BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Reason 4.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091111092526-586122@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Richard Moss '77 DESCRIPTION:Richard Moss (Carleton Class of 1977) is Vice President and Managing Direct or for Climate Change at the World Wildlife Fund. But his passion for the e nvironment began long before he joined WWF. From turning his mother’s kit chen into an environmental research lab as a teen to being a member of the 2007 Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) t eam, Moss brings over 20 years of experience to WWF. He is at the forefront of WWF’s efforts to develop conservation plans that account for our chan ging climate and contribute to rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions . He ensures that the best science and information is used in WWF’s plann ing, and that solutions to climate change are a global priority. As a scien ce-driven, global thinker, Moss is shaping WWF’s leadership role to focus on adapting to climate changes we can no longer avoid and getting real red uctions in emissions as soon as possible. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T152659Z CREATED:20091111T152526Z DTSTART:20100430T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091111091937-586116@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Ronald Heifetz DESCRIPTION:Ronald Heifetz is one of the world's leading authorities on leadership. In contemporary America, a traditionally respectful and idealistic view of peo ple in positions of power is changing. High-profile scandals and abuses of power have undermined the public’s perception of his leaders in both the political and business worlds, realigning the very ideal of leadership. Wha t sort of behavior makes for effective leadership in today’s world? The w ork of Heifetz provides insight into this question. The founding director o f the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard University’s John F. Kenned y School of Government, Heifetz is renowned worldwide for his seminal work on both the practice and teaching of leadership. Co-founder and principal o f Cambridge Leadership Associates, Heifetz consults extensively in the Unit ed States and abroad, with clients who include senior executives at major c orporations, leaders of non-profits, and heads of nations. His widely accla imed book, Leadership Without Easy Answers, is currently beyond its thirtee nth printing and has been translated into many languages. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T152245Z CREATED:20091111T151937Z DTSTART:20100416T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091111092307-586120@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Cheryl Klein '00 DESCRIPTION:Cheryl Klein (Carleton Class of 2000) is a senior editor at Arthur A. Levin e Books, where she served as the continuity editor on the last three Harry Potter books. Assuming the role of the series' chief "Potterologist," as Ti me magazine dubbed her, Klein was responsible for ensuring that the elabora te world J.K. Rowling had created – with a complex cast of characters, a thorough set of magical rules, and a language of its own – was as consist ent as possible. A former Carletonian copy editor, Klein is in her dream jo b, working with a diverse and talented group of authors and illustrators on an equally diverse array of projects. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T152519Z CREATED:20091111T152307Z DTSTART:20100423T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090121154051-492984@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Opening Convocation DESCRIPTION:Opening convocation will be held in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. More infor mation will be forthcoming from the Office of College Relations. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090121T214237Z CREATED:20090121T214051Z DTSTART:20100913T200000Z DURATION:PT2H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090121160420-493042@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Opening Convocation DESCRIPTION:Opening convocation will be held in the Skinner Memorial Chapel. More infor mation will be forthcoming from the Office of College Relations. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090121T220621Z CREATED:20090121T220420Z DTSTART:20110912T200000Z DURATION:PT2H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090121162954-493185@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Opening Convocation LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090121T223046Z CREATED:20090121T222954Z DTSTART:20120910T200000Z DURATION:PT2H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090122141902-493991@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Opening Convocation DESCRIPTION:Opening Convocation LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090122T201953Z CREATED:20090122T201902Z DTSTART:20130916T200000Z DURATION:PT2H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090714140640-543417@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Luci Tapahonso DESCRIPTION:Luci Tapahonso is an award-winning Navajo poet and short story author. Born on the Navajo reservation in Shiprock, New Mexico, she grew up in a family of 11 children. Navajo was her first language but she learned English befo re starting school at the Navajo Methodist Mission in Farmington, New Mexic o. She majored in English at the University of New Mexico, as an undergradu ate and a graduate student. She stayed on there as an Assistant Professor o f English, Women's Studies and American Indian Studies for a few years. She has been an Associate Professor of English at the University of Kansas and is now Professor of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson where s he teaches Poetry Writing and American Indian Literature. She is the author of three children’s books and five books of poetry. She structures prose and poetry that are mixtures of family stories, Navajo culture and legenda ry tales. Utilizing many of the same storytelling techniques used by many N ative American writers, she highlights aspects of her life that are importa nt to her and has shaped the woman she is today. Unlike most Native America n writers, however, Tapahonso’s writing is a translation from original wo rk she has created in her tribe’s native tongue. Her work includes origin al songs and chants designed for performance. For this reason, her English work is strongly rhythmic and uses syntactical structures unusual in Englis h language poetry. Her poetry and stories are moving and lyrical. The title of her presentation is "A Radiant Curve: Stories and Poems." LOCATION:MOVED to Concert Hall LAST-MODIFIED:20091106T150607Z CREATED:20090714T190640Z DTSTART:20091106T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922103523-558640@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Susan Douglas DESCRIPTION:Susan Douglas is a media critic whose book "Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media" reveals how television and advertising target images of women. A professor of communication studies and chair of the depa rtment at the University of Michigan, she has also written for The Nation, The Village Voice, Ms., The Washington Post and TV Guide, and was the media critic for The Progressive from 1992-1998. She has appeared on The Today S how, The CBS Early Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNBC's Equal Time, NPR's F resh Air, Weekend Edition, Talk of the Nation, Michael Feldman’s Whad’y a Know and various radio talk shows around the country. "Where the Girls Ar e" was widely praised, and chosen one of the top ten books of 1994 by Natio nal Public Radio, Entertainment Weekly and The McLaughlin Group. Her book " Listening In: Radio and the American Imagination" won the Hacker Prize in 2 000 for the best popular book about technology and culture. Her new book, " Enlightened Sexism," is a follow up to "Where the Girls Are" and will be re leased March 1, 2010. The book chronicles the widening gap between the imag es of women in the mass media and the everyday lives of girls and women in the United States. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T154439Z CREATED:20090922T153523Z DTSTART:20100108T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922104023-558652@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Lowell Bergman DESCRIPTION:Lowell Bergman is an investigative reporter with The New York Times and pro ducer/correspondent for the PBS documentary series “Frontline”. As a pr ofessor at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, Bergman has for o ver 15 years taught a seminar dedicated to investigative reporting. His far -ranging projects have included investigations into the war on drugs, the r ise of Islamic fundamentalism, the credit card and gold industries, Al Qaed a's recent attacks in Europe, and the domestic energy crisis. Additionally, he has worked across the media spectrum – print, broadcast and electroni c media – and along the way won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service and every major award in broadcasting, including numerous Emmys, Peabodys, and a Writers Guild Award. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T154506Z CREATED:20090922T154023Z DTSTART:20100115T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922104550-558660@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Stephanie Kinnunen DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Kinnunen is CEO and Co-Founder of NEED magazine, the first indepe ndent magazine dedicated solely to global and domestic humanitarian issues. NEED magazine creates exposure for humanitarian aid via an educational, ar tistic, visual narrative of human stories, both around the world and domest ically. This exposure offers an innovative and dynamic approach to building awareness and increasing support for relief organizations and Humanitarian Aid. NEED magazine does not have a political agenda, but rather seeks to i nspire volunteer work by telling the stories of people currently doing huma nitarian work and accompanying those stories with outstanding photography. Their motto is "We are not out to save the world but to tell the stories of those who are." LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T154819Z CREATED:20090922T154550Z DTSTART:20100122T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922104832-558663@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Alexandra Jamieson DESCRIPTION:Alexandra Jamieson is the author of "The Great American Detox Diet" and is perhaps best known for her appearance in the documentary film "Super Size M e". A holistic health counselor and vegan chef, Jamieson works with clients who have been diagnosed with cancer, diabetes, food allergies, infertility , asthma, and chronic fatigue syndrome. She provides nutritional and lifest yle counseling and support in a fun and empowering way. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T155037Z CREATED:20090922T154832Z DTSTART:20100129T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922105204-558669@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: E. Patrick Johnson DESCRIPTION:E. Patrick Johnson is Professor, Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Performance Studies and Professor in African American St udies at Northwestern University. A scholar/artist, Johnson has performed n ationally and internationally and has published widely in the area of race, gender, sexuality and performance. His book "Appropriating Blackness: Perf ormance and the Politics of Authenticity" has won several awards, including the Lilla A. Heston Award, the Errol Hill Book Award, and was a finalist f or the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He is also co-author of "Black Queer St udies: A Critical Anthology." LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T155420Z CREATED:20090922T155204Z DTSTART:20100205T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922105437-558671@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Todd Larson '83 DESCRIPTION:Todd Larson (Carleton Class of 1983) is senior counselor at the New York Co ordinator Office of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Ba sed at United Nations Headquarters, Larson undertakes extensive outreach th roughout North American on behalf of WIPO. He has beenwith the United Natio ns system for nearly two decades, previously serving in the field with both the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees and the U.N. Department of Peaceke eping Operations. He has been influential in the international community, i ncluding spearheading the recognition of civil unions for same-sex partners in the U.N. system. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T155618Z CREATED:20090922T155437Z DTSTART:20100212T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922105621-558674@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Rudolph Byrd DESCRIPTION:Rudolph P. Byrd, professor of African American studies at Emory University, began his academic career at Carleton College where he was a member of the Department of English and Chair of the Program of African and African Amer ican Studies. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1991 and is the founding director of the James Weldon Johnson Institute for Advanced Interd isciplinary Studies, established in 2007. Named for James Weldon Johnson, a uthor, composer, educator, lawyer, diplomat, and pioneering leader in the m odern civil rights movement, the Johnson Institute is the first institute a t Emory University established to honor the achievements of an American of African descent. One of the premiere sites in the nation for the study of t he modern civil rights movement, the work of the Johnson Institute is to of fer a framework for understanding the history and legacy of civil rights, a nd to provide a context to explain the ways in which the civil rights movem ent continues to have relevance. The Johnson Institute is the home of the A lice Walker Literary Society, of which Byrd is the founding co-chair. An en gaged scholar committed to service and scholarship at the local and nationa l levels, Byrd is also a consultant to the United Negro College Fund/Andrew W. Mellon Programs. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T155845Z CREATED:20090922T155621Z DTSTART:20100219T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20090922105852-558681@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Patrice Gaines DESCRIPTION:Patrice Gaines is an award winning journalist and former Washington Post re porter who has proven that you cannot judge a book by its cover. She grew u p a self-hating young woman, entering one abusive relationship after anothe r. She became a heroin user, went to prison for possession of the drug and was raped and beaten before she began her long contemplative journey to cha nge. She later began her journalism career at the Miami News, and worked fo r sixteen years as a reporter with the Washington Post, where she carved a niche for herself focusing on human-interest stories that reflected current issues. During this time she spent six years researching a notorious Washi ngton, D.C. murder for which eight young men remain incarcerated. Her work on the story raised serious doubts about the guilt of the youths and showed readers the absolute power wielded by police and prosecutors. This story p lus her own experience with the judicial and penal systems sparked her to b egin speaking on the states of those systems today, including the high rate of incarceration among minorities and the poor, questionable police practi ces, prosecutors with too much power, and the weeding out of bad lawyers. S he also offers an engaging look at the power of the press, told from an ins ider point of view. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20090922T160136Z CREATED:20090922T155852Z DTSTART:20100226T165000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091111092733-586124@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Oliver Wang DESCRIPTION:Oliver Wang writes on pop music, culture, and politics for a variety of pub lications and outlets including: NPR, Vibe, Wax Poetics, LA Times, Oakland Tribune, Village Voice, SF Bay Guardian, URB, LA Weekly, Scratch, SJ Metro and Minneapolis City Pages, amongst others. He also maintains a separate si te, ChasingChan.com, for his writing on Asian American cinema. In 2003, he edited and co-authored the book, Classic Material: The Hip-Hop Album Guide. Wang has a PhD in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. His dissertation, a soc ial history of the Filipino American mobile DJ community in the Bay Area, h as since been turned into a community research project called "Legions of B oom" and currently being adapted into a manuscript to be published by Duke University Press. As Assistant Professor of Sociology at CSU-Long Beach, Wa ng teaches courses in popular culture, social issues and race/class/gender. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T152931Z CREATED:20091111T152733Z DTSTART:20100507T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091111092935-586127@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Kevin Clements DESCRIPTION:Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Di rector of the New Zealand Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the Univ ersity of Otago in New Zealand, and Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association. Prior to taking up these positions he was the P rofessor of Peace and Conflict Studies and Foundation Director of the Austr alian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland in Australia. He had previously served as Secretary General of Internation al Alert, one of the world’s largest NGO's working on conflict transforma tion in Africa, the Caucasus, Asia and Latin America. He has also been Prof essor of Conflict Resolution and Director of the Institute for Conflict Ana lysis and Resolution at George Mason University in Virginia and head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University. Clements' car eer has been a combination of academic analysis and practice in the areas o f peace building and conflict transformation. He was formerly Director of t he Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and a member of the New Zealand D elegation to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference. Clements has b een an advisor on defense, security and conflict issues to a range of gover nmental and non-governmental organizations in Australasia, the United State s and Europe. Over the past two decades, he has served as chairman, facilit ator and keynote speaker at many international peace and conflict resolutio n conferences. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091111T153113Z CREATED:20091111T152935Z DTSTART:20100514T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091119135348-588033@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Joshua Aronson DESCRIPTION:Joshua Aronson is Associate Professor of Applied Psychology at NYU’s Stei nhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He has been stud ying stereotypes, self-esteem, motivation, and attitudes for the past 13 ye ars. His work seeks to understand and remediate race and gender gaps in edu cational achievement and standardized test performance. Often, the low perf ormance of blacks in particular, but other minorities as well, gets casuall y chalked up to genetic or cultural differences that supposedly block acqui sition of skills or values necessary for academic achievement. In sharp con trast, Aronson has uncovered some exciting and encouraging answers to these old questions by looking at the psychology of stigma - the way human being s respond to negative stereotypes about their racial or gender group. What he has found suggests that being targeted by well-known cultural stereotype s ("blacks are unintelligent", "girls can't do math", and so on) can be ver y threatening, a predicament that has been termed "Stereotype Threat." LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091119T195913Z CREATED:20091119T195348Z DTSTART:20100409T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20091123134602-588546@carleton.edu SUMMARY:Convocation: Daniel Seddiqui DESCRIPTION:Daniel Seddiqui has recently completed his mission to work 50 different job s in 50 states. He has been everything from a rodeo announcer in South Dako ta, a model in North Carolina, a marine biologist in Washington, to a borde r patrol agent in Arizona. Why would anyone put themselves through such a g rueling experience? Seddiqui's goal was to help Americans understand each o ther's lives, respect each other's hard work and stimulate peoples' curiosi ty about different lifestyles. Unaware of what life was like outside his "b ubble", he was on a mission to explore the many careers, environments, and cultures that America has to offer. To explore the lifestyle that each stat e has to offer, he chose one career per state – a career that is popular and represented that state. Through his website Livingthemap.com, Seddiqui chronicled his cross-country adventure, as he worked as an insurance broker in Connecticut, a golf caddie in Hawaii, a sugar maker in Vermont, and an auto mechanic in Michigan, just to name a few of his many 'professions'. LOCATION:Skinner Memorial Chapel LAST-MODIFIED:20091123T194844Z CREATED:20091123T194602Z DTSTART:20100402T155000Z DURATION:PT1H0M0S END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR