Campus Cross Talk is a highlight of our intellectual community.
Be at the events, watch for the announcement of the Cross Talk website and the Twitter hashtag #qucrosstalk.
02/07/2012
Former Quinnipiac Professor Mahmood Monshipouri is in Mancheski Executive Seminar Room on our Mount Carmel Campus leading a teach-in on politics and revolution as part of Campus Cross Talk at Quinnipiac University. We are live-tweeting the conversation on at twitter.com/qucrosstalk. Join the conversation with the hashtag.
Professor Mahmood Monshipouri is returning to our Mount Carmel Campus today at 4 p.m. to lead a teach-in on politics and revolution in the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room.
01/23/2012
Please click the headline to watch a trailer of this engaging film.
Campus Cross Talk to screen 'Syriana' Directed by Stephen Gaghan. With George Clooney, Matt Damon, Amanda Peet, Kayvan Novak. A politically-charged epic about the state of the oil industry in the hands of those personally involved and affected by it.
Did you attend yesterday's teach-in? Did it change your perspective on the role economics play in revolutions?
11/15/2011
QU Campus Cross Talk (@qucrosstalk) on Twitter We are focusing this year on the Middle East and Northern Africa. We encourage you to follow us on Twitter () and join in the conversation using .
TODAY AT 4 P.M.:
Lee Kamlet, left, dean of the School of Communications, will moderate the panel discussion, "Teach-in: Social Media and Revolution," at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 11, in the Mancheski Executive Seminar Room of the Lender School of Business Center. This event, part of the Campus Cross Talk series, is open to all members of the campus community.
The panel will include Janet Bahgat, right, an adjunct professor who was in Cairo a week before the Tahrir Square revolution earlier this year; Alan Fisher, a correspondent from Al Jazeera; Dr. Hazem Hallak, a physician in Philadelphia, whose brother was tortured and killed by Syrian authorities. Since his brother's death, Dr. Hallak has been using social media from his home in Philadelphia, to condemn the Assad government and call for its overthrow; Alexander Marquardt, Jerusalem correspondent for ABC News, will participate via Skype. Marquardt, reported on the uprisings in Libya and Egypt and, from his listening post in Jerusalem, wrestled with the issues of verification of information collected via social media.