Schedule of Events and Activities
Call for Proposals for Events
The
Community Book Connection has secured a small budget for 2006-2007, and
is encouraging students, faculty, and staff to propose events for the
upcoming year. We are especially looking for events for spring 2007,
but are also encouraging interested members of the CCBC community to
suggest more smaller activities for fall 2006 as well.
All events are welcome and will be supported by the Community Book Connection. Funding will be based on availability, with the primary selection criteria being that events involve students and relate to the themes of the Community Book Connection text, The Things They Carried
If there is something or somebody you’d like to see at CCBC, please submit your proposals. Remember, no event is too small. You can access a form for submitting an event proposal by clicking here.
Deadlines: Events for Spring 2007 – Friday Friday, Dec. 1st
Smaller Events for Fall ’06 – No Deadline
For information, contact Carr Kizzier: ckizzier@ccbcmd.edu; 410-780-6638.
All events are welcome and will be supported by the Community Book Connection. Funding will be based on availability, with the primary selection criteria being that events involve students and relate to the themes of the Community Book Connection text, The Things They Carried
If there is something or somebody you’d like to see at CCBC, please submit your proposals. Remember, no event is too small. You can access a form for submitting an event proposal by clicking here.
Deadlines: Events for Spring 2007 – Friday Friday, Dec. 1st
Smaller Events for Fall ’06 – No Deadline
For information, contact Carr Kizzier: ckizzier@ccbcmd.edu; 410-780-6638.
Current Schedule
February, 2007
Mon, Feb 12 "When Peace Calls for Action -- A Talk with Brendan Walsh" (Catonsville Campus)
Tue, Feb 13 "When Peace Calls for Action -- A Talk with Brendan Walsh" (Essex Campus)
March, 2007
Wed, Mar 14 Dr. Helen Caldicott, Author and Activist, speaks on War and Patriarchy (Essex Campus)
A Women's History Month Event
Fri, Mar 16 Deadline for Ethics Essay Contest
Fri, Mar 16 “Activism 101 with Ryan Harvey” (Essex Campus)
Ryan Harvey is a Towson native who has been active in the Global Justice Movement for over 9 years. He has helped organize demonstrations in various cities in the U.S. as well as Canada and Europe. Ryan was a key organizer in a massive protest that shut the streets of Towson down on March 20th, 2003, as the U.S. invaded Iraq. He is also a political musician and songwriter, having released 8 CDs. Currently he is writing a brief history of activism in the Towson area.
At CCBC, Mr Harvey will engage students in a discussion of realities of activism: a history of activism in Baltimore County; information/contacts for activist organizations in Baltimore County; how to organize; and current issues for activist attention. Refreshments will be served. 12:20-1:15 pm. J137 (Theater).
Thu Mar 22 to Tue, Mar 27 Theater Production of Walls (Essex Campus)
Tue, Mar 27 Panel Discussion on War & Moral Conscience (Dundalk Campus)
A panel discussion of the ethics of individual responses to war with peace activitst Susan Crane and faculty members Rosemarie Cramer, Professor of Business Studies; Bill Barry, Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Sociology; and Kevin Mick, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Sociology. 11:10 am -2:10 pm, K Building, 2nd floor.
Wed, Mar 28 Lecture on Technology, Globalization, and the Invasion of Iraq (Catonsville Campus)
William Van Dusen Wishard, global change expert, will discuss this timely topic. 12:30 pm, Q Building Lounge.
Thu, Mar 29 The Code of the Warrior (Owings Mills Center)
Thu, Mar 29 A Tradition of Military Dissent (Hunt Valley Center)
Brad Simpson, Professor of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County, will lead this discussion. 1:00 pm, HV 120 B-C.
Thu, Mar 29 The Just War Theory (Essex Campus)
Thu, Mar 29 Faculty Panel on War and Ethics (Essex Campus)
April, 2007
Tue, Apr 3 A Dramatization of The Things They Carried (Essex Campus)
Thu, Apr 26 Lecture by Vietnam Vet and Author Wayne Karlin (Essex Campus)
Thu, Apr 26 Lecture by Vietnam Vet and Author Wayne Karlin (Catonsville Campus)
Fri, Apr 27 through Mon, Apr 30 Spring Dance Concert: Conflict and Consequence (Essex Campus)
The CCBC Dance Company will be presenting three works, one by renowned choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Mary Seidman, based on the themes explored in The Things They Carried. Ms. Seidman’s work, Who Will Roll Away The Stone, was created in the wake of 9/11, and is her interpretation of both the rubble from the World Trade Center as well as a statement on how modern man treats one another. Friday and Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 3:00, and Monday at 12:30. Essex Campus Theatre.
May, 2007
return to index pageMon, Feb 12 "When Peace Calls for Action -- A Talk with Brendan Walsh" (Catonsville Campus)
Brendan Walsh
was a participant in the Catonsville 9 civil disobedience action of May
1968. The subsequent trial focused national attention on Baltimore, and
led to the first major anti-war demonstration in Baltimore in the fall
of 1968. At CCBC Mr. Walsh will speak of his experiences
organizing and
carrying out an act of civil disobedience. He will show a twelve minute
video of the May 68 action seized by the FBI and released recently. Mr.
Walsh will also relate his role as a as a conscientious objector during
the Vietnam War, the current situation in the country, and its
relevance to college students today. Refreshments will be
served. 12:20 to 1:15 in the Q lounge.
Tue, Feb 13 "When Peace Calls for Action -- A Talk with Brendan Walsh" (Essex Campus)
Brendan Walsh
was a participant in the Catonsville 9 civil disobedience action of May
1968. The subsequent trial focused national attention on Baltimore, and
led to the first major anti-war demonstration in Baltimore in the fall
of 1968. At CCBC Mr. Walsh will speak of his experiences
organizing and
carrying out an act of civil disobedience. He will show a twelve minute
video of the May 68 action seized by the FBI and released recently. Mr.
Walsh will also relate his role as a as a conscientious objector during
the Vietnam War, the current situation in the country, and its
relevance to college students today. Refreshments will be
served. 11:30 to 12:30 in J137 (Lecture Hall in the
Administration Building)
Wed, Mar 14 Dr. Helen Caldicott, Author and Activist, speaks on War and Patriarchy (Essex Campus)
A Women's History Month Event
Dr. Helen Caldicott is the president of
the Nuclear Policy Research Institute, the founder of Physicians for
Social Responsibility, the winner of the 2003 Lannan Prize for Cultural
Freedom, and a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. Both the
Smithsonian Institute and Ladies’ Home Journal named her one of the
Most Influential Women of the 20th Century and she has honorary degrees
from nineteen universities. She divides her time between
Australia and the United States, where she has devoted the last thirty
years to an international campaign to educate the public about the
medical hazards of the nuclear age. 12:20 - 1:15 pm Lecture Hall,
J Building.
Fri, Mar 16 Deadline for Ethics Essay Contest
The
11th annual
Ethics Essay Contest will focus on the story "On the Rainy River" in The Things They Carried. A
top prize of $100 will be awarded to the author of the winning
essay. For details, click here.
Fri, Mar 16 “Activism 101 with Ryan Harvey” (Essex Campus)
Ryan Harvey is a Towson native who has been active in the Global Justice Movement for over 9 years. He has helped organize demonstrations in various cities in the U.S. as well as Canada and Europe. Ryan was a key organizer in a massive protest that shut the streets of Towson down on March 20th, 2003, as the U.S. invaded Iraq. He is also a political musician and songwriter, having released 8 CDs. Currently he is writing a brief history of activism in the Towson area.
At CCBC, Mr Harvey will engage students in a discussion of realities of activism: a history of activism in Baltimore County; information/contacts for activist organizations in Baltimore County; how to organize; and current issues for activist attention. Refreshments will be served. 12:20-1:15 pm. J137 (Theater).
Thu Mar 22 to Tue, Mar 27 Theater Production of Walls (Essex Campus)
The CCBC Essex
Academic Theatre will present the play Walls by Jeannie Barroga. Walls explores the metaphorical
walls that continued to divide Americans regarding the Vietnam War long
after the war was over. This exploration works through the story of the
controversy surrounding the design and building of the Vietnam
Veterans' Memorial. The action of the play moves between the two
time periods fluidly, as the conflict over the design of the memorial
reflects and illuminates the conflicts between the individuals who come
to the memorial on Dedication Day. Theater, Building B, on the Essex
Campus. March 22, 23, 24 at
8pm; March 23, 26 at 2pm; March 27 at 10am. General admission is
$6; admission for CCBC students, staff, faculty, and alumni is
$4. For more info, visit the Theatre Department's web site by
clicking here.
Tue, Mar 27 Panel Discussion on War & Moral Conscience (Dundalk Campus)
A panel discussion of the ethics of individual responses to war with peace activitst Susan Crane and faculty members Rosemarie Cramer, Professor of Business Studies; Bill Barry, Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Sociology; and Kevin Mick, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Sociology. 11:10 am -2:10 pm, K Building, 2nd floor.
Wed, Mar 28 Lecture on Technology, Globalization, and the Invasion of Iraq (Catonsville Campus)
William Van Dusen Wishard, global change expert, will discuss this timely topic. 12:30 pm, Q Building Lounge.
Thu, Mar 29 The Code of the Warrior (Owings Mills Center)
Shannon
French, Professor of Ethics, United States Naval Academy, will discuss
ethics and the warrior. 1:00 pm, OM 101-103.
Thu, Mar 29 A Tradition of Military Dissent (Hunt Valley Center)
Brad Simpson, Professor of History, University of Maryland Baltimore County, will lead this discussion. 1:00 pm, HV 120 B-C.
Thu, Mar 29 The Just War Theory (Essex Campus)
Timothy O. Davis, Professor of
Philosophy, will explore the concept of the just war. 9:35
am-11:00 am, J Building Lecture Hall
Thu, Mar 29 Faculty Panel on War and Ethics (Essex Campus)
Wayne Alt, Associate Professor of
Philosophy, Dawn Greeley, Assistant Professor of History, and Tom
Robertson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and History, will
discuss war and ethics. 11:10 am -12:35 pm, J Building Lecture
Hall.
Thu,
Mar 29 Ethics Week Keynote Address: Tom Ricks (Essex Campus)Tom Ricks, military correspondent for
the Washington Post and
author of Fiasco, a
best-selling indictment of the Iraq War. 12:45 pm-2:10 pm, J
Building Lecture Hall.
Tue, Apr 3 A Dramatization of The Things They Carried (Essex Campus)
Acting students adapted stories from The Things They Carried
and will be presenting them in short dramatic scenes. The pieces
bring
to life the characters and events from Tim O'Brien's novel in
insightful, innovative, humorous and touching ways. Following the
performance will be a discussion of the artistic choices
in bringing fiction to the stage and major themes of the novel
dramatized in the work. There will also be free tacos.
11:10 am in Room 336 of the E Building.
Thu, Apr 26 Lecture by Vietnam Vet and Author Wayne Karlin (Essex Campus)
Wayne Karlin's lecture is entitled
"Wandering Souls: War, Memory, Reconciliation."
On the 18th of March, 1969, Homer Steedly, a young American infantry lieutenant, killed a 24 year old North Vietnamese medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam in a fire fight. Searching the body afterwards, Steedly found several small notebooks and other papers, which he took and sent home to his mother. Thirty years after Dam was shot, Steedly’s friend, Maryland author Wayne Karlin, was able to locate the family of the man Homer killed, and to finally return those documents. In a multi-media presentation, Karlin— the award-winning author of six novels and two memoirs—will recount that journey and its impact on the lives of Homer and Hoang Ngoc Dam’s family.
Light refreshments follow the lecture. 10:00 am. J Building Lecture Hall.
On the 18th of March, 1969, Homer Steedly, a young American infantry lieutenant, killed a 24 year old North Vietnamese medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam in a fire fight. Searching the body afterwards, Steedly found several small notebooks and other papers, which he took and sent home to his mother. Thirty years after Dam was shot, Steedly’s friend, Maryland author Wayne Karlin, was able to locate the family of the man Homer killed, and to finally return those documents. In a multi-media presentation, Karlin— the award-winning author of six novels and two memoirs—will recount that journey and its impact on the lives of Homer and Hoang Ngoc Dam’s family.
Light refreshments follow the lecture. 10:00 am. J Building Lecture Hall.
Thu, Apr 26 Lecture by Vietnam Vet and Author Wayne Karlin (Catonsville Campus)
Wayne Karlin's lecture is entitled
"Wandering Souls: War, Memory, Reconciliation."
On the 18th of March, 1969, Homer Steedly, a young American infantry lieutenant, killed a 24 year old North Vietnamese medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam in a fire fight. Searching the body afterwards, Steedly found several small notebooks and other papers, which he took and sent home to his mother. Thirty years after Dam was shot, Steedly’s friend, Maryland author Wayne Karlin, was able to locate the family of the man Homer killed, and to finally return those documents. In a multi-media presentation, Karlin— the award-winning author of six novels and two memoirs—will recount that journey and its impact on the lives of Homer and Hoang Ngoc Dam’s family.
Light refreshments follow the lecture. 1:00 pm in K-100.
On the 18th of March, 1969, Homer Steedly, a young American infantry lieutenant, killed a 24 year old North Vietnamese medic named Hoang Ngoc Dam in a fire fight. Searching the body afterwards, Steedly found several small notebooks and other papers, which he took and sent home to his mother. Thirty years after Dam was shot, Steedly’s friend, Maryland author Wayne Karlin, was able to locate the family of the man Homer killed, and to finally return those documents. In a multi-media presentation, Karlin— the award-winning author of six novels and two memoirs—will recount that journey and its impact on the lives of Homer and Hoang Ngoc Dam’s family.
Light refreshments follow the lecture. 1:00 pm in K-100.
Fri, Apr 27 through Mon, Apr 30 Spring Dance Concert: Conflict and Consequence (Essex Campus)
The CCBC Dance Company will be presenting three works, one by renowned choreographer and former Merce Cunningham dancer Mary Seidman, based on the themes explored in The Things They Carried. Ms. Seidman’s work, Who Will Roll Away The Stone, was created in the wake of 9/11, and is her interpretation of both the rubble from the World Trade Center as well as a statement on how modern man treats one another. Friday and Saturday at 8:00, Sunday at 3:00, and Monday at 12:30. Essex Campus Theatre.