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March 2007 |
On behalf of the College Community, President Steven Lawry cordially invites you to the Forty-Fifth Annual Antioch College Faculty Lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2007, Herndon Gallery, South Hall.
Julie Gallagher
The featured lecture will be “An Education for Praxis: Antioch Confronts the Challenges of a New Century” by Julie Gallagher, PhD.
Julie Gallagher received her PhD in U.S. History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, an MA from the University of Michigan, and a BA from Fordham University. She has also studied at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, Aix-en-Provence, France. Julie is an assistant professor of history at Antioch College.
She is author of the forthcoming articles, “Waging ‘The Good Fight’: The Political Life of Shirley Chisholm, 1953-1982” in the Journal of African American History, and “African American Women and Power Politics in New York City, 1944-1972” in the Journal of Women, Politics, and Policy. She is also working on a book currently titled, “Women of Action, In Action: A History of Black Women’s Political Activism in New York City, 1920-1972.”
Julie has presented her research at a number of conferences nationally and internationally including at the 8th International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda, and in 2005 at the 9th Congress on Women in Seoul, Korea. She has also taught English as a Second Language in Madagascar, served as an election monitor for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Belarus, Armenia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, and is a Legislative Coordinator for Amnesty International in Ohio.
Professor Mische, Front Row Center
Antioch College Professor Patricia M. Mische was one of three participants from the United States invited to be among 400 distinguished guests from 90 countries who participated in the international symposium on “Peace, Non-Violence, and Empowerment: Gandhian Philosophy in the 21st Century” organized by the Indian National Congress in New Delhi, January 29-30, 2007. The symposium commemorated the 100th anniversary of the Satyagraha (literally “truth force”) movement launched by Mahatma Gandhi.
Lech Walesa (in person) and Nelson Mandela (via video) made presentations. So did Nobel prize winners Mohammad Younis (founder of the Grameen Bank and the microenterprise movement for poverty alleviation) and Archbishop Desmond Tutu (leader of Truth and Reconciliation processes in post-apartheid South Africa). These and other conference speakers underscored the continuing relevance of Gandhian ideals in the contemporary 21st century world in the backdrop of a world confronted by conflict and violence.
Cynthia McKinney, former U.S. Congresswoman, is scheduled to speak at the Antioch College Commencement ceremony on April 28th. Ms. McKinney is the first African-American woman to represent Georgia in the House of Representatives to where she was elected in 1992.
McKinney is perhaps best known for publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and for her active role in investigating the election controversies in Florida in 2000 and in Ohio in 2004.
She is a former member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993 to 2003, and from 2005 to 2007, representing Georgia's fourth congressional district.
Antioch College Commencement 2007
8pm, April 16, 2007 in Kelly Hall
A second grand Steinway B piano will be delivered from Premier Piano’s in Cincinnati, Ohio and mount the grand staircase to Kelly Hall for the third performace in the Antioch College Piano Series. The American identical twins, Richard and John Contiguglia, are among the most acclaimed and versatile piano duos in the world today.
Twin brothers, John and Richard Contiguglia will be performing En Blanc et Noir - Claude Debussy; Andante and Variations Op. 46 - Robert Schumann; Variations in A-Flat on an Original Theme Op. 35 - D813 - Franz Schubert (one piano, four hands); and Sonata in D, K 448 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
After many years of concertizing in Europe and America since their London debut in 1962, which the London Daily Telegraph described as “setting a new standard for this intimate form of music-making,” Richard and John are now the proprietors of their own recording company, Gemini CD Classics. Their first releases, Schubert Piano Duets - The Final Year, Live From The Holland Liszt Festival - Duos of Franz Liszt for One and Two Pianos, and Gershwin - Grainger, reflect their lifelong commitment to popularizing the great body of music for two pianists.
Richard and John Contiguglia graduated in the top 1% of their class at Yale, with identical averages of 91%, receiving their B.A. degrees summa cum laude, with Philosophical Orations. Two years later they received M.Mus. degrees from the Yale Graduate School of Music, at the top of their class. Subsequently, they studied for four years in London with the legendary British pianist, Dame Myra Hess.
Antioch College is proud to announce the 2007 Hip-Hop Convergence to be held Saturday, March 31, 2007 on the Antioch campus. The Hip-Hop Convergence is an all-day event and comprises an academic conference and a night show.
The academic conference begins at 10:30 a.m. in the Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom, located at Livermore St. and East Center College St. Opening remarks will segue into 3 panel discussions entitled, "Words That Can Hurt You: Hip-Hop and Homophobia," "Reynolds Rap: The Corporate Take-Over of Hip-Hop," and " Hip-Hop as Cultural and Social Change." Panelists include activists, authors, and artists Hermon Getachew, Dr. Oliver Wang, Dr. Tricia Rose, and Will Seagars. Following a keynote address by Dr. Ebony Utley on spirituality and hip-hop, a night show will commence including spoken word, dance, and music performances by Field Squad, Franz Diego, Toki Wright, Philly Phil, J Rawls, Akili Jackson, Edward Mabrey, Holiday Simmons, ReWop, and William Evans. Please join us!
Events will go on throughout the day and night. Admission is $10 at the
door. Hip-Hop Convergence Schedule of Events 
Coretta Scott King Center for Cultural and Intellectual Freedom
Antioch Alums from the class of 1967 celebrate their 40th anniversary of graduating this June. They have launched an ambitious campaign which they’re calling “Get Out the Alumni,” reminiscent of the 2006 mid-term Congressional election “get out the voter campaign.” Volunteer Class Representative Pete Creelman '67 is the “spark plug” for the effort, and he’s being assisted by fellow class alum, Bill Dalton '67, and over 20 classmate volunteers.
This effort is unprecedented by the College and its 1967 alumni. Their campaign involves sending out three letters to the class of 1967 alums and a telephone campaign. To sweeten the deal, Risa Grimes, Alumni Relations Director, has promised the class of 1967 a big, private party if they get a record breaking 50 classmates at Reunion 2007. “It will be the “mother” of all Reunions for the class of 1967”, Pete says. And “Mother” Antioch will welcome them with open arms.
Visit The Antioch Alumni Web Site
Adam Atkin '50 has written a book entitled “Does All Begin With Consciousness (Some theoretical speculations)” which has a perspective on peace and violence as one of it’s main themes.
Atkin graduated from Antioch College with a BS in biology & physics, and then went on to a career in medical research and a Ph.D. in neurophysiology, publishing many research papers and a book of poetry in 1991.
This book attempts to show how consciousness tends to lessen the systemic disorder that leads to violence, and concludes that "to reduce violence, expand consciousness”—a conclusion derived from the understanding that consciousness is a matter of self-organizing changes by the brain's neural networks. This understanding reveals the deepest sources of violence in our world, and therefore what’s most needed to move towards peace.
The book is just going to press and will be available in 2007.
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