Lectures at Edmonds CC
The Lecture series, sponsored by the Office of Student Life, brings thought-provoking and inspirational speakers to campus. A committee of students, faculty, and staff select influential scholars, artists, activists, and community leaders with promise for sparking discussion and reflection in our community.
The views and opinions expressed in this series do not necessarily represent the opinions of Edmonds Community College, its administration, faculty, staff, or students or the Office of Student Life.
2008-09 Lectures
Immigration Issues Talk With Jorge Baron
October 8, 2008 • 12:30
Discuss immigration issues with Jorge Baron, Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (www.nwirp.org), which promotes justice for low-income immigrants by pursuing and defending their legal status.
Power, Perception And Prejudice With Jane Elliott
October 14, 2008 • 12:30
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. more than 30 years ago, Jane Elliott (www.janeelliott.com) devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise. This, now famous, exercise labels participants as inferior or superior based solely upon the color of their eyes and exposes them to the experience of being a minority. Elliot is an internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education.
Election 2008: How Will You Decide?
October 16, 2008 • 12:30
Journalist and historian Rick Shenkman, a regular contributor on CNN and Fox News, leads the discussion. Shenkman is the editor and founder of George Mason University’s History News Network, a Web site that features articles by historians on current events. He is the author of five history books including Presidential Ambition: Gaining Power at Any Cost (HarperCollins 2000).
Poet Susan Rich
November 5, 2008 • 12:30
Susan Rich (www.susanrich.org), winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award and the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World. Rich has worked on staff for Amnesty International, as an electoral supervisor in Bosnia, and as a human rights trainer in Gaza. She is an active alum of Hedgebrook, a retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, works as an editor for Floating Bridge Press and serves on the board of Whit Press.
Lecture Series: Vietnam Today
November 13, 2008 • 12:30
Business Management instructor, Marie Johnson will give a free, public lecture “Vietnam Today” about her family's experience fleeing the war in Vietnam in 1975, and how she returned to the country to help reverse the legacy of war by planting trees in former minefields. Johnson volunteers with PeaceTrees Vietnam, a non-profit organization founded by Jerilyn Brusseau (also famous for creating Cinnabon’s recipe) of Bainbridge Island.
In June 2009, Johnson and Hospitality and Tourism instructor, Beth O’Donnell, plan to lead a Global Cultures class to Vietnam. The class will include a four-day service-learning project with PeaceTrees planting trees, visiting schools, and meeting with landmine removal experts. The class will also learn about micro lending credit programs to small business cooperatives such as the Vietnamese Woman’s Union. For more information about the June 2009 Global Cultures class, call 425.640.1637.
All lectures are open to the public and selected lectures are broadcast on the local college television station channel 21/26. The broadcast schedule is available at http://civic.edcc.edu.
Selected Brown Bag Lectures are video recorded and should be available at the Edmonds Community College Library approximately two weeks after the lecture.
To request disability accommodations or the presentation of materials in an alternate format, notify Services for Students with Disabilities at least 10 working days prior to the date of the event. (425) 640-1320
Register for HUMANITIES 160 or DIVERSITY STUDIES 165
Students have the opportunity to earn 1-5 transferable credits in an open enrollment class providing them with a structured learning environment for attending selected extra and co-curricular programs. Email instructor Charles Cox for class requirements. (425) 640-1579.
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