St. Patrick's Day is Thursday, March 17. The Marketplace will be celebrating with Irish themed food from 11:30 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. For $7.90, students can have Guinness infused corn beef, Irish herb potatoes and shamrock-themed cookies, according to the EMU calendar.
The 5th annual Eco Justice and Activism Conference will be held in Porter, March 17 to March19. According to its press release, Eco Justice Education is an approach that analyzes the deep cultural roots of intersecting social and ecological crises, focusing especially on the globalizing cultural, economic, and political forces of Western consumer culture. It will start at 7:00 p.m. Thursday and last all day Friday and Saturday. This is free and LBC approved.
The Women's & Gender Lecture Series will be welcoming McAndless Scholar Alison Kafer, Thursday. Kafer is a feminism professor at Southwestern University. She will be talking about her paper, Haunting the Edges of Social Justice: Disability Across Movements, in the Halle Library auditorium, at 8:00 p.m. There will be a 7:00 p.m. reception in the Carrillon Room of the Halle Library before it starts. Attendance is free and LBC approved.
Campus Life is going to bring jazz to campus with Sky Lounge, from 9:00 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., Thursday. Attendance to room 300 of the Student Center will be free.
The Spring Career Fair will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Convocation Center Friday, March 18. EMU juniors, seniors, graduate students and alumni will be able to talk directly to more than 100 employers across dozens of fields directly about employment after college. This free fair will last until 3:00 p.m.
The 23rd movie in the James Bond Franchise, Spectre, will be Eastern’s Friday night movie. This free screening starts at 8:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Abney Park will be at Pease Auditorium Saturday, March 19. This Seattle-based steam punk band “mixes elements of industrial dance, world music and steampunk-influenced lyrics into their work,” according to emutix. The band will be playing from 5:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $20.
