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January 25 - 26, 2013
Mountaineer Leadership Conference - Franklin Family Ranch and Retreat Center, beginning 4:30 pm, Friday, January 25. Program TBA
January 28, 2013
Robert P Hallman Chautauqua Lecture Series – “Literature and Medicine: The Scope of the Field and Literary Examples” presented Dr. Krisann Muskievicz, professor of Science and coordinator of the Vesalius Community. An introduction to the field of Literature and Medicine, discussion of the history/emergence of the field as an aspect of the medical humanities, and outlining the major feature of the work.
7:00 pm Ballroom Cailloux Activity Center
February – Black History Month
February 6, 2013
Texas Music Coffeehouse Series – honoring Black History Month and presenting Johnny Nicholas
7:00 pm The Lion’s Den Cailloux Activity Center
February 11, 2013
Monday Night Fiction – "The Reader" by Bernhard Schlink with discussion led by
Silke Feltz, Instructor of English and German, Schreiner University. Michael Berg, 15, is on his way home from high school in post-World War II Germany when he becomes ill and is befriended by a woman who takes him home. When he recovers from hepatitis many weeks later, he dutifully takes flowers to the 40-year-old Hanna in appreciation, and the two become lovers.
7:00 pm Schreiner Recliner Cailloux Activity Center
February 15, 2013
Margaret Syers Lecture Series – presents “If this might be a brother: The Tempest’s Prospero, Patriarch with Covenant” by Dr. Scott Crider, Professor of English and Shakespeare scholar, University of Dallas, Dallas, TX The lecture will be a reflection on the Bible and Shakespeare’s works.
7:00 pm Ballroom 3 Cailloux Activity Center
February 25, 2013
Robert P Hallman Chautauqua Lecture Series – “It’s not all that bad: Moral disengagement, moral ambiguity, and the media” presented by Dr. Mary Grace Antony, assistant professor of Communication Studies, Schreiner University. Discussion will revolve around the appeal of morally complex characters in the popular media, implications for us as media consumers, and some research results.
7:00 pm Ballrooms Cailloux Activity Center
February 25 – March 1, 2013
Center for Innovative Learning and Student Activities – presents a week’s residency with Hollywood Producer/Director Patrick Durham. Patrick Durham has produced over 20 full length feature films including Hoboken Hollow starring Dennis Hopper, Michael Madsen, C Thomas Howell and Jason Connery. He also produced the sequel to Lions Gate’s and Quentin Tarantino’s Cabin Fever franchise starring Rider Strong best known as Shawn Hunter from TV series Boy Meets World. He will be visiting classes as well as lecturing during the week.
February 28, 2013
CIL Lectures presents – “Hollywood in the Hill Country – A How-To Event by Hollywood Producer/Director Patrick Durham. Limited seating for this event. Free tickets are available at the Schreiner University Information Desk in the Cailloux Activity Center
7:00 pm Schreiner University Historical Education Center in the Mansion
March – Women’s History Month
March 4, 2013
Monday Night Fiction – "Between the Assassinations" by Aravind Adiga, winner of the Man Booker Prize in 2008, with discussion led by Dr. Mary Grace Antony, assistant professor of Communication Studies, Schreiner University The book is a series of short stories that form a vivid mosaic of life in the fictional South Indian town of Kittur. Set during the assassinations of former Prime Ministers Indira Gandhi in October, 1984, and her son Rajiv Gandhi in May, 1991,, these diverse vignettes offer candid glimpses into the ordinary lives of teachers, journalists, beggars, street vendors, and bureaucrats.
7:00 pm Schreiner Recliner Cailloux Activity Center
March 6, 2013
Texas Music Coffeehouse Series honoring Women’s History Month – presents Lisa Morales
7:00 pm The Lion’s Den Cailloux Activity Center
March 20, 2013
Weir and Nell Labatt Distinguished Lecture Endowment Series
A public poetry reading by Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry Magazine since 2003. He also is the author of two collections of essays and four books of poetry. After growing up in Texas, he graduated from Washington and Lee University, and has taught numerous courses at Stanford, Yale, Northwestern and the Prague School of Economics.
7:30pm Ballroom #3 Cailloux Activity Center
March 25, 2013
Robert P Hallman Chautauqua Lecture Series - presents “Surrogate Medical and Financial Decision Making and Paternalism by Dr. Adam Feltz, assistant professor of Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Studies, Schreiner University. Dr. Feltz will be lecturing about surrogate medical and financial decision making which has become increasingly more common with advances in health-care and technology. But how do people actually go about making decisions as surrogates?.
7:00 pm Ballroom Cailloux Activity Center
April – National Poetry Month
April 1-3, 2013
Texas Writers Conference – Lectures, Coffeehouse, Workshops
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April 3, 2013
Texas Music Coffeehouse Series – “Spoken Word Coffee House” with Cosmic Dust Devils, Slam Poetry, Thom Joy Poet and music, Kevin Higgins and Barbara Malteze
7:00 – 9:00 pm The Lion’s Den Cailloux Activity Center
April 15, 2013
Monday Night Fiction presents The Lifeboat by Charlotte Rogan with discussion led by Dr. Candice Scott, Associate VPAA for Library, Technology & Academic Services. Cast adrift by her father’s suicide and her mother’s flight into lunacy, Grace Winters has latched onto a rich husband and is sailing home from London to a life of Gilded Age luxury when their ocean liner goes down in flames and she finds herself in an overcrowded life boat . . .
7:00 pm Schreiner Recliner Cailloux Activity Center
April 23, 2013
Pop Culture Symposium – in conjunction with Schreiner University Academic Fair, the 14th Annual Pop Culture Symposium presents “Gaming” (Time and location TBA)
April 29, 2013
Robert P Hallman Chautauqua Lecture Series presents “Karl Marx and the American Civil War” by Dr. Jeremy Roethler, assistant Professor of History, Schreiner University. Dr. Roethler writes for “This Week in the Civil War” on Texas Public Radio. Dr. Roethler’s presentation will bring political philosophy, European history, and the American Civil War together.
7:00 pm Ballrooms Cailloux Activity
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