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Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in Crabbe Library Room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

Dr. Laura Newhart will moderate this week's discu...ssion of "Where the Wild Things Are":

"In the philosopher’s picture, the good life is won through direct assault. Heroes use reason to separate virtue from vice. Then they use willpower to conquer weakness, fear, selfishness and the dark passions lurking inside. Once they achieve virtue they do virtuous things. In the psychologist’s version, the good life is won indirectly. People have only vague intuitions about the instincts and impulses that have been implanted in them by evolution, culture and upbringing. There is no easy way to command all the wild things jostling inside."

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/20/opinion/20brooks.html?em

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DIRECTOR DROR ZAHAVI:

"In November 2005, a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Carmel Market in Tel Aviv, killing four Israelis. That day I knew how necessary it is to make a film that tries to reveal the faces behind those masks worn by the kids in their 'farewell' videos. I believe that when hatred threatens to swit...ch off sanity, it is as important as can be to make a film that shows the human beings on both sides. No monsters, just human beings with families and friends, joy and distress, people who dream to end the circle of pain and could very well live peacefully side by side."

SYNOPSIS:

Terek, a Palestinian forced on a suicide mission in Tel Aviv to redeem his father's honor, is given a second chance when the fuse on his explosive vest fails to detonate. Forced to spend the weekend in Tel Aviv awaiting its repair, Terek must live amongst the people he was planning to kill. To his surprise he connects with several Israelis on the outskirts of society, including the beautiful Keren, who has cut off contact with her Orthodox family and upbringing. With nothing to lose, Terek and Keren open up to one another, and an unlikely love blooms between two isolated and damaged individuals, raised to be enemies.

However, with the deadly load of explosives still strapped to him, he must spend 48 hours in the city, caught between the men that sent him—who can blow up his bomb remotely, the Israeli police patrolling the streets and his new-found companions. Spending this time with Keren and his new friends, Terek discovers the spark of life returning to fill his soul, but when the weekend ends, Terek must make the decision of his life.

Followed by discussion in the Library Cafe.

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Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 p.m. in Crabbe Library Room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

Dr. Matthew Winslow will moderate this week’s dis...cussion of "Empathy in the Virtual World":

"If Socrates could wander the halls of our workplaces or visit our homes, he would be amazed by the advance of our multimedia computers over the primitive technology of his cave with its statues and firelight. Technology, however, never bestows its bounty freely, and Socrates might make us a bit uncomfortable with questions about the role that machines play in modern life."

http://search.ebscohost.com.libproxy.eku.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=44294882&site=ehost-live

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Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 in room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Healthy refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

This week's discussion will be moderated by Dr. Mark Konty an...d devoted to "What's Happening to Women's Happiness?":

"[M]ore than 1.3 million men and women have been surveyed over the last 40 years, both here in the U.S. and in developed countries around the world. Wherever researchers have been able to collect reliable data on happiness, the finding is always the same: greater educational, political, and employment opportunities have corresponded to decreases in life happiness for women, as compared to men."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcus-buckingham/whats-happening-to-womens_b_289511.html

See below for links to related material.

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Everyone is invited to join us on selected Friday afternoons at 3:30 in room 201 for a hour of informal, moderated discussion over articles of various topics selected by EKU faculty. Healthy refreshments will be provided by EKU Student Government Association.

This week's discussion will be moderated by Dr. Matthew Winsl...ow and devoted to Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi’s "The Great American Bubble Machine":

"From tech stocks to high gas prices, Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression - and they’re about to do it again."

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/29127316/the_great_american_bubble_machine

See below for a video of Taibbi discussing the article.

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Dr. Melba Porter Hay, author of “Madeline McDowell Breckinridge and the Battle for a New South,” will give a presentation on Thursday, Oct. 22, in Eastern Kentucky University’s Crabbe Library.
The presentation, at 2 p.m. in the Grand Reading Room, will be followed by a reception and book signing.
Hay, wife of EKU Archivi...st Emeritus Charles Hay, was the division manager for research and publications at the Kentucky Historical Society until her retirement in 2004. Prior to assuming that position, she worked as an editor for the Papers of Henry Clay documentary editing project from 1980 to 1991, serving as director of the project from 1987 to its completion.
Hay first began researching and writing about Kentucky woman suffragist and Progressive reformer Madeline McDowell Breckinridge in 1972 for a graduate history seminar. Following her retirement, she began rewriting her dissertation and adding new material that had come to light in the 1990s.
Breckinridge, a descendant of Henry Clay, was a preeminent Kentucky reformer and women’s right advocate who promoted public health, education and charity throughout her career as an activist. She also devoted much of her life to the woman’s suffrage movement, anti-tuberculosis movement, social programs for the poor, compulsory school attendance, and laws regulating child labor. Breckinridge helped give women the right to vote in 1920 and championed Kentucky’s social development during the Progressive Era.
If you plan to attend, want to bring a class or have questions about the event, contact the Library Advancement Office at 859-622-1072 or krista.zabawa@eku.edu.
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Jara is a shy and lonely 35-year-old security guard at a supermarket on the outskirts of Montevideo. He works the night shift, monitoring the surveillance cameras of the entire building. One night Jara discovers Julia, a 25-year-old cleaning woman, through one of the cameras and is immediately attracted to her. Night... after night, he watches her on the cameras while she works. Soon he starts following her after work: to the cinema, the beach and even to a date with another man. Jara's life becomes a series of routines and rituals around Julia, but eventually he finds himself at a crossroad and must decide whether to give up his obsession or confront it.

Director Adrián Biniez: "This film is not about the beginning of a relationship, but about what precedes it. It is about the process that any human being in love has to face before taking action, at a stage where he has to deal with his feelings and his deepest fears. A stage where what he knows about her is little more than an image: a big question mark he wishes to decipher."

Followed by discussion in the Library Cafe.

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