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In the Presence of Fear
Sunday, September 12, 7 p.m.
Haggin Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Building

An evening with Kentucky author Wendell Berry and Appalshop filmmaker Herb E. Smith. Smith will screen his powerful new film by the same title, and he and Berry will be on hand to talk with the audience afterwards about it.

Faculty Panel Discussion on Liberty, Security, and Justice
Thursday, September 30, 7 p.m.
Haggin Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Building

Christopher Hitchens, lecture "The Trial of Henry Kissinger"
Thursday, October 14, 7 p.m.
Haggin Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Building

Renown political and literary critic Christopher Hitchens will lecture on his controversial book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, and offer reflections on the current political scene. Author of many books and articles as well as a former columnist for The Nation, Hitchens now writes for Slate and The Daily Mirror, and he is a contributing editor to The Atlantic Monthly and Vanity Fair.

Hitchens will visit various individual classes as well as address a joint meeting of history and political science classes on the topic of Michael Moore’s film, Fahrenheit 9/11.

“Today’s Struggles for Civil and Political Rights in Kentucky”

Lecture by Suzanne Pharr
Thursday, October 26, 3:30 p.m.
Carrick Auditorium

Sponsored by Sophia, the Transylvania University Philosophical Society

Pharr is a former director of the Highlander Research and Education Center, one of the nation’s foremost institutions for the promotion of civil and political rights. She is a co-founder of the Arkansas Women’s Project and an activist with the No on the Amendment campaign in Kentucky.

“The Human Rights Struggle in Guatemala”

Lecture by Rudy Monteroso
Wednesday, October 13, 3:30 p.m.
Carrick Auditorium

In addition to his public lecture, Monteroso will visit various classes.

Film Series
Introduction and discussion after viewing led by faculty hosts

• Dr. Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
  Thursday, October 7, 8 p.m.
  Host: Anthony Vital, professor of English
  
  Perhaps the funniest movie of all time, Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 cutting send-up of the Cold War, the nuclear arms race, American military-political culture, and fluoridation rings as true today as ever. With Peter Sellers (as three characters), George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, and James Earl Jones.

• The Trial of Henry Kissinger
  Wednesday, October 13, 4 p.m.
  Host: LSJ guest lecturer Christopher Hitchens, political commentator, author, and columnist for The Nation
  
  Based on Hitchens’ controversial book of the same name, this 2002 Eugene Jarecki film makes a case for the stunning conclusion that American political icon Henry Kissinger is a war criminal. Like the book, the film raises important questions about justice, law, the legal standing of government leaders, and the conduct of war.
  
  Christopher Hitchens lecture October 14.

• Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism
  Wednesday, October 20, 4 p.m.
  
  Host: Melissa Fortner, assistant professor of psychology
  Deploying a legion of provocative film clips and interviews, this 2004 Robert Greenwald film argues that what calls itself “fair and balanced” (that is, Fox News) may in fact not be.

• Osama
  Thursday, November 4, 8 p.m.
  Host: Mark Krause, assistant professor of drama
  
  Winner of the 2004 Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Film and shot in Afghanistan, Sadiq Barmak’s beautiful and disturbing film explores the oppression of women under Taliban rule through the experiences of a young girl trying to help what’s left of her family by posing as a boy.

• Battle of Algiers (La Battaglia di Algeri)
  Wednesday, November 17, 4 p.m.
  Host: Mark Jackson, assistant professor of psychology
  
  Banned in France, Gillo Pontecorvo’s gritty 1965 film recounts the 1954-57 Algerian resistance to French colonial rule and the French attempt to smash it. U.S. government officials recently studied the film for lessons relevant to Iraq.

• Train of Life (Train de vie)
  Thursday, December 2, 8 p.m.
  Host: Eva Cshuai, associate professor of chemistry
  
  Winner of 10 international best picture awards, Radu Mihaileanu’s 1998 film presents a poignant but humorous story of Jewish resistance to the Holocaust. Shlomo, a local comic, launches a plan to save his shtetl (Jewish village) by loading its people onto a fake deportation train driven and guarded by villagers posing as Nazi soldiers.

All film screenings in Cowgill Center 102. Open only to the Transylvania community.

“Today’s Struggles for Civil and Political Rights in Kentucky”
Tuesday, October 26, 3:30pm
Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Building

Lecture by Suzanne Pharr, former director of the Highlander Center in Tennessee, one of the nation’s most important civil rights institutions, and co-founder of SONG (Southerners on New Ground). Pharr a tireless organizer and advocate for human, civil, and political rights.

This event is sponsored by “Sophia, The Transylvania Philosophical Society.”

Understanding Muslim Children

Symposium for educators
Saturday, November 13
9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Cowgill Center, Transylvania University

Keynote speaker: Mubeen Mohiudin

$10 registration for non-Transylvania participants includes lunch catered by Oasis

To register or for additional information, contact Transylvania education professor Kathy Egner, (859) 233-8253, kegner@transy.edu

Justice and Liberty in an Era of Brain Imaging

Colloquium
Thursday, November 18
4:30-5:30 p.m.
Presidents’ Room, Campus Center, Transylvania University

Speakers:
Jane Joseph, department of anatomy and neurobiology, University of Kentucky
Transylvania political science professor Don Dugi
Transylvania psychology professor Meg Upchurch

Free and open to the public

A Murder of Ravens

Faculty lecture
Transylvania mathematics professor David Choate
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Monday, November 15
Strickland Auditorium, Brown Science Center, Transylvania University

Free and open to the public

“Derridian Justice”

Lecture by Wilson Dickinson
Thursday, December 2, 3:30 p.m.
Carrick Auditorium, Mitchell Fine Arts Building, Transylvania University

Sponsored by Sophia, the Transylvania University Philosophical Society

Dickinson is a 2002 Transy graduate in philosophy and is currently a graduate student at Vanderbilt University.