Student Life
Brown Bag Lecture Series
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. Evening lectures are also available throughout the year. You can find a current list of upcoming lectures at The Lectures Series Homepage
Upcoming lectures
What does it mean to be an American?
Teja Arboleda: 12:30pm October 21st, Black Box Theatre
Teja Arboleda, a comedian, actor, producer, and director of African-American/Native-American, Filipino-Chinese and German-Danish descent (he also grew up in Japan) presents a talk on the Ethnic Man. Arboleda is the president of Entertaining Diversity, Inc., which focuses on diversity issues programming around the United States. From 1987-1994 he was AD/Editor for FRONTLINE, and won an Emmy award in 1993. He has a Masters in Education and recently completed his powerful and timely documentary, Crossing The Line. He is the author of In The Shadow of Race, and his educational video can be found on his company’s website, Entertaining Diversity.com.
Explosive Remnants of War; A World View
Jack Imber: 12:30pm October 28th, TUB 202
Jack Imber, Deminer / UXO Technician Level 2 Technical Education includes UXO Technician Level One Certification at Texas A & M; EOD Level Two / Deminer Certification at ISSEE, Tidworth, United Kingdom; Demining Detector Certification at Vallon, Eningen, Germany; Explosives and Blast Injuries Course at Georgia Poison Control Center.
Jack’s field experience goes back nine years and includes nineteen explosives related projects which included logistics, demolition, ordnance identification, safety escort and crew training. He has given multiple lectures to professional, community, and academic organizations to promote awareness and safety near explosive remnants of war.
The highlights of his presentation will include an introduction and brief history, factors that lead to explosive contamination, the social and economic repercussions, landmines and cluster bombs as examples, explosive effects and resulting injuries, opportunities in ordnance removal projects, and the importance of ongoing awareness education.
Confessions of a Memoirist
Theo Nestor: 12:30pm November 4th, TUB202
Theo Pauline Nestor is the author of How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir of Starting Over (Crown 2008) and has had work published a number of places including the New York Times, msn.com, and Ask Me About My Divorce: Women Open Up About Moving On (Seal Press 2009). She teaches memoir writing for the University of Washington's Extension Program and works with individual clients as a writing coach. In 2009, She won an Excellence in Teaching award for her work at the University of Washington.
Theo will read short passages from her memoir, How to Sleep Alone in a King-Size Bed: A Memoir for Starting Over (Crown 2008) and talk about the issues in writing those particular passages and how the book as a whole gradually and then suddenly came into being. She will also discuss the process working with an editor and the publication process. The talk will include ideas for turning ordinary life experiences into memoir and tips on getting published.
If you have additional questions about the Series, please feel free to contact the Lecture Committee Chair, Michelle Butler michelle.butler@edcc.edu or the Lectures Series Programmer, Thuyvi Nguyen Thuyvi.nguyen@edcc.edu.
