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Haiti: The People, Politics and Plans for the Future 4/1/11 - Our shocked world watched Haiti collapse as a result of an earthquake in January 2010. Join Robert Fatton, a native of Haiti and professor and associate dean in the department of politics, as
he explores Haiti’s history right up to the devastating earthquake. |
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Sex Matters 11/28/09 - On November 28, 2009, Dr. Anita Clayton
held a candid discussion about the similarities and differences between women and men in how they embrace their personal sexuality, including expectations and self-image. Clayton is the author of Satisfaction: Women, Sex, and the Quest for Intimacy. |
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Frankenstein and Dracula: Separated at Birth—and Not Dead Yet 10/31/09 - Who are Frankenstein and Dracula and why do we love to fear them? Stephen Arata, Professor of English, and Susan Tyler Hitchcock, former U.Va. faculty and nonfiction author, teamed on up Halloween to tell Frankenstein and Dracula’s long, strange and intertwined life stories. |
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Casteen Welcomes Class of 2013, His Last as U.Va. President 8/23/09 - The Opening Convocation for new University of Virginia students took place on Sunday, August 23, 2009. This was the last time President Casteen will welcome an incoming class. After 20 years, U.Va.'s seventh president will step down on Aug. 1, 2010. The president welcomed the largest first-year class in the University's history, 3,260 students from 46 states, the District of Columbia and 76 countries. Sixty-eight percent are Virginians; half of those hail from Northern Virginia, and 315 transferred from Virginia's community colleges. More than a thousand, he said, are supported in some measure by AccessUVA, the University's financial aid program. |
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President's Welcome Address 8/22/09 - On Saturday, August 22, 2009, President Casteen gave his annual Welcome Address to first-years in Old Cabell Hall. He focused his remarks to parents and students on the transition from high school to college; the health and safety of students (including availability of vaccines for both seasonal and novel H1N1 flu); the honor system; and on student opportunities ranging from getting to know the professors to studying abroad. |
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Siva Vaidhyanathan speaks to the UVaEngagement Community 1/14/09 - U.Va. Media Studies Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan spoke to the UVaEngagement Community, a group of engagement and fundraising professionals at the University, about the |
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"The Reason of the Gift": Jean-Luc Marion, Lecture 3 Part 1 10/1/08 - The Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Series of the University of Virginia presents the 2008 Richard Lecturer Jean-Luc Marion, Professor of Philosophy at the University Paris-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale. Marion is among the best-known living philosophers in France. He is a former student of Jacques Derrida and one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. The title of this lecture is "Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice." |
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"The Reason of the Gift": Jean-Luc Marion, Lecture 3 Part 210/1/08 - The Page-Barbour and Richard Lecture Series of the University of Virginia presents the 2008 Richard Lecturer Jean-Luc Marion, Professor of Philosophy at the University Paris-Sorbonne, the Ecole Normale. Marion is among the best-known living philosophers in France. He is a former student of Jacques Derrida and one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. The title of this lecture is "Sketch of a Phenomenological Concept of Sacrifice." |
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