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Theme Year: 2008-2009
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Dr. Rebecca Denton, Director
Theme Year 2008-09
Office: (417) 873-7377
rdenton@drury.edu

Theme Year 2008-2009: Entrepreneurship & Innovation

Schedule of Speakers

August 24, 2008

Orientation Convocation - Dr. Porter Moore '95
Savor the Questions Because You Will Never Know All of the Answers!

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

August 28, 2008

Opening Convocation
Drury President Todd Parnell '69

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


September 4, 2008

Dr. David Orr
Some Like it Hot--But Lots More Don't: The Changing ‘Climate' of U.S. Politics

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

September 11, 2008

Gene Baur
Farm Sanctuary: Changing Hearts and Minds about Animals and Food

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

September 18, 2008

Courtney Price
Trends in Women's Entrepreneurship: Key Challenges & Opportunities

7 p.m., Clara Thompson Hall

September 25, 2008

Founders' Day: Dr. Jack Conrad
Science from the Edges of the World

11 a.m., Stone Chapel

October 2, 2008

Drs. Elizabeth Paddock, Dan Ponder and Jeff VanDenBerg
Predicting the Unpredictable

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

October 9, 2008

Peter Herschend
Johnny the Bagger: Innovations in Customer Service

7 p.m., Clara Thompson Hall



October 16, 2008

Dr. Lin Foulk
A Recent Innovation: Women and the Orchestra

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall




October 30, 2008

Rick Lowe
Rebuilding Community: 22 Shotgun Houses, Artists and Young Mothers

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

November 6, 2008

Derrick Jensen
Civilization and Resistance

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall



November 13, 2008

Dr. Carol Gilligan
Engaging in the Dialogue of Democracy: Critical Conversations for the 21st Century

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


November 18, 2008

Fall Concert
Convocation Performance

7:30 p.m., Hammons Hall for the Performing Arts

November 20, 2008

Dr. Cal DeWitt
Science, Religion and Global Warming

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


January 29, 2009

Shawn Askinosie
Beyond Company Borders: Giving Farmers a Stake in the Outcome

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall

February 5, 2009

Dr. Gary Kremer
The Innovation of Racism

11 a.m., Diversity Center


February 10, 2009

Stephen H. Good Concert
Annual Concert Series

7:30 p.m., Clara Thompson Hall

February 12, 2009

The Skinny Improv
The Start of Funny

8:30 p.m., Clara Thompson Hall

February 13, 2009

Dr. Amy-Jill Levine
Jesus of Nazareth: Tradition and Innovation

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


February 26, 2009

Ellen Armour
Theology, Theory and the Debate over Homosexuality

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall



March 5, 2009

David Bornstein
Judge Warren White Speaker: How to Make Change Happen

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


March 19, 2009

Dr. David Walton
Entrepreneurship and Innovation: How to Change the World

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


April 2, 2009

Bo Burlingham
Regaining Mojo

7 p.m., Clara Thompson Hall



April 16, 2009

Jessica Valenti
Full Frontal Feminism

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall



April 23, 2009

Carmencita "Chie" Abad
The Truth About Sweatshops - A Former Sweatshop Worker Speaks Out

11 a.m., Diversity Center



April 30, 2009

Theme Day Speaker: Jack Stack
A Stake in the Outcome

11 a.m., Clara Thompson Hall


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