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Spring 2008 Public Programs

UNH Manchester is pleased to offer a variety of public lectures and performances each semester. Events will be added throughout the semester so please check the website periodically for the most up to date schedule of events. 

The events are open to everyone and are free of charge unless otherwise noted. They will take place in the third floor auditorium at the University Center, 400 Commercial Street. Parking is available at the parking garage on Canal Street or at any city metered parking areas, such as Arms Lot which is located on the riverside of the building.

For additional information, or to be added to our mailing list, please contact the Office of Marketing & Community Relations, 603-641-4306. Please contact us at least three weeks prior to the event if you need special accommodations.

• Undergraduate Research Conference
• Brown Bag Lecture Series
• Books in the Mill
• Saul O Sidore Series
• Smyth Music Series

Undergraduate Research Conference

As a major research university, UNH provides all students with unique and valuable opportunities to conduct research and study abroad during their undergraduate years. Whether it's investigating green chemistry, examining the effects of the European monetary union, or creating a documentary film, each year students from all fields of study receive grants to embark on their own explorations.

Each spring students have an opportunity to present their research to the community at the Undergraduate Research Conference. This year events will be scheduled from April 22 – 24, 2008.

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Brown Bag Lecture Series
Wednesday’s from 12:00 – 1:00, third floor auditorium

January 30

New Age Marketing - Chasing the Elusive, Evolving Consumer

Today's consumer is more mobile, busier and less connected to traditional media than ever.  Learn how the big marketers are reaching them in this fragmenting landscape.  We'll include the major role that the Super Bowl still plays as one of the few integrating, bonding media experiences remaining in American life. Be the expert at your Super Bowl party! 
Presented by Bill Troy, Lecturer of Business, UNH Manchester

February 6

Facing History

That history is comprised of the biographies of its most powerful personalities – it’s “heroes” – is a premise known already in ancient times! From the ages of Pericles, Alexander, and Julius Caesar to those of Napoleon, Washington, and Churchill, artists have left their descriptions, in paint, stone, and bronze, of the most famous individuals of their times. This special lecture, illustrated with art-historical slides photographed in museums and galleries throughout Europe and the United States, will include a close look at some of history’s most famous leaders, from antiquity to modern times, as seen through the works of some of the world’s greatest artists.
Presented by Andrew Laurie Stangel, Adjunct Faculty member, history and civilization, UNH Manchester

February 20

What it means to be a hero today: AmeriCorps members in Service

Come learn about City Year New Hampshire and the fantastic work of 43 extraordinary AmeriCorps members who commit to spending ten months of their lives to National Service here in New Hampshire. This will be an interactive workshop that features corps members, their stories, and the work they do in public schools and communities they serve. 
Presented by Ted Wing, City Year Recruitment Manager, and member of the City Year team

March 5 & March 12

Safe Computing – a two part session

Developed as part of the UNH Cyber Security program, Safe Computing @ UNH is a general overview of the many issues affecting cyber security and how to protect yourself, your data, and the University. Topics include Antivirus/Malware software, VPN's, firewalls, wireless access, passwords, spam, phishing, protecting sensitive data, P2P networking, DMCA, and social networking.
Presented by Bruce Davies, UNH Help Desk Supervisor and member of the UNH IT Security Committee

March 26

American Heart Association & Start! Heart Walk

The American Heart Association (AHA) is a science-based organization on a mission to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular disease and stroke. Learn more about the work the AHA does in New England to support research, advocacy and education and about the 2008 Central New Hampshire Start! Heart Walk (scheduled for May 4 at the Union Leader campus).
Presented by Laurie Hambleton, Corporate Events Director, American Heart Association

April 2

Safety on an Urban Campus

Be proactive and learn how to keep yourself safe and aware of your surroundings. Join Officer Paul Rondeau from the Manchester Police Department on April 2nd for a presentation about personal safety. Some of the topics Officer Rondeau will cover include walking to your car at night, safety while in the vehicle, using an ATM in a public area and public transportation. He will also talk about pitfalls of substance use and he will demonstrate some self defense techniques. Presented by Officer Paul Rondeau from the Manchester Police Department.

April 9

Sexual Assault Awareness

April is sexual assault awareness month.
This talk will be presented by a representative from the Greater Manchester YWCA.

April 16

Green Chemistry in Action!

Green Chemistry, or sustainable chemistry, is the design of chemical products and processes that reduce or eliminate the use and generation of hazardous substances. Learn more about green chemistry and its use in both the industrial and academic settings.
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Presented by Sarah Kenick, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, UNH Manchester

April 30

So You Think You Eat Healthy?

There is so much information about healthy and unhealthy foods that it can feel overwhelming to make healthy decisions. Find out how you’re doing by evaluating your eating habits, portion sizes, food choices and learn ways to improve your diet.
Presented by Alice Mullen, Family and Consumer Resources and Administrator for the UNH Cooperative Extension Family, Home and Garden Education Center

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UNH Manchester Books in the Mill Spring 2008
“Literary Thrillers”

Please join UNH Manchester librarians and book group guest leaders for discussions of the books and (when available) their film adaptations. Discussions will be held in the Library mezzanine conference room at 6:30 pm. For more information please call the library at 603-641-4173.

Thursday, February 7, 2008 - The Book of Air and Shadow by Michael Gruber

The lives of two men are changed forever by William Shakespeare and the letters of Richard Bracegirdle, a 16th-century English spy and soldier. Jake Mishkin, a Manhattan intellectual property attorney and a bit of a rake, goes on the run from Russian gangsters. Albert Crosetti, an aspiring filmmaker working for an antiquarian bookstore, finds that life is more exciting than movies—perhaps too exciting. Together, Mishkin and Crosetti travel to England in search of a previously unknown Shakespeare manuscript mentioned by Bracegirdle.

Thursday, March 6, 2008 - Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott

A Cambridge historian, Elizabeth Vogelsang, is found drowned, clutching a glass prism in her hand. The book she was writing about Isaac Newton’s involvement with alchemy—the culmination of her lifelong obsession with the seventeenth century—remains unfinished. When her son, Cameron, asks his former lover, Lydia Brooke, to ghostwrite the missing final chapters of his mother’s book, Lydia agrees and moves into Elizabeth’s house—a studio in an orchard where the light moves restlessly across the walls. Soon Lydia discovers that the shadow of violence that has fallen across present-day Cambridge, which escalates to a series of murders, may have its origins in the troubling evidence that Elizabeth’s research has unearthed. As Lydia becomes ensnared in a dangerous conspiracy that reawakens ghosts of the past, the seventeenth century slowly seeps into the twenty-first, with the city of Cambridge the bridge between them.

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - The Sonnet Lover by Carol Goodman

Did Shakespeare pen a series of passionate sonnets, unknown to modern scholarship, ardently praising a mysterious dark-haired beauty? This tantalizing question is raised in a letter to literature professor Rose Asher. But the letter’s author, Rose’s star pupil, is not telling. A troubled, enigmatic young man, he plunged to his death in front of the college’s entire faculty, an apparent suicide. Determined to find the truth, Rose journeys from New York to Italy, back to the magnificent Tuscan villa where as an undergraduate she first fell in love.  Once there Rose finds her first love still in residence. Torn between her mission and her rekindled feelings, Rose becomes enmeshed in a treacherous tangle of secrets and scandal. A folio containing what some believe to be one of Shakespeare’s lost sonnets has vanished, and literary immortality waits whoever finds the manuscript–as do a vast Italian estate and a Hollywood movie deal.

Thursday, May 1, 2008 - The Savage Garden by Mark Mills

A Tuscan Renaissance villa serves as the setting of the most unusual double murder mystery you will ever read. In the summer of 1958, Cambridge art history major Adam Strickland travels to Italy to research a monograph on an elaborate 16th-century garden. Drawn into the garden's intricate designs, grottoes, iconography, and inscriptions, Strickland soon begins to wonder if its elaborate patterns might hold the key to the 1548 death of the estate owner's wife. As he digs deeper, he also detects haunting inconsistencies in accounts of a far more recent murder, which occurred in the villa during the waning days of World War II.

Novel descriptions adapted from Barnes & Noble webpage

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Saul O Sidore Series
Inside Deaf Culture: A Visual View of the World

Friday, February 29, 2008, 6:30-8:30 PM

Tricking the Brain into Learning a Language that Isn’t There:  The Case of Nicaraguan Sign Language

This talk will look at factors that instinctively draw people to language-relevant input as well as time-sensitive innate language expectations that guide the languages we humans learn (scratch that) create. Evidence will be drawn from the study of over 2000 d/Deaf individuals in Nicaragua, where a new signed language arose only a few decades ago.

Presented by Dr. Judy Kegl, Professor of Linguistics, University of Southern Maine

Friday, March 28, 6:30-8:30 PM

Literacy in a Non-written Language

Under conventional definitions, the notion of sign language literacy is blatantly oxymoronic. However, Dr. Kuntz argues that the problem exists with the conventional notion that literacy is about written language and also that limited understanding of literacy is problematic. A discussion about literacy in sign language or visual media will help not only illustrate how different acts of literacy may manifest themselves in different modes, but also break the perception of literacy out of an audio-centric framework.
Presented by Dr. Marlon Kuntz, Associate Professor, Boston University

Friday, April 18, 2008, 6:30-8:30 pm
Post-modern Deaf Culture Films

No Talking Allowed (45 minutes)

A romantic comedy featuring a frustrated painter, Alex, who is looking for a model he can paint. He finds a struggling model, Rebecca, who meets his qualifications. However, Alex has one requirement:  No Talking Allowed. Rebecca thinks this is strange, but goes along with it until she finds she if falling in love. The film is done in American Sign Language with English captions and no audio.

Dormitory (30 minutes)

A teacher challenges her students to ponder a thought-provoking question: "What if?"  The query sets into motion a course of events for high school sophomore, Dominic, as he wonders what would happen if he lived in the dormitory with the rest of the students and fell in love with a popular girl.  What happens and does not happen will keep you glued to the screen until the very end! The film is done in American Sign Language with no audio but will be interpreted by interpreters into spoken English for the audience.
Discussion about the films will be led by Patrick (Pax) McCarthy, Assistant Director and Lecturer of American Sign Language, UNH Manchester

 

The events are free, open to the public and will take place in the third floor auditorium. Both Deaf and non-Deaf (hearing) people are encouraged to attend. Interpretation between ASL and spoken English will be provided.

For more information please contact Patrick McCarthy, patrick.mccarthy@unh.edu or tty: 603-641-4310.

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Smyth Music Series

Tuesday, April 15, 6:00-7:30 PM

Sing Me a Song of Social Significance

Charlie King and Karen Brandow, musical storytellers and political satirists, will perform at UNH Manchester. From the hidden communication between slaves to the songs at the barricades of anti-globalization, music has served as a tool to educate, unite and inspire. Songs reach people in ways that books and speeches cannot. This workshop examines the history of people's dreams and struggles for a better world as recorded in song. These songs create an immediate, palpable link with the hardship and courage of the times they spring from. Join us for “Sing Me a Song of Social Significance”, a survey of contemporary movements reflected in the songs that energize them. The performance will include songs of peace, women's struggles, labor, gay and lesbian rights, disability rights, environmentalism and justice for immigrants. Third floor auditorium.

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