Entries drawn from the college history timeline
Sarah Kemp Brady, Chairperson of Handgun Control, Inc. and the Center to Prevent Handgun Violence, addressed the College as part of its 1994 Commencement exercises. Ms. Brady also received an honorary degree from the College.
As part of the Homecoming 1994 festivities, and to celebrate the mark of 100 years after Joseph Priestley moved to America, the college hosts a symposium about Priestley's life and influence.
Dr. Murray Feshbach delivered a lecture titled "Russia, Democracy, and the Environment" in Memorial Hall on February 27. This event, which was sponsored by the the Clarke Center, was part of a symposium called "Russia at the Crossroads: A Symposium on Democratization in Russia."
Galina Starovoitova, from Brown University and the Institute for the Economy in Transition in Moscow, and Stephen Blank, from the U.S. Army War College, debated on the topic of "the Politics of Russian Democracy after Chechnya" during an event in Memorial Hall on February 28, 1995. This lecture...
George Handy from the St. Petersburg Project, Center for Strategic & International Studies, delivered a lecture called "Creating a Climate for Democracy" in Memorial Hall, Old West. This event was part of the Clarke Center's "Russia at the Crossroads: A Symposium on Democratization in Russia...
Harvard University Professor Marshall Goldman delivered a lecture titled "Economic Reforms: Results and Prospects in Russia" as part of the Clarke Center's "Russia at the Crossroads: A Symposium on Democratization in Russia." The event was held in Memorial Hall, Old West.
Vassily Aksyonov read from his latest novel, Generations of Winter in Denny Hall as part of a Clarke Center's "Russia at the Crossroads" symposium.
The Clarke Center hosted a panel discussion in Memorial Hall, Old West, titled "Your Genetic Make-up: Do You Own It?" The panelists
included Dr. Paula Gregory of the National Center for the Human Genome Research, Dr. Mary K. Howett from the Pennsylvania University College of Medicine, and...
Dr. Paula Gregory, Chief of Genetics Education at the National Center for the Human Genome Research at the National Institute of Health, gave a lecture during Common Hour on April 5, 1995 entitled "Your Genetic Make-Up- Do You Own It?" The event, which was sponsored by Clarke Center, was held in...
Mayer Nudell, International Association of Counterterrorism and Security Professionals, and Stefan Presser, ACLU of Pennsylvania, discussed "America: Target for Terrorism" during Common Hour held in the Anita Tuvin-Schlechter Auditorium on April 26, 1995. The Clarke Center sponsored the event....
Derek Bok, lawyer and President of Harvard University from 1971-91, addressed the College as part of its 1995 Commencement exercises. Dr. Bok also received an honorary degree from the College.
Author Ronald Takaki delivered an address titled "The Making of Multicultural America: Women and the Chinese and Irish Migrations" in Rubendall Recital Hall. This event, which was part of the the Flaherty Lecture series, was sponsored by the Clarke Center and the East Asian Studies Department....
A panel discussion entitled "School Choice and Education Reform: Is there a Balance?" featured Senator James Gerlach (Class of 1977), Representative John R. Gordner (Class of 1983), Representative Al Masland (Class of 1979), Senator Howard Mowery, and Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Eugene W...
Peter Montague, from the from the Environmental Research Foundation, delivered a lecture in Memorial Hall titled "Our Environmental Crisis! A Grassroots Agenda." The Clarke Center sponsored this event.
John Sexton, Dean and Warren E Burger Professor at New York University Law School, delivered a lecture titled "Baseball, Church, and State: American Institutions in Crisis" during Common Hour in Rubendall Recital Hall on March 6, 1996. The Clarke Center sponsored the event.
Dr. Raul Hilberg, a noted Holocaust scholar, gave a lecture called "The Holocaust in the Nuremberg Trials" in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. This event was part of the Clarke Center's series called "Nuremberg in Contemporary Perspective: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the...
Drexel Sprecher (Nuremberg prosecutor), Arnie Joseph (Nuremberg translator), Helen Segall (Holocaust survivor), and Lisa Lieberman (moderator and Dickinson History Professor) participated in a panel discussion on "Remembering Nuremberg." This event, which was held in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter...
John Shattuck (Asst Secretary, U.S. State Dept.), Susannah Sirkin (Physicians for Human Rights), and Stephanie Farrior (Amnesty International) participated in a panel discussion on "War Crimes Tribunals" in the Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium. This event was part of the Clarke Center's series...
Chaplain (Col.) John W Brinsfield, Col. Donald Morgan, Lt. Col. Yair Golan (Israel), Lt. Col. Corhard Stelz (Germany) and moderator Mark Gilbert discussed the topic of "Following Orders: The Ethics of Command." This event was part of the Clarke Center's series called "Nuremberg in Contemporary...
Roger M. Craver (class of 1963) discussed welfare during a lecture titled "Welfare Kings: Robbing You Blind in Washington." This event, which was sponsored by the Clarke Center, was held in Memorial Hall, Old West.
The Clarke Center organized a discussion in Old West titled "Sex, Lies and the Chemical Industry: How Chemicals are Harming Wildlife and Humans," which featured Peter Montague from the Environmental Research Foundation and David W. Patti from the Pennsylvania Chemical Industry Council.
Author Lillian Faderman delivered the 1996 Shaw Lecture, titled "Lesbian Identity: Its Evolution in the 20th Century," on April 15, 1996. The Department of American Studies and the Clarke Center sponsored the event.
Reverend Barry Stopfel and his partner Will Leckie gave a lecture on the experience of being a gay minister in the Episcopal Church, titled "Heresy & Homosexuality! A Bishop in Check." The Department of Dramatic Arts and the Clarke Center sponsored the event.
June Teufel Dreyer (University of Miami), Bates Gill (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute), Samuel Soonki Kim (Columbia University), and Allen Whiting (University of Arizona) discussed China in the 21st century during an event in Memorial Hall on April 25, 1996. The event was held...
Professor John O. Voll delivered the 1996 Pflaum Lecture in Denny Hall on Wednesday, May 1. Dr. Voll's address, "Who Owns History?," was sponsored by the History Department and the Clark Center.
