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« February 24, 2010 - March 03, 2010 »

02 / 24 (event) School Closures, Charters Schools, & Renaissance 2010 with Marvin Hoffman Start: 6:00 pm End: 7:00 pm Registration for this event is now closed. However, space is still available at the February 23 event with James Thindwa. Click here for details and event registration info. The Public Square and Chicago Public Radio invite you to a special Café Society discussion… How are charter schools and Renaissance 2010 helping or hurting Chicago's youth? Are school closures directly linked to youth violence? Should teachers working in charter schools form unions? Join us for a lively discussion that examines these questions and explore ways that school reform is affecting the quality of education and community connectedness for the city’s youth. Special guest Marvin Hoffman, Associate Director of the Urban Teacher Education Program at the University of Chicago, will help kick-off this community dialogue. Read the complete topic write-up here. more info
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02 / 26 (event) The Meaning of Service: 'Where Were We' Start: 9:00 am Asian Human Services AmeriCorps volunteers will discuss 'Where Were We' by Dave Eggers. *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. more info (event) Shop Talk with Pauline Lipman Start: 5:00 pm End: 6:00 pm Scholars, barbers, haircuts, and conversation… Join us for Shop Talk at Ron’s Barber Shop, presented in partnership with the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at UIC. Special guest Pauline Lipman, Professor of Policy Studies in the College of Education at UIC will discuss her book, High Stakes Education: Inequality, Globalization, and Urban School Reform, which takes a rigorous look at teachers, students, parents, and the Chicago Public School system's policies. more info
02 / 27 (event) Journey Stories Start: 10:00 am End: 2:00 pm *Journey Stories* tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. 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. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers. This exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010. more info
02 / 28 (event) CommUniversity 2010 Session 4 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 more info (event) Chicago on Screen Start: 3:30 pm *A Road Scholar Program by Sarah Marcus* Join historian Sarah Marcus and view the history of Chicago through television and film, noting how producers of popular culture have depicted the city and its residents. Using a variety of clips - from Scarface (1932) to The Untouchables (1987), from Studs' Place (1950-51) to Good Times (1974-79) - this presentation follows the camera's focus and reflects on lasting impressions created by flashing images on the screen. more info (event) CommUniversity Afterglow Start: 4:00 pm End: 5:00 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. Join your fellow classmates, presenters and the CommUniversity board for light refreshment and great conversation immediately following the last class on Feb. 28 in the Rogalski Center Ballroom. Open to CommUniversity 2010 Session participants. more info
03 / 1 (event) Deconstructing Whiteness: What We Talk about When We Talk about Whiteness Start: 11:00 am *A Road Scholar Program by Tim Engles* Although the advent of "multiculturalism" has greatly expanded the representation of people of color in humanities curricula, few teachers also address to any significant degree the past and present realities of racial whiteness. This talk explains why doing so is important, and it also includes a wide array of suggested materials and methods for doing so. more info (event) Alexander the Great: Then and Now Start: 6:30 pm *A Road Scholar Program by Lee Brice* He lived hard and died young before James Dean made it famous. Few men had as great an impact both in life and in death. On three continents, he founded cities in his name and he thought himself a god. World conqueror, genius, visionary, despot, maniac, alcoholic, and criminal, Alexander's reputation is as complicated now as was his life. The subject of recent movies, documentaries, and novels, Alexander remains a popular topic in all media. This presentation examines the life and legacy of Alexander, even as the United States and NATO fight wars today where once his armies fought. more info
03 / 2 (event) Journey Stories Start: 9:00 am End: 5:00 pm *Journey Stories* tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell. 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. Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers. This exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010. more info
03 / 3 (event) The Global Significance of China's Rise Start: 12:00 pm *A Road Scholar Program by Xiaosi Yang* How fast is China rising into a world superpower? With a non-democratic political leadership, 1.3 billion people requiring three meals a day, and a centrally-planned economic system that is among the hardest to reform in the world, how can China make it? To put it another way, how and why is China still rising and not collapsing? This presentation will address these questions by enumerating the economic, geo-political, cultural, and historical significance of China's rise. Learn why the potential of the Chinese has been constantly underestimated. more info

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