Campus lectures of interest

Thanks to Pat Priest for letting us know about the goings-on at UGA.





 To: oconee@yahoogroups.com> From: ppriest@charter.net
 Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 14:45:52 -0400
 Subject: [oconee] Campus lectures of interest
 
 Here are some interesting lectures -- about politics, nature, the
 financial crisis, and more -- taking place in April at UGA that you
 might find interesting!
 
 Pat Priest
 Member,
 Oconee Democrats

 
 Tuesday, April 7, 2009
 
 Getzen Lecture on Government Accountability: Effective American Policy
 in a Dangerous World. Sponsored by the School of Public and
 International Affairs and the Department of Public Administration and
 Policy. Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt
 Gingrich gives the talk. 3:00 p.m. University Chapel. Contact 706-410-5182
 
 
 April 9, Thursday
 
 Annual Holmes-Hunter Lecture. Chief Justice of the Georgia Supreme Court
 Leah Ward Sears delivers this year's lecture. The Holmes-Hunter Lecture
 honors Charlayne Hunter-Gault and the late Hamilton Holmes, who in 1961
 became the first African-American students to enroll at UGA. Lecture
 speakers focus on race relations, black history or aspects of higher
 education with implications for race relations. 3:00 p.m. UGA Chapel.
 Contact 706-542-0054, mwinston@uga.edu
 
 
 Friday, April 10
 
 Terry Leadership Speaker Series: John Jackson, President and CEO, Bank
 of Atlanta. Sponsored by the Institute for Leadership Advancement at
 Terry College of Business. John Jackson (BBA '76) has been in banking in
 Atlanta for almost 30 years and currently serves as the president and
 CEO of Bank of Atlanta, a community bank located in the midtown area. He
 started his career with Bank South, focused on retail banking, consumer
 lending, mortgage lending and commercial lending. 10:00 a.m. - 11:00
 a.m. Main Library Auditorium. Contact 706-542-9770, leadership@terry.uga.edu
 
 Wednesday, April 15, 2009
 
 Larry M. Bartels, director of Princeton University's Center for the
 Study of Democratic Politics, delivers this year's Parthemos Lecture.
 Bartels' newly published book Unequal Democracy debunks myths about
 politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the
 rich and the poor to shed light on the workings of American democracy.
 3:30 p.m. - 5:45 p.m. 348 Miller Learning Center. Sponsored by the
 Department of Political Science. Contact 706-542-205 
 
 
 Thursday, April 16, 2009
 
 Lecture: Making Conservation Biology Relevant- Muddlings and Reflections
 of a Fish Ecologist. Sponsored by the UGA Fisheries Society and the
 Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources. Dr. Paul Angermeier,
 professor in Fisheries and Wildlife Science and assistant leader of the
 Cooperative Research Unit at Virginia Tech, gives the talk. Warnell
 Building 1, room 403. Contact delkins@uga.edu
  
 Susette M. Talarico Lecture: Current Challenges for the FBI - View from
 the General Counsel. Sponsored by the Department of Political Science
 and the Criminal Justice Program. Valerie E. Caproni (JD '79), General
 Counsel of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, gives the talk. 3:30
 p.m. UGA Chapel. Contact elweeks@uga.edu 
 
 
 Friday, April 24, 2009
 
 Lecture: Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from
 Nature-Deficit Disorder. Sponsored by the Willson Center for Humanities
 and Arts. Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer Richard Louv gives the
 talk. Seating limited. Overflow seating available with live video feed.
 4:00 p.m. 148 Miller Learning Center. Contact 706-542-3966, jdingus@uga.edu
 
 
 Monday, April 27, 2009
 
 Ramsey Lecture: The World is Fat - Fads, Trends Policies and Products
 that are Fattening the Human Race. Sponsored by the Department of
 Kinesiology and the College of Education. Barry Popkin, Carla Smith
 Chamblee Distinguished Professor of Global Nutrition at the University
 of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gives the talk. Popkin directs the
 Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity.He has published 290 refereed
 journal articles and is the author of a new book entitled The World is
 Fat, published by Avery-Penguin Publishers in 2009. Reception at 3:30
 p.m., lecture from 4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. S150 Lamar Dodd School of Art.
 Contact 706-542-4387, kcureton@uga.edu
 
  


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