COMING UP
Celebrate Women's "Herstory" Month In March
In celebration of Women's Herstory Month, Associated Student Productions (ASP) encourages the campus community to participate in a month long dialogue of learning about the past and continued contributions of women in our society.
Speaker Mary Lightfine (right), a "Nurse Without Boundaries," has traveled all throughout the world, helping to save lives in war zones and developing countries. On Thurs., March 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Cooperage, she shares the humor and tragedy of her journeys and will demonstrate how one person can make a difference in the world.
Daisy Hernandez, author, journalist and co-editor of "Color Lines," a national journal on race and politics, will explore what racism, sexism, and bigotry mean to young Americans in the "post-civil rights" era. Hernandez believes that the idea of a "post-racial" America is a misconception and strives to shed light on racism and bigotry in modern life. She speaks in the Cooperage on Wed., March 18 at 7:30 p.m.
Other Women's Herstory Month events include a Historical Women's Poetry reading with Kerbrina Boyd, on Tues., March 24 at 7 p.m. in the Pub, in which she explores the history of several famous poems and their African-American women authors. Also in the Pub, on Fri., March 13 at 8 p.m., comedian Margaret France brings her "saucy, lesbian brand of humor" to the campus with a variety show that includes costumes, dancing and free pizza.
From Paris to St. Petersburg; Collaborations
The faculty-student chamber music concert, "From Paris to St. Petersburg; Collaborations," is Sun., March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Ives 119. Selected students from the Instrumental Repertoire and Chamber Music Ensembles join studio faculty musicians for this concert focusing on the music of Ravel and Stravinsky.
Rocky Rohwedder on "Air: The Antidote to Nature Deficit"
In the fifth installment of the Six Elements of Sustainability lecture series, Rocky Rohwedder, environmental studies and planning, presents"Air: The Antidote to Nature Deficit." Joining Rohwedder is Kathleen Harrison, ethnobotanist, and Craig Anderson, executive director of Landpaths.
Studies have shown links between excessive media use--Internet, video games, television and more--and obesity, as well as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). However, researchers have also found that when children explore, learn and play outside in nature, these conditions and disorders subside. Rohwedder, Harrison and Anderson will explore the antidote to nature deficit, that breath of fresh air we find outdoors in nature that revives the spirit, engages our bodies, exposes us to the curriculum of natural systems, and increases the relevance of education.
Thurs., March 12 from 4 p.m.-6 p.m. in the Environmental Technology Center (northwest corner of campus). For more information, visit the
Six Elements of Sustainability website.
This lecture series was inspired by Rene Magritte's painting, "The Six Elements," pictured above.
"Beloved Community" in the Technological Age: Oprah, Obama, and the Popularization of 21st Century African American Expressive Iconography
Kim Hester-Williams (right), English, speaks on African American expressive culture, both oral and literary. She employs bell hooks' notion of beloved
community to emphasize the distinctiveness of African American cultural
practices as well as historical and political threats to preserving those
practices. The goal of this approach is to "reexamine the role of culture
in producing individual and collective identities" by providing a larger
context for understanding the dialectical relationship between African
American expressive practice and popular culture and the potential to
build new communities of alliance, again, beyond oppressive and
marginalized categories of identity.
Hester-Williams interrogates how media sites--such as Oprah Winfrey's book club and the unprecedented success of Barack Obama's Web campaign--and
African American icons make use of the interplay between technology and
African American expressive culture.
Part of the
Arts & Humanities Research & Creative Works Forum.
Thurs., March 12 from 12:05 p.m.-12:55 p.m. in Schulz 3001. For more information, visit the A&H Forum website.
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