14 Nov

NT Live: Skylight

Event Date
6:30 pm

Estep Room in the Bill S. Cole University Center 

ECU SCREENS presents  NT Live: SKYLIGHT (in the Estep) presented by ECU SCREENS and Sigma Tau Delta 

Bill Nighy (Love Actually, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Carey Mulligan (Inside Llewyn Davis, The Great Gatsby) feature in the highly anticipated production of David Hare’s Skylight, directed by Stephen Daldry (The Audience), broadcast live from the West End by National Theatre Live. 

On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis (Carey Mulligan) receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant (Bill Nighy), a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. 

As the evening progresses, the two attempt to rekindle their once passionate relationship only to find themselves locked in a dangerous battle of opposing ideologies and mutual desires. 

Estimated run time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

19 Nov

NT Live: PROMISED LAND followed at 7:30 p.m. by a public forum on Fracking

Event Date
5:30 pm

Foundation Hall of the CBCC

PROMISED LAND followed at 7:30 by a public forum on Fracking (both in the Estep) presented by ECU SCREENS and The Honors Student Association 

Promised LAND, which will be screened as part of the annual Honors Presents the Sciences series in the Foundation Hall at 6:00 on Thursday, November 20th followed by a panel discussion and Q&A forum and about Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking) featuring:  Guy Sewell, executive director of the Institute for Environmental Science Education and Research and professor and Robert S. Kerr Endowed Chair of ECU’s Environmental Health Sciences Department;  Dr. Bob Puls is the Director of the Oklahoma Water Survey; and Dick Scalf, engineer, retired EPA, past Mayor of Ada, and water expert.

10 Sep

Boswell Lecture

Event Date
11:00 am

ECU Foundation Hall 

Shine Chiang talking about various aspects of China as they relate to business. 

Classes are invited to attend. 

Dr. Chiang, a native and resident of Taiwan, has studied, taught, lectured, lived, traveled and done consulting for a number of businesses in the People’s Republic of China. She holds a doctorate in management from Peking University in Beijing, P.R.C and a master of business administration and bachelor’s in general business from Oklahoma City University. She did graduate work at Oklahoma State University and also studied at San Jose State University and Ming Chuan College, Taipei, Taiwan. She has taught at universities in Taiwan, China, the USA, the UK and the Czech Republic. She has done consulting work for a number of diverse industries and businesses in China and Taiwan. She is the author of one book and numerous journal and conference proceedings. Her student’s work has been recognized by the Economic Ministry of Taiwan several times through a national marketing plan competition.

09 Sep

Boswell Lecture Panel Presentation

Event Date
11:00 am

In the ECU Foundation Hall. The panel discussion (Tue, Sept 9 at 11:00 a.m.) will begin with brief presentations by knowledgeable speakers on various aspects of China including the states of China's natural environment, political environment, cultural and education environment, economic environment,  environment of the tourist/traveler and future environment. This will be followed by comments from the panelists and then a question and answer session featuring audience questions.