Category: Schemel Forum
Schemel Forum World Affairs Luncheon – 10/28 @ Noon!
Join us this upcoming Monday, October 28th and meet Stephen Kinzer, Author of “The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles and Their Secret World War.”
Click here to listen to his recent interview with NPR and don’t forget to RSVP to emily.brees@scranton.edu to reserve a spot! The event will be held at Brennan Hall in the Rose Room, 5th Floor.
For more information on Schemel Forum events, click here.
The Changing Face of the Middle East – 10/18
The Schemel Forum will host Dr. David Myers, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA on
Friday, October 18th for a World Affairs Luncheon at Noon.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to explore the current state of affairs in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship as well as a discussion of the events in Syria.
Heritage Room, Weinberg Memorial Library, 5th Floor
Please reserve a seat here or contact emily.brees@scranton.edu.
Watch the Schemel Forum – 2013 University for a Day Lecture Series
Did you miss the University for a Day Lecture Series on freedom & justice?
Watch them at your leisure via the links below.
LECTURE 1: The Declaration of Independence: Our Guiding Light and an Inspiration to the World.
Morey Myers, Esq.
LECTURE 2: Culture and Conflict: New England, Old England and the Civil War.
Dr. Leonard Gougeon, University of Scranton
LECTURE 3: The Great Emancipation of 1863: A Momentous Achievement – A Work in Progress.
Dr. Clement Price, Rutgers University – Newark
LECTURE 4: Global Justice: What are the Responsibilities of Citizens?
Dr. Thomas Pogge, Yale University
Mapping New Territories: Musings on Museums and Our Publics
Don’t Miss Out on this Wonderful Collaborative Program Offered by
The Schemel Forum and The Hope Horn Gallery!
Mapping New Territories: Musings on Museums and Our Publics
Lecture by Marsha Semmel, Director for Strategic Planning, Institute for Museum and Library Services
Given in conjunction with the Exhibition of the Work of Berenice D’Vorzon
Thursday, October 3rd 5:30-7pm
Reception to Follow
It’s Free and Open to the Public.
To register, call Emily Brees – Schemel Forum Assistant
570-941-6206, emily.brees@scranton.edu
Schemel Forum: University for a Day
Don’t forget to register for University for a Day! It is this Saturday, September 21 from 8:45 till 5:30. See the University for a Day website for full details or visit here to register.
American Hands Exhibit and Schemel Forum Event
The Library’s Heritage Room is currently hosting American Hands: A Visual Celebration of Traditional Tradespeople, a traveling exhibit of work by photographer Sally Wiener Grotta.
American Hands is Sally Wiener Grotta’s ongoing narrative visual celebration of those individuals who are keeping alive the traditional trades that built our country’s diverse culture. She has documented the work of artisans including a spinner, weaver, blacksmith, bookbinder and others. She has returned to their workshops over the course of months and years to document the different stages of their creations. She documents the craft processes as well as the personalities of the individual tradespeople.
Sally began the exhibit as Pennsylvania Hands. The constantly changing exhibit has been seen around the state and has now become a national project and renamed American Hands.
Sally is widely considered to be a pioneer of digital photography and computer graphics. She has served as chapter president for the American Society of Media Photographers and has traveled on assignment to every continent including Antarctica. Sally co-authored (with Daniel Grotta) the groundbreaking work, Digital Imaging for Visual Artists which is considered one of the first important works on the subject. The PC Magazine Guide to Digital Photography and The PC Magazine Digital SLR Photography Solutions are among their other books. Her photographs and articles have appeared in a wide variety of magazines and books.
There will be a reception featuring a talk by the artist on Wednesday, February 13 at 5:30 p.m. in the Heritage Room. The reception is free and open to the public. The exhibit, lecture, and reception are cosponsored by the Friends of the Weinberg Memorial Library and the Schemel Forum. You can register for the event here.
The exhibit will be on display through the end of February.
Reception and Book Signing for Nell Regan, Irish Poet and Fulbright Scholar
Nell Regan, Irish Poet and Fulbright Scholar at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa and Berkeley, CA will read from her new book, Bound for Home
*Book Signing and Reception to Follow
Nell Regan has won numerous awards in Ireland and has been published in The Iowa Review the Poetry Daily and Poetry Ireland Review. She has also published nonfiction including a biography of Helena Molony in Female Activism, Irish Women and Change, 1900-1960.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012, 6:30pm
The Weinberg Memorial Library, Heritage Room, 5th Floor
Schemel Forum Spring 2012 Schedule
What’s the best way to beat the post-holiday blues? How about thinking Spring by thinking Schemel?
Our Schemel Forum Spring 2012 schedule is out, and it’s packed with captivating speakers and sessions to steal your attention away from the winter gloom:
- At our World Affairs Luncheon Seminars, you’ll learn how governments can respond to pandemics in Africa, how we can feed the planet without destroying it, why business won’t change the world, how the Arab Spring is affecting the Middle East, and how FDR’s Four Freedoms are more relevant than ever.
- In our Evening Courses, you can study the films of Frederico Fellini, the political implications of Occupy Wall Street, and delve into the madness and mystery of Charles Dickens’ Bleak House.
- In our new collaborative programs, you’ll enjoy a poetry reading with Nell Regan and a political roundtable with Elizabeth Randol.
- And by joining our Spring bus trip, you’ll get to explore the Roosevelt Library and the Storm King Art Center as well as a lunch stop at the Culinary Institute of America.
If you still need convincing, take a few minutes to listen to Schemel Forum director Sondra Myers talking over this season’s Schemel Forum events with WVIA’s Erika Funke.
As always, registration is required, so please contact program coordinator Kym Fetsko at fetskok2@scranton.edu to make your reservation or to find out more about our programs.
Schemel Forum Director appointed by President Obama to Commission on Presidential Scholars
The Weinberg Memorial Library would like to congratulate Schemel Forum director Sondra Myers on her appointment by President Obama to the Commission on Presidential Scholars.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, the Commission on Presidential Scholars is a “group of eminent private citizens appointed by the President to select and honor the Presidential Scholars.” The Scholars are selected from a pool of candidates who “demonstrate exceptional accomplishments in academics, the arts, and an outstanding commitment to public service.” We can’t think of a better way to describe Sondra and her contributions to the Schemel Forum, the University, the Scranton community, and the global, public good.
Congratulations!