Workshops
Are you ready to take control of your financial future? Join us for an empowering virtual event that will guide you through the exciting world of side hustles and equip you with the knowledge and tools to launch your own profitable venture. An advisor from the Kent State’s Career Exploration and Development Office will lead a discussion on strategies and lessons learned for “side hustle success.” This event will be livestreamed via Zoom.
Register by Thursday, Nov. 9.
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Holiday Sale
Featuring work by all School of Art Clubs
December 7 and 8
11 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Adapted from Stephen King’s short story “Nona,” “October Roses” is a movie following a down-on-his-luck professor who meets a beautiful woman while hitchhiking around Maine. He gets wrapped up in her web and makes decisions he normally wouldn’t make.
Join the director, Brandon Lazenko, ’16, and other alumni for a reception at 6 p.m. in the Kent Student Center Dining Room, complete with heavy hors d’oeuvres and beverages before the campus premiere of his short film at 7 p.m. in the KIVA. After the movie, Lazenko will participate in a panel discussion with those who helped make this film successful, including special effects icon Robert Kurtzman, known for his work in “The Haunting of Hill House,” “Scream” and more. Gain insight on the process in which Lazenko received the rights to make this adaptation and how Kent State played a role in his career.
Not able to attend in person? The movie and panel discussion will also be livestreamed.
Fee:
Reception: $15;
Movie Only or Virtual: Free
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Join us on campus where you will have an opportunity to connect with the graduate programs at Kent State. At this event, you will have the opportunity to:
- Connect individually with graduate programs offered by Kent State University
- Learn about the various support services for grad students provided by the Kent State community
- Attend workshops such as Crafting a Remarkable Grad App and Financing Your Graduate Education
For more information and to see a full list of graduate programs attending the event, visit our webpage.
The photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio wailing over the body of fallen student Jeff Miller is one of the most memorable images related to events of May 4, 1970. The iconic photograph does not reflect the personality of the “cute hitchhiking kid” snapped by a teenage girl headed home from a concert in Cleveland. The exhibition Snapshots in Time: The Lives of Four Students provides snapshots of the lives, not the deaths, of Jeff Miller, Sandy Scheuer, Allison Krause and Bill Schroeder. They were brothers, daughters, students, friends, boyfriends, girlfriends, and much more. We hope that visitors can see a little bit of themselves through the exhibits and activities inspired by these students.
- Jeff August 28- September 22
- Sandy September 27- October 20
- Allison October 25- November 17
- Bill November 27- December 22
Let's celebrate Kent State Homecoming while supporting the hungry in Los Angeles! Join the Southern California Alumni Chapter at the LA Food Bank Saturday, Oct. 21, at 9 a.m. PDT as we sort and pack produce for more than 29,000 low-income seniors, women and children in Los Angeles County. Then, join us for lunch at First Draft Taproom & Kitchen from 12:15-2 p.m. PDT to cheer on our Golden Flashes as they take on the University at Buffalo Bulls in the Homecoming game. The game will be shown at First Draft, but food and beverages are on your own. Space is limited for the volunteer opportunity at LA Food Bank, but all are welcome at the lunch.
Register by Monday, Oct. 16.
Please mark your calendars for our colloquium speaker, David Sherman, Ph.D. who is a Professor in the Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Sherman will be giving a talk entitled “Environmental Engagement in a Diverse World” on Wednesday, February 28th, 2024 at 9:30 - 10:30 am in room 102 Kent Hall Annex, Kent campus.
Save the Date for our Fall Idea Pitch Competition in The Kiva from 4-6 p.m. on November 30, 2023.
Applications and more information coming soon!
Kent State University Veroni Memorial Lectures in Philosophy and the Humanities
Cheshire Calhoun
Professor of Philosophy, Arizona State University
Kindnesses
Friday, February 2, 2024, 7 p.m.
Location CVA 165
Dessert Reception to Follow
What kindness is seems both obvious and nonobvious. On the obvious side: We effortlessly use “kind” to describe actions and people and find familiarly meaningful occurrences of “kind” in polite missives, inspirational literature, novels, everyday conversation, and injunctions to “be kind” or to “practice random acts of kindness.” On the nonobvious side: The ease of generating examples of kindness is not matched by a similar ease in saying what they share in common.
What makes it difficult to define kindness is that everyday understandings of kindness spring from multiple sources. The result is that talk about kindness is shaped by three different conceptions of kindness: kindness as general, benevolently motivated beneficence, kindness as a set of social practices of micro benevolence/beneficence, and kindness as expression of kinship. Each conception gives us a different answer to the question “What is kindness?” What feature(s) of actions and persons does “kind” pick out and is being encouraged in injunctions to be kind? And each gives a different answer to the question “Where does kindness fit into the moral landscape?” Is kindness just another name for benevolently motivated beneficence? If so, kindness would be a pinnacle in the moral landscape, alongside respect for autonomy. Or does “kindness” require emotional warmth or personal caring? If so, it may be less clear where kindness sits in the moral landscape.
Cheshire Calhoun is Professor of Philosophy at Arizona State University. She works in the areas of normative ethics, moral psychology, philosophy of emotion, feminist philosophy, and gay and lesbian philosophy. She has recently published a collection of previously published essays under the title Moral Aims: Essays on the Importance of Getting it Right and Practicing Morality with Others (OUP 2016), and a new book titled Doing Valuable Time: The Present, the Future, and Meaningful Living (OUP 2018). She is series editor for Oxford University Press’s Studies in Feminist Philosophy
