Best-selling author and Guardian contributor Glenn Greenwald will visit MU on Thursday, Sept. 27 to give a lecture titled “With Liberty and Justice for Some: The Two Tiered U.S. Justice System.” Greenwald released a similarly titled book this summer.

A book signing will precede the lecture with a panel discussion to follow. Panelists include Eduardo Crespi, the executive director of Centro Latino and Comedor Popular, or People’s Diner, of Columbia; Steve Downs, the executive director of the National Coalition to Protect Civil Freedoms; Amany Ragab Hacking, a St. Louis University law professor and cofounder of the Council on American-Islamic Relations; and Redditt Hudson, a program associate for the Eastern Missouri American Civil Liberties Union chapter.

Professional perspective credit is available for the lecture through the law school.

Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 27. Book signing begins at 5:30 p.m., lecture at 6 p.m, and panel discussion at 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Location: Room 7 at Hulston Hall on MU’s campus (map)

Cost: This event is free and open to the public.

For more information: Contact S. David Mitchell via email or phone (573-882-8113), a professor at the MU School of Law. 

 

French-Algerian novelist, poet, journalist and mathematician Anouar Benmalek will visit MU on Sept. 19 to lead a lecture titled “From the birth announcement to the obituary: Writing as ticket for a strange journey.”

Benmalek has been called the Faulkner of the Mediterranean by the French press and is a founding member of the Algerian Committee Against Torture. His visit is co-sponsored by the Peace Studies Program, Department of Sociology and Afro-Romance Institute at MU. Benmalek will be available for a book signing both before and after the lecture.

Date/Time: 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 19.

Location: Fisher Auditorium in Gannett Hall (map)

Cost: This event is free and open to the public.

For more information: Contact the MU Peace Studies Program via email or by phone (573-882-9720).

 

The “You in Mizzou” program, sponsored by the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative, will kick off at the beginning of September with an event titled “Just the Way You Are: Coping with Stress in a Diverse Campus.” Free pizza and soda will be available for attendees.

The monthly discussions will challenge participants to respectfully share their opinions and experiences with members of a religiously, ethnically and culturally diverse campus. Events are scheduled for the first Thursday of each month during the school year, with the exception of January.

Date/Time: Thursday, Sept. 6, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Location: Memorial Union, Room S203 (map)

Cost: This event is free and open to students, faculty and staff at MU.

For more information: Contact Yuan Gao, a political science Ph.D. candidate at MU and coordinator of “You in Mizzou,” via email or phone (573-882-2714).

The Show Me Respect Project, an initiative at MU promoting civility through respectful discourse and behavior, is sponsoring a lecture from P.M. Forni of Johns Hopkins University titled “Life Is a Relational Experience: Civility in the Age of Google.” Forni heads The Civility Initiative at Johns Hopkins, and selections of his recent publications will be on sale at the event. Co-sponsors include the MU Office of the Provost and the Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative.

Time/Date: 7 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 22

Location: Jesse Wrench Auditorium in Memorial Union on the MU campus (map via Vox Magazine)

Cost: This event is free and open to the public.

For more information: Contact the Show Me Respect Project via email or by phone (573-882-5838).