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OCTOBER 14 from 7-8:30 p.m.
Christopher Hitchens
Woodward Center
One of the best-known intellectuals writing in the U.S. today, Christopher Hitchens has been a no-holds-barred TV commentator and columnist for The Nation, Vanity Fair, Slate and other leading periodicals.  He was born in Portsmouth, England and educated at the Leys School, Cambridge, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he read Philosophy, Politics and Economics.  As foreign correspondent and travel writer, he has written from more than sixty countries on all five continents.  www.hitchensweb.com

OCTOBER 23 at 8 p.m.
Frederick Gooding & Khalid Patterson
Presentation:  You Mean, There's Race In My Movie?
Scanlon Banquet Hall
This dynamic and intellectually stirring presentation by the Miniority Reporter critically analyzes the issue of race in mainstream movies.  It shows how virtually all non-white characters in mainstream movies fit within six common recurring character patterns, reinforcing the marginalization of minorities in Hollywood.  Armed with this critical framework, it equips audiences to analyze contemporary mainstream movies on an ongoing basis.  This is the report that Hollywood doesn't want you to see.  You will never see movies the same way again...

OCTOBER 30 at 4 p.m.
Angela Keiser/Rachel Burcin
Presentation:  'Emptying the Pockets Of Forgetfullness'
Scanlon Living Room
What happens when a society develops too many 'pockets of forgetfulness' in recounting its history?  What can educational systems do to capture a fuller, more accurate, more inclusive truth of the origins of its national community and its unacknowledge contributors?  Rachel Burcin and Angela Keiser lead a discussion of the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project:  Breaking The Silence [TST Project], an innovative global curriculum iniative in Africa, Europe and the Americas aimed at repositioning an understanding of the magnitude and New World impact of the transatlantic slave trade.  Take a closer look at how the TST Project underscores the importance of local history in creating as well as challenging how national and global histories are retold.  It might surprise you!