Event categories: Extra Credit

The Roger Mudd Center for Ethics and the Center for International Education will co-host a moderated conversation with Elizabeth Kolbert on October 29 at 5:00, entitled "Climate Change and its Impact on the World Order" as part of this year's series "Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities." Elizabeth Kolbert is the award-winning author of "Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History" and a staff writer for The New Yorker. You can register for this webinar at:
https://wlu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BR98bcl2S0-UVXsaB-efWQ.

Join CaPD on Thursday, 10/22 at 8:00pm EST for an alumni virtual career series with Q&A. Virtual: RSVP in Handshake.

Alexus is from Vero Beach, FL and a 2018 graduate of Washington and Lee with a double major in Computer Science and Sociology. Alexus was able to attend the Grace Hopper Celebration for Women in Tech in the fall of her junior and senior years, and from these experiences she was able to land a software development internship at JP Morgan Chase in NYC during summer 2017 and her current full time role at Citi. While Alexus is no longer a software developer, her work as a Digital Analyst in Dallas, TX allows her to work closely with the development teams that produce many of Citi’s digital products/features that are in production today.

Join CaPD on Tuesday,10/20 at 6:30pm EST for an alumni virtual career series with Q&A. Virtual: RSVP in Handshake.

Tom has worked in several positions throughout his career in software engineering, including working with visual simulation at SAIC, performing third-party development for the original Xbox at a small video game startup, founding his own startup for mobile applications and distributed digital advertising, and running the core content engineering team for Nike.com. Currently, Tom leads a team of engineers responsible for a major online retailer's automotive customers. Tom graduated from Washington and Lee with a BS in Computer Science in 1999 and received his MBA from the College of William and Mary.

W&L School of Law's very own, Professor Thomas H. Speedy Rice, Professor of Practice at the Transnational Law Institute in the W&L School of Law, will give a lecture about honor systems in eastern European universities as part of the 2020-2021 ethics series, "Global Ethics in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities". The talk, entitled "Cultural Norms and the Export of the W&L Honor System," will begin via webinar at 5:00 PM EST and will be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Register here for the webinar: https://wlu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PBp3t5AzQUq2H89IWVGZQg

Professor Rice's talk is sponsored by the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics, the Center for International Education, the Institute for Honor, and the Executive Committee of the Student Body.

What ACTS are forms of ACTivism? Does it take the form of a protest? Holding a town hall? Are there methods of activism that are lazy or disingenuous? What makes a person an "activist" vs a "slacktivist"?

Engaging in activism is a civil right and freedom, but recently there is debate on what true activism looks like. In this session we will explore how activism takes many forms and why certain actions are labeled as lazy. We will discuss whether these forms of activism help, harm, or have no effect on the message.

Hosted by the Office of Inclusion & Engagement

-October 13th from 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM via Zoom.
-This session is open to W&L faculty, staff, and students.
-Participants can register at http://bit.ly/actvslack

Join CaPD on Monday, 10/12 at 8pm EST for an alumni virtual career series with Q&A. Virtual: RSVP in Handshake.

Kathryn Huntley graduated from W&L in 2018 with a Business Administration major and Creative Writing minor. She lives in Austin, Texas and is an Account Manager at Facebook, guiding small and medium size businesses in their digital marketing strategies. Previously, she worked at Box in sales and business development.

Tracing Ministers through Manuscripts: Mapping the Scottish Reformation

Mikki Brock, Associate Professor of History, W&L

Chris Langley, Reader in Early Modern History, Newman University

October 7, 2020 // 12:30pm

Register for Zoom invite at http://go.wlu.edu/DHworkshops

We're delighted to announce an upcoming event in our Digital Humanities Speaker Series. W&L's Mikki Brock (History), along with her project co-director Chris Langley (Newman University) will give an update on their project Mapping the Scottish Reformation: a database of Scottish clergy, 1560-1689. This project began just a few years ago, but already the team has transcribed over 8000 manuscript pages, leveraged WikiData to produce linked data, and prototyped a mapping interface - all toward the goal of creating and visualizing comprehensive data on the Scottish clergy.

2020 marks the inauguration of the campus recognition of the International Day of Peace. The Center for International Education and Student Association for International Learning are pleased to announce that our inaugural address will be delivered by Tolu Olubunmi, ’02, Founder and CEO of Lions Write. The title of her talk is “Peace On Earth - From platitudes to the practicality of the peace agenda.” The lecture will take place via zoom (Register Here).

Ms. Olubunmi has served on the prestigious World Economic Forum Global Future Council, is a founding board member of the largest immigrant youth-led organization in the U.S., the United We Dream Network, and is co-founder of Immigrant Heritage Month. She sits on the Board of Directors of USA for IOM (the UN Migration Agency), and chairs the World Economic Forum’s migration initiative, Mobile Minds, which reimagines migration in the 21st century to include the movement of “minds” not only bodies. The World Economic Forum named her as one of the Fifteen Women Changing the World in 2015. For more information about Ms. Olubunmi, please visit the CIE events page. Ms. Olubunmi’s talk is sponsored by the Center for International Education, the Office of the Provost, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Africana Studies Program, and the Office of Inclusion and Engagement, and the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.

Dr. Mary Anne Franks, Professor of Law at the University of Miami, will give the Constitution Day guest lecture based on her 2019 book "The Cult of the Constitution: Our Deadly Devotion to Guns and Free Speech".

Online Webinar - Register at https://wlu.zoom.us/webinar/register/1615979351481/WN_Jv1a6b1lRXOSq8IpW

Anne-Marie Slaughter will give a lecture on Global Ethics as part of the 2020-2021 ethics series co-sponsored by the Roger Mudd Center for Ethics and the Center for International Education. The lecture is open to the public and will take place in Stackhouse Theater on November 19 at 5:00 pm, with a 15-minute Q&A to follow.

Webinar Registration: https://wlu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WeBQ-c44SMO8Kuo4Rmd4lg