Birthday Party for George W. Childs!

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You are invited to celebrate the birthday of George W. Childs with the University Archives.

A lifelong friend of Anthony J. Drexel, George W. Childs (1829-1894) played a major role in the founding of Drexel. Childs was the first Vice-President of the Board of Trustees of the Drexel Institute, serving as President of the Board upon the death of the Founder.

The Archives Reading Room will feature a display materials that document Childs’s life and lasting impact on Drexel. All who attend will have the opportunity to examine these 19th-century documents hands-on. Refreshments (including birthday cake) will be served in an adjoining room.

Join us on May 12, 2010 from 4 to 6 p.m. where we’re gonna party like its 1829!

It’s a Childs’ party!

F: Mock Vidocq

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The Forensic Science Student Organization will host Mock Vidocq tonight, May 10, 2010 from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. in Greenawalt Student Development Center Conference Room B, Creese Student Center lower level (32nd and Chestnut Streets).

This is an opportunity to try solving a real cold case. The event will feature free food and beverages and a discussion of the infamous “Boy In the Box” case that happened in Philadelphia in 1957.

For more information, contact Savannah Rockstraw at fssodrexel@gmail.com.

If you don’t come, you can go vidocq yourself.

R: Who is European? African Migrations, Islam, & the New Europe

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International Area Studies, the College of Arts and Sciences and Department of Culture and Communication will host “Who is European? African Migrations, Islam, and the New Europe” with guest speaker Lara Dotson Renta on Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. in MacAlister Hall room 2019/2020 (33rd and Chestnut Streets).

African Muslim immigrants are migrating to Europe in unprecedented numbers. While the European Union struggles to re-assess its immigration and assimilation policies, it is also trying to reconcile its secular, yet historically Christian, identity with a growing Muslim population. This talk will focus on how immigrants are challenging what it means to be European via multi-lingual and transnational pop culture, media and visual arts.

International Cafe is a free, monthly forum that provides globally themed discussions that are open to the entire Drexel community. The Cafe discusses contemporary issues, presented with scholarly research that has an international component. Participants are invited to share ideas and experiences in this unique yet informal setting. Refreshments will be served.

For more information, contact Jacqueline Rios at jsr62@drexel.edu.