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Spring 2007 Events
David Shribman
April 16, 2007
Delighting Citizens with Great Government: At a Price They Can Afford
Monday, April 9, 2007
4:15pm
JRC 101
Carbon Mitigation and Nuclear Power
Babak Armajani '68
Founder and CEO, The Public Strategies Group
Global Climate Change and Our Energy Future:
Will We Need to Rely on Nuclear Power?
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
4:15pm
JRC 101
Carbon Mitigation and Nuclear Power
Professor Charles Duke
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
8:00pm
JRC 101
Nuclear power: Emission-Free Electrical Generation
Herbert Giorgio, Certified health Physicist and Radiation Safty Officer
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
4:15pm
JRC 101
Building green: Moving Beyond Efficiency
Martha Norbeck, Architect and Sustainability Specialist
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
8:00pm
JRC 101
Yucca mountain and the Storage of High-Level Nuclear Waste
Robert Glass, Complex Adaptive Infrastructures and Behavioral Systems
Thursday, April 5, 2007
SCHOLARS' CONVOCATION
11:00 am
JRC 101
How Much Wind Energy Can Iowa Really Use?
Tom Wind, Wind Utility Consulting
Thursday, April 5, 2007
4:15pm
JRC 101
Biomass Energy: Options for Iowa
Edward Woolsey, President of Chariton Valley Switchgrass
Thursday, April 5, 2007
8:00pm
JRC 101
Lunar Helium-3 Fusion Power and Our Energy and Space Future
Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17 Lunar module Pilot and Former U.S. Senator, New Mexico
The Rise of China
Robert Haveman
Professor Emeritus of Public Affairs and Economics Faculty Affiliate, Institue for Research on Poverty University of Wisconsin - Madison
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
4:15pm
ARH 102
Does Education Matter? Missing Pieces in the Value of School Debate
Thursday, February 8, 2007
4:15pm
ARH 102
The Chicago O'Hare Expansion: A Case Study of Administrative Manupulation of Benefit-Cost Principles
Reaching Out: Summer Internship Experiences
Thursday, February 8, 2007
7:00 pm
Mears Cottage Living Room
Presented by Gema Alonso '07, Anand Balasubrahmanyan '08, Kristen Hoeft '07, Paji Pokharel '08
Remembering Gregg:Thirty Years of Capital Punishment in the United States
Thursday, February 1, 2007
11:00am
Forum- South Lounge
The Structure and Effects (Mostly Bad) of American Death Penalty Law
Prof. David McCord, Drake University Law School
4:15pm
Forum-South Lounge
Presiding over High Profile Death Penalty Cases
Honorable Judge Mark Bennett
US District Court - Northern District of Iowa
8:00 pm
Forum - South Lounge
Roundtable Discussion on Capital Punishment
Prof. David McCord - Judge Mark Bennett - Rev. Kristen Klepfer, Grinnell First Presbyterian Church - Ivan Webber, Iowans Against the Death Penalty
Nuclear Proliferation Challenges in a Multi-Polar World
Monday, April 23, 2007
8:00pm
JRC 101
David Mosher '85
Senior Policy Analyst with The RAND Corporation
China and India, Parallels in Development: notes from a Conference
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
4:14pm
Mears Living Room
Krish Batra '08
Military-Media Relations: The Honeymoon Was Short
Monday, January 29, 2007
8:00pm
JRC 101
Robert Hodierne '68
Journalist
Senior Managing Editor, Military Times
Fall 2006 Events
2006 Constitution Day
Wednesday, November 8
4:15pm
ARH 302
Two video presentations:
Constitutional Coversations with Justices Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen Breyer
and
Constitutional Concepts
Tuesday, October 31
7:00pm
Forum South Lounge
Future Directions for Agriculture in Iowa: A debate by Candidates for Iowa Secretary of Agriclture
Denise O'Brien (D)
and
Bill Northey (R)
Tuesday, October 17
8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
Believing in the Beauty of Your Dreams: Connecting Your Communities with the World
Dr. Natalie Hahn
President, Hahn Associates
Founder and President, The malaika Foundation
Former Director, Program Funding Office, UNICEF
2006 Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow: Deborah Horan
Journalist, The Chicago Tribune and former Middle East Corespondent, The Houston Chronicle
Monday, September 18
8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
Covering the Middle East as a Woman
Tuesday, September 19
4:15pm
Forum South Lounge
Open Discussion on the War in Iraq
Wednesday, September 20
8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
Israel, Lebanon and Hezbollah: A Journalist's Perspective
Symposium on Politics of Russian Popular Culture
(Sponsored by The Rosenfield Program in Public Affairs, International Relations & Human Rights; Center for International Studies; Center for the Humanities; Convocation Committee; Associated Colleges of the Midwest; Russian Department; Mellon Eight; Russian, Central & Eastern European Studies)
Tuesday, October 3
8:00pm
Forum South Lounge
Politics of Russian Popular Culture: Film and Television
Order and Disorder and Russian Popular Culture Today
Politics vs. Esthetics: Russian Blockbuster "The Night Watch" and the Cold War Heritage
Recent Russian TV Serials as Political Texts
Wednesday, October 4
4:15pm
Print & Drawing Study Room - Burling Library
Gallery Talk & Exhibit Opening, Vitaly Komar
Co-Sponsored by the Faulkner Gallery and the Department of Art
8:00 pm
Forum South Lounge
Politics of Russian Popular Culture: Literature
Politicizing Childhood: Legacy of Soviet Children's Literature in Contemporary Russia
Text as Politics: Eduard Limonov's "Documentary Radicalism" in Contemporary Cultural Context
Thursday, October 5
II:00 am
Rosenfield Center Multi-Purpose Room
Scholars' Convocation - "Man in Black: The Power of Vladimir Putin's Image" by Catharine Theimer Nepomnyashchy
4:15 pm
Forum South Lounge
Politics of Russian Popular Culture: Poetry and Song
Mandelstam and Anti-Stalinist Satire
The Playful Subversions of Grigory Oster in Soviet and Post-Soviet Times
Timur Shaov and the Death of the Russian Author's Song
8:00 pm
Sebring-Lewis Hall
Concert by Timur Shaov, Artist in Residence, Grinnell College, Dept of Russian (spring 2006)
Friday, October 6
4:15 pm
Rosenfield Multi-Purpose Room
Politics of Russian Popular Culture:Film and Television
Constructions of Masculinity in Recent Russian Film
Late Soviet Victorianism: Nonsexual Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson
Laughter at the Threshold: "Moia prekrasnaia niania" (My Fair Nanny) and the Struggle over Taste on Russian Television
8:00 pm
Robert Theatre
Play: "Master and Margarita", directed by Veniamin Smekhov
Saturday, October 7
8:00 pm
Robert Theatre
Play: "Master and Margarita", directed by Veniamin Smekhov
Sunday, October 8
8:00 pm
Robert Theatre
Play: "Master and Margarita", directed by Veniamin Smekhov
October 30-31 and November 1
Healthcare Reform Symposium
Monday, October 29
8:00 p.m. - Carmela Coyle, American Hospital Association. The AHA proposal for health care reform
Tuesday, October 30
4:15 p.m.- Prof. Grace Budrys, Loyola University, Chicago - Overview of the U.S. health care system
8:00 p.m. - Dr. Joseph Fins - Cornell University Medical School - treatment of brain damaged troops returning from Iraq
Wednesday, October 31
12:00 noon - Henry J. Aaron , The Brookings Institution, health care cost, rationing and Financing
4:15 p.m. - Alan Cohen '71, Senate Finance Committee staff- Medicare, Medicaid and the federal budget
8:00 p.m. - Showing of the film Sicko - followed by a panel from the Grinnell medical community reacting to the film
Thursday, November 1
11:00 a.m. - Scholars Convocation - Daniel Callahan, The Hastings Center - equity vs. choice; lessons from Europe and Canada
4:15 p.m. - Panel on health care reform, complementary medicine and projects to reduce stress
8:00 p.m. - Panel of Grinnell Alumni working in health care fields - Marilyn Musser '74 will moderate
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