Fall War Teach-In 2010 September 9

Hiram’s Center for Engaged Ethics presents War Teach-In 2010. Join us on the East Hall Lawn Thursday, September 9, 12 to 1:30 p.m., for the following program:

“War as Philosophy-in-Action: Considering Clausewitz’s Dictum That “War is Politics by Other Means,” and Hence a ‘Natural’ Outgrowth of Human Striving” with James Thompson

“Can Sports Stop a War?  Looking into Sports Influence on Social Conflict” with Carl Capellas

“Cowardice and Bravery in War Literature” with Jeff Swenson

“Public Opposition to War: Its History, Consequences, and Morality” with Vivien Sandlund and Audrey Cunningham

“Biological Warfare” with Cara Constance “Pacific Disengagement: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Japan-US. Propaganda in World War II” with Christopher Dewell

“Can Education Prevent War?” with Dawn Sonntag

“Alfred Nobel: The Story of Explosives from Dynamite to Erectile Dysfunction” with Thomas Koehnle

“Metaphorical War: What Does It Mean to Declare War on a Social Problem?” with Jessica Olin and Cynthia Willis-Chun

“War: Saving Lives, Creating Disability” with Michael Blackie and Michelle Nario-Redmond

“Children Soldiers: The Despicable and Unpardonable Way of Fighting a War” with Roger Cram

“Conflicts Between Military and Professional Ethics: Discussion of Recent Cases in Medicine, Psychology, and Sociology” with the Ethics Bowl Club (Caroline Christoff ’12, Corey Trusso ’12, Colin Anderson)

“They Hate our Freedom: Invoking External and Internal Threats” with Paul Gaffney

Network with Alumni and Get Ideas for your Future Career at FutureFest

Hiram students, are you searching for answers to your career questions? Are you looking for career advice? Are you wondering what having a career is like?

If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, then the Career Center’s FutureFest is the event for you!

At FutureFest students will have the opportunity to meet many Hiram alumni from many career fields. Various activities are planned including a speed networking session, a buffet dinner and additional time for networking. The highlight of the evening will be a keynote speech by Teresa Conroy-Ross on personal branding and using social media in your job search. Conroy-Ross is the incoming Alumni Executive Board president and is a very experienced career professional.

Staff from the Career Center will be distributing career planning materials, signing students up for accounts with Hiram CareerNet, their online employment database, and giving away door prizes.

“It’s an opportunity for our alums to share their career experience and advice with students and for students to have their general career questions answered,” Kathryn Craig, director of the Career Center said. “We also hope they will be excited and motivated by meeting interesting alums and learning more about what they are doing now.”

FutureFest will take place on Friday, September 10, from 6 to 8 p.m. under a tent on the Campus Green.  In case of rain, the event will be held in Dix Dining Hall on the second floor of the Kennedy Center.

Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour – Sunday, August 29

The Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship is bringing the country’s top young entrepreneurs to campus to help educate and motivate the community. The entrepreneurs will be here as part of the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour, the first and only nationwide entrepreneurship tour.

The tour is designed to help participants begin to define their life vision, learn how to develop personal leadership skills, enhance their career opportunities, and understand more about the entrepreneurial career path.

The tour will be stopping at Hiram on Sunday, August 29. The doors of Hayden Auditorium will open at 2 p.m. with a performance by local steel drum band Steelin’ Hearts. Tour events will begin at 3 p.m. The schedule for the day is set to include two speakers, a dream creation workshop and multiple networking opportunities.

Participants that register early can enter to win an iPod Touch and other prizes. Registration is open and can be done online at extremetour.org/hiram. You must be present at the event to win any prizes.

For more information, visit the Center for Integrated Entrepreneurship’s website or the Extreme Entrepreneurship Tour’s website.

Learn More About American Death Rituals at Capstone Presentation

Hiram College and the Office of Graduate Studies invite you to attend a summer 2010 Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies (MAIS) capstone presentation.

Saturday, August 7, 2010 at 11 a.m. in the Garfield Meeting House.

The presentation will be given by Jennifer A. Teeter, B.A., Hiram College. Teeter will speak on “American Death Rituals: Transitioning the Dead.” She is advised by Willard Greenwood, chair and associate professor of English and Jonathan Moody, professor emeritus of religious studies.

Lunch will be served, so please RSVP to 330.569.6111 or mais@hiram.edu.

Learn About “The Entrepreneurial Mindset” From Teaching Fellow Applicant

Tomorrow, Tuesday, July 20, at 3 p.m. an applicant for the Integrated Entrepreneurship Teaching Fellow Position, David Baker, will give a presentation on “The Entrepreneurial Mindset” in the Forum in East Hall.

Baker is a Ph.D. candidate at Kent State University. His dissertation is a study of international entrepreneurship through country comparison.

Please join us for the presentation – there will be snacks.

Verb Ballets to Perform “Luis” to Celebrate 20 Years of Literature and Medicine

As part of the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities 20^th anniversary celebrations, the Center is celebrating with a performance of “Luis” performed by Verb Ballets on Saturday, July 17, 2010 at 5 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

“Luis” is a contemporary ballet based on a short story by Richard Selzer, M.D. The story is set in a city in Brazil and explores the intersecting lives of a wealthy radiologist and a young man who survives by scavenging at the city dump. As the narrative unfolds, the characters become entwined in a morality play that resonates with universal themes. Award-winning playwright Eric Coble and choreographer Mark Tomasic were the original collaborators on the adaptation of the story to dance.

Verb Ballets is Cleveland’s National Repertory Dance Company. The mission of Verb Ballets is to promote and develop interest in and appreciation for contemporary dance nationally, regionally and locally through performance, programs that promote learning and nurture wellness, audience and community dialogue and advocacy efforts to support the art form. As a curator of expressive movement that is globally connected and nationally respected, Verb Ballets is a leader in performing dance works of the highest caliber, including historical masterpieces, works by outstanding contemporary choreographers and by dynamic emerging artists. While performing nationally, from its Northeast Ohio base, this repertory company presents programming for youth through adults that promotes learning, nurtures wellness and encourages dialogue on the dance art form to stimulate and enliven the community.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. For more information about the Center’s anniversary celebration you can visit the Center’s website. If you have questions about this event, please contact Brittany Jackson ’04 at JacksonB1@hiram.edu or 330.569.5380.

Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities Hosting Best Selling Author

As part of the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities’ 20^th anniversary celebrations, the Center is hosting Richard Preston, author of “The Hot Zone,” on Friday, July 16, 2010, at 7 p.m. in Hayden Auditorium.

Richard Preston’s critically and commercially acclaimed books have cemented his status as a first-rate investigative journalist and gifted storyteller, as well as put him in the forefront of the emerging diseases and biotechnology arenas. He first took the world by storm with “The Hot Zone,” the international best-seller that introduced the world to the threat of Ebola and other rain forest viruses. Spending 42 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list, “The Hot Zone” inspired several fictional adaptations and has been translated into over 30 languages.

In “The Cobra Event,” also a bestseller, Preston turned his attention to the very real threat of biological terrorism. “The Demon in the Freezer” takes us back into the hot zone, delving with unprecedented detail into the government’s response to the anthrax attacks of October 2001 – the first major bioterrorism event in the U.S. and the second largest investigation in FBI history. Preston’s latest, “The Wild Trees,” is an account of scientific and spiritual passion for the tallest trees in the world, the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens. He expertly explores the startling biosystem of “the canopy” and shares the story of those who are committed to the preservation of this astonishing and largely unknown world.

This event is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. For more information about the Center’s anniversary celebration you can visit the Center’s website. If you have questions about this event, please contact Brittany Jackson ‘04 at JacksonB1@hiram.edu or 330.569.5380.

Symposium to Honor 20th Anniversary of the Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities

Hiram College’s Center for Literature, Medicine and Biomedical Humanities will be celebrating its 20th anniversary and its founders, Dr. Carol Donley and Dr. Martin Kohn, at a symposium on July 16 and 17, 2010. The symposium, titled “The Role of Narrative in Science and Medicine: 1990 – 2010,” will feature two days of discussion, writing workshops, entertainment, lectures and more.

Events include:

• A workshop on creative writing in clinical settings with Rita Charon, professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University and director of the program in narrative medicine,
• Dinner, a lecture and a book signing by Richard Preston, author of “The Hot Zone,”
• A keynote address given by Charon,
• A performance of “Luis” by Verb Ballets,
• And a dinner to honor Donley and Kohn.

Registration is required for most events. Interested participants can register online until July 9, 2010. Other symposium details can also be read on the Center’s website, including a full schedule of events, a list of event costs, biographies of the speakers and anniversary honorees and information on the Carol Donley Scholarship in Literature and Medicine.

The Center was originally founded as The Center for Literature, Medicine and Health Care Professions, a collaborative project of Hiram and the Northeastern Ohio Universities Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy (NEOUCOM), in 1990.

For more information about the symposium, contact Brittany Jackson at 330.569.5380 or JacksonB1@hiram.edu.

All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner This Friday

Come to the Western Reserve Kiwanis and Hiram Hilltoppers Baseball Club All-You-Can-Eat Spaghetti Dinner this Friday, June 4, from 5 to 7 p.m. in the Hiram College Kennedy Center.

Dinner includes spaghetti, a choice of meat or marinara sauce, salad, garlic bread, dessert and beverage. Adults are $6 and children 8 and under eat free! Carry-out is also available.

For more information, visit the Western Reserve Kiwanis’ website.

Hessinger to Speak at Hiram Historical Society Program

Associate Professor of History and Associate Dean of the College Rodney Hessinger will explore the mob assault on Joseph Smith at the Johnson farm in March of 1832 at the Hiram Historical Society’s next program:

“Tarring and Feathering a Prophet: The Reception of Joseph Smith in Hiram, 1832.”

When: Thursday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: The Historical Society’s Century House (across from the Hiram Fire Station).

In this year, Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was residing with the Johnsons, receiving revelations and preaching to the Mormon faithful. Put in context, this was a very surprising attack. By the early nineteenth century, Americans had fully embraced religious pluralism as an ideal, counting it as a mark of distinction to their young nation. This should have been especially true in Hiram: the Disciples of Christ, one of the predominant faith groups in the village, were renowned for their latitudinarian approach to religion. Examining past accounts, as well as looking anew at sources from the 1830s, Hessinger will analyze the causes of this violent episode.

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