Thursday, Feb. 19- Sunday, March 1 / Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial / 2009 High School Regional Juried Art Exhibition; 10th annual show featuring select works from students in Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer and southern Saratoga counties
Thursday, Feb. 19, 12:50-1:50 p.m. / Hale House, Everest Lounge / Rapaport Ethics Across the Curriculum Initiative workshop lunch featuring Prof. Anastasia Pease on "Delight and Instruct with the World Wide Web: Teaching Ethics Across the Curriculum Using Online Resources”; discussion to follow. All faculty, administrators and staff invited, with lunch served. RSVP: peasea@union.edu
Thursday, Feb. 19, 4:30 p.m. / Shaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Speaker Series presents: Cristina LaFont of Northwestern University on “Religion and the Public Sphere: What are the Deliberative Obligations of Democratic Citizenship?” LaFont specializes in German philosophy, particularly hermeneutics and critical theory. She is author of “The Linguistic Turn in Hermeneutic Philosophy (MIT Press, 1999) and Heidegger, Language, and World-disclosure (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Friday, Feb. 20, 5 p.m –9 p.m. / Mandeville Gallery and downtown Schenectady establishments / Art Night Schenectady
Friday, Feb. 20, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Colgate (ECAC contest); with "Pink at the Rink" fundraiser
Friday, Feb. 20 – Monday, Feb. 23, 10 p.m. / Reamer Auditorium / Film Series: "Quantum of Solace"
Saturday, Feb. 21, 4 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Cornell (ECAC contest); with "Pink at the Rink" fundraiser
Thursday, Feb. 26, 12:45 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Founders Day ceremonies commemorate the 214th anniversary of the granting of the College's charter and celebrate Union's role in the 19th-century abolitionist movement. To include unveiling of a portrait of Moses Viney, escaped slave whose freedom was secured by Union President Eliphalet Nott
Thursday, Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Old Testament scholar Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary, speaks on “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Journey to the Common Good,” a consideration of how the "master narrative" of the Hebrew Bible serves as a guide and summons toward the common good. From 1986 to his retirement in 2000, Brueggeman was the William Marcellus McPheeters Professor of Old Testament at the theological seminary. Co-sponsored by the Campus Protestant Ministry, Capital Region Theological Center, Office of Campus Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, Lamont Funds, UNITAS, Hillel, Religious Studies and the Minervas. For more information, contact Victoria Brooks at brooksmv@union.edu
Friday, Feb. 27- Sunday, March 1 / College Park Hall / The Office of the President and the History Department present: “The Underground Railroad: Its Legacies and Our Communities”; organized by the Underground Railroad History Project of the Capital Region Inc. Workshops will be held during the event and are open to students, faculty and staff. Student cost $10 for Saturday workshops, $25 includes lunch. Faculty/staff cost: $35 for Saturday workshops, $50 includes lunch. Registration deadline Friday, Feb. 20. Visit www.ugrworkshop.com or e-mail info@ugrworkshop.com
Friday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. St. Lawrence (ECAC contest)
Friday, Feb. 27 – Monday, March 2, 10 p.m. / Reamer Auditorium / Film: “Transporter 3”
Saturday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. Clarkson (ECAC contest)
Sunday, March 1, 1-3 p.m. / Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial / 2009 High School Regional Juried Art Exhibition closing reception
Sunday, March 1, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Union College and the Community Orchestra with conductor Victor Klimash in “Winter 2009…The Big Chill.”
winter dance concert 2009
Monday, March 2, 5:30 p.m. / Nott Memorial / 2009 Wold Lecture on Religion and Conflict presents "Religion and International Relations in the Obama Administration" The Aftermath and the Anticipation," with Jack Miles, the Distinguished Professor of English and Religious Studies, University of California at Irvine, and Senior Fellow of Religious Affairs with the Pacific Council on International Policy. Reception at 5 p.m.
Thursday, March 5 through Saturday, March 7, 8 p.m.; also, March 7-8, 2 p.m. / The Yulman Theater / Winter Dance Concert, “The Theatre of Worlds: The Voyage”; tickets on sale now; call 388-6545