- February 3, 2012
Free Beer: Best-Selling Author and Psychologist to Speak at Carleton
Dan Ariely, psychologist and author of the New York Times bestseller “Predictably Irrational,” will speak at Carleton College at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9. Entitled “Free Beer: The Honest Truth about Dishonesty, How We Lie To Everyone—Especially Ourselves,” Ariely’s presentation will take place in Olin Hall, Room 141, and is free and open to the public. Copies of Ariely’s popular books will be available for purchase at the event, and in advance at the Carleton Bookstore, at a 15% discount.
- February 3, 2012
Civil Rights Lawyer and Author Michelle Alexander to Present Convocation
Michelle Alexander, a civil rights lawyer and scholar currently in residence at Ohio State University, will deliver Carleton College’s convocation address on Friday, February 10. Alexander is the author of “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness” (New Press, 2010), which will be the subject of her address, focusing on the continued legacy of discrimination against African Americans, particularly through the mass incarceration of black men. Convocation is held from 10:50-11:50 a.m. in the Skinner Memorial Chapel, and it is free and open to the public. A booksigning will follow Alexander’s presentation and copies of “The New Jim Crow” will be available for purchase at the event.
- February 3, 2012
Carleton’s Gould Library Displays Series of New Exhibits
A new series of exhibitions are on display in Carleton College’s Gould Library this winter, showcasing objects and images generated both by students and drawn from the library’s extensive collection. The four new exhibits—“Masquerading Politics,” “Cryptolibrary,” “Fovea Centralis,” and “Vietnam 2011”—are currently on display through March 11, 2012. Access to the Gould Library is free and open to the public.
- February 3, 2012
Carleton Presentation to Focus on Segregation in Twin Cities’ Schools and Housing
Professor Myron Orfield, Executive Director of the Institute on Race & Poverty at the University of Minnesota, will present “Segregation in Schools and Housing in the Twin Cities” on Thursday, Feb. 9 at 4:30 p.m. in the Carleton College Gould Library Athenaeum. This event is free and open to the public.
- February 3, 2012
History Professor William North to Discuss 16th Century Papal History
Carleton College professor of history William North will give a lecture entitled “A Rare Look at Papal Ecumenicism in the Sixteenth Century: He hagia kai oikoumeniké en flõrentia genomene sunodos (1577) in Context” in the Gould Library Athenaeum at 5 p.m. on Tues., Feb. 7. This event is free and open to the public.
