April 26, 2012 11:30 a.m. Mayser Gymnasium A graduate of Bowdoin College, Hari Kondabolu is a comedian whose humor often centers on social issues such as poverty, racism, and a rejection of stereotypes seen in media. He has appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live as well as appearing on a variety of national comedy festivals, including [...]
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Environment and Equity: The Interface between Sustainability and Social Justice
Recorded on April 19, 2012, in Mayser Gymnasium. Van Jones, environmental advocate, civil rights activist, attorney, and co-founder of three non-profit organizations: Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, Color of Change, and Green for All Our country is in the depths of an ecological crisis and an economic recession. A clean-energy economy will move America [...]
The Science of Sexual Orientation
Simon LeVay Author of “Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why,” and the college textbook, “Human Sexuality”; professor emeritus, Harvard University and the Salk Institute for Biological Sciences The recording of this lecture will not be published online. It will be available at Media Services for F&M students and faculty to borrow. What causes a person [...]
Celebrating Instrumental Music at Franklin & Marshall
Recorded April 5, 2012 in Mayser Gymnasium. Watch a 2-minute clip of highlights from this event. Brian Norcross, instrumental conductor, leads a concert celebrating the 75th anniversary of the F&M and the 25th anniversary of the F&M orchestra. Two current ensembles, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble and F&M Orchestra will play.
Human Rights Week: F&M Engaged in South Africa
Recorded March 29, 2012 in the Ann & Richard Barshinger Center for Musical Arts. Watch a 2-minute video of highlights from this event Ryan McGonigle ’08, post-graduate fellow for Educational Outreach at Franklin & Marshall College, talks about his involvement in the Chris Campbell Memorial Field. He also introduces Noluvuyo Nkazi Dudumashe, assistant program coordinator [...]
Stories in Ink: Capturing the Art of Tattoos
Recorded March 22, 2012 in Mayser Gymnasium. Watch a 2-minute highlights video from this event. Kyle Cassidy is a Philadelphia-based photographer specializing in visual ethnographies. His book Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Home (2007) received critical acclaim. Cassidy spoke about his most recent project, War Paint: Tattoo Culture and the Armed Forces [...]
The Culture of College Drinking: Is it Still Animal House?
Recorded March 8, 2012 in Mayser Gymnasium. James (Jamie) Widdoes P’12, is a current television director and producer and a former actor. As an actor, he was a lead in the 1978 movie Animal House, centered on life at a fictional college fraternity house. In recent years he has become deeply involved with an organization [...]
Inspiring Curiosity Over Three Decades: The Impact of Gender and Technology
Recorded March 1, 2012 in the Ann & Richard Barshinger Center for Musical Arts. Carol Auster, professor of sociology and recipient of the 2011-12 Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, takes the audience on a journey that reveals how changes in gender expectations and in technology have influenced her own career [...]
1861, A ‘Year of Revolution’: The Civil War Begins
Recorded Feb. 23, 2012 in Mayser Gymnasium. Watch a short highlights video While the Civil War has often been described as simply a Southern rebellion, historian Adam Goodheart, director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and author of the recent New York Times bestselling book 1861: The Civil War [...]
Sex in the Bible: Bad and Good
Recorded Feb. 16, 2012 in Mayser Gymnasium. Watch a 2-minute highlights video of this presentation. Jennifer Wright Knust, associate professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Boston University School of Theology will talks about biblical marriage, a topic from her recent book, Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions about Sex and Desire (HarperOne, 2011).
