Events 2007
May 30, 2007 — 9 a.m.-5 p.m
Health Sciences Center, Acuff Auditorium
Workshop: “Agenda Going Global,” covers navigating cultural differences throughout the world and understanding cultural nuances that can affect success in global markets
May 15 — 8:30 a.m.-noon
Buttonwood Business Center
3610 Buttonwood Drive, Columbia
Lecture: “Sex, Politics and the Ethics of Stem Cell Research,“ by Dr. Bill Bondeson, MU Curators’ Professor of Philosophy and Ethics
May 8 — 7-8:30 p.m.
First Christian Church
2601 West Broadway, Columbia
Lecture: “Islamic Civilization Scientific Contributions,” a lecture by Dr. Rihab Sawah
May 4 — 8:30 p.m.
Stotler Lounge, Memorial Union
Lecture: “Medical Futility: Philosophy and Politics” by Robert L. Fine, MD, FACP
April 26, 2007 — 7 p.m
Old Alumni Center
1105 Carrie Francke Drive
Lecture: “Medical Futility: Philosophy and Clinical Practice” by Robert L. Fine, MD, FACP
April 26, 2007– noon
Acuff Auditorium
MU School of Medicine
Exhibit: South Asian Sculpture exhibit features Buddhist and Hindu sculpture
April 22, 2007 — ongoing
Museum of Art and Archeology
Workshop: Eden Summit – MU professors of nuclear science, engineering and environmental sciences speak at workshop on churches’ role in protecting the environment
April 21, 2007 — 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
Community Methodist Church
Book signing: Columbia resident Ibtisam Barakat, author of “Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood,” signs books
April 19, 2007 — 1-2 p.m.
University Bookstore
Lecture and book signing: “What Gets Left Out: Religious Persecution in Context “ with author Mary Jane Engh
April 18, 2007 — noon
Tucker Forum, 85 Gannett Hall
Missouri School of Journalism
Conference: “Achieving Health Equity: Ensuring Access to Care”
April 17, 2007 — 1-6:30 p.m.
April 18, 2007 — 8 a.m.-3 p.m.
Kauffman Foundation Conference Center
Kansas City, Mo.
Workshop: Chinese Calligraphy Workshop with Professor Lamp Leong introduces masterpieces’ concepts of Daoism, meditative quality, mark-making, rhythmic strokes and shifting perspective.
April 14, 2007 — noon-6 p.m.
MSA/GPC Craft Studio
Lecture: “Crossing Over: Images of Death and the Afterlife in the World’s Religions” with Bill Young, professor, Department of Classics, Philosophy and Religious Studies, Westminster College
April 12, 2007 — 5:30 p.m. reception; 6 p.m. lecture
Museum of Art and Archeology Cast Gallery; Room 106
Awareness activities: Islam Awareness Week activities hosted by MU Muslim Students Organization
April 9-14, 2007
University of Missouri-Columbia
Lecture: Literary Arts Lecture by Elaine Pagels: Author and Princeton religion professor Pagels on “Reading Judas”
April 5, 2007 — 7:30 p.m.
Reynolds Alumni Center
Lecture: “Clinical Trials of African Traditional Medicine” by MU biochemistry professor Bill Folk
March 31, 2007 — 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Monsanto Auditorium, Life Sciences Center
Reading: Columbia author Ibtisam Barakat reading from her autobiographical book “Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood”
March 20, 2007 — 7:30 p.m.
MU Arts & Science Building, Room 113
Conference: 5th Annual Diversity Conference
March 16, 2007 — 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.
Reynolds Alumni Center
Lecture: Sam E. Antar, a Richard M. Orin Ethics Symposium
March 16, 2007 — 9:30-11:30 a.m.
Bush Auditorium, Cornell Hall
Lecture: “Science and Theism: Concord or Conflict,” by Rob Koons, professor of Philosophy, University of Texas
March 6, 2007 — 11 a.m.
217 Mumford Hall
Lecture: “A Conversation With An Iraqi Journalist,” featuring Zainab Mineeia, Fulbright scholar at the Missouri School of Journalism who reported and translated for the L.A. Times and the New York Times in Baghdad.
Feb. 13, 2007 — 6:30 p.m.
Tucker Forum
Lecture: “Pope Benedict & Islam” by Catholic scholar George Weigel
Feb. 9, 2007
St. Thomas More Newman Center
Exhibit: “Final Farewell: The Culture of Death and the Afterlife”
Feb. 10-May 20, 2007
MU Museum of Art and Archeology
Lecture: “Feeling Jesus in the Backbeat: Gender, Emotion, and Practice in a Post-Modern Church” by Kevin McElmurry
Feb. 9, 2007 — 3:30-5:30 p.m.
Middlebush 209
Conference: “Dying in America: Conversation Before the Crisis”
Feb. 8, 2007 — 7 p.m.
Missouri Theatre, Columbia, Mo.
Events 2006
Lecture: Journalist Anthony Shadid lecture and book signing
Nov. 2, 2006 — 1 p.m.
MU Memorial Union N222/223
Symposium: Ethics of the Health Professions: Dignity, Justice, and Society
October 13-14, 2006
Reynolds Alumni Center and Holiday Inn Select Executive Center
Lecture: “Science Education and Church-State Separation”
Sept. 21, 2006
Philosopher Robert Audi
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Lecture: “Civilizing the New Century: Managing Communication and Conflict Across Cultures”
Sept. 18, 2006
MU Geology Building
Featuring public relations expert and MU professor Glen Cameron, Ph.D.
Cameron is co-author of “Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics” and “Essentials of Public Relations” and is currently writing the book, “Public Relations: Managing Competition and Conflict.” He holds the Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism and is also a professor of family and community medicine and an adjunct nursing instructor.