Major events announced for fall semester

Old Dominion's fall semester calendar is filling up quickly, and now's the time to start marking your calendar for lectures, concerts, readings and other campus happenings you won't want to miss. Listed below are events scheduled to date (please note that events and activities are subject to change):

  • Sept. 7 - Joint open house, Filipino-American Student Cultural Center and the Dr. Hugo A. Owens African-American Cultural Center. Time TBA.

  • Sept. 10 - Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon, featuring Clayton Christensen of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, "Managing the Threat and Opportunity of Disruptive Technology"; noon, Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. $

  • Sept. 13 - Norfolk Chamber Consort concert; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center. $

  • Sept. 16 - President's Lecture Series, a panel discussion featuring Robert Holsworth, director of the Center for Public Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University; Mark Rozell, associate professor of politics at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.; Leo Wardrup Jr., a member of the Virginia House of Delegates since November 1991 and chairman of the House Republican Caucus; and Kenneth Plum, member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978-80 and 1982 to the present, and recently retired director of adult and community education for Fairfax County Public Schools; 8 p.m., Mills Godwin Jr. Building auditorium.

  • Sept. 27 - Diehn Concert Series, featuring pianist Santiago Rodrigues; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

  • Oct. 8-24 - Old Dominion University Theatre presents Shakespeare's "Anthony and Cleopatra"; 8 p.m. Thursday to Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, University Theatre. $

  • Oct. 11 - Gateways Music Festival Chamber Ensemble concert; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

  • Oct. 11-15 - Old Dominion University Literary Festival, "The Spirit of the Word," with an opening event featuring local poets Jay Paul, Jane Ellen Glasser and Shelley Wagner; 7 p.m. (location TBA). Poet Rita Dove will be the guest for the closing program; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

  • Oct. 14 - Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon, featuring David Goode of Norfolk Southern Corp.; noon, Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. $

  • Oct. 14 - President's Lecture Series, the Wallenberg Lecture, featuring Dr. Patch Adams, founder and director of the Gesundheit! Institute in West Virginia; 8 p.m., Athletic Administration Building gymnasium.

  • Oct. 23-24 - Playtime Theatre for All Ages presents "Jack Tales," adapted and directed by Frankie Little Hardin; 11 a.m. and 2 p.m., Stables Theatre. $

  • Oct. 25 - Diehn Concert Series, featuring trumpeter Ingrid Jensen and the John Toomey Trio; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

  • Nov. 9 - Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon, featuring Jean Chatzky, editor at large, Money magazine; noon, Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. $

  • Nov. 11 - President's Lecture Series, featuring Greta Van Sustern, CNN legal analyst and co-host of the network's daily legal show, "Burden of Proof"; 8 p.m., Mills Godwin Jr. Life Sciences Building auditorium.

  • Nov. 15 - Diehn Concert Series, featuring violinist Yura Lee; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center.

  • Nov. 18 -20 - Old Dominion University Dance Theatre Fall Concert; 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, University Theatre. $

  • Nov. 19 - Capriole concert; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center. $

  • Nov. 19-21, 30 and Dec. 1-5 - University Theatre premiere of "The Moon Cuckoo," adapted and directed by Joseph Feinstein; 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Stables Theatre. $

  • Nov. 22 - Norfolk Chamber Consort concert; 8 p.m., Chandler Recital Hall, Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center. $

  • Dec. 3-5 - Madrigal Banquet; 6:30 p.m., Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center. $

  • Dec. 5 - Kwanzaa celebration; 4-7 p.m., North Cafeteria, Webb Center TBA.

  • Dec. 6 - Economics Club of Hampton Roads luncheon, featuring Mark Zandi, chief economist with Regional Financial Associates; noon, Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel. $

  • Dec. 11-12 - Old Dominion University Ballet presents "The Nutcracker"; 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Chrysler Hall. $