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Community Converses About Peace & Justice During the Fall 2003 semester, the Diversity Committee launched a discussion series called Conversations about Peace and Justice. The committee invited interested participants to meet weekly and provided a place and time for informal conversations about two critical aspects of human society: peace and justice. Advanced reading of War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges allowed the group a common experience from which to engage in selected topics for discussion throughout the semester. Peace and Justice Conversations for the Curry community resume as the Spring 2004 semester begins. Discussion topics planned include the history of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict as seen through the eyes of two men told in the book Tried by Fire by Bassam Abu-Sharif and Uzi Mahnaimi; the genocide in Rwanda as recounted in the book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families by Philip Gourevitch; and the issues of guns and violence in America as raised in the film Bowling for Columbine written, produced and directed by Michael Moore. For more information, please visit the new Curry College events calendar on the web at www.currycollege.net/calendar. Faculty News and Notes |
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Three members of Curry's Fine and Applied Arts Department - Associate Professor Laurie Alpert, Lecturer Iris Morehouse and Professor Elizabeth Strasser, Department Chairperson - exhibited their work as part of the HYDE PARK OPEN STUDIOS in December 2003. The HYDE PARK OPEN STUDIOS, which highlighted the developed work of over 60 local amateurs, semi-pros, and professional artists, took place at several locations in Hyde Park. The event was publicized by The Hyde Park Arts Initiative, which is connected with the Southwest Boston Community Development Corp. Professor Strasser was also interviewed by Glenn Williams about her work and the open studio event on the Boston channel 9, BNN show "All About Arts." Laurie Alpert also exhibited at the Daventport Gallery in November and December. Earlier in the semester she hung an exhibit in the Parents' Lounge which included prints as part of a portfolio done by EES Arts, a professional print cooperative in Hyde Park, representing a variety of techniques and ideas based on the theme "Dualities."
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Senior Lecturer George Herman (PAL) exhibited work as part of an annual Open Studio at Artspace Maynard in October 2003. The Psychology Department, Women's Studies Committee and the Diversity Committee sponsored a presentation of "Men, Mice & Monsters: The language of the social scientist and the 'less than masculine man'" in December 2003.Dr. Jack Kahn, Associate Professor of Psychology co-authored the paper originally presented at the International Congress for Personal Construct Psychology at the University of Huddersfield in July 2003 with Kathy Ferguson of the Murray Research Center at Radcliffe College. Dr. Bob Keighton, Professor of Politics and History, exhibited his paintings for the Curry community in October 2003.
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Writer in Residence and English Professor Bill Littlefield was honored at the Women's Sports Awards Reception in October 2003. In November 2003, Fine and Applied Arts Senior Lecturer Rita Moerschel collaborated in concert with violinist Richard O'Neill, member of the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society and the Sejon Orchestra, performing the music of Paul Hindermuth, Rebecca Clarke, and Gabriel Faure in the Parents' Lounge. Associate Professor Les Muray's most recent article, God, Immortality, and Lived Experience in Unamuno, was published in the Autumn 2003 issue of Encounter. In August 2003, he co-chaired and coorganzied The Fourth International Conference on Philosophical Theology: Pragmatism, Religion, Democracy in Dobogoko, Hungary. (See article p. 6) Also at the Dobogoko conference were Senior Lecturer Laura Hubbard (PAL) who gave a paper entitled Adults with Coexisting LD/HD and Psychiatric Disorders in Higher Education and Transformational Learning/Teaching and Professor Joe Schneider who gave a paper entitled The Clash of Expediency vs. Right Reason in Melville's Billy Budd.
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