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Stories from the Week of March 5-11, 2001
Monday:
Oberlin's
Newest Study-Abroad Program Focuses on Business
Education
An intensive six-week summer school called
Oberlin-in-Europe will get under way June 18 as a joint
program of Oberlin College and the Center for European
Studies at the University of Maastritcht, in The
Netherlands.
Monday:
Emerging
Artist/Visionary Educator David Dorfman Performs
Tonight
Choreographer and dancer David
Dorfman
performs March 5 in Wilder Main as one of the
cutting-edge visual artists, conductors, choreographers,
and performance groups presenting works-in-progress at
the College during spring semester.
Monday:
Charles
Beebe Martin Lectures Begin March 5
James
O'Donnell, professor of classical studies at the
University of Pennsylvania, will present the first of
this year's Charles Beebe Martin Classical Lectures
tonight in King 106. The lecture series, The Lives of
Augustine, will address fundamental issues in the
contemporary reception of the work of Augustine of Hippo,
and will set those issues in the larger context of modern
scholarship and interpretation.
Monday:
Peggy
McIntosh and Oberlin Faculty and Staff to Discuss White
Privilege
"White
Privilege As an Impediment to Education" is the title of
a panel discussion that will feature Peggy McIntosh,
associate director of the Wellesley College Center for
Research on Women, and several members of Oberlin's
faculty and staff, March 12 in Wilder Main.
Monday:
Emerging
Artist Rirkrit Tiravanija to Lecture March 12 in Lewis
Center
Rirkrit
Tiravanija will lecture Monday, March 19 in the Adam
Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. Tiravanija
has earned the reputation of an internationally acclaimed
artist, despite the fact that he does not generate
product. Instead, Tiravanija creates opportunities for
interactions between strangers, a maverick art form that
includes offering free food and providing musical
instruments for museum goers to play.
Monday:
Faculty
and Staff Notes
Two publish;
one speaks; one accepts task-force
appointment.
Tuesday:
Composer
John Adams to Present Convocation Address March
13
Composer John Adams will deliver "Composing in Time and
Place: Some Thoughts on Music in Our Time" March 13 as
part of the College's 2000-01
convocation series.
Tuesday:
Lanier
Trio to Perform Today in Finney Chapel on Artists Recital
Series
The Lanier Trio, named in honor of Georgia poet and
musician Sidney Lanier, will perform in Finney Chapel
Sunday, March 11. Violinist William Preucil is also
concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra. Other members
of the group are Dorothy Lewis, cello, and Cary Lewis,
piano. The performance is at 8:00.
Tuesday:
Mead-Swing
Lecture to Look at Critical Approaches to African
Cultural History
Recent innovations in the critical approach to African
cultural history have made it more difficult to write
about local African history, says Steven Feierman, next
week's Mead-Swing lecturer. On Monday, March 12, Feierman
will show how recent academic developments pose obstacles
to writers of African history and suggest ways to write
the histories while avoiding essentialist pitfalls. The
talk is at 7:00 P.M.
in
Wilder 101.
Tuesday:
Next
Week's Talk on Male Patriarchal Relations Draws Several
Sponsors
A
talk next Tuesday, March 13, by Barbara Harriss-White,
professor of development studies at Oxford University,
will touch on the interests of many College groups. Third
World Studies, the Department of Politics, the Oberlin
Shansi Memorial Association, and the Women's Studies
Program sponsor the speech, titled "Development and
Productive Deprivation: Male Patriarchal Relations in
Business Families and their Implications for Women in
South India." The talk, included as a Women's
History Month
event, will be at noon in Wilder 101.
Tuesday:
Walter
Collection Goes on View at the Art Museum March
13
New York art
collector Paul Walter '57 has been one of the Allen
Memorial Art Museum's most generous supporters. The
exhibition Past, Present, East, West: Selected Gifts
from Paul F. Walter--running from March 13 through
June 3--presents some 60 choice pieces from the many
artworks donated by Walter, including pieces by Tsukioka
Yoshitoshi, Albrecht Dürer, Paul Cézanne, and
Dan Flavin.
Tuesday:
Weekly
Sports Report
Baseball joins
tennis and track and field as the games in which Yeomen
and Yeowomen competed last week.
Wednesday:
Cinderella's
Rags-to-Riches Story Told in Rossini's La
Cenerentola Next
Week
The
storybook appeal of Cinderella's masquerade at the ball
and her marriage to Prince Charming comes to musical life
in performances of Gioacchino Rossini's La
Cenerentola. Full of lively and expressive music, the
two-act opera--sung in Italian with English
supertitles--will be presented by the Oberlin
Conservatory Opera Theater and produced with the Theater
and Dance Program March 14, 16, 17, and 18 in Hall
Auditorium.
Wednesday:
Green
Chemist to Speak March 7
Carnegie Mellon chemistry professor Terry Collins, a
specialist in inorganic and green chemistry, will speak
at Oberlin College tonight. The free public lecture,
"Sustaining a High Technology Civilization," in Kettering
Hall, Room 9, will explore how green chemistry is
addressing the maintenance of societies that are
increasingly dependent on technology.
Wednesday:
Of
Cornettos and Sackbutts: Concerto Palatino to Give
Concert March 8
Concerto
Palatino, the noted cornetto and sackbutt ensemble,
returns to Oberlin to present a free concert of 16th- and
17th- century wind music in Fairchild Chapel Thursday,
March 8.
Wednesday:
Oberlin
Ensemble Wins Top Chamber-Music
Prize
Trio Casalmaggiore recently took first prize in the Ohio
Orchestra and String Teachers Association's Third
Biennial Chamber Music Competition, held February 18 at
Bowling Green State University, which included chamber
music groups from Ohio and surrounding states.
Wednesday:
Yale
Scholar's Mead Swing Lecture March 14 to Focus on
Biblical Prostitutes
Victoria
Hoffer, lecturer in Hebrew at Yale University Divinity
School, will deliver "The Prostitute in the (Hebrew)
Bible as Character and Metaphor" next Wednesday, March
14, at 4:30 in Wilder 101. Sponsored by the Mead Swing
Lectureship, the talk is listed as a Women's
History Month
event.
Thursday:
Art
Library Celebrates Clarence Ward's Birthday with Display
of Artists' Books by Oberlin
Students
Sunday, March 11, would be the 117th birthday of Clarence
Ward, founder of Oberlin's art library, former chair of
the art department, and first director of the Allen
Memorial Art Museum. The Oberlin College Art Library is
celebrating with a display of art books created by
students who enrolled in last semester's Reimagining the
Book, a class taught by Nanette Yanuzzi-Macias, associate
professor of art, which will be on display through May
27.
Thursday:
Drug-Policy
Expert to Speak at 7:30, Meet with Students, Others at
5:00
William O.
Walker III, author of Drug
Control in the Americas,
will discuss United States foreign policy in Colombia
tonight in a free public talk in King 306. Beginning at
5:00 he will meet in Wilder 211 with students, faculty,
staff, and community members who wish to discuss the
effects of the War on Drugs in the local community, the
United States, and Latin America--and to become active on
the issues. Steve Crowley, associate professor of
politics, will facilitate the meeting, as will students
from the Oberlin Peace Activists League and La Alianza
Latina.
Thursday:
Tonight:
Showing of Warrior Marks for Women's History
Month
Warrior
Marks,
a documentary by Alice Walker about female genital
mutilation, will be shown Thursday, March 8, at the
Oberlin Public Library Community Room. The showing is
sponsored by the National Organization of Women's Oberlin
Chapter, and is part of the campus celebration of Women's
History Month.
Thursday:
Minister
and Wife to Talk on Homosexuality, Social Justice March
8
"Social Justice
in the Bush Era" is the title of a community address that
cleric and activist Tony Campolo will give March 8 in
Finney Chapel. That same day,
Campolo
and his wife, Peggy Campolo, will present opposing views
in "Dialogue about Homosexuality and the Christian
Faith."
Thursday:
2
Speakers, 2 Talks Added to Women's History Month
Observances
Renu Sharma and
Tara Upreti, secretary general and president of the
Women's Foundation of Nepal will give two lectures next
week. On Tuesday, March 13, they will deliver "Standing
at the Crossroads: The Changing State of Women's (and
Human) Rights in Nepal," and on Wednesday, March 14 they
will deliver "Effecting Fundamental Social Change:
Women's Community Activism in Nepal." (The College also
has created a press
release
providing more details about the talks.)
Thursday:
Track
Athletes Named to All-Conference Teams
Five members of
the women's indoor track and field team, one runner from
the men's team, and a relay team from both the men and
women's squads were named to the All-North Coast Athletic
Conference teams after the conference championships this
past weekend.
Thursday:
James
Knight and Nzinga Broussard Are Selected to All-NCAC
First Teams
James Knight, a
senior from Chicago, and Nzinga Broussard, a junior from
Delaware, Ohio, have been selected to the men's and
women's All-North Coast Athletic Conference First Teams.
Friday:
Happy
Birthday, Dr. Seuss
Oberlin College students will help the community
celebrate Dr. Seuss's birthday Sunday, March 11, at the
Oberlin Public Library. The second annual
celebration,
sponsored by the Oberlin College Center for Service and
Learning and America Reads, begins at
2:00
P.M.
Children of all ages are invited to the free, public
event, which will include readings of Dr. Seuss books by
America Reads tutors, a visit from the Cat in the Hat,
and birthday cake. Family literacy information will be
available for parents.
Friday:
Penn Memorial Service Set for March
11
A memorial service will be held Sunday, March 11 at 3:00
P.M.
in Fairchild Chapel for former dean and basketball coach
Patrick
Francis Penn,
who died February 20 in the hospice unit of the Joe
DiMaggio Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood,
Florida, after a long illness. Penn was a national expert
on minority retention in higher education, and the most
successful basketball coach in the history of Oberlin
College. The College chaplains--the Reverend Fred Lassen,
Father Edward Kordas, and Rabbi Shimon Brand--will read
the service.
Friday:
Forum
on Teaching Careers for English Majors Is Today at
4:30
The English
department is sponsoring an information session to
explore careers in teaching Friday, March 9 in Wilder
112. Forum speakers for The Exaltation and the Exhaustion
include Rebecca Cross '83, a teacher at Langston Middle
School in Oberlin; Linda Lipkin '84, a teacher at
Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge,
Massachusetts; and Amit Prakash '98, a teacher at Capital
Hill Day School in Washington, D.C.
Friday:
Senior
Dance Concert Still BurniNg Opens
Tonight
Still BurniNg--a dance piece in nine
parts--examines the nature of contact between self and
other. It is the project of Jason Corff, a senior from
Stow, Massachusetts. "One could say that I'm writing a
paper or book using bodies instead of letters. Each of
the show's nine pieces is a chapter," says Corff. He and
a company of 12 performers will examine how the
relationship between self and other can be negotiated.
"The notion is presented that the Individual can be
absorbed by the Other, and yet exist as himself," Corff
says. The work incorporates music and art-installation
pieces. Still BurniNg runs tonight and tomorrow
night, March 9 and 10, at 8:00
P.M.
in Warner Center Main Space.
Friday:
Middle
East Expert Rashid Khalidi to Speak March 9 at the Lewis
Center
"The Question of Jerusalem: Aspects of a Solution" is the
title of a free public talk that Middle-East expert
Rashid Khalidi will give tonight in the Atrium of the
Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies. A
related
film series
started Monday, March 5.
Friday:
Tracy
Strong '63 to Deliver Lewis Memorial Lectures March 12
and 13
Alumnus Tracy
Strong will present the 2001 John D. Lewis Memorial
Lectures Monday, March 12, and Tuesday, March 13, in King
106. In the first lecture, "Nietzsche's Project of
Cultural Revolution," Strong, professor of political
science at the University of California at San Diego,
will consider what Nietzsche thinks it means to do
philosophy and what the possibilities of philosophy might
be in relation to politics. Tuesday's lecture, "The
Limits of Contract Theory," will draw on the work of
Nietzsche, Rousseau, Stanley Cavell, and others to offer
a critique of political theories of the social contract.
Friday:
Transitions
Four join the College, one switches positions, and two
leave--one of them after 27 years of service.
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