Pulitzer Prize Winner Samantha Power
To Speak at Holocaust Resource Center

Pulitzer Prize winner Samantha Power, who spent 2005-06 working in the office of Sen. Barack Obama, will deliver the first Frederick M. Schweitzer Lecture on the Holocaust at Manhattan College on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. Power, the Anna Lindh Professor of Practice and Global Leadership and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, will deliver the lecture Can Genocide Be Stopped? American Foreign Policy in an Age of Terror. It is based on her recent book Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World (2008), a biography of the United Nations envoy killed by a suicide bomber in Iraq in 2003. The event, presented by the Holocaust Resource Center, is free and open to the public. Read.

 

 

 

Study Abroad Fair Scheduled for Oct. 8

Are you a student who plans to study abroad? Want to know more about the country you will call home for a semester or a year? The study abroad fair will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 8 at 4:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. Why not start learning about and immersing yourself in a foreign culture here on campus? Do you know that there are 54 international students in all five schools of Manhattan College? Perhaps one of them sits next to you in class. Speak to them and ask all you want to know about their country and culture. Also present our country to them. For a list of international students on campus, please stop by the study abroad office, room 412 in Memorial Hall, or the international students office, Miguel 207A. For more information, contact Nonie Wanger, director of the study abroad program, at (718) 862-7316, e-mail nonie.wanger@manhattan.edu or click Here.

 

Jesuit Priest John Dear To Speak at College

John Dear, a Jesuit priest and former executive director of the Fellowship of Reconciliation, will speak at Manhattan College and sign copies of his autobiography on Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4:00 p.m. in the Alumni Room of O’Malley Library. The event, sponsored by the College’s peace studies program, is free and open to the public. A Persistent Peace: One Man’s Struggle for a Nonviolent World was released this past August, and copies will be available for sale during the event. The book follows Dear’s decades-long journey and spiritual growth, including his unpopular actions before government officials, military personnel and even hostile representatives of the Church. Read.

 

The New York Times’ David Gonzalez
To Visit College As Part of Hispanic Heritage Month

The New York Times metro reporter David Gonzalez will speak at Manhattan College as part of Hispanic Heritage Month on Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 12:30 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event, sponsored by Manhattan’s diversity committee and the communication department, is open to the entire College community. Since his return to New York in early 2004 after serving since mid-1999 as the Times’ Caribbean and Central America bureau chief, Gonzalez has written the biweekly “Citywide” feature, which explores the social, cultural and economic changes in the city’s neighborhoods. His topics have ranged from unexpected effects of the subprime lending crisis to the extraordinary lives of ordinary New Yorkers. For more information, call human resources at (718) 862-7392 or Rose Jimenez at (718) 862-7105.

 

College To Welcome Comic Book Theorist Scott McCloud

Cartoonist and comic book theorist Scott McCloud will speak at Manhattan College on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 7:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public. McCloud’s talk is the fall semester’s scheduled college writing lecture to accompany the Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, a wise, funny and heartbreaking memoir of growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution. McCloud is the author of Understanding Comics (1993), a 215-page book about comics that has been translated into more than 16 languages. He also has written Reinventing Comics (2000), a more controversial look at comics revolutions in art, culture and technology, and Making Comics (2006), an extensive look at comics storytelling techniques. Read.

 

Costello Lecture Features Johns Hopkins Professor

Dr. David Bell, the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Johns Hopkins University, will deliver the seventh annual Costello Lecture on Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 4:00 p.m. in Smith Auditorium. Bell is an internationally recognized scholar and has received numerous awards, including the prestigious Leo Gershoy Prize from the American Historical Association for this 2001 book The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. The lecture is named for Br. Casimir Gabriel Costello, F.S.C., former dean of the College. Bell’s lecture “The Culture of War and Peace in Europe, 1750-1815” is sponsored by the history department and the school of arts. It is open to the entire Manhattan College community, including alumni. For more information, please contact Claire Nolte, professor of history, at (718) 862-7133 or e-mail claire.nolte@manhattan.edu.