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NEWS NOTEBOOK: Art lecture coming

By on October 26, 2009

Author Francis Naumann will deliver a lecture for the 26th Alfred Heber Holbrook Memorial Lecture Wednesday.
Naumann will deliver a lecture entitled “Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons: An Exercise in Circular Reasoning.”
Previously, Naumann was a independent scholar and curator. He now owns a gallery in New York City.
Hosted by the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art, the lecture will take place in the Chapel on Nov. 4 at 6:30 p.m.
A reception will follow in the Visual Arts building on Jackson Street, and the event is free and open to the public.

The University’s School of Law will host a lecture Tuesday regarding morality during wartime.
A law professor from the University of Utah – Amos Guiora – will deliver the lecture, entitled “Morality in Armed Conflict: Dilemma of the Decision Maker in Operational Counterterrorism.”
Guiora has served for 19 years in a division of the Israel Defense Forces, in addition to teaching courses on international law, global perspectives on counterterrorism and religion and terrorism, among others.
The lecture will be help on Oct. 27 at 12:30 p.m. in the Larry Walker Room of Dean Rusk Hall.

A professor was elected to serve as the new president of the Georgia Association on Young Children.
GAYC found its new president in University educational psychology professor Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett.
The GAYC is a non-profit organization that promotes quality education for young children. Founded in 1966, GAYC has worked with various organizations to improve quality of education for young children in Georgia.
Neuharth-Pritchett, who focuses her research on early educational intervention and students placed at-risk, will serve a two-year term starting Jan. 2010.

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