Committee on College Lectures

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The Committee on College Lectures is a major source of awarding funding for college-wide, departmental and course specific lectures at Rhode Island College. The committee awards funding for honorariums and reimbursements for travel and housing expenses for speakers.

More on the Committee's Role and Responsibilities

Funded Events from Prior Years

The Committee on College Lectures is proud to fund a variety of lectures which support the continued academic excellence of Rhode Island College while helping to create a dynamic and engaging intellectual environment at RIC.

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Amélie Allard	Anthropology	Timothy Ives	10/19/2023	Learning Ancient Technologies: How to make a stone tool	$100
Mary Archibald	Social Work	Steve Pacheko	11/20/2023	Child Welfare	$100
Alessandra Bazo Vienrich	Sociology	Dr. Gina Ann Garcia	10/11/2023	Centering Student Voices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions	$500
Charles Boisvert	CEP	Jose Arauz, PhD; Janine Gallione, PhD; Ben Johnson, PhD	12/9/2023	Diverse Clinical Perspectives on the Application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)	$300
Kimberly Bright	President's Office	Gloria Browne-Marshall	TBD	TBD	$750
Monica Darcy	CEP	Elena Yee	10/11/2023	Intersectionality and Broaching in Mental Health Counseling	$300
Matt Duncan	Philosophy	Zoe Jenkin, Elisabeth Camp	10/28/2023	6th Annual New England Workshop on Metaphysics	$1,900
Tom Malloy	Psychology	Renee El-Krab	10/11/2023	Identifying Intersectional HIV Stigma and its Effect on ART Adherence	$300
Tom Malloy	Psychology	Dr. Randi Garcia	11/10/2023	Training Workshop: Introduction to R Computing Language	$597
Janice Okoomian	English/Gender & Women's Studies	Aline Ohanesian	10/16/2023	Aline Ohanesian author talk	$300
David Ramirez	Modern Languages	Dr. Marta Martinez	9/19/2023	Latinx Oral History Workshop	$300
Megan Smith	Social Work	MIchael Neugent, Brittany Bento, Ezequiel Colon, Diumila Almonte, David Cabral, Huntley Wescott (subject to change based on availability)	8/30/2023	Speaker series for SWRK 557: Homelessness: Clinical and Policy Interventions	$750
					$6,197

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Christiane Petrin Lambert	Social Work	Ms. Aniece Germain	4/23/22	Engagement/Creating a Non-Profit Organization	$300
Elisa Miller	History	Ray Lavertue	4/12/2023	"Rethinking the Dorr Rebellion"	$300
Erin Papa/Sílvia Oliveira	Educational Studies/IPLWS	1. Julie Sugarman, Migration Policy Institute; 2. Pierre de Galbert, Brown University; 3. Coalition for a Multilingual Rhode Island	1/31/2023	Spotlight on Multilingualism: RIC and the Community	$500
Janet D Johnson	Educational Studies	Ruth Vinz	2/13/2023	A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers	$300
Kerri Tunnicliffe & Susan Clark	Health and Physical Education	Michael Kirkutis, Troy Silvia, Sue Parillo, James Williamson, Kristin Smith Letendre	12/12/2022	Mock Interview Night	$300
Kerri Tunnicliffe & Susan Clark	Health and Physical Education	Talia Pino, Nicholas Coopla, Meredith Whitaker, Scott Mello, Katherine Bullock	12/1/2022	Recent Graduate Round Table Discussion	$250
Kristen Pepin	Health and Physical Education	Eddie Fleury, Brandon Brelsford, Erin Phaneuf, Brianna Gough	2/8/2023	Careers in WES Panel Discussion	$400
Leonardo Pinheiro	Mathematical Sciences	Nathan Baxter	3/30/2023	Mathematical Sciences Lecture Series: Geospatial Data Display and Analysis with R	$750
Matt Duncan	Philosophy	Emad Atiq	3/10/2023	Mind, Value, and the Law	$800
Monica G. Darcy	CEP	Amy Moreira and Deborah Ashe	2/28/2023	Family and Couples work in Mental Health Counseling	$300
Paul LaCava	Special Education	Stephaine Izzi	3/8/2023	Autism, Included: An Atypical Approach to Intervention	$312
Peter Little	Anthropology	Patricia Clay, Jacob Campbell, Laurian Bowles	4/21/2023	Practicing Anthropology: Lessons for Early Career Anthropologists	$1,800
Robyn S Linde	Political Science	Paolo Graziano	4/18/2023	European Regional Law in a Post-Brexit Europe	$300
Rudolf Kraus	Educational Studies	Jennifer Berkshire	2/21/2023	Issues in Education	$250
Sara Picard	Art	Michael McGuigan	2/21/2023	Researching Bannisters of Rhode Island: Why, How, and What’s Next	$300
Sherri V. Cummings	Africana Studies and History	Keith Stokes	4/24/2023	Memory, Re-memory and Reparations	$147
Victoria Restler	Educational Studies	Dr. Maya Pindyck	2/13/2023	A Poetry Pedagogy for Teachers	$300
Vincent Bohlinger	Film Studies (cosponsored by History)	Christian de Rezendes	2/7/2023	Christian de Rezendes presents Slatersville	$300
Vincent Bohlinger	Film Studies (cosponsored by History)	Kateryna Gornostai, Nadia Parfan, Oksana Karpovych	3/28/2023	Contemporary Ukrainian Filmmakers Series	$900

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Stephen (Matt) Duncan	Philosophy	Uriah Kriegel and Elanor Taylor	11/12/22	5th Annual New England Metaphysics Workshop	$1,700
Charles Boisvert	CEP	Jennifer Kittler, Rawya Aljabari, Ben Johnson	12/3/22	Diverse Clinical Perspectives on the Application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)	300
Prachi Kene	CEP	Deborah Ashe	11/9/22	Building a Successful Private Practice	300
Robyn Linde	Political Science	Bella Robinson	19-Oct	The Decriminalization of Sex Work in Rhode Island: Opportunities and Challenges	300
Sara Picard	Art	Rosalyn Elder	11/15/22	African American Artists in the late 19th Century	300
Corinne McKamey and Lesley Bogad	Educational Studies (YDEV)	TBD - 9 speakers for panel	26-Oct-22	YDEV BA 10th Anniversary Alumni Celebration	$450
Janice Okoomian	English (Gender & Women’s Studies)	Nancy Kricorian	10/5/22	Author talk – Nancy Kricorian	300
Amy Barlow	James P. Adams Library	Carrie Salazar	3-Oct-22	Research Practice and Inclusive Collecting in the Art Library	$380
David Ramirez	Modern Languages	Sussy Santana	27-Sep-22	Poetry and the Immigrant Experience	300
Leslie Schuster	Gender and Women’s Studies	Anthony Andrade	October TBD	Queer-ing Cape Verdean Tradition	300
Leslie Schuster	Gender and Women’s Studies	Steven Choummalaithong	November TBD	Contemporary Dance Performance	300
Soumyadeep Mukherjee	Health & Physical Education	Brendalee Viveiros	TBD	Life as an Epidemiologist: Experiences, Functions, & Research	250
Sarah Hesson	Educational Studies	Gladys Aponte, Sara Vogel, & Diane Figueroa	9/28/22	Creating linguistically supportive spaces for multilingual learners	600
Lynn P. Blanchette	Nursing	TBD	10/26/22	Creating Interactive and Experiential Learning Activities for Competency Based Learning	300

Spring 2022

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Aswood Bousseau	Social Work	Aniece Germain	4/7 & 4/11/2022	Community engagement/Building a Non-Profit organization	$200
Amy Grattan	Sherlock Center	Sue Jewell & Deb Langevin	6/1/2022	Toilet Training Individuals with Special Needs	300 ($150 each)
Monica Darcy	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Amy Moreira & Robert Walker	TBD	Family and Couples Work in Mental Health Counseling	300 ($150 each)
Kalina Brabeck	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Catherine D’Avanzato-Fowler, John Bean, Allyson Trull & Mayra Peguero-Bueno	4/16/2022	Diverse Perspectives on the Treatment of Psychological Trauma	400 ($100 each)
Megan Sumeracki	Psychology	Janell Blunt	2/9/2022	Science of Learning	$300.00
Prachi Kene	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Penny Ferrara, Annette Joseph, & Jeremiah Rainville	3/16/2022	Inside Mental Illness	300 ($100 each)
Prachi Kene	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Suzanne Isaza & Erin Cheschi	3/30/2022	Stories of Two Sexual Violence Survivors	300 ($150 each)
Marie Lynch	Special Education	LeeAnne Valentine	2/2/2022	BIPOC community & Mental Health	$300
Marie Lynch	Special Education	Nigel Howard	TBD	Ethical Interpreting	$300
Marie Lynch	Special Education	Bethany Gehman	TBD	Working with Gender & Sexual Minorities	$300
Jean Brown	English	Francisco X. Stork	4/25/2022	The Writer as Teacher	$300
Peter Little	Anthropology	Peter Wynne Kirby	3/3/2022	Sweet Dreams are Made of This: Robots, Waste, and Off-World Recycling	$595
Peter Little	Anthropology	Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey	4/15/2022	The Effects of Social Capital and Migration on Agricultural Practices and Well-Being among Farmers in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh: Evidence from Household Surveys	$300
Lynn P. Blanchette	Nursing	Patricia Morgan	3/30/2022	Integrating IPE Competencies in Healthcare Programs	$300
Victoria Restler	Educational Studies	Jasmine Rivas Corrado, Olubunmi Olatunji, & Zoe Rogers	3/23/2022	Youth Development in the Pandemic: What, How, and Why this Work Matters	$300 ($100 each)
Diane Martell & Gokul Mandayam	Social Work	Victor Manalo	3/15/2022	Politics, Policy and Social Work Practice	$300

Fall 2021

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Amy Grattan	Sherlock Center	Stephen Shore	10/6/2021	4 A's of Autism: Awareness to Acceptance to Appreciation to Action as a Pathway to Fulfilling and Productive Lives	$300
Christopher Lee	Unity Center, LGBTQ+ Gender Office	Chris Vargas	TBD	MOTHA (Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art): Trans Remembrance and Resilience	$300
Christina Tortolani	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Jennifer Kittler, Rawya Aljabari, & Ben Johnson	12/3/2021	Diverse Clinical Perspectives on the Application of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT) & Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)	$300 ($100 each)
Monica Darcy	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Elena Yee	TBD	Growing as a mental health counselor: Working with racism and your clients	$300
David Ramirez	Modern Languages	Jhonni Carr & Román Lujan	9/28/2021	Language Solidarity: How to Create a Force Field with Words	$300 ($150 each)
Jeremy Benson	Educational Studies	Kate Seltzer & Cati de los Ríos	TBD	Translanguaging in Secondary English Education	$600 ($300 each)
Kalina Brabeck	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Michael Schaefer	10/6/2021	Psychodynamic Psychotherapy	$300
Katherine Lacasse	Psychology	Juan Zhong	9/22/2021	Defining adulthood through a cultural lens: Family obligations, financial independence and peer socialization	$342.45
Prachi Kene	Counseling, Educational Leadership and School Psychology	Deborah Ashe	11/17/2021	Building a Successful Private Practice	$300
Matt Duncan	Philosophy	Kris McDaniel & Ted Sider	11/6/2021	4th Annual New England Metaphysics Workshop	$1,700
Sara Picard	Art	Elizabeth McGoey	11/30/2021	The Giant Tiffany Window from Providence	$300

Spring 2021

Applicant	Department	Speaker(s)	Event Date	Event Title	Award
Kalina Brabeck	Counseling, Educational Leadership, and School Psychology	Catherine D’Avanzato-Fowler, John Bean, and Judylesse Gomez	4/3/2021	Diverse Perspectives on the Treatment of Psychological Trauma	$300 ($100 each)
Christopher Lee	LGBTQ+ Gender Office Unity Center	Virgie Tovar	TBD	Lose Hate Not Weight: Fat Activism, Diet Culture, and Food Justice	$300
Erik Christiansen	History	Cynthia Copeland	TBD	Restoring Seneca Village: Lessons for Providence’s Snowtown	$300
Moonsil Kim	History	Jungsil Jenny Lee Jin	2/17/2021	Roaring Bull, Stony Silence, and Abstract Nostalgia: The Trio of Modern Korean Art	$300
Eliani Basile	Modern Languages	Adail Sobral	2/25/2021	The Interdisciplinary Nature of Translation Studies and Applied Linguistics	$100
Karina Mascorro	Unity Center	Jaime Guerreo	4/1/2021	Detention and Displacement	$300
Karina Mascorro	Unity Center	Von Diaz	TBD	Food Justice	$300
Aswood Bousseau	Social Work	Aniece Germain	April 2021	Community Engagement/Creating a Non-Profit Organization	$300
David Ramirez	Modern Languages	Nicolás Sánchez-Rodríguez	2/25/2021	Finance and Imagination in Latin America	$300
David Ramirez	Modern Languages	Isabel Gómez	4/22/2021	Translation as a Tool for Social Justice in Multilingual Classrooms	$300
Chiara Falangola	Modern Languages	Fred Kuwornu	2/4/2021	Black Italians: Digital Culture in Contemporary Italy	$300
Clarissa Walker / Laura Faria-Tancinco	The Writing Center / Project ExCEL	Vershawn Ashanti Young	3/4/2021	Supporting Linguistic Justice and Anti-Racist Writing Assessment	$300
Matt Duncan	Philosophy	Tomas Bogardus	3/5/2021	Sex and Gender Lecture	$300

Committee Responsibilities

Types of Lectures Supported

The Committee of College Lectures funds many types of lectures be them course specific, departmental, or college-wide.

All lectures funded by the Committee on College Lectures must be free, open to the public, and conducted on the Rhode Island College campus.

It is the policy of the committee to not fund any lectures named in honor or memorial. The committee will not fund any lectures when the speaker is a Rhode Island College faculty member. Funds are not permitted to be used for the cost of refreshments, receptions, or film and equipment rental.

Advertisement for Awarded Lectures

All lectures or workshops funded by the Committee on College Lectures must be free, open to the public, and conducted on the RIC campus (or online during the COVID-19 restrictions). It is mandatory that your program be advertised with campus flyers or on RIC websites. Publicity about the event should acknowledge the support of College Lectures. Failure to advertise the lecture may negatively affect any future lecture application.

We also recommend that you send notification to the Office of College Communications and Marketing for inclusion in the “RIC News” email and to have the event added to the online college event listing web page. Time permitting, you might also advertise in The Anchor.

In addition, we encourage you to attempt to find additional ways to reach out to the college community to create as large an audience as possible for the events that you are planning.

Procedure for Reimbursement

In order to receive funding for your speaker(s), submit the following documents all at one time to the CLC Chair by email:

A signed W-9: of the presenter. This item may be omitted if there is already on file in the Accounting Office a W-9 for this speaker; in that case, please include a note to that effect.
A Check Request form: Fill out the name and address of the speaker. Please also indicate the name of the contact person, their department, email address, and phone number on this form. Please leave blank the Department name, Account no., and all approval signatures (these are how payments are authorized through the College Lectures account).
The College’s Travel Report Form or Automobile Travel form should be utilized for spending travel funds. All original receipts must be included and vehicle mileage must be reported. For lodging you may wish to contact the Accounting Office for their current list of approved hotels (this is not required). They have deals with several local hotels to provide special rates and do not charge taxes. Available at the accounting office.
Evidence of publicity for the event. This might include a copy of the event flyer, a posting on the RIC announcements webpage or email, etc. Please submit something that demonstrates the event was scheduled/or occurred and was advertised to the campus community.

If you intend to deliver checks to speakers on the day they are presenting, please indicate so on the check request form and allow sufficient time for processing.

If your lecture event is canceled or if it ends up using fewer funds than had been awarded, please contact College Lectures so that we can allocate those funds to other lectures.

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