Events and Exhibits Spring 2007

• Friday, Jan. 26, 2007, 9:30 a.m.  One Book Author of Blood Done Sign My Name, Timothy B. Tyson, to talk about " Living the Dream: Civil Rights and Social Change"
• Thursday, Feb. 1, 2007, 2:30 p.m.  Wendy Wasserstein: A campus forum on her Life and Works.
• Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007, 1 p.m.  Scholarship@Villanova Lecture: "War and Culture Wars: From Euripides' Athens to George Bush's America", Dr. Gary Meltzer, Villanova Center for Liberal Education and the English department, on his book, Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia.
• Monday, Feb. 12, 2007, 12:00 p.m. Women's Studies brown bag lunch forum: Dr. Catherine Kerrison on "The Education of Jefferson's Daughters."
• Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, 1 p.m.  One Book Villanova Essay Contest reading. 
• Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2007,  1 p.m.  Scholarship@Villanova Lecture: Dr. Suzanne Toton, Peace and Justice, on her book, Justice Education.
• Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2007,  7 p.m. Black History Month: Joe Aronson on "Songs of the Black American Experience."
• Tuesday, March 13, 2007, 1 p.m.  Winner of this year's Outstanding Faculty Research Lecture, Dr. Suzanne Smeltzer, College of Nursing, will present a lecture on her research on health issues of women with disabilities. 
• Wednesday, March 14, 2007, 3 to 5 p.m. Humanities department open house and reception.
• Friday, March 16, 2007, 1 p.m.  English Department open house and reception.
• Friday, March 16, 2007, 4 p.m. Augustinian Endowed Chair Lecture: Dr. John Bowlin on "Augustine on tolerance and forbearance."
• Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 7:30 p.m.  Oscar Romero Lecture Series:  Dr. Ian Lustick, professor, Bess W. Heyman Chair, University of Pennsylvania, on "Are we trapped in the War on Terror."
• Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 1 p.m. Legacy of Pope John Paul II Lecture:  Dr. Mary Healey on Theology of the Body.
• Thursday, March 22, 2007,  12 p.m. Women's History Month: Panel discussion on the role of Women's Studies at Villanova.
• Monday, March 26, 2007, 4:30  p.m.  Oscar Romero Lecture Series: Carolyn Davis, Philadelphia Inquirer, on "Dangerous Lives, Dangerous Neglect."
• Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 4:30 p.m.  Irish Festival: Poetry Reading by John Menaghan.
• Thursday, March 29, 2007, 4 p.m.  Oscar Romero Lecture Series:  Hedley Abernathy on "Building Peace after Accords are Signed."
• Wednesday, April 11, 2007, 4:30 p.m.  Africana Studies Spring Lecture Series: Dr. Angelyn Mitchell, Georgetown University, on  "Representations of Illness and Disease in African American Women's Writing."
• Thursday, April 12, 2007, 1 p.m. Women's Studies brown bag lunch forum: Dr. Linda Copel on "Intimate Partner Violence Experienced by Women with Disabilities."
• Monday April 16, 2007, 4:00p.m. Center for Liberal Education Lecture
• Wednesday, April 18, 2007, 4 p.m. Senior Poetry Reading
• Friday, April 20, 2007, 9:30 a.m. Villanova celebrates Earth Day 2007: Nathan Willcox on "A New Energy Future".
• Friday April 20, 2007, 12:30 p.m. Art For Building the City of God: Community Murals, Theology, and Social Change (A Virtual Tour of Inner City Philadelphia’s Mural Arts) with Maureen O’Connell, Ph.D.
• Monday, April 23, 2007, 1 p.m.  Visiting scholar, Dr.Patricia Ranft on her book, The Theology of Work: Peter Damian and the Medieval Religious Renewal Movement
• Wednesday, April 25, 2007, 1 p.m. Scholarship@Villanova Lecture: Dr. Heidi Rose, communication department, on Signing the Body Poetics: Essays in American Sign Language Literature
• Thursday, April 26, 2007, 7:30 p.m.  Annual Villanova Literary Festival: Reading by Marilyn Chin.
• Friday, April 27, 2007,  12:30 p.m. Catholic Social Thought Student Research Award 2007.
• Thursday, May 3, 2007, 12 p.m.  Falvey Scholars 2007
• Thursday, June 28, 2007, 12 pm.  The Center for Multicultural Affairs will host "Lunch and Discuss: Issues of Race and Diversity on Campus."
• Thursday, July 12, 2007, 5 pm.  Thomas Carlyle Resartus: Reception followed by Plenary lecture by Chris Vanden Bossche, University of Notre Dame.

• "Wildcats Past and Present - Moments from the History of Sports at Villanova University"  An exhibit of featured material from the University Archives and from Falvey Memorial Library's Special Collections.  Mon., Jan. 29 to Mon., June 21, 2007.  2nd floor, Falvey Memorial Library.