Humanities Center

Friday, April 2nd

• ELEEMOSYNARY
  • by Lee Blessing. This is a comps production for Kristen Johnson, Liliana Dominguez, and Chasya Hill. Rachel Simon directs. ELEEMOSYNARY dramatizes the lives of three women in three generations of an extraordinary family.
  • 8:00 pm, Arena Theater

Monday, April 5th

• Gender, Time and Changing Family Life: What Do We (Think We) Know?
  • A presentation by Suzanne Bianchi, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UCLA.
  • 7:00 pm, Library Athenaeum

Tuesday, April 6th

• Homi Bhabha Reading Group I
  • 4:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Tuesday, April 13th

• Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba
  • Malian sensation Bassekou Kouyaté and his award-winning band of ngoni players will rock Great Hall. Come learn about and experience this quintessentially West African instrument that is the forerunner of the American banjo. Sponsored by the Humanities Center, African and African American Studies, Committee for the Study of the Arts, and Special Projects.
  • 8:00 pm, Great Hall

Wednesday, April 14th

• Homi Bhabha Reading Group II
  • 4:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Friday, April 16th

• Foro Latinoamericano: "Four Decades of Living on the Edge: The Favelas in Rio de Janeiro"
  • Janice Perlman’s book, FAVELA:Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro,has just been published by Oxford University Press. She has received Guggenheim, Fulbright and C. Wright Mills Awards. She is founder and President of Mega-Cities, a global nonprofit sharing urban innovations. She was a professor of City and Regional Planning at UC Berkeley and has taught at the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, IBAM and Federal University in Rio de Janeiro.
  • 5:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Saturday, April 17th

• Foro Latinoamericano: "Politics, Policy, and Mortality Decline in Chile: The Pinochet Paradox"
  • James W. McGuire is professor in the Department of Government at Wesleyan University. He specializes in comparative politics with a regional focus on Latin America and East Asia and a topical focus on democracy and public health. He is the author of Peronism without Perón: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina (Stanford, 1997) and of Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America (Cambridge, 2010). Professor McGuire is a recipient of Wesleyan's Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching.
  • 9:30 am, Gould Library Athenaeum
• Foro Latinoamericano: "Inequality and Extra-parliamentary Politics in an Era of Democracy"
  • Moises Arce, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of New Mexico. His primary research interests are in the areas of the politics of market transitions and contentious politics. His current research examines the changing basis of antigovernment mobilizations against economic liberalization in Latin America. He is the author of Market Reform in Society (Penn State, 2005)and several articles in leading journals of political science.
  • 10:30 am, Gould Library Athenaeum
• Foro Latinoamericano: "Roundtable discussion on the Neoliberal Agenda Reconsidered"
  • The roundtable wil include Foro guest speakers, faculty and students.
  • 11:30 am, Gould Library Athenaeum

Thursday, April 22nd

• "The Humanities and the Anxiety of Violence," Public Lecture by Homi Bhabha
  • 8:00 pm, Boliou 104.

Friday, April 23rd

• Faculty Seminar with Homi Bhabha
  • Discussion of Bhabha's "Looking Back, Moving Forward: Notes on Globalisation and Ambivalence"
  • 3:30 pm, Leighton 304

Tuesday, April 27th

• Dialogos I: Faculty Research Exchange
  • Gould Library Athenaeum. Join us for lunch and a talk by Humberto Huergo, Professor of Spanish, "Photographic Theory in 1920s Madrid." John Schott, James Woodward Strong Professor of the Liberal Arts, will be the respondent and open the discussion.

Thursday, April 29th

• America's Favorite Book, 1860-1930: Owen Meredith's "Lucile"
  • Sidney F. Huttner, Head, Special Collections & University Archives, The University of Iowa Libraries
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Wednesday, May 5th

• El ocaso del mito de Don Juan, relexiones sobre Don Juan en la literatura del fin de siglo XIX
  • Talk by José Lasaga
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Atheaneum

Friday, May 7th

• Christopher U. Light Lectureship Concert: Nicolas Collins, composer
  • Composer Nicolas Collins will present a concert of various works for slightly misused technology. Some of the pieces will employ musicians from the Carleton community. New York born and raised, Nicolas Collins studied composition with Alvin Lucier at Wesleyan University, worked for many years with David Tudor, and has collaborated with numerous soloist and ensembles around the world. He lived most of the 1990s in Europe, where he was Visiting Artistic Director of Stichting STEIM (Amsterdam), and a DAAD composer-in-residence in Berlin. Since 1997 he has been editor-in-chief of the Leonardo Music Journal, and since 1999 a Professor in the Department of Sound at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The second edition of his book, Handmade Electronic Music – The Art of Hardware Hacking, was published by Routledge in 2009. Collins has the dubious distinction of having played at both CBGBs and the Concertgebouw.
  • 8:00 pm, Concert Hall

Saturday, May 8th

• Christopher U. Light Lectureship Workshop and Lecture: Nicolas Collins, composer
  • The workshop is from 10:00am-12:00pm. The lecture is from !2:00pm-2:00pm
  • 10:00 am, M&D LL05

Monday, May 10th

• Jewish Thought and Letters, Mara Benjamin on The Messianic Idea in Judaism
  • Jewish Thought and Letters. Mara Benjamin of St. Olaf College, faculty leader. The reading by Gershom Scholem.
  • 4:30 pm, Headley House

Tuesday, May 11th

• No Country for Leftists? Clientelist Continuity and the 2006 Vote in the Brazilian Northeast
  • Professor Al Montero will present his Brazil research.
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

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