Shelby Living March 2014

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ISS club collects 500-plus signatures at Write-A-Thon More than 50 students from Indian Springs School and Montgomery Academy turned out on Dec. 13 to take part in a Write for Rights Global Write-A-Thon hosted by the ISS Amnesty International Club in honor of International Human Rights Day. The club collected 521

student signatures on letters prepared by Amnesty International or written by participating students seeking to protect human rights around the world. The signed letters were sent to the Amnesty International Southern Regional Office and then on to appropriate officials and individuals.

Beringer to serve as visiting scholar at Cambridge University University of Montevallo assistant professor Alex Beringer is slated to serve as a visiting scholar for the Conspiracy and Democracy Project based at the University of Cambridge and funded by The Leverhulme Trust. The Conspiracy and Democracy Project is a five-year, interdisciplinary research project that aims to explore questions related to conspiracy theories.

Beringer will serve as scholar-inresidence at Cambridge for two weeks in October. Beringer Beringer will deliver a public lecture based on his book project “The Pleasures of Conspiracy in American Literature and Culture 1865-1910.� March 2014 | 11


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