March 24, 2008
Gulag Live Conversations: Soviet Gulag Prison System and U.S. Foreign Policy
The Brooklyn College Library presents the third and final program in the Gulag series held this spring semester. There will be a short recording of a panel discussion in the Carter Center followed by remarks by Ivan Kovalev. The program will take place on Thursday, March 27, at 6:00 p.m. in the Woody Tanger Auditorium of the Library (first floor).
Ivan Kovalev is a Russian human rights activist and Brooklyn College alumnus. He served as editor of the Underground Human Rights Bulletin V and the Chronicle of Current Events. Arrested by the KGB for his “anti-Soviet activities” in l981, he was sentenced to five years in the Gulag as well as five years of internal exile.
Please also note that an exhibit accompanying the Gulag lecture series is now available online at the following: http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/about/events/
If you need additional information, please call the Library Special Collections unit at 718-951-5346.
Gershwin Hall
Dr. Robert P. Moses will deliver the third lecture in the Carol Zicklin Lectures in Interdisciplinary Studies series. The title of his lecture is Civil Rights and Constitutional People. Faculty wishing to bring a class to the lecture should contact Helen Brereton, brereton@brooklyn.cuny.edu
or x5771 to reserve space.
March 31, 1:30-2:55
Gold Room, Student Center
Dr. Elizabeth Minnich, Carol Zicklin Visiting Scholar in Interdisciplinary Studies, will deliver a lecture titled The Best Education is Democratic: Exploring a Moral/Political Stand. Faculty wishing to bring a class to the lecture should contact
Helen Brereton, brereton@brooklyn.cuny.edu
or x5771 to reserve space.
In Service of Sustainability
Around the world people are beginning to recognize that current technological and social practices are unsustainable—that they must reduce their consumption of nonrenewable resources and alter their societies to avoid environmental collapse.
Brooklyn College faculty and staff members contribute to the technical means and intellectual framework for creating a sustainable future. Learn more about their ongoing work by attending the fourth program of the lecture series, Sustainability Notes.
Sustainability Notes #4 will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 2008, from 2 to 3 p.m. in 1141 Ingersoll Hall. This session will include Associate Professor Jean Grassman, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, on “How Labor Unions Can Promote Environmental Sustainability;” Assistant Professor Rebecca Boger, Department of Geology, on “Science Education for Sustainability: An Example of a Citizen Science Program;” and Mr. Steve G. Czirak, Assistant Vice-President of Facilities, Planning and Operations, on “Greening Brooklyn College”.
For more information, please contact Associate Professor of Chemistry
Mark Kobrak, (718) 951-5758,
mkobrak@brooklyn.cuny.edu