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My Path to Entrepreneurship Began at Smith
Final E*Lunch 2009, features noted Smith alumna Jacquelyn Ottman ‘77, founder and president of J. Ottman Consulting in New York. Ottman is an internationally recognized authority on green marketing and eco-innovation whose company has helped clients gain competitive advantage by developing and marketing superior new products capable of meeting customer needs with significantly less environmental impact. This informal discussion with Ms. Ottman will focus on her entrepreneurial activities while a Smith student and the path her career took after graduation. Learn more about the HGCF Spirit Awards for students. For more information, visit www.smith.edu/wfi. Lunch provided for the first 20 attendees.
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"Green Marketing 101: Lessons from the Green Graveyard"
Learn Jacquelyn Ottman's ('77) "Rules of Green Marketing," profile of the green consumer, and strategies essential to good green marketing. Illustrated with examples of runaway successes contrasted with products from Ottman's memorable "Green Graveyard." Interact with her "petting zoo" of green products. Take part in the free raffle for 3 copies of her groundbreaking book, "Green Marketing: Opportunity for Innovation."
Jacquelyn is considered the nation's foremost expert on green marketing and ecoinnovation. Learn more about her at her company's website, http://www.greenmarketing.com.
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LJST Lecture Series: Law as Punishment/Law as Regulation
Paul Butler, a Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Development at George Washington University Law School, will give a talk titled “Police Touching Bad Guys: Sex, Detention, and Punishment.” Professor Butler teaches in the areas of criminal law, race relations law, and jurisprudence. He served as a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice, where he specialized in public corruption. While at the Department of Justice, Butler also served as a special assistant U.S. attorney, prosecuting drug and gun cases. Paul Butler’s writings have been published in books, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and Dallas Morning News. These include “When Judges Lie (and When they Should)” 91 Minnesota Law Review (2007), “By Any Means Necessary: Using Violence and Subversion to Change Unjust Law.” 50 UCLA Law Review (2003) and “A Mix of Colors: Country’s Swirling Demographics put new Twist on Meaning of ‘Minority’.” The Dallas Morning News (June, 2001).
For more information, www.amherst.edu/academiclife/departments/ljst/events.
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“A Map to the Next World: An Evening with Joy Harjo.”
Musician and poet Joy Harjo melds memories, dream visions, myths, and stories from America’s history into a poetic whole in an evening of poetry, stories and music. Harjo, a member of the Mvskoke (Creek) Nation, has published seven books of poetry and has garnered many awards for her writing. An accomplished singer, saxophonist and flutist, she has also released three award-winning CDs of original music. A reception and book sale to follow in the atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art. This event is presented in conjunction with the Kahn Institute research project “A Festival of Disorder.” For more information, call (413) 585-4292 or e-mail knoble@smith.edu.
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Women and Senegalese Politics: Life Stories and Community Dialogue
Part of the series "Africans on Africa: Gender, Generation and Globalization," coordinated by Five Colleges, Inc., taking place April 3-9, 2009 at Westfield State College in Westfield, MA, Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, and Smith College in Northampton, MA.
Aisatta Tall Sall and Penda Mbow will speak, with a reception to follow.
Penda Mbow, former minister of culture for Senegal, is one of the world's leading voices on the rights of women in Islamic societies. She has written extensively on the evolution of Islam's relationship with democracy in Senegal and on gender, human rights, and religion in the Islamic world. She serves on the editorial board of several publications, including The Study of Religions in Africa, Africa Zamani, and Convergence. She has also served as cultural advisor to the Senegalese Department of Ethnography and Historical Heritage. She was named Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Francaise (Knight of the French Legion of Honor) in 2003 in recognition of her achievements as a scholar and political activist.
Aisatta Tall Sall, former Senegalese minister of information and communication, is committed to democratization, social justice, and government accountability. She is currently a member of the politburo of the Senegalese Socialist Party, one of the leading political groups in the Senegalese opposition. She also starred in the film Bamako as the prosecutor in the mock trial of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
Five Colleges organized the series with The Global Women's History Project and Africa Alive! developed by Elise G. Young, a Middle East historian and Westfield State history professor. The series also is sponsored and supported by the African Cultural Council of Springfield, as well as faculty and administration at Westfield State, Mount Holyoke and Smith, and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. "We designed the series so that all of the events complement each other," Young said. "We encourage participants to attend all three events, if possible, to enhance their learning experience."
For more information, visit the Five College African Studies Program Web site or contact Elise Young at eyoung@wsc.ma.edu and 413-572-8237.
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