Humanities Center

Friday, March 30th

• Photographing the Social Body begins (through May 18)
  • Malian Portraiture from the Studio to the Street
  • Small Gallery, The Teaching Museum
• Our Treasures: Highlights from the MMAA begins (through May 8)
  • The Minnesota Museum of American Art, based in St. Paul, shares its rich collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, photography and craft objects through Our Treasures, an exhibition hosted by the Perlman Teaching Museum. Thirty top art works from the 19th and 20th centuries encompass evocative landscapes, portraits revealing the changing face of American, and expressive abstractions.
  • Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery
• Photographing the Social Body: Malian Portraiture from the Studio to the Street begins (through May 18)
  • Mali in West Africa is home to many talented photographers and to a rich photographic culture. This exhibition explores photographic portraiture, considering both renowned studio photographers and work by generations of photographers who have come of age artistically since the Bamako Biennial, a recurring pan-African photography exhibition established in 1994.
  • Perlman Teaching Museum, Kaemmer Family Gallery
• Gallery Tour of 'The Social Body' with Candace Keller
  • Perlman Teaching Museum Gallery Tour of 'The Social Body: Malian Portrait Photographers...' with Candace Keller, Michigan State University.
  • 4:00 pm
• Exhibition Opening and Lecture by Allison Moore
  • Lecture by Allison Moore, co-curator of Photographing The Social Body, followed at 8:30 by reception with West African refreshments.
  • 7:30 pm, WCC 236 (large meeting room) & WCC Commons

Saturday, March 31st

• Perlman Teaching Museum Community Open House
  • Enjoy two exhibitions and a 3:30pm gallery talk by Kristin Makholm from the MN Museum of American Art, along with family art activities!
  • 2:00 pm, Perlman Teaching Museum, Weitz Center for Creativity

Monday, April 2nd

• Documentary Sneak Preview, Haiti Justice Alliance
  • 28-minute documentary - fighting for justice in Haiti & the cholera outbreak.
  • 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema

Tuesday, April 3rd

• A Walking Guide to Virtual Shakespeare
  • Presentation by Katherine Rowe, Chair and Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College
  • 11:55 am, Interactive Classroom (Weitz 235), Weitz Center for Creativity

Wednesday, April 4th

• Schuster Lecture: Architectures of Shakespearean Desire: Virtual Globe Theaters from Hollar to Second Life
  • Lecture by Katherine Rowe, Chair & Professor of English at Bryn Mawr College; Fred W. & Margaret C. Schuster Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Literature
  • 4:30 pm, Weitz Cinema, Weitz Center for Creativity

Thursday, April 5th

• Josip Novakovich, public talk & Common Time lunch
  • "Anatomy of a Story Composition"
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Saturday, April 7th

• Hula: Free Master dance class
  • A dance class taught by Dietrix Jon Duhaylonsod, Kumu Hula offered - all are welcome! No age or dance experience required!
  • 10:00 am, Weitz Center, Large Dance Studio #165
• Hula: Performance of Halau Kiawekupono O Ka Ua
  • Hula?? In Northfield?? Yes, and aloha! Come see this "halau" of 8 Hawaiian men dance traditional hula on the Weitz Center stage.
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Center Theater

Friday, April 13th

• Truth Values: One Girl's Romp Through M.I.T.'s Male Math Maze
  • "Truth Values" is a one-woman show about being a professional woman in a male-dominated field. Performed and written by Gioia De Cari.
  • 7:00 pm, Weitz Center for Creativity Theater

Saturday, April 14th

• Eyes in Gaza: Mads Gilbert Lecture, St. Olaf
  • 7:00 pm, Tomson Hall Room 280 - St Olaf College

Thursday, April 19th

• Celebrating the Shahnameh
  • Panel discussion: Professor Adeeb Khalid, Professor Yaron Klein, and Dr. William N. Buffet '55
  • 5:15 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Friday, April 20th

• Foro Latinoamericano - Prof. Greg Grandin
  • "American Exceptionalism is Dead, Long Live American Exceptionalism" Keynote Address: Professor Greg Grandin, NYU
  • 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Saturday, April 21st

• Foro Latinoamericano
  • Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City
  • 9:30 am, Gould Library Athenaeum

Monday, April 23rd

• Film Screening: "Yoyes"
  • pre-screening presentation of the film by Lehigh University.
  • 5:00 pm, Weitz Center 161
• Cameroonian Studio Photography: Why I am obsessed
  • Lecture by David Zeitlyn, Professor of Social Anthropology, Oxford University
  • 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Tuesday, April 24th

• Film Screening: "La buena nueva"/"The Good News"
  • Helena Taberna and Associate professor Carmen Moreno Nuño pre-screening presentation of the film by the University of Kentucky.
  • 5:00 pm, Weitz Center 161
• Where’s the Power in 'Empowerment'?
  • 5:00 pm, Leighton 305

Wednesday, April 25th

• Wilfred McClay: "David Riesman and the Misreading of the Fifties"
  • Wilfred M. McClay, Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center
  • 7:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Thursday, April 26th

• Wilfred McClay: "Tocqueville's Moment...and Ours"
  • Wilfred McClay, Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, widely acclaimed expert on American intellectual and cultural history.
  • 5:30 pm, Leighton 305
• "What is African Philosophy? The Discussion of Orality & Islamic Thought in Francophone Africa"
  • Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Professor of French, Columbia University will be giving a talk.
  • 7:00 pm, Great Hall

Tuesday, May 1st

• Barbour lecture: Larry L. Rasmussen
  • "The Denial of a Diminished Planet: The Challenge to Science and to Religion" is the title of Professor Rasmussen's talk.
  • 7:00 pm, Great Hall
• Two Tehreema Mitha Dance Documentaries' Screenings
  • Intros to two short films and Q and A by director Tehreema Mitha
  • 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema

Wednesday, May 2nd

• Lila Abu Lughod '74, Ira Wender Visitor in Cultural Understanding
  • “Authorizing Moral Crusades to Save Muslim Women: Literary Trafficking and Rights-Talk in the Public Sphere."
  • 8:00 pm, Great Hall

Thursday, May 3rd

• Special Humanities Center Reception for Lila Abu-Lughod, '74, MELA speaker
  • Hosted by Adeeb Khalid.
  • 5:00 pm, Weitz Center LOME Commons (Lounges 215, 216) and Larsen Room
• Tehreema Mitha Dance Company Full Ensemble Performance
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema

Tuesday, May 8th

• Our Treasures: Highlights from the MMAA ends
  • The Minnesota Museum of American Art, based in St. Paul, shares its rich collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, photography and craft objects through Our Treasures, an exhibition hosted by the Perlman Teaching Museum. Thirty top art works from the 19th and 20th centuries encompass evocative landscapes, portraits revealing the changing face of American, and expressive abstractions.
  • Perlman Teaching Museum, Braucher Gallery
• Author Danielle McGuire, public talk, At The Dark End of the Street
  • Pizza lunch provided 12-1 pm
  • 12:00 pm, Leighton 305
• Rethinking Moving Images for the Museum, public talk
  • Edwin L. Weisle lecture, presented by Stuart Comer'90, Curator of Film at the Tate Modern in London.
  • 5:00 pm, Weitz Cinema

Thursday, May 10th

• DARK STAR: Two Profs,Two Cultures: Debate Grateful Dead Song's Meaning
  • Common Time debate. BOX LUNCHES provided!
  • 12:00 pm, Library Athenaeum
• Living with the Real Thing: From the Original to the Digital
  • Mark Dimunation,Chief of the Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress will speak.
  • 4:30 pm, Boliou 104

Friday, May 11th

• Lindesmith Lecturer, Uday Prakash, MOHANDAS film Screening
  • 2012 Lindesmith Distinguished Lecturer Writer in Residence Uday Prakash will answer questions about his MOHANDAS screenplay after screening.
  • 7:00 pm, Weitz 236
• Aeschylus' "Oresteia" SOLD OUT!
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater

Saturday, May 12th

• Aeschylus' "Oresteia" SOLD OUT!
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater

Sunday, May 13th

• Aeschylus' "Oresteia" SOLD OUT!!
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the end of the curse on the House of Atreus. SOLD OUT!!
  • 2:00 pm, Weitz Theater

Monday, May 14th

• Symposium on Sephardic Cultures & Legacies--Stacy Beckwith
  • Sepharad: Jewish History in Spain, Professor Stacy Beckwith. In English.
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• Symposium on Sephardic Cultures & Legacies--Esther Bendahan
  • Contextualizing Sepharad, talk by Esther Bendahan, in Spanish with English translation.
  • 5:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• From Inspiration to Illumination: An Introduction to the St. John's Bible
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Center Cinema

Tuesday, May 15th

• Symposium on Sephardic Cultures & Legacies--Hazzan Isaac Azose
  • The Art of Sephardic Prayer and Song (in English) Lecture Demonstration by Hazzan (Cantor) Isaac Azose, Congregation Ezra Bessaroth, Seattle
  • 5:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• 2012 Lindesmith Lecture, Renowned Hindi Writer & Artist Uday Prakash
  • Mr. Prakash will deliver the 2012 Lindesmith Lecture and will speak on the role of the writer & on globalization in the third world.
  • 6:00 pm, Boliou #104

Wednesday, May 16th

• Symposium on Sephardic Cultures & Legacies--Panel presentation
  • Panel presentation and discussion (in English & Spanish with translation): Maureen Jackson, Stacy Beckwith and Esther Bendahan
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

Friday, May 18th

• Photographing the Social Body: Malian Portraiture from the Studio to the Street ends
  • Mali in West Africa is home to many talented photographers and to a rich photographic culture. This exhibition explores photographic portraiture, considering both renowned studio photographers and work by generations of photographers who have come of age artistically since the Bamako Biennial, a recurring pan-African photography exhibition established in 1994.
  • Perlman Teaching Museum, Kaemmer Family Gallery
• Photographing the Social Body ends
  • Malian Portraiture from the Studio to the Street
  • Small Gallery, The Teaching Museum
• Informal discussion w/Uday Prakash, 2012 Lindesmith Lecturer
  • Informal discussion of translated stories. Limited to 20 people - please contact achaklad@carleton.edu to receive copies of stories.
  • 4:00 pm, LOME Lounge WCC
• Aeschylus' "Oresteia" Sold Out
  • Aeschylus' Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια,concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.
  • 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater

Wednesday, May 23rd

• HC Spring Dialogos w/Sigi Leonhard, Arnab Chakladar & Uday Prakash
  • Panel presentation and discussion of Literature and Global Knowledge
  • 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
• Healthcare as a Human Right: Access & Barriers
  • PANEL DISCUSSION, Part of the Humanities Center at Carleton’s “Perspectives in the Humanities” series.
  • 7:00 pm, Weitz 236

Thursday, May 24th

• Skin-Close & Arm's Length:Migrants & Belonging in Contemporary Germany
  • Luncheon presentation by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg and Daniel Williams
  • 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum

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