During this time of uncertainty and isolation, find solace in digital opportunities听to connect, share, and engage. Each week, we will share upcoming events that bring the 91爆料, and the greater community, together online.听
Many of these online opportunities are streamed through Zoom. All 91爆料 faculty, staff, and students have access to听.听
Online: Rosmersholm
May 6 – May 9听|听
Presented by the School of Drama, this sexually-charged study of faith and heartbreak, widely considered Ibsen鈥檚 darkest and most complex play, mines the tension between old and new, between conservatism and progressivism, between liberation and servitude. 鈥淩evive听Rosmersholm听for regime change,鈥� says听Variety, 鈥淚t is a 鈥楤reak Glass in Case of Emergencies,鈥� sort of play.鈥� Set against the backdrop of political upheaval, the play has the moral force of Ibsen鈥檚听An Enemy of the People, laced with the personal agony of his听Ghosts. Ibsen鈥檚 most popular play during his lifetime,听Rosmersholm听is a political and romantic thriller that feels utterly relevant to ours.
Free |
Generation Mixed Goes to School
May 5, 5:30 – 7:30 PM |听
Join the Director of the听Center for Communication, Difference, and Equity and Professor of Communication Ralina Joseph and Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the Wright Institute Allison Briscoe-Smith听for a discussion on their new book – Generation Mixed Goes to School. They will be in conversation with Ph.D. student in Communication听Meshell Sturgis.
Free |
Half-Bird, Half-Fish: The New Grammar of Time Past in Seventeenth-century Tamil, Telugu, and Sanskrit by Professor David Shulman
May 4, 8:00 – 9:30 PM |
Although every generation has to discover, or rediscover, or reinvent its own links to the cultural past, there are extended moments of civilizational change when the presence of the past, and the modes of linking past to present, become highly charged themes. Such was the case in thirteenth-century Florence and Sienna, in fourteenth-century Shiraz, and in early-modern South India (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). This was a period when a new genre– the self-contained literary听prabandha, meant to be read from beginning to end over a few days, in homes, literary salons, royal courts, or temples, with a range of unusual themes– appeared in Sanskrit and all the south Indian languages. The听Department of Asian Languages & Literature‘s听Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture, given by David Shulman, will look at a story that develops this topic in a particularly dramatic and lyrical way.
Free |
Division of Art Graduation Exhibition 2
May 4 – May 15 |
Each year the School of Art + Art History + Design proudly celebrates graduating Art students with a series of exhibitions. The Jacob Lawrence Gallery features the work of students graduating with a BA in Art as they celebrate their achievements and embark on the next step in their creative journey.听
Free |
The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
May 5, 5:00 – 6:15 PM |听
Across Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, Jews were often confronted with the notion that their religious and cultural distinctiveness was somehow incompatible with the modern age. Yet the view from Ottoman Izmir, a Mediterranean port city, invites a different approach: what happens when Jewish difference is totally unremarkable? What happens when there is no 鈥淛ewish Question?鈥�
Drawing extensively on a rich body of previously untapped Ladino archival material, Dina Danon,听associate professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University, will offer a new read on Jewish modernity in this lecture sponsored by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. Through the voices of beggars on the street and mercantile elites, shoe-shiners and newspaper editors, rabbis and housewives, this talk will underscore how it was new attitudes to poverty and social class, not Judaism, that most significantly framed this Sepharadi community鈥檚 encounter with the modern age.
Free |
Biden Faces the World: American Foreign Policy in a post Trump era
May 6, 5:30 – 7:00 PM |
Please join the Department of Political Science on Thursday, May 6th听for the Spring Faculty Panel on the subject of international relations. To what extent will the recent change in administrations impact U.S. involvement on the world stage?
Speakers will include:
- Professor Beth Kier,听From Trump to Biden: Transforming Civil-Military Relations
- Professor Geoffrey Wallace,听Biden鈥檚 Multilateralism in the (Post-)鈥淎merica First鈥� Era
- Professor Victor Menaldo,听Will Anything Biden Does Really Change Foreign Dictators’ Behavior?
- John Wilkerson,听Moderator
Free |
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