New York Times bestselling author, Edward P. Jones has written the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Known World (2003), the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Lost in the City (1992), and most recently, All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006), and is the 2005 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. He also has taught fiction writing at numerous colleges and universities, including Princeton.
Edward P. Jones is scheduled to visit the College on November 12, 13, & 14, 2008.
A Ford Hall Forum Special Event Thursday, October 30th, 6:30-8:30pm, C. Walsh Theater :
Why are intolerance, violence and war so deeply ingrained in religion? Constantine’s Sword, the latest film by Oscar-nominated documentarian Oren Jacoby, follows James Carroll, Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at Suffolk University, Boston Globe columnist, and author of the forthcoming book Practicing Catholic, in his search for answers to this question. Looking to his own past and that of his religion, Carroll addresses the darker side of Christianity and explores the consequences of the religion’s influence on United States foreign policy. In what ways can religion inspire us to be better people? How can it lead us astray? And where do we, as a society, draw the lines between our religion and public life? James Carroll joins us to screen the film and address the blessings and perils of religion.
A Ford Hall Forum Event Thursday, October 23rd,6:30 to 8:00 p.m., Old South Meeting House:
The following warnings appeared in a 2002 Bush administration memorandum:
• “US could fail to find WMD on the ground in Iraq.”
• “Post-Saddam stabilization and reconstruction efforts by the United States could take not two to four years, but eight to ten years.”
• “Iraq could experience ethnic strife among Kurds, Sunnis, and Shia…”
The author? It was Donald Rumsfeld, former United States Secretary of Defense, in a powerful analysis of the downsides of going to war in Iraq. Why then, did one of the decade’s most important foreign policy decisions go the other way?Douglas J. Feith, former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (2001 – 2005), joins Jules Crittenden, Boston Herald city editor and former embedded journalist in Iraq (2003), to tonight to discuss the dynamics of the first Bush term, and how we make foreign policy decisions. (Book signing will follow lecture and discussion.)
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This program is presented in collaboration with the Old South Meeting House as part of the Partners in Public Dialogue Series.
Historian, author, and social activist, Howard Zinn has written numerous books including, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present (2006), A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007), and You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (2002). Receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University under the GI bill, and having served in World War II as an Air Force bombardier, Zinn went onto to teach at Spelman College and Boston University. He has been a visiting professor at several colleges and universities, including the University of Paris and the University of Bologna; and the recipient of such awards as the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award.
Zinn will share his works for the stage with the College, on October 28, November 20-22, & January 22-24.
Today at Folio:Show in Chicago, the 2008 FOLIO Awards were announced, “the top awards for editorial and design excellence in the largest competition for magazines.”
The2007 issue of Suffolk Arts+Sciences received the Gold EDDIE Awardfor Supplemental Annual/One-Shot, Full Issue, recognizing editorial excellence for an entire issue.
The magazine also took home the Bronze OZZIE Award for Best Design, New Magazine, Association/Non-Profit. Seth Sirbaugh, art director/graphic designer for Suffolk Arts+Sciences and creative director at Bates Creative Group, took the Gold in that same category with another of his designs, Insight magazine.
Folio Awards are prestigious honors within the magazine publishing industry, and both achievements are significant recognition of the College’s alumni magazine, which has received five national design and editorial awards since its launch in July 2007.
Israeli anthropologist, professor and author, Smadar Lavie has written and spoken widely about Middle-Eastern politics, feminism and society. Her books include The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity(1990), Creativity/Anthropology (1993), and Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity (1996). She earned both her Ph.D and M.A. from the University of California,Berkeley and has held teaching positions at Diablo Valley College, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, the School of Media Studies, Sapir College of Negev, and between 2001-2007 she was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Social Science Division at Beit Berl Teacher’s College.
Lavie will be visiting the College during the week of October 14-17, 2008.
The Asian Film Series screens a kung fu film, a musical, and a spy thriller, to examine cultural identity, political anxiety, and visual representation.
Kung Fu Hustle is either a trashy, non-sensical comedy or a clever postmodern work that comments on Hong Kong - China relations. Shiri is the name of a species of freshwater fish indigenous to the DMZ, and expresses the director’s hope for the reunification of a divided Korea. Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 5:30 pm Kung Fu Hustle (directed by Stephen Chow)
Hosted by Dr. Micky Lee, Communication & Journalism Department
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 5:30pm Jodhaa Akbar (directed by Ashutosh Gowariker)
Hosted by Dr. Afshan Bokhari, Art History, NESADSU
New York Times bestselling author, Edward P. Jones has written the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Known World (2003), the PEN/Hemingway Award-winning Lost in the City (1992), and most recently, All Aunt Hagar’s Children (2006), and is the 2005 MacArthur Fellowship recipient. He also has taught fiction writing at numerous colleges and universities, including Princeton. 
Historian, author, and social activist, Howard Zinn has written numerous books including, A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present (2006), A Power Governments Cannot Suppress (2007), and You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (2002). Receiving his Ph.D. from Columbia University under the GI bill, and having served in World War II as an Air Force bombardier, Zinn went onto to teach at Spelman College and Boston University. He has been a visiting professor at several colleges and universities, including the University of Paris and the University of Bologna; and the recipient of such awards as the Thomas Merton Award, the Eugene V. Debs Award, the Upton Sinclair Award, and the Lannan Literary Award.
Israeli anthropologist, professor and author, Smadar Lavie has written and spoken widely about Middle-Eastern politics, feminism and society. Her books include The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity(1990), Creativity/Anthropology (1993), and Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity (1996). She earned both her Ph.D and M.A. from the University of California,Berkeley and has held teaching positions at Diablo Valley College, University of California at Berkeley, University of California at Davis, the School of Media Studies, Sapir College of Negev, and between 2001-2007 she was a Visiting Associate Professor in the Social Science Division at Beit Berl Teacher’s College. 
