Monday, September 19
No events scheduled
Tuesday, September 20
10:45 AM - Voice Seminar
Wallenberg Hall, Denkmann Building
11:30 - 11:50 AM - Tuesday Reflections - Evelyn Campbell
Ascension Chapel, Founders Hall, 2nd floor
12:00 - 4:00 PM - Profair
PepsiCo Recreation Center
4:30 - 5:30 PM - Ekklesia Study Group
Old Main 121
7:00 - 8:30 PM - Banned Books Reading
Brew by the Slough, Tredway Library, 4th floor
Wednesday, September 21
9:30 - 10:30 AM - Coffee and Conversation
CEC Conference Room, Sorensen Hall, 1st floor
12:00 - 1:00 PM - Bible Study Group "What if Jesus Meant the Stuff He Said?
led by Pastor Priggie, for faculty, staff, and administrators
Bring your lunch and a Bible
Chicago Room, College Center
Thursday, September 22
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Ingenuix CMS Training
Olin 110
6:30 PM - Unlikely Heroes - The True Stories of Three Jewish Women Spies featuring Elaine Rembrandt
Rock Island Library, 401 19th Street, Rock Island, IL
7:00 - 8:30 PM - Heads vs Feds - Steve Hager & Robert Stutman
Steven Hager, longtime editor of High Times magazine, takes on DEA veteran Robert Stutman on the multitude of issues surrounding marijuana legalization
Free Admission
Centennial Hall
Friday, September 23
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM - Ingenuix CMS Training
Olin 110
2:30 - 3:30 PM - Ingenuix CMS Training
Olin 109
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Friday Conversations: "The Learning ePortfolio" presented by Jon Clauss
3:30 PM - Refreshments
Olin 109
4:30 - 6:30 PM - Opening Reception for Augustana College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Music provided by Veronica Smith '12 and friends: Carlisle Evans-Peck (piano and voice); Flute Choir; Sassy Pomegranates (piano, guitar, hand drums); Vernon Meidlinger-Chin (guitar).
Free Admission
Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts, Lower Level
Saturday, September 24
12:00 - 4:00 PM - Augustana College Studio Art Faculty Exhibition
Free Admission
Bergendoff Hall of Fine Arts, Lower Level
8:00 PM - Augustana Symphonic Band Tsunami Relief Benefit Concert
The Augustana Symphonic Band performs this concert in preparation for director James Lambrecht's departure for a guest residency in Japan, where he will guest conduct the Musashino Academia Musicae Wind Emsemble in Tokyo, Japan. A goal of this concert is to raise money for Lambrecht to help furnish several new trees in one of the devastated areas of Japan.
Centennial Hall
Sunday, September 25
4:00 - 5:00 PM - Travel Reads Book Discussion - "The Motorcycle Diaries" by Ernesto "Che" Guevara
Evald Great Hall
Volume 9, Issue 5 - September 19, 2011Faculty News
Wendy Hilton-Morrow (Communication Studies), along with Joy Hayes (University of Iowa), and Kathleen Battles (Oakland University), has signed a contract with Peter Lang to publish an edited collection to mark the 75th anniversary of the original War of the Worlds radio broadcast from 1938. Back Talk: Citizens, Communication and Crisis from the War of the Worlds to Social Media takes the notorious broadcast as its starting point as it investigates continuities and discontinuities between old and new media and their use by citizens in times of crisis.
Tom Mayer (History) was quoted (as an expert on Galileo) in the New York Times in an article by Henry Foundation dated September 8, 2011.
Jennifer Popple (Engl/Theatre) presented at the American Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) conference in Chicago in July. My presentations were part of the following two panels: "Memory, Gender & Race in the American Family" and "Best Practices for Director/Dramaturg Collaboration; Case Studies from the Colorado Shakespeare Festival."
