Tuesday, January 16
- SUU Auditorium
100 Years of Dance
Repertory Dance Theatre
Presentation 11:30 - 12:30 followed by questions
Utah's Repertory Dance Theatre was founded in 1966 as a fully-professional modern dance company to keep alive that unique, artistic achievement which is American Modern Dance. This presentation is a guided tour through dance history and an informative multi-media retrospective paying homage to the ingenuity, creativity and inventive spirit of legendary 20th century choreographers. Repertory Dance Theatre’s prestigious historical repertory highlights the birth and evolution of an art form, and ties each piece to the social and political environment in which it was created. Covering everything from the early years of modern dace to toady’s finest choreographers; this one of a kind performance not only lives, but breathes, sweats, and leaps.
Photo by Jeffrey D. Allred, featuring Chien-Ying Wang and Angela Banchero-Kelleher
Tuesday, January 30
- SUU Auditorium
Training for the Sport of Taking Risk
Harlan Cohen
Author, recording artist, and newspaper columnist
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Harlan Cohen’s King Features syndicated column, Help Me, Harlan! reaches millions of readers across the world. Harlan is the author of the books, The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College and Campus Life Exposed: Advice from the Inside. He penned the “On Campus” column for The Wall Street Journal Classroom Edition for two years and has been featured as an advice expert in The New York Times, Details magazine, and Psychology Today.
Harlan argues that being an exceptional leader means having the courage to take risks, navigate through the outcomes, and move forward with even greater passion, purpose, and power. Training for the Sport of Taking Risks is an interactive high-impact workshop that challenges each participant to look inward, look outward, and then to move forward with greater passion, purpose, and confidence. Attendees will participate in a series of exercises that transform fear into freedom and turn obstacles into a springboard to future success. Attendees will leave with unwavering confidence and the ability to overcome everyday adversity.
Tuesday, February 6
- SUU Auditorium
The Abundance Mentality: Give More and You'll Have More
Hyrum Smith
Co-founder and chairman of the board of FranklinCovey
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Hyrum Smith is a renowned speaker and has addressed more than 5,000 audiences. He is the author of What Matters Most, The 10 natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management, The Modern Gladiator, Where Eagles Rest, and Advanced Day Planner User’s Guide, and is co-author of Excellence Through Time Management.
This presentation demonstrates that giving of ourselves and, in the process, finding that we have everything we really want and need, is one of the great secrets of life. The principle of 'give more and you'll have more' is among the most profound in our quest for personal fulfillment and inner peace.
Tuesday, February 13
- SUU Auditorium
The Complete Emmett Till Story: Theft of Different Sorts
Dr. Clenora Hudson Weems
Black History Month Convocation
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Dr. Huson Weems is the author of Africana Womanism: Reclaiming Ourselves and Emmett Till: The Sacrificial Lamb of the Civil Rights Movement. She is also author of Africana Womanist Literary Theory, which offers strategies for positive Black male-female relationships and genuine Sisterhood. She edited Contemporary Africana Theory and Thought: A Guide to Africana Studies and was a guest editor for a special issue on Africana Womanism for the Western Journal of Black Studies. Her current works are Emmett, a feature-length movie script, and Soul Mates, a novel. A recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities and Ford Fellowships, she was awarded the Toni Morrison Society Book Award. She spearheaded the nation's first MA/PhD concentration in the English Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2000.
Dr. Hudson was the first to establish the position that the brutal lynching in August of 1955 of Emmett Louis "Bobo" Till (a 14-year-old Black youth) for whistling at a 21-year-old white woman was the catalyst of the Modern Civil Rights Movement.
Tuesday, March 6 -
SUU Auditorium
Locating the Enemy: Myth vs. Reality in U.S. Foreign Policy
Dr. Morris Berman
The Spring 2007 Grace A. Tanner Distinguished Lecture
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Morris Berman is a cultural historian and the author of a number of books, among them The Reenchantment of the World, Coming to Our Senses, and Wandering God: A Study in Nomadic Spirituality. His Twilight of American Culture was named a "Notable Book" by the New York Times in 2000; the sequel, Dark Ages America, was released in 2006. Dr. Berman has held a number of university appointments, most recently as Visiting Professor of Sociology at the Catholic Unviersity of America in Washington, D.C.
Dr. Berman argues that America was founded on the rejection of the Old World, the feudal and organic world of hierarchy and privilege. Whatever it was that we were, at least we knew that we weren't that. But defining ourselves in terms of what we were not had its costs: it created a permanent identity crisis for the U.S., an emptiness at the center that we have never quite been able to fill. The need to conquer territory, to have something "out there" to overcome, has been a controlling theme in American history, first in terms of Manifest Destiny and the "fleshing out" of the continent, then in terms of our foreign policy.
Tuesday, March 20
- SUU Auditorium
Native American Week Presentation
Darrell "Morning Eagle" Robes Kipp
Native Language Preservationist
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Darrell Robes Kipp received his M.Ed from Harvard and his MFA from Vermont College. He is a Blackfeet poet, educator, documentary filmmaker (Transitions: Death of a Mother Tongue) and native language preservationist. He has served the Blackfeet people and the people of Montana as a civic and cultural leader as well as an historian and interpreter. He has served as a member and chair of the Montana Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Commission and as co-chair of the acclaimed “Confluence of Cultures” national conference on Native Americans and the Lewis and Clark expedition. As a founder of the Piegan Institute and of the independent Nizipuhwahsin School in Browning, he is a nationally respected leader in cultural and linguistic preservation and in native language education.
His work and passion focuses on keeping native languages vibrant. Native words for contemporary objects like computers, yogurt, and Nintendo mean the language is changing to reflect the culture--that it's very much alive.
Tuesday, March 27
- SUU Auditorium
The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create it Yourself
Dr. Peter Diamandis
MIT Aerospace Engineer, Harvard MD and CEO of Zero Gravity Corporation
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Dr. Diamandis received his undergraduate degree in molecular genetics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he also received a graduate degree in aerospace engineering. After MIT he attended Harvard Medical School where he received his M.D. In 2005 he has was also awarded an honorary Doctorate from the International Space University (an institution he co-founded). He is the winner of the Konstantine Tsiolkovsky Award, twice the winner of the Aviation & Space Technology Laurel, and the 2003 World Technology Award for Space.
Dr. Diamandis has spent his life turning impossible dreams into reality: Creating a global space university, flying the first private tourist to the International Space Station, launching a $10 million prize to launch the personal spaceflight revolution, and inventing the Rocket Racing League. Now he's setting his focus on using X PRIZE to revolutionize health care, create cars that exceed 100 mpg, addressing poverty and even cancer. Diamandis will use his real life examples to show how one makes their dreams real. How do you attract the capital, talent and public support to launch your dream? Diamandis will provide the road map and tools useful to all visionaries, dreamers and doers.
Tuesday, April 3
- SUU Auditorium
Science, Health and Alternative Medicine: Reporting from the New York Times
Denise Grady
New York Times Science News Reporter
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Ms. Grady has written more than 500 stories about medicine and biology for The New York Times, and has edited Times books on women's health and alternative medicine. As a freelance writer she has contributed to Science, Discover, Time, Scientific American, Vogue, Reader's Digest, American Health, Parenting and Self. She has worked as a staff writer for Time and Discover magazine. She was an associate editor for The Sciences magazine, an assistant editor for the New England Journal of Medicine, an instructor in writing at the University of New Hampshire, and an assistant editor for Physics Today.
Ms. Grady is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1998 Media Award from the American Society of Anesthesiologists; the 1994 National Headliner Award; the 1993 National Media Award from the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology; and the 1990 Golden Block Award from the National Stuttering Project. She also received a commendation from the Newspaper Guild for "choice and excellence of crusading journalistic contributions in the areas of science and medicine," in 1986.
Thursday, April 12
- SUU Auditorium
Mocking Bird
Charles Shields
Author
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Charles J. Shields, author of the New York Times Best Seller, "Mocking Bird: a Portrait of Harper Lee" will present a special convocation on Thursday, April 12 at 11:30 AM in the SUU Auditorium in connection with Cedar City’s Big Read Project. His presentation will focus on his nearly epic story of trying to write the biography of Harper Lee, author of the great American classic "To Kill a Mocking Bird." This is a rare and exciting opportunity and should not be missed. The SUU bookstore will have copies of his book for sale and a book-signing will take place following the lecture in the Auditorium lobby.
Tuesday, April 17
- SUU Auditorium
Mid-Ocean ridges and more of the Pacific: Deep quest for the fluids that make it that way
Gary Massoth
Chemical Oceanographer
Presentation 11:30-12:30 followed by questions
Gary Massoth has spent his life living on the edge — more specifically, on a convergent margin plate edge. Gary's research path over the past 31 years as a chemical oceanographer has migrated ever westward: from estuaries and coastal waters of the western US, to mid-ocean ridges of the eastern Pacific, and most recently to intra-oceanic arcs of the western Pacific. His research focus over the past 20+ years has been to assess the effects of deep-sea hydrothermal discharge on the chemistry of the oceans. Gary has participated in over 76 research expeditions (including 15 as a Cruise Leader), 28 dives in research submersibles, and 6 remotely operated vehicle (ROV) campaigns, for a total of just over 3 years of time at sea.
Mid-ocean ridges, or MORs, mark the formative edges of the mobile plates that surface the solid Earth and are the single largest continuous geological feature of our planet extending ~67,000 km through the major ocean basins. MORs lie submerged beneath yet another mobile and predominant planetary feature, the salty fluid we call ocean. This talk will follow an eye-opening journey of discovery along the margins of the Pacific plate (and in-between), and reassess, with our eyes now more wide open, why the sea is salty.
While at SUU Mr. Massoth will also be giving a more scientifically detailed presentation to science students that is also free and open to the public. More information available here.
Mr. Massoth's lectures are courtesy of the NSF Ridge 2000 Distinguished Lecturer Series