Professor Dow will speak about the nature of the death penalty at the Utah Valley University’s seventh
annual Symposium on Restorative Justice and the Death Penalty, to be held this Thursday.
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BYU
Constantinople topic of Kennedy Center lecture
Monique O'Connell, associate professor of history at Wake Forest University, will speak on "Situating
Constantinople: The Byzantine Empire in the Mediterranean" Wednesday at noon in 238 Herald R. Clark
Building at Brigham Young University.
O'Connell is currently working on a synthetic history of the medieval and early modern Mediterranean
with Eric Dursteler, a professor of history at BYU.
Her first book is "Men of Empire: Power and Negotiation in Venice's Maritime State" (2009); she coedited the electronic database Rulers of Venice: 1332-1524, which is available through the Renaissance
Society of America, and has recently published articles in California Italian Studies and the Journal of
Early Modern History.
Her research has been funded by fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the
Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Harvard University's Villa I Tatti Center for Renaissance Studies.
This lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive.
Ron Gordon to discuss policy development
BYU's David M. Kennedy Center will host Ron Gordon, executive director of the Commission on Criminal
Justice and Juvenile Justice for the State of Utah Thursday at 4 p.m. in 238 Herald R. Clark Building. He
will speak on "Career Reflections: Policy Development."
Gordon was appointed to the Commission on Criminal Justice and Juvenile Justice in February 2009 by
former governor Jon M. Huntsman. Gordon oversees a 21-member commission charged with
coordinating criminal and juvenile justice policy throughout Utah. He works closely with executive
branch agencies, the legislature, judiciary and local governments, as well as private providers in policy
development, and he also serves on the governor's senior staff as an adviser on criminal justice policy.
Previously, Gordon served as the director of the Office of Crime Victim Reparations, coordinator of the
Criminal Justice Advisory Council in Salt Lake County, director of the Utah Sentencing Commission and
staff attorney to the Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.
He received a bachelor's degree from BYU and a law degree from the University of Utah.
This lecture will be archived at kennedy.byu.edu/archive.
Former CIA director to give Wheatley lecture
R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA, will be speaking Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at BYU's Gordon B.
Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center. His subject will be "Energy in the 21st Century: Could Muir, Patton,
and Gandhi Agree on a Program?" and is hosted by the Wheatley Institution.
Admission is free, and the public is welcome to attend.
Woolsey is chairman of Woolsey Partners LLC and a venture partner with Lux Capital Management. He
also chairs the board of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, is a senior fellow at Yale
University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs and is the chair for the strategic advisory group of the
Paladin Capital Group.
Previously, he served as a vice president and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton and as a venture partner
with VantagePoint Venture Partners of San Bruno, Calif. From 2002 to 2008, he was a partner at Shea &
Gardner in Washington, D.C., (now Goodwin Procter) where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil
litigation, arbitration and mediation.
Woolsey also held presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations,
most recently (1993-1995) as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. A frequent contributor of
articles to major publications, he also gives public speeches and media interviews on the subjects of
energy, foreign affairs, defense and intelligence.
Named for Jack and Mary Lois Wheatley, the Wheatley Institution at BYU enhances the reputation and
scholarship of BYU by seeking creative and powerful ideas that lead toward practical and constructive
solutions to real societal issues.
New director named for BYU Museum of Art
Mark A. Magleby, a BYU art history faculty member since 1997, has been appointed as the new director
of the BYU Museum of Art, Stephen M. Jones, dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communications
announced Wednesday.
Magleby will officially begin in his new role Jan. 1, 2012.
Prior to his employment at BYU, Magleby was an art history faculty member at both The Ohio State
University and Denison University. Magleby received his M.A. and Ph.D. in History of Art from The Ohio
State University, having previously completed his B.A. from BYU. Magleby specializes in 18th-century art
and architecture, 20th-century European art, and contemporary theory and criticism.
Magleby will replace former director Campbell Gray, who earlier this year accepted a position as
director of The University of Queensland Art Museum in Brisbane, Australia.
UVU
Author is hands-on for UVU lecture
Matthew Crawford, philosopher and New York Times best-selling author of "Shop Class as Soulcraft: An
Inquiry into the Value of Work," will discuss his book at Utah Valley University on Wednesday at 10 a.m.
in the Sorensen Student Center's Ragan Theater as part of this year's Presidential Lecture Series.
Crawford's book brings alive an experience that was once quite common, but now seems to be a dying
practice -- that of making and fixing things with one's hands. For anyone who felt hustled off to college
and then into a cubicle, "Shop Class as Soulcraft" seeks to restore the honor and viability of manual
trades and working with one's hands.
Crawford, who holds a doctorate in political philosophy, is a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies
in Culture at the University of Virginia. He also runs a motorcycle repair shop in Richmond, Va. Crawford
has written for the New York Times Magazine, the Wall Street Journal and The American Interest on
topics ranging from neuroscience to the philosophy of friendship.
The Presidential Lecture Series, sponsored by the UVU Office of the President, aims to enhance the
academic exchange on campus by bringing to campus the nation's very best scholars to speak to UVU
faculty, staff and students.
For more information and resources on this event, visit
www.uvu.edu/sei/events/presidential_lecture_series.html.
Restorative Justice Symposium
UVU's Integrated Studies and Peace and Justice Studies will co-host a public educational deliberation on
the issues and ethical implications surrounding capital punishment.
The seventh annual Symposium on Restorative Justice and the Death Penalty will be held Thursday
beginning at 10 a.m. in the UVU Library auditorium, Room 120. This year's debate and investigation will
center on whether humanity and justice can co-exist within the U.S. criminal justice system.
The conference will begin with a presentation by David Livingstone Smith, a University of New England
philosophy professor and author of the book "Less Than Human: Why We Demean, Enslave and
Exterminate Others." Houston Law Center professor David Dow will talk about the nature of the death
penalty.
Restorative justice is an expanding global movement intended to balance the needs of both offenders
and victims by reconciling differences through alternative approaches to current punitive justice
methods.
Eric Shulzke and Ben Anderson will make a presentation on the nonprofit organization "The Apollo 13
Project," which is devoted to helping reduce criminal incarceration and recidivism rates by encouraging
better dialogue, data and public outreach in regard to offender reintegration. The symposium will end
with an hour-long panel discussion. The conference is free to the public.
For more information on the conference go online to www.uvu.edu/is/symposium.
UVU adoption conference
Preparing for adoption, meeting a birth parent and growing up adopted are just some of the focused
workshops featured during the third annual Utah Valley University Conference on Adoption on Friday.
The conference, which helps celebrate National Adoption Month, will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in
the Sorensen Student Center.
The conference program includes two plenary panels, 20 concurrent presentations and a luncheon
keynote presentation intended to help participants investigate various aspects of adoption. The
program features multiple-session tracks meeting the interests and needs of those seeking professional
and pre-adoption information, as well as insight into family transition and parenting challenges for those
who have participated in the adoption process.
Corrine and Damon Frazier will deliver the keynote address during the conference luncheon, sharing
their personal story to offer hope and encouragement to those journeying toward parenthood. They will
be joined by recording artist Jaime Thietten, who will add her heart and passion to the event.
The conference, presented in part by UVU's College of Humanities & Social Sciences and endorsed by
the National Council for Adoption, is open to students and the public. The registration cost is $25 at the
door. For registration or more information, visit www.uvu.edu/chss/adoption/.
Student organization co-hosting fundraiser
About two dozen UVU students will travel to Belize on Nov. 13 to spend a week constructing sustainable
housing for families currently living in unsafe and substandard structures.
To help finance the humanitarian project, UVU's chapter of Students in Free Enterprise will team with
Pinnacle Security's Securing Hope to present a combination 1K, 5K and 10K run on Nov. 12. The third
annual charity run begins at 9 a.m. at Pinnacle's headquarters, 1290 S. Sandhill Road in Orem.
As participants in the Domes for Belize project, the UVU students will construct tornado- and hurricaneresistant "ecodomes" with the training, tools and methods developed by the Domes for the World
Foundation. A group from UVU traveled to Belize last spring to identify families and communities in
need.
SIFE is an international non-profit organization that works with business leaders and higher education to
mobilize students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become
socially responsible business leaders.
University teams apply business concepts to develop outreach projects that improve the quality of life
and standard of living for people in need.
Last year UVU students participated in a similar charity run in partnership with Securing Hope and raised
about $50,000 for a project to aid earthquake-stricken Haiti.
They've adopted the Belize project this year after learning of the involvement of UVU's athletic
department and former UVU All-American wrestler Ben Kjar in the worthy cause.
For more information on the run or to register go online to
http://pinnaclesecurity.com/securinghope5k.php.
For more information on Domes for Belize go to http://www.dftw.org/stories/monolithic-ecoshells-forchunox-belize.
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