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Art to Heart: Printmaking Workshop

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:10:24 GMT

Saturday, February 11, 10:00am - 12:00pm

Learn about prints and patterns at the museum, then, at Barrels Community Market, create stamps to print valentine cards. This event is free and open to all ages, but attendance is limited and preregistration is required. To register, please call 207-859-5613.

Ringing the Doorbell: Saner, Healthier Sex in College

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:54:12 GMT

Monday, February 13, 7:00pm

Guest speaker Cindy Pierce offers a fresh, honest and funny perspective for young men and women on the ins and outs of healthier, saner (and safer!) sex. In this hilarious keynote, Pierce uses anecdotes and her social research to demystify sex and relationships in college. Students walk away with safer and more realistic expectations around sex. Pierce is shaking people out of their comfort zones. She is the co-author of Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul.

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Terrorism

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:42:17 GMT

Tuesday, February 14, 7:00pm

This roundtable brings together five Colby professors to talk about how terrorism is conceptualized from within their disciplines: Jennifer Yoder (government), Walter Hatch (government), Margaret McFadden (American studies), Elena Monastireva-Ansdell (German and Russian) and Lydia Moland (philosophy).

Mapping Power, Mapping Resilience: Black Mothers' Photovoice in Syracuse

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:40:49 GMT

Thursday, February 16, 7:00pm

Kishi Ducree is an professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University. Her research focuses on environmental sociology and environmental justice. She is a contributing author to Echoes from the Poisoned Wells: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice.

Are Fish Safe to Eat?

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:42:23 GMT

Thursday, February 16, 11:30am - 1:00pm

David O. Carpenter serves as director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany's School of Public Health. Carpenter was recently named to New York's Renewable Energy Task Force, charged with implementing plans to reduce electricity use through new energy efficiency programs in industry and government. Carpenter, who received his doctorate from Harvard Medical School, has 220 publications, 37 reviews and book chapters and 12 other publications to his credit.

Civility and American Democracy Forum

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:59:05 GMT

Friday, February 17, 8:30am - 4:15pm

Has civility in America disappeared? Did it ever truly exist? A group of leading scholars and journalists, including Ellen Goodman, Joe Klein, Randall Kennedy and Jill Lepore, will gather at the University of Massachusetts-Boston to discuss those questions and more about the role civility plays in American politics. The event will be moderated by Tom Ashbrook, award-winning journalist and host of NPR?s On Point. The Goldfarb Center will host a live webcast of the daylong event.

Crystal Night: A Lesson for Our Times

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:42 GMT

Monday, February 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm

Educator David O. Solmitz shares his father's story about surviving the Holocaust and what others can learn from that terrible time and behavior. The discussion will focus on warning signs of genocide and will engage those who attend in a thought-provoking discussion. This program will promote awareness and understanding, and ask us to reflect on how conflict arises (in the context of genocide) and what we can do to prevent it.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy Visiting Fellow in Journalism: Andrea Bruce, photojournalist

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:54:55 GMT

Monday, February 20, 7:00pm

Andrea Bruce, a freelance photojournalist who has worked in the Middle East for nearly a decade, will narrate a viewing and discussion of photos she has taken while in Afghanistan and Iraq and while covering the Arab Spring. Bruce was last on campus in 2007, as part of a panel before the Lovejoy Convocation, when she discussed the unique problems confronting photojournalists covering wars.

Exhibit and Lecture: Photojournalist Andrea Bruce

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:36:32 GMT

Monday, February 20, 7:00pm

Photojournalist Andrea Bruce has documented the horrors of political violence in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. She will present her work and speak about the experience of being a photojournalist in parts of the world marred by terrorism.

Climate Policy and Carbon Pricing: Problems and Prospects with Professor Emeritus Thomas Tietenberg

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:30:54 GMT

Tuesday, February 21, 7:00pm

Tietenberg will discuss the scientific and economic cases for action on climate change and the current political situation both domestically and globally. He will explore the potential role for carbon pricing (emissions trading and/or carbon taxes) by reviewing how well existing programs work and what their evolution over time suggests for their future. This talk will draw upon both Tietenberg?s participation in a National Academy of Sciences project on climate change and a recent survey paper that he completed for the International Monetary Fund, an organization that is getting more heavily involved in carbon pricing. Tietenberg retired from Colby in 2008 after more than 30 years at Colby. More on his career in Colby magazine

The Medicalization of Society

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:07:16 GMT

Tuesday, February 21, 7:00pm

Peter Conrad, Brandeis University

The Hammil Family Native Spirit Dancers

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:18:02 GMT

Thursday, February 23, 7:00pm

Hoop dancing is a form of story telling dance incorporating any number of hoops, which are used to create both static and dynamic shapes or formations representing various animals and storytelling elements. These include the butterfly, the eagle, the snake, and the coyote, with the hoops symbolizing the never-ending circle of life. (The Foothills Focus, Feb. 2011) Part of S.H.O.U.T! week.

Award-Winning Filmmaker Spike Lee

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:58:06 GMT

Friday, February 24, 7:00pm

Free tickets are required. Tickets will be made available to the Colby community on February 15th. Members of the public interested in attending can send an e-mail to ngsintet@colby.edu to reserve tickets. Live feeds in Lovejoy, the Pugh Center, and LoPo (Cotter Union) are free, open to the public, and do not require a ticket. S.H.O.U.T! (Speaking, Hearing, Opening Up Together) is a student-organized weekend of events celebrating multiculturalism and community building at Colby. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Screenings of three of Spike Lee's films will be held at Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, in the weeks preceding the event. Crooklyn (1994), Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m. Malcolm X (1992), Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m. Do the Right Thing (1989), Wednesday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.

International Lawyering for the U.S. Government in an Era of Smart Power

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:28:57 GMT

Sunday, February 26, 7:00pm

Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State and to Secretary of State Clinton, will deliver the sixth George J. Mitchell Distinguished International Lecture. Koh, a former dean of Yale Law School, will discuss his role in providing legal opinions to the United States Government facing controversial decisions, including those regarding the use of drone missiles to attack terrorist targets.

The Kemba Smith Story

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:59:13 GMT

Monday, February 27, 7:00pm - 8:00pm

At the age of 24, Kemba Smith, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine for her boyfriend's drug activities. Smith, seven months pregnant at the time with no criminal record, became a "poster child" for mandatory sentencing when she was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison with no possibility of parole. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws have made her and an increasing number of women casualties of excessive punishments that do not fit their crimes. Smith will share how she became the "poster child" by coming from a middle class, college experience to dating one of the FBI's most wanted and then being pardoned by former President Bill Clinton.

Noontime Art Talk: Rediscoveries 2

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:16:13 GMT

Wednesday, February 29, 12:00pm

President William D. Adams discusses the exhibition he curated: Rediscoveries 2: New Perspectives on the Permanent Collection. Founded on the belief that a museum is a platform for new ideas from diverse perspectives, Rediscoveries, an ongoing exhibition series, presents rotating selections from the permanent collection chosen by members of the Colby College community. Representing a wide range of disciplines, interests, and areas of expertise, guest curators include Colby faculty, students, staff, and friends of the museum.

Status and Implications of Health IT in the US Health Care System

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:09 GMT

Tuesday, March 06, 7:00pm

The Road Less Traveled: Medical Science and the Delivery of Health Care to Women

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:01:45 GMT

Tuesday, March 27, 7:00pm

Regulation of Environmental Threats to Human Health: Policy Successes and Challenges

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:04:09 GMT

Tuesday, April 10, 7:00pm

How Science Comes to Matter: Having Epilepsy in the Age of the Genome

web@colby.edu (Colby College) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:05:46 GMT

Tuesday, April 24, 7:00am