Colors of Charpentier
By Dr. Korre Foster, Assistant Professor of Music
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Dr. Korre Foster, assistant professor of music and director of choral activities, will outline the compositional style of Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1634-1704), a French Baroque composer known for "breaking the rules." Charpentier's music is full of distinct melodic and harmonic colors setting his music apart from the other Baroque composers. The presentation will demonstrate these colors by looking at Charpentier’s work Messe pour Monsieur Mauroy.

The Future of Creativity
By Mark DeYoung, Assistant Professor of Art
Wednesday, March 3, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.

Mark DeYoung, graphics artist and assistant professor of art, will share his views on the future of creativity, focusing on the role creativity in design will play in the future of the economy. He will examine and discuss creativity and the economy in terms of evolving business models and vital quality-of-life issues such as environmental health and stable communities that are culturally rich and vibrant.

Theatre of Therapy
By Ricky Steven Young, Jr., Senior Theatre Major
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 2 p.m.

This presentation by Ricky Steven Young, Jr., senior theatre major, will cover the therapeutic impact of the theatre arts in general, on a personal, cultural, and spiritual level. The presentation will focus on in-depth examples of productions that demonstrate therapeutic impact, whether in the workings of the presenter's personal life, within other groups or cultures, and the potential of the art as a whole.

V-Day 2010:
A Season of Courage and Joy
By Dr. Jill Eichhorn, Associate Professor of
English/Women's Studies
Wednesday, March 24, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Dr. Jill Eichhorn, associate professor of English and coordinator of the Women’s Studies program, will deliver a presentation about Eve Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues and the V-Day movement. The presentation would draw on Ensler's evaluation of the work of V-Day and the projects it funds, and will survey the history of V-Day nationally, internationally, and locally. The presentation will conclude with a performance of one of the monologues, “I Was in the Room.”

Finding Their Voice:
20th Century Irish Women Writers
By Dr. Jill Franks, Professor of English
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Feminism comes later, and in a different form, to Irish women than to either their American or British counterparts. In part, this is due to national struggles for independence from England, and for creation of a uniquely Irish identity. In large part, this lag is due to legislation against abortion, divorce, and contraception. Dr. Jill Franks, professor of English, will explore the lives and work of a handful of women novelists and memoirists to describe how a uniquely Irish women’s voice emerges in the latter half of the twentieth century.

The Shi'a, the Sunni Wahhabi,
the Taliban and Al-Qaeda
By Dr. Bert Randall, Professor of
Philosophy and Religion
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 2 p.m.

For over thirteen centuries the major religious conflict in the Muslim world has been the Sunni–Shi'a conflict that goes back to the very beginnings of Islam. The extent and periodic intensity of this conflict has often been overlooked, especially by politicians. America experienced this in major ways in Iraq, and it is a factor in Afghanistan as well as one of the major hurdles to peace in the Middle East. Dr. Bert Randall’s presentation will explore this centuries old conflict as it influences the current situation in the Middle East, especially Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Dr. Randall will use the material recently developed for training sessions with the First Squadron–32nd CAV at Fort Campbell prior to their spring Deployment to Afghanistan. Central to their Command Staff was a concern about how extremists such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban pervert the Qur'an in order to justify violence, and how to respond in terms of what the Qur'an and hadiths teach.

Student Success and Faculty/Staff Mentoring
By Ryan Forsythe, Director of Admissions
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 2 p.m.

Ryan Forsythe, director of admissions, will explore and discuss the fall 2009 APSU faculty/staff to student pilot mentoring program. Information shared will include the development and implementation of the APSU mentoring program, the selection and training of participant mentors, a confidential review of student participants, a review of the program’s design, and student outcomes. The audience will be highly encouraged to ask questions about this study and its results.