor at the University of Washington Information School since
20002001, he has been investigating how to restore contemplative balance
to a world marked by information overload, fragmented attention, extreme busyness,
and the acceleration of everyday life. Sponsored Ignatian
Center for Jesuit Education. |
February 26 Thursday | 12:00-1:00
p.m. | "The
Salvadoran Jesuit Murders: An Update on the Case and on the Reach of International
Justice," Almudena Bernabeu and Beth Van Schaack Wiegand Room, A&S
Bernabeu is International Attorney for the San Francisco Center
for Justice and Accountability (CJA), and Van Schaack is an Associate Professor
in the SCU School of Law and part of CJA's Legal Advisor Council. On November
13, 2008, the CJA filed a criminal suit before the Spanish National Court for
the 1989 murders of 6 Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her 16-year old daughter.
Part of the Ethics at Noon series co-sponsored by the Ignatian
Center for Jesuit Education and the Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics. |
March 5 Thursday | 11:45
a.m.-1:00 p.m. | "Do
Developing Countries Really Need Biotechnology?" Peggy Lemaux Williman
Room, Benson Center Lemaux
is Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant & Microbial
Biology at the University of California, Berkeley. Part of the Winter Symposium
series sponsored by the Center
for Science. Technology and Society; co-sponsored with the Food
and Agribusiness Institute and the Biology
Department. |
March 5 Thursday | 7:30-9:00
p.m. | "Little
Faith: When We Find Ourselves Walking on Water?" Jocelyn A. Sideco
Williman Room, Benson Center Sideco
is an SCU Religious Studies alumna and Bannan Visitor this quarter who designed
and founded Contemplatives
in Action, a New Orleanian ministry committed to a faith that does justice.
She created and developed a volunteer program for Jesuit affiliates in response
to Hurricane Katrina. She is a certified diversity and cultural competency trainer
with the National Multi-Cultural Institute.
She has served as resident chaplain at Loyola
University, New Orleans and Pastoral Associate for Relief Ministries for the
New Orleans Province of the
Society of Jesus. After SCU, Sideco received a Master of Theological Studies
from the Jesuit School of Theology
in Berkeley. Sponsored Ignatian
Center for Jesuit Education. |
March 13 Friday | Time
tbd | "The
Future of International Criminal Justice," Cherif Bassiouni Place
tbd Bassiouni
is Distinguished Research Professor of Law at DePaul University, President Emeritus
of the International
Human Rights Law Institute at DePaul, and Co-founder of the International
Criminal Court. Co-sponsored by the SCU Journal
of International Law, the SCU School
of Law Center for Global Law and Policy, and the Markkula
Center for Applied Ethics. | |
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