A number of the lectures given on campus this fall can now be viewed on the University’s YouTube Channel - http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=10B72EB39606250B

Additional lectures will be posted in the near future including those presented at this year’s disability Conference and the Henry George Lectures.  Subscribe to our channel to receive notification when new videos are posted!  http://www.youtube.com/user/universityofscranton

Lectures now available include:

The Schemel Forum

The Second Annual University for a Day: Food for Thought:

• “Toni Morrison's A Mercy: A Paradigm & A Cautionary Tale of interdependence in a New World” by Stephen Whittaker, University of Scranton Professor of English and Theatre.
• “Rosalind Franklin: Another Twist in the DNA Double Helix” by Janice Voltzow, University of Scranton Professor of Biology.
• David Friedrichs, University of Scranton Sociology/Criminal Justice Professor, presents "The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Run It: White Collar Crime & the Global Financial Crisis"
• “Globalization: for Better or Worse?” by Goodwin Cooke, Syracuse University Professor of International Relations.

 Luncheon Series - Insights into World Affairs: Past, Present & Future:

• "Give Art a Chance: The Holocaust Narrative Amplified" Part 1 - Judith Shendar, Deputy Director and Senior Art Curator at Yad Vashem, Israel's living memorial to the Holocaust.
• "Give Art a Chance: The Holocaust Narrative Amplified" Part 2 - Judith Shendar
• “Israel/Palestine: A Tale of Two Truths” - David Myers, professor of Jewish history at UCLA.
• "Promised Land: The Books that Shaped America" - Jay Parini, Ph.D., award winning poet, biographer, fiction writer and professor of English at Middlebury College.
• "Afghanistan/Pakistan: as Seen from the Ground" - Trudy Rubin, World Affairs Correspondent for The Philadelphia Inquirer.
• “U.S. Foreign Policy: Ten Months into the Obama Era” - Harvey Sicherman, President of the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.  VIDEO COMING SOON!

Other Lectures:

• 2009 Harry Mullin, M.D., Memorial Lecture featuring Murray Gell-Mann, Ph.D. - Dr. Gell-Mann, winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physics and regarded by some as "the most clever man in the world," presents his overall theme of "Why is beauty or elegance a successful criterion for choosing a fundamental physical theory?"
• “Charity vs. Charitable” - Fr. Matthew Ruhl, pastor of St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church in Kansas City, Mo. discusses the real meaning of service learning in a presentation to the Panuska College of Professional Studies' Class of 2013.
•  Legacy of the Jesuit Martyrs” - On Oct. 28, 2009, on his first stop of a series of speaking engagements across the United States, Rev. Rodolfo Cardenal, S.J., former vice rector of the University of Central America, spoke to an audience of nearly 400 at The University of Scranton about the murder of six Jesuit priests and educators, their housekeeper and her daughter that occurred twenty years ago in El Salvador.
• “The Da Vinci Code – Why the Claims of Dan Brown Strike a Chord” by Eric Plumer, Ph.D., associate professor of theology/religious studies at the University.  What does the popularity of The Da Vinci Code tells us about how the Catholic Church is viewed today in America.