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January 2016
Friday, January 22nd
- As Cherry Blossoms Fall: Ayomi Yoshida Artist Talk and Reception
- Opening of winter 2016 exhibitions "As Cherry Blossoms Fall: Ayomi Yoshida" and "Falling Blossoms, Floating World"
- 7:00 pm, Weitz 236 and Commons
October 2015
Friday, October 23rd
- Student Research Symposium and Celebration
- Research is at the heart of a Carleton education.
- 3:30 pm, Weitz Center Commons
Wednesday, October 14th
- Art, History, Justice: The Artist’s Book as Witness
- Artist’s books from the Gould Library collection focusing on social issues and historical subjects
- 4:00 pm, Library Room 170
January 2015
Wednesday, January 21st
- "Above All Else" Screening Q & A after with Director John Fiege
- Alum John Fiege '97 will be presenting his film "Above All Else" and will be in attendance to answer questions.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema
November 2014
Sunday, November 2nd
- The Winter's Tale -- Fall Players Production
- See the Carleton Players perform Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale".
- 2:00 pm, Weitz Theater
Saturday, November 1st
- The Winter's Tale -- Fall Players Production
- See the Carleton Players perform Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale".
- 2:00 pm, Weitz Theater
- The Winter's Tale -- Fall Players Production
- See a performance of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" directed by David Wiles.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
October 2014
Friday, October 31st
- The Winter's Tale -- Fall Players Production
- See a performance of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" directed by David Wiles.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
Thursday, October 30th
- The Winter's Tale -- Fall Players Production
- See a performance of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale" directed by David Wiles.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
Monday, October 27th
- Religion & Authoritarianism: Cooperation, Conflict & the Consequences
- Karrie Koesel is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Oregon.
- 4:30 pm, Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, October 21st
- Reading by poet Brian Turner
- Related to the exhibit ALWAYS LOST: A Meditation on War, in Weitz 148.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz 236
Monday, October 13th
- Always Lost: A Meditation on War
- Exhibition opening event featuring a reading by author Jay Moad. The exhibition runs from October 13 through 24.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz 148
Wednesday, October 8th
- Demanding the Land: Urban Movements & Building Dignity in Peru
- Paul Dosh '96, Professor of Political Science at Macalester College, will discuss his Building Dignity program in Peru.
- 4:30 pm, Library Athenaeum
Thursday, October 2nd
- Guest Lecture: Annegret Fauser (UNC Chapel Hill)
- Dr. Fauser presents "Americana, War, & Globalization: Seventy Years of Aaron Copland's Appalachian Spring."
- 12:00 pm, Music Hall, Room 103
September 2014
Monday, September 29th
- Stephen Walt: Follies&Fiascos-Why Does US Foreign Policy Keep Failing?
- Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.
- 4:30 pm, Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 236
May 2014
Sunday, May 25th
- Spring Dance Concert
- Students from dance classes and Semaphore Repertory Dance Company present a spring concert.
- 2:00 pm, Weitz Theater
Friday, May 23rd
- Spring Dance Concert
- Students in dance classes and Semaphore Repertory Dance Company present a spring concert
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
Saturday, May 17th
- Retirement celebration for Alison Kettering
- Event to celebrate the retirement of Alison Kettering, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Art History.
- 11:00 am, Weitz commons/WCC 236
April 2014
Saturday, April 26th
- Foro Latinoamericano 2014:
- The Politics of Memory & Forgetting in Latin America
- 8:00 am, Gould Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, April 23rd
- Shakespeare's 450th Birthday Party
- A birthday party honoring Shakespeare on his 450th birthday. Everyone is welcome!
- 4:00 pm, Weitz Center Rehearsal Room 172
February 2014
Thursday, February 27th
- The Organ Shortage: Philosophical Reflections & Policy Alternatives
- 7:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Tuesday, February 25th
- Cosmos & Philosophy in Plato & the Bible by Jacob Howland
- Jacob Howland is the McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa.
- 7:30 pm, Library Athenaeum
Wednesday, February 5th
- Showing of Movie "Never Let Me Go"
- 7:00 pm, WCC161 Cinema
Tuesday, February 4th
- 2013 Edward M. "Ted" Mullin Prize Winners' Presentations
- Please mark this new and confirmed date on your calendars!
- 5:00 pm, Leighton 236
January 2014
Thursday, January 30th
- IFF Film Premiere: "Remembering Nokutela, Chérif Keita's new film!
- International Film Forum Premiere showing of Professor Chérif Keita's new film: "Remembering Nokutela" (56 minutes, 2013, English and Zulu).
- 7:00 pm, Weitz Cinema
November 2013
Tuesday, November 12th
- Close Looks: Books and Films...
- Close Looks: Books and Films from "Directed: The Intersection between Book, Film and Visual Narrative"
- 4:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Monday, November 11th
- The Frank G. and Jean M. Chesley Lectureship
- "Wild Beauty: Postcards from Mathematical Worlds", by Professor James Propp
- 7:30 pm, Olin 149
October 2013
Friday, October 25th
- 2013 Lucas Lecture by Salman Rushdie
- “Censorship and The Satanic Verses - 25 Years Later”
- 6:00 pm, Carleton Chapel
Thursday, October 24th
- History Dept Fall Term Herbert P. Lefler talk, "Plutopia", Kate Brown
- 5:30 pm, Leighton 305
Thursday, October 17th
- Public talk,Moment of Truth: Battle of Gettysburg,Jeff Appelquist '80,
- 6:00 pm, Weitz Center 230
May 2013
Sunday, May 26th
- Semaphore Spring Concert
- Semaphore Repertory Dance Company performs a spring concert
- 2:00 pm, Weitz Theater
Friday, May 24th
- Semaphore Spring Concert
- Semaphore Repertory Dance Company performs a spring concert
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
- Choral Concert:"It's Showtime, Folks!", Lawrence E. Burnett, conductor
- 8:00 pm, Concert Hall
April 2013
Monday, April 22nd
- "Framing the West: The Survey Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan."
- Toby Jurovics is the Chief Curator and Holland Curator of American Western Art at the Joslyn Art Museum.
- 6:00 pm, Boliou 104
Saturday, April 13th
- Wilkie Retirement: “Saving the Archaeological Past for Our Future”
- Professor Patty Gerstenblith, De Paul University, chair of the U.S. State Department Cultural Properties Advisory Committee
- 9:00 am, Weitz Cinema
- Nancy Wilkie Retirement Celebration: Alumni Panel
- Panel of Carleton archaeology and SoAn alums: John Doershuk 1980, Michael Madson 1994, and Jennifer Cerny Niquette 1996
- 10:30 am, Weitz Cinema
Friday, April 12th
- Nancy Wilkie Retirement Celebration: Film showings
- Films showing impacts of illicit artifact trade: 7:30pm "The Manuscripts of Timbuktu," and 8:30 pm "On the Trail of the Tomb Robbers"
- 7:30 pm, Boliou 104
March 2013
Saturday, March 2nd
- Winter Choral Concert: Handel's MESSIAH
- 7:00 pm, Concert Hall
February 2013
Friday, February 22nd
- Convocation: Siri Hustvedt
- Author explains how personal experience and memory become transformed into narrative.
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
- Wynia Memorial Lecture: Prof. Luigi Manzetti
- "Corruption and the Dark Side of Left Wing Populism in Argentina Under the Kirchners" by Prof. Luigi Manzetti, Southern Methodist University
- 4:30 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Thursday, February 14th
- Brown-bag Lunch Concert: LOVE SONGS
- Carleton Singers. Lawrence E. Burnett, director.
- 12:00 pm, Severance Great Hall
January 2013
Wednesday, January 30th
- David Lefkowitz,"Quasi-Fictional Places" lecture
- "Quasi-Fictional Places: The Nirthfolde Vistors' Bureau and Other Original Facsimiles," a talk by David Lefkowitz.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema
Friday, January 11th
- Opera at the Weitz: LA SERVA PADRONA
- Opera Workshop. Lawrence E. Burnett, production coordinator, Julian Pozniak '14, student director.
- 8:00 pm, Weitz Center for Creativity - Theater
November 2012
Thursday, November 8th
- Gallery Talk - Jesse Houlding, class of 1992
- Alum Jesse Houlding will speak about his work on display in Boliou Gallery.
- 4:30 pm, Boliou gallery
Saturday, November 3rd
- Semaphore Fall Concert
- Semaphore Repertory Dance Company will present a Fall Concert
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
Friday, November 2nd
- Semaphore Fall Concert
- Semaphore Repertory Dance Company will present the Fall Concert.
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Theater
October 2012
Thursday, October 25th
- Student Research Symposium & Celebration
- 4:30 pm, Weitz Center for Creativity, Larson Meeting Room, 236
May 2012
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
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
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
Thursday, May 3rd
- Tehreema Mitha Dance Company Full Ensemble Performance
- 7:30 pm, Weitz Cinema
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
April 2012
Thursday, April 26th
- "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
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 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
February 2012
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
Thursday, February 23rd
- "Jews into Israelis: Zionism as a Revolutionary Project"
- The Forkosh Family Lecture given by Derek J. Penslar. Dr. Penslar is the Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History at the University of Toronto.
- 8:00 pm, Great Hall
November 2011
Thursday, November 3rd
- 'Seeing is Knowing: the Universe' exhibition tour
- Tour the large gallery at the Teaching Museum with Joel Weisberg, physics and astronomy; Dan Bruggeman, studio art; Victoria Morse, history
- 12:00 pm, Teaching Museum, Weitz Center for Creativity
October 2011
Saturday, October 15th
- "Back to Class for Parents - A Case study in biomedical ethics with Prof. Daniel Groll"
- 10:00 am, Leighton 304
Tuesday, October 4th
- Seeing is Knowing: a Dialogue with Trevor Paglen, Joel Weisberg, & Laurel Bradley
- Perspectives from an artist, an astronomer and a curator, with audience participation. The notion that “Seeing is Knowing” frames a free-ranging conversation around technologies of vision, ethical dimensions of enhanced “seeing,” and artists and scientists as social critics. (10/4 is the 54th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite)
- 12:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
Monday, October 3rd
- 'The Other Night Sky', followed by skygazing in Central Park
- Artist, writer, experimental geographer Trevor Paglen has been exposing the secret activities of the U.S. military and intelligence agencies over the last eight years in books and large-scale landscape photographs. These 'Other Night Sky' images reveal secret spy satellites and other covert military operations.
- 6:00 pm, Cinema, Weitz Center for Creativity; Central Park
September 2011
Tuesday, September 27th
- A Demonstration and Conversation with artist Anil Chaitya Vangad of Ganjad Village, India
- The Life and Art of the Indigenous Warli People of India: A Demonstration and Conversation with artist Anil Chaitya Vangad of Ganjad Village, India. The indigenous Warli people of rural western India revere the land as the infinitely creative energy of nature. Their dynamic folk paintings - traditionally done in rice paste on the mud walls of their homes - use a richly textured pictorial language to celebrate the divine balance of a life lived in meaningful coexistence with the natural world.
- 12:00 pm, Weitz Center for Creativity, Room 148
May 2011
Wednesday, May 18th
- Ragamala performance of Sthree
- Inspired by Silappatikaram (The Anklet), the national epic of the Tamil people of southeastern India, Ragamala Dance presents Sthree, a stunning convergence of dance, music and text that brings to the present the beauty of the Sangam Period of history.
- 7:00 pm, Chapel
April 2011
Friday, April 15th
- Convocation: Louis Menand
- Harvard University professor of English and American literature and language, Louis Menand is widely considered to be the foremost modern scholar of American studies. He is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning The Metaphysical Club, a detailed history of American intellectual and philosophical life in the 19th and 20th centuries. His recent book The Marketplace of Ideas, has sparked a debate about the future of American education. Has American higher education become a dinosaur? Why do professors all tend to think alike? What makes it so hard for colleges to decide which subjects should be required? Why do teachers and scholars find it so difficult to transcend the limits of their disciplines? Why, in short, are problems that should be easy for universities to solve so intractable? The answer, Menand argues, is that the institutional structure and the educational philosophy of higher education have remained the same for one hundred years, while faculties and student bodies have radically changed and technology has drastically transformed the way people produce and disseminate knowledge. Sponsored by the Fred W. and Margaret C. Schuster Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Literature Fund, the title of his presentation is "Why the Case for Liberal Education is Hard to Make."
- 10:50 am, Skinner Chapel
Monday, April 11th
- Visual Exemplars, Family Politics, and Gender Ideology in Baroque Rome
- Katie Poole, '95, to present an art history talk.
- 5:15 pm, Boliou 104
October 2010
Tuesday, October 5th
- Haiti - After the Earthquake
- Rea Dol, Founder and Director of the SOPUDEP School near Port-au-Prince, will speak about the current situation in Haiti. Featured in the New York times as "The Mother Figure of Morne Lazarre," Ms. Dol has been leading Haitian efforts to reestablish normalcy after the earthquake. Hamline professor Max Adrien, also a Haitian native, will speak briefly about Haitian culture today, and student leaders of Haiti Relief will propose ways to help. Sponsored by the Humanities Center, Haitian Relief, and the Haiti Justice Alliance.
- 4:00 pm, Boliou 104
September 2010
Monday, September 27th
- Pierre Bayard Booksigning
- Author Pierre Bayard will be signing copies of his book "How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read" following his presentation and discussion. Copies of his book will be available at the event as well as prior to the event in the Bookstore.
- 5:30 pm, Boliou Hall, Room 104
May 2010
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
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
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
February 2010
Thursday, February 25th
- Post- Katrina Symposium---New Orleans, Katrina, and the Road to Recovery: Three Perspectives
- On Thursday, February 25 from 5-6:45 p.m. in Boliou 104, Carleton College, three speakers—Rosanne Adderley, Associate Professor of History, Tulane University; John Bardes, '08 (history), teacher, Arthur Ashe Charter School, New Orleans; and Kimberly Smith, Associate Professor, Political Science and Environmental Studies, Carleton College— reflect on the impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans and the city's road to recovery. Michael Hemesath, professor of economics, and organizer of two post-Katrina Carleton service trips to the Gulf Coast, will be the moderator.
- 5:00 pm, Boliou 104
April 2009
Friday, April 24th
- 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
February 2009
Tuesday, February 10th
- "The Matter of Babylon: Rhetoric and Politics in the Early Middle Ages," a talk by Andrew Scheil
- Scheil is associate professor of English at the University of Minnesota.
- 4:00 pm, Gould Library Athenaeum
January 2009
Thursday, January 15th
- Laudie Porter Guest Artist Lecture: Emily Lodine, Mezzo soprano
- Voice Master Class
- 12:00 pm, Concert Hall
October 2008
Friday, October 17th
- Aquila Theatre Company presents The Iliad
- Homer's epic story of Achilles and the Trojan War is one of the greatest works in world literature. Aquila's innovative production, under Peter Meineck, Producing Artistic Director, tells the main parts of the story in an action packed performance. Free and open to the public.
- 7:30 pm, Concert Hall
