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Class sessions will include lectures by the instructor , class discussions of assigned readings and / or in-class activities designed to illustrate principles and theories presented in readings and lectures . Are the extracurricular activities ( lectures by guest speakers , dances , receptions , political rallies ) accessible to me ? Professor Portes began his well-attended lecture by emphasizing that contemporary immigration to the United States is seldom associated with the traumas of poverty . Recently , ethnocratic logic has also been extended to Jewish groups supporting Palestinian rights , as exemplified by the demand of Minister of Education Limor Livnat to prosecute university professors who support conscientious objectors , the petition signed by 43 professors at Ben Gurion University to ban a lecture by former Labor minister Yossi Beilin , for his role in " orchestrating the disastrous Oslo agreement , " and the abortive attempt to dismiss revisionist historian Ilan Papp ? The MSc DCNDS is an internationally renowned course , lectured by acknowledged experts , producing high quality , highly employable graduates . June 23 , guest lecture by Jeff VanderMeer , topic to be announced . The first week of the program will be based in Mumbai ( Bombay ) with visits to film studios in Bandra and guest lectures by filmmakers and film technicians . Last October , Delaware Sea Grant co-sponsored a special lecture by renowned ocean explorer Robert Ballard at the University of Delaware 's Bob Carpenter Center in Newark . In the first part there will be lectures by Karen Fabbri ( EU Science Program Officer ) and Laurent van Tornhout ( Business Development Manager , Siemens ) . I 'm here to debate , not be lectured by blog-derived talking points from blogs I 'd never read on my own . Sponsor Lectures : We will be having short lectures by Rice faculty members to the Model UN sposnors . Later in the afternoon , we listened to an outstanding lecture by Dr. Arthur Wheelock , Curator of Painting at the National Gallery of Art , on Vermeer 's use of the camera obscura and its effect on art and perception in the seventeenth century .