Tuesday, May 1, 2012 4:30-6:00pm
Feinstein 304
IFS Blood Presentation
The Center for Teaching Excellence invites you to a presentation and open forum with the participants of the Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar on Blood. Light refreshments will be served.
For more details, please click
here.
Monday, April 30, 2012 at 4:00
Feinstein 304
De-Constructing and Re-Constructing Russian-USA International Adoption Policies
Josephine A. Ruggiero, Professor of Sociology
International adoption is complex, controversial, and multi-dimensional. It is not only about growing numbers of children who need parents capable of loving and raising them to adulthood. It is also about politics, false assumptions, undisclosed but known information about children's pre-adoptive histories and medical issues, money making, and power. This presentation will focus on the following questions: Are current Russian and U.S. international adoption policies and practices really in the best interests of orphaned children? In what important areas are they lacking? How can they be improved in the best interests of adoptees and the well-being of their adoptive families?
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 3:00-5:00pm
Slavin Center - Upper Level
The Third Annual Spring Celebration of Student Scholarship and Creativity
A celebration that showcases outstanding examples of academic achievement from a variety of majors and programs. For more information, please click
here. Sponsored by the Student Engagement Advisory Committe.
Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 12:00
Feinstein 304
Outward from Phenomenology: Community, Children's Literature, and the Gospels
Peter Costello, Associate Professor of Philosophy
On my sabbatical, I finished revising my monograph on Husserl, wrote an introduction and article for an edited volume on philosophy and children's literature, wrote and secured a contract for a book on postmodernism and contemporary American drama, and wrote three articles--one on Edith Stein and community, one on the phenomenology of transition and its relation to Winnicott's study of transitional objects, and one on the interpretation of the Gospels done by Derrida and Caputo. In this presentation, I will summarize my efforts in each of these and relate how I think the sabbatical has helped me to re-prioritize scholarship in relation to my role as professor in a department. Furthermore, I will talk about how I have changed my approach to interdisciplinarity with respect to teaching and scholarship and how I think a certain kind of interdisciplinary approach can help our students enter into our disciplines more fully.
Thursday, March 22, 2012 5:30
Feinstein 400
Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar presents: 'For Blood is the Life': Jews, Christians, and the Meaning of a Bodily Fluid
Presented by Professor David Biale
Emanuel Ringelblum Distinguished Professor of Jewish History
Chair, Department of History, University of California, Davis
Professor Biale is the author of Blood and Belief: The Circulation of a Symbol Between Jews and Christians (2007), Not in the Heavens: The Tradition of Secular Jewish Thought (2010), Cultures of the Jews: A New History (2002), Power and Powerlessness in Jewish History (1986), and Eros and the Jews: From Biblical Israel to Contemporary America (1992 and 1997).
Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, Academic Affairs, and the Departments of Art and Art History, Biology, English, Philosophy, and Theology.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 at 12:00
Feinstein 304
Modeling the Huntingtin gene: Insights into Huntington's Disease
Jay Pike, Assistant Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry
For my sabbatical, I was a Visiting Professor at Brown University, where I collaborated with Chemistry Assistant Professor Sarah Delaney. The project entailed mimicking the Huntingtin gene and studying how damaged DNA repairs itself in both a model of the Huntingtin gene and that of a normal gene.
Tuesday, March 20, 2012 4:00-5:30
Feinstein 400
Community Forum on Athletics and Academics
A Providence College community discussion of the relationships between athletics and academics, the student-athlete academic and social experience, and the ways in which academics and athletics work together to shape the identity of student-athletes.
Speakers included Catherine Little Bert, member of the Board of Trustees; Rev. Brian J. Shanley, O.P., President of Providence College; Bob Driscoll, Athletic Director; John M. Sweeney, Senior Vice-President and CFO; Margaret Ruggieri, Assistant Dean of Undergraduates Studies/Director of Academic Advising; Jonathan Gomes, Associate Director for Academic Services; and former student-athletes.
Sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence, the Department of Art and Art History, and the Athletics Department.
Wednesday, February 29 12:00-1:30
Feinstein 304
Sakai: 5 Minutes of Fame
The Learning Technology Series presents lightning round presentations on Sakai by PC Faculty. Discover a variety of ways to design and structure your course using Sakai. There will be a break from 12:20 to 12:30 to accommodate teaching schedules. Come, grab a snack and stay for one, some or all presentations.
Presenters:
Comfort Ateh, Secondary Education
Julia Camp, Accountancy
Cedric De Leon, Sociology
Laurie Grupp, Elementary/Special Education
Deborah Levine, Health Policy & Management
Paul Maloney, Finance
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:00
Feinstein 304
Before the Beginning: John Donne on Creation, Birth, and Calling
Robert Reeder, Associate Professor of English
This talk, from a larger project on the work of English poet-preacher John Donne (1572-1631), explores Donne's tendency to posit a period of time before the creation of the world. Donne, in marked contrast to his intellectual precursor St. Augustine, imagines that even the purest of beginnings have a history.
Thursday, January 19, 2012 4:00-5:30
CCDS
Works in Progress: A Look at Current Faculty Scholarship on the Common Good
The Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies and the Center for Teaching Excellence invite you to participate in the second year of our ongoing forum entitled "Works in Progress". Throughout the semester we will ask faculty from across the disciplines to share whatever current research they might have revolving around issues of the Common Good.
This event was postponed and will be rescheduled. If you are interested in participating, please contact Laurie Grupp at lgrupp@providence.edu.
Presented by Dr. Matthew J. Dowling, Associate Professor of History