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Learning for Life

Convocations Schedule 2008-2009

September
Tuesday
September 2
7:30pm
Sherman Gym
Dennis O'Sullivan
"Pure Performance"
Monday
September 8
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Jane Ann Moore
"Elijah & Owen Lovejoy:
Heroes of Anti Slavery Illinois"
IC CONNECTIONS
Wednesday
September 10
7:00pm
Sibert Theatre
 
Dr. Peter A. Verkruyse
"Political Debates Then and Now:
What We Can Learn From Lincoln and Douglas"
Thursday
September 11
7:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Patrick Brannan & Jimmy Duncan
"Real Life War Experiences of American Soldiers"
Monday
September 15
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Nonie Darwish
"Now They Call Me Infidel"
 
Wednesday
September 17
7:00pm
Crispin
Constitution Day
Senator Deanna Demuzio
"The Importance of the Constitution to Citizens
of the United States"
Friday
September 19
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Chicago Acappella
Illinois College Fine Arts Series
Friday
September 19
8:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Jose Tapia
"Upcoming Election Issues"
Monday
September 29
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Kurt Eichenwald
"Business Ethics in the 21st Century:
The View From a Corporate Crime Expert"
IC CONNECTIONS
October
Tuesday
October 7
8:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Camille Cellucci
"Making Movie Magic, An Inside Look at Visual Effects"
Sunday
October 12
4:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Organist William Ness
Illinois College Fine Arts Series
Monday
October 13
11:00am
Kirby 6
Dr. James Hallwas
"Desperadoes: Notorious Outlaws of Early Illinois"
Wednesday
October 15
7:00pm
Kirby 6
Brian DeMarco
"The Ultra-Cold Frontier"
Friday
October 24
8:00pm
Cummings
Michelle Garb
"Fat Brain, Skinny Body-Eating Disorders"
Saturday
October 25
7:00pm
Sherman Gymnasium
United States Army Field Band Concert

Monday
October 27
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Tyrone Hayes
"From Silent Spring to Silent Night:
"What Do Frogs Tell Us About Human Health?"
IC CONNECTIONS
Thursday
October 30
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only) 
Friday
October 31
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)
November
Sunday
November 2
2:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)
Thursday
November 6
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance
only)
Friday
November 7
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance
only)
Saturday
November 8
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College Theatre Works
"Playing for Time"
IC CONNECTIONS
(Convo credit given for attending one performance
only)
Sunday
November 9
4:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
The Food of Love
featuring Eugenia Zukerman and Claire Bloom
Illinois College Fine Arts Series
Thursday
November 13
8:00pm
Kirby 6
Dr. Kevin Stein
Poet Laureate of Illinois, poetry reading
Friday
November 14
4:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Rebecca Herzig
Darwin's Dilemma: On Faith, Science,
and Body Hair
Monday
November 17
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Dr. Ellen J. Kennedy
"Genocide in the 20th Century and Darfur"
Monday
November 17
7:00pm
Kirby 6
W.D. Sanders Trophies in Oratory for Men
Wednesday
November 19
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Claude Smith
Claridge Writer-in-Residence
"Red Men in Red Square and
Other BreakAway Phenomena"
Friday
November 21
7:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Randy Steidl
"Witness to Innocence: An Innocent Person Who
Survived Death Row"
Monday
November 24
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Bill Tennill
"Mental Illness and Suicide Awareness"
December
Friday
December 5
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Christmas Festival Concert
Illinois College Concert Choir,
Renaissance Singers and the Wind Ensemble
Saturday
December 6
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra and Chorale and
the Illinois College Concert Choir and four vocal
soloists
"A Grand Holiday Messiah Plus Pops"
   
January
Monday
January 19
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Robert T. Sells
"A Chronicle of the Life of
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."
Monday
January 26
11:00am
Sibert Theatre
Mark Pohlad
"The Camera and Abraham Lincoln"
   
February
Monday
February 9
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Naima Tonya Johnston
"Negro Spirituals as a Historical American Art Form"
Saturday
February 14
8:00pm
Cummings
Maria Falzone
"Sex Rules! Rules to Greater and Safer Sex"
Sunday
February 15
8:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Mike Shiley
"Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories"
Monday
February 16
11:00am
Rammelkakmp
Chapel
Shira Nayman
"Traumas and Triumphs: Writers Grappling With
the Nightmares of History"
Tuesday
February 17
4:00pm
Kirby 6
Bonnie Shulman
"Feminist Science Education: Re-examining What
and How We Teach and to Whom" 
Thursday
February 19
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College TheatreWorks
"Anon(ymous)"
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)
Saturday
February 21
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Salvation Army Staff Band of Chicago
Illinois College Fine Arts Series

Sunday
February 22
2:00pm
Sibert Theatre

Illinois College TheatreWorks
"Anon(ymous)"
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)
Monday
February 23
11:00am
Sibert Theatre
Henry Mollicone
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
"Music and Social Justice; Some Observations"
Thursday
February 26
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Henry Mollicone
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow
Beatitude Mass Benefit Concert
March
Thursday
March 5
7:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Donald H. Doyle
"Jacksonville as a Mirror on America in the 19th Century"
Monday
March 9
8:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar
Philip D. Gingerich
"Fossils and Evolution: What We Know and How We
Know It"
Tuesday
March 10
7:30pm
Kirby 6
Poet, David Clewell
Tuesday
March 24
7:30pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
 
Arianna String Quartet
Illinois College Fine Arts Series
 
April
Saturday
April 4
8:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Teri Jendusa Nicolai
Domestic Violence Prevention
Monday
April 6
7:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Chris Valillo
"Abraham Lincoln in Song"
Sunday
April 19
4:00pm
Rammelkamp
Chapel
Underground Railway Theatre
"Are You Ready, My Sister"
Illinois College Fine Arts Series
Monday
April 20
11:00am
Rammelkamp
Chapel
A commemorative program for
Holocaust Remembrance Day (Shoah)
Wednesday
April 22
4:00pm
Kirby 5
Jacob Manske
"Puzzles on Combinatorics"
Thursday
April 23
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre

Illinois College TheatreWorks
"The Secret Garden"
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)

Sunday
April 26
2:00pm
Sibert Theatre
Illinois College TheatreWorks
"The Secret Garden"
(Convo credit given for attending one performance only)
Tuesday
April 28
7:30pm
Sibert Theatre
Nepal Video Presentation by Phi Alpha members
Dered Marin, Evan Stewart and Kabindra Malla

Have a suggestion for the Convo Committee?
Email:
jmarshal@ic.edu


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Fall/Spring 2005-2006
Spring 2005
Fall 2004
Spring 2004
Fall 2003
Spring 2003
 
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