Common Core: The Human Journey Colloquia Series

This colloquium will integrate Dr. Terry Neu talking about how to prevent bullying with the SHU 4 Harmony led by Dr. Michniewicz performing their anti-bullying concert. September 24, 2014

This colloquium will integrate Dr. Terry Neu talking about how to prevent bullying with the SHU 4 Harmony led by Dr. Michniewicz performing their anti-bullying concert. October 29, 2014

Decades before the Civil War, the actions of a brutal overseer spark the fire of revolution on a Southern Tobacco farm. Tobacco Burn chronicles true events and creates a portrait of man's different understanding towards violence. Justin Liberman-Communication and Media Studies Anita August- Rhetoric and Writing Studies

Our society has identified the damage bullying can have on the emotional and physical life of the victim. The next step is to discover the personal resilience to confront bullying. Recognize your positive power to address bullying behavior directed towards you or others. This extraordinary colloquium will integrate Dr. Terry Neu talking about how to prevent bullying with the SHU 4 Heart Harmony led by Dr. Michniewicz performing their anti-bullying concert.

Guest Speaker Robert C. Farrell, J.D. Co-sponsored by the Department of Government, Politics, and Global Studies in conjunction with the Common Core Colloquium series and the Sacred Heart University Division of marketing and Public Affairs.

The controversial film, Compliance tells the real life story of how strip-search scams were perpetrated in fast food restaurants throughout the United States. In over 60 restaurants female employees were subjected to strip search and degrading acts. Clips of the film will be shown and discussed and analyzed from psychological, sociological, criminological, and theological perspectives.

Host: Joanne Rochman is an adjunct professor at Sacred Heart University, a theater critic for Hersam Acorn Newspapers and the daily Republican American Newspapers. She also covers art and culture in a blog for CBS and CBS-CT. She arranged this panel for her SHU students who are currently studying “Hamlet” and wanted them to step out of the script and into the world of “Hamlet” via directors, dramaturges, and actors.

The creative process makes us come alive and tunes our true nature with what matters most for each of us. It is not about achievement or talent, but a way of knowing the true self. It is a bridge to all other knowing. Learn about the creative journey, where creativity comes from. How is it neurologically processed? Learn through the creative arts therapies music, art, poetry, drama, why creative expression is essential to being alive.

Zombies, Souls, and Fear of the Flesh, Fall 2013

Henrietta Lacks was a poor black tobacco farmer whose cells, taken without her knowledge in 1951, went on to become the first immortal human cells ever grown in the laboratory. Those cells became one of the most important tools in modern medicine, vital for developing the polio vaccine, cloning, gene mapping, in vitro fertilization and more. Faculty will discuss the issues of race, gender, poverty, ethics, and healthcare raised by this book. Professors June-Ann Greeley (Theology and Religious Studies), Marie Hulme (English), Suzanne Deschenes (Biology), Jennifer McLaughlin (History), Andrew Pierce (Philosophy), Stephane Kirven (Criminal Justice), and Michael Bozzone (English)

Dr. Ed Murray, The Wonderful Wild Women of Children's Literature, Fall 2013

Will look at recent artwork made in prison—a range of production from mainstream prison art, with its reliance on tattoo imagery, to prison folk arts like soap carving and toilet paper sculpture, to powerful drawings and paintings by outstanding individual artists, with quotes from men and women in institutions from county jail to death row. They are candid and insightful about their lives, their art, and their imprisonment. Phyllis Kornfeld, author of Cellblock Visions: Prison Art in America, (Princeton University Press), has been conducting visual art programs with incarcerated men and women for thirty years.

Students will engage in a multi-disciplinary discussion of crimes against others because of race, religion, ethnic or national identity, sexual orientation. What are hate crimes? Why are there hate crimes? What can be done about hate crimes? Professors June-Ann Greeley (Theology/Religious Studies), Jennifer McLaughlin (History), and Amanda Moras (Sociology)

In this third Colloquium of our series, we will discuss the most vexing questions that face us in the aftermath of this tragedy. Such tragic events as the Sandy Hook massacre bring many of us to ask why does such irrational evil occur and in the face of this evil, where is God? There are no firm answers to such questions but these questions call for our reflection and discussion. Dr. June-Ann Greeley will facilitate discussion with local interfaith clergy

An overview will be given of what PTSD is and how it affects a person. We will hear from two veterans and their unique situations in the Marine Corps and how they are overcoming PTSD.

Learn 10 strategies on how your emotions can be used to create happiness and provide you with a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose.

Colloquia: Zombies, Souls and Fear of the Flesh, Spring 2013

Gail Fosler

Plastic Planet, Spring 2013

Hate Crimes: Power, Prejudice and Personhood Presented by: JUNE-ANN GREELEY, THEOLOGY and RELIGIOUS STUDIES Alka Jauhari. Government and Politics JENNIFER McLAUGHLIN, HISTORY AMANDA MORAS, SOCIOLOGY Wednesday, December 5th ~ University Commons

Colloquia: The Honors Freshman Year Experience Monday ~ December 3, 2012

Colloquia: The Truth About Suicide Pitt Center Board Room November 29, 2012

Colloquia: Human Rights Violations

Veterans on Trial deals with the problem of PTSD from the ground up, starting with the issues that returning veterans and their families face. When they leave the battlefield to become civilians again, many soldiers are not prepared, or are unable, to cope successfully with the challenges. Their compounded anxieties often result in serious trouble; divorce, job loss, homelessness, substance abuse, suicide, and even murder. Judge Schaller will explain how PTSD now operates as a means of defense in the criminal court system and how it will affect the courts in the next decade. Guest speaker Judge Barry Schaller (teaches courses on law, literature, and jurisprudence to state court judges. Teaches on the adjunct clinical faculty of the Yale Law School and is an Associate Fellow at Branford College, Yale University. Visiting Lecturer at Wesleyan University and Trinity College and a Visiting Lecturer at Yale University and a Guggenheim Fellow at the Yale Law School and an Adjunct Professor at Quinnipiac Law School)

Colloquia: Body Image Fall 2012 Presented by: Dr. Jennifer Gosselin Psychology Jocelyn Novella Counseling Center

Guest Speaker- Dr. Michael Dobkowski

Learn 10 strategies on how your emotions can be used to create happiness and provide you with a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose.

What is academic integrity? Is that the same thing as copyright? By Gavin Ferriby and Libby Knapoik

Faculty and the Department of English Professors Anita August, Pat Conti, and Carol Hampton will discuss different aspects of this novel.

Since the brutal Civil War in El Salvador, Sacred Heart University faculty, staff and students have travelled to stand in solidarity with the Salvadoran people. This year will mark the 21st journey to El Salvador where a delegation and their advisors will listen to the stories and aide in the struggles of the people. This colloquia will include a history of the Sacred Heart and El Salvador relationship through the eyes of past delegates and advisors. They will share stories and experiences while encouraging others to share in this very important mission.

Colloquia: Gender and Media (Fall 2012)

Invisible Children is premiering a brand new film, and their Roadies are bringing it to our community. After the film, a Ugandan speaker will talk about growing up in fear of being attacked by the LRA, as so many people in Central Africa still do today. This will be their 15th tour, and it’s our chance to dig deeper, ask any question, and play an even bigger role in KONY 2012. Joseph Kony is the world's worst war criminal. In 1987, he took over leadership of an existing rebel group and renamed it the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). When Joseph Kony found himself running out of fighters, he started abducting children to be soldiers in his army of "wives" for his officers. The LRA is encouraged to rape, mutilate, and kill civilians. Invisible Children's Kony 2012 campaign aims to make Joseph Kony famous, not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice.

Colloquia: A Raisin in the Sun

Guest speaker Tomi Sawyer, Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Drug Discovery & Innovative Technologies, Aileron Therapeutics, will address the crossroads of his career in science, technology and medicine along with his quest for knowledge, reverence and truth. Some notable achievements in his drug discovery work over three decades will be presented, including the advancement of novel chemical and biological therapies for cancer.

An open discussion about the content and subject matter of Tony-Award winning musical, Spring Awakening. Spring Awakening is a Rock Musical adaptation of the controversial 1892 German play by Frank Wedekind. It features music by Duncan Sheik and a book and lyrics by Steven Sater. Set in late-19th century Germany, it concerns teenagers who are discovering the inner and outer tumult of human sexuality. The original play was banned in Germany for a while due to its portrayal of abortion, homosexuality, rape, child abuse and suicide. In the musical, alternative rock is employed as part of the folk-infused rock score. Spring Awakening received eleven 2007 Tony Award nominations, winning eight, including Tonys for best musical, direction, book, score and featured actor. The show also won four Drama Desk Awards, while its London production won four Olivier Awards. Panel Guests (subject to change) Pat Addiss, Broadway Producer of the original Broadway production; Dorothy Berloni, Former Head of Programming, Bushnell Center of the Performing Arts, Hartford, CT; Father Jerry Ryle, Director of Campus Ministry; Mary Jo Mason, Ph.D., LPC, NCC, Director of Wellness Facilitator, Jerry Goehring, Executive Director, Edgerton Center