Associate Professor Hernán Fernández-Meardi will lead a discussion of Paulo Friere’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed as part of Humanistic Studies’ Great Book Series at the Brown County Library on Tuesday, December 8th at 6:30pm. In his critically acclaimed work, Friere advocates for a pedagogy that empowers students as producers of knowledge. Interested readers may find Friere’s book online.
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This spring, Dr. Derek Jeffreys will be teaching HUM STUD 351 on the theme of Punishment. Dr. Jeffreys has completed detailed research into the subject spirituality and solitary confinement and a follow-up study on spirituality and torture. Check out an interview he did with Harper’s Magazine on one of his publications on the subject!
Last year he won a major national grant to assist his development of this new course on punishment, and the grant will allow him to bring in several preeminent speakers on the subject. The course is a great opportunity not to be missed!
Panel discussion: “Global Terrorism: The World after the Paris attacks” November 24th, 4:30pm Phoenix Room C
Presenters:
Pres. Obama at G20 summit following attacks
Cristina Ortiz, UW-Green Bay Professor of Humanities and Global Studies, Chair of Modern Languages, “Paris: the city and the symbol”
Katia Levintova, UW-Green Bay Associate Professor of Political Science, Chair of Global Studies “Mourning all victims”
David Coury, UW-Green Bay Professor of Humanities and Global Studies, Director of Center for Middle Eastern Studies “Terrorism in a Global Age”
Dave Helpap, UW-Green Bay Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Administration “US Federal and State Reaction to the Aftermath of the ISIS Attacks”
This Thursday the Center for Middle East Studies and Partnerships is co-sponsoring with St Norbert College’s Norman Miller Center for Peace, Justice and Public Understanding, a roundtable discussion on the refugee crisis in Europe. The event takes place at 7:00pm in the Fort Howard Hall at St Norbert. Please share the information and attached flyer with interested students.
UW-Green Bay Associate Professor of Medieval History, Heidi Sherman, and Associate Professor of Fiber Arts, Alison Gates, will present “The Flax Project” Tuesday, Nov. 3, in the Grand Foyer of the Weidner Center for the Performing Arts on campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.
Historian Sherman and textile artist Gates will share their experiences working across academic disciplines and across the ages as they perfect the art and practice of growing a fiber crop and processing the harvest on a college campus. Sherman and Gates, along with an outstanding undergraduate researcher, grew and processed their first successful crop in 2011. Since then, they have planted successful crops each year with a team of new students from History, Art and several other majors. The Flax Project is funded through grants from the UWGB Research Council, the Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the Provost.
After Thoughts begins with a 5 p.m. reception, followed by the Sherman and Gates’ presentation beginning at 5:45 p.m. Seating for After Thoughts is limited, so advanced registration is recommended. The cost of each program is $15. To reserve your spot, send a check (payable to UW-Green Bay Foundation) to: UW-Green Bay Foundation, CL 805, 2420 Nicolet Drive, Green Bay, WI 54311; or register online at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/afterthoughts. Walk-up registration also is an option.
Dr. Tim Mau
The next Global Studies conversation will be about most recent Canadian elections and their implications for the domestic and foreign policies of our next-door neighbor. It will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2-3pm in Room 103 of the University Union. Discussion will be led by Dr. Tim Mau, Professor of Canadian politics and public administration (University of Guelph, Canada). As you know, these discussions allow us, as campus, to have important and timely conversations about topical events and processes around the world.
Award-winning poet and educator Lisa Fay Coutley returns to her undergraduate alma mater, UW-Green Bay, for a reading and question-and-answer session on Monday, Oct. 26.
The program, free and open to the public, is scheduled for 1 p.m. in the Christie Theatre on the lower level of the University Union, located on the campus at 2420 Nicolet Drive.
Coutley is an assistant professor of creative writing and poetry at Snow College in Utah. In January 2016, she will relocate to Eugene, Ore., for a half-year assignment as a visiting professor with the poetry and creative writing program at the University of Oregon.
Coutley will read from works including her debut poetry collection, Errata, published earlier this year by Southern Illinois University Press.
The fall session of the Great Books Discussion Group is scheduled to begin on Tuesday, September 8, 2015 at the Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine Street, downtown Green Bay. The group meets on the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Board Room. Staff from the University of Wisconsin – Green Bay Department of Humanistic Studies leads the discussions.
| Date | Title & Author | Presenter: |
| September 8 | Flatland Edwin A. Abbott |
Rebecca Nesvet |
| October 13 | Notes from the Underground F. Dostoevsky |
Kevin Kain |
| November 10 | My Name is Red Orhan Pamuk |
David Coury |
| December 8 | La pedagogia del oprimido (Pedagogy of the Oppressed) Paulo Freire |
Hernan Fernandez-Meardi |
The library offers many of these titles in a variety of formats. Copies can be reserved or downloaded from the library’s online catalog – visit www.browncountylibrary.org and click on the library card. These discussions are free and open to anyone interested in participating. Parking is free downtown after 6:00 p.m.
“Pope Joan”this Wednesday(April 29) starts at 7:00 pm in Christie Theatre.
Everyone is welcome!
In 814 A.D Johanna’s young life seems already determined, but she senses a spiritual calling and strikes out against the confines of social and ecclesiastical rule and follows her growing faith and conviction. Disguising herself as a man, she enters the Bendictine cloister in Fulda, where she lives as an herbalist and doctor until her true identity is in jeopardy of being discovered…
Say hello to something new!! The Humanistic Studies Department is introducing a new minor in Science Fiction.
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