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Friday, February 6, 2009

SO YOU WANNA BE A BROADCAST JOURNALIST?

The College of Arts and Humanities Presents Distinguished Alumnus

Nancy Osborne, B.A. Speech and Communications – Theatre Arts 1976
Anchor Reporter
KFSN-TV ABC30 Action News

So YOU wanna be a Broadcast Journalist?

Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Time: 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Place: Alice Peters Auditorium

If so you better want to win, beat the competition every day and look good doing it. As a daily reporter and news anchor for ABC30 for three decades Nancy Osborne has the ultimate insider’s view of what it takes to succeed.

In an age where faces come and go hers remains steady. That is a source of great pride for one of the first women to join the ranks of broadcast journalism in the Central Valley.

For more information visit: http://www.csufresno.edu/artshum/lecture_series/NancyOsborne.htm

"ARMENIAN CONSTANTINOPLE/ISTANBUL: CHURCH, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE" BY DR. RONALD MARCHESE

Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology, The University of Minnesota Duluth

Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Time: 7:30 p.m.
Place: University Business Center Alice Peters Auditorium
Free Admission

Dr. Marchese has spent the last several years documenting the rich cultural history of the Armenians in Constantinople, by studying the works of art that the Armenians produced. He will present an illustrated lecture on his research.

(Partially funded by the Associated Students, Inc.)

Barlow Der Mugrdechian, Coordinator
Armenian Studies Program
5245 N Backer Ave PB4
Fresno, CA 93740-8001
Email: barlowd@csufresno.edu

ASP Office: 559-278-2669
Office: 559-278-4930
FAX: 559-278-2129

"PLATO'S POLITICAL PESSIMISM: WHY THE IRONIC INTERPRETATION OF THE REPUBLIC ISN'T AS CRAZY AS IT SEEMS".

Date: Monday, February 9, 2009
Time: 5:00 - 6:00pm
Place: Speech Arts, Room 151

Mark Ralkowski, Ph.D.
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Abstract: There are several obstacles -- what I call the ontological, epistemological, moral, and political problems -- blocking the standard interpretation of the Republic as a work of utopianism. The first three of these problems are sufficient to show that the ideal state cannot come into existence, and the fourth informs us that an approximation of it is improbable and extremely undesirable. To make this last point, I describe the philosophic nature, explain how it is corrupted, and argue, on the basis of historical evidence and textual evidence from Plato's Republic, that this account applies to Alcibiades. Then I show that the Republic makes three references to Alcibiades, and that the second and third of these links the Republic with the conclusion of the Symposium, where Plato presents what one scholar describes as "the most indelible portrait of Alcibiades from antiquity." This portrait of Alcibiades gives us the best evidence that Plato thought of Alcibiades as a potential philosopher. In his speech, he is portrayed as possessing a significant degree of philosophical insight, despite being ruined by moral weakness. Once we link the Republic and the Symposium in this way, we can see the true tragedy of the Symposium, which is the fate of philosophy in society.