Event Highlight
Lectures & Events
9/17/09
Constitution Day
David O. Stewart
"The Summer of 1787"
4:30 pm | Blackistone
9/ 26/09
Workshop on Citizen Lobbying
9:30 - 4:00 | DPC
10/04/09
Maryland’s Religious Toleration: The Legends, the Myths, and Some Facts
3:00 pm | The Great Hall at Middleham and St. Peter’s Parish in Lusby
10/05/09
Asian Film Series
Slum Dog Millionaire
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
10/21/09
Interrupted Lives: Human Migration in War and Peace
Asian Symposium
5:00 pm | Boyden Gallery
10/23/09
Jerusalem Women Speak
10:40 | DPC
11/02/09
Judge William O.E. Sterling Lecture in Law and Politics
U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III
“Our Constitution's Intelligent Design”
7:00 PM | DPC
11/09/09
Asian Film Series
Film TBD
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
11/10/09
Wandering Souls of Viet Nam
Lecture by Wayne Karlin
Book Signing Following Lecture
Asian Symposium
5:30 pm | DPC
01/25/10
Asian Film Series
Film TBD
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
03/01/10
Asian Film Series
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
03/22/10
Asian Film Series
Film TBD
8:00 pm | Cole Cinema
April 20-21, 2010
Patuxent Defense Forum
9am – 4pm Cole Cinema
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Student Spotlight
St. Mary's Votes!
Since its inception in 2004, the club has registered over 850 young people to vote in State and National elections. In 2008, the club expanded its role in civic engagement to include working as election and poll judges during primary and general elections.
Student Offerings
The Center is designed to help students explore their interests in democracy and government at home and abroad. Professors at the Center provide a wide range of student activities. These include curricular, internships, special educational events, and community activities.
The Center currently provides support for the democracy studies minor at St. Mary's College, and funds summer internship offerings in local, state, and federal government service. The Center also promotes citizen engagement in the political process by supporting student organizations such as St. Mary's Votes! that advocate student participation in elections.
The Center provides support to student organizations interested in the many languages of democracy by funding activities of interest to them--whether they are speakers, exhibits, debates, literary or artistic performances. We ask you to join the discussions we host on campus and to recommend new speakers and dialogues on contemporary problems we face.
In the past, the Center has also made it possible for students to study abroad by hosting international exchanges between St. Mary's College of Maryland and the developing democratic countries of Senegal, The Gambia, Brazil, and Thailand.
