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Convocation Proposals 2008-09

The Convocation Committee (Lee Running, Rebecca Stuhr, and Mark Montgomery) solicits proposals for convocation speakers for the 2008-2009 academic year.

Scholars' Convocations are presentations of outstanding intellectual or cultural interest that appeal and are accessible to a wide spectrum of the Grinnell community. Approximately six all-campus Convocations take place each semester.

CONVOCATION PROPOSALS

Proposals for 2008-09 are DUE DECEMBER 3, 2007.

Divisions, departments, faculty or staff groups, individual faculty or staff members, or student groups may submit proposals.

In making its decisions, the Committee will consider the person's prominence in the field and reputation as a public speaker, the appeal of the topic to a broad campus constituency, enhancements of the person's impact through tie-ins with courses or programs on campus, the topical balance of the Convocation program overall, breadth of sponsorship, calendar spacing, budget, and specificity of the proposal. The Committee will favor proposals that provide named speakers or well-developed event descriptions over those that are still at an early stage of development.

Please complete the information below:

Your Name:

Your e-mail address: (Full e-mail address required)

Faculty host (if other than you):

Co-sponsors (sources of additional funding):

Speaker's Name or Multi-Day Event Title:

Preferred date: (month or specific date)

If proposing a specific speaker, provide a brief biography (especially the person's prominence in the field and reputation as a public speaker):



If proposing an unidentified speaker as part of a multi-day event, describe the event briefly and provide a list of speakers under consideration along with one-sentence bios of each.



Briefly address the impact the speaker will have on Grinnell, especially on courses and a wide spectrum of the Grinnell community, and the interactions the speaker will have while on campus:



FUNDING REQUEST:

Travel (airfare):  
Travel (ground): (Reimbursed at the rate of $.505 per mile.)
Honorarium:**    
**Enter $0 if funding is coming from another source; enter $1,500 if applying for the standard Convocation Committee honorarium. A more substantial honorarium may be available for unusually high-profile, high-impact, high-cost speakers. If requesting such a special honorarium from the Convocation Committee, enter the amount and provide additional rationale in the biographical or impact fields above.
Dining:
     Lunch:  # of guests: cost: (average $10 per plate)
     Dinner: # of guests: cost: (average $30 per plate)
     Other:  # of guests: cost:
Lodging: ($40/night for Grinnell House)
Other:    

TOTAL REQUEST:

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Approved Scholars' Convocations 2007-08

The Convocations scheduled for 2007-08 are listed below, for your information. Thursday Forum events may occur on any Thursday at 11 a.m. when there is no Convocation scheduled.

DateStartEndGroup/DescriptionHost/TitleLocation
Thursday
9/6/2007		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - Russell Osgood		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Judicial Independence in 18th Century Britain and America		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
9/20/2007		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars‘ Convocation: Carl Zulauf		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Farm Policy at a Crossroads: The 2007 Farm Bill		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
9/27/2007		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - Chandra Mohanty		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Chandra Talpade Mohanty		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
10/11/2007		11:00 AM12:30 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - Wendy Kopp		Teach for America:
TBA		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
11/1/2007		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - Daniel Callahan		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
The American Health Care Debate: Government vs. the Market		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
11/8/2007		11:00 AM12:30 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - William Connolly		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Christianity, Capitalism and the Tragic		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
2/7/2008		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation- Sarah Purcell '92		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
The Politics of Mourning and the U.S. Civil War		Herrick Chapel +
Thursday
2/14/2008		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation-Brenda Brueggemann		Diversity Steering Committee:
Eugenics, Economics, Euthanasia: The Nazi T-4 Program against People with Disabilities		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
2/21/2008		11:00 AM11:50 AMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars' Convocation - Deborah W. Meier		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Public School Education Reform in an Era of Accountability Politics		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
4/3/2008		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars‘ Convocation: Thomas Berger		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
The Arctic: Whose Country Is It?		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
4/10/2008		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars‘ Convocation-Lawrence Grossberg		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Rescuing the Economy From Economists: A Challenge for Interdisciplinarity		Rosenfield Center 101 +
Thursday
4/24/2008		11:00 AM12:00 PMScholars' Convocation:
Scholars‘ Convocation - Ed Hirsch ‘72		Scholars' Convocation Committee:
Reading as Relationship		Herrick Chapel +
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