Spring 2009

Dialogos - Faculty Research Exchange
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Beauty and Love: A Video Screening
- Video screening of a modern dance interpretation of Beauty and Love, a Sufi mystical poem in the Mevlevi (Rumi) tradition. Following the half-hour video, Professor Walter Andrews, a distinguished Ottoman scholar from the University of Washington, will lead a discussion with the audience. Professor Andrews's most recent book is The Age of Beloveds: Love and the Beloved in Early Modern Ottoman and European Culture and Society, With Mehmet Kalpaklı, Duke University Press, 2005. Sponsored by the Humanities Center, Religion, and Theater and Dance. Mediterranean reception immediately following the discussion.
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Byzantine Churches excavated in Petra by Acor
- Barbara Porter, Director of the American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan, will give an Edward L. Wiesl. Jr. Lecture. Barbara holds a Ph.D. in archaeology from Columbia and is a specialist in Middle Eastern archaeology.
- 5:00 pm, Boliou 104

Seminar and discussion group on Jewish Thought and Letters
- Mara Benjamin will lead the group. For more information contact Alan Rubenstein, Visiting Scholar in EthIC or Michael Hemesath (mhemesat@carleton.edu or x4105)
- 5:00 pm, Headley House

Christopher U. Light Lectureship Concert "The String Quartets of Jefferson Friedman" Chiara Quartet
- Playing "Chamber Music in Any Chamber," the Chiara Quartet expands the spaces for quartet music, reaching from the concert hall into clubs, bars, and galleries, but always returning chamber music to its roots. Described by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer as "vastly talented, vastly resourceful, and vastly committed to the music of their time," the quartet is also continually searching for new meaning within the well-established quartet canon. Their style is best described as a nonstop journey along the edges of expressive possibility: "luminous," "searing," (New York Times) "soulful," "biting," and possessing a "potent collective force" (Strings Magazine).
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall

European identity: reality, fiction... or both?
- José Ovejero will be on campus to do a Creative Writing Workshop as well as this talk. He is a prestigious Spanish Writer and the Headley House Distinguished Visitor-in Residence.
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Atheaneum
Teatro del Pueblo's "Help Wanted"
- Teatro del Pueblo, a Latino company based in Saint Paul, will present a short play "Help Wanted," depicting a landmark case in which the human rights of undocumented workers were trampled on and eventually redeemed. In English with some Spanish. Discussion with cast members will follow. The event is free, and the general public is invited to attend. For more information, contact Cathy Yandell at 507.222.4245 or cyandell@carleton.edu.
- 8:00 pm, Great Hall

Dialogos 2: Faculty Research Exchange
- “Migration, Immigration, Hybridity” Wednesday, May 13 – 4:30 p.m. Gould Library Athenaeum. Anna Moltchanova, Associate Professor of Philosophy: “The General Will and Immigration.” Carolyn Wong, Assistant Professor of Political Science: “Becoming Citizens: Political Engagement and Inclusion of the Hmong in America.” William North, Associate Professor of History and European Studies, Moderator. Reception immediately following.
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Seminar and discussion group on Jewish Thought and Letters
- Stacy Beckwith will lead the group. Title TBA. For more information contact Alan Rubenstein, Visiting Scholar in EthIC or Michael Hemesath (mhemesat@carleton.edu or x4105)
- 5:00 pm, Headley House

You Ache in Me: The Silences and Language of Moral Memory in Isabel Coixet's "The Secret Life of Words"
- Professor Annabel Martin (Dartmouth College) Associate Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women's and Gender Studies at Dartmouth College.
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Atheaneum

Crusade and Aftermath, Living with a Holy War, 1095-1125, followed by Public Reception!
- Jay Rubenstein, '89, Associate Professor of History & Headley Distinguished Visitor-in-Residence. His visit is being supported by the Class of 1957 Revolving Lectureship Fund, established by the Class on the occasion of their 30th Reunion. RECEPTION IN HISTORY DEPARTMENT LOUNGE following event - refreshments will be served! EVERYONE WELCOME!
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 304