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Schurz Library Speaker Series: "Radical Evolution and Revolutions in Thought" February 26

Please join the faculty and staff of the Franklin D. Schurz Library and Media Services Thursday, February 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Wiekamp 1001 for author Joel Garreau's presentation 'Radical Evolution and Revolutions in Thought.' The event is sponsored by Academic Affairs, Friends of the Schurz Library, Political Science Club, Student Government Association, Chancellor Una Mae Reck, School of Education, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Raclin School of the Arts, Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, and the Office of Public Affairs and University Advancement.

Most recently Garreau is the author of Radical Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies, and What It Means to Be Human, published in 2005. The book takes an unprecedented look at the hinge in history at which we have arrived. For hundreds of millennia, our technologies have been aimed outward at altering our environment in the fashion of fire, agriculture, or space travel. Now, for the first time, we are increasingly aiming inward at modifying our minds, memories, metabolisms, personalities, progeny and possibly our immortal souls. Radical Evolution is about altering human nature -- not in some distant tomorrow, but in the next 10 or 20 years thanks to the technological possibilities of genetics, robotics, information, and nanotechnology (also known as the acronym GRIN). In Garreau's presentation he will discuss the possibilities of these four technologies and the potential outcomes for humanity. Garreau is a reporter and editor at The Washington Post and principal of The Garreau Group, the network of his best sources committed to understanding who we are, how we got that way, and where we're headed, worldwide.

The Schurz Library Speaker series provides speakers of intellectual interest to the university and the community. For more information, call 520-4410.

Revolutions in Thought: Individuals Making Things Better

Wednesday, October 8, 2008
6 to 8:30 p.m.
The Grille

The event will feature four members of the community who have made a major impact in Michiana and beyond: Dr. Roland Chamblee, Sr., Health Officer of St. Joseph County; local businessmen Jerry Hammes and LeRoy Troyer, and IU South Bend student Aleah Wilburn. The panelists will share what motivated them to give back to the community.

Each of the panelists has had an impact in Michiana, each in their own unique way. Dr. Chamblee is very well known for his tenure as volunteer Medical Director of the St. Joseph Chapin Street Clinic and for his work in the civil rights movement. Mr. Hammes' volunteer activities include: former president of the Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County; former president of the South Bend Economic Redevelopment Commission; and founding president of WNIT-TV. Mr. Troyer has been active in Habitat for Humanity, having served as an international board member, as well as director for the Coalition for Educational Success of South Bend. Ms. Wilburn, an IU South Bend nursing student, has been volunteering in the community since she was in junior high school. She worked diligently for the American Cancer Society, Elkhart General Hospital's Tuck-In program, and served this past year as the executive chair for the first annual "Dance for the Homeless," at IU South Bend.

All Schurz Library Speaker events are free and open to the public.