Last Faculty Research Forum of 2015 Fiscal Year

CSU libraries will host the last Faculty Research Forum April 7, 2015 at 12 p.m. on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library. The lecture will feature Dr. Jennifer Newbrey, Assistant Professor of Biology, and Dr. Gary Sprayberry, Chair of the History and Geography Department.

This faculty forum will conclude the CSU libraries’ Faculty Research Forum for the fiscal year. Newbrey will present “Eastern Bluebirds in West-Central Georgia” and her discussion will be followed by the Department Chair’s presentation over “The Atlanta Pop Festival.”

The Assistant Professor, Newbrey, will discuss the features and importance of Eastern Bluebirds in the West-Central Georgia area. “Effects of West Nile Virus Infection and Immune Function on Female Yellow-headed Blackbird Reproduction” is one of the many works by Newbrey. She earned her PhD from North Dakota State University and also earned her Master and Bachelor of Science at the University of Wisconsin.

Sprayberry’s most recent professional works include his latest “One Doesn’t Integrate on Sunday: The Creation of the Human Relations Council and the Origins of Desegregation in Anniston, Alabama, 1961-1963” in the April 2008 edition of the Alabama Review. The Jacksonville State University alumni will discuss the iconic 1970 Atlanta International Pop Festival that features many musicians such as Canned Heat, Jimi Hendrix, the Chamber Brothers, and Georgia Music Hall of Fame inductee, Johnny Jenkins.

All patrons, students, faculty and staff members are encouraged to attend this Faculty Research Forum. Before each faculty member’s presentation, a lunch will be provided in the Forum Area of the Schwob library. For more information, review and browse the CSU libraries official page.

Associate Professor, Dr. Patrick Jackson to Present Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes Lecture

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English Department Annual Lecture

Thursday, February 26, 2015

12:30-1:30 p.m.

1st Floor Forum Area

Schwob Memorial Library (Main Campus Library)

“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences” ― Sylvia Plath

Today, February 26, 2015, the English Department will host their annual lecture series between 12:30-1:30 pm, on the first floor of the Simon Schwob Memorial Library. Associate Professor, of the English Department, Dr. Patrick Jackson will present "Public Myths, Private Griefs: Mourning Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's Crow Poems."

Jackson will discuss and review both poets, Sylvia Plath and Hughes, as well as a light dialogue after his lecture. All patrons of the library and CSU students are invited to attend.

This lecture is amongst a list of other professional activities from the Associate Professor. Jackson has many published essays such as “The Liberties of Blank Verse” and

“The Sublimity of Wilfred Owen’s Despair.” 

For more information, please contact the English Department located in Woodard Hall. 

Fall Events at Schwob Library

2014-2015 Events Listing for Schwob Library

September 23rd:   Ivey Center Lecture:  Mid Century Modern Architecture, a cultural perspective with Ed Howard, Preservation Specialist, and Cultural Resource Manager at Fort Benning, GA. 12 – 1:30 pm.

September 25th:  History Department Panel Discussion: The Great Speckled Bird.  12 – 1:30 pm

September 30th:  Rite of Passage: Richard Stephens, Mathematics Department, 11:45 – 1:00

October 2nd:  Faculty Center Series on Teaching and Learning: Susan Hrach, 12 – 1:30 pm.

October 7th:  Faculty Center Series on Teaching and Learning: Susan Hrach, 12 – 1:30 pm.

October 8th:  QEP, What’s in it for me? Susan Hrach, 12 – 1:30 pm.

October 9th:  Freshman Experience: Garbology. Speaker from Columbus Water Works. 12 – 1:30 pm.

October 16th:  Rite of Passage: Andree Martin, SSOM, Robert Murray, SSOM, Roberta Ford, CSU Libraries.

October 21st:  Ivey Center Lecture on Archaeology.  12 – 1:30 pm. (Contact: Rebecca Antrobius)

October 23rd: English Department Lecture Series. 12 – 1:30 pm. (Contact: Dr. Aaron Sanders)

October 28th:  Rite of Passage: Dr. Thomas McCormack, (COEHP), and Dr. Brian Muse, (Mathematics), 12- 1:30

November 4th:  Rite of Passage: Dr. Fonda Carter, Accounting & Dr. Anil Banerjee, Chemistry. 12 – 1:30 pm.


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Privacy Rights vs Public Safety Lecture

First Year Experience (FYE) is sponsoring a faculty lecture to continue the conversation begun by Lucinda Roy's book, No Right to Remain Silent about campus safety, privacy rights, and public policy. Theresa Willey, from the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology, will deliver "Privacy Rights vs. Public Safety: Has Society Prepared the Crime for the Criminal to Commit?" Her presentation will be on Tuesday, November 12, at 12:30 p.m., in the Simon Schwob Library forum area. Refreshments will be provided starting at 12 noon. Please see flyer below for more information:

Continuing the conversation …

First Year Experience© presents

Privacy Rights

vs

Public Safety:

Has Society Prepared the Crime for the Criminal to Commit?

Professor Theresa Willey

Department of Criminal Justice & Sociology

                                                

Tuesday, November 12

12:30  CSU Library

Light refreshments at noon       

Free and open to the public

  

Freedom Riders Lecture on Thursday

Join us on Thursday, November 7th at 12:30 p.m. for the last event in our Civil Rights Speaker Series, co-sponsored with CSU Department of History and Geography. At CSU's Simon Schwob Library forum area, there will be a free, public lecture by Dr. Tom Aiello, a Historian from Valdosta State University, on "Leaving the Promised Land: The Atlanta Hawks, Race, and the NBA's Move to the Deep South." In addition, this is the last week to view the exhibition so make sure you stop by before it's gone! For more information, visit: http://history.columbusstate.edu/.

Lecture Series: Paine, Policy, and Pragmatism

Please come join us at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 30th for "Paine, Policy, and Pragmatism: A Common Sense Approach for Public Administration" presented by Dr. Gordon as part of the Public Administration Faculty Lecture Series. This event will be held in the library forum area at the Simon Schwob Library, Main Campus.  Please see below for more information or contact the MPA Department at 706-507-8640: 

Freedom Riders Exhibit & Speaker Series

The Simon Schwob Library, Main Campus will host Freedom Riders, a national traveling exhibition which tells the story of civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the south to challenge authorities’ failure to enforce U.S. Supreme Court rulings outlawing segregation. This exhibit will be available for viewing October 17 - November 7. In addition, the library will hold a lecture series associated with this display of history. See below for lecture event details: 

§  A 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 24 lecture at Schwob library by T.K. Thorne, author of Last Chance for Justice: How Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers. Thorne, a Birmingham police captain-turned-author, offers in her new book an insider’s look at how two of her colleagues reopened one of the most infamous civil rights crimes, the Sept. 15, 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church that killed four young girls. That police work led to convictions of three more Klansmen in 2001-2002.

§  A 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7  lecture at Schwob library by Thomas Aiello, an assistant professor of history and African-American studies at Valdosta State University, on "Leaving the Promised Land: The Atlanta Hawks, Race, and the NBA's Move to the Deep South." Aiello, who’s also taught at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, has published nonfiction books on the Grambling-Southern football rivalry and Depression-era competition in the Negro Leagues, as well as three novels.

For more information, please visit:

http://history.columbusstate.edu/

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Lecture & Lunch Series: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Join us on Tuesday, October 1st from 12:30 - 1:15 pm for "Empathetic Course Design and Thinking Like a Student" as part of the Faculty Forum Series in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning. This event will be held in the Library Forum at the Simon Schwob Library, Main Campus and presented by Jan Burcham, Fletcher Distinguished Chair in Teaching Education and Thomas Dailey, Lecturer, Department of Sociology. Lunch will be provided. Please see below for more information:

Master of Arts in History Lecture Series

Master of Arts in History -- Race, Ethnicity and Society Lecture Series
Thursday,  April 11, 2013
4:30 p.m.
1st Floor Forum Area
Schwob Memorial Library (Main Campus Library)

An expert on frontier law, banking and charitable organizations in the South and Midwest will lecture at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11 at CSU's Schwob Memorial Library. The lecture by Scott Lien, Assistant Professor of History at Lyon College in Arkansas, is entitled "To Bleed at Every Pore for the Want of Money: Capitalism and the Traditional Social Order on the Southwestern Borderlands." It is part of the Master of Arts in History -- Race, Ethnicity and Society Lecture Series offered by CSU's Department of History and Geography. Refreshments will be served beginning at 4 p.m. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Dr. Scott Lien