CA L E NDAR OF EVENTS
Arts and Culture at Wellesley
Spring 2016
ARTS AND CULTURE AT WELLESLEY SPRING 2016
01 1/7–1/31, p.8 The House of Blue Leaves Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
1/25–2/26, p.24 Retrofit Painting Presents…
Jewett Arts Center
1/31 (Sun), p.27 Albright Institute Public Dialogue: Addressing Global Inequality 2:30-4:00 PM Alumnae Hall
02 2/1 (Mon), p.27 Conscience and Its Enemies
6:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
2/5–3/20, p.24 Alice C. Cole Alumnae Fellowship Exhibition: What Is Left Laconia Gallery, Boston
2/6 (Sat), p.31 Kirsten Scott: Queer as Opera
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
2/9 (Tue), p.20 Abiola Irele: The Significance of Negritude 7:00 PM Newhouse Center
2/9 (Tue), p.28 Knapp Lecture: Anne Morrison Piehl 4:15 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
2/10 (Wed), p.14 Davis Museum Spring Opening Celebration 5:00 PM the Davis.
2/10–6/5, p.18 Gendered Value: Curators’ Choice the Davis.
2/10–6/5, p.15 That Right Promethean Fire: Shakespeare Illustrated the Davis.
2/10–6/26, p.2 The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer the Davis.
2/11 (Thu), p.28 Gaming Futures: Perspectives of Women in Games and Play 4:00 PM Jewett Arts Center, Collins Cinema
2/13 (Sat), p.16 Valentine’s Day Film Double Feature 12:00 PM Collins Cinema
2/14 (Sun), p.11 Cinéphile Sundays: The Bride of Frankenstein 3:00 PM Collins Cinema
2/16 (Tue), p.18 Gallery Talk: Gendered Value 4:00 PM the Davis.
2/19 (Fri), p.18 Davis Discoveries: Green Lady Mystery 3:00 PM Collins Cinema
2/21 (Sun), p.33 Music Department Honors Concert 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
2/24 (Wed), p.18 Shakespeare on Screen: Hamlet 6:30 PM Collins Cinema
2/25 (Thu), p.21 Françoise Lionnet: Literary Routes 7:00 PM Newhouse Center
2/27 (Sat), p.16 More Than Words Can Witness 3:00 PM the Davis.
2/28 (Sun), p.13 Cinéphile Sundays: Metropolis with Alloy Orchestra 3:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
2/29–4/1, p.25 An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood Jewett Arts Center
2/29–4/1, p.25 Recent Works by Khaled al-Saa’i Jewett Arts Center
03 3/1 (Tue), p.16 Gallery Talk: Shakespeare Illustrated 4:00 PM the Davis.
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3/2 (Wed), p.15 Educator Workshop: The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer 4:00 PM the Davis.
3/5 (Sat), p.26 The WellesleyDeerfield Symposium: Modernism in New England 9:00 AM Collins Cinema
3/5 (Sat), p.33 Jazz/World Music Faculty Concert 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
3/9 (Wed), p.18 Shakespeare on Screen: Throne of Blood 6:30 PM Collins Cinema
3/10 (Wed), p.27 Conservatives on Campus: Myths and Realities
6:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
3/11, 4/8, 5/6 (Fri), p.15 Game Worlds: Play the Curator 12:30 PM the Davis.
3/11 (Fri), p.9 The Hidden Arts of Kabuki Dance 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
3/12 (Sat), p.9 Chicago City Limits 7:00 PM Alumnae Hall Auditorium
ARTS AND CULTURE AT WELLESLEY SPRING 2016
3/13 (Sun), p.13 Cinéphile Sundays: Paprika 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
3/13 (Sun), p.33 Wellesley Classical Faculty in Concert 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
3/16 (Wed), p.33 New Sounds for Silk Strings 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
3/29 (Tue), p.19 Catalogue Launch: Käthe Kollwitz and the Women of War 6:00 PM the Davis.
3/29 (Tue), p.29 Russian Folk Music with Zolotoj Plyos 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
3/30 (Wed), p.29 The Wilson Lecture: Lisa P. Jackson 7:30 PM Alumnae Hall Auditorium
3/31 (Thu), p.30 Calderwood Lecture in Economics: Heidi Williams 4:15 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
04 4/3 (Sun), p.4 Wu Man & the Shanghai Quartet 3:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
4/4 (Mon), p.34 Shanghai Quartet with Music Faculty 4:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
4/5 (Tue), p.30 Black Lives (Matter) and American Literature 4:30 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
4/6 (Wed), p.21 A Conversation with Teju Cole 7:00 PM Newhouse Center
4/9 (Sat), p.34 Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Octet
4/13 (Wed), p.27 Second Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture on Freedom 7:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
4/14 (Thu), p.26 Ina Blom: The Autobiography of Video 7:00 PM Collins Cinema
4/14-4/17, p.10 Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
4/16 (Sat), p.19 Family Day at the Davis: The Art of Games
4/27 (Wed), p.22 Traveling Shakespeare: Plays in Motion 7:00 PM Collins Cinema
05 5/1 (Sun), p.13 Cinéphile Sundays: Conceiving Ada 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
11:00 AM the Davis.
4/20 (Wed), p.28 Elizabeth PoppBerman: Creating the Market University
5/4 (Wed), p.18 Shakespeare on Screen: Omkara
6:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
4/10 (Sun), p.13 Cinéphile Sundays: El espíritu de la colmena
4/21 (Thu), p.15 Game Night 6:00 PM the Davis.
4/12 (Tue), p.19 Mashup
4/22 (Fri), p.15 Symposium: Thinking in Play
4:00 PM the Davis.
10:00 AM Collins Cinema
4/13 (Wed), p.18 Shakespeare on Screen: Chimes at Midnight
4/23 (Sat), p.22 Lectures: Shakespeare on the Global Stage
6:30 PM Collins Cinema
4:00 PM the Davis.
5/2 (Mon), p.30 Author Reading: Skating with the Statue of Liberty
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
5:00 PM Collins Cinema
4/26 (Tue), p.18 Gallery Talk: Gendered Value
4:15 PM Collins Cinema
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4:30 PM French House
6:30 PM Collins Cinema
5/26–6/26, p.9 Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Please note that student performances are not included in our pullout section. Please see page 10 for student theatre productions and page 35 for student music ensembles.
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Now that our digital society makes information available instantaneously, it is increasingly important to ask precisely those questions that do not yield immediate answers: to paraphrase Plutarch, the mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to ignite. For many, the pursuit and study of the arts and the humanities can be a simple source of self-expression and personal pleasure. From an educational perspective, they offer much more, enriching the learner by deepening her appreciation of the world in which she lives, and helping her develop the kind of practical skills that students can utilize in any area of study. Steve Jobs knew the benefits of an interdisciplinary approach to creativity and design, and contended that what made the Mac great “was that the people working on it were musicians and poets and artists and zoologists and historians who also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world.” Likewise, Wellesley seeks out artists of all kinds to share their talents: Musicians. Actors. Visual artists. Authors. Economists. Scientists. Leaders in their fields who help us understand the world around us and inspire us to consider it in new ways. Please join us. All of the arts and cultural events listed in this calendar are free and open to the public (unless otherwise noted), and ample parking is available at no cost. For additional information about any event listed, please contact the host department listed at the bottom of the event page. We also suggest checking wellesley.edu/events to stay apprised of event updates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS ....................... 2–3 Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet ........................ 4–5 Cinéphile Sundays: Exquisite Combinations .......... 6–7 The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
Theatre .......................................................................... 8–10 Cinema and Media Studies ........................................ 11–13 The Davis. ................................................................... 14–19 The Newhouse Center ................................................ 20–23 Art and the Liberal Arts ............................................... 24–30 The Concert Series ..................................................... 31–35
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Cover and side image: Wu Man. Photo courtesy of Wind Music..
THE DAVIS MUSEUM AT WELLESLEY COLLEGE PRESENTS
THE GAME WORLDS OF
JASON ROHRER
The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer February 10–June 26 Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery/ Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
This spring, the Davis Museum proudly presents The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, the first museum retrospective dedicated to the work of a single video game maker. Rohrer’s work is deft, engaging, and often surprisingly moving. It refers to a diverse set of cultural influences, ranging from the fiction of Borges to black magic; at the same time, it also engages pressing emotional, intellectual, philosophical, and social issues. Rohrer’s substantial recognition, which has included feature coverage in Wired, Esquire, and the Wall Street Journal, as well as inclusion in MoMA’s initial video game acquisition, has been built on a singularly fascinating body of work. These games range from the elegantly simple—such
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as Gravitation (2008), a game about flights of creative mania and melancholy—to others of Byzantine complexity. The exhibition will feature four large build-outs that translate Rohrer’s games into unique spatial experiences, alongside a section dedicated to exploring a large body of his work.
Curated by Michael Maizels, Mellon New Media Art Curator/Lecturer at the Davis, with an exhibition catalogue featuring contributions from University of Chicago game studies scholar Patrick Jagoda, distributed by MIT Press. The exhibition, catalogue, and related programs are generously supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with additional funds provided by Wellesley College Friends of Art.
Jason Rohrer. Photo by TrustCollective
Gaming aficionados will enjoy not only a full schedule of events associated with The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer at the Davis, but also a special February event that convenes a panel of experts to discuss “Gaming Futures: Perspectives of Women in Games and Play.� Please see page 28 for details.
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THE WELLESLEY COLLEGE CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS
WUAND MAN
THE SHANGHAI QUARTET
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Music from Ancient and New China April 3 (Sun) | 3:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet explore the great music of China in a program that features a new multimedia work by the eminent Chinese composer Zhao Jiping, in collaboration with his son, Zhao Lin, performing some of his most famous scores of Chinese cinema— Raise the Red Lantern, To Live, and Farewell My Concubine, among others. The program also includes a suite of traditional Chinese folk songs arranged by second violinist Yi-Wen Jiang, as well as solo pipa works by Wu Man. Looking back to their roots with a contemporary vision, these artists combine the pipa with other sounds of China and a Western string quartet in an unforgettable afternoon of grand music.
Pipa virtuoso Wu Man has been called a “force of nature” by Gramophone magazine and has acted as muse and inspiration for contemporary composers ranging from Tan Dun to Terry Riley. The Shanghai Quartet is one of the world’s foremost chamber music ensembles, known for its passionate musicality and impressive technique. This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund and the Florence Jeup Ford ’22, Mary M. Crawford ’22, and Virginia Ford ’48 Artist in Residence Endowment Fund. Also funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies. Reservations strongly recommended. Email concerts@wellesley.edu for information about reservations and additional residency activities.
Wu Man & the Shanghai Quartet. Photo by Ben Doyle
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Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES PRESENTS
CINÉPHILE SUNDAYS:
EXQUISITE COMBINATIONS
Cinema and Media Studies’ (CAMS) spring film series is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s conception of Frankenstein. On a mythical summer 1816 night spent in a villa on Lake Geneva, Shelley, her husband, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Lord Byron engaged in a challenge to see who would come up with the most horrific story. The novel based on Mary’s winning idea has become iconic of a certain strand of horror—namely, when evil is something that humans have created. Our celebration of Shelley begins with a screening of Bride of Frankenstein, yet does not intend to dwell on horror stories, but rather to connect intriguing and oblique links to the author. Lifted from the first page of Mary Shelley’s preface to Frankenstein, “exquisite combinations” not only hints at creation through recombination but can also be linked to the surrealist “Exquisite Corpse,” the famous game in which various written or hand-drawn parts from different players who know only a fraction of what the others have done come together into a new composite reality.
CAMS is pleased to present a live musical soundtrack to one of the films by Alloy Orchestra, a three-man musical ensemble that Roger Ebert referenced as “the best in the world at accompanying silent films.” The group works with an outrageous assemblage of peculiar objects, thrashing and grinding soulful music from unlikely sources. Alloy Orchestra began its career with a new score for the Weimar masterpiece Metropolis. The group has worked with four different versions of the film, including the newest “complete” version, released in 2010, which they will accompany at Wellesley. Alloy was invited in 2010 to perform its reworking of the score at the newly restored film’s American premiere during the TCM Classic Film Festival. It was received by the packed house at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles with an enthusiastic standing ovation. All films are free and open to the public. This program is generously supported by the Wilson Fund. Please see pages 11–13 for information on individual screenings.
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Ariela Nazar Rosen ’16 and Asriel Walker ’19, A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
THEATRE The Department of Theatre Studies allows Wellesley College students to explore the history and literature of the theatre, and then to bring their knowledge from the classroom to a hands-on application of the craft. To facilitate this essential experiential learning, the department hosts multiple active performing programs on campus, ranging from solely professional to student-produced.
PROFESSIONAL PRODUCTIONS: WELLESLEY REPERTORY THEATRE Formerly known as the Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, the Wellesley Repertory Theatre is the professional Equity company in residence at Wellesley College. The awardwinning company attracts audiences and artists from across New England.
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The House of Blue Leaves Written by John Guare; Directed by Marta Rainer January 7–31 7:00 PM Thu–Sat, 2:00 PM Sat–Sun Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Artie Shaughnessy is a songwriter with visions of glory. Toiling by day as a zookeeper, he suffers in seedy lounges by night. On the day the Pope is making his first visit to the city, Artie’s son Ronny goes AWOL from Fort Dix, stowing a homemade bomb intended to blow up the Pope in Yankee Stadium. Also arriving, with a starlet girlfriend in tow, is Artie’s old school chum, Billy Einhorn, now a successful Hollywood producer,
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Derek Stone Nelson and Victoria George ’05 in The Importance of Being Earnest
who holds the key to Artie’s dream of getting out of Queens and away from the life he so despises.
$20 General Admission, $10 Seniors and Students
Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) Written by Ann-Marie McDonald; Directed by Nora Hussey May 26–June 26 7:00 PM Thu–Sat, 2:00 PM Sat–Sun Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
In this exuberant comedy—and original revision of Shakespeare’s Othello and Romeo and Juliet— Constance Ledbelly, a drab and dusty academic, deciphers a cryptic manuscript she believes to be the original source for the tragedies, and is transported into the plays themselves. She visits Juliet and Desdemona, has a hand in saving them from the deaths the Bard has planned for them, and finds out what these women are all about. In true Shakespearean spirit, Constance plunders the plays and creates something new, all the while engaging in a personal voyage of self-discovery. With an abundance of twists, fights, dances, seductions, and wild surprises, the play is an absolute joy of theatricality.
$20 General Admission, $10 Seniors and Students with ID.
Chicago City Limits: Canedy, Stefan, Malachi and Yadu
GUEST PERFORMERS The Hidden Arts of Kabuki Dance with Michiko Kurata March 11 (Fri ) | 7:00 PM Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Master dancer Michiko Kurata (stage name: Hanayagi Sukekatsumi) offers a rare glimpse into the hidden world of traditional Japanese dance. Kabuki dance (kabuki buyo) originated in Japan over 400 years ago among female street performers in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) and spread throughout all classes of society. Kurata has been performing traditional Japanese dance for 35 years in Japan and the U.S. At the age of 15 she was awarded natori status and earned her professional name. Free and open to the public
Benefit Show: Chicago City Limits March 12 (Sat) | 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium
The critically acclaimed national touring company Chicago City Limits produces New York City’s longest-running show, with over 10,000 performances over 30 years. The New York Daily News described it succinctly as “Hilarious!” The New York Post characterized it as the “funniest show in town … not to be missed!” The New York Times called the show “ingenious and very, very funny,” and the cast “the perfect masters of improvisation.” This event is hosted in cooperation with the Wellelsey Rotary Club. Ticket proceeds benefit Stop Hunger Now and other local adolescent wellness and tutoring programs: Adults $30, Students $15
For information on guest performers, visit www.wellesleyrepertorytheatre.org or www.wellesley.edu/events
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Home Front: Women’s Voices from the Great War
2015 production of A Civil War Christmas: An American Musical Celebration
THEATRE STUDIES Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike Written by Christopher Durang; Directed by Nora Hussey
$5 General Admission, Free to Wellesley Students
April 14–17
Polaroid Stories
7:00 PM Thu–Sat, 2:00 PM Sat–Sun
Written by Naomi Iizuka; Directed by Alison Balis ’17
Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Middle-aged siblings Vanya and Sonia share a home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where they bicker and complain about the circumstances of their lives. When their moviestar sister, Masha, swoops in with her new boy toy, Spike, old resentments flare up, eventually leading to threats to sell the house. Also on the scene are sassy maid Cassandra, who can predict the future, and a lovely young aspiring actress named Nina, whose prettiness worries the imperious Masha.
$15 General Admission, $10 Seniors and Students with ID. Free to Wellesley Students.
STUDENT PRODUCTIONS: UPSTAGE THEATRE
March 3–6 7:00 PM Thu–Sat, 2:00 PM Sat–Sun Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre, Alumnae Hall
Ovid’s Metamorphoses is reimagined on abandoned city streets. Orpheus, Eurydice, Persephone, and Philomel are the classical figures whose experiences with drug use, abuse, and homelessness are viewed through a modern lens.
$5 General Admission, Free to Wellesley Students
Medea Written by Euripides; Translated by Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer; Directed by Danielle Zarbin ’16 April 27–May 1 | 8:00 PM
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Written by Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers; Directed by Catherine Piner ’16
The famed story of the ill-fated marriage between Jason, hero of the Golden Fleece, and Medea, barbarian sorceress and princess of Colchis. Alone, Medea faces banishment and separation from her children. Cornered, she exacts an appalling revenge and destroys everything she holds dear.
February 4–7 7:00 PM Thu–Sat, 2:00 PM Sat–Sun Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium
This fast-paced comedy following a young Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in 1996, after the script for Good Will Hunting literally falls into their 10
laps. It explores their relationship with destiny, which seems to have decided that they will forever be linked.
$5 General Admission, Free to Wellesley Students
For reservations for Upstage Theatre productions only, please email upstage@wellesley.edu
Paprika (2006)
CINEMA AND MEDIA STUDIES The Cinema and Media Studies program aims to offer film lovers a communal viewing experience, sharing the beauty of 35mm films on the big screen of Wellesley’s Collins Cinema. In a time when people too often watch film in the isolation of their homes in front of their computers, we offer the opportunity to come together, in the dark and in the light, to view film on the big screen, hear from major film theorists, and meet filmmakers.
CINÉPHILE SUNDAYS: EXQUISITE COMBINATIONS
The Bride of Frankenstein Dir. James Whale, 1935 February 14 (Sun) | 3:00 PM
Please see pages 6–7 for program description.
Collins Cinema
All films are free and open to the public. This program is generously supported by the Wilson Fund.
James Whale’s The Bride of Frankenstein is the critically acclaimed sequel to the original Frankenstein film, starring Boris Karloff in the title role. It has been identified as the classic of its genre, including in Alberto Manguel’s monograph published by the British Film Institute.
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Alloy 12 Orchestra, from left to right: Roger Miller, Ken Winokur, and Terry Donahue. Photo by Ivan Singer.
El espíritu de la colmena (1973)
Conceiving Ada (1997)
Metropolis with Alloy Orchestra
El espíritu de la colmena
Dir. Fritz Lang, 1927
Dir. Victor Erice, 1973
February 28 (Sun) | 3:00 PM
April 10 (Sun) | 5:00 PM
Jewett Auditorium
Collins Cinema
An inspiration for countless modern films, including Blade Runner, Metropolis is a famous dystopian fable created during the interwar Weimar Republic. It stands today as the crowning achievement of German silent film.This unique showing of Metropolis will feature the Alloy Orchestra performing during the three-hour film, which will include the recently restored 40 minutes of footage rediscovered in a film archive in Argentina.
Regarded as the best and most poignant film on the Spanish Civil War ever made, Victor Erice’s film takes place in 1940, when the civil war has just ended with the fascist Franco’s victory. Its story focuses on the young girl Ana and her fascination with the 1931 American horror film Frankestein, which she has seen thanks to a mobile cinema outfit.
Paprika Dir. Satoshi Kon, 2006 March 13 (Sun) | 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
A Japanese anime film by one of the genre’s masters, the late Satoshi Kon, Paprika centers on a research psychologist who uses a device that permits therapists to help patients by entering their dreams. As the New York Times critic Manhola Dargis put it, “Paprika masterfully conveys a sense of unease about the rapidly changing relationship between our physical selves and our machines.” The inherently surrealist dimension of animation is here enhanced by the topic of dreams. Paprika was so successful, both critically and commercially, that it was “remade” as a live action film: Christopher Nolan’s 2010 blockbuster Inception.
Conceiving Ada Dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1997 May 1 (Sun) | 5:00 PM Collins Cinema
Protagonist Emmy Coer is a computer scientist obsessed with Countess Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who calculated the first computer algorithm for the famous “Analytical Engine.” Emmy finds a way of communicating with people in the past by way of “undying information waves.” Conceiving Ada is a multilayered experiment about two women who connect through cyberspace across the divide of time and discover some remarkable parallels between their lives. Writing for the San Francisco Chronicle, Edward Guthmann called Conceiving Ada a “film without category or precedent—a meditation on memory, feminism, immortality, and the horizons of virtual reality.”
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Video credit: Jason Rohrer
THE DAVIS. The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is one of the oldest and most acclaimed academic art museums in the United States. Dynamic gallery presentations and richly varied temporary exhibitions create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement in the arts as a vital element of crossdisciplinary teaching and study.
EXHIBITIONS AND RELATED EVENTS
Spring Opening Celebration February 10 (Wed) Artist Lecture | 5:00 PM | Collins Cinema Reception | 6:00 PM | Davis Lobby and Galleries
The Davis Museum kicks off its spring exhibition season with a lecture by video game artist Jason Rohrer, followed by a lively reception to celebrate the openings of The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, That Right Promethean Fire: Shakespeare Illustrated, and Gendered Value: Curators’ Choice.
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The Davis is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer February 10–June 26 Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery/Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
Please see pages 2–3.
Museum Hours Tuesday–Sunday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses.
Free and open to the public, Tuesday–Sunday 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Jason Rohrer; Photo: Official GDC (Flickr)
Eugène Delacroix, Mort d’Ophélie (Act IV. Sc. VII), from the series “Hamlet,” 1843. Lithograph. The Dorothy Braude Edinburg (Class of 1942) Collection. 1972.56.5
Educator Workshop: The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer
Symposium: Thinking in Play
March 2 (Wed) | 4:00 PM
Panels begin at 11:00 AM
Davis Galleries
Registration in Davis Lobby; Program in Collins Cinema
The Davis welcomes local K–12 educators of all subject areas to a free workshop to explore ways to connect the exhibition to classroom curriculum and how to design class visits. Free program with registration required. Generously supported by the Palley Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs.
Play the Curator March 11, April 8, and May 6 (Fri) 12:30–1:30 PM | Davis Galleries
Curator Michael Maizels will lead a short gallery talk on Jason Rohrer’s work, focusing on one of the featured games each date, followed by an opportunity to play the curator in selected games.
Game Night April 21 (Thu) | 6:00 PM Davis Galleries
To launch Thinking in Play (please see following), the Davis will host a game play party in The Game Worlds of Jason Rohrer, featuring a DJ, cash bar, and light refreshments. Join us for this special opportunity to meet, mingle, and play against artist Jason Rohrer, exhibition curator Michael Maizels, and other scholars.
April 22 (Fri) | Check-In and Coffee, 10:00 AM
This day-long symposium, featuring a series of conversations with leading scholars about the philosophy and design of Jason Rohrer’s games, will culminate with a presentation by Jason Rohrer and Frank Lantz, director of the Game Center at New York University. Free and open to the public; reservations required.
That Right Promethean Fire: Shakespeare Illustrated February 10–June 5 Morelle Lasky Levine Gallery ’56 Works on Paper Gallery
Celebrating the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare, this exhibit will explore the legacy of artistic engagement with the Bard’s plays. From the monumental project of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery to the Weimar Republic, from Victorian America to contemporary poetry, Shakespeare’s work has routinely incited artists to respond in interesting and diverse ways. Here, a selection of paintings, prints, photography, and books will illuminate how artists such as Angelica Kauffman, Eugène Delacroix, Max Beckmann, and Rockwell Kent have engaged with the rich corpus of Shakespeare’s work. Drawn from the collections of the Davis Museum, Special Collections of the Clapp Library, and the Wellesley College
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
SHAKESPEARE ON THE GLOBAL SILVER SCREEN
Archives, Shakespeare Illustrated will also highlight Wellesley’s profound interest in Shakespeare over more than a century.
This selection of films demonstrates the sustained and diverse engagement with Shakespeare that has inspired filmmakers around the world for nearly a century.
Curated by Meredith Fluke, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs at the Davis, in collaboration with William Cain, Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English, and Ruth Rogers, Curator of Special Collections at Wellesley College. The exhibition is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art.
More Than Words Can Witness: Performances by Members of the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society February 27 (Sat) | 3:00 PM Davis Galleries
Join students from the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society for a lively in-gallery performance and a post-performance discussion with the actors about the relationship between theater and visual art, and the special history of Shakespeare at Wellesley.
Valentine’s Day Film Double Feature February 13 (Sat) | Collins Cinema Romeo + Juliet (Dir. Baz Luhrmann, 1996) | 12:00 PM 10 Things I Hate About You (Dir. Gil Junger, 1999) | 3:30 PM
Curatorial Gallery Talk: Shakespeare Illustrated March 1 (Tue) | 4:00 PM Davis Galleries
Join Meredith Fluke, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs, Ruth Rogers, Curator of Special Collections at Clapp Library, and William Cain, Mary Jewett Gaiser Professor of English at Wellesley College, in a discussion about Shakespeare and the enduring and multifarious practice of interpreting his work. 16
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
Two 1990s film adaptations of Shakespeare’s best-known works: Romeo + Juliet, starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio, and 10 Things I Hate About You (based on The Taming of the Shrew), starring Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
Free and open to the public, Tuesday–Sunday 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Angelica Kauffmann, Valentine, Proteus, Sylvia, and Giulia in the Forest (Scene from “Two Gentlemen of Verona” Act V, Scene IV),17 1788. Oil on canvas. Museum purchase in memory of Winifred Herman Friedman (Class of 1945). 1976.34
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
The following screenings take place in Collins Cinema on Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. *indicates special presentation in 35mm.
Hamlet*
Circle of Annibale Carracci, Christ and the Woman of Samaria (detail), ca. 1620-30. Oil on canvas, 13 1/4 in. x 20 in. (33.7 cm x 50.8 cm). Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Arthur K. Solomon. 1953.21
Curated by Alicia LaTores, Curatorial Assistant, with generous support from the Wellesley College Friends of Art.
Dir. Asta Nielsen, 1921 | February 24
Curatorial Gallery Talks: Gendered Value
Throne of Blood*
February 16 (Tue) and April 26 (Tue) | 4:00 PM Davis Galleries
Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1957 | March 9
At each talk, four Davis curators present their personal selections for the exhibition and discuss their processes for interpreting the highly contested phrase “gendered value,” and its implications for our understanding of art history.
Chimes at Midnight Dir. Orson Welles, 1965 | April 13
Omkara Dir. Vishal Bhardwaj, 2006 | May 4
Generously supported by the Davis Museum Film Program Gift, and co-hosted by Cinema and Media Studies and the English department.
SPECIAL EVENTS Davis Discoveries Symposium: The Green Lady Mystery February 19 (Fri) | 3:00 PM
Gendered Value: Curators’ Choice
Collins Cinema
February 10–June 5
Prior to recent conservation treatment, the young woman in this portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), the most prominent portrait artist in England in the 18th century, had the unfortunate nickname of the “Green Lady”—a reference to her once sallow appearance caused by decades of grime and yellowed varnish. Join us to hear curators and conservators discuss who she is, where she came from, and how she has been restored to reveal a fresh face.
Joan Levine Freedman ’57 and Richard I. Freedman Gallery
Gendered Value: Curators’ Choice places the permanent collections of the Davis Museum within the context of feminist art history. This exhibition seeks to illuminate the complex interplay between gender and value via artworks that have rarely been on view. Selected by eight members of the curatorial staff, the works highlight a unique cross-section of the collections across periods, genres, and cultures. Drawing upon individual expertise, each curator examines works that encapsulate their personal conception of “gendered value.” 18
The Davis Discoveries series is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art.
Free and open to the public, Tuesday–Sunday 11:00 AM–5:00 PM
Käthe Kollwitz catalogue
Catalogue Launch: Käthe Kollwitz and the Women of War: Femininity, Identity, and Art in Germany During World Wars I and II March 29 (Tue) | 6:00 PM Davis Lobby
Edited by Associate Curator Claire Whitner, this catalogue brings together exhibitions focused on the work of German printmaker and sculptor Käthe Kollwitz at the Davis Museum and the Smith College Museum of Art. In addition to fully illustrated checklists from both shows, this publication includes new scholarship by curators from both museums and professors at Wellesley and Smith Colleges.
Mashup April 12 (Tue) | 4:00 PM Davis Galleries
The winning student proposal for an ingallery performance of music, dance, theatre, or poetry related to an object in the Davis permanent collection will selected by a committee comprised of Davis staff and Student Advisory Committee members. Generously supported by the Wellesley College Friends of Art Student Initiative Programming Fund.
Half-cleaned Portrait of a Lady by Joshua Reynolds (British, 1723-1792), oil on canvas, Davis Museum, gift of Mr. James Lawrence, Jr. 1963.26
Family Day: The Art of Games April 16 (Sat) | 11:00 AM–3:00 PM Davis Galleries, Lobby, and Plaza
Meet visiting video game artists, participate in a scavenger hunt, make your own game in our Art Lab, play oversize board games on the plaza, and more! The Videri String Quartet will perform music from video games with a classical twist. Free and open to the public. Generously supported by the Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs.
Museum Tours The Davis offers free guided tours with two weeks’ advance reservation. School groups are encouraged to plan visits to apply for our School Bus Subsidy, generously supported by the Palley Endowment Fund for Davis Museum Outreach Programs. Drop-in tours are also offered at 2:00 PM on Saturdays, February 6–May 7 (no tours 3/19 and 3/26).
Coming Soon!: Reinstallation We are delighted to announce a major reinstallation of the Davis permanent collections galleries, opening in Fall 2016. Please expect temporary closures as we transform the Davis over the coming year!
www.thedavis.org | Information: 781.283.2051; Tours: 781.283.3045
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Teju Cole
THE SUSAN AND DONALD NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES The mission of the Newhouse Center for the Humanities is to create a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley to the wider Boston area and beyond. Founded in 2004 by a generous gift from Susan Marley Newhouse ’55 and Donald Newhouse, the Newhouse Center generates and supports innovative, world-class programming in the humanities and the arts.
THE JORDAN LECTURES Abiola Irele: The Significance of Negritude Tuesday, February 9 | 7:00 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Abiola Irele is a Nigerian academic who has been called the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He is a former provost of Kwara State University in Ilorin, Nigeria,
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which recently established the Abiola Irele School of Theory and Criticism in his honor. During his time in the United States, Irele was Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature at the Ohio State University, and later, Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.
Events above are free and open to the public.
©Isaac Julien, WESTERN UNION: small boats, 2007, Sicily
A Conversation with Teju Cole
THE CORNILLE LECTURE
April 6 (Wed) | 7:00 PM
Françoise Lionnet: Literary Routes: Migration and the Creative Economy
Newhouse Center, Green Hall
Cole is a writer, art historian, and photographer. He is the Distinguished Writer in Residence at Bard College and photography critic of the New York Times Magazine. He is the author of two books: a novella, Every Day Is for the Thief, named a book of the year by The New York Times, The Globe and Mail, NPR, and The Telegraph, and shortlisted for the PEN/Open Book Award, and a novel, Open City, which was also featured on numerous book of the year lists, and won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York City Book Award for Fiction, the Rosenthal Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Internationaler Literaturpreis, and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and the Ondaatje Prize of the Royal Society of Literature. He is currently at work on a booklength nonfiction narrative of Lagos, and is engaged in curatorial projects. He was awarded the 2015 Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction. The Jordan Lectures are generously supported by the Elizabeth Turner Jordan ’59 Fund.
www.wellesley.edu/newhouse | 781.283.2698
February 25 (Thu) | 7:00 PM Newhouse Center, Green Hall
In summer 2015, the media spotlight was trained daily on the accelerating crisis in the Mediterranean. Françoise Lionnet contends that news reports and statistics have only routinized and depersonalized these disasters, while as a humanist, she is more interested in the small narratives and significant details that provide the texture and fabric of human interactions in the contact zones of migratory flows. Her presentation engages with the poetic and theatrical work of Soeuf Elbadawi, and reflects on how analytical disciplines can affect representation and dissemination of creative perspectives. She will discuss how literary critics can enhance awareness of human rights issues, and how stories and storytelling can help make sense of a chaotic world. Lionnet is Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard. She is currently on leave from UCLA where she is a Distinguished Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Comparative Literature, and Gender Studies.
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Stephen Jay Greenblatt
Tiffany Stern in her rooms at University College, Oxford. Photo: Paul Rogers
LECTURES: SHAKESPEARE ON THE GLOBAL STAGE
DISTINGUISHED THINKERS AT THE NEWHOUSE CENTER
Tiffany Stern and Hyonu Lee April 23 (Sat) | 4:15 PM
Stephen Jay Greenblatt: Traveling Shakespeare: Plays in Motion
Collins Cinema
April 27 (Wed) | 7:00 PM
Eminent international scholars highlight the ongoing and volatile evolution of Shakespeare from the original Globe stage to the global stage. Tiffany Stern is Professor of Early Modern Drama at the University of Oxford and the world’s most recognized scholar on the performance practices and material conditions of Shakespeare’s time. Whether in the rehearsal room, the library, or simply at a performance, contemporary understanding of Shakespeare has been profoundly reshaped by Stern’s work. She is the author of numerous articles and books, including Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan (2000), Shakespeare in Parts (2007), and Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009). She has also edited editions of drama and collected essays. Hyonu Lee is a theatre practitioner as well as Professor of English at Soon Chung Hyang University in South Korea. He has directed plays ranging from Coriolanus and The Taming of the Shrew to the First Quarto version of Hamlet. He has written many articles on Shakespeare in performance across the globe, and has also edited (as first author) the essay collection, Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and Beyond (2009).
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Collins Cinema
Stephen Greenblatt is the author of twelve books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; and Hamlet in Purgatory. He is General Editor of The Norton Anthology of English Literature and of The Norton Shakespeare, has edited seven collections of criticism, and is a founding editor of the journal Representations. His honors include the 2012 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 National Book Award for The Swerve, MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize (twice), Harvard University’s Cabot Fellowship, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, Yale’s Wilbur Cross Medal, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, and two Guggenheim Fellowships. He has held visiting professorships at universities in Beijing, Kyoto, London, Paris, Florence, Torino, Trieste, and Bologna, and is a permanent fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin. He has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Academy of Letters, and the American Philosophical Society. Greenblatt is currently the Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University.
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Khaled al-Saa’i. A Story of Two Cities, 2014, ink, acrylic, and collage on paper, 40 cm x 65 cm
ART AND THE LIBERAL ARTS The arts and humanities are a vibrant part of the greater intellectual community at Wellesley College. Every year, various academic departments bring art, artists, and experts in their respective fields from all over the world to campus to both enrich their own curriculum and enliven the cultural life of the greater Wellesley community.
JEWETT ART GALLERY Retrofit Painting Presents… On View: January 25–February 26 Reception: January 26 (Tue) | 4:00 PM Artist Talk: February 25 (Thu) | 12:30 PM Sculpture Court Gallery, Jewett Arts Center
Examining the relationships and disparities between the history of painting, trademark, and entertainment, Thomas Willis’ installation brings a representation of the hedonic Las Vegas Strip to the academic Jewett Arts Center with his conceptual art brand, Retrofit Painting. Part parody, part praise, the brand is a designer label and online store created to market and sell paintings crafted as objects for everyday use. The exhibition surrounds the “products” and “promotional materials” of Retrofit Painting with 24
the cultural elements of a Las Vegas nightclub to create a theatrical setting for viewing the art. Willis is the Technology Support Specialist for the Department of Art at Wellesley, managing the photo, video, and new media labs and equipment for the Jewett Arts Center.
Alice C. Cole Alumnae Fellowship Exhibition: What Is Left On View: February 5–March 20 Laconia Gallery, Boston
The Alice C. Cole ’42 Alumnae Fund provides project-based support to recent Wellesley College alumnae for the development, production, and exhibition of new projects in painting or sculpture, broadly construed. This exhibition Events above are free and open to the public.
photo: Katie Doyle
Artist: Laura Cincotta
features recent works from six 2015–16 award recipients: Laura Cincotta ’02, Jennifer Cawley ’07, Becky Parker ’10, Eliza Murphy ’10, Mary Mullaj ’04, and Alexandra Olivier ’11. This exhibition is shown at the Laconia Gallery in Boston’s South End Arts District. It is generously supported by the Alice C. Cole ’42 Alumnae Fund.
Through photography and video, these two artists use the lens to examine and cope with the physical, emotional, and mental complexities of the mother’s body. Doyle’s work gives the audience a vantage point so close they feel as if they’re seeing from inside her, while her son suckles and consumes milk or entangles his soft limbs in hers. Ogier-Bloomer’s photographs utilize a frank, unapologetic voice shared between image-maker and subject: whether she appears in the image with her daughter, her mother, or from behind the camera. Both artists examine this unique maternal communication based in touch—a language without words, rooted in biology and the senses.
Recent Works by Khaled al-Saa’i On View: February 29–April 1 Opening Reception: March 1 | 4:00 PM Hallway Gallery, Jewett Arts Center
Becky Parker, Truck #2, oil on canvas, 20 in. x 35 in.
An Intimate Portrait of Motherhood: Works by Katie Doyle and Anna Ogier-Bloomer On View: February 29–April 1 Opening Reception: February 29 | 5:00 PM Sculpture Court Gallery, Jewett Arts Center
This exhibition forces the viewer to confront the sensual, intimate nature of breastfeeding and the physical mother-child relationship. www.wellesley.edu/education | 781.283.3232
Born in Syria, al-Saa’i is an internationally acclaimed painter and calligraphic artist. His passion can be located at the level of the letter itself. He sees himself as a painter and a “letterist.” For al-Saa’i, letters are living entities that carry and express multiple dimensions from the musical and verbal to the spiritual, emotional, and sensual. While al-Saa’i’s early career focused on traditional Islamic and Arabic calligraphy, his later work moves away from the word and embraces the Arabic letter, while deconstructing and rebuilding it. His process allows it to populate and interact with a visual world that also incorporates oil painting, traditional ink calligraphy, mixed media, and collage techniques.
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Al-Saa’i has won numerous competitions, including the highly prestigious International Competition in Calligraphy held in Istanbul, and the Modernity of Arabic Calligraphy Competition held in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. His work has been celebrated in over 30 solo exhibitions held in several countries and venues: Mexico, Kuwait, Dubai, Morocco, the UK, Germany, and the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris. His pieces have also appeared in larger exhibitions held in Wiesbaden, Madrid, New York, Zurich, San Pedro, Sharjah, Damascus, Paris, and London.
THE ART DEPARTMENT The Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium: Modernism in New England March 5 (Sat) | 9:00 AM Collins Cinema
This year’s Wellesley-Deerfield Symposium will explore the impact of Modernism on New England’s art and architecture. Though long stereotyped as a bastion of conservative culture and overshadowed by milestone events such as New York City’s 1913 Armory Show, New
Steina Vasulka: Orbital Obsessions (1977) source: Steina and Woody Vasulka fonds
England in the early 20th century was home to a vibrant group of visual artists, architects, curators, collectors, and educators who embraced Modernism and looked for ways to develop its tenets and new media as a regional expression. Illustrated presentations by scholars from across the country will address the impact of Modernism on New England architecture, city planning, interior design, and the visual arts during the 20th century. This program is generously funded by the Barra Foundation.
Ina Blom: The Autobiography of Video: The Studio in the Machine April 14 (Thu) | 7:00 PM Collins Cinema
Blom examines the rise of video as an artistic medium and its reflection on the studio, technology, and artistic labor and collaboration. The question is less that of the “machine in the studio,” meaning the shift of studio practice into conceptual, post-studio production, than “studio in the machine,” the reconfiguration of practice itself. Blom is a professor of art history at the University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas in Norway. She is an internationally recognized scholar of new media, Dada, Fluxus, and other conceptual and critical practices.
Boston City Hall, Kallmann, McKinnell, and Knowles, architects. Photograph ©Steve Rosenthal, courtesy Davis Museum at Wellesley College. 2009.0.41.8
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This program is generously supported by the McNeill Program and the Eleanor Edwards Lecture Fund. Events above are free and open to the public.
Panel Discussion: Conservatives on Campus: Myths and Realities March 10 (Thu) | 6:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
Madeleine K. Albright ’59
THE MADELEINE KORBEL ALBRIGHT INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL AFFAIRS Albright Institute Public Dialogue: Addressing Global Inequality
Conservative activists often portray colleges and universities as bastions of liberal indoctrination with professors openly hostile to conservative students and colleagues. Liberals often reply that the lack of conservative presence on campus is a result of anti-intellectual attitudes among conservatives themselves. Eschewing the usual polemics, panelists will share their empirical work on these questions and discuss their implications for current debates on politics on campus. Panelists include Amy Binder, Professor of Sociology, University of California, San Diego; Neil Gross, Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology, Colby College; and Jon Shields, Professor of Political Science, Claremont McKenna College.
Sunday, January 31 | 2:30 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium
Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright ’59 joins other distinguished international leaders for a panel discussion on approaches to addressing global inequality. Dignitaries include Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director of the World Bank Group; Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund; and Mark Malloch-Brown, Deputy Secretary General and UNDP Administrator (1999-2005). The panel will be moderated by Heather Long ’04, CNNMoney senior economy writer and editor.
THE FREEDOM PROJECT Robert P. George: Conscience and Its Enemies Monday, February 1 6:00 PM | Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
One of the most prominent and widely respected conservative legal philosophers in the U.S., George will discuss his recent book, Conscience and Its Enemies, and his work as chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University. www.wellesley.edu/education | 781.283.3232
left: Robert P. George.photo: ufcirf.gov right: Charles Murray. photo: aei.org
Second Annual Thomas Jefferson Lecture on Freedom: Charles Murray April 13 (Wed) | 7:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
Charles Murray is a prominent libertarian author and public figure. Author of Coming Apart: The State of White America and We the People: Rebuilding Liberty Without Permission, Murray has recently argued for a strategy of legal resistance against excessive state regulation by both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Graphics by Media Arts & Sciences students Kate Hunt ’15, Shelley Wang ’16, and Sihan Pang ’15
Creating the Market University: How Academic Science Became an Economic Engine April 20 (Wed) | 6:00 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
What happens when professors commercialize academic science for profit? Some laud the entrepreneurial spirit of scientists who contribute to commercial innovation. Others fear that the creeping force of neoliberalism undermines the integrity of scientific work at universities. Elizabeth Popp-Berman traces the rise of this market logic and assesses its impact on academic science. Popp-Berman is associate professor of sociology, University of Albany, SUNY.
examines which aspects of law enforcement practice may be most promising for reform. The way in which the criminal justice system has operated over the past 30 years has erected a number of impediments to dramatically reducing the rate of incarceration. Piehl identifies these challenges and points to the commitments that will be necessary to achieve lasting change.
Freedom Project programs are co-hosted by the Knapp Social Science Center.
BETSY WOOD KNAPP ’64 LECTURE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES Anne Morrison Piehl: Opportunities and Challenges for Reducing America’s Use of Incarceration Tuesday, February 9 | 4:15 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
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Anne Morrison Piehl; Photo courtesy of School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers.
MEDIA ARTS AND SCIENCES Gaming Futures: Perspectives of Women in Games and Play Thursday, February 11 Student Demos 4:00 PM | Jewett Arts Center Panel 5:00 PM | Collins Cinema
Video games are a major economic and cultural force where women are discussed as an increasingly significant pool of consumers, critics, and producers of games as well as targets of misogynistic aggression. This panel, preceded by demos of recent student work, will highlight the experiences of recent alumnae, female academics, and independent game Events above are free and open to the public.
Lisa P. Jackson, pictured in front of the solar panels that power Apple’s data center in Maiden, North Carolina
developers. It will expand the discussion about gaming futures by hearing the perspectives of women from industry and academia about their experiences, issues of representation, outlooks for the future, and suggestions for women seeking a career in video game criticism or development. Panelists include Cassie Hoef ’15, Microsoft; Rayla Heide ’10, Riot Games; Katherine Isbister, Game Innovation Lab at New York University, and others. This program is generously supported by the Eleanor Edwards Lecture Fund.
RUSSIAN DEPARTMENT Russian Folk Music with Zolotoj Plyos March 29 (Tue) | 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
The three Zolotoj Plyos members—Alexander Solovov, Elena Sadina, and Sergei Grachev— graduated from the Saratov State Conservatory. Their repertoire includes folk songs and instrumental pieces from various parts of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, and other areas, and also features Roma music, Russian popular music, and Jewish music. The members of the ensemble play more than 30 Russian folk instruments, including the bayan, chromatic and diatonic accordions, the balalaika, domra, guitar, zhaleika, clarinet, and Russian bells. This program is generously supported by the Maria Opasnov Tyler ’52 Fund. www.wellesley.edu/education | 781.283.3232
THE WILSON LECTURE Lisa Perez Jackson March 30 (Wed) | 7:30 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall Auditorium
President H. Kim Bottomly welcomes Lisa Perez Jackson, Apple Inc.’s Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives, for the Wilson Lecture, Wellesley’s premiere lecture of the academic year. Jackson oversees Apple’s efforts to minimize its impact on the environment by addressing climate change through renewable energy and energy efficiency, using greener materials, and inventing new ways to conserve precious resources. She is also responsible for Apple’s education policy programs such as ConnectED, its product accessibility work, and its worldwide government affairs function. From 2009 to 2013, Jackson served as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Appointed by President Barack Obama, she focused on reducing greenhouse gases, protecting air and water quality, preventing exposure to toxic contamination, and expanding outreach to communities on environmental issues. She has also served as Chief of Staff to New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine and as Commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Environmental Protection. This program is generously funded by an endowment from Carolyn Ann Wilson, Class of 1910. 29
Heidi Williams
THE 2016 CALDERWOOD LECTURE IN ECONOMICS Heidi Williams: Intellectual Property Rights and Innovation March 31 (Thu) | 4:15 PM Knapp Atrium in Pendleton East
Heidi Williams is the Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Economics, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Her research agenda focuses on investigating the causes and consequences of technological change in health care markets. Williams received her AB in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 2003, her MSc in development economics from Oxford University in 2004, and her PhD in economics from Harvard in 2010. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2015) as well as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship (2015).
INTERDEPARTMENTAL Arnold Rampersad: Black Lives (Matter) and American Literature April 5 (Tue) | 4:30 PM Margaret Clapp Library Lecture Room
The history of American literature is inundated with stories, poems, and dramas about violence against black bodies, from its inception to its most modern manifestations. The departments of English and Africana Studies welcome biographer, literary critic, 30
Susan Meyer Book: Penguin Random House
and Stanford University professor emeritus Rampersad to trace the development of this phenomenon as he seeks to to explore its implications about American society. Rampersad has been awarded a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award, and was a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. This program is generously supported by the Eleanor Edwards Lecture Fund.
Author Reading with Susan Meyer: Skating with the Statue of Liberty May 2 (Mon) | 4:30 PM French House
Susan Lynn Meyer, a professor of English at Wellesley, is also the author of distinguished books for children. Her latest picture book, New Shoes, was recently designated a Charlotte Huck Honor Book and an NAACP Image Award Nominee. This reading, sponsored by the departments of French and English, marks the release of Meyer’s latest novel, Skating with the Statue of Liberty, the companion to her debut novel Black Radishes, which was inspired by her father’s childhood as a Jewish boy in Nazi-occupied France. Among its numerous honors, Black Radishes was awarded a Sydney Taylor silver medal and was named a Massachusetts Book Award finalist and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book. Skating with the Statue of Liberty picks up Gustave’s story when he arrives as a war refugee in the United States in 1942. Events above are free and open to the public.
Kirsten Scott. Photo by R. Bailey Scott.
THE CONCERT SERIES The Wellesley College Concert Series brings world-class performers to campus, complementing the department’s academic offerings and augmenting the cultural life of the College and surrounding community. With concerts ranging from classical to jazz, early music to electronic, and world music from every continent, the series features concerts and residencies with visiting artists, as well as the performing faculty.
All Wellesley College Concert Series performances are generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund, in addition to funds noted for individual programs.
Kirsten Scott: Queer as Opera Saturday, February 6 | 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
This provocative program, featuring mezzosoprano Kirsten Scott ’11 with Jenny Tang on piano, gives voice to the transcendence of opera and art song across the constantly shifting
tides of generational change. Although gender issues may seem quite contemporary, opera’s treatment of fluidity traces back for centuries and can provide a lens through which to view modern society. More currently, contemporary composers are exploring the transgendered operatic voice. Ultimately, though, what truly runs through this program is the representation of love. Queer as Opera pays homage to the queer, controversial, and revolutionary visions of historic composers, and purports a forwardlooking vision that challenges social convention and embraces evolving representations of love.
For updates, text CONCERTS to 42828. For reservations, when recommended: concerts@wellesley.edu or 781.283.2028
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32Arturo O’Farrill (see page 34). Photo by Laura Mariet
Yi Ji-Young
Jazz/World Music Faculty. Photo by John Elliott
Music Department Honors Concert February 21 (Sun) | 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
The Music Department at Wellesley fosters an environment in which students can combine serious musical study with the depth and richness of a traditional liberal arts curriculum. The concert will showcase students preparing for professional musical careers who have exhibited exceptional promise as performing musicians.
Jazz/World Music Faculty Concert March 5 (Sat) | 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Through innovative arrangements and original compositions, Wellesley’s talented Jazz and World Music faculty, joined by special guests, celebrate the diversity and joy of Latin music. Performers include: Kris Adams, Tom Duprey, David Harris, Mark Henry, Russell Hoffmann, Steve Kirby, Steve Langone, Lance Martin, Cercie Miller, Paula Zeitlin, and Kera Washington.
Wellesley Classical Faculty in Concert: Let’s Dance! March 13 (Sun) | 7:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Highlighting the inseparable connection between music and dance, this concert showcases various dance forms from different eras in classical music. The program will feature waltzes in Brahms’ “Liebeslieder,” tango in
Piazzolla’s “Four Seasons,” and other dances in music. Performers include singers Aaron Sheehan, Marion Dry, and Andrea Matthews; pianists Lois Shapiro, Kanako Nishikawa, Jenny Tang, and Eliko Akahori; guitarist Glorianne Collver-Jacobson; and a string quartet with Laura Bossert-King, Gabriela Diaz, Jane Starkman, and Rebecca Thornblade.
New Sounds for Silk Strings: Contemporary Gayageum Music from the East and West March 16 (Wed) | 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Living gayageum legend Yi Ji-Young, a professor at Seoul National University, will perform a contemporary gayageum duet with her protegé DoYeon Kim, who is currently in the contemporary improvisation department at NEC. Professor Yi has for decades been a master of traditional Korean music, and is currently under consideration for the title of Intangible Cultural Asset Master of the gayageum folk genre (sanjo). She is also a force in the realm of commissioning new works by Korean and Western composers. Also on the program will be some solo contemporary pieces for gayageum, written for Professor Yi, by American composer Donald Womack and Korean composer Hyo-shin Na, and a new duo composed by Jared Redmond for gayageum and violin, which will feature Lydian String Quartet violinist Judith Eissenberg. This program is generously supported by the Korean Cultural Society of Boston and an anonymous donor.
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MINI-RESIDENCY PROGRAMS The following performances and additional student programs are generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund and the Florence Jeup Ford ’22, Mary M. Crawford ’22, and Virginia Ford ’48 Artist in Residence Endowment Fund. Funded in part by the Expeditions program of the New England Foundation for the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies.
Matinee Concert: Wu Man and the Shanghai Quartet: Music from Ancient and New China April 3 (Sun) | 3:00 PM
Arturo O’Farrill. Photo: Laura Mariet
The music is profound, heartbreaking, and electric. Guests are invited to observe rehearsal techniques, collegiality, efficiency, musicality, and character as the piece is compiled. Reservations strongly recommended.
Jewett Auditorium
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Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Octet April 9 (Sat) | 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
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Shanghai Quartet with Music Faculty: Open Rehearsal and Informal Performance April 4 (Mon) | 4:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Join the Shanghai Quartet and Wellesley’s own string faculty in an open rehearsal followed by a performance of one of Shostakovich’s great master works, his Octet, opus 11. The composer wrote the octet at just 19 years old, and it has become a staple in the string octet repertoire, often combining two well-known string quartets in musical collaboration or, in this case, an established string quartet with guest musicians. 34
Arturo O’Farrill has established himself as a jazz phenomenon as a pianist, composer, educator, and founder and artistic director of the nonprofit Afro Latin Jazz Alliance. His many awards include the 2003 Latin Jazz USA Outstanding Achievement Award and the 2009 Grammy for Best Latin Jazz Album. Most recently, his Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra took home the 2015 Grammy in the Latin jazz album category for The Offense of the Drum. O’Farrill initially left his mark playing with Dizzy Gillespie, Harry Belafonte, and Wynton Marsalis. In 2002 he created the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra to celebrate Latin jazz through international tours and the commissioning of new works. Sizzling rhythms, a blistering horn section, and sweltering Spanish Harlem textures fuse with O’Farrill’s dexterous finger-work for a tropical night of Afro-Cuban music. Drawing on his own African cultural heritage, O’Farrill’s music interprets the Big Band genre with surprising insights into the musical force of South America, the Caribbean, and beyond. Reservations are required.
Events above are free and open to the public with general seating. www.wellesley.edu/music/concertseries
The Baum Memorial Concert: Wellesley College Choir and Chamber Singers: One World: Music From Around the Globe John Rowehl, Guest Conductor April 30 (Sat) | 8:00 PM | Houghton Chapel
This program is generously supported by the Marjorie Copland Baum Memorial Fund.
Chamber Music Society Concerts Shanti Van Vuuren ’17 and Jenny Tang
STUDENT ENSEMBLES BlueJazz Strings & Combos Spring Concert
David Russell, Director; Jenny Tang, Assistant Director April 28 (Thu) | 7:00 PM | Concert Salon/Jewett 372 May 1 (Sun) | 2:00 PM | Jewett Auditorium May 3 (Tue) | 7:00 PM | Concert Salon/Jewett 372 May 4 (Wed) | 12:30 PM | Jewett Auditorium
Paula Zeitlin, Director April 15 (Fri) | 7:30 PM | Jewett Auditorium
Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Spring Concert: Catch a Rising Star Neal Hampton, Conductor April 16 (Sat) | 8:00 PM | Houghton Chapel
Collegium Musicum Concert Andrew Arceci, Director April 19 (Tue) | 8:00 PM | Houghton Chapel
Yanvalou Spring Concert Kera Washington, Director April 23 (Sat) | 8:00 PM | Jewett Auditorium
Chamber Music Society Marathon David Russell, Director; Jenny Tang, Assistant Director April 24 (Sun) | 12:00 PM–5:00 PM | Anderson Forum
Carla Staffaroni ’13
GUILD OF CARILLONNEURS The guild is directed by Margaret Angelini. All programs are hosted in Galen Stone Tower.
Cari-Radio Open Tower February 20 (Sat) | 2:00–4:00 PM
Spring Carillon Concert March 12 (Sat) | 2:00–4:00 PM
Community Time Open Tower
BlueJazz Big Band Spring Concert: Such Sweet Thunder
March 16 (Wed) | 12:30–2:15 PM
Cercie Miller, Director
Guild Connections: Programmed Recital by Guild Members
April 29 (Fri) | 7:30 PM | Jewett Auditorium
April 9 (Sat) | 2:00–4:00 PM
Change Ringing Open Tower April 30 (Sat) | 2:00–4:00 PM
For updates, text CONCERTS to 42828. For reservations, when recommended: concerts@wellesley.edu or 781.283.2028
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ABOUT WELLESLEY
Attending an event at Wellesley is as stress-free as it is affecting. Just 12 miles from Boston, Wellesley’s rich and diverse arts scene feels worlds away. Parking is free and readily accessible, our performance spaces are intimate and inviting, and the town of Wellesley offers a variety of fine restaurants nearby. The professional arts programming is of the highest quality available, yet the majority of our events are offered free to the public. Take in the celebrated landscape and architecture. The landscape has always been central to the identity of Wellesley College and to the experience of its students. Combine your visit to Wellesley with a stroll through the grounds and see if you don’t feel as inspired by our surroundings as our guest artists do. Designed in consultation with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.,
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the campus is a historic landmark that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Rafael Moneo. Wellesley’s 500 acres include a private lake, a golf club, groves of conifers and hardwoods, and the Botanical Gardens with its own butterfly garden. Stunning brick and stone buildings rise from wooded hills. The view across Lake Waban showcases elaborate topiary on the far shore. Paths wind down open meadows and sweeping lawns past century-old oaks with magnificent gnarled branches. Share Wellesley’s passion for cultural and intellectual pursuits. The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley College is known for its intellectual rigor, its belief in the enduring importance of service, and its cultivation of an inclusive, pragmatic approach to leadership.
Pictured: Daffodils—or knaffodils, as they are affectionately called on campus—embellish one of Wellesley’s campus meadows, a creative gift of trustee emeritus Sidney R. Knafel.
VISITING WELLESLEY
We take great pride in what we produce here: women who know how to succeed in every arena, public and personal, while keeping their values intact; women who bring world-changing vision and an inimitable sense of purpose to even the smallest endeavor; women who understand that effective leadership means tempering the exercise of power with the commitment to serve. From the moment they step onto the campus, our students are cultivating not only their minds, but also an aspirational drive and sense of responsibility. They know they are carrying forward a very special legacy, one in which purposeful leadership is a way of life, regardless of the life they choose—and one in which they are committed to taking their place at the table, to getting things done, to making a difference.
Visit us, on campus and online. We look forward to seeing you soon. For directions: wellesley.edu/about/visit Your gift to Wellesley helps maintain the excellence of our arts programming and keeps our events free of charge. To give: http://campaign.wellesley.edu/ or 800.358.3543 If you did not receive our Calendar by mail, or if you would like to receive our monthly WellesleyNOW email update on upcoming events, we invite you to join our mailing and/or email list. To sign up: wellesley.edu/events/artevents Our web site provides the most current and in-depth information about arts events at Wellesley, and our dedicated arts Facebook page offers a closer look at some of our performers and programs. For more: wellesley.edu/events and facebook.com/TheArtsatWellesley
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Be part of the vibrant arts and culture scene at Wellesley this spring!
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