Mark Your Calendar for These Upcoming Events
The Department of Theatre Presents “Urinetown” The Department of Theatre will feature “Urinetown,” directed by Peter M. Donohue, O.S.A., on March 21 through April 9 in Vasey Hall. For show times, please visit
http://www.theatre.villanova.edu/2005-2006%20Season/Urinetown.htm.
The Department of English Hosts the 8th Annual Literary Festival
Marilyn Nelson, author of Fields of Praise, will speak on Thursday, March 23, at 7:30 p.m. in the Presidents’ Lounge of Connelly Center. David Means, author of The Secret Goldfish, will speak on Thursday, April 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema. Edmund White, author of My Lives, will speak on Thursday, April 27, at 7:30 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema. All events are free and open to the public. Visit
http://www.english.villanova.edu/LiteraryFestival/lit_fest.htm for more information.
Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions Hosts Upcoming Events
On Friday, March 24, a Symposium on Pope Benedict’s Encyclical Deus Caritas Es will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. in SAC Room 300. On Thursday, March 30, the department will hold its first Faith and Reason Lecture featuring Dr. D.C. Schindler speaking on “The Redemption of Eros: Benedict’s First Encyclical.” The lecture will take place from 4 to 5:30 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema. A reception will immediately follow in the President’s Lounge of Connelly Center.
Be sure to visit the Web site of the Department of Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at
http://www.humanities.villanova.edu/news_events.html to learn about some exciting upcoming events.
The Department of Classical and Modern Languages and Literatures Hosts Three Upcoming Events
Join Mario Fratti, a well-known playwright, drama critic, and educator, on Wednesday, March 22, from 3 to 7 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema to examine and discuss, “The Differences Between European and American Theater.” Among his numerous plays performed on Broadway and internationally are “Academy,” “Return,” “Mafia,” “Sisters,” “Lovers,” and the Tony-awarded winning “Nine.” Fratti taught at Columbia University, Adelphi College, Hofstra University, and Hunter College in New York City.
Professor Mark Miller of the University of Delaware will speak about “Reflections on the ‘Intifada of the Suburbs’: Migration, French Muslims, and Security,” on Tuesday, April 4 at 3 p.m. in the Bryn Mawr Room of Connelly Center.
Join Dr. Gerald Prince, professor of romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania, to discuss “Revisioning Narratology” on Tuesday, April 11 from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in the Radnor/St. Davids Room of Connelly Center. Dr. Prince is one of the most highly respected scholars on the subject of narrative theory. He is the author of several books, including A Dictionary of Narratology (rev. ed., U of Nebraska P, 2003), as well as many articles on narrative theory and modern French literature.
For more information on all three upcoming events, please visit
http://www.classicalmodernlanglit.villanova.edu/events/.
The Cultural Film Series Examines “Struggles of the Spirit”
Visit the Web site of the Cultural Film Series at
http://www.communication.villanova.edu/culturalfilms/struggles.htm
for a look at the films featured this semester. The theme of this semester’s series: “Struggles of the Spirit.” Films are shown in the Connelly Center Cinema.
Africana Studies Examines “Culture Matters in the Psychological Lives of African Americans” On Wednesday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m. in the DeLeon Room of SAC (Room 300), please join Dr. Brenda A. Allen, associate provost and director of institutional diversity and professor of Africana Studies at Brown University, to discuss, “Culture Matters in the Psychological Lives of African Americans.”
For more information, please visit
http://www.artsci.villanova.edu/africanastudies.
“Ethics for Lunch” Series Examines The Kite Runner
Tired of your typical lunch fare? Looking to spice up that soup-and-sandwich combo? Searching for something just a little more substantive than cheese steak? Join Dr. Tim Kirk on Thursday, March 30, in the Devon Room of Connelly Center from noon to 1 p.m. to discuss “Ethics and The Kite Runner.” Bring your copy of The Kite Runner and a lunch for some friendly, thoughtful discussion! For more information, please visit
http://www.ethics.villanova.edu/EthicsforLunchSchedule(S2006).htm.
The Department of Philosophy Co-Sponsors a Special Seminar: “Contingency in Complex Biological Systems”
The Philosophy and Biology departments, Honors Program, and the Augustinian Institute will sponsor a seminar entitled, “Contingency in Complex Biological Systems,” led by Dr. Sandra Mitchell of the University of Pittsburgh on Thursday, March 30, at 5 p.m. in the Mendel Science Center 213. The abstract reads: A common claim about biological science is that it discovers no “laws” of the kind found in other fields, like fundamental physics. The lack of laws has been attributed to the contingent character of biological systems. In this talk, Dr. Mitchell will address the following questions: What is biological contingency? Where does contingency come from? What kinds of contingency occur in biologically complex systems? What is the upshot of considerations of contingency for lour understanding of causal inference, and biological explanation?
The Department of Philosophy will be hosting a number of upcoming events.
For more information, be sure to visit
http://www.philosophy.villanova.edu/news_events.html.
Dr. Winer to Deliver a Lecture as Part of the Core Humanities Program Birmingham Lecture Series
The Spring 2006 Core Humanities Program Birmingham Lecture Series will take place on Tuesday, April 4, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the DeLeon Room (SAC 300). Rebecca Winer, Ph.D., a professor in the department of history, will deliver a lecture entitled, “From Lactating Madonnas to Enslaved Muslim Wet Nurses: Mothers, Mothering, and Breastfeeding in the Medieval Realms of Aragon.” To RSVP, please call 610.519.7325. The 26th Annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference to be Hosted by Department of Sociology On Thursday, April 20, the Department of Sociology will host the 26th Annual Mid-Atlantic Undergraduate Social Research Conference on campus. This conference gives undergraduate students the opportunity to present their research on a number of topics, including Africana Studies, Criminal Justice, Education, History, Women’s Studies, Political Science, and other fields.
For more information, please visit
http://www.sociology.villanova.edu/mid_atlantic_undergraduate_confe.htm.
Geography Department Plans Lecture on Earth Day
Dr. David Orr (Environmental Studies) of Oberlin College will deliver an Earth Day lecture on Friday, April 21, in the Connelly Center Cinema.
For more information, visit
http://www.geography.villanova.edu/events.htm.
“Ethics for Lunch” Series Looks at “The Camden 28”
On Tuesday, April 25, from noon to 1 p.m. in the Devon Room of Connelly Center, please join Anthony Giacchino, a 1992 graduate of Villanova, who has finished a documentary film entitled, “The Camden 28,” which documents that group of people who broke into the Federal Building in Camden, N.J., in the late 1960s to destroy draft cards. This group was arrested and eventually acquitted by a jury of their peers. Anthony will talk with us about the reasons for creating such a film and how he understands its production in the context of his profession as a film director.
For more information, please visit
http://www.ethics.villanova.edu/EthicsforLunchSchedule(S2006).htm.
Colloquia Series Features Industry and Academic Leaders
The Department of Computing Sciences’s colloquia series invites guest speakers from academia and industry to present their work on campus. The general public is welcome to attend. Refreshments and informal discussion with the speaker follow the presentation. For more information and to check out the upcoming speakers, please visit
http://csc.villanova.edu/events.
The Center for Peace and Justice Education Celebrates 20th Anniversary
The Center for Peace and Justice Education will host a 20th anniversary celebration on April 7 and 8. For more information, please contact Sharon Discher at
sharon.discher@villanova.edu.
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Mendel Medal Recipient for 2006, to Speak on Campus
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D., Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School, is the recipient of this year’s Mendel Medal. Dr. Farmer will deliver a public lecture on Saturday, April 8, at 11 a.m. in the Jake Nevin Field House. He also will deliver another lecture, sponsored by SIGMA XI in cooperation with the College, that same day entitled, “Pathologies of Power: Rethinking Health and Human Rights in the Global Era,” at 2:30 p.m. in the Connelly Center Cinema.
Paul Farmer, M.D., Ph.D Mendel Medal Recipient April 8, 2006
Medical anthropologist and physician Paul Farmer is a founding director of Partners In Health, an international charity organization that provides direct health care services and undertakes research and advocacy activities on behalf of those who are sick and living in poverty. Dr. Farmer is the Maude and Lillian Presley Professor of Medical Anthropology in the Department of Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. His work draws primarily on active clinical practice (he is an attending physician in infectious diseases and Chief of the Division of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston, and medical director of a charity hospital, the Clinique Bon Sauveur, in rural Haiti) and focuses on diseases that disproportionately afflict the poor.
Along with his colleagues at BWH, in the Program in Infectious Disease and Social Change at Harvard Medical School, and in Haiti, Peru, Russia, and Rwanda, Dr. Farmer has pioneered novel, community-based treatment strategies for AIDS and tuberculosis (including multidrug-resistant tuberculosis). Dr. Farmer and his colleagues have successfully challenged the policymakers and critics who claim that quality health care is impossible to deliver in resource-poor settings.
Dr. Farmer has written extensively about health and human rights, and about the role of social inequalities in determining the distribution and outcomes of infectious diseases.
He is the author of Pathologies of Power (University of California Press, 2003),
Infections and Inequalities (University of California Press, 1998),
The Uses of Haiti (Common Courage Press, 1994), and AIDS and Accusation (University of California Press, 1992). In addition, he is co-editor of
Women, Poverty and AIDS (Common Courage Press, 1996) and of The Global Impact of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis (Harvard Medical School and Open Society Institute, 1999).
Dr. Farmer is the recipient of the Duke University Humanitarian Award, the Margaret Mead Award from the American Anthropological Association, the American Medical Association’s Outstanding International Physician (Nathan Davis) Award, and the Heinz Humanitarian Award.
In 1993, he was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation “genius award” in recognition of his work.
Dr. Farmer received his Bachelor’s degree from Duke University and his M.D. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He is the subject of Pulitzer Prizewinner Tracy Kidder’s
Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World (Random House, 2003).
For information about the lectures and Dr. Farmer, please visit
http://www.artsci.villanova.edu/special_events/lectures/paul_farmer.html.
