Lectures, Symposia, and other programs of interest at Rhodes College, 2012-2013

· All the events listed below are open to the Memphis community.  Please feel free to advertise these events to MCA students.  For more information on a specific event, go to the Rhodes College Calendar of Events accessible through the Rhodes homepage, www.rhodes.edu   Events are listed on the calendar under the date on which they will occur.  Click on the event that interests you for more information such as time and location.  

   

    

      September 6: “IN SEARCH OF…” Christopher Ulivo, exhibit lecture

·      September 17: JAMES CAPRETTA, “How Constitutional Government Protects Democracy from Itself.”

·      September 20: Amanpal Garcha, “Dickens and Victorian Ideas of Consumer and Electoral Choice” @ 4:30 p.m.

·      September 20: STEVE SCHLOZMAN, “Zombie Autopsy” @ 6:00 p.m.

·      September 27-28: ROUSSEAU SYMPOSIUM

·      September 19-October 3: TOURNÉES FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL

·      October 4-5: GLOBAL HAMLETS SYMPOSIUM

·      October 8-9: ROGER SCRUTON, “How to Think Seriously About Saving the Planet” and “Music and Morals”

·      October 29-30: CELEBRATING IDA B. WELLS 150^TH ANNIVERSARY

·      November 12-14: HOLOCAUST SCHOLAR ROBERT WISTRICH AND SPECTRUM DANCE THEATER

·      November 15: MELODY DEUSNER, “Whistler, Aestheticism, and the Networked World”

·      November 27: AMY SINGER, “The Ottoman Occupation of Jerusalem”

·      January (between 14-16): JASON ROBERT BROWN, Springfield Lecture

·      January 22: JAMES MILLER, “Is the Examined Life Worth Living”

·      February 11-12: ALICE KAPLAN, “Dreaming in French”

·      February 25: Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf, “A New Vision of Islam in America”

·      March 18-19: A.B. YEHOSHUA, “The Arab-Israeli Conflict Today”

·      April 4: JUSTICE EDWIN CAMERON, “Diversity as a Constitutional Value - LGBTI Rights in a Democratic South Africa”

·      April 11, RANDALL FULLER, “From Battlefields Rising: How the Civil War Transformed American Literature”