Category: Events

In collaboration with the Scranton Area Foundation, the Schemel Forum will host Grant Oliphant, President of the Heinz Endowments on Thursday, December 4, 2014, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Philanthropy in American: A Wide-Angle View

Mr. Oliphant will address the unique role that philanthropy has in American society, why that is and what the future holds in terms of shared responsibility for the public good.

Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium, Room 228
Reception to follow

FREE EVENT – RSVP requested to emily.brees@scranton.edu or 941-6206.

Join us on Monday 11/24 for a
Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon
with Judith Renyi, Ph.D.

Executive Director, The Mayor’s Commission on Literacy, Philadelphia

The Great Learning Gap & Why We Must Do Something About It

In October 2013 an international study of literacy revealed that the US had fallen below average among 23 first world countries. It found that 36 million US adults are functioning too low in reading, writing and mathematics and the ability to solve problems in a technology-rich environment to get or keep jobs. Dr. Renyi will discuss the US Department of Education’s response to workforce development crisis and the innovations piloted In Philadelphia to reskill Americans on a large scale.

Noon to 1:30pm, Brennan Hall, Rose Room, 509

RSVP Here or email emily.brees@scranton.edu

Join the Schemel Forum on Wednesday, November 12th
for a collaborative event with the Polish Cultural Institute of New York &
New School for Social Research in NYC

An Uncanny Era: The Underpinnings of Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe

Adam Michnik in conversation with Elzbieta Matynia, editor and translator of An Uncanny Era: Conversations between Vaclav Havel and Adam Michnik, will address the essential question of post-revolutionary life: How does one preserve the revolution’s ideals in the real world? The discussion will help us to understand how the struggles between democratic aspirations and pragmatic realities are at work even more widely in today’s world.

Adam Michnik is cofounder of the Solidarity Movement in Poland and editor-in-chief of Poland’s largest newspaper, Gazeta Wyborcza.

Elzbieta Matynia is a professor of sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Free Event
5:30 to 7pm  – Brennan Hall, Pearn Auditorium, Room 228
Book signing to follow

RSVP Required to emily.brees@scranton.edu or click here.

Join us on Monday 11/10 for a
Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon
with Daniel Serwer, Ph.D.

Professor of Conflict Management, Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

War and Peace: the Challenges of the Islamic State and Ukraine

While the United States has been trying to disengage from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it now faces new challenges from Russia in the Ukraine and from the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. How did this come about? What risks do Ukraine and the Islamic State pose for the United States? Are we going back to a Cold War with Russia and a hot one with the Islamic State? How can we best respond to these challenges?

Noon to 1:30pm, Brennan Hall, Rose Room, 509

RSVP Here or email emily.brees@scranton.edu

INSIDE THE HOTEL RWANDA: The Surprising True Story and Why It Matters Today

On NOVEMBER 6th, 2014, the Schemel Forum welcomes Kerry Zukus, Co-author Inside the Hotel Rwanda.

DeNaples Center McIlhenny Ballroom, Room 407, Noon to 1:30pm

The film, Hotel Rwanda, the alleged true story of refugees surviving the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. But was the hotel manager depicted in it, Paul Rusesabagina, credited with single-handedly saving the lives of those who sought safety in the hotel, just a Hollywood creation? Mr. Zukus and his Rwandan co-author, Edouard Kayihura, tell a different story which will be the subject of his talk.

RSVP to emily.brees@scranton.edu or 941-6206