COMING UP: September 18-26
Eliot Fintushel in the Bilingual Performance, "Baudelaire: Love and Lust"
The Department of Modern Languages and Literatures invites the campus community to welcome renowned, local performing artist, Eliot Fintushel, in his bilingual tour de force: "Baudelaire: Love and Lust." The performance includes Baudelaire's verse in French, as well as in Fintushel's own English translation, accompanied by Debussy's music transcribed for the theremin, and other forms of stage magic.
Eight of Baudelaire's Fleurs du Mal will be performed: Élévation, Correpondances, Chanson d'après-midi, Le Serpent qui danse, Les bijoux, Le beau Navire, Une Charogne, and Harmonie du soir.
Refreshments will be served.
This event is supported by the Daphne Smith Fund, for which we express profound gratitude. "Baudelaire: Love and Lust" takes place Wed., Sept. 23 at 4 p.m. in Schulz 3001.
Rick Luttmann Presents "The Apportionment Problem" Concerning U.S. Representatives
The next installment of the M*A*T*H Colloquium series takes place Wed., Sept 23 at 4 p.m. in Darwin 103, when mathematics professor Rick Luttmann takes on "The Apportionment Problem."
According to the event's abstract: The U.S. Constitution requires that the
seats in the House of Representatives be apportioned to the States
according to their populations. But, representatives come in whole units
while population proportions don't. "So, what's the problem? Just round
off! It's third-grade mathematics." Well, no, it isn't. Though the
Founding Fathers apparently didn't realize it, there are intractable
difficulties in coming up with a "fair" apportionment scheme. This talk
will explore various methods that have been used or proposed, along with
what's wrong with them. The contribution of mathematics is to establish
that there is no "perfect" method. For more information, visit the M*A*T*H Colloquium website.
Kathy Charmaz Kicks of the Fall 2009 Brown Bag Lecture Series with "Research Ethics and Qualitative Inquiry"
The School of Social Science's Brown Bag Lecture Series begins Tues., Sept. 22 with a talk by Kathy Charmaz, sociology, entitled "Research Ethics and Qualitative Inquiry. The presentation takes place from noon-1 p.m. in Stevenson 2011.
This talk addresses how current discussions of research ethics in social
science affect qualitative inquiry. Charmaz discusses the types of
ethical questions that qualitative researchers can anticipate and will
explore the kinds of dilemmas that they may find in the field. The
presented material draws on published accounts of research experience. Bring a brown bag lunch, a drink, and join faculty, staff, students, and
interested others in these open, informal and interdisciplinary seminars
to learn about recent faculty research in the School of Social Sciences. For more information, visit the Brown Bag Lecture Series website.
Plenty of Familiar Faces at the 10th Annual Sonoma County Book Festival
The 10th annual Sonoma County Book Festival takes place Sat., Sept. 19 in Santa Rosa's Old Courthouse Square, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The theme of this year's Festival is "Bounty of the County – Local and Sustainable Literary Arts." Admission is free.
Many familiar, SSU faces are expected to be in the audiences and on the
stages, including Jonah Raskin, communication studies, and Gerald Rosen, a retired creative writing teacher who reads from his newest book "Cold Eye, Warm Heart"; at the Forum Room in the Public Library
at 2:30 p.m. Alum Nancy Garcia, an English graduate, is in charge of the Children's
Tent; J.J. Wilson, retired English professor, holds down the Sitting Room Community Library; and SSU grad student and current president of the Redwood Writers,
Linda Reid, will
preside over the Redwood Writers Reading Circle where many will read,
among them SSU students, present and former.
Additional authors and presenters include: Gaye LeBaron, who is hosting a panel on Sonoma County history; Dale Dougherty, editor and publisher of MAKE magazine; Barbara Baer, reading from her novella "Grisha the Scrivener," and many more. For a full list of authors, panels, and programs visit the Book Festival website.
Sonoma Film Institute Shows Documentary, "The Gates"
"The Gates", the film documentary of Christo and Jean Claude's massive art project unfurled in New York's Central Park during the winter of 2005, is presented this week at the Sonoma Film Institute. Screenings are Fri., Sept. 18 at 7 p.m. and Sun., Sept. 20 at 4 p.m. in Warren Auditorium. Admission is $6, $5 for non-SSU students and senior citizens, $4 for SFI members and children under 12, and $2 for SSU students.
In 1979, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude (above) proposed one of the largest public artworks in history: a "golden river" of 7503 fabric paneled gates in Central Park. While their artistic vision sought to unite all of New York City, the public reacted with accusations of ‘defacement of a masterpiece' akin to putting a mustache on the Mona Lisa. Twenty-four years passed before the project was approved in January 2003 and completed in February 2005. "The Gates" chronicles the evolution of the project from concept to realization, ultimately overcoming public disapproval and transforming Central Park into a visual symphony of color and light. For more information, visit the SFI website or call 4-2606.
CS Colloquium Welcomes Steve French from Digg, Inc.
On Thurs., Sept. 24, Steve French from Digg, Inc. will deliver his presentation, "Tipping the Scale: Tools and Techniques for Building Scalable Websites" as part of the Computer Science Colloquium's 31st series. In his lecture, French discusses that there is no single magic bullet to building a website capable of handling millions of visitors each day, and focuses on presenting various scaling challenges found
in web application development, and how various tools and techniques can solve them.
French's presentation begins Thurs., Sept. 24 at noon in
Salazar 2016. For more information, visit the CS Colloquium website.
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