Lectures and Discussions
Corporate Leaders Breakfast Series: Panel Discussion on Security
Date: Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 7:30am
Location: Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
The Corporate Leaders Breakfast Series brings the region's business and civic leaders together to share ideas and hear from prominent executives in the community.
The Importance of Effective Writing Skills in Our World Today
Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 10:00am
Location: Samuelson Chapel - map
Mr. Marvin Suomi, President and CEO of KUD International, will speak on the importance of writing in the world at a special convocation as part of the Freshman Year Experience.
Sacred Cult, Subversive Icon: The Virgin of Guadalupe
Charlene Villasenor Black, Ph.D.
Date: Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location: Roth Nelson Room - map
UCLA professor Charlene Villaseñor Black will examine the many roles that the Virgin of Guadalupe has played over the centuries, from the sacred icon of 1531 to recent controversies over and censorship of contemporary images.
American Scandinavian Foundation Lecture Series
Selections from Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler and A Doll's House
Date: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 7:30pm
Location: Roth Nelson Room - map
Students of CLU’s Advanced Scene Study class will present readings from Henrik Ibsen’s classic social dramas Hedda Gabler and A Doll’s House.
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Stigma and the Cervical Cancer Vaccine
Date: Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 5:30pm
Location: Lundring Events Center - map
Adina Nack will give a talk based on her new book Damaged Goods followed by a book signing.
Making Regions Work: Conflict, Collaboration, and the Common Good in California
Alma and Clifford Pearson Distinguished Speakers Series
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location: Samuelson Chapel - map
This is the first event of the 2008-2009 Alma and Clifford Pearson Distinguished Speakers Series. The theme of the year is Regional Collaboration.
The Chuzai Identity of Japanese Wives
Akiko Yasuike, Ph.D.
Date: Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 4:00pm
Location: Soiland Humanities Center, 120
CLU sociology professor Akiko Yasuike examines the chuzai identity
wives develop while living under village-like conditions in small
isolated transnational corporate communities.
Inaugural Jim Dekker Memorial Just Peace Lecture
A Religious Defense of Marriage Equality
Date: Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 7:30pm
Location: Samuelson Chapel - map
Same-sex marriage is controversial because it is about sex and marriage, two loaded topics in this culture.
American Scandinavian Foundation Lecture Series
Murder Most Nordic: Today's Scandinavian Crime Fiction
Date: Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 7:30pm
Location: Roth Nelson Room - map
Professor Guy Erwin will discuss some of
today’s most highly regarded Nordic mystery writers and their works,
showing how they give us a peek into the often very dark heart of the
world’s most socially progressive countries.
Celebrating 30 Years of Service with Habitat for Humanity
Clive Rainey
Date: Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 10:00am
Location: Lundring Events Center - map
Clive Rainey, first Habitat for Humanity volunteer and longtime staff member, knows firsthand what commitment to service means.