Thursday, September 10
12 - 1 PM
Ramsey Library Special Collections
Mary Lynn Manns, Management & Accountancy
In this presentation, Mary Lynn will discuss some of the intriguing things she has learned during her 20 years of studying what leaders of change do. Her first book, Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas (2005), co-authored with Linda Rising, captures effective strategies for leading change. This book sold almost 10,000 copies and has been translated into Chinese and Japanese. Mary Lynn has done numerous presentations throughout the world in organizations that include Microsoft and amazon.com. Her most recent book, More Fearless Change: Strategies for Making Your Ideas Happen, contains updates as well as a new collection of strategies you can use to make changes in yourself or in the world!
Thursday, September 17
12 - 1 PM
Whitman Room, Ramsey Library
Join Rick Chess (Literature and Language) and eight faculty, student, and alumni readers. Each will read for five minutes. The readers are:
Thursday, October 8
12 - 1 PM
Ramsey Library Special Collections
Gwendolyn Whitfield, Management and Accountancy
There has been a long debate over whether technological innovation is a push or pull phenomena. This debate looms large in the age of social media, mobility, analytics and the cloud. It is estimated that global mobile data traffic will increase 18 fold between 2011 and 2016, running across 10 billion mobile devices. What impact will this have on society? Will we ride this wave of technology or be overcome by it? How much agency do individuals have with technological advancement? What are the security and privacy issues? This talk will explore these questions.
Thursday, October 22
12 - 1 PM
Ramsey Library Special Collections
Holly Iglesias, Literature and Language
How to recover not only a child's voice but a child's vision as well? In writing poems based on childhood during the Cold War, I try to capture the security and absurdity, the secular and the sacred, of that experience. In 1955, the year I started kindergarten, Winston Churchill characterized the age in this way: "a stage in the story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation." Recalling this time in St. Louis—an intensely Catholic place, a tragically segregated place—I see it through the eyes of this sturdy child of terror.
Thursday, October 29
12 - 1 PM
Ramsey Library Special Collections
Gary Ettari - Literature and Language
Join Gary Ettari as he reads from Sentimental Over You, his detective novel set in Las Vegas
POSTPONED until the Spring Semester. Check back for a date in January!
Thursday, November 12
12 - 1 PM
Ramsey Library Special Collections
Oguz Erdur, Sociology and Anthropology
Join Oguz Erdur as he discusses his newest book, Stone in Love: Seduction of the Orphan Past (Black Mountain Press, 2016).
Thursday, November 19
12 - 1 PM
Whitman Room, Ramsey Library