Two events will take place next Thursday, Oct. 16 as part of the Wagner College DaVinci Society’s annual Italian Heritage Month program.
At 2:40 p.m. in the Campus Hall Performance Space, Wagner College students are invited to compete in the annual “Italian Idol” singing contest. Winners will perform in the “Viva Italia!” finale concert, scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 26.
A lecture scheduled for this Thursday afternoon will highlight issues in the 2008 presidential campaign.
The lecture, “Bitch is the New Black: Feminism and the Failure to Think Intersectionally about the Obama Campaign,” will be delivered by Michaele Ferguson, assistant professor of political science at the University of Colorado, Boulder, on Thursday, Oct. 23 at 2:45 p.m. in Spiro 4. Ferguson is co-editor of the book, “W Stands for Women: How the George W. Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender” (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2007).
Poet Mayda del Valle, winner of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Grand Slam Championship and two-time winner of the National Poetry Slam, will perform at the Wagner College Coffeehouse this Thursday night, Oct. 23, at 7:30 p.m. in a Hispanic Heritage Month spoken-word event.
To watch performance videos of del Valle, go to THIS LINK.
The Wagner College Marketing Club and the Student Government Association would like to invite the children and adults of the Staten Island community to the third annual Halloween Haunted House on Sunday, Oct. 26, from 1 to 4 p.m. in Wagner College Main Hall. Entry is free.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 2:45 p.m., Lawrie Balfour will speak on “Innocence in the Age of Apology: Why Read James Baldwin Now.” Her lecture will be given in Spiro 4. The public is welcome; the lecture is free.
Please join the Department of Modern Languages on Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 6 p.m. in Spiro Hall 2 for a lecture by journalist Paddy Woodworth on “Spain’s Basque Region: Dirty War, Clean Hands.”
Woodworth is the author of the book “Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy,” first published in 2001 by Cork University Press. A second edition was released in 2003 by Yale University Press.
On Tuesday, Oct. 28 at 7 p.m., join Michael Waldman and William Kristol at the CSI Center for the Arts for a combination lecture/debate on “The 2008 Presidential Election and the Future of the Nation.”
The event is the second in a three-part series sponsored jointly by Wagner College, the College of Staten Island and St. John’s University, “Civic Engagement in 2008,” with funding provided by the Staten Island Foundation.
On Wednesday, Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in Spiro Hall, Rm. 2, the Department of External and Summer Programs will screen a documentary film entitled “Courting Condi,” which examines issues like political competence, corporate corruption, torture and honest governance.
The Student Government Association has organized an on-the-air debate about the issues and the candidates in this year's presidential election. The debate will be broadcast tonight (Thursday, Oct. 30) between 8 and 9:30 p.m. on Harry Jackson's show on WCBG. To listen online with streaming audio, go to http://wcbg.wagner.edu.
“Swing,” the episode of “Law and Order SVU” that was filmed on the Wagner College campus earlier this fall, was broadcast last week — but the Wagner College community will get a chance to view the episode, in its entirety, later this week.
NBC Universal was kind enough to send us a DVD of the “Swing” episode that will be shown on Thursday, Oct. 30 at 8 p.m. in Spiro 2.