October 22-27, 2007 - 1st Annual African Heritage Week at Gettysburg College

Click here to view schedule of events on the event poster.

November 5-11, 2007 - French Film Week **All films are free and open to the public. All films are French with English subtitles.

February 9, 2008 (Saturday)- CPC Faculty Development Retreat at F&M

9 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Stager Hall .m. - 4:30 p.m. , Franklin & Marshall College- Stager Hall

New faculty and department chairs are encouraged to attend this one day retreat with various break-out sessions and a chance to connect with colleagues from all three campuses. The key note speaker is Dr. Richard Light, director of the Harvard Seminar on Assessment, the Walter H. Gale Professor of Education at Harvard University and author of Making the Most of College: Students Speak Their Minds.

Break out sessions include:

• Homework works. The whys & the hows.
• Misperceptions about science education. How do we attract and keep our students engaged?
• What makes foreign language instruction so valuable to students? How can foreign language pedagogies extend to other disciplines?
• The "effective teacher." Who are they and what do they do?

Please register for this event by clicking here .

March 29, 2008 (Saturday) - CPC Women's Studies Conference Luncheon Presentation at Dickinson College

12:00 - 2:00 p.m., Great Room in the Stern Center

"Women and Men at Work: How Public Policy Can Address New & Old Realities"
The Women's Studies departments of Dickinson College, Gettysburg College, and Franklin & Marshall College are hosting a luncheon followed by keynote speaker, Heidi Hartmann, feminist economist and president of the Institute for Women's Research Policy.

Please register for this event by clicking here.

April 12, 2008 (Saturday) - CPC Astronomer's Conference at Franklin & Marshall

Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. Barshinger Life Science & Philosophy Building, Room 142.

This year's astronomer's conference theme is Gravitational Wave Astronomy and features a keynote address by Dr. Lee Samuel Finn, the director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics at Penn State University.

Please register via the conference's website.

April 12, 2008 (Saturday) - Mediterranean Journeys from Odysseus to Migrant Workers at Franklin & Marshall College

9 a.m. - 6:30 p.m., Joseph International Center & Ware College House

Following is a schedule of the day's events:

8:30 a.m. - Registration and breakfast

9 a.m. - Opening Remarks

9:15- 1:45 a.m. - Session I - Mediterranean Spaces

• "From Discourses on to Discourses from the Mediterranean"- Norma Bouchard, Italian Studies, University of Connecticut, Storrs
• "Unrequited Love across the Mouth of the Mediterranean: An Analysis of the Relationship of al-Andalus and the Maghrib through Arabic Maps and Poetry" - Karen Pinto, History, Gettysburg College
• "Dreams of Hagia Sophia: The Muslim Siege of Constantinople in 674 AD, Abu Ayyub and Medieval Islamic Imagination" - Nancy Khalek, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College

11 a.m.- 12:30 p.m.- Session II - Mediterranean Identities

• "Liquid Modernity and Solid Mediterrean: Mobility and Identity inVincenzo Marra's Tornando a casa and Laurent Gaude's Eldorado" - Anna Botta, Comparative Literature and Italian, Smith College
• "From Borderland to Borderline: Text and body in Fatou Diome's La preference nationale and the Belly of the Atlantic" - Boubakary Diakite, French and Francophone Studies, Franklin and Marshall College
• "Haggling for a Cosmopolitan Identity. Tourists and Merchants in Tunis" - Simon Hawkins, Anthropology, Franklin & Marshall College
• "The Alepinne Bourgeoisie Between Empire and Nation-State, c. 1908-1958" - Geoff Schadd, History, Albright College

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:45 - 3:15 - Session III - Hybridity

• "Living Waters: Hybrid River Gods and Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean" - Gretchen Meyers, Classical Studies and Archeology, Franklin & Marshall College
• "L'Esquive: (Word) Games of Love and Chance" - Marie-Jo Binet, French & Italian, Gettysburg College
• "The Sicilian Culinary Landscape: Cuisine by Conquest" - Rita Gargotta, Spanish, Franklin & Marshall College

3:30 - 5 p.m Session IV - Mediterranean Voyages

• "Mediterranean Crossings in Italian Migration Cinema" - Giovanna Faleschini Lerner, Italian, Franklin & Marshall College
• "Defining Exile: The Exempla of the Ancient Mediterranean" - Dan Washburn, Religious Studies, Franklin & Marshall College
• "Mediterranean Deportations: Female Slaves and Sexual Exploration in Renaissance Italy" - Tullio Pagano, French & Italian, Dickinson College

5:30 - 6:30 p.m. - Keynote Address, "A (Short) History of the Histories of the Mediterranean" by Roberto Dainotto, Italian & European Studies, Duke University

6:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Reception

Please register for the Mediterranean Journey's colloquium here.