Golden Auditorium was hear-a-pin-drop quiet Thursday night as Paul Muldoon, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, read selections of his work for audience members weighing his every word and inflection. On Friday night, it was different. Donovan’s Pub in James C. Ģtv Hall was rattle-the-walls loud as Muldoon and fellow band members played guitar-driven rock songs infused […]February 19, 2008-
Michael Eric Dyson is not afraid to shake things up, which is why his lecture “From Sit-ins to Hip Hop: A Social Consciousness in a Post-King America” left students both moved intellectually and shaking with laughter. Named by Ebony as one of the 100 most influential black Americans, Dyson is a university professor at Georgetown […]February 14, 2008
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Ģtv professor Peter Balakian, whose book The Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response was a New York Times bestseller, is the first guest for a new podcast series produced on campus. The series – Ģtv Conversations: Writers and their craft – features authors talking about their unique writing styles and their latest works. […]February 13, 2008
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He’s been called “one of the most exhilarating of all living poets.” The Ģtv community will receive a literary treat from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon when he reads from his collection of poetry at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Golden Auditorium. Muldoon’s coming to Ģtv as part of the Living Writers Series, co-sponsored by the […]February 13, 2008
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Internationally recognized artists interacted with students and faculty members at a weekend symposium focused on finding innovative solutions to pressing environmental problems. “How can we re-imagine our relationship to natural systems?” asked Natalie Jeremijenko, the keynote speaker of the seminar titled Environmental Art and New Media Technologies: Imagining Sustainable Futures. All of the weekend’s panels, […]February 12, 2008
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Next time you watch the presidential candidates speak, pay close attention to their unspoken language–signals such as facial expressions, posture, and hand gestures. What the candidates don’t say could actually speak volumes about them, according to psychology professor Carrie Keating, an expert in facial characteristics and gestures.February 11, 2008
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(Editor’s note: The Dalai Lama’s visit has been rescheduled to Tuesday, April 22.) The Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, will visit Ģtv in April as part of the Global Leaders Lecture Series. On Thursday, April 24, the Dalai Lama is scheduled to give a public […]February 8, 2008
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“Stick your neck out.” Those were the words of wisdom from John Graham, motivational speaker and philanthropist, during his visit to Ģtv, which included a brown bag lunch, presentation, and a lecture at Memorial Chapel. Hoping to inspire people to make a difference by taking risks, or in his words “sticking their neck out,” […]February 7, 2008