Events
SPRING 2022 | UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
College of Arts and Sciences Art, Theatre and Music
ART + ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES
Janine Antoni
Ikem Okoye Thursday, March 17 at 4 p.m.
Friday, February 11 at 12:30 p.m.
Virtual event
Virtual event
Ikem Okoye is an associate professor in the
Janine Antoni is a visual artist who was born
Department of Art History at the University of
in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. She received a
Delaware, and is joint faculty in the Africana
Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College
Department. Currently a Canadian Centre for
and an MFA from the Rhode Island School
Architecture/Mellon researcher on the “Centring
of Design. Antoni is known for her unusual
Africa” initiative, his writing project there is
processes — her body is both her tool for
Where Was Modernism. His essays on art,
making and the source from which her meaning
architecture and the landscape are published in
arises. Her early work transformed materials
journals and book anthologies.
like chocolate and soap and used everyday activities like bathing, eating and sleeping as
Hugo Crosthwaite
sculptural processes.
Thursday, May 5 at 4 p.m.
(Left) Janine Antoni, I speak up, mixed media gilded with
French Parlor, Founders Hall
24 karat gold leaf, 181/8 x 21 in. Courtesy of the artist,
Hugo Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana, Mexico,
Luhring Augustine, New York, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts,
in 1971 and has lived and worked between
San Francisco.
Tijuana, San Diego, Los Angeles and Brooklyn. He currently lives in Tijuana and his work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. He received a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University.
DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC CONCERTS
PRESENTED BY THE OLD GLOBE AND
Student Composers Concert
UNIVERSIT Y OF SAN DIEGO SHILEY
Saturday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.
GRADUATE THE ATRE PROGRAM
The Skin of Our Teeth
French Parlor, Founders Hall USD students work alongside invited professional musicians in the composition studio of Professor Christopher Adler, PhD. Together, these musicians bring to life world-premiere performances of student compositions.
Written by Thornton Wilder Directed by Matt M. Morrow Friday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, February 26 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, February 27 at 2 p.m.
Kay Etheridge and Friends: Three Works for Two Pianos
Studio Theatre, Sacred Heart Hall Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy
Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m.
depicts an Everyman family as it narrowly
Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall
escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after
Join us for a farewell recital for Kay Etheridge,
another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.
DMA, faculty member in USD’s Department of
Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 seniors,
Music for 31 years. At this concert, Professor
active military and students with ID. Tickets are
Christopher Adler, PhD, premieres his new work
available at usdglobe.eventbrite.com. For more
MESSAGE FROM THE DE AN
for two pianos, and Dana Burnett and Karen
information, visit graduateacting.com.
Although virtual events kept us connected over the last two years, I
Follingstad also perform piano compositions with Dr. Etheridge.
Music Ensemble Concerts All events to be held at Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall
PRESENTED BY USD’S UNDERGRADUATE
am delighted to welcome you back to
THE ATRE PROGRAM
the beautiful University of San Diego
The Dentist
campus this spring semester to enjoy our exhibitions, music and theater
Written and directed by Terry Glaser
Student ensembles under the direction of Department of Music faculty
Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m.
perform an exciting set of concerts to showcase their work throughout
Saturday, May 7 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
the semester.
Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre
performances, guest lectures and more, in person. Here’s a sampling of the robust programming we have planned. I look forward to seeing you soon. Noelle Norton, PhD
Wind Ensemble
Choral Scholars and Concert Choir
Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m.
Gamelan Ensemble
Chamber Music Ensembles
Monday, May 9 at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, May 10 at 6 p.m.
romance, aging lust, clever servants and
POSSIBLE EVENT CHANGES
Jazz Ensemble
Student Recital
foolish masters. After Pantalone woos his son’s
All event dates and locations are subject to change or cancellation
Wednesday, May 11 at 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 12 at 1 p.m.
sweetheart, the townsfolk enlist the local baker,
based on the evolving nature of the pandemic. For the most up-to-date
Mariachi Ensemble
Interactive Digital Music
Pulcinella, a dental guild dropout with a bagful of
event information, visit sandiego.edu/events/cas.
Thursday, May 12 at 8 p.m.
Tuesday, May 24 at 2 p.m.
This original script based on a classic commedia
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
dell’arte scenario scrambles love, vengeance and slapstick in crazy combinations of youthful
terrifying tools, to save the young lovers.
COV ID-19 PROTOCOLS
Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 seniors,
Event attendees are expected to comply with all USD COVID-19 protocols.
Unless noted, all Department of Music concerts are free. Seating is limited.
active military and students with ID. Tickets
This includes wearing face coverings in indoor spaces and on trams
You can reserve your seats ahead at usdmusic.eventbrite.com. Remaining
are available at usdtheatre.eventbrite.com. For
for everyone until further notice. Visit sandiego.edu/onward for current
seats are available at the door. Visit bit.ly/usd-music to sign up for the
more information, email theatre@sandiego.edu
vaccination requirements and campus protocols. Thank you for your
e-newsletter and to follow us on social media.
or visit sandiego.edu/theatre.
cooperation and concern for our community’s well-being during this time.
Humanities ILLUME SPEAKER SERIES
ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES KNAPP LECTURE
Marie Watt: A Conversation with the Artist
To champion the tradition and future of the artes liberales, the USD Humanities Center created the Illume Speaker Series featuring USD’s own renowned faculty scholars, invited thought leaders and
Marie Watt, Knapp Chair of Liberal Arts
prominent public figures to advance the liberal arts on campus and
Wednesday, February 16 at 5 p.m.
inspire lifelong learning in our surrounding communities.
French Parlor, Founders Hall Marie Watt is an American artist. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and also has German-Scot ancestry. Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Her work is the subject of a major traveling retrospective — Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt — initiated by University Galleries and supported by the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation in Portland, Oregon, where Watt lives with her family and maintains a busy studio. ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES KNAPP LECTURE
The Physics of Mentorship: The Love, Labor and Language
ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES SPECI AL GUEST
Willie S. Rockward, PhD
Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road
Monday, March 28 at 6 p.m. Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall
Matthew B. Crawford, PhD
Has mentorship always been a major yet
Monday, February 21 at 7 p.m.
unspoken part of the STEM community?
Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall
Dr. Willie Rockward, chair and professor in
The bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft
the Department of Physics and Engineering
and senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s
Physics at Morgan State University in Baltimore,
Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture joins
Maryland, shares a physics perspective of
us to discuss his most recent book, Why We
mentorship using simple, nonmathematical,
Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road.
everyday concepts, such as energy, momentum
Dr. Crawford’s work investigates “one of the
and force as it relates to the love, labor and
more insidious assumptions of the artificial
language of relational mentorship.
intelligence revolution that we are currently living through” (The Observer). Books will be available for purchase.
ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES SPECI AL GUEST
A Conversation With Mark Z. Danielewski Monday, April 11 at 7 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre ILLUME COLLEGE LECTURE
Mark Z. Danielewski, award-winning author of House of Leaves and National
Edmund Burke: Revolution, Equipoise and Making the Best of Things
Book Award finalist for Only Revolutions, joins us for a conversation with
Brian Clack, PhD Monday, April 4 at 6 p.m. Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall In this lecture, Dr. Brian Clack will discuss his experience of editing Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Addressing issues both in political thought and in the nature of education, he will reflect upon the meaning and style of Burke’s philosophy and make a case for its continued significance for our time.
Joshua Hall, lecturer in USD’s Department of English, to discuss his work and latest release, The Little Blue Kite. Books will be available for purchase. ILLUME MINERVA LECTURE SERIES
James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in 1922: The Effect of History on Literary Narrative Fred Miller Robinson, PhD Tuesday, April 26 at 6 p.m. Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall How might the history of the time have affected the stylistic innovations of Ulysses and Jacob’s Room, both published in 1922? Join Dr. Fred Miller Robinson at the Humanities Center’s new Minerva Lecture Series, designed to honor the ideas of retired and emeriti USD faculty members and to provide a showcase for their reflections on the life of the mind — wisdom acquired after a lifetime of work in the field of education.
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Special
Exhibitions
The Gout and the Guillotine: The Satirical Imagination in Britain 1790-1799 On view: March 14 to May 20 Humanities Center Gallery, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall This exhibition, centered principally on the work of James Gillray (1756-1815), explores how the grotesque imagination of 18th century satirists interrogated the apparently distinct realms of physical pain and revolutionary politics. Caricatures of the diametrically opposed political thinkers Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine are presented alongside images of that event about which they most fervently disagreed: the French Revolution and its aftermath. And hovering above it all is Gillray’s horrific representation of the body in pain: The Gout. (Left) James Gillray, The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance, 1793, etching and engraving with watercolor, 137/8 x 93/4 in. Purchased with funds provided by the Humanities Center, PC2021.08. (Above) James Gillray, The Gout, 1799, etching and aquatint with hand coloring, 101/16 x 133/8 in. Purchased with funds provided by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, PC2021.01.
Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt
Screenings 8: Lorna Simpson
On view: February 4 to May 15
On view: January 27 to March 4
Hoehn Family Galleries, Founders Hall
Humanities Center Gallery, Saints Tekakwitha and
David W. May Gallery, Humanities Center, Saints
Serra Hall
Tekakwitha and Serra Hall
The eighth iteration of the Humanities Center
Marie Watt (Seneca, b. 1967) is one of the
Gallery’s series of time-based works focuses
country’s most celebrated contemporary artists
on Lorna Simpson’s Corridor (2003). Simpson
whose work draws on personal experience,
is a contemporary artist whose practice
Indigenous traditions, protofeminism, mythology
evolved around the camera, creating engaged
and art history. Drawing on the collections of the
juxtapositions through conceptual photography
Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation and USD,
and film. This work positions two narratives
Storywork presents a mid-career retrospective
in the context of one uninterrupted screen,
of Watt’s work as a printmaker, accompanied
presenting distinct yet parallel routines of
by a fully illustrated catalog. Watt is also in
women living a century apart — one during the
residence at USD as a Humanities Center Knapp
Civil War and the other during the Civil Rights
Chair of Liberal Arts, starting with a public
movement.
lecture on Feb. 16.
(Above) Lorna Simpson, still from Corridor, 2003, two-channel color video installation with sound, 13:15 minutes, looped. Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
(Above) Marie Watt, Companion Species (Words), 2017, etching, 221/4 x 161/2 in. Purchased through the David W. May Endowment, A2018-4-1.
Special
Events L ABOV ITZ-PEREZ LECTURE SERIES
The Role of Critical Race Theory Wednesday, February 23 (time to be announced) This year’s event will engage the role of critical race theory at USD. The annual lecture brings renowned scholars to campus who as practitioners, theorists and social action researchers, contribute to the field of ethnic studies. Sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies.
New Ports of Call in the Infrastructure of Islamic Identity Monday, February 28 at 4 p.m. Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall From Slave Island to Victory Island, how do Belt Road Initiative investments effect Malay-Muslim mobilizations across the Indian Ocean? Laura Elder, PhD, chair of global studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, leads this discussion. Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies program, the USD Humanities Center, the Department of Anthropology, the USD Honors Program and the Department of Economics at the Knauss School of Business.
LINDSAY J. CROPPER MEMORI AL WRITERS SERIES
Poet Kazim Ali Reading, Craft Talk and Q&A Thursday, February 24 at 12:30 p.m. Virtual event Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France and the Middle East. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities. He is currently a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems, titled The Voice of Sheila Chandra, and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light. LINDSAY J. CROPPER MEMORI AL WRITERS SERIES
Cropper Creative Writing Student Reading Thursday, April 28 at 12:30 p.m. Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Garden of the Sea Reception to follow English majors in the creative writing emphasis read from their own works. The Department of English creative writing emphasis (fiction, nonfiction and poetry) is composed of four rigorous, upper-division creative writing courses in which students practice the dedication and commitment required of the serious writer.
ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sciences is at the heart of the University of San Diego, providing a 21st century liberal arts education that sharpens minds and develops students holistically. Building Toreros at the convergence point of the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences. Together students think, learn and experience across 19 departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs from theatre to theology, music to math and physics to philosophy. Our diverse, award-winning faculty engage in research both local and global, mentoring students in the lab, studio and community. Graduates gain the intellectual and ethical footing to take on challenges and navigate them with purpose.
HOW TO SUPPORT THE COLLEGE To support the College of Arts and Sciences, please contact College of Arts and Sciences Director of Development Tania Batson at tbatson@sandiego.edu.
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