Fall 2009

Artist's Talks: In Between: Works by Kelly Connole and Beth Lo
- "Plumb Bobs and Other Curiosities: Recent Work by Kelly Connole, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Art History, Carleton
- 7:30 pm, Art Gallery

Lucas Lecture Series: SITI Theater Company - "Antigone"
- Lucas Lecture Series: Work-in-progress showing: The SITI Theater Company performing Jocelyn Clarke's adaptation of Antigone
- 8:00 pm, Arena Theater

Artist's Talks: In Between: Works by Kelly Connole and Beth Lo
- "Family, Race and Culture: ARtistic Influences" Beth Lo, Professor of Art, University of Minnesota.
- 7:30 pm, Boliou 104

Reading Group
- Pierre Bayard's "How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read." Reading group led by Scott Carpenter, Professor of French Second meeting on October 20 at 4:00pm
- 4:00 pm, Hill Lounge

"La Crónica Modernista en Centroamérica" (in Spanish)
- Ricardo Roque Baldovinos, Professor of Literature, Communications and Journalism at the Central American University (UCS) en El Salvador. He directed the prestigious journal "Cultura" en El Salvador, between 1997-1999. His books include "Arte y Parte: ensayos de literature, The Collected Narrative Works of Salarrué" (editor) and of "Tensiones de la Modernidad en Centroamérica" (co-editor with Valeria Grinberg-Pla).
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

The Broom Lecture in the American Demographic Experience Series
- Julian Bond, Professor of History at the American University and the University of Virginia. The inaugural speaker in The Broom Lecture in the American Demographic Experience series, Dr. Bond served from 1998 until recently as Chairman of the Board of the NAACP, the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the United States. He was also first president of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a co-founder with Morris Dees and Joseph J. Levin, Jr. Professor Bond has a long history as an activist for social justice and peace.
- 12:00 pm, Concert Hall
Animals as Subjects andObjects: Hunting and Husbandry in Early Modern Europe
- Professor Marcy Norton, George Washington University, specialist in Atlantic World and Latin American History.
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 304
Thomas Jefferson, Libraries and Enlightenment
- Frank Shuffelton, Professor Emeritus, University of Rochester, a specialist in the literature of the Revolutionary Era and the early republic, is the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Thomas Jefferson.
- 7:00 pm, Boliou 104

A Talk on Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
- Pierre Hecker of the Carleton English Department will speak on Measure for Measure in anticipation of Players' upcoming production.
- 4:00 pm, The Athenaeum, Gould Library

War Work: Artists Address Iraq and Other Wars
- Megan Vossler and John Risseeuw: Two Artists Engage War
- 7:30 pm, Boliou 104

"Escribir desde la frontera" (in Spanish with English Translation provided)
- Najat el Hachmi studied Arab literature at the University of Barcelona and currently resides in Granollers. Author of the autobiographical Jo també sóc catalana (I too am Catalan, 2004), she won the most prestigious award in Catalan letters, the Ramon Llull prize, for her novel L'últim patriarca (The Last Patriarch), 2008.
- 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
William Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure"
- William Shakespeare’s, Measure for Measure, directed by Ruth Weiner, will be performed by the Carleton Players. Play runs October 30, 31 and November 7, 8
- 8:00 pm, Arena Theater

"War Work: Artists Address Iraq and Other Wars"
- Bearing Witness after Abu Ghraib: Perspectives from an Artist and a Human Rights Lawyer Daniel Heyman, Philadelphia-based artist; Katherine Gallagher, lawyer, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York.
- 7:00 pm, Gould Library Atheaneum

An Evening with Keith Harrison
- Keith, along with Jackson, will read from Now and Then, Inland Songs and Poems. This will be an evening of singing as well as reading. Keith Harrison, an internationally known poet, was a Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Carleton from 1968 to 1996. He taught beginning and advanced Crafts of Writing Poetry and experimental classes in poetry recitation. A recent book of poems, entitled Changes: New and Collected Poems, 1959-2002, was published in 2002 by the Black Willow Press. He will teach a class in advanced essay writing at Carleton during the second five weeks of Fall Term. Jackson Bryce is the Marjorie Crabb Garbisch Professor of Classical Languages and the Liberal Arts and Senior Lecturer in Bassoon at Carleton. His interests are in Roman literature and history (especially of the Christian era). Jack began teaching at Carleton in 1972.
- 7:00 pm, Gould Library Atheaneum

"Popular Sex and Popular Culture"
- HOLT PARKER, University of Cincinnati, an award-winning classicist specializing in Gender Studies, Literary Theory, Augustan Poetry, Greek Lyric Poetry, Roman Comedy, Linguistics. Sponsored by the Humanities Center.
- 3:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum