Note: The time of the speech has been corrected.

David Krieger, a founder of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, will speak on campus on Oct. 20. His lecture, “The Nuclear Challenge: From Omnicide to Abolition,” begins at 7 p.m. 7:30 p.m. in Gannett Hall.

Krieger is the author of several books on peace in a nuclear age, most recently “At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?” and “The Doves Flew High.” He also writes articles frequently at the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s website, wagingpeace.org.

Krieger received his doctorate in political science at the University of Hawaii, as well as a J.D. from the Santa Barbara College of Law. While on campus he also plans to speak to the MU Law School and a “Philosophies of War and Peace” class.

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The Boone County Government Center will host a discussion about racial bias in police work and protecting individual rights on Wednesday, July 21.

David A. Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, will lead the discussion. Harris is the author of Good Cops: The Case for Preventative Policing and Profiles in Injustice: Why Racial Profiling Cannot Work, and has published scholarly articles on the relationship between law enforcement and faith communities after Sept. 11.

The event will begin at 7 p.m. on July 21 at the Boone County Government Center in Columbia, Mo. For more information, contact Don Love at (573) 875-7918 or dmaclove@centurytel.net.

Christiane Quinn, the vice president of the Hispanic and Latin American Faculty and Staff Association, will present at the semester’s last “Diversity in Action” program on Wednesday, May 5. The program, “The Experimental Learning Program in Mexico: Culture, Family Values, Agriculture and Migration,” is part of the university’s regular research and discussion seminars.

Quinn is on staff at MU’s Cambio Center, which studies demographic changes in Missouri and aims to prepare both current and incoming residents for a diverse society. Her presentation takes place from 12-1 p.m in 206 Memorial Union on the MU campus. For more information, check out the “Diversity in Action” website.

S. David Mitchell, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, will present “Can You Hear Me Now?: Silencing Communities of Color Through Felon Disenfranchisement Laws” on Wednesday, April 14, at noon in S206 Memorial Union.

Mitchell, an alumnus of Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, will speak as part of the university’s Diversity in Action series. His recent publications include In With the New, Out With the Old: Expanding the Scope of Retroactive Amelioration and Undermining Individual and Collective Citizenship: The Impact of Exclusion Laws on the African-American Community.

The Diversity in Action series combines presentations of scholarship with time for audience questions and discussions. Visit the university’s Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative for more information.