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Saturday, August 30^th

Cole Hall, 7:00 p.m.

New Student Orientation Convocation – “The Secrets Behind MySpace and Facebook”

Sponsor: Harold H. Hersch Endowed Lecture Series

Ever wondered how to best utilize the power of the internet’s most popular social networking opportunities? The Swiftkick team will teach incoming Bridgewater students the ins and outs of these websites and the best way to take advantage of all they have to offer.

Link:

http://www.swiftkickonline.com/msfb.html

Nininger Gym, 9:30 a.m.

Opening Convocation - President Phillip C. Stone

Link: Click Here

Monday, September 8^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Straight Talk About Sex: Amber Madison

Amber Madison, author of the new book Hooking Up: A Girl’s All-out Guide to Sex & Sexuality, will provide comprehensive and accurate information delivered in a style so down-to-earth that it's just like talking to your older sister or one of your best friends. Revealing her own experiences and sometimes humorous mishaps, she covers topics ranging from safer sex and avoiding STDs and pregnancy to being comfortable with your own body; being aware of stereotypes surrounding sexuality; and understanding your partner’s body, emotions, and insecurities. She teaches you how to avoid being pressured into sex and equips you with the tools to be safe and responsible if you engage in sexual activities. In a voice that is both informative and engaging, Madison will educate, entertain, and empower you – or someone you care about – to deal wisely with the questions, decisions, and consequences that surround sex and intimate relationships.

Link:

http://www.jodisolomonspeakers.com/speakerspdfs/Madison,%20Amber%202006.pdf

Tuesday, September 9^th

Carter Center, 9:30 a.m.

Opening Campus Worship – Robbie Miller

Chaplain Robbie Miller will reflect on what he learned at the beach in his message, “A Beautiful Brokenness”

Link: Click Here

Friday, September 12^th

Cole Hall, 8:00 p.m.

Ten Seconds: The Power of One Decision – Bobby Petrocelli

Co-Sponsors: Eagle Productions & The Harold H. Hersch Endowed Lecture Series

Bobby Petrocelli’s story is one of personal triumph and hope following a devastating tragedy in his life. One night he went to bed in suburban America, a happy man with a loving wife. But when he woke up dazed in his kitchen, his wife was dead and his life forever changed. A man who was more than twice legally drunk drove a pickup truck that crashed through his bedroom wall. He is the author of several books, including Triumph Over Tragedy. He is now a motivational speaker who shares with youth the power of their decisions and how to build a strong foundation for their lives. His coaching background and expertise with youth have made him one of the top communicators in his field.

Link:

http://www.10seconds.org/bobby.htm

Sunday, September 14^th

Bowman Hall Room 101, 6:00 p.m.

Fall Sunday Cinema Series #1 – Juno

When a teenage girl is faced with an unexpected pregnancy, she enlists the aid of her best friend in finding the unborn child a suitable home in this coming-of-age comedy drama. Juno may seem wise beyond her years, but after sleeping with classmate Bleeker, the pregnant teen quickly realizes how little she really knows about life. As adolescent Juno is faced with a series of very adult decisions, she will draw on the support of her family and friends in order to discover who she truly is, and discover that one bad choice can have a lifetime of consequences – (Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide)

The Sunday Cinema Series will consist of thought-provoking movies with post-screening discussions. Students must stay for the discussion after the film in order to receive convocation credit.

Link: http://www.foxsearchlight.com/juno/


Tuesday, September 16^th

Carter Center, 8:00 p.m.

Lyceum- Fresita

Spanish born duo-pianists Elena Martin and Jose Meliton have been hailed by critics and audiences alike as one of the most compelling talents of their generation.

Link:

http://martinmeliton.com/

Wednesday, September 17^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Constitution Day Convo: Stealing Democracy – Spencer Overton

Sponsor: Anna B. Mow Endowed Lecture Series.

This convo is the first in a series of programs sponsored by the Mow endowment exploring issues of diversity.

Spencer Overton, professor of Law at George Washington University, will use real-life stories to show how seemingly insignificant election practices channel political power and determine policies on war, schools, clean air, and other issues that shape our lives. He also exposes the pressure points in this Orwellian system and provides strategies toward restoring self-government, such as making voting easier for all Americans, removing redistricting power from self-interested partisans, and renewing parts of the Voting Rights Act that expire in 2007. Overton's insights are vital to the future of our democracy.

Overton specializes in law and democracy, served as a commissioner on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform, and is also a member of the boards of Common Cause, Demos, and the American Constitution Society. He is a Senior Fellow of the Jamestown Project at Yale, a nonpartisan organization dedicated to articulating new ideas for enriching American democracy. Overton graduated with honors from both Hampton University and Harvard Law School.

Link:

http://www.stealingdemocracy.com/author.cfm

http://www.stealingdemocracy.com/s_overton.jpg

Tuesday, September 23^rd

Cole Hall, 9:30 a.m.

Web Advisor Basics & Interterm Travel Courses

Please join us for a very pragmatic convo! Many students (and some faculty!) still are unclear about registering policies and guidelines on Web Advisor. So, this convo will be a guide to using Web Advisor for registration. In addition, we will have faculty who are doing travel courses for interterm talk about their trips and answer any questions students may have.

Wednesday, September 24^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Bob Gorrell – Political Cartoonist

Sponsor: W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture Series

Winner of the 1997 National Press Foundation’s Berryman Award as Editorial Cartoonist of the Year, Bob Gorrell will present a topical and timely presentation on the art of Editorial Cartooning as we head into the home stretch of the Presidential Campaign.

Cartoons by Gorrell have been cited for excellence by the Fischetti Editorial Cartoon Competition, the Overseas Press Club of America, the Mencken Awards, and the Dragonslayer Editorial Cartoon Competition. Gorrell won first place for editorial cartooning in seven Virginia Press Association Awards competitions. Gorrell is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the National Cartoonists Society, and the Newspaper Features Council. His drawings have been solicited for numerous exhibitions in galleries throughout the United States, and they are frequently requested for purchase by private collectors.

Link:

http://www.gorrellart.com/index.asp?link=about

Thursday, September 25^th

Carter Center, 9:30 a.m.

Fall Spiritual Focus – morning service

Matt Guynn, Peace Witness Coordinator for On Earth Peace, will be our guest speaker in this special convocation edition of BC chapel

Link:

http://www.brethren.org/oepa/

Thursday, September 25^th

Carter Center, 7:30 p.m.

Matt Guynn, Peace Witness Coordinator for On Earth Peace, will again be our guest speaker.

Link:

http://www.brethren.org/oepa/


Sunday, September 28^th

Bowman Hall Room 101, 6:00 p.m.

Fall Sunday Cinema Series #2 – Darfur Now

The Sunday Cinema Series will consist of thought-provoking movies with post-screening discussions. Students must stay for the discussion after the film in order to receive convocation credit.

Cole Hall, 9:30 a.m.

Varsity Sport Convocation – Field Hockey

Stemming directly from student feedback about expanding the aspects of campus covered by convocations, this Tuesday morning convo will be an exploration of one of our Varsity sports. Please join us for a discussion of the game of field hockey. Meet the coaches and players as they explain rules, strategies, and their goals for the season.

NOTE: Any student who attends this convo will receive a second convo credit if they attend the home field hockey game on Friday, October 3^rd at 4:40 at Mapp Field

Thursday, October 2^nd

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Bachelor Babes, Bridezillas & Husband-Hunting Harems: Unraveling Reality TV’s Twisted Fairy Tales (and other topics) – Jennifer Pozner

Sponsor: Harold H. Hersch Endowed Lecture Series

With humor, razor-sharp analysis and provocative clips from shows like The Bachelor, America’s Next Top Model, American Idol, Extreme Makeover and Flavor of Love, media critic Jennifer L. Pozner exposes how “reality” TV reinforces regressive stereotypes about women and men, race and class, and sex, love and marriage in America. She skewers the lack of ethnic and physical diversity in a genre where women are sold right alongside soda and cell phones, and reveals how reality TV glorifies eating disorders, derides female intelligence, demeans people of color, and reduces Prince Charming to any jerk with a firm butt and a firmer financial portfolio. You may never see dating, mating and makeover shows the same way again… and hopefully, you will laugh—a lot!

Link:

http://www.ciaspeakers.com/assets/pozner_realityTV.pdf

Friday, October 3^rd

Mapp Field, 4:30 p.m.

Field Hockey Home Game vs Randolph-Macon

Any student who attended the Tuesday Morning Convocation about the game of Field Hockey, will receive a second convo credit for attending this game.

NOTE: If you did not go to the Tuesday Morning (9/30) convo, you will NOT receive convo credit for coming to this game.

Monday, October 6^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Sea Shepherd: Defending Whales – Paul Watson

Sponsor: Anna B. Mow Endowed Lecture Series

Paul Watson is a Canadian conservationist and environmentalist who has founded the Greenpeace Foundation,

the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Greenpeace International, and Friends of the Wolf. Through these organizations he has gained international renown for his daring and innovative approaches. In 1975, he was the first to use himself as a barrier between himself and a harpoon to protect a whale. He shut down pirate

whaling in the North Atlantic by sinking the notorious vessels: Sierra, Susan, and Theresa and moreover, shut down the commercial Harp seal hunt in Canada by blockading the entire Canadian sealing fleet and through a successful challenge in the Supreme Court in 1979 and 1983, respectively.

Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society are the focus of the upcoming Animal Planet miniseries “Whale Wars”. Please join us for Watson’s program as he discusses his life’s work protecting the planet and its inhabitants, as well as the ethical guidelines he uses as his barometer for his actions and decisions.

Link:

http://www.jodisolomonspeakers.com/speakerspdfs/Watson,%20Paul.pdf

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Mar/29/en/hawaii803290303.html

Tuesday, October 7^th

Cole Hall, 9:30 a.m.

PDP Convo

Seniors! Do you have any questions about your PDP portfolio? Do you know what’s required of you during the new “PDP Day”? Do you know when the initial draft of your essay is due? Do you know what the final deadlines are? Come to the new REQUIRED senior PDP convocation for answers to all your questions.

Please note, attendance at this convocation is a requirement for PDP 400.


Tuesday, October 7^th

Carter Center, 8:00 p.m.

Lyceum - Chanticleer

Chanticleer has a remarkable reputation for its vivid interpretations of vocal literature, from Renaissance to jazz, and form gospel to venturesome new music.

Link:

http://www.chanticleer.org/

Friday, October 10^th

CONVO on the ROAD: Blackfriars Playhouse in Staunton, VA

Shakespeare’s King Lear

Considered one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies, King Lear harshly exposes some of the horrors the human race is capable of inflicting on itself. Please join us for a night of theater and see Shakespeare the way it was meant to be seen!

Limited seating: 30 tickets – first come, first serve.

Discounted price: $10.00 (regular price $28.00)

Chartered Bus will leave Bridgewater College at 6:30 p.m.

To reserve a ticket/seat on the bus, please give a $5.00 deposit to Ms. Diane Arey

Final Payment is due by the evening of the play.

Link:

http://www.americanshakespearecenter.com/blackfriars-playhouse/

Thursday, October 16^th

Cole Hall, 8:00 pm

The Poetics of Conflict and Resolution – Claudia Emerson, Chris Mann, Valzhyna Mort

Sponsor: W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture Series

A panel discussion of three internationally recognized poets addressing the role of poet in times of conflict from personal to international levels.

Links:

http://www.umw.edu/featuredfaculty/emerson/default.php

http://literature.kzn.org.za/lit/7.xml

http://www.blueflowerarts.com/vmort.html

Friday, October 17^th

Cole Hall, 8:00 pm

Poetry Event – Claudia Emerson

Sponsor: W. Harold Row Endowed Lecture Series

A poetry reading by Claudia Emerson, the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2006.

Link:

http://www.umw.edu/featuredfaculty/emerson/default.php


Tuesday, October 21^st

DuRag Ministries Convo, 9:30 a.m.


Sunday, October 26^th

Bowman Hall Room 101, 6:00 p.m.

Fall Sunday Cinema Series #3 – The Corporation

Provoking, witty, stylish and sweepingly informative, The Corporation explores the nature and spectacular rise of the dominant institution of our time. Part film and part movement, The Corporation is transforming audiences and dazzling critics with its insightful and compelling analysis. Taking its status as a legal "person" to the logical conclusion, the film puts the corporation on the psychiatrist's couch to ask "What kind of person is it?"

The Sunday Cinema Series will consist of thought-provoking movies with post-screening discussions. Students must stay for the discussion after the film in order to receive convocation credit.

http://www.thecorporation.com/

Carter Center, 7:30 p.m.

I Can’t Believe You Asked That! – Phillip Milano
Sponsor: Anna B. Mow Endowed Lecture Series.

This is the second in a series of programs sponsored by the Mow endowment exploring issues of diversity.

Phillip J. Milano, a 21-year newspaper veteran who grew tired of his industry's inability to document real cross-cultural dialogue for fear of offending readers, will lead the second of our Mow Diversity Series Lectures. A straight, married white guy who grew up in the affluent, lily-white Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, he yearned for a way to get people talking across their differences - differences he himself was sheltered from as a youth. In 1998 he began Y? as a way to prove to himself and others that such conversations could be promoted and would lead people to a better understanding of one another.

Link:

http://www.cantbelieve.com/

Tuesday, October 28^th

Boitnott Room, 9:30 a.m.

Political Ideology Discussion – Bridgewater College Political Science Department

Politically, you may identify yourself as republican, democrat, independent, or other. You may think of yourself as a liberal, a conservative, a moderate, or other. But… do you know why? How familiar are you with the fundamental principles and guiding missions of the various political parties and ideologies? Please join us for a discussion led by the Political Science faculty about the political ideas that shape our government and the world.

Link

Thursday, Friday, Saturday, October 30^th – November 1^st @ 8:00pm & Sunday, November 2^nd @ 3:00p.m.

Cole Hall

Fall Play – The Women of Troy by Euripides

In The Women of Troy, one of the most powerful and compelling anti-war plays ever written, Euripides presents a relentless tragedy of the consequences of war and destruction while drenching the audience in the pain of war’s innocent victims. Troy has fallen, the Trojan men and all children – but one – are dead. What is to become of the Trojan women?

Link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trojan_Women

Monday, November 3^rd

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Student Senate Town Hall Meeting

Please join your student senators for an open discussion of the topics that the students have identified as some of their most pressing concerns/needs.

Tuesday, November 4^th

Cole Hall, 9:30 a.m.

Ethics Bowl
Sponsor: Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges

Come see your fellow students display their forensic talents as they debate a topical and pertinent ethical issue. This event helps determine who will represent Bridgewater College at the state competition.

Wednesday, November 5^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Campus Diversity Issues – Elaine Penn
Sponsor: Anna B. Mow Endowed Lecture Series.

This is the third in a series of programs sponsored by the Mow endowment exploring issues of diversity.

http://www.campuspeak.com/speakers/penn/

http://www.campuspeak.com/speakers/penn/#common

Sunday, November 9^th

Bowman Hall Room 101, 6:00 p.m.

Fall Sunday Cinema Series #4 – Twelve O’clock High

In honor of the upcoming Veterans’ Day (November 11^th), the Sunday Cinema Series is pleased to present this classic film about crews of the United State’s Army’s Eighth Air Force who flew daylight bombing missions against Nazi Germany and occupied France during the early days of American involvement in World War II. An excellent depiction of leadership as well as a great war movie.

Tuesday, November 11^th

Cole Hall, 9:30 a.m.

Career Services: Employer Panel – Why Hire the Liberal Arts Graduate?

As all our students (particularly juniors and seniors) prepare for entrance into the job market, options for liberal arts students may not seem as straight forward as they are for those in technical and specialized majors. However, a great number of employers look specifically for liberal arts graduates due to their exposure to a myriad of subjects and the skills they develop as critical thinkers, leaders, and communicators. The challenge for many graduates is articulating their educational experience in a way that speaks to employers. The panel, composed of experienced professionals in employment and recruitment, will speak to the advantages and challenges for liberal arts students entering the job market while providing excellent advice for becoming the candidate of choice.

Link:

http://www.bridgewater.edu/StudentServices/CareerServices

Monday, November 17^th

Boitnott Room, 4:00 p.m.

Not Far From the Tree: The Art of Two Dads – Richard Hough & Richard Lawson

Please join Mr. Hough (father of Bridgewater College Art Professor Michael Hough) as he discusses his paintings, and Mr. Lawson (father of Bridgewater College Biology Professor Gavin Lawson) as he discusses his photographs. To be followed by a reception in the Miller Gallery.

Tuesday, November 18^th

Carter Center, 9:30 a.m.

A special opportunity to give thanks to God for the blessings we experience all year long.

Tuesday, November 18^th

Cole Hall, 7:30 p.m.

Myth America – Rick Shenkman
Sponsor: Harold H. Hersch Endowed Lecture Series

Rick Shenkman, best-selling author of five history books, will explain to us why Americans are fond of myths and he clarifies who's behind the falsehoods. His research shows that many of the myths are the product of a concerted campaign in the 19th century to turn Americans into patriotic nationalists. Today the myths are perpetuated by government bureaucracies afraid of letting Americans in on the big secret. Schools are frightened of creating controversy. Tourist boards are scared of driving away visitors who come to see the shrines they learned to revere as children. Politicians quail before the powerful super patriotic groups that are determined to use history to advance their own biased agenda.

Thoreau said that we remember only what is important. But Americans seem to remember from their history all that's mythical. With time the facts fade. But the myths go on and on.

Link:

http://www.ciaspeakers.com/pages/myth.html

http://home.sprynet.com/~rshenkman/

Sunday, November 23^rd

Bowman Hall Room 101, 6:00 p.m.

Fall Sunday Cinema Series #5 – What Would Jesus Buy?

follows Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir as they go on a cross-country mission to save Christmas from the Shopocalypse: the end of mankind from consumerism, over-consumption and the fires of eternal debt!

Tuesday, December 2^nd

Carter Center, 9:30 a.m.
Christmas Campus Worship – Robbie Miller

Experience the wonder of the season in scripture, candle lighting and song with a message by Chaplain Miller on “God’s Facebook.”