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Legacies & Lunch: Justice Troy Poteete, executive director of the National Trail of Tears Association
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 12:00 pm (CALS Ron Robinson Theater) *In partnership with the Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
– Troy Poteete was appointed to the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court by Chief Chad Smith in 2007 and is the executive director of the National Trail of Tears Association, an organization he helped found. Justice Poteete also founded the Historical Society in Webbers Falls, Okla., served as executive director of the Cherokee Nation Historical Society, and was a delegate to the Cherokee Nation Constitutional Convention. In 2000, Justice Poteete was appointed executive director of the Arkansas Riverbed Authority, a tribal entity jointly created by the Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Cherokee Nations to administer their interests in the 96-mile section of the Arkansas River between Muskogee, Okla. and Fort Smith, Ark.
“Welcome Home, George Washington,” Dean Norton
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 6:00 pm (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
– Dean Norton is the director of horticulture at George Washington’s Mount Vernon home. For more than 150 years, people have studied, researched, and dug the earth for clues helping to make the home of George Washington one of the most accurately restored 18th century estates in America. The beauty, the use, and the importance of Mount Vernon’s gardens and landscape will be discussed, as well as preservation over the years with a focus on the most recently restored pleasure garden. Norton’s presentation is an informative and entertaining look at the gardening world of George Washington.
“30 years of Main Street Arkansas”
Thursday, November 6, 2014 at 12:00 pm (Sturgis Hall)
– Patrice Frey is the first President and CEO of the National Main Street Center. The National Main Street Center, Inc. is an extension of the 33-year-old Main Street program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which uses historic preservation as a tool for economic development in downtown and neighborhood commercial districts. More than 2,000 communities have participated in the Main Street program since its inception, leading to more than 235,000 building rehabilitation projects and the creation of nearly 475,000 jobs in those cities and towns.
Sharon Isbin, Grammy Award-winning guitarist
Friday, November 7, 2014 at 12:00 pm (Sturgis Hall) *In partnership with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
– Sharon Isbin is a Grammy Award-winning classical guitarist and the founder of the Guitar department at the Juilliard School in New York City. She is the author of “Classical Guitar Answer Book” and the director of the guitar department at the Aspen Music Festival. She is also the winner of the Guitar Player magazine’s Best Classical Guitarist award, First Prize winner of the Toronto Guitar 75 competition, and has received numerous other awards. Isbin has appeared as a soloist with over 170 orchestras and has commissioned more concerti than any other guitarist. She is a multi-Grammy Award-winning artist and has performed for the memorial tribute at Ground Zero, was featured on the soundtrack of Martin Scorsese’s film “The Departed,” and has performed at the White House by invitation of President Obama and the First Lady. Isbin will speak and perform with the Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
“The Surprising Power of Liberating Structures”
Monday, November 10, 2014 at 12:00 pm (Sturgis Hall)
– Liberating Structures shift the way we meet, plan, decide, and relate to one another. They quickly foster lively participation and, by making it easy to include and unleash everyone, transform the performance of any group. Used alone or in combinations, they are very versatile over a wide range of applications from helping to shape everyday solutions to developing robust strategies. Experience a few of the Liberating Structures and learn from the co-developers, Henri Lipmanowicz and Keith McCandless, about what they are, how they are utilized, and why they are so effective.
“Daisy Bates 100th Birthday Celebration” with Ernie Green of the Little Rock Nine
Tuesday, November 11, 2014, at 6:00 pm (Sturgis Hall)
– Daisy Bates was an American civil rights activist, publisher, journalist, and lecturer who played a leading role in the Little Rock Integration Crisis of 1957. Ernest ‘Ernie’ Green was one of the nine African-American students who integrated Central High School in Little Rock and the first of the nine to graduate. Daisy Bates would be 100 years old on November 11th. Green is the managing director of public finance for Lehman Brothers in Washington, D.C., has served as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Employment and Training during President Carter’s administration, Chairman of the African Development Foundation under President Clinton, and Secretary of Education, Richard W. Riley, appointed him Chairman of the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Capital Financing Advisory Board.
“Opening the Clinton School: Reflections Looking Back”
Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 12:00 pm (Sturgis Hall)
– To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Clinton School’s inception, join us for a panel discussion on the founding of the school. The panel members include the founding Dean and former U.S. Senator David Pryor, Clinton School staff member Dianne Kelly, founding Associate Dean Dr. Tom Bruce, and Pat Torvestad, who led much of the school’s early planning effort for the University of Arkansas System. The panel will take a look at the early planning efforts of the school, which opened in 2004.
“Corporations Are Not People,” Jeff Clements
Wednesday, November 19, 2014, at 6:00 pm (Sturgis Hall) *Book Signing to follow
– Jeff Clements is the co-founder and chair of the board of “Free Speech for People,” a national non-partisan campaign to overturn the Citizens United v. FEC case, challenge excessive corporate power, and to strengthen American democracy and republican self-government. Clements co-founded “Free Speech For People” in 2009 after representing several public-interest organizations with a Supreme Court amicus brief in the Citizens United case. He is the author of “Corporations Are Not People: Reclaiming Democracy From Big Money And Global Corporations.”
“Cochran vs. McDaniel: The 2014 Mississippi Republican Primary,” Austin Barbour
Friday, November 21, 2014, at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall)
– Austin Barbour is the nephew of former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour and a key strategist for Senator Thad Cochran’s successful primary defeat of challenger State Senator Chris McDaniel. Most recently, Barbour has been recognized as one of the nation’s top fundraisers through his positions as one of the National Finance Chairmen for Romney for President in 2012 and a member of the National Finance committee for the Republican Governor’s Association. Barbour runs a consultancy based in Jackson, Miss. with his brother, Henry.
*Reserve your seats by emailing publicprograms@clintonschool.uasys.edu or calling 501-683-5239.
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