Artist Talk with Catalina Schliebener

On Thursday, the Point of Contact Gallery will host Chilean artist Catalina Schliebener in a discussion about her exhibit. Photographs she found at a garage sale in 2014 inspired Schliebener’s exhibit, “Pin the Tail.” It features discovered objects that relate to the photos, according to the event’s Facebook page.

Schliebener’s talk will run from 6-8 p.m. at the gallery at the Nancy Cantor Warehouse. The event is free and refreshments will be served.

The exhibit opened on Feb. 4 and will run through March 12.

 

Award-winning screenwriter comes to campus

Erika Green, a writer for the ABC series “How to Get Away With Murder,” will be the guest of honor at the 15th Annual Conversation on Race and Entertainment Media on Thursday. Green won a NAACP Image Award for writing the well-known episode in which Annalise Keating, the series’ main character, takes off her wig and makeup.

Charisse L’Pree, an assistant professor of communications at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, will lead a Q&A with the writer beginning at 7:30 p.m. in the Joyce Hergenhan Auditorium, according to a press release.

Before her job with “How to Get Away With Murder,” Green wrote for “The Mentalist” for six seasons.

 

Gun rights on campus discussion

Steven Goode, a professor of law at the University of Texas at Austin, will lead a discussion on campus gun laws on Friday in Bird Library. Goode was the chair of his university’s Campus Carry Policy Working Group.

He will discuss the mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon and how gun issues on college campuses affect campus climate and classroom safety. Jaclyn Schildkraut, an assistant professor of public justice at the State University of New York at Oswego, will join Goode.

The discussion is free and begins at 2 p.m. in Room 114 of Bird Library.

 

Diversity Law Day

On Thursday, the SU College of Law and the Law School Admission Council will co-sponsor Diversity Law Day in Dineen Hall. In the past, the event has brought in about 90 students from area high schools, SU and SUNY Oswego, according to a press release.

The day is part of an initiative to attract more students from racial and ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the legal field. A mock trial court case and a student panel session are included in the tentative schedule.

It will run from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Published on February 24, 2016 at 8:55 pm

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