FACULTY
AND STAFF INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN DRAKE RESOURCE GUIDE
Faculty and staff are invited to participate in the 2002-03 edition of the Drake
University Resource Guide, which is being compiled by the Office of Marketing and
Communications with assistance from the Provost's Office.
The guide, which will be posted on the Drake Web site, is designed to help generate
opportunities for Drake faculty and staff members to speak or comment on their areas
of professional expertise. The guide will enable news media, businesses and civic
organizations to contact faculty and staff members for interviews, speeches and programs.
To indicate whether or not you with to participate in The Resource Guide,
please complete the form on the Drake Web site at http://www.drake.edu/newsevents/resourceform.html.
The deadline for completing
the form is Friday, Sept. 27. For more information, contact Lisa Lacher at x3119
or lisa.lacher@drake.edu.
PROFESSOR
SKIDMORE TO DISCUSS FUTURE OF OUR WORLD
David Skidmore, professor of politics and international relations at Drake University,
will give a lecture on how grassroots globalism, a new force in world politics, and
the growth of transnational networks in civil society promise hope for our world's
future. The event will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, in Sheslow Auditorium
in Old Main.
The Stalnaker Lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Global
Visions: Fukuyama's Dream, Huntington's Nightmare and a Grassroots Reverie."
Skidmore will address Francis Fukuyama's argument - that the end of the Cold War
has ushered a golden age of international peace and prosperity built upon economic
globalization, liberal democracy and multilateral diplomacy - and Samuel Huntington's
prediction - that the coming decades will be characterized by a clash of civilizations
over fundamental cultural differences.
The lecture will be the 17th of the series at Drake honoring the memory of Luther
W. Stalnaker, dean of the College of Liberal Arts from 1940 to 1954. This series
is a joint undertaking of the College of Arts and Sciences and its emeriti faculty.
For more information, call 271-3843.
CONSTITUTIONAL
SCHOLAR TO TEACH AT DRAKE, GIVE PUBLIC LECTURE
Drake Law School's Constitutional Law Center welcomes Michael Gerhardt as a professor
in residence Sept. 23-27. Gerhardt, the Arthur B. Hanson Chair in Constitutional
Law at The College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, will teach
a weeklong course called "Current Debates in Constitutional Theory."
On Thursday, Sept. 26, Gerhardt will deliver a lecture as part of the Constitutional
Law Center's Distinguished Speaker Series. The speech entitled "The Constitution
Outside of the Courts" will begin at 7 p.m. in room 213 of Cartwright Hall.
Continuing legal education (CLE) credit has been applied for. A reception will follow
immediately follow the lecture. The lecture and reception are free and open to the
public.
Gerhardt has served as special consultant to the White House Counsel's Office for
the Confirmation of Justice Stephen Breyer. He also served as dean of Case Western
University School of Law and taught at Wake Forest University, Cornell University
and Duke University. Among professor Gerhardt's many published works is his most
recent book, The Federal Appointments Process--A Constitutional Analysis. He has
testified frequently before the Senate on judicial and executive nominees, most recently
in the hearings on Attorney General John Ashcroft. Professor Gerhardt obtained his
J.D. from the University of Chicago.
The Constitutional Law Center invites the nation's leading constitutional scholars
to Drake as part of its distinguished speaker series to engage students and faculty
in discussions about current issues. Speakers deliver a formal lecture, teach classes
and meet with students informally in small groups. Students attend programs and have
opportunities to question these nationally recognized scholars.
For more information, contact Linda Quinn, x2988. To register for CLE credit, log
on.
WRITERS
AND CRITICS SERIES TO OPEN TUESDAY
The Drake University Writers and Critics Series will begin Tuesday, Sept. 24, with
a presentation by Mark Rose, professor of English at the University of California,
titled "Copyright and Its Metaphors." The lecture, which is free and open
to the public, will be held at 7:30 p.m. in the Medbury Honors Lounge at Drake.
Rose is the author of four noted books on topics ranging from Shakespeare to science
fiction, including "Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright," which
was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
Rose also has been active as an expert witness and consultant in film and copyright
matters since 1980. His involvement in more than 30 cases, including Danjaq vs. Sony,
a recent and widely-publicized case involving the James Bond movies, led to his scholarly
interest in the history of copyright.
The Writers and Critics Series will continue Friday, Sept. 27, with a roundtable
discussion featuring writers from the University of Iowa International Writers Program
at 3:30 p.m. in the Cowles Library Reading Room.
The event, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Reflections on a
Global Year: The Worldview, Post 9/11." The writers will discuss how 9/11 has
affected the world, the nation, art and literature. A reception will follow the discussion.
The roundtable will feature the following writers: Sunny Ayewanu, a poet from Nigeria;
Sukrita Paul Kumar, a poet from India; Guillermo Martinez, a fiction writer and essayist
from Argentina; Gordon McLauchlan, a fiction writer and journalist from New Zealand;
Charlson Lim Ong, a fiction writer from the Philippines; and Dorit Rabinyan, a fiction
writer and poet from Israel.
SUE
AND DEAN WRIGHT TO BE HONORED FRIDAY
The Midwest Sociological Society (MSS) will honor Sue and Dean Wright for their many
years of distinguished service to the organization by planting two Japanese maple
trees in their honor on the lawn just south of Howard Hall. A dedication ceremony
will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27. Drake President David Maxwell and MSS President
Phil Olson will speak at the dedication. A reception will follow in Weeks Gallery
in the Harmon Fine Arts Center.
Sue Wright, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of sociology,
served as president and executive officer of MSS from April 1999 through April 2002.
She also served as the organization's Web editor from 1997 through 2001. She was
co-editor of The Midwest Sociologist, the news journal of the MSS, from 1980 through
1986, along with her husband, Dean Wright, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt distinguished
professor of sociology.
Dean Wright served as president of MSS from April 1997 through April 1998 and treasurer
from April 1998 through April 2002. He also was a member of the MSS Endowment Committee
from 1986 through 2001. In addition, he has chaired both the Membership Committee
and the Future Locations Committee. He received the Midwest Sociological Society
Distinguished Service Award in 1993 and the President's Special Award in 1999.
