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Derrick Bell to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at the January 20 Convocation
A compelling voice on issues of race and class in this society, Derrick Bell has provoked his critics and challenged his readers with his uncompromising candor and original progressive views throughout his 40-year career as a lawyer, activist, teacher, and writer. Bell will present his lecture titled “Martin Luther King, Jr: The Twentieth Century Jesus?” in Skinner Memorial Chapel at 10:50 a.m.
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Derrick Bell is one of the most highly respected constitutional law professors in America. His civil-rights career began when Thurgood Marshall recruited him fresh out of law school. He was the first African-American to be tenured at Harvard Law School, as well as the only academic to relinquish a coveted tenured position to protest Harvard Law School’s failure to appoint women of color. He served as the dean of the University of Oregon Law School and again resigned when the faculty refused to hire a qualified Asian-American woman.
Bell’s legal articles have appeared in such prestigious journals as Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, NYU Review of Law and Social Change, Hastings Law Journal, UCLA Law Review, University of Michigan Law Review, and Howard University Law Journal. He has been published or featured in The New York Times, Essence, USA Today, Time, People, Chronicle of Higher Education, Los Angeles Times, The Nation, the Village Voice, the Houston Chronicle, and the Baltimore Sun, to name a few. He has also appeared on such national television programs as The Charlie Rose Show, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, and on the cable networks C-SPAN and CNN.
Bell is the author of seven books, including The New York Times bestseller Faces at the Bottom of the Well; Afrolantica Legacies; Gospel Choirs: Psalms of Survival in an Alien Land Called Home; Confronting Authority: Reflections of an Ardent Protester; And We Are Not Saved: The Elusive Quest for Racial Justice; Race, Racism and American Law; and Constitutional Conflicts.
Bell has received six honorary degrees in the last decade and currently teaches constitutional law at NYU Law School where the annual New York University School of Law Derrick Bell Lecture Series was established in his honor. He has also been honored as the Annual Tobriner Memorial Lecturer, the UC Davis Edward L. Barrett, Jr., Lecturer on Constitutional Law, and has been voted Teacher of the Year by the Society of American Law Teachers.
International Insights on Undergraduate Education at Carleton and Abroad
Associate Dean Bev Nagel leads the Thursday, January 19, LTC lunch session about undergraduate education outside the U.S. through faculty reflections on learning and teaching experiences. She’ll be joined by Dani Kohen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, and Seungjoo Yoon, Assistant Professor of History, and others, focusing on different expectations for faculty and students, and for teaching and learning compared to U.S. undergraduate education in general and Carleton in particular. The conversation may lead to some insights into how we can do things differently and better at Carleton as well as into the kinds of transitions that faculty make when they come from overseas. Come Thursday, January 19, at noon to the Alumni Guest House Meeting Room.
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Thursday, January 19
"International Insights" on Undergraduate Education at Carleton and Abroad
Beverly Nagel, Associate Dean
Daniela Kohen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Seungjoo Yoon, Assistant Professor of History
and othersAlumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch provided for 50.Looking Ahead:
Tuesday, January 24
"A Diversity Mission Statement for Carleton: Open Discussion of Proposal"
Djiara Meehan, Assistant Dean of Admissions
Al Montero, Associate Professor of Political Science
John Ramsay, Associate Dean of the College
Alisa Sánchez ‘06
Kaaren Williamsen-Garvey, Director of Gender and Sexuality Center
and other members of the Diversity Initiative Group subcommittee on the mission statementAlumni Guest House Meeting Room, noon to 1:30 p.m.
Lunch provided for 50.2006 LTC posters are available by request from the LTC. Contact Jennifer Cox Johnson, x4192. Up-to-date information is always available at the LTC Web site.
Arts Management Expert to Visit
Stuart Gibson, Director of the UNESCO-Hermitage project, will be Distinguished Visitor in Residence from January 23 to 27. Gibson has served as consultant to governments on cultural and heritage preservation and will be giving a public talk, "Saving Iraqui Art" in the Athenaeum on Tuesday, January 24, at 4:30 p.m. A reception follows. He will also be on a panel with Professor Diane Nemec-Ignashev and Professor Carol Donelan following the screening of The Russian Ark on Monday night, January 23, at 6:45 p.m. in Olin 149.
The Bookstore Corner
Stop by the Bookstore and check out some of our new titles for reading and make your purchases by using your Faculty/Staff Rewards card. See complete article for details.
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Faculty/Staff Rewards Card
We would like to take this opportunity to remind you about our Faculty/Staff Rewards Card program. Each time you buy a book with a price of $6.95 or more we will stamp your Rewards Card. When your card is full (it only takes five stamps!) you can redeem it to receive $10.00 off your next book purchase. Please stop in and get your card!May we suggest…
Why not start your Staff/Rewards card with some new reading. We suggest checking out these titles:The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. Nathan Glass, a cranky retired insurance agent, has come to Brooklyn to die. A long-lost nephew, a scam involving a forged copy of the first page of The Scarlet Letter, a disturbing revelation in a sperm bank, and his own writing chronicling every blunder he’d ever committed, draw him back to the world of ordinary life.
Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris. A harrowing tale of cat and mouse, this novel follows two faculty members at the prestigious St. Oswald’s Grammar School for Boys. A new, young teacher harbors dark ties to the school’s past, intimate knowledge of its ways and secrets, and a desperate desire to destroy the school. Near retirement, an older teacher is the only one sensing this menace. This is a character-rich, atmospheric thriller.
The Fugitive Wife by Peter C. Brown. Essie, a Midwestern farm girl, flees from a stormy marriage and joins up with prospectors bound for Nome, Alaska. Feisty and resourceful, she makes a better life but her volatile husband is sure to come after her. The Fugitive Wife is a novel that powerfully evokes the past.
New in paperback
Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America’s First Civil Rights Movement by Fergus M. Bordewich.Radical Prunings: A Novel of Officious Advice from the Contessa of Compost by Bonnie Thomas Abbott.
Leonardo Da Vinci: Flights of Mind by Charles Nicholl
The Gift of Change by Marianne Williamson
Athenaeum Event
Tuesday, January 17, at 7:30 p.m., Dr. Pattie Thomas will speak on "Feminism and Fat Acceptance."
Documentary film Screening—January 18
About Baghdad, a documentary film, will be screened Wednesday, January 18, 7 p.m., in 104 Boliou Hall. Shot in 2003 several months after the arrival of U.S. troops, by poet Sinon Antoon and others, this film is constructed to counter the U.S. media’s “simplification and trivialization” of Iraqi’s situation. Louis Fishman, Visiting Instructor in History who offers courses on the Middle East, will introduce the film. About Baghdad, which was the official selection at the International Documentary Film Festival in 2004, and winner of the Best Documentary award, Big Apple Film Festival (2004), provides context for Dafatir: Contemporary Iraqi Book Art in the Art Gallery.
Labyrinth Chapel Service
Join us for the Chapel service led by Mark Heiman this Sunday, January 22 at 5 p.m. and experience walking meditation. A soup supper will follow the service. You are also invited to attend the midweek Vespers Service on Wednesday, January 18 at 7 p.m. in the Chapel and the weekly Shabbat Service on Friday, January 20 at 5:30 p.m. in Reynolds House led by Rabbi Shosh Dworsky. A complete list of Chapel services and events for the upcoming week is posted online.
Northfield Community Volunteer Festival—January 21
On Saturday, January 21, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Northfield Middle School cafeteria, Northfield will host the first annual Northfield Community Volunteer Festival. This event is replacing Community Day of Service in an effort to promote long-term volunteerism. Non-profit agencies will be showcasing their organization and recruiting volunteers for on-going volunteer opportunities. Everyone is welcome and there will be food, music, and fun activities for all!