Events
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Goldfarb Center events are free and open to the public. All are welcome and encouraged to attend.
Calendar of Events - Fall 2009 September 10 September - 7 p.m. Ostrove Auditorium The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and What Might Lie Ahead Professor Mark Tessler, University of Michigan 17 September - 7 p.m. Diamond 122 A Physician's Tale: Working with Addicts, Prisoners and Commercial Sex Workers Dr. Jody Rich, Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital 22 September - 7 p.m. Diamond 122 Developing Wind Power in Maine Today Rob Gardiner, Independence Wind (co-sponsored with Environmental Studies) 29 September - 4 p.m. Lovejoy 100 Lovejoy Visiting Journalist in Residence Lecture: Paul Stieger, former managing editor of the Wall Street Journal and current Editor-in-Chief of ProPublica.com October An Insider’s Perspective on the Federal Reserve Bank Eric Rosengren, Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 6 October - 7 p.m. Lorimer Chapel Dr. Ruth Westheimer (co-sponsored with the Health Center) 14 October - 7 p.m. Lovejoy 100 Building a Civil Society? Russia Since 2005 James Richter, Bates College Valerie Sperling, Clark University Laura Henry, Bowdoin College (co-sponsored with the Department of German and Russian Studies) 16 October - 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ostrove Auditorium (Diamond 142) U.S. Senators from Maine: 50 Years of Influencing the Nation Keynote Address by Senator Olympia Snowe 18 October - Elijah Parish Lovejoy Convocation The Erased: Citizenship and Exclusion in the New Europe Andrej Kurnik and Barbara Beznec, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Goldfarb Center Visiting Scholars 22 October - 7:30 p.m. Lorimer Chapel (Doors open at 7 p.m.) Democracy and Political Culture in Sri Lanka Dr. Ranjith Amarasinghe, University of Peradeniya, Peradeniya, Sri Lanka (co-sponsored with the East Asian Studies Department) 29 October - 7 p.m. Ostrove Auditorium The Amethyst Initiative: The Drinking Age on Debate John McCardell, President, Choose Responsibility David Rosenbloom, President and CEO, National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (A Cotter Debate) November 3 November - 7 p.m. Diamond 122 20 Years after the Berlin Wall: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable (co-sponsored with the Department of German) 9 November - 7 p.m. Ostrove Auditorium (Diamond 142) Lovejoy Visiting Journalist in Residence Lecture: Derrick Jackson, Boston Globe 12 November - 6 p.m. Jorgenson's Cafe Get Up Downtown – Jorgensen’s Cafe (co-sponsored with Waterville Main Street) 16 November - 7 p.m. Diamond 122 Bernard Aronson, Managing Partner at ACON Investments 19 November - 7 p.m. Ostrove Auditorium Between Government and Humanitarianism: Conflict, Community, and Citizenship in the Gaza Strip Professor Ilana Feldman, George Washington University (an Oak Institute event)
3 December - 6 p.m. Barrels Community Market Download the Goldfarb Center's Spring 2009 Calendar of Events |
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Miss an event? You can now listen to podcasts of Goldfarb Center events anywhere you have internet access. Click here to visit the podcasting homepage and hear our selection of recordings. You can also find a summary of our past events here. Looking for directions? We'd love to hear your ideas for events next year. Please send them via email to Susanna Thompson (susanna.thompson@colby.edu) | |
