Dyson College of Arts and Sciences
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DYSON COLLEGE EVENT HIGHLIGHTS 2012-13 The Center for Community Action and Research hosts the event Rights and Justice: What You Need to Know about Voter Suppression. The event features a talk with Keesha Gaskins, Senior Counsel in the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, an expert on redistricting. The Confucius Institute open house and celebration of the Mid-Autumn Festival. Retired U.S. Army Colonel and chaplain Janet Y. Horton gives the talk Divine Command Morality: The Abraham Tradition—When Religious Groups Interface with Government. SEPTEMBER 2012 Convocation is held on September 4 at the Goldstein Health and Fitness Center Gymnasium on the Westchester Campus. Author of the New York Times bestseller Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? and Harvard University professor Michael Sandel delivers keynote address on the theme of justice. Dyson Dean's Lecture Series: Guest speaker Robert DiYanni, NYU professor and former Pace professor, discusses how to foster critical and creative thinking in students. Pace Performing Arts presents The Altruist. Westchester Art faculty participates in a group exhibition at the Choate House Gallery. Pace Remembers 9/11: Pace students join in a candle light vigil to remember and honor those lost on September 11, 2001. Corporations Are Not People: a talk by Jeff Clements, former Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts. Clements is president of Free Speech for People, a non-partisan campaign to overturn Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. New York City Art faculty presents their work at the Peter Fingesten Gallery. OCTOBER 2012 Presidential and vice presidential debate watch parties are held on the New York City and Westchester campuses with pre- and post-debate discussion lead by students and faculty. Nancy Reagin gives Faculty Talk on History and the Wizarding World. She spoke on the ways in which history is incorporated into the Harry Potter series. 21 • Year in Review 2012–2013