Lafayette has been selected to offer a Tournees Festival for the second consecutive year. Funded through a grant from the French Cultural Services (FACE), the festival is part of an initiative to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses across the US. This year's selection of films includes an array of genres from documentaries to dramas, co-productions that represent the Francophone world, as well as films by directors ranging from unique new voices to established figures.

A short discussion will follow each screening. For the full list of dates and places, go to: http://sites.lafayette.edu/tourneesfilmfest/2009-schedule/

An exhibition marking the 150th anniversary, on November 24, of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species," is comprised of three related sections. In "A Habit of Deciding Influence" are 18 photographs of Darwin’s pigeon specimens at the Natural History of London/Tring. Darwin took up the study of domesticated pigeons in 1855 and his observations of artificial selection in pigeon breeding was invaluable to his understanding of the way species change in natural environments. 2)"Coop" is a mixed-media installation based on Darwin’s five-sided pigeon coop. 3)"Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon” includes 10 altered prints from “Birds of America.”

ISA is holding its second annual 10,000 Villages Sale to "Give Thanks and Give Hope" to artisans from 10,000 villages around the world!
We'll be open every day from 11AM-1PM and 5PM-8PM.

Ten Thousand Villages works with artisans who would otherwise be unemployed or underemployed. This income helps pay for food, education, health care and housing. Ten Thousand Villages is a nonprofit program of Mennonite Central Committee.

Your fair trade purchase of handmade jewelry, home decor and gifts helps improve the lives of thousands of artisans in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Middle East.

Preparing your first cover letter, do's and don'ts to get you rolling.

SPONSORED BY CAREER SERVICES

Office of Intercultural Development is proud to host Prof. Essig from Middlebury College on November 17th as she gives a talk to student on recent gender issues.
Come enjoy the brownbag!

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Patrick Tracey, author of the award-winning memoir, Stalking Irish Madness, will discuss his family's multi-generational struggle with schizophrenia and share his thoughts about caring for a loved one with mental illness.

Preparing your first cover letter, do's and don'ts to get you rolling.

SPONSORED BY CAREER SERVICES

Chris McCumber '89, Sr. VP of Marketing & Brand Strategy for the USA Network; talks to you about his media career and experience with brands such as NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox/Newscorp, Disney, HBO, and many more! Come find out how this Gov/Law major transitioned from Lafayette to the world of New York media and has found success there for the last 20 years.

SPONSORED BY CAREER SERVICES

V-Day Lafayette College 2010 (TVM): auditions for Lafayette College's benefit production of The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler and directed by Dan Ricken and Katie O'Neil

-Any female student, faculty, or staff member affiliated with Lafayette is invited to audition!
-You do not need to have read or seen The Vagina Monologues in order to audition.
-You do not need to have any theatrical experience in order to audition.
-Three different sides will be available for you to read at the audition (one funny, one serious, and a third one). You will be given time to prepare to read it and then do so when you are ready.

While only females can audition for The Vagina Monologues due to restrictions established by the author, there are a number of ways for males to be involved with the performance outside of the actual acting.

Please e-mail Katie at alflafayette@gmail.com if you can't make the audition, would like to be involved and don't want to act, or have a question.

Office of Intercultural Development is proud to host Laurie Essig, a Sociology/ Women Gender Studies Professor at Middlebury College, at Lafayette on November 17, as she discusses her recent book.
Come enjoy her talk!

John Cronin, internationally renowned Hudson River environmentalist, co-author of "The Riverkeepers" with Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Time magazine "Hero for the Planet" will deliver a compelling call to action about the emerging water crisis.

Cronin began his work on the Hudson River in 1973, at the prodding of folksinger Pete Seeger. He currently serves as Director and CEO of Beacon institute for Rivers and Estuaries and is a co-founder and senior fellow at Pace University Academy for Applied Environmental Studies. The Wall Street Journal has called John Cronin "a unique presence on America's major waterways", and People magazine dubbed him "equal parts detective, scientist and public advocate".

Event: 2009-10 Golden Lecture

Sponsor: Government and Law Department

Title: "The Politics of Human Rights"

Speaker: Gary Bass (Princeton University)

Gary Bass is an associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton. He is the author of Freedom's Battle: The Origins of Humanitarian Intervention (Knopf), which was a New York Times notable book of 2008 and a Washington Post best book of 2008, and Stay the Hand of Vengeance: The Politics of War Crimes Tribunals (Princeton). Freedom's Battle has just been issued in paperback by Vintage. A former reporter for The Economist, he has written often for The New York Times, as well as writing for The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, Foreign Affairs, and other publications. He got his Ph.D. and A.B. at Harvard.

Contact: Seo-Hyun Park (parksh@lafayette.edu)