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• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-01-26 21:00:00 -0600

  2/28/23 2023-02-28 19:30:00 -0600

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-03-02 21:00:00 -0600

  3/02/23 2023-03-02 19:30:00 -0600

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-03-09 21:00:00 -0600

  3/09/23 2023-03-09 19:30:00 -0600

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-03-16 21:00:00 -0500

  3/16/23 2023-03-16 19:30:00 -0500

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-03-23 21:00:00 -0500

  3/23/23 2023-03-23 19:30:00 -0500

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-03-30 21:00:00 -0500

  3/30/23 2023-03-30 19:30:00 -0500

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Contemporary Issues Forum

  <p>The president of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, Bob Kendrick, is the featured guest of Coe's Contemporary Issues Forum this year. The museum is the world's only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the rich history of African-American baseball and its impact on the social advancement of America.</p> 2023-04-06 21:00:00 -0500

  4/06/23 2023-04-06 19:30:00 -0500

  7:30 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  5

• Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country

  <p>When the Choctaw Nation was forcibly resettled in Indian Territory in present-day Oklahoma in the 1830s, it was joined by enslaved Black people. &nbsp;The tribe had owned enslaved Black people since the 1720s; by the eve of the American Civil War, 14 percent of the Choctaw Nation consisted of enslaved African Americans. &nbsp;During the Civil War, the Choctaw Nation officially sided with the Confederacy. &nbsp;Choctaw legal authorities deemed any criticism of the Confederacy or the Confederate army to be a form of treason against the Choctaw Nation. &nbsp;Choctaws also raised an infantry force and a cavalry to fight alongside Confederate forces during the war. &nbsp;What accounts for this level of commitment to the Confederate cause among the Choctaws? &nbsp;Drawing upon Choctaw legislative documents, narratives from enslaved people and residents of Indian Territory, and military records from the 1st Choctaw Mounted Rifles, Fay Yarbrough reveals that while sovereignty and states’ rights mattered to Choctaw leaders, the survival of slavery also determined the Nation’s support of the Confederacy. &nbsp;By drawing parallels between the Choctaw Nation and the Confederate states, Yarbrough looks beyond the traditional binary of the Union and Confederacy and reconsiders the historical relationship between Native populations and slavery.</p><p>Fay Yarbrough is Professor of History and affiliated faculty with the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and the Center for African and African American Studies at Rice University. &nbsp;Her research centers on interactions between Native peoples and people of African descent in the nineteenth-century US. &nbsp;She is the author of <em>Choctaw Confederates: The American Civil War in Indian Country&nbsp;</em>(University of North Carolina Press, 2021) and <em>Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century</em> (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008) and co-editor of <em>Gender and Sexuality in Indigenous North America</em>,<em>&nbsp;1400-1850</em> (University of South Carolina Press, 2011).</p><p>The event will take place in Kesler Auditorium in Hickok Hall.</p> 2023-01-23 21:00:00 -0600

  3/02/23 2023-03-02 19:00:00 -0600

  7:00 p.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

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• The U.S. Constitution

  <p>The United States is governed by its Constitution, the country’s basic system of law since 1789, making it the oldest national constitution still in existence. Neither sacred text nor outmoded artifact of the United States’ agrarian past, the US Constitution today functions as a guide to politics and government: it describes positions, articulates essential principles and establishes boundaries. During this four-week forum, Professor of Political Science Bruce Nesmith will discuss the historical origins and “living” nature of the U.S. Constitution. The first two sessions will explore the context in which the Constitution was written, including the history of the early United States, what brought the authors to the 1787 constitutional Convention and the currents of thought they shared and the precedents upon which they drew. We will discuss some of the key issues at the center of the discussions in 1787: the power of the national government, state representation in Congress, selection of officers, the creation of the presidency and approaches to protection of individual rights. In the third week, we will assess the degree to which such issues were resolved in the text of the Constitution. The final session will consider how the Constitution has changed in the years since it went into effect, through the formal amendment process as well as changes in custom and tradition that adapted to changing times.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2022-08-29 11:30:00 -0500

  4/06/23 2023-04-06 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• The U.S. Constitution

  <p>The United States is governed by its Constitution, the country’s basic system of law since 1789, making it the oldest national constitution still in existence. Neither sacred text nor outmoded artifact of the United States’ agrarian past, the US Constitution today functions as a guide to politics and government: it describes positions, articulates essential principles and establishes boundaries. During this four-week forum, Professor of Political Science Bruce Nesmith will discuss the historical origins and “living” nature of the U.S. Constitution. The first two sessions will explore the context in which the Constitution was written, including the history of the early United States, what brought the authors to the 1787 constitutional Convention and the currents of thought they shared and the precedents upon which they drew. We will discuss some of the key issues at the center of the discussions in 1787: the power of the national government, state representation in Congress, selection of officers, the creation of the presidency and approaches to protection of individual rights. In the third week, we will assess the degree to which such issues were resolved in the text of the Constitution. The final session will consider how the Constitution has changed in the years since it went into effect, through the formal amendment process as well as changes in custom and tradition that adapted to changing times.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-04-13 11:30:00 -0500

  4/13/23 2023-04-13 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• The U.S. Constitution

  <p>The United States is governed by its Constitution, the country’s basic system of law since 1789, making it the oldest national constitution still in existence. Neither sacred text nor outmoded artifact of the United States’ agrarian past, the US Constitution today functions as a guide to politics and government: it describes positions, articulates essential principles and establishes boundaries. During this four-week forum, Professor of Political Science Bruce Nesmith will discuss the historical origins and “living” nature of the U.S. Constitution. The first two sessions will explore the context in which the Constitution was written, including the history of the early United States, what brought the authors to the 1787 constitutional Convention and the currents of thought they shared and the precedents upon which they drew. We will discuss some of the key issues at the center of the discussions in 1787: the power of the national government, state representation in Congress, selection of officers, the creation of the presidency and approaches to protection of individual rights. In the third week, we will assess the degree to which such issues were resolved in the text of the Constitution. The final session will consider how the Constitution has changed in the years since it went into effect, through the formal amendment process as well as changes in custom and tradition that adapted to changing times.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-04-20 11:30:00 -0500

  4/20/23 2023-04-20 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• The U.S. Constitution

  <p>The United States is governed by its Constitution, the country’s basic system of law since 1789, making it the oldest national constitution still in existence. Neither sacred text nor outmoded artifact of the United States’ agrarian past, the US Constitution today functions as a guide to politics and government: it describes positions, articulates essential principles and establishes boundaries. During this four-week forum, Professor of Political Science Bruce Nesmith will discuss the historical origins and “living” nature of the U.S. Constitution. The first two sessions will explore the context in which the Constitution was written, including the history of the early United States, what brought the authors to the 1787 constitutional Convention and the currents of thought they shared and the precedents upon which they drew. We will discuss some of the key issues at the center of the discussions in 1787: the power of the national government, state representation in Congress, selection of officers, the creation of the presidency and approaches to protection of individual rights. In the third week, we will assess the degree to which such issues were resolved in the text of the Constitution. The final session will consider how the Constitution has changed in the years since it went into effect, through the formal amendment process as well as changes in custom and tradition that adapted to changing times.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-04-27 11:30:00 -0500

  4/27/23 2023-04-27 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism and Commemoration in Paris, Martinique, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  <p>Travelers flock to iconic sites to connect with the past and other cultures. Visiting a monument, museum, palace, cathedral, or other cultural or historical site allows visitors to connect stories with a physical place. But what stories do such sites really tell, and whose stories do they overlook? Drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas, this four-week forum will explore how narratives of post-revolutionary and postcolonial tourist sites often obscure as much as they reveal about the pivotal social and political conflicts that occurred there. In week one, Joanne H. Pochobradsky Associate Professor of French Joyce Janca-Aji will introduce audiences to Paris and its often-missing landmarks to the French Revolution, World War II, and French colonialism. The second session, also led by Janca-Aji, will focus on the remembering and forgetting of racial slavery and colonialism in Martinique. Week three, presented by Assistant Professor of Spanish Laissa Rodríguez Moreno, will examine sites in the Americas that have erased or “repurposed” histories of conquest and repression, including the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán that lies under Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor o Zócalo, a prison in Colombia that became Gorgona Island Natural Park, and a former secret detention and extermination center in Argentina that is now a shopping mall. In the final session, Assistant Professor of Spanish Niall Peach will explore racial and environmental legacies of the Spanish Empire from the stately homes, gardens, and parks of northern Spain to the plantations and Cuban Revolution-era agricultural projects of Cuba. Throughout, the series will explore how narratives of cultural and national identity are created and how observant travelers might better be able to see what is hidden in plain sight.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2022-08-29 11:30:00 -0500

  2/02/23 2023-02-02 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism and Commemoration in Paris, Martinique, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  <p>Travelers flock to iconic sites to connect with the past and other cultures. Visiting a monument, museum, palace, cathedral, or other cultural or historical site allows visitors to connect stories with a physical place. But what stories do such sites really tell, and whose stories do they overlook? Drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas, this four-week forum will explore how narratives of post-revolutionary and postcolonial tourist sites often obscure as much as they reveal about the pivotal social and political conflicts that occurred there. In week one, Joanne H. Pochobradsky Associate Professor of French Joyce Janca-Aji will introduce audiences to Paris and its often-missing landmarks to the French Revolution, World War II, and French colonialism. The second session, also led by Janca-Aji, will focus on the remembering and forgetting of racial slavery and colonialism in Martinique. Week three, presented by Assistant Professor of Spanish Laissa Rodríguez Moreno, will examine sites in the Americas that have erased or “repurposed” histories of conquest and repression, including the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán that lies under Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor o Zócalo, a prison in Colombia that became Gorgona Island Natural Park, and a former secret detention and extermination center in Argentina that is now a shopping mall. In the final session, Assistant Professor of Spanish Niall Peach will explore racial and environmental legacies of the Spanish Empire from the stately homes, gardens, and parks of northern Spain to the plantations and Cuban Revolution-era agricultural projects of Cuba. Throughout, the series will explore how narratives of cultural and national identity are created and how observant travelers might better be able to see what is hidden in plain sight.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-02-09 11:30:00 -0600

  2/09/23 2023-02-09 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism and Commemoration in Paris, Martinique, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  <p>Travelers flock to iconic sites to connect with the past and other cultures. Visiting a monument, museum, palace, cathedral, or other cultural or historical site allows visitors to connect stories with a physical place. But what stories do such sites really tell, and whose stories do they overlook? Drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas, this four-week forum will explore how narratives of post-revolutionary and postcolonial tourist sites often obscure as much as they reveal about the pivotal social and political conflicts that occurred there. In week one, Joanne H. Pochobradsky Associate Professor of French Joyce Janca-Aji will introduce audiences to Paris and its often-missing landmarks to the French Revolution, World War II, and French colonialism. The second session, also led by Janca-Aji, will focus on the remembering and forgetting of racial slavery and colonialism in Martinique. Week three, presented by Assistant Professor of Spanish Laissa Rodríguez Moreno, will examine sites in the Americas that have erased or “repurposed” histories of conquest and repression, including the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán that lies under Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor o Zócalo, a prison in Colombia that became Gorgona Island Natural Park, and a former secret detention and extermination center in Argentina that is now a shopping mall. In the final session, Assistant Professor of Spanish Niall Peach will explore racial and environmental legacies of the Spanish Empire from the stately homes, gardens, and parks of northern Spain to the plantations and Cuban Revolution-era agricultural projects of Cuba. Throughout, the series will explore how narratives of cultural and national identity are created and how observant travelers might better be able to see what is hidden in plain sight.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-02-16 11:30:00 -0600

  2/16/23 2023-02-16 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Hidden in Plain Sight: Tourism and Commemoration in Paris, Martinique, Mexico, Colombia and Argentina

  <p>Travelers flock to iconic sites to connect with the past and other cultures. Visiting a monument, museum, palace, cathedral, or other cultural or historical site allows visitors to connect stories with a physical place. But what stories do such sites really tell, and whose stories do they overlook? Drawing on examples from Europe and the Americas, this four-week forum will explore how narratives of post-revolutionary and postcolonial tourist sites often obscure as much as they reveal about the pivotal social and political conflicts that occurred there. In week one, Joanne H. Pochobradsky Associate Professor of French Joyce Janca-Aji will introduce audiences to Paris and its often-missing landmarks to the French Revolution, World War II, and French colonialism. The second session, also led by Janca-Aji, will focus on the remembering and forgetting of racial slavery and colonialism in Martinique. Week three, presented by Assistant Professor of Spanish Laissa Rodríguez Moreno, will examine sites in the Americas that have erased or “repurposed” histories of conquest and repression, including the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán that lies under Mexico City’s Plaza Mayor o Zócalo, a prison in Colombia that became Gorgona Island Natural Park, and a former secret detention and extermination center in Argentina that is now a shopping mall. In the final session, Assistant Professor of Spanish Niall Peach will explore racial and environmental legacies of the Spanish Empire from the stately homes, gardens, and parks of northern Spain to the plantations and Cuban Revolution-era agricultural projects of Cuba. Throughout, the series will explore how narratives of cultural and national identity are created and how observant travelers might better be able to see what is hidden in plain sight.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-02-23 11:30:00 -0600

  2/23/23 2023-02-23 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Frank Warren: Post Secret Live

  <p>Warren created Post Secret, a collection of highly personal and artfully decorated postcards mailed anonymously from around the world. What started as a community arts project exploded in popularity; since Post Secret’s inception in 2004, Warren has received over 1 million anonymous secrets on homemade postcards. Warren’s project has raised more than $1 million for suicide prevention, earning him the Mental Health Advocacy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. Post Secret postcards have been exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. Warren engages audiences with inspiring and funny stories behind the secrets, discusses the Post Secret blog and how it led him to make suicide awareness part of his life’s work and demonstrates that through our secret struggles and adversity, we can help others.</p> 2023-01-26 21:00:00 -0600

  2/17/23 2023-02-17 19:00:00 -0600

  7:00 p.m.

  Coe College Sinclair Auditorium

  Cedar Rapids

  15.0

• 3rd Thursday at Hoover's Presents: Lincoln and Hoover-Comparisons and Contrasts

  <p>Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum director Dr. Thomas Schwartz looks into the lives and similarities of these two great presidents.</p><p>In celebration of both Abraham Lincoln’s birthday and Presidents Day, this talk will examine the lives of Abraham Lincoln and Herbert Hoover highlighting the profound influence that the Sixteenth President had upon the thinking of the Thirty-First President. &nbsp;Both suffered loss in their childhood, were voracious readers, and self-made individuals. &nbsp;Lincoln articulated the political philosophy of Herbert Hoover with the “open field” and “fair chance” in life or more generally known as the “right to rise.”</p><p>This philosophy argued that government should not pose barriers for individual achievement. &nbsp;Every American should be allowed to reach the level of attainment that their individual talents and initiative might realize. &nbsp;Lincoln was also a firm believer in party building and the importance of party in achieving viable public policy. &nbsp;He also knew that harnessing public opinion was necessary for the success of any policy initiative. &nbsp;Hoover, having not been elected to public office other than the Presidency, was less adept at the importance of political organization in driving successful public policies. &nbsp;Hoover’s admiration of Lincoln was life-long and expressed itself in some unusual ways.</p><p><br><strong>About the Speaker:</strong> Dr. Thomas Schwartz is the director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum. Prior to coming to the Hoover Presidential Library, Schwartz was director of the Lincoln Library and will share his vast knowledge of both presidents.</p><p><strong>This program will be virtual via Zoom. Registration is required to get the zoom link.</strong> To register click <a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6516738980345/WN_HmxBw5-6Ro2C9x-6KpiNFw">here</a></p> 2023-01-18 19:00:00 -0600

  2/16/23 2023-02-16 18:00:00 -0600

  6:00 p.m.

  Hiawatha Public Library

  Hiawatha

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• Greek Olympians and Roman Gladiators: Divergent Notions of Sport, Spectacle and Violence in the Classical World

  <p>The ancient Greeks had the Olympics. The Romans had their gladiators. These events have left a disproportionate imprint on modern society’s impressions of these two ancient cultures. In this two-week forum, Associate Professor of History Angela Ziskowski will examine how competition, public entertainment and sportsmanship varied among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Week one will focus on the Greeks, explaining the influence of the ancient Near East on Greek notions of honor and competition and how the epics of Homer allow us to understand how competitive games came into being and whether they were a replacement for war. We will discuss the institutionalization of the Panhellenic games, a set of four athletic events held at the Greek-god religious sanctuaries of Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea that created the framework for our modern Olympics. In week two, we will explore how Roman notions of sport and spectacle developed as well as diverged in fundamental ways from the Greeks and Etruscans. We will take a close look at “the bread and circuses” entertainment put on by Roman emperors of the time, including their deadly chariot-racing and bloodthirsty gladiatorial games. Throughout the forum, we will consider what constituted socially acceptable forms of sport and entertainment in these two fascinating and influential cultures.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2022-08-29 11:30:00 -0500

  3/02/23 2023-03-02 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• Greek Olympians and Roman Gladiators: Divergent Notions of Sport, Spectacle and Violence in the Classical World

  <p>The ancient Greeks had the Olympics. The Romans had their gladiators. These events have left a disproportionate imprint on modern society’s impressions of these two ancient cultures. In this two-week forum, Associate Professor of History Angela Ziskowski will examine how competition, public entertainment and sportsmanship varied among the ancient Greeks and Romans. Week one will focus on the Greeks, explaining the influence of the ancient Near East on Greek notions of honor and competition and how the epics of Homer allow us to understand how competitive games came into being and whether they were a replacement for war. We will discuss the institutionalization of the Panhellenic games, a set of four athletic events held at the Greek-god religious sanctuaries of Olympia, Delphi, Isthmia and Nemea that created the framework for our modern Olympics. In week two, we will explore how Roman notions of sport and spectacle developed as well as diverged in fundamental ways from the Greeks and Etruscans. We will take a close look at “the bread and circuses” entertainment put on by Roman emperors of the time, including their deadly chariot-racing and bloodthirsty gladiatorial games. Throughout the forum, we will consider what constituted socially acceptable forms of sport and entertainment in these two fascinating and influential cultures.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-03-03 11:30:00 -0600

  3/09/23 2023-03-09 08:45:00 -0600

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  12

• The History of Sport in the United States

  <p>This two-week forum will introduce audiences to the history of sport in the United States during the recent past. Focusing on the period between 1900 and today, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Larry Atwater will explore how sport has long served as a reflection of American society as well as an agent of change in the nation. The series will begin in week one by discussing important themes and events in the history of sport during the first half of the twentieth century. It will pay particular attention to themes of religion, race, ethnicity and gender in the construction of sport culture and the role of sport in broader events like racial segregation, the Great Depression and the two world wars. Week two’s session moves the story through the latter decades of the twentieth century and up to today. It will highlight the influence of sport in and on events like the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the modern women’s movement and examine how developments like television coverage, corporate sponsorship and globalization have influenced both sport and society.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2022-08-29 11:30:00 -0500

  3/23/23 2023-03-23 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  10

• The History of Sport in the United States

  <p>This two-week forum will introduce audiences to the history of sport in the United States during the recent past. Focusing on the period between 1900 and today, Assistant Professor of Kinesiology Larry Atwater will explore how sport has long served as a reflection of American society as well as an agent of change in the nation. The series will begin in week one by discussing important themes and events in the history of sport during the first half of the twentieth century. It will pay particular attention to themes of religion, race, ethnicity and gender in the construction of sport culture and the role of sport in broader events like racial segregation, the Great Depression and the two world wars. Week two’s session moves the story through the latter decades of the twentieth century and up to today. It will highlight the influence of sport in and on events like the Cold War, the Civil Rights Movement and the modern women’s movement and examine how developments like television coverage, corporate sponsorship and globalization have influenced both sport and society.</p><p>Thursday Forum is held in Kesler Auditorium on the first floor of <a data-cke-saved-href="{CCM:BASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map" href="{CCM%3ABASE_URL}/why-coe/visitor-information/campus-map">Hickok Hall</a>. Each weekly session begins with registration and refreshments from 8:45-9:15 AM, followed by the lecture until 11:30 AM. The presentations blend lecture, media such as film and music, and discussion.</p><p>Admission to each four-week forum series is $40. Admission to individual lectures and each session of two- and three-week forums is $12 per week. Admission includes the lecture and morning refreshments of coffee, tea and pastries. Payment can be made in person on Thursday mornings by cash or personal check. Credit card payments can be processed by <a data-cke-saved-href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore" href="http://commerce.cashnet.com/coestore">registering online</a> in advance at www.coe.edu/thursday-forum.</p> 2023-03-30 11:30:00 -0500

  3/30/23 2023-03-30 08:45:00 -0500

  8:45 a.m.

  Kesler Lecture Hall of Hickok Hall

  Cedar Rapids

  10