02 / 7
Start: 1:00 pm
End: 1:45 pm
CommUniversity, Inc., offers its 31st offering of community-based lifelong learning courses over the four Sundays in February, 2010. Over 30 courses will be offered - with topics ranging from the humanities to arts, sciences, physical education, and hands-on workshps - with room for over 600 students at St. Ambrose University. Dr. Timothy Walch, director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, will deliver the keynote speech on "The Great Emancipator and the Great Humanitarian: The Impact of Abraham Lincoln on Herbert Hoover." Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
35 courses in Regional Studies, Public Affairs, Theology & Church Life, Personal Enrichment and Arts and Humanities are offered during the four-week session for $25. Open to anyone. Registration accepted through opening day. Classes fill up on first-come-first-served basis. For a full listing of courses and printable registration form, go to: http://www.communiversity.org/program.htm | ||
02 / 8
Start: 1:00 pm
A Road Scholar Program by Rachel Ensor This presentation examines the artwork of African American painters as documents containing social commentary about American life and issues faced by African Americans. At the beginning of the 20th century, many black artists addressed controversial social issues through their paintings. Rachel Ensor discusses the Harlem Renaissance, as well as the work and intentions of painters whose art depicted aspects of African American life. Learn about such artists as Palmer Hayden, Aaron Douglas, Romare Bearden, Betye Saar, and John Michel Basquiat, and explore how their art relates to the African American experience and urban life. What does the art tell us about the artists themselves, and race and identity in the US? This presentation will be supported with a continued reading list. | ||
02 / 9
Start: 9:00 am
End: 5:00 pm
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
This exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010. | ||
02 / 10
Start: 11:00 am
A Road Scholar Program by Tim Engles Tim Engles, Professor of Multicultural American Literature and Critical Whiteness Studies, examines racial whiteness in America from his own individual perspective, by examining relevant moments from his own past that subtly taught him how to "be" white. Audience members of all racial backgrounds are encouraged to articulate their own, often buried experiences with racial whiteness. | ||
02 / 11
Start: 10:30 am
A Road Scholar Program by Warren Brown Mark Twain said "Inventors are the creators of the world-after God." This presentation is a first-person Chautauqua style program by Warren Brown as Mark Twain. You will journey on water, land, and air sharing insights from the "Diaries of Adam and Eve" to friendships with inventors and thoughts about Galileo and Newton. "I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."- Mark Twain. | ||
02 / 12
Start: 9:00 am
Asian Human Services AmeriCorps volunteers will discuss 'The Use of Force' by William Carlos Williams. The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work. Start: 5:00 pm
End: 6:00 pm
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 49 million Americans, including nearly 17 million children, are food insecure. Last week, in a look closer to home, the Greater Chicago Food Depository—in conjunction with Feeding America—released “Hunger in America 2010: Chicago Profile.” From 2006 to 2009, the report said, the number of county residents visiting food banks, soup kitchens and shelters jumped 36 percent. The face of hunger
Demographic breakdown | ||
02 / 13
Start: 10:00 am
End: 2:00 pm
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
This exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010. | ||
02 / 14
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
35 courses in Regional Studies, Public Affairs, Theology & Church Life, Personal Enrichment and Arts and Humanities are offered during the four-week session for $25. Open to anyone. Registration accepted through opening day. Classes fill up on first-come-first-served basis. For a full listing of courses and printable registration form, go to: http://www.communiversity.org/program.htm | ||
