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2017/18 Schedule of Events |
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Fall 2017 |
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Date |
Event |
Speakers |
Organization |
Location |
Room |
Start |
End |
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9/18 Mon |
Constitution
Signing
Day: 50th Anniversary of Loving v Virginia
(1967) |
|
Government
Department
and
ACC's
Center
for
|
EVC |
8500 |
6:00 PM |
9:00 PM |
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9/26
Tues |
Truth Stranger
Than Fiction? How Thrillers are a Window into how
U.S. Foreign Policy Really Works |
Todd Moss (Center for Global Development) |
EVC |
8500 |
4:30 PM |
6:30 PM |
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10/3
Tues |
"Too Much to Bear:" Understanding and Coping with Political and Ecological Realities |
Robert Jensen, PhD (University of Texas at Austin) |
Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
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10/12
Thurs |
Post Racial America and Why It
Never
Existed |
Donte
Houston (Southwestern University)u |
Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
6:00 PM |
8:00 PM |
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10/19 Thurs |
A Brief Overview of US Foreign
Policy in the Middle East and North Arrica |
Roy Casagranda, PhD (ACC) | Lecture Series | EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
| 10/24 Tues |
A Brief History of Western
Civilization |
Roy Casagranda, PhD (ACC) | Lecture Series | EVC | 8500 | 4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
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11/2 Thurs |
A Conversation on the
Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Egypt |
Hanan Hammad, PhD (TCU) | Lecture Series | EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 11/9 Thurs | The Art of the Deal... Not the
Book: The Palestine Israel Conflict |
Rabbi Lev Baesh, JD & RN | Lecture Series | EVC | 8500 | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| 11/16 Thurs | Spiritual Activism | Rev. Jim Rigby, D.Min. (St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church) | Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
6:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| 12/7 Thurs | The Iran Nuclear Deal with
Ambassador Thomas Pickering |
Ambassador Thomas Pickering (Hills
and Company) Roy Casagranda, PhD (ACC) |
Lecture Series & World Affairs Council Austin |
EVC |
8500 |
11:30 AM | 1:00 PM |
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Spring
2018 |
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Date |
Event |
Speakers |
Organization |
Location |
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| Feb. 14 |
Activism in the US: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow | Professor Casagranda, PhD (ACC) | Austin School Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 | 4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
| Feb. 28 |
A Talk by Texas Gun Sense | Austin School Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
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| Mar. 7 |
The Current Political Climate |
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Austin School Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 | 5:00 PM | 7:00 PM |
| Mar. 20 |
#ReproJusticia
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Deeds not Words |
EVC | 8500 |
6:30 PM | 8:30 PM |
| Mar. 21 |
Mission Accomplished: 15 Years Later |
|
Austin School Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
| Apr. 2 |
An Afternoon with City Council Member Jimmy Flannigan |
Jimmy Flannigan |
Austin School Lecture Series |
EVC | 8500 | 4:00 PM | 6:00 PM |
| Apr. 11 |
#MeToo Panel |
|
Austin School: Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
4:00 PM |
6:00 PM |
| Apr. 30 |
A Racist Country without Racist People? |
Shannon Sinegal, PhD (ACC) Frank Reid (ACC) Donte Houston (Southwestern University)u Roy Casagranda, PhD (ACC) |
Big Read & Austin School: Lecture Series |
EVC | 8500 |
5:00 PM |
7:00 PM |
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Summer
2018 |
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| The Arab Spring and Its Long Shadow |
Roy Casagranda (ACC) |
Global Issues Lecture Series |
EVC |
8500 |
5:00 PM |
7:00 |
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3:00 PM |
5:00 |
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3:00 PM |
5:00 |
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