Common Book - Spring 2013Events

The Honors College Film Series presents Redtails in honor of Black History Month
6:00 p.m. 2370 Haley Center

Redtails is a 2012 20th Century Fox film based on a fictional story by John Lucas portraying the Tuskegee Airmen, which was a group of African American pilots during World War II. These Army Air Forces servicemen faced segregation and racism throughout their training and were sent into combat in Italy with worn-out aircraft. The Presidential Unit Citation was awarded to the group for their achievements. The film, directed by Anthony Hemingway and staring Cuba Gooding, Jr, was nominated for the Best Movie Award at the 2012 BET Awards and for the Choice Action Movie Award at the 2012 Teen Choice Awards.

There is no cost and it's open to AU faculty, staff, and students.

Crunk Feminist Collective
4:00-6:00 PM Langdon Hall Auditorium
Sponsored by Women's Studies

• Panel Presentation by members of the Crunk Feminist Collective, with Moya Bailey, Emory University; Sheri Davis-Faulkner, Georgia Institute of Technology; Susana Morris, English, Auburn University; Eesha Pandit, Men Stopping Violence.
• Co-sponsored with AU Connects! Common Book Program; Office of Access and Community Initiatives, and the Africana Studies Program.
• Learn more at crunkfeministcollective.wordpress.com/

Public Talk with Dr. Frankie Condon
11:45am in RBD Library Special Collections and Archieve
Sponsored by Office of University Writing, The Multicultural Center, and the office of Access and Community Initiatives

Dr. Frankie Condon is the author of I Hope I Join the Band: Narrative, Affiliation, and Antiracist Rhetoric and co-author of The Everyday Writing Center. She is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches writing center theory and practice, race and rhetoric, and writing.  Her writing has appeared in the Writing Center Journal, Praxis, College Teaching, and Junctures.

Dr. Condon will give a public talk drawing on I Hope I Join the Band and put into context with the larger history of land grant institutions, issues of racism, and anti-racist activism.  All Auburn faculty and students are encouraged to participate in the public talk.

Lunch and Learn - A discussion of Medical and Bioethics
11:45am - 1:15pm in 2222/2223 AU Student Center
Sponsored by the Multicultural Center in partnership with Auburn Connects!

• A panel presentation featuring Dr. Ruben Warren (Tuskegee University), Dr. Ruth Faden (Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. Kathy Jo Ellison (Auburn University).

Lack's Family and Dr. Ruth Faden Lecture
7:00-9:00 PM Foy Ballroom
Sponsored by the Provost Office

• Keynotes from Henrietta's grandchildren and Dr. Ruth Faden, Director of the Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University
• Question and answer period with both speakers