Friday, January 15
7 p.m.
Wine Recital Hall

Khalil Gibran Muhammad: Honoring the legacy of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The scholarship of guest lecturer Muhammad, author of The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, has been featured by The Washington Post, NPR and PBS. Leading authors are saying: “dazzling study” (Aldon D. Morris), “incalculable service to civil rights scholarship” (David Levering Lewis) and “impressive and important” (Glenn C. Loury).

Tuesday, February 9
3:30 p.m.
Cordier Auditorium

Opening Convocation: It’s Your Money
President Jo Young Switzer will open spring semester with a frank talk about ways students (and all of us) can stretch our scarce resources and reduce our debt.  

Wednesday, February 10
4 p.m.
Flory Auditorium, Science Center

Thursday, February 11
8 p.m.
Flory Auditorium, Science Center

Cinema Series: Primary Colors
This adaptation of the book is about a fictional yet familiar Southern governor (John Travolta) who runs for president of the United States. The movie follows the candidate’s philandering and yet charismatic rise to the top of American politics, and the behind-the-scenes strategies by his campaign team and his wife’s (Emma Thompson) political shrewdness. Runtime: 143 min.

Tuesday, February 16
3:30 p.m.
Wine Recital Hall

Joo Won Park: Electroacoustic Adventures                
This staggeringly talented electroacoustic composer researches and creates music across multiple genres. His music and audio applications have been featured at music technology and audio acoustic conferences worldwide. Listen to Joo Won Park here.

Michael Uslan: Inspiring a Generation of Heroes       

Uslan has served as executive producer of every Batman movie since 1989, including the 2008 summer blockbuster The Dark Knight. He owns all creative rights to the Batman franchise and taught the world's first accredited college course on comic books. Uslan will talk about how he transformed his hobby and passion for comic books, history and literature into a tangible dream of working in the American movie industry. Pathways is underwriting this program.

Tuesday, February 23
3:30 p.m.
Wine Recital Hall

Paul Sorenson: Working in the Political Arena
Sorenson, a 2005 Manchester College education graduate, has served as executive director of the North Dakota Republican Party, deputy director of operations for the 2008 Republican National Convention and as a legislative aid for former Speaker of the House, Rep. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.).

Tuesday, March 2
4 p.m.
Lahman Room, College Union

Women in Politics: A Panel

Wednesday, March 10
4 p.m.
Flory Auditorium, Science Center

Thursday, March 11
8 p.m.
Flory Auditorium, Science Center

Cinema Series: Schindler’s List                                        

This 1993 American drama directed by Steven Spielberg is about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved the lives of more than 1,000 Polish Jewish refugees during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories. The cast includes Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley and Ralph Fiennes. Schindler’s List won seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Runtime: 195 min.

Sunday, March 14
3 p.m.
Honeywell Center, Wabash

Manchester Symphony Orchestra: Mostly Mozart          
Music on the program includes Symphony No. 40 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, A Little Nightmare Music by Peter Schickele and other music to be announced later. Learn more about this community and MC musicians at mso.manchester.edu.

Tuesday, March 16
3:30 p.m.
College Union conference rooms

Pietra Rivoli: The Travels of a T-Shirt
This professor of business and finance at Georgetown University is author of the award-winning The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy, An Economist Examines the Markets, Power, and Politics of World Trade, a first-person narrative tracing production, distribution and sale of T-shirts. Read more about Pietra Rivoli.

Wednesday, March 17
7:30 p.m.
Wine Recital Hall

Debra Marquart: The Horizontal World
This rock musician turned performance poet turned English professor is author of a collection of stories about traveling rock musicians, The Hunger Bone: Rock & Roll Stories, and more recently, her memoir: The Horizontal World, Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere. More about Debra Marquart.

Tuesday, March 23
3:30 p.m.
College Union conference rooms

Peter Turnley: Moments of the Human Condition
Turnley has covered nearly every major news event of international significance during the past 20 years. Newsweek magazine has used his photos for more than 40 covers, and his photography appears in National Geographic, Life, Le Monde, Paris Match, Geo and The London Sunday Times. More about Peter Turnley.  

Wednesday, April 7
4 p.m.
Wampler Auditorium

Thursday, April 8
8 p.m.
Flory Auditorium, Science Center

Cinema Series: The Call of the Hummingbird
The  characters of this training camp documentary filmed in central Brazil take us on a fascinating journey of new paradigm thinking about organizing for social change – from permaculture and consensus facilitation all the way to the meaning of the Mayan calendar, which mysteriously ends in 2012. We are introduced to new ideas about politics, nature and time itself. Runtime: 63 min.

Tuesday, April 13
3:30 p.m.
College Union conference rooms

Julia Butterfly Hill: What’s Your Tree?
This activist and environmentalist is best known for living high up in 1,500-year-old California Redwood tree for 738 days in the late ’90s to successfully block loggers from cutting it down. She weathered freezing rain, fierce El Nino winds, helicopter harassment, a 10-day siege by logging company security and intimidation by angry loggers. More about Butterfly Hill.

Tuesday, May 4 (tentative)
3:30 p.m.
Cordier Auditorium

The Otho Winger Experience: faculty/staff rock band
They’re back by rousing popular demand and they will rock Cordier with the amazing and ambitious (and just a bit rowdy) musical talents of faculty and staff of Manchester College. A few incredibly musical students are thrown to the mics for good measure. Arrive early; the best seats will evaporate quickly.

Sunday, May 16
3 p.m.
Cordier Auditorium

Manchester Symphony Orchestra: Concerto!
Music on the program includes “Three Dance Episodes” from the Broadway musical On the Town by Leonard Bernstein and features soloists from the MSO’s 2009-2010 Concerto Competition. The full program will appear on the MSO website.