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Spring 2008 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Meet The Gunter Family    

     

College-wide Thomas P. Johnson Visiting Scholar Schedule (tentative)      

Spring 2008 Schedule

Jan. 22      1-5 pm       Front of Mills Lawn                         Tour and Q&A with C-Span Campaign Bus        

Jan. 28        5 pm        Ward Hall 1st Floor Lounge             "If God Send Me a Pistol, I’ll Send Him a Man’ Zora Neale Hurston and Black Women in the Florida Turpentine Camp," Jack Lane Colloquium

                                                                                           Discussion with Dr. Robert Cassanello, Department of History, University of Central Florida

Jan. 29        10 pm       Ward Hall 1st Floor Lounge             Frontline & Discussion:  Return of the Taliban    

                                        "A 25th season starts with a report from tribal areas along the Afghan-Pakistani border on how the area has fallen under the control of the resurgent Taliban, which uses it as a launching pad for attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan."

 

Feb. 3            6 pm        1st Floor Lounge                          Super Bowl Sunday with Free Wings & Soda

Feb. 8          3:30 pm      Meet at Ward 1st Floor Lobby    Friday Cornell Art Museum Field Trip with Dr. Matthew McLendon, Curator of Academic Initiatives

Feb. 19        7 pm        Meet at Rex Beach Hall                Progressive Dinner from appetizers at Rex Beach to dinner at Ward to desserts at Strong Hall

Feb. 20        7 pm          Ward Hall 4th Floor Lounge         Poetry Slam Contest hosted by Brushing & the Black Student Union

                                                  - Enjoy Fine Assortment of Appetizers & Desserts....with Generous Gift certificate awards to top three finishers and outrageous audience judges!

Feb. 24          8 pm        Ward Hall 4th Floor Lounge        Oscar Night with Dr. Julian Chambliss, History Dept.

 

March 18        6:30 pm       Dave's Down Under                    View "A Mighty Heart" followed by discussion with Student Director & Cast of Two Rooms

March 19        6 pm        1st  Floor Lounge                        Game night with NSCS

March 22         11 am        Mary-Jane Plaza                      Ward Egg-Stravaganza

                                         (Behind the Bookstore)             Target: WP Day Nursery, Hannibal Square Community Center, Rollins CDC & Children of Rollins Faculty-Staff

March 26        7:40 pm    Meet in Ward 1st Floor Lobby                Fred Stone Theatre, Two Rooms by Lee Blessing, Dir. Alea Figueroa, '08

                                                     "In the first room, a cell in Lebanon, a hostage is held by terrorists; in the second room, an office in Washington, DC, his wife awaits his fate."

March 31        5 pm            Future of the Kurds and Turkey        Discussion with internationally known Kurdish scholar Dr. Michael Gunter, Tennessee Tech University

 

April 3             6:30 pm       2nd Floor Ward Hall Classroom            Summer Internships for First Years                             

April 7             8 pm            SunTrust Auditorium, Crummer Bldg.    Immigration & Diplomacy with Rollins Model UN

April 12            4 pm           4th Floor Ward Lounge                     The Ward "Iron Chef" with Ward Residence Hall Association

April 15        12:30 pm        1st Floor Ward Lounge                       Florida Studies Initiative Luncheon & Discussion

April 21         8 pm               4th Floor Lounge                         Debate Club Event with Dr. Eric Small, Philosophy Department

April 23       7:40 pm            Meet in Ward 1st Floor Lobby        Friday Ae3nnie Russell Theater Field Trip Murder We Wrote: The Improvised Whodunit, Dir. David Charles

                             "The victim. The weapon. The motive. The killer. These classic murder mystery elements are randomly determined by the audience at every performance. Eight actors tell

                                 the tale in this one-of-a-kind, first-of-its-kind improvisational comedy."

April 29/30       6 pm        Alfond Pool                         End of Year Pool Party Night

 

10 pm        1st Floor Lounge                           Frontline Showing & Discussion: Secret History of the Credit Card     

xxx            Last Lecture Series

xxx            Noshing through Organic California: The Unseen Landscape of Food in America

xxx            Teaching & Traveling in Ecuador: Activism 101's December Trip

xxx            Alumni Career Path Chat Roundtable  

xxx            Friday Bach Festival/Tietke Hall Field Trip with pre-Performance Talk with Music Prof       

                                                                                        

Link to Fall 2007 Events

                             

 

Frontline Film: Return of the Taliban (2006)

 Nova Film: Dimming the Sun (Sept. 2007)

Frontline Film & Discussion: On Our Watch                                                                            1st Floor Ward Lobby                                                x pm

- "The world said "Never Again!" after Rwanda and Srebrenica. Then came Darfur. FRONTLINE asks why the international community and the UN have once again failed to stop the slaughter."

      

        

 

 

       

Dr. Michael M. Gunter, Jr.

Associate Professor

Director, International Relations Program

Political Science Department

       Rollins College           Box 2762 – 1000 Holt Ave. Winter Park, FL  32789 mgunter@rollins.edu

Office Hours:

Mon. 3:15 to 4:15

Tues. 10:45 to 12:15

Wed. 3:15 to 4:15

Thurs. 10:45 to 12:15

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407-646-2263