BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Office of Sustainability - ECPv6.15.15//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Office of Sustainability X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Office of Sustainability REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20160313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20161106T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20170312T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20171105T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20180311T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20181104T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170912T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170912T190000 DTSTAMP:20260715T054657 CREATED:20201007T164950Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T215119Z UID:10003071-1505242800-1505242800@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:POSTPONED — Common Book Keynote with Dave Eggers DESCRIPTION:Due to Hurricane Irma\\, this event has been postponed to a later date.  Please check back!\nSpend an evening with this year’s Common Book author\\, Dave Eggers. Mr. Eggers will give a keynote speech centered on his work The Circle.  This is a free event\\, but space is limited\\, please arrive early. After the keynote\\, Mr. Eggers will be available for a book signing. URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/postponed-common-book-keynote-with-dave-eggers-2/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Anyone,Evening,On Campus,Other,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Common-Book-Event-K1htTG.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170905T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170905T180000 DTSTAMP:20260715T054657 CREATED:20201007T165005Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T215132Z UID:10003109-1504634400-1504634400@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:Together We Can DESCRIPTION:\'Together We Can\' offers an evening of discussion and fellowship between our area’s law enforcement officers and members of the local community. There will be free food and beverages provided by the Cross-Cultural Center for Excellence and an open discussion about police policies surrounding community interaction. URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/together-we-can-3/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Anyone,Evening,Gathering,On Campus,Other ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Default-Event-jo5OOK.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170901T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170901T160000 DTSTAMP:20260715T054657 CREATED:20201007T164951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T215120Z UID:10003072-1504281600-1504281600@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:Intellectual Diversity and the Exchange of Ideas DESCRIPTION:

Cornel West

Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy\\, Harvard Divinity School\n
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\nCornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary\\, Yale\\, Harvard\\, and the University of Paris. Cornel West graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard in three years and obtained his M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy at Princeton. He has written over 20 books and has edited 13. Though he is best known for his classics\\, Race Matters and Democracy Matters\\, and for his memoir\\, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud\\, his most recent releases\\, Black Prophetic Fire and Radical King\\, were received with critical acclaim. Dr. West is a frequent guest on the Bill Maher Show\\, Colbert Report\\, CNN\\, C-Span and Democracy Now. He made his film debut in the Matrix – and was the commentator (with Ken Wilbur) on the official trilogy released in 2004. He also has appeared in over 25 documentaries and films including Examined Life\\, Call & Response\\, Sidewalk and Stand. \nLast but certainly not least\\, he has made three spoken word albums including Never Forget\\, collaborating with Prince\\, Jill Scott\\, Andre 3000\\, Talib Kweli\\, KRS-One and the late Gerald Levert. His spoken word interludes were featured on Terence Blanchard’s Choices (which won the Grand Prix in France for the best Jazz Album of the year of 2009)\\, The Cornel West Theory’s Second Rome\\, Raheem DeVaughn’s Grammy-nominated Love & War: Masterpeace\\, and most recently on Bootsy Collins’ The Funk Capital of the World. In short\\, Cornel West has a passion to invite a variety of people from all walks of life into his world of ideas in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King\\, Jr. – a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice. \n \n

Robert P. George

\nMcCormick Professor of Jurisprudence\\, Princeton University\n
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\nRobert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. He is also the Herbert W. Vaughan Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute in Princeton\\, and has on several occasions been a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. In addition to his academic service\\, Professor George has served as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. He previously served on the President’s Council on Bioethics (2002-2009)\\, and as a presidential appointee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1993-1998). He has also been the U.S. member of UNESCO’s World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology. He is a former Judicial Fellow at the Supreme Court of the United States\\, where he received the Justice Tom C. Clark Award. \nProfessor George is author of Making Men Moral: Civil Liberties and Public Morality (Oxford University Press\\, 1993)\\, In Defense of Natural Law (Oxford University Press\\, 1999)\\, The Clash of Orthodoxies (ISI\\, 2001) and Conscience and Its Enemies (ISI\\, 2013). Professor George’s articles and review essays have appeared in the Harvard Law Review\\, the Yale Law Journal\\, the Columbia Law Review\\, the University of Chicago Law Review\\, the Review of Politics\\, the Review of Metaphysics\\, and the American Journal of Jurisprudence. He has also written for the New York Times\\, the Wall Street Journal\\, the Washington Post\\, First Things\\, the Boston Review\\, and the Times Literary Supplement. \nA graduate of Swarthmore College\\, Professor George holds degrees in law and theology from Harvard and the degrees of D.Phil.\\, B.C.L.\\, and D.C.L. from Oxford University. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa at Swarthmore and received a Frank Knox Fellowship from Harvard for graduate study in law and philosophy at Oxford. He holds honorary doctorates of law\\, letters\\, ethics\\, science\\, divinity\\, humane letters\\, law and moral values\\, civil law\\, and juridical science. URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/intellectual-diversity-and-the-exchange-of-ideas-2/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Anyone,Daytime,On Campus,Other,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Critical-Conversations-Event-ACB5WJ.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170426T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170426T133500 DTSTAMP:20260715T054657 CREATED:20201007T165040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T215204Z UID:10003134-1493193600-1493213700@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:Diversity: Embrace It\, Share It\, & Celebrate It DESCRIPTION:

Join Auburn University Human Resources for this year\'s Administrative Professionals’ Day conference where administrative professionals and office assistants will be honored at the conference for their ongoing contributions to Auburn University. This year’s theme is “Diversity: Embrace It\\, Share It and Celebrate It.”\nRegistration begins at 7:30 a.m.\\, followed by keynote speaker Melva Tate with Tate and Associates\\, beginning just after 8:20 a.m. \nParticipants can also attend two breakout sessions that morning with three topics to choose from:\n• Tabitha Brecke and Scott Renner with the Office of Accessibility will discuss “Diversity\\, Inclusion\\, and Accessibility”\n• Jessica King in the Office of Alumni Affairs will present on the “125th Anniversary of Auburn Women”\n• A third session regarding international students will also be offered. \nAuburn University’s MOSAIC Theatre Company will also perform during the buffet luncheon at noon. The conference will end at 1:35 p.m. \nThe conference cost is $75\\, which includes lunch and program materials. The cost for the lunch-only session is $35. State funding can be used to attend the entire conference\\, but it cannot be used to attend the lunch-only session. Seating will be limited.

URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/diversity-embrace-it-share-it-celebrate-it-2/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Daytime ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Default-Event-jo5OOK.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170403T200000 DTSTAMP:20260715T054657 CREATED:20201007T165102Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T215225Z UID:10003161-1491242400-1491249600@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:Laura Ling Talk for Asian & Pacific Islander American Heritage Month Kickoff DESCRIPTION:Over almost two decades\\, award-winning journalist and web and TV host\\, Laura Ling has dedicated herself to exposing the world to critical global issues\\, including slave labor in the Amazon\\, the drug war in Mexico\\, Internet censorship in China\\, and women’s rights in Turkey. As the Director of Development for Discovery Digital Networks\\, Ling oversees the creation and production of original web series. She is also the host of Going Off Grid and Rituals With Laura Ling. In March 2009\\, Ling captured the world’s attention from a different standpoint\\, when she was arrested and held captive in North Korea for 140 days\\, after attempting to report on the trafficking of North Korean women. Granted a special pardon\\, she returned to the U.S. and documented her experience in her 2010 memoir\\, Somewhere Inside: One Sister’s Captivity in North Korea and the Other’s Fight to Bring Her Home\\, penned with her sister\\, Lisa.\nThe Cross-Cultural Center for Excellence is committed to providing reasonable accommodation in its services\\, programs\\, and activities. To request disability accommodation\\, contact the CCCE at least ten days in advance at (334) 844-2976 (phone)\\, (334) 844-2856 (fax)\\, or e-mail Stephanie Patterson at sjp0014@auburn.edu. URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/laura-ling-talk-for-asian-pacific-islander-american-heritage-month-kickoff-2/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Anyone,Evening,On Campus,Talk ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cross-Cultural-Center-for-Excellence-Events-jF6y2t.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20170201T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20170201T200000 DTSTAMP:20260715T054658 CREATED:20201007T165147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201007T193543Z UID:10003201-1485972000-1485979200@sustain.auburn.edu SUMMARY:Black History Month Kickoff with W. Kamau Bell DESCRIPTION:Come kickoff Black History Month by hearing from W. Kamau Bell\\, who is a sociopolitical comedian and host of the CNN docu-series United Shades of America\\, which premiered in April 2016. Kamau is best known for his critically acclaimed FX comedy series\\, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. He is also the ACLU’s Ambassador of Racial Justice. URL:https://sustain.auburn.edu/event/black-history-month-kickoff-with-w-kamau-bell-2/ LOCATION:Event Venue | Student Center Ballroom CATEGORIES:Evening ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://sustain.auburn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Cross-Cultural-Center-for-Excellence-Events-jF6y2t.tmp_.png GEO:32.60248;-85.486934 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR