Lecture Series

Welcome to the Lecture Series Group!!!

The Brown Bag Lecture Series brings speakers to discuss various topics of interest ranging from social and political issues to personal growth and development. Lectures are held throughout the year, in TUB 202. Evening lectures are also available throughout the year.

YOU can choose who you want to see on campus. If you have any idea, contact us:

Triton Union Building 108
425.640.1581

http://www.edcc.edu/lectures/

If you want to watch a lecture you could not attend, you can go to the Equity and Diversity center in the Triton Union Building and ask for a dvd of a lecture.


The Fall quarter lectures are the following:

Immigration Policy and Enforcement and its Local Impact

October 8, 12:30 p.m. TUB 202

Jorge L. Barón became the Executive Director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) in April 2008, after serving as a staff attorney with the organization since 2006. His talk will include some basics of the government organizations (DHS and ICE) involved with immigrants, basic immigration procedures (including student visas) and some of the legal issues on immigrant rights.


Power, Perception and Prejudice

October 14, 12:30 p.m. TUB 202

Jane Elliott, internationally known teacher, lecturer, diversity trainer, and recipient of the National Mental Health Association Award for Excellence in Education, exposes prejudice and bigotry for what it is, an irrational class system based upon purely arbitrary factors.
In response to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. over thirty years ago, Jane Elliott devised the controversial and startling, "Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes" exercise.


ELECTION 2008: How Will You Decide?

October 16, 12:30 p.m. Black Box Theater

Rick Shenkman, the New York Times bestselling author of six history books discusses politics. He focuses on questions such as: Why are Americano politics so trivial? What schemes do politicians use to get you to vote for them?


Poetry Matters: Mixing-up the Visual with the Literary Arts

November 5, 12:30 p.m. TUB 202

Susan Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer’s Tongue: Poems of the World. She talks about creativity, the collaboration with the dead, and cross-pollination among other things.


Vietnam Today

November 13, 12:30 p.m. TUB 202

Business Management instructor Marie Johnson shares her experience returning to Vietnam 30 years after her family fled the war to help heal the land and people with the nonprofit group PeaceTrees Vietnam.