St. Michael's College

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Visit Saint Michael's College web site for information on events at the College. www.smcvt.edu

Programs in this Series

Format: 2024-04-20
Format: 2024-04-20
Panel Discussion, Saving Our Common Home - A Symposium on Integral Ecology - 09/08/2015
Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, is an urgent call for politicians, policy makers, and all citizens of planet earth to make care for the environment central in our decision making. He appeals for recognition of the “seamless...
Keynote John L. Allen, Jr. - Saving Our Common Home - A Symposium on Integral Ecology - 09/08/2015
Pope Francis’s encyclical, Laudato Si, is an urgent call for politicians, policy makers, and all citizens of planet earth to make care for the environment central in our decision making. He appeals for recognition of the “seamless...
Dr. Maura Cullen on Diversity and Inclusion - 09/17/2013
Dr. Cullen, author of 35 Dumb Things Well-Intended People Say: Surprising Things We Say That Widen The Diversity Gap, has 25 years’ experience as a diversity trainer/speaker at over 500 universities and organizations. She reaches her audience...
50 Years after the March on Washington: How Are We Doing? - 08/28/2013
Sponsored by the St. Michael's Peace and Justice Program, this panel presentation features Dr. Lorrie Smith, Dr. Kathryn Dungy, Dr. Bill Grover, and Father David Theroux discussing the history and implications of the March on Washington of...
St. Michael's College 2013 Commencement Speaker Mark Shields - 05/12/2013
Mark Shields, called “frequently the most trenchant, fair-minded, and thoughtful” political analyst around, and the wittiest, is the 2013 Commencement Speaker at the 106th commencement exercises of Saint Michael's College.  ...
Dead Men Walking: The Journey Continues - Sister Helen Prejean - 03/07/2013
Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States, presents - 'Dead Man Walking: The Journey Continues'. Sponsored by the vanderHeyden Endowment for the Fine Arts, with...
Bill McKibben - Fossil Fuel Divestment and the Future - 01/30/2013
Environmentalist, Bill McKibben, at Saint Michael's College gives a talk, “After America’s Hottest Year, It’s Time to Act: FOSSIL FUEL, DIVESTMENT, AND THE FUTURE”. McKibben’s 1988 book The End of Nature was the...
Jeffrey Gettleman - New York Times East Africa Bureau Chief - 10/22/2012
2012 recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, Jeffrey Gettleman covers over 10 countries, focussing on events in Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania in East Central Africa.  Sponsored by the Saint Michael's College Edmundite...
Conversation on the F-35 - 10/17/2012
Panelists: Tom Torti, President of the Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, who served 16 years for two governors of different political parties, as Commissioner of Personnel; Commissioner of Buildings and General Services; Deputy Secretary...
Leah Bolger - President, Veterans for Peace - 10/11/2012
After serving 20 years in the Navy, Commander Leah Bolger retired and became the first female president of Veterans for Peace.  Her talk is part of the Burlington Peace and Justice Center's Cost of War series and is co-sponsored by the Will...
L.Z. Granderson, National CNN Columnist - "DARE YOU TO MOVE" - 03/28/2012
"Dare You To Move" is an account of LZ Granderson’s journey from poverty, physical abuse, and gang culture in Detroit to being the most openly gay man working in sports today. The one time Detroit gang member is now a sought-after...
U.S. Policy in Post-Election Congo - U.S. Ambassador Barrie Walkley - 03/21/2012
Special Representative fo the Great Lakes Region of Africa, US Ambassador Barrie Walkley, speaks on US Policy in Post-Election Congo.  Ambassador Walkley has extensive experience as a US foreign service officer.  He served as ambassador to...
Are Corporations People? Citizens Respond to Citizens United - 02/27/2012
Are Corporations People? Citizens Respond to Citizens United is the topic. Discussing the issue are: John Bonifaz, Co-Founder and Director, Free Speech For People; Jerry Greenfield, Co-Founder, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc.; ...
James K. Galbraith - Inequality, Instability, and the Great Financial Crisis - 10/27/2011
As part of St. Michael's College Sutherland Lecture Series, James K. Galbraith, Ph.D, Lloyd M. Bentsen Chair in Government and Business Relations and Professor of Economics at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, will...
Amy Goodman - 10/02/2011
Amy Goodman, Host and Executive Producer of Democracy Now!, a national, daily, independent, award winning news program.  Goodman, also an author of NYT bestseller books, speaks at St. Michael's College as part of SMC's Annual Peace...

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