Events - Spring 2008 
UNH Durham Event Schedule
January
Holler If You Hear Me: Race, Culture and Democracy
18th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration
http://www.unh.edu/diversity/mlk_celebration.html
February
The Great Election Debate: How the media can sway votes and win elections
Wednesday 2.6.08, 7 PM
The Strafford Room, MUB
Months before voters go to the polls, powerful media outlets have shaped our opinions of the candidates – their haircuts and cleavage, their religious views and marital troubles. Are media now obstacles to serious discussion of the issues? Can Democrats get a fair shake at the hands of conservative media conglomerates? Are Republicans undermined by liberal reporters and public broadcasting? How is campaign coverage being changed by the Internet? By YouTube? By Comedy Central? Two of our country's top media critics – one on the left, one on the right – offer a lively, cutting-edge debate on the media’s crucial role in the 2008 campaign. Sponsored by the MUB Current Issues Lecture Series.
Professor Sut Jhally is the founder and director of the Media Education Foundation from the University of Massachusetts. This series of programs is sponsored by the Department of Communication and the Provost's Office.
Viewing of Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Movie and Discussion with Sut Jhally
Tuesday 2.12.08, 12:30 PM
MUB Theatre II
The 9/11 terror attacks continue to send shock waves through the American political system. Continuing fears about American vulnerability alternate with images of American military prowess and patriotic bravado in a transformed media landscape charged with emotion and starved for information. The result is that we have had little detailed debate about the radical turn US policy has taken since 9/11. Watch the film and join a provocative conversation.
Advertising and the End of the World
Lecture and discussion with Sut Jhally
Tuesday 2.12.08, 4 PM
MUB Theatre II
Focusing directly on the world of commercial images, Sut Jhally asks some basic questions about the cultural messages emanating from this market-based view of the world: Do our present arrangements deliver what they claim-- happiness and satisfaction? Can we think about our collective as well as our private interests? And, can we think long-term as well as short-term? Drawing from the broad arena of commercial imagery, and utilizing sophisticated graphics, Advertising & the End of the World addresses the issues these questions raise, encouraging viewers to reflect on their own participation in the culture of consumption.
Tough Guise: Media, Violence and Masculinity
Speaker: Professor Sut Jhally
Wednesday 2.13.08, 3 PM
The Strafford Room, MUB
This lecture looks at the way in which "normal" definitions of masculinity position violence, intimidation and threat as key components of modern manhood. Also examined are ways to live outside of these constraining stories, so that boys have a chance of becoming "better men."
Art and Democracy Roundtable
Wednesday 2.13.08, 12 noon
Art Gallery, PCAC
A reading of the short play "Kill the Messenger!" followed by a panel discussion featuring UNH Faculty representing Art, Music, Theatre and Dance.
In the Theatre of Dionysos: Democracy and Tragedy in Ancient Athens
Thursday 2.14.08, 5 PM
A-212, PCAC
Join us for a lecture and discussion with Richard Sewell, an accomplished Playwright, Director and Actor, Sewell is a member of Actors' Equity, the union of professional actors. Sponsored by the Department of Language, Literature and Culture and the John C. Rouman Lecture Series.
Freedom '56 at the University Museum
Thursday 2.14 - Thursday 7.3, 2008
UNH is pleased to host the final display of the traveling photography exhibition, Freedom ‘56, which commemorates the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Historic photographs by Erich Lessing capture the spirit of a brief victory from communist oppression by Hungarian demonstrators, followed by the violent Soviet invasion that re-established Hungary as part of the Soviet orbit. In 1989, Hungary emerged as a democracy following the break-up of the Soviet Union.
Contemporary photos of Budapest by Stephen Spinder complement the exhibition. Exhibition opens Feb. 14 with a reception from 4-5:30pm. Honorary Hungarian Consul General of Hungary Gabor Garai will be the guest of honor.
REPUBLIC OF DREAMS, Presented by THE DOUBLE EDGE THEATRE
Saturday and Sunday 2.16.08 - 2.17.08, 7 PM
Hennessy Theatre, PCAC
Conceived and directed by Artistic Director Stacy Klein, Republic of Dreams explores the writings, art, and life of Polish-Jewish artist Bruno Schulz, and his banal death at the hands of a jealous Nazi. Double Edge Theatre was named ‘Best of Boston’ by the Boston Globe, the Boston Phoenix, and the Boston Herald for Rites, My Sister in this House, Hunger Artist, and Song of Absence. It has been written about nationally and internationally, including in AMERICAN THEATER, THEATRE JOURNAL, THEATRE IN POLAND, THEATER QUARTERLY and THE NEW YORK TIMES. Sponsored by The Center for the Humanities, The Department of Theatre and Dance, and the Office of the Provost, and made possible by a generous grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts.
March
The Story of Stuff
Wednesday 3.05.08, 3 PM
MUB Theatre II
Ever wonder where all our "stuff" comes from and where it goes? This short (20 minute) video that provides a detailed yet entertaining look into stuff, how our system of producing stuff is in crisis, and identifies how we might move towards more sustainable systems. Join Discovery Author Vanessa Druskat for this fascinating film and discussion. It'll teach you something, it'll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life forever.
Live Free or Die: Democracy, Liberty, and Imperialism in Ancient Athens
Wednesday 3.12.08, 7:30 PM
Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall
Lecture and discussion with Kurt Raaflaub, Professor of Classics at Brown and Dialogue Author R. Scott Smith, UNH Professor of Classics. Dr. Raaflaub, an expert on ancient democracy, will explore the tenuous connections between democracy and liberty in ancient Athens in the fifth century B.C. In particular, the ties between democracy and the Athenian empire just prior to the Peloponnesian war will be discussed in its own context, with a view toward illuminating how democracy and imperialist tendencies might be at odds in our own world. Perhaps there are lessons to be learned from the past? Sponsored by the John C. Rouman Lecture Series.
April
Speaker John Nguyet Erni
Human Rights in the Neoliberal Imagination: Mapping the "New Sovereignties"
Thursday, 4.3.08
12:40-2 Horton 114
John Erni is a former faculty member in the Department of Communication at UNH, is currently Professor of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong, and Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches Chinese consumption of transnational culture, Asian pop, cultural tourism, sexualities in Asia, critical public health, and human rights politics. His books include Unstable Frontiers: Technomedicine and the Cultural Politics of "Curing" AIDS, Internationalizing Cultural Studies, and Asian Media Studies: The Politics of Subjectivities.
“The Meeting” produced by the OMSA Office
The play is about a fictional meeting between Malcolm X and Dr. King runs an hour and 15 minutes, followed by a post show discussion.
This play supports the University’s Discovery Programs focus on Democracy in America are free and open to the general public.
Friday, April 4th
Location: MUB, room to be announced.
Start: 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Sponsor: Black Family Weekend, Bessem Bate
Monday, April 7th
Location: Pease International Trade Port, NAACP
Start: 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Sponsor: NAACP
Tuesday, April 8th
Location: MUB, MUB Theatre I
Start: 4:30 pm to 7:00 pm
Sponsor: Connect Program, Meir Perry
***Thursday, April 10th
Location: MUB, MUB WildCat Den
Start: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Sponsor: Graduate School, Renai Mason/Cari Moorhead
Monday, April 14th
Location: MUB Theatre One
Start: 3:40 pm to 5:00 pm
Sponsor: Philosophy Dept., Paul McNamara
Steven Hill Lecture: "Ten Steps to Repair American Democracy: A Citizens' Owner's Manual"
Thursday 4.24.08, 7 PM
Community Church of Durham, 17 Main St, Durham
Lecture by Steven Hill, Director of the Political Reform Program at the New America Foundation. Mr. Hill will be available to autograph books following the lecture. This event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Active Retirement Association and the UNH Discovery Program
Undergraduate Research Conference
Vice President's Forum
Friday 4.25.08, 9 AM
Join Discovery Authors Sharyn Potter and Vanessa Druskat at Democracy related sessions to be announced!!
Structuring Global Democracy: Political Communities, Universal Human Rights, and Transnational Representation
Monday 4.28.08, 7:10 PM
MURK G17
Carol Gould will speak on the subject of her recent book, Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. She is a Professor of Philosophy and Government at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for Global Ethics. Sponsored by the Philosophy Department.
Democracy and a Movie
Can't Do It in Europe
Mary Malone
1.22.08
7:00
MUB II
Cry Freedom
David Kaye
2.19.08
7:00
MUB I
The War on Democracy
Lori Hopkins
3.25.08
7:00
MUB II
Salvador Allende
Mary Malone
3.11.08
12:40 – 2:00
MUB II
The Corporation
Nick Smith
4.08.08
7:00
MUB II
2007-2008 Saul O Sidore Memorial Lecture Series
Exploring Democracy at Home and Abroad
http://www.unh.edu/humanities-center/Events_Sidore.html