February 2009 Archives
VCU Libraries 24th Annual Brown-Lyons Lecture
"What's So Bad About Atheism?"
Presented by Dr. Jack D. Spiro
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7:30 p.m.
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts
922 Park Avenue
Free and open to the public. Parking is available for a fee in the West Main Street and West Cary Street parking decks. If special accommodations are needed, please call (804) 827-1165 or (804) 828-4640 prior to March 17.
The 24th Annual Brown-Lyons Lecture is sponsored by the VCU Friends of the Library, the VCU Center for Judaic Studies, the Jewish Community Federation of Richmond, the Richmond Jewish Foundation, and the Weinstein JCC.
"In God We Trust" is the national motto of the United States. During the Cold War, Americans believed one of the greatest perils of communism was its atheistic canon. A spate of books has recently appeared attacking beliefs in God and supporting atheism. Why this rancorous response? What's so bad about atheism? How does Judaism respond to the atheists' arguments? What is unique in Jewish thought that atheists may find irrefutable? What is the Jewish thought that atheists may find irrefutable? What is the Jewish response to religions that believe in two, many, or no gods?
Dr. Jack D. Spiro holds the Harry Lyons Distinguished Chair in Judaic Culture at Virginia Commonwealth University. He is also director of the VCU Center for Judaic Studies and editor of its online publication, Menorah Review. He has earned two doctorates from the Hebrew Union College and the University of Virginia. He has authored, co-authored, or edited over 20 books and written over 40 articles.
The ICPSR Summer Program is considered one of the best forums for both basic and advanced training in the methodologies and technologies of social science research. As an Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) member institution, VCU faculty and students may attend the summer program for a much lower tuition rate than faculty and students from non-member institutions. Three-to-five day workshops as well as four-week courses are offered on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor.
For more information, contact your ICPSR Official Representative at VCU, Jennifer Darragh.
VCU SGA and VCU Libraries are co-sponsoring a new series of meetings called the Cabell Life Forum to hear directly from students about their needs at Cabell Library. Come to the first meeting:
- Where: 2nd floor of Cabell Library, Group Study Area
- When: Thursday, February 19 @ 5 p.m.
This first Cabell Life Forum will be your chance to hear the University Librarian, John Ulmschneider, talk about planning for a new library building on the Monroe Park Campus. See the slide show and bring your ideas for what a new library should be. The Cabell Life Forum will be your opportunity to bring questions and concerns about Cabell Library to the ears of library administrators. Bring your thoughts and your ideas for future meeting topics.
Free food and drinks!
Due to critical site maintenance by the publisher, the Wiley Interscience Web site may be down for up to 12 hours on Saturday beginning at 9 a.m. Wiley Interscience hosts a very large number of VCU Libraries e-journals, online books, and other resources. We apologize for the disruption and inconvenience. Please check back after 9 p.m. Saturday evening to access online materials from Wiley Interscience.
The VCU Libraries catalog now offers a new way to search our moving image collections, which include DVDs, Blu-ray discs, film reels, laserdiscs, videocassettes, and Internet videos. You can access the new section by selecting the DVDs/Film tab at the basic search page of the catalog.
While all these items can be found in our full catalog using the general basic, browse, or advance search screens, the new section allows you to more easily search for only moving image materials. Added features to the DVDs, Film, Videos section include improved language search capabilities (available from the advanced or expert search page), as well as director and genre browses (still in test).
