Center on Religion & the Professions
Improving religious literacy among professionals.
Sponsored by the Asian Affairs Center, the Graduate Student Association, and the International Center, Multicultural Community Hour is a weekly informal, roundtable discussion where international students and visiting scholars interact with American friends in a casual atmosphere. This week is about Japanese tea culture.
When: December 3rd, 3:30 PM- 5:00 PM
Where: MU Campus-Memorial Union
Room: S203 (Arvarh Strickland Room)
In celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at MU, the Department presents a lecture by Pulitzer prize winning co-author of “Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women World-Wide”, Sheryl WuDunn. WuDunn will lay out an agenda for ending gender-based violence and ask you to accelerate change and make a difference world-wide. Come learn how a tiny gesture can inspire huge change. Free and open to the public. Books available for purchase following lecture courtesy of the MU Bookstore.
Date: December 8, 20009
Time: 7 PM- 8 PM
Location: MU Campus- Waters Hall Auditorium
Rachel Scott, the assistant professor of the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech will be speaking about Islamism, Secularism, and the role of the “ulama” in Egypt.
Date: December 2, 2009
Time: 2:00-3:30 PM
Location: MU Campus-113 Arts & Science Building
For more information contact the Department of Religious Studies at (573) 882-4769 or rsinfo@missouri.edu
This is the third year that this event is being held. There will be some presentations from various faith groups and then a fun-filled evening of finger-foods, beverages and mingling.
Date/Time: November 22nd, 3:00 PM
Location: MU Memorial Union–Stotler Lounge
The Coen Brothers’ (Fargo, No Country for Old Men) signature sardonic humor and idiosyncratic cinematic imagination take on questions of faith, familial responsibility, delinquent behavior, science, morality, and Judaism in their hotly awaited new film, A Serious Man. Set in a suburban Midwestern town during the late ‘60s, it’s the story of Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg), a suburban Jewish physics professor who is plagued with a dysfunctional family, a vindictive neighbor, and a grade-grubbing foreign exchange student who is threatening his long-nurtured chance for tenure. Wracked with existential questions and struggling for equilibrium, he turns to three rabbis for help. Can anyone help him cope with his afflictions and become a righteous person—a mensch—a serious man? “A tart, brilliantly acted fable of life’s little cosmic difficulties…with a script rich in verbal wit.” (Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune)
The Ragtag Cinema located in downtown Columbia is showing the film “A Serious Man”. Go the Ragtag’s website at www.ragtagfilm.com for dates and showtimes.
Courageous Conversations about Race and Civility: Town Hall and Community Dialogue
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
In the final part of the three-part series, the Difficult Dialogues Interactive Theatre Troupe is hosting a town hall discussion and community dialogue on race and civility on Thursday, November 19, in the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The Central Missouri Stop Human Trafficking Coalition invites you to engage in candid conversation on a tough topic. This is a free event.
Date/Time: Thursday, November 12, 6:00-8:00 PM
5:30 Sign-in/snacks
Location: 204 S. 9th St., Missouri United Methodist Church, Whittler Hall
Contact: Sign-up at bystander000@gmail.com or call Deb Hume @ 573-884-3757
International peace activist and Nobel laureate Betty Williams will speak on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus in Ellis Auditorium at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 13, 2009. She was a founder, with Ciaran McKeown and Mairead Corrigan, of the Northern Ireland Peace Movement (later renamed Community of Peace People). She shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Corrigan in 1976.
Co-sponsored by William Woods College, the Peace Studies Program and the Center on Religion & the Professions.
The “T SOCIETY”
The Mid-Missouri Colloquium on Relgious Studies presents Michael J. Mcclymond, Assistant Professor in Theological Studies at St. Louis Univeristy.
“Global Awakenings: Ethnographic and Emirical study of Pentecostal healing practices in Mozambique, Brazil, and North America”
When: Friday, November 13, 2009
Refreshments at 3:30 PM
Meeting to begin at 4:30 PM
Where: Home of Sue Crowley ( 409 S. Greenwood, Columbia, MO)
RSVP: Sue Crowley at 573- 442- 2783 or e-mail at dunnc@missouri.edu
*You are welcome to bring interested colleagues and student
Learn, explore and practice civility concepts in a series of 4 sessions. Pre-registration is required and space is limited to 10 participants.
Date: November 11th
Location: Stephens College Dudley Hall- Room 224
Contact: Hannia Burke-Aguero 573-823-5738 or santamaria@mchsi.com