Interview with acting president Neil Kerwin

Wed 19 Oct
Women’s Field Hockey vs. Virginia
1 p.m., Jacobs Recreation Complex. Contact athletics at 885-3000.

Homeland security advisor to speak at Roger Jones Award ceremony Frances Fragos Townsend, a School of Public Affairs (SPA) alumna and homeland security advisor to President Bush, will give the keynote address at this year’s presentation by SPA of the Roger Jones Award for Executive Leadership. The award, which “recognizes public servants in the federal government whose careers are marked by extraordinary effectiveness in organizational development and a strong commitment to training and educating managers and executives,” will be presented Tuesday, Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. at the Kay Spiritual Life Center. RELATED LINK > School of Public Affairs Events This year’s award recipients are Marvin Gunn Jr., manager, Chicago Operations Office, Department of Energy; and Sheila Earle, acting principal director for military personnel policy, Office of the Secretary of Defense. For more information, contact Jackie Corbett at 885-2937.

Men’s Soccer vs. West Virginia
3 p.m., Reeves Field. Contact athletics at 885-3000.

Database of the Week Demonstration
3 p.m., Bender Library reference desk. Take an electronic tour of the Eighteenth-Century Collections Online database. Contact the library at 885-3200.

Human Rights Film Series: Videoletters
Through 20 Oct.
6 p.m., Washington College of Law, room 603. Videoletters illustrates the reconciling power of storytelling across borders. After the screening, Professor Julie Mertus will speak. Contact the Center for Social Media at 885-3107.

Screening: Animal Planet: “Heroes: Hurricane Rescues”
7:30 p.m., Wechsler Theatre. Sponsored by the Center for Environmental Filmmaking. Producer Emil Gallina will talk about the one-hour special. Contact SOC at 885-2060.

Into the Woods: DPA General Education Night
8 p.m., Greenberg Theatre. A blood-thirsty Little Red Ridinghood? Prince Charming with a roving eye? They’re among the cockeyed characters in this fractured fairy tale directed by Carl Menninger. Contact DPA at 885-3420.

Visiting Writers Series: Lynn Freed
8 p.m., SIS lounge. Lynn Freed is the author of House of Women, The Curse of the Appropriate Man, Home Ground, and Reading, Writing, and Leaving Home: Life on the Page. Contact Kristen Toburen at 885-2973.

Thurs 20 Oct
Training Opportunity: Preventing Harassment, Promoting Respect
10 a.m.–noon, location TBD. Mandatory for all full-time staff members and must be completed within the first six months of employment. Registration required; contact Katie Boggs at boggs@american.edu.

Table Talk Lunch Series
Noon, Kay Spiritual Life Center. “Domestic Violence: Causes and Costs.” Free to students; a donation of $5 from faculty and staff is requested. Reservations required. Contact 885-3320.

“Prosecuting Pinochet: The Challenges and Obstacles to the Pursuit of Justice in Chile”
4–6:30 p.m., WCL room 603. Judge Juan Guzman Tapia will speak. Registration is required. Contact secle@wcl.american.edu.

Dissertation and Thesis Workshop
6 p.m., Bender Library, room 306. Contact Clement Ho at 885-3843.

Human Rights Film Series: Videoletters
6 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, Wechsler Theatre. See 19 Oct.

MBA Information Session
6:30–8 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, room 200. RSVP required. Contact kogodmba@american.edu.

Fri 21 Oct
Last Day to Drop a Course

Alumni Reunion and Family Weekend
21-23 Oct.
See box above

Sat 22 Oct
Craig Crawford Book Signing
2–3 p.m., Campus Store. Craig Crawford, Congressional Quarterly columnist, MSNBC and CNBC correspondent, will speak and sign copies of Attack the Messenger. Contact the store at 885-6320.

Mon 24 Oct
Women and Politics Institute Brown Bag Lunch Series
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m., Mary Graydon Center, room 120. Lisa Pace Vetter will speak on the latest research in the field of women and politics. Contact the institute at 885-2903.

“Differing Perspectives on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights”
Noon–2 p.m., WCL room 603. Richard Goldstone, former justice on the Constitutional Court of South Africa, and Aryeh Neier, president of the Open Society Institute, will debate the implications of recognizing economic, social, and cultural rights as legal rights. Free to WCL faculty, students, and staff; $10 for all others. Registration required. Contact Anca Pusca at 274-4180.

Jim Reilly Lecture
5:30 p.m., Battelle-Tompkins atrium. Jim Reilly, science policy advisor to the British embassy, will discuss the United Kingdom’s policies on global climate change. Contact the biology department at 885-2176.

Freedom from Persecution: Asylum and Sexual Orientation
6:30 p.m., Butler Board Room. Panel includes people granted asylum for sexual orientation and an immigration lawyer. Contact the GLBTA Resource Center at 885-3347.

Fri 21 Oct
Roger Jones Award Ceremony
7 p.m., Kay Spiritual Life Center. Contact Jackie Corbett at 885-2937.

Women’s Volleyball vs. Howard
7 p.m., Bender Arena. Contact athletics at 885-3000.

Wed 26 Oct
Human Rights Film Series: Sometimes in April
Through 27 Oct.
6 p.m., Washington College of Law, room 603. Contact the Center for Social Media at 885-3107.

Thurs 27 Oct
Into the Woods
Through 29 Oct.
8 p.m., Greenberg Theatre. Contact DPA at 885-3420.

Fri 28 Oct
International Development Forum
4:30–6 p.m., SIS Lounge. Contact Elizabeth Minor at 885-1657.

“From Colescott to Kentridge: Representation in Contemporary Prints”
7 p.m., Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall. Contact Ignacio Moreno at 885-3256.

Mathemagic: The Art of Mental Calculation
7:30 p.m., Ward 1. Contact Valerie Richards at 885-3124.