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Humanities Events
Starting Sunday, February 12th, 2012 (today)
Ongoing
- A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art (through Mar. 11)
- A Complex Weave reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by contemporary women artists of varied backgrounds exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media.
- Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery
- Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption (through Mar. 11)
- Artist Chris Jordan composes huge color photographs based on statistical facts about American consumer culture.
- Perlman Teaching Museum, Kaemmer Family Gallery
February 2012
Wednesday, February 15th
- "In Between"
- Ibrahim Miari is an actor, writer, director, choreographer and Sufi dance with the Acco Theatre Center in Israel. "In Between" is a semi autobiographical one man show about his experience growing up in Israel in a mixed Jewish and Muslim family. The play touches upon issues such as identity, culture, religion, traditions, and the tensions between Jews and Arabs.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema
Sunday, February 26th
- Living Electric Theater: Cinema Emerges in Northfield
- Carol Donelan, Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Carleton College, will offer a narrated tour through re-created episodes in Northfield’s early moviegoing history in the cinema at the Weitz Center for Creativity on Sunday, February 26 at 2:00pm. In addition to the lecture, early short films and a stellar cast of local musicians and performers will enliven the show. Come experience the movies as they once were. The event is co-sponsored by Carleton’s Humanities Center and Cinema & Media Studies Department, the Northfield Historical Society, the Northfield News and KYMN Radio. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.
- 2:00 pm, WCC 161 - Weitz Cinema
Monday, February 27th
- "Foucault on Biopower and Governmentality," by Professor Mihaela Czobor-Lupp
- Professor Czobor-Lupp is a member of the Carleton Political Science Department, where she teaches modern and contemporary political theory, democratic theory, critical theory, post-modernism, and politics and literature. This special public event is sponsored by the Humanities Center at Carleton.
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
March 2012
Sunday, March 11th
- A Complex Weave: Women and Identity in Contemporary Art ends
- A Complex Weave reveals the ongoing vitality of the Feminist artist movement with works by contemporary women artists of varied backgrounds exploring aspects of identity through painting, drawing, needlework, photography and other media.
- Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery
- Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption ends
- Artist Chris Jordan composes huge color photographs based on statistical facts about American consumer culture.
- Perlman Teaching Museum, Kaemmer Family Gallery
April 2012
Saturday, April 21st
- Foro Latinoamericano
- The second day of the Foro with Greg Grandin More information will be coming
- 9:00 am, Gould Library Athenaeum
May 2012
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