COMING UP

"Mini Mart" by Tracey Sims is featured at "There's No Place Like Here," the current exhibit at the University Art Gallery from Nov. 1 - Dec. 9. The exhibit features sixteen contemporary artists exploring the concept of "place" - whether it is a familiar place fondly remembered, a place seen from afar but never visited, or a place that exists only in the artist's imagination-through painting, sculpture, photography, video, and sound. An afternoon of art, conversation, food and wine is planned on Saturday, Nov. 17, 2-4 p.m., at a special artist reception in conjunction with the exhibition. Artists Elliot Anderson, Val Britton, Julia Page, Leslie Shows, and Tracey Snelling will be in the gallery for an informal discussion of their work. Visitors can now ask professional artists: "What were you thinking?"

Kittelstrom Describes the "World's
Parliament of Religions," Nov. 13

Amy Kittelstrom, History, highlights the next School of Social Sciences Brown Bag lunch with her talk "An International Social Gospel: Unity and Brotherhood at the World's Parliament of Religions, Chicago, 1893 " on Tuesday, Nov. 13 from noon-1 p.m. in Stevenson 2011. Kittelstrom was a lecturer on History and Literature and an Associate Fellow at the Charles Warren Center for the Study of American History, Harvard University before joining the SSU faculty.

When the World's Parliament of Religions convened at the Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893, it brought together delegates of Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Jainism, Islam, and several varieties of Christianity. She says that recent critics of the event have noted that the overwhelmingly Protestant organizers imposed their own culturally specific views of what constitutes religion on the non-Christian participants.

"But the guiding refrain of the event--the unity of God and the brotherhood of man--reflects not only the Social Gospel theology of the organizers but a much wider consensus on the proper character, scope, and function of religion in a modernizing, globalizing, secularizing world," she says.

Buddhists from Japan, Hindus and Jains from Indian, and Buddhists from Ceylon actively participated in this international Social Gospel moment to pursue their own culturally specific claims of distinct national identity, she says, while Jews and Catholics in the U.S. equally adeptly claimed ownership of this central rhetoric of the Social Gospel in order to pursue their entry into the American cultural mainstream.

More events...

A GUIDE TO BUILDING HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS Learn how to create and maintain healthy dating and intimate relationships, and explore the dynamics and warning signs of intimate partner violence. Presented by Yuka Kamiishi, SSU alumna and Domestic Violence Victim Advocate from the YWCA of Sonoma County. Noon. Tuesday, Nov. 13. Carson 20. 4-2840.

"ARE WE BORN TO FIGHT?" Rick Luttmann, Professor of Mathematics, and host of the War and Peace Lecture Series and Chuna McIntyre, a Cultural Ambaassador for the Yup'ik Eskimos, are featured speakers. War and Peace Lecture Series. 4-5:15 pm. Tuesday, Nov. 13. Warren Auditorium, Ives 101. (4-4115.

SCIENCE VS. RELIGION: IS THERE A CONFLICT? Dr. Henry Shreibman and a guest presenter focus on the controversy around the issue of science versus religion and examine some of the key tenets from different religious traditions that some would say have been at the core of the debate between religion and science. Associated Students Productions Religion and Spirituality Lecture Series. 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14. Student Union Multi-Purpose Room. 4-4129.

ARTS & HUMANITIES FORUM Tim Wandling (English) gives a talk entitled, "Teaching Social Protest." Noon - 1 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 15. Schulz 1121,

ROBOETHICS, OR HOW TO SURVIVE THE RISE OF MACHINES John Sullins, Philosophy Department, surveys the current thoughts on this subject looking at the Robo-ethics movements and initiatives in the European Union, Korea, Japan and the surprising lack of Robo-ethics research in America. Computer Science Colloquium. Noon - 1 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 15. Darwin 102. 4-2667.

BRILLIANTLY BOLD: CHAMBER BRASS AND PERCUSSION ENSEMBLES Doug Morton and Jennifer Wilsey, direct the SSU Chamber Brass and Percussion Ensembles and present a student a musical program featuring varied chamber combinations of brass and percussion. 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16. Ives 119. 4-2235.

CATHEDRALS, CASTLES AND COLONIES  Sonoma State University Chorus performs a variety of works by English, German, Italian and American composers including Leonardo Leo's Magnificat and Andreas Hammerschmidt's O Ihr Lieben Hirten. Admission is $12, $10 for faculty, alumni, and staff, $8 for seniors and students. SSU students admitted free. 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 16 and Saturday, Nov. 17. Holy Family Episcopal Church. 4-2235.