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Film screening: Being Hmong Means Being Free at LU 

Film screening: Being Hmong Means Being Free at LU 

Followed by a conversation with trained facilitators from Celebrate Diversity Fox Cities

Wednesday, Feb. 20, 7-9 pm

Wriston Art Center Auditorium

Being Hmong Means Being Free (56 mins) highlights the history, culture and identity of the Hmong immigrants who have settled in the United States between 1975 and the early 1990s. The documentary looks at Hmong life in this country as seen through the eyes of seventeen year-old Lia Vang. 

The film will be followed by a conversation with trained facilitators from Celebrate Diversity Fox Cities.

Programs on Hmong culture at the Appleton Public Library and The Draw related to the exhibition “when you when you were made: Victoria Kue & Tshab Her” (at the Wriston Art Galleries through March 8) can be found here.

Crosswalk Reminder

As a reminder, please observe the following when using the crosswalks: 

  • Press the button to initiate the flashing, yellow lights every time you cross College Avenue. You will hear confirmation that the yellow lights are flashing.
  • Allow approaching vehicles to slow down and come to a stop before moving into the crosswalk.
  • Walk briskly through the crosswalk, pay attention to approaching vehicles and avoid cell phone use while crossing.
  • Please walk bicycles and skateboards through the crosswalk.

Budget Info, Updates & Feedback

As we look for opportunities across the University to ensure our financial stability, it is important that we keep the campus community aware of our progress. Updates on the budget allocation process will be made throughout the winter and spring and shared with the Lawrence community via a new blog and through other communications, including emails and presentations. For more information or to share questions, comments, or suggestions throughout this process (and you do have the option to have your submission be shared anonymously ), visit https://www.lawrence.edu/info/offices/financial_services/budget-updates.

Social Media Update

Stephanie Bray, our associate director of social media, will be leaving us on Friday, November 4, to take a new position in digital marketing at Associated Bank. While she will no longer be working full-time at Lawrence, she will continue to work with us remotely as a social media consultant during our transition to a new social media manager.

Please join us in thanking Stephanie for helping us expand the university’s social media presence and wish her well in her new role.

Faculty Meet & Greet with LU’s London Centre Resident Director Christine Hoenigs

You are invited to a Faculty Meet & Greet with LU’s London Centre Resident Director Christine Hoenigs.

Monday, October 22nd from 4 to 5:30pm in the International House

Are you interested in learning about LU’s London Centre and the recent changes in the program?  Would you like to talk about how the program might better connect with your department or program?  Have you considered the London Centre as a location for your students to conduct research by independent study or related to their senior experience?  Would you like to learn about applying for the London Centre Visiting Faculty position?  Would you like to meet Lawrence’s London Centre Director?  This gathering will be an opportunity to discuss any of these topics.

We hope you can join us in welcoming Christine to campus next Monday.

 

TONIGHT – An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.

Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.

Ross Gay Biography

Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.

 

TONIGHT – Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.

Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Wriston Auditorium

The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.

Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author to Explore Causes of Mass Incarceration at Lawrence Talk

James Forman Jr., author of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America, will deliver a talk that explores the rise of mass incarceration and its disproportionate impact on people of color. The talk will be followed by a signing of his book.

Lecture and Signing with Pulitzer-Winner James Forman, Jr.

Thursday, October 11 at 7:30 p.m.

Wriston Auditorium

The event is free and open to the public and no registration is required.

Forman, a professor at Yale Law School, seeks to understand why many African-American leaders for decades supported a get-tough “war on crime” that so profoundly impacts communities of color. Forman’s work is “an examination of the historical roots of contemporary criminal justice in the U.S., based on vast experience and deep knowledge of the legal system, and its often-devastating consequences for citizens and communities of color.”

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

An Evening of Poetry with Ross Gay

  • October 11, 2018 @ 6:00 pm (please note that this time has changed from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m.!)
  • Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University
  • Hurvis Room
  • Free and open to the public

This event is sponsored by the Cargill Sustainability Grant, the Mia Paul Poetry Fund, and the Fox Cities Book Festival.

Description of event

This talk will imagine ways that delight, joy, and love are integral to the ways we care for the land, but also to the ways we care for ourselves and each other as the land.

Ross’s reading will be followed by a book signing.

Ross Gay Biography

Ross Gay is the author of three books: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. Ross teaches at Indiana University. His new book, The Book of Delights — will be released in Spring 2019.