WELLESLEY ARTS Calendar FALL 2011
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AKATBA Jewett Art Gallery
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AKATBA: Opening Reception 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Jewett Art Gallery 09/06
The Arts at Wellesley
Fall 2011
Russia Now 8:00 PM Clapp Library Lecture Room
09/20–10/23
The Standing Reserve
09/20
4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities
The Standing Reserve: Opening Reception
D’FaQTo Life
Jewett Art Gallery
10/04
4:45 PM–6:00 PM Jewett Art Gallery
6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
09/22
Aomar Boum: The Holocaust in Moroccan Newspapers
Poet Michal Held 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 09/22
10/05
4:30 PM Pendleton East, Room 239
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo
10/05
7:00 PM Multifaith Center
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture: Farai Chideya
09/10–09/11
The Guys
Martín Espada and Aracelis Girmay
09/27
7:00 PM Tishman Commons
7:00 PM The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
The Wilson Lecture: Amy B. Smith
09/12
8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall
The Halverson Lecture: Alison Isenberg
09/28
5:00 PM Jewett Arts Center, Room 450
The Goldman Lecture: Esther Duflo 8:00 PM Tishman Commons
Possente Spirto Faculty Concert
09/13
12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Russian Poet Vera Pavlova 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 09/20
Distinguished Writers Series: Lydia Davis 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities
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Malini Srinivasan: Indian Classical Dancer 8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium 10/04
Distinguished Writers Series:
10/06
10/12
Triple Helix Piano Trio: Lecture-Recital 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium 10/13–10/16
Dog Sees God The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre 10/15
Triple Helix Piano Trio: Concert 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
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10/18
Distinguished Writers Series: Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 10/19
This Rhythm Is Not Mine 7:00 PM Multifaith Center 10/19
Fall Celebration: Welcome Back to the Davis. 5:00–7:00 PM the Davis. 10/19/11–1/15/12
Double Solitaire the Davis. 10/19/11–1/15/12
Global Flora the Davis. 10/19/11–1/15/12
Five Watercolors by Madame Chiang Kai-shek the Davis. 10/20–10/22
Actors From The London Stage: The Tempest 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall 10/22
Family Day at the Davis: Play Like the Surrealists! 11:00 AM the Davis.
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4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities 11/02–12/30
Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights
Wellesley Choral Program: The Dober Concert 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel 11/14
Wine: A Matter of Life and Death 4:30 PM Science Center Room 278
12/01
Chamber Music Society 7:00 PM Pendleton Concert Salon 12/02
Wellesley BlueJazz 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Multifaith Center
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Aviv String Quartet 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel 12/10
Yanvalou 6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
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7:00 PM Multifaith Center
Severance Green
11/30
Film Screening: Anomaly
Davis Museum Collins Cinema
7:00 PM Pendleton Concert Salon
Through the arts, we learn to tackle that which at first seems incomprehensible. Newfound knowledge—or knowledge found anew—is transformative, inspiring innovation and revealing what—and who—we have the potential to be. This fall, immerse yourself in the arts at Wellesley. The programs featured in this calendar are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
Lake Waban
11/12
12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
12/05
Chamber Music Society
Alumnae Valley
The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
11/30
Triple Helix Piano Trio: Lecture-Recital
7:30 PM Houghton Chapel
Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall & Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
11/01
Distinguished Writers Series: Francisco Goldman
11/10–11/13
Nine Armenians
Jewett Art Gallery
Wang Campus Center
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7:00 PM Multifaith Center
Collaborations
12/04
Tishman Commons
8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
11/10
Eliyaku and the Qadim Ensemble
Vespers
Visitor Parking
10/29
Jean Ferrard, Organ
4:30 PM Collins Cinema
11/28/11–01/02/12
Their impact is both immediate and lifelong.
Keohane r Sports Cente
6:30 PM Collins Cinema
2:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
DOWNTOWN WELLESLEY
In Fact and Fiction
The Cornille Lecture: On the Diasporic Imaginary
8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
WEST ENTRY
10/27
11/10
12/04
Chamber Music Society
TO NATICK
4:45 PM–6:00 PM Jewett Art Gallery
6:00 PM the Davis.
11/20
Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra
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10/25
Primordial Opening Reception
The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
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Jewett Art Gallery
11/9
Global Flora: Interdisciplinary Gallery Walk
6:30 PM Collins Cinema
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10/25–11/27
Primordial
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Playfest
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11/05
Pamela Z
12/04–12/11
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Hotter than That: Jazz through Time
11/17
In the Mecca
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10/22
4:30 PM Collins Cinema
Science Center
8:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
Newhouse Center
8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
4:30 PM Collins Cinema
The arts demand more than passive observation or mere participation—they awaken our keenest intellect and call our most creative selves to not just the arts, but every endeavor.
Hunnewell Arboretum
12/03
Triple Helix Piano Trio: Concert
Whitin Observatory
11/16
Collegium Musicum
Alexandra Botanic Garden
11/03
The Domna Stanton Lecture: Anne-Emanuelle Birn
CENTRAL STREET – ROUTE 135
10/22
Studio Ghibli and the Culture of Childhood
The City................................................................................ 2 Double Solitaire.................................................................. 4 The Tempest........................................................................ 6 Aviv String Quartet............................................................. 8 The Newhouse Center for the Humanities........................ 10 The Davis........................................................................... 14 The Art of Good Taste........................................................ 17 The Concert Series............................................................ 18 Theatre............................................................................... 22 Art Department................................................................... 24 Art and Soul at the Multifaith Center.................................. 26 Arts and the Liberal Arts..................................................... 28 The Spoken Word.............................................................. 30
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Season’s Greetings
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The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
About Wellesley College.................................................... 33 For directions to Wellesley College, please visit: web.wellesley.edu/web/AboutWellesley/VisitUs
Cover and side image: Isabella Kirkland, detail from Back from the portfolio Taxa, 2008 (inkjet print). The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, 2010.42.4. On view at the Davis.
The Arts at Wellesley
FALL 2011
THE city [Cities] convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. — Lewis Mumford
Ah, the City! With its layers of humanity, its multidimensionality, and its magical complexity. The City, with its enthusiasm for diversity; for the gifted and the driven; for the seekers, the dreamers, and the crazy. The City as the font of our future. The City as hell-hole. As our cities grow, so do the challenges of actually living in them: poverty and crowding, and the public health crises and criminal activity these engender, that gut formerly vital communities (one-third of the global population currently lives in slum conditions; by 2050, it will be half ). Their massive environmental impact—pollution, waste, and their contribution to climate change. The domination of the world economy by a handful of volatile markets. The City’s concentration of physical and cultural power distorts and attenuates its relationship to its rural surround—and the social and religious structures, the historic context, from which it emerged. And yet. For all the challenges with which the City presents us— as planners and architects, as sociologists and artists, as scholars and citizens—its benefits are immeasurable. The City enlarges the scope and impact of human activity and resourcefulness. It is the center of creativity and innovation, of social ferment and invention, of wealth creation. The City is the beating heart of a culture, a “complex adaptive system” pumping out Bigger, Better, and Faster to its inhabitants, and to the world. The City is our future. This is the reality—and the promise—to which we turn our attention this fall. Kay Sage, Men Working, 1951 (oil on canvas). Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, Museum Purchase, 1994.19
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THE DAVIS PRESENTS
On View: October 19, 2011–January 15, 2012 Marjorie and Gerald Bronfman Gallery Camilla Chandler and Dorothy Buffum Chandler Gallery
Double Solitaire The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy
Opening Celebration: October 19 / 5:00 PM–7:00 PM The Davis lobby and galleries
The Davis presents Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, the first major touring exhibition to explore the dynamic exchange of ideas that shaped the astonishing landscapes of these Surrealist artists. 1.
This groundbreaking exhibition, which features approximately 25 paintings along with selected ephemera by each artist, provides unprecedented access to the couple’s intertwined artistic and personal lives. Sage and Tanguy were inseparable throughout their 15-year marriage, sharing adjoining studios in Woodbury, Connecticut and communicating only in French until Tanguy’s untimely death in 1955. As Karen Rosenberg writes in The New York Times, this “fascinating” exhibition “intently explores the couple’s sinister dreamscapes of polymorphous pebbles (his) and menacing monoliths (hers).” Both artists sought to create paintings that the French poet André Breton called “peinture-poésie,” a style influenced by poetry and dreamlike imagery.
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Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, Double Solitaire is curated by Stephen Robseon Miller and Jonathan Stuhlman, two of the country’s foremost scholars of Surrealism. Major funding for the exhibition was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. The presentation at the Davis is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art and the Sandra Cohen Bakalar ’55 Fund.
Free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu
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1. Kay Sage, The Unicorns Came Down to the Sea, 1948 (oil on canvas). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy 2. Kay Sage, Small Portrait, 1950 (oil on canvas). The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy, 1963.7 3. Yves Tanguy, The Hunted Sky (Le Ciel traqué), 1951 (oil on canvas). The Menil Collection, Gift of François and Susan de Menil, 91-106 4. Yves Tanguy, detail from A Little Later (Un peu après), 1940 (oil on canvas). Private Collection, USA (Left panel) Yves Tanguy and Kay Sage, August 1954. Photograph by Irving Blomstrann, Courtesy the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art Archives
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The Department of Theatre Studies presents
William Shakespeare’s
The Tempest Actors From The London Stage
Returning for a much-anticipated sixth year, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) will bring Shakespeare’s culminating masterpiece, The Tempest, to vivid life.
October 20 / 7:00 PM October 21 / 7:00 PM October 22 / 7:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall
Prospero, magician and exiled Duke of Milan, has spent the past 12 years stranded on a desert island with his daughter Miranda, robbed of his throne by his brother Alfonso. To exact revenge upon his brother, Prospero uses his powers to raise a storm at sea, bringing the family that betrayed him within his grasp again. AFTLS will bring its signature spare and inventive style to this classic tale of love, deception, power, and ultimately, forgiveness. Formed 36 years ago, AFTLS is one of the oldest established touring companies in the world. Coming from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, AFTLS’s classically trained actors are equally dedicated to presenting fine professional performances at American colleges and universities and to working with students. Free and open to the public. No advance reservations. www.theatre.wellesley.edu Images courtesy of Shakespeare at Notre Dame | Photos: Patrick Ryan
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The Concert Series presents
Aviv String Quartet Sergey Ostrovsky, violin / Evgenia Epshtein, violin Timur Yakubov, viola / Aleksandr Khramouchin, cello
If this concert is anything to go by, the Aviv String Quartet is rapidly emerging as one of today’s finest chamber ensembles…An impressive evening that marked the Aviv String Quartet out as a force to be reckoned with. –The Guardian, London
December 10 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Founded in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet has given critically acclaimed performances at such esteemed venues as the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Wigmore Hall in London, Sydney Opera House, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. The recipients of numerous prizes, including first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and at the Bordeaux International Quartet Competition, the quartet’s program at Wellesley will feature Erwin Schulhoff's String Quartet No. 1, Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30. Free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/music Free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/Music 8
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Lydia Davis
Francisco Goldman |Photo by Jerry Bauer
THE Susan and Donald NEWHOUSE CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES Founded in 2003 by a generous gift from Susan Marley Newhouse '55 and Donald Newhouse, the Newhouse Center for the Humanities generates and supports innovative, world-class programming in the humanities and arts. The mission of the Newhouse Center is to create a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley College to the wider Boston-area community and beyond.
Aracelis Girmay
Nina Revoyr
Christian Campbell | Photo by Jerry Bauer
the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Her translation of Madame Bovary was released in the fall of 2010.
The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the
October 4 / 4:30 PM
Humanities (237 Green Hall)
The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the
Nina Revoyr was born in Japan and raised in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. She is the author of four novels. Her second, Southland, was an Edgar Award finalist, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was a Los Angeles Times “Best Book” of 2003. Nina’s new novel, Wingshooters, published in March 2011, was an IndieBound “Indie Next” selection and one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “Books to Watch For.” Library Journal called it “hauntingly provocative,” and Booklist described it as “a shattering northern variation on To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Humanities (237 Green Hall)
Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis in 2009. Davis is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by
Curbstone Press published Aracelis Girmay’s first poetry collection, Teeth, in 2007. Her second, Kingdom Animalia, is scheduled for release this fall from BOA Editions. It has received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, given every two years to a poet with a new book of exceptional merit. Ms. Girmay has also been awarded has
This series reminds the world that reading, writing, conversation, and laughter are related arts. The format is simple, the emotional reward complex. The writers read, have a conversation with the series curator, and then engage in an open dialogue with the audience.
The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the
September 20 / 4:30 PM
Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell October 18 / 4:30 PM
Humanities (237 Green Hall)
Lydia Davis
been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry.
Martín Espada and Aracelis Girmay
Called “the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new collection of poems is entitled The Trouble Ball (Norton, 2011). The Republic of Poetry (Norton, 2006), received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry.
The Distinguished Writers Series
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Martín Espada
Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage and the author of Running the Dusk. His work has been published widely in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Running the Dusk was a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Campbell was the first poet of color to win the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. 11
for Mayor C. Ray Nagin after Hurricane Katrina and most recently served as Executive Director of Village Health Works, a New York–based international nonprofit that provides health care to Burundi’s poorest. Ms. Broom is currently at work on The Yellow House, which will be published by Grove in 2013. Broom lives in Harlem.
Deborah Treisman
Hilton Als
Aleksandar Hemon
In this conversation, Treisman will discuss her work as an editor of fact and fiction with two of her writers, each of whom works in both genres: the Bosnian-American novelist and MacArthur fellow, Aleksandar Hemon and New Yorker staff writer, Hilton Als.
Francisco Goldman Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz November 1 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)
Francisco Goldman is the author of four novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which won the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award; The Ordinary Seaman, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Fiction Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner award. His new book, Say Her Name, is based on his marriage, which ended tragically when his wife died in a body-surfing accident.
Deborah Treisman
Deborah Treisman became Fiction Editor of The New Yorker after serving six years as the magazine's Deputy Editor. Previously, she was the managing editor of Grand Street, and has been a member of the editorial staffs of The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Threepenny Review. Her translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s, and Grand Street. Aleksandar Hemon
In Fact and Fiction: A conversation between The New Yorker Fiction Editor, Deborah Treisman and Authors Hilton Als and Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man (also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Love and Obstacles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.
October 27 / 6:30 PM Collins Cinema
Since its debut in 1925, The New Yorker has been noted for its reporting, strong critical voice, and groundbreaking fiction. In 2003, when Deborah Treisman became the magazine’s youngest fiction editor ever, she built on her predecessor’s achievements by bringing new voices to the fore: Miranda July, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Junot Díaz are just some of the writers who have blossomed under Treisman’s tutelage. But her work is not solely restricted to fiction. She has also edited some of the magazine's stellar non-fiction writers, including foreign correspondent Jane Kramer, and television critic Nancy Franklin.
Hilton Als
Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October 1994. He has also written articles for the Village Voice and The New York Review of Books, and served as an editor-at-large at Vibe. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002–2003. Als is the author of two books, The Women (1996) and Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis (2010) and is currently the Newhouse Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College. 12
Noah Chasin
Treme
Noah Chasin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College where he also teaches in the Human Rights and the Environmental and Urban Studies programs. He has written criticism in many venues including Artforum, Art Journal, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
In the Mecca November 17 / 6:30 PM Collins Cinema
In 1968, the poet Gwendolyn Brooks published a book-length work called “In the Mecca.” In it, an inner city mother searches for her child in an urban housing project. In this program, the writers Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Sarah Broom discuss their interest in two communities that are closely identified with people of color: Harlem and the city of New Orleans. As a New Orleans native, Broom will discuss the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina on the city’s current status and the dispossessed; Rhodes-Pitts, who currently resides in New Orleans, will read from, and comment on, her book, Harlem Is Nowhere, a meditative account of her life in New York’s “black mecca.” Their conversation will be moderated by Noah Chasin, an art historian from Bard College, whose research focuses on the intersection of human rights and urban contexts.
The Mary L. Cornille Lecture:
On the Diasporic Imaginary: History, Methods and Meanings November 10 / 4:30 PM Collins Cinema
Ato Quayson, Professor of English and inaugural Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto, and Mary Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities
Diaspora, the dispersal of a people from their original homeland, has come to dominate the literary imagination as much as it has affected the lived experience of many peoples. In his lecture, Quayson will draw upon examples from Jewish, African American, and Postcolonial literature to outline this "diasporic imaginary" and its relationship to both literature and politics of the world today.
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts
Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Houston, Texas, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia; her first book, Harlem Is Nowhere, was published in 2011 by Little, Brown and Company.
Quayson is currently working on the social, economic, demographic and political history of the city of Accra from the perspective of a single street: Oxford Street.
Sarah M. Broom
Sarah M. Broom is a New Orleans native whose essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has worked as senior writer
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Robert John Thornton, The Night-Blowing Cereus from the illustrated book, The Temple of Flora, 1807 (mezzotint). Wellesley College Special Collections
DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER One of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United States, the Davis is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical, and social life of Wellesley College. Its mission is to create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts in the academy and in life.
Isabella Kirkland, Back from the portfolio Taxa, 2008 (inkjet print). The Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, 2010.42.4 Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Orchid for Spring (watercolor). Gift of the artist, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2006.170.1
Global Flora: Botanical Imagery and Exploration
Five Watercolors by Madame Chiang Kai-shek
On View October 19, 2011–January 15, 2012 Morelle Lasky Levine ’56 Works on Paper Gallery
Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy On View October 19, 2011–January 22, 2012 Opening Celebration October 19 / 5:00 PM–7:00 PM The Davis lobby and galleries
Please see pages 4 and 5 for more information. Kay Sage, On the First of March Crows Begin to Search, 1947 (oil on canvas). Bequest of Kay Sage Tanguy, 1964.28. Davis Museum at Wellesley College.
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On View October 19, 2011–January 15, 2012
Long admired for its aesthetic qualities and scientific importance, botanical imagery traces the links from historical encounter, conquest, and collecting to the contemporary effects of globalization on our experience of place. This exhibition, drawn from collections of the Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections, features prints and illustrated books that resulted from exploratory missions, and also those that demonstrate the current interconnectedness of our world. This exhibition is curated by Elaine Mehalakes, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs.
Richard and Claire Freedman Lober Viewing Alcove
Soong May-ling (1898–2003) graduated from Wellesley College as a Durant Scholar in 1917 with a major in English literature and a minor in philosophy. She married Chiang Kai-shek in 1927. Madame Chiang began to paint in 1951 and quickly distinguished herself as a gifted pupil. A 1952 feature on her watercolors in Life magazine proclaimed her “aptitude far greater than that of most amateurs.” Madame Chiang made a gift of five paintings to Wellesley in 1958, during her third post-graduation campus visit.
This exhibition is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art, and the Claire Freedman Lober ’44 Davis Museum Endowment Fund.
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A ceremony in the sculpture court of the newly built Jewett Arts Center celebrated the occasion. The paintings, recently transferred from the Wellesley College archives, have never before been on view at the Davis.
Global Flora: An Interdisciplinary Gallery Walk
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Exhibition curator Elaine Mehalakes is joined by Kristina Jones, Director of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, to discuss botanical imagery on view, from historical, artistic, and scientific perspectives.
November 9 / 6:00 PM Morelle Lasky Levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery Reception to follow
Fall Celebration: Welcome Back to the Davis October 19 / 5:00-7:00 PM The Davis lobby and galleries
Celebrate the new academic year with the opening of our extraordinary fall exhibitions, including Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy and Global Flora: Botanical Imagery and Exploration.
Museum Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Wednesday until 8:00 PM Sunday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM The Davis will reopen to the public on Wednesday, October 19.
Join us for an evening of fine art, food, and fun at the Davis!
Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses.
Family Day at the Davis: Play Like the Surrealists!
To schedule a tour, please call: 781.283.3382 All events are free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu
October 22 / 11:00 AM–1:00 PM Davis Museum Plaza and galleries
Held in conjunction with the special exhibition Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Family Day invites young visitors to explore the works on view and then immerse themselves in the Surrealist creative process through collaborative word and picture games. Fun activities, based on the creative accident, include “calligramme” (poems in which the words take the shape of an object), “coulage” (sculptures created by pouring hot materials into cold water), and “cubomania” (images cut up into squares and rearranged to create nonsensical compositions).
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
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THE ART OF GOOD TASTE The Wellesley College Club, situated on the shores of Lake Waban, is delighted to open its doors to the public for three culinary events designed to complement programs in the fall calendar.
The Concert Series presents
The Davis presents
Triple Helix Piano Trio
Double Solitaire: The Surreal worlds of Y ves Tanguy and Kay Sage
High Tea October 12 / 2:00 PM
Brunch
following concert in Jewett Auditorium at 12:30 PM
November 13 / 11:00 AM
Actors from the London Stage present The
followed by a tour of of the exhibition at 1:00 PM
Tempest
Reservations are required for these special programs.
Pre-theatre Dinner October 22 / 5:00 PM
Please call 781.283.2700 for reservations and membership inquiries.
prior to performance of at 7:00 PM
www.wellesleycollegeclub.com
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Ganesh Ramachandran: www.purpleganesh.com
And All That Jazz
Love Songs of the Dark Lord
Lecture-Recital November 30 / 12:30 PM
Indian Classical Dancer Malini Srinivasan
Jewett Auditorium
October 1 / 8:00 PM
Concert December 3 / 8:00 PM
Jewett Auditorium
Jewett Auditorium
THE Concert Series Organized by the Department of Music, the 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 early music to jazz, the series features both visiting artists and members of the performing faculty.
A disciple of world-renowned artist Sri C.V. Chandrasekhar, Malini Srinivasan is a thirdgeneration Bharatanatyam dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Bharatanatyam is an Indian classical dance form that dates back to ancient Indian drama from 2 B.C.E. Notable for its complex rhythmic footwork and intricate patterns made by the hands and arms, the dancer’s body becomes geometry in motion. Malini is a lecturer in Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University and is a member of the dance faculty of the Young Indian Culture Group. Her performance will feature a live orchestra composed of voice, violin, mridangam, and tambura.
Triple Helix takes a refreshing look at the cool and urbane world of jazz, a quintessentially American breed of music that owes its birth, evolution, and dissemination to the cross-cultural exchanges inherent in urban life. The program will include Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata; Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango for cello and piano—with a special guest dance performance; Donald Reid Womack’s Three Blues; and Out of the Shadows, by Wellesley College performance faculty member Greg Hopkins.
professional series Possente Spirto: 400 Years of Musical Virtuosity
Hotter than That: Jazz through Time Jazz and World Music Faculty in concert
Classical Performance Faculty in concert
October 22 / 8:00 PM
September 28 / 12:30 PM
Jewett Auditorium
Jewett Auditorium
Ensemble-in-ResidencE Triple Helix Piano Trio
A Journey to St. Petersburg: Mother Russia’s Radiant City of Warriors and Poets
Bayla Keyes, violin Rhonda Rider, cello Lois Shapiro, piano
Lecture-Recital October 12 / 12:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Returning to Wellesley after a refreshing sabbatical year, the award-winning Triple Helix Piano Trio will explore the role of the city as music’s inspiration and incubator. Music can conjure a sense of place, a culture, an ethos; its cadences can capture the heartbeat of a people in a particular landscape at a particular point in time.
Concert October 15 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
From Arensky’s world of resplendent Romantic harmonies to Shostakovich’s transformation of the musical language and his one-time student Sviridov’s bitter and spare nostalgia, Triple Helix will trace the diverse ways that all three yearned to capture in music something of the essence of the eternal Russian soul.
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Reception to follow
Wellesley College performance faculty members Randall Hodgkinson, piano; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; and Suzanne Stumpf, flute and traverso, along with guest artist Daniel Ryan, present a program of music highlighting 400 years of virtuosic composition. Designed in conjunction with music department seminars “Virtuosity, Suspicion, Transcendence” and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the program will include selections from Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Busoni’s transcriptions of Bach, and Two by John Cage.
A beloved annual Concert Series feature, this year the jazz and world music faculty have teamed up with Tamar Barzel's music department course on the history of jazz, bringing the syllabus alive onstage. Kris Adams, voice; Glorianne CollverJacobson, guitar; Mark Henry, bass; Greg Hopkins, trumpet; Doug Johnson, piano; Steve Langone, drums; Lance Martin, flute; Cercie Miller, saxophones; Kera Washington, percussion and voice; Paula Zeitlin, violin; and guest vocalist, Lisa Graham, will present a program that ranges from classic jazz through swing, bebop, funky post bop, and free.
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Pamela Z has presented her work at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can in New York, the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds in San Francisco, the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the National Endowment for the Arts/JUSFC Fellowship. Pamela Z’s performance at Wellesley will include multiple, varied short pieces, including excerpts from her multimedia performance work Baggage Allowance.
Jean Ferrard, Organ The Spanish Netherlands and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck October 29 / 8:00 PM
Aviv String Quartet
Houghton Chapel
Considered one of the most energetic, expert, and wide-ranging musicians of our time, Jean Ferrard has integrated performance, teaching, scholarship, and music journalism at the highest level. Ferrard recently retired from the prestigious post of professor of organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, a position he held for 26 years.
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choral groups from schools including Harvard, Cornell, the University of Virginia, and Rutgers. They appeared in the 2003 motion picture Mona Lisa Smile.
Collegium Musicum Slavic Splendor: Medieval and Renaissance Music of Eastern Europe Tom Zajac, Director November 16 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Wellesley BlueJazz
An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, Collegium specializes in the performance of Western music from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century. Members of the Collegium enjoy the use of the music department’s unusually fine collection of historical instruments.
Cercie Miller, Director December 2 / 7:30 PM Jewett Auditorium
Wellesley BlueJazz provides students with the opportunity to develop and nurture their love of jazz—one of the most vibrant American contemporary art forms. Composed of a large ensemble as well as smaller combos, BlueJazz plays contemporary and classic jazz repertoire, including the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington.
Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra Neal Hampton, Conductor November 20 / 8:00 PM Houghton Chapel
Pamela Z
Student Ensembles The Wellesley College Choral Program
The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra is composed of students, faculty, staff, and associates of Wellesley College and Brandeis University. Uniting the standards of excellence associated with Wellesley and Brandeis, the orchestra brings inspiring performances of the great orchestral literature— past and present—to a new generation of musicians and audiences. Its fall program will include Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7.
Chamber Music Society
photo courtesy of Ars Electronica
Lisa Graham, Director The Dober Concert November 12 / 8:00 PM
November 5 / 8:00 PM
Houghton Chapel Vespers December 4 / 7:30 PM
Jenny Tang, Assistant Director
Yanvalou
December 1 / 7:00 PM | Pendleton Concert Salon
Kera Washington, Director
Houghton Chapel
December 4 / 2:00 PM | Jewett Auditorium
December 10 / 6:00 PM
The choral program at Wellesley, celebrating its 111th anniversary, allows students to experience the exhilaration and joy of performing the great choral repertoire from the Renaissance through the present day. National and international tours have led them to perform in such venues as the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, and the Mezquita de Córdoba. The Wellesley College Choir regularly performs in collaboration with
December 5 / 7:00 PM | Pendleton Concert Salon
Jewett Auditorium
December 7 / 12:30 PM | Jewett Auditorium
Yanvalou is an ensemble that performs the traditional music of Africa and the Caribbean. The ensemble lets students perform on authentic instruments and to experience a variety of cultures through their music. Performances are presented in collaboration with the Harambee dancers.
Jewett Auditorium
Pamela Z is a wonderful performer. She was wired up like a suicide bomber. I couldn’t quite make out which wires led to where but every time she moved a part of her body she triggered a sound bite. Her voice is beautiful and her range is broad… —Kenneth Goldsmith, WFMU, Jersey City A composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture-activated MIDI controllers, and video,
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David Russell, Director
The Wellesley College Chamber Music Society offers students the opportunity to explore and perform the classical repertoire for small ensembles—including strings, winds, guitar, harp, piano, harpsichord, and voice—and to be coached weekly by members of the music department faculty. Each semester culminates in a series of concerts given by participants.
All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/Music
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Pay what you can. Proceeds will support Wellesley’s Fireman’s Benevolent Fund and the 9/11 Fund.
much from her recently widowed grandmother, Non, who teaches her how to incorporate this new knowledge into her life. In doing so, Ani empowers her mother, who embarks on her own pilgrimage to the homeland. As they confront their tragic pasts, these women find strength in themselves and one another.
Season’s Greetings By Alan Ayckbourn Directed by Shelley Bolman with Nora Hussey January 5–29 Thursdays / 7:00 PM Fridays / 8:00 PM Saturdays / 3:00 PM and 8:00 PM Sundays / 3:00 PM The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
$10 general admission $5 for seniors, students, and members of the Wellesley College community Wellesley College Theatre box office: 781.283.2000
Half a dozen relatives and friends are celebrating the Christmas season with Neville and Belinda Bunker. Petty and not-so-petty squabbles break out, Christmas presents are rifled, and a general state of chaos hangs about the edges of the home. Season's Greetings is a dark, yet farcical, comedy about families doing what they do best at holidays: inadvertently making each other crazy.
THEATRE The Department of Theatre Studies at Wellesley College allows students to explore the history and literature of the theatre, and then bring their knowledge from the classroom to a hands-on application of the craft. To facilitate this essential experiential learning, the department hosts three active performing programs on campus: Wellesley Summer Theatre, Wellesley College Theatre, and the Upstage Series. This year’s season is dedicated to “the family,” here and across the globe.
Upstage Series Upstage productions are student produced and directed. They provide Wellesley College students with the opportunity to explore all aspects of working independently in theatre.
$20 general admission $10 for seniors, students, and members of the Wellesley College community
Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead
Wellesley Summer Theatre box office: 781.283.2000
Directed by Kat Chen '12
By Bert V. Royal October 13 / 6:00 PM October 14 / 7:00 PM
Wellesley College Theatre
October 15 / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM
Under the direction of the Department of Theatre Studies, performances feature cast members from Wellesley College, Olin College, Babson College, and the Boston theatre community.
An unauthorized parody that re-imagines the characters from the classic Peanuts comic strip as teenagers enduring issues such as sexual identity, drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, bullying, and suicide. This darkly humorous play is ultimately a moving study of teenage life and the quest for selfunderstanding.
October 16 / 6:00 PM The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Nine Armenians The Tempest
The Guys
Actors From The London Stage
By Anne Nelson
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September 10 / 7:00 PM September 11 / 7:00 PM The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Wellesley Summer Theatre Company
In honor of the 10th anniversary of the day the World Trade Center’s twin towers fell, Wellesley Summer Theatre presents a staged reading of the now-classic play about September 11. A journalist attempts to help a distraught fire chief write eulogies for his lost men. In the process each learns what it is to be a citizen of the world as well as of their wounded city.
Wellesley Summer Theatre Company is the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Wellesley College.
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By Leslie Ayvazian Directed by Nora Hussey
Theatre Studies 203/212 Playfest
November 10–13
December 4–11 / performance times tbd
November 10 / 7:00 PM
The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
November 11 / 8:00 PM
A celebration of theatre productions written or developed during the fall semester.
November 12 / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM November 13 / 2:00 PM The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre
Free to Wellesley, Babson, and Olin students with ID.
Three generations of an Armenian-American family yell, dance, carry food around, play tambourines, Rollerblade, cry, scream, laugh, and support each other. When daughter Ani, 21, travels to Armenia, she discovers her history and troubled heritage. When she returns, she learns
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The Standing Reserve On View September 20–October 23 Opening Reception September 20 / 4:45–6:00 PM
Featuring works by the studio art staff of the art department.
Primordial On View October 25-November 27 Opening Reception October 25 / 4:45-6:00 PM Artists Constance Jacobson, David Hart
Primordial pairs two artists who use new and traditional media to explore generation, evolution, and genetics, and to create new universes and life forms. Fabricated organisms that resemble actual scientific imagery, and range in scale from microscopic to cosmic, come alive in these imagined worlds.
Courtesy of Rockefeller Archive Center, and used by permission of Mick Stevens.
Myles Dunigan, Altar, etching, 18 x 12.5 inches (from The Standing Reserve)
THE ART DEPARTMENT: EXHIBITIONS AND LECTURES
skyscrapers or historic plazas, the distinctions between renewal and preservation were rarely clear. Professor Isenberg will discuss how property managers, publicists, artists, architects, and the alternative press energized urban design experimentation “on the ground.” Looking closely at San Francisco—its fight against “Manhattanization,” and its efforts to forge alternative development models—the talk is part of a larger study of how Bay Area urban design was immersed in the crosscurrents of social revolution.
Jewett Art Gallery David Hart, I had 25 empty thoughts today, in varying sizes. They're all gone now. digital variations, dimensions variable, 2005
The Department of Art is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at
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Wellesley. Each year, the department brings guest lecturers, exhibitions, films, and visiting
On View August 22–September 18
artists to the campus and community. The Jewett Gallery is the department’s teaching
Opening Reception September 1 / 4:45–6:00 PM
ARTS 317: Collaborations
gallery; it hosts exhibitions generated by faculty for teaching purposes as well as exhibitions
AKATBA showcases the work of new studio art faculty joining the Department of Art this fall: David Kelley, Heddi Siebel, and Andrea Evans.
On View November 28–January 2
of student work.
The Harry Halverson Lecture on American Architecture
This exhibition will showcase works by students in Professor David Olsen’s visual arts seminar.
Fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs’s devastating critique of urban renewal in The Death and Life of Great American Cities helped galvanize a new framework that pitted “preservation” against “the bulldozer.” Jacobs observed that city planning had “stagnated” since the 1930s. “It bustles but it does not advance,” she wrote.
Beyond the Bulldozer: Rethinking the Divide between Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation in the 1960s
Alison Isenberg brings fresh perspective to 1950–1970s urban planning, years when design professionals tried to remake urban renewal and offer Americans something better. In the era’s controversies over redevelopment, whether for
Alison Isenberg, Professor of History, Princeton University October 6 / 5:00 PM Jewett Arts Center, Room 450
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www.wellesley.edu/Art jewettgallery.wordpress.com Gallery Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM Free and open to the public. Gallery hours subject to change when school is not in session.
Jen Barrows, Power Wheels, archival inkjet print, 2009
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Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo
Eliyaku and the Qadim Ensemble
Jen Chau ’99
narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American culture. Featured interviewees use spoken word and music to tell their stories. Community leaders and academic experts, including Jen Chau ’99, provide context and analysis. As it unfolds, Anomaly tells a story that is deeply personal, yet broadly, American. Anomaly won the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival’s Local Filmmaker Award in Seattle in April 2010, and was featured in the Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival in Brooklyn in February 2010
This Rhythm Is Not Mine John de Kadt, Ramchandra Pandit, and R.N. Goswami October 19 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center
ART AND SOUL AT THE MULTIFAITH CENTER
Tablaist Ramchandra “Ramu” Pandit is a longtime professional performer of classical Indian music and one of the musically rich city of Banaras’s foremost tabla teachers. Sitarist R.N. Goswami is known as a senior artist in Banaras; he is one of Banaras’s most prominent sitar teachers. On this night, their traditional Indian ragas converse with the powerful percussion of world music artist, John de Kadt, in an exploration of the cultural exchanges of rhythm, poetry, and song—an exuberant journey into the rhythm of the soul.
Chau is founder and executive director of Swirl, Inc., a national community organization founded in 2000 that serves the mixed-race community. As a student at Wellesley, Chau served College Government as the multicultural affairs coordinator.
Eliyaku and the Qadim Ensemble Mystical Music of the Near East
The Office of Religious and Spiritual Life (ORSL) at Wellesley strives to embody the College’s
November 10 / 7:00 PM
historic belief that education is both an intellectual and a spiritual journey. With this mission
Multifaith Center
in mind, ORSL has developed Art and Soul as a program to foster a community exploration of spirituality and the arts.
Art and Soul Café
Say Yes
The Art and Soul Café is an evening of community celebration and participation around themes of spirituality and the arts. It features performances by guest artists followed by an open-mike session during which community members are invited to share their talents. Delicious treats are served to nourish the body as performances feed the soul.
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo September 22 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center
Nigerian-born Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is one of the most sought-after poetry slammers in the country. A 2010 TED Global Fellow and a powerful songstress, her lyrical prowess and vocal talents invoke the spirit of soul-shakers Nina Simone, Sade, Lauryn Hill, and Amy Winehouse. Her song, Yellow Brick Road, was chosen this year as the official theme song of the USA Network’s Fairly Legal.
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Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human Rights On View November 2–December 30 Multifaith Center
Qadim is a word found in both Arabic and Hebrew, meaning ancient as well as that which will come. Representing music from many traditions of the Near East, the Qadim Ensemble brings the richness and beauty of these ancient melodies to contemporary audiences. Their repertoire includes Arabic, Jewish, Turkish, Sufi, Hebrew-Yemenite, Armenian, Persian, and Moroccan music, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the region’s cultures while honoring the great diversity found within them.
Helen Suzman was one of South Africa’s most vociferous and energetic opponents of apartheid. A member of the South African Parliament from 1953–1989, Suzman was the sole opposition voice condemning apartheid during the 13-year period (1961–1974) during which she was the governing body’s only member of the Progressive Party. This series of graphic panels explores nearly four decades of Suzman’s life and vision through photographs, personal letters, quotations from speeches, and news articles. Organized by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town under its director, professor Milton Shain, this is the first presentation of the exhibition in New England.
Anomaly Film Screening and Discussion with Jen Chao ’99 November 30 / 7:00 PM Multifaith Center
Anomaly takes a thought-provoking insider’s look at multiracial identity by combining personal
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Vera Pavlova
Still from Totoro.
ARTS AND THE LIBERAL ARTS The arts are a vibrant part of the greater intellectual community at Wellesley College. Every year, various academic departments bring art and artists from all over the world to campus to enrich their own curriculum and enliven the cultural life of the greater Wellesley community.
Roman, Skeleton of a Cup-Bearer*
D’FaQTo Life
In the words of Michal Held, author, professor, and researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Research on Jewish Language and Literatures, the Jewish language has historically functioned as a “portable homeland.” In her lecture, Held will explore the confluence of Jewish and Spanish culture and language by reflecting on her own Ladino history as well as collected personal narratives from her book Come, I’ ll Tell you/Ven, te Kontare. In doing so, she will raise questions about the journey toward finding refuge in imagined communities.
October 4 / 6:00 PM Jewett Auditorium
D’Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian, and music producer. D’Lo has performed or facilitated performance and writing workshops internationally; D’Lo’s work has been published in various anthologies and academic journals, most recently Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asia America and Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic. D’Lo explores topics relating to South Asia and transgender social justice from the perspective of being a child of immigrant parents, raised in hip hop culture while trying to negotiate how identifying as “queer” intersects with a passion to create political art.
The Immortal Shore: Studio Ghibli and the Culture of Childhood A Lecture by Susan Napier, Tufts University (Keynote lecture from the Association for Asian Studies Regional Conference) October 22 / 4:30 PM
Wine: A Matter of Life and Death
Collins Cinema
Her first collection in English, If There Is Something to Desire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), was among the top-10 bestselling poetry books for that year in the United States.
Russian Poet Vera Pavlova September 13 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)
Funded by The Maria Opasnov Tyler '52 Endowed Fund for Department of Russian.
Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow. She is a graduate of the Gnessin Academy where she specialized in history of music. Since 1997 she has published fifteen collections of poetry in her native Russian, and authored five opera librettos, as well as lyrics to three cantatas. Pavlova’s works have been translated into over twenty languages.
Michal Held Poetry and Personal Narratives: The JudeoSpanish (Ladino) Culture as an Imagined Community and a Portable Homeland September 22 / 4:30 PM The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities (237 Green Hall)
A Lecture by John L. Varriano, Professor of Art
The child and the fantastic, children and cartoons, childhood on film—these conjunctions have been part of cinematic representation since as early as Winsor McKay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland. In Japan children have also consistently played important roles on film from Ozu’s prewar comedies to Koreeda’s recent tragedy Nobody Knows. But it is in Japanese anime and above all in the films of Japan’s preeminent animation studio Studio Ghibli that childhood takes a central place. Virtually every film produced by Ghibli highlights child protagonists and the studio is famous for its child focalized narratives. This lecture discusses the construction of childhood in Ghibli’s films, both in relation to cinematic diegesis and imagery and also in terms of audience reception.
Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College November 14 / 4:30 PM Science Center Room 278
John Varriano will examine two aspects of the cultural history of wine: its central role in theories of medicine from ancient Greece to the present and its changing meaning over the ages in artistic and literary meditations on the afterlife. Sponsored by The Davis Museum, the Friends of Horticulture, and the First-Year Seminar Program, in conjunction with the Wellesley course; The Art and Science of Food in Italy in from the Renaissance to the Slow Food Movement.
* Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, 2nd century B.C.E. (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples)
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of Development (BREAD), and is director of the Center of Economic Policy Research’s development economics program. Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation.
Aomar Boum’s research revolves around the Middle East in general and North, West, and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. He has published a number of articles on the history and historiography of the Jewish communities of southern Morocco, Jewish-Muslim interfaith dialogue, representation of Jews in Moroccan museums, Jewish migration in the context of Arab nationalism and Zionism, and the Alliance Israélite Universelle in rural Moroccan communities.
Listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the John Bates Clark Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Economic Association’s Elaine Bennett Research Prize, and the Best French Young Economist prize (Le Monde/Le Cercle des économistes).
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. LECTURE
Farai Chideya, Provocative Author, Broadcaster, and Sociopolitical Pundit
Left to right: Amy B. Smith, Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Esther Duflo (photo by Kris Krug), Farai Chideya
THE SPOKEN WORD: MAJOR LECTURES AT WELLESLEY Wellesley’s liberal arts education exposes students to distinct and diverse viewpoints. Bringing this “worldly” view to bear on the great issues of the 21st century is accomplished in part by bringing leading intellectuals to speak at the College.
SPONSORED BY THE DAVIS FUND FOR RUSSIAN AREA STUDIES
THE GOLDMAN LECTURE IN ECONOMICS:
Esther Duflo, Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of
Russia Now: The Current State of the Former Soviet Union
Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics in the Department of Economics at MIT
September 6 / 8:00 PM
Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way
Clapp Library Lecture Room
to Fight Global Poverty
In this annual panel discussion, Russian Area Studies faculty members Marshall Goldman, Nina Tumarkin, Phil Kohl, Tom Hodge, Alla Epsteyn, Adam Weiner, and Adam Van Arsdale will discuss their recent experiences in and around Russia, and Russia’s role in current events.
September 12 / 8:00 PM Tishman Commons
A founder and director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research network specializing in randomized evaluations of social programs, Esther Duflo is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis
Funded by an endowed fund established by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, Class of 1928.
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THE WILSON LECTURE:
October 5 / 7:00 PM
Amy B. Smith, Inventor and Engineer, Senior
Tishman Commons
Lecturer at MIT
Farai Chideya is an award-winning multimedia journalist, novelist, and host. The author of numerous books and articles on race and politics in America, she has been a correspondent for ABC News, and anchored the prime-time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women’s channel. In addition to hosting NPR’s News and Notes with Ed Gordon, she has contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET.
How to Design a Better World: Low-Cost Innovations that Solve Global Problems September 27 / 8:00 PM Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall
Mechanical engineer Amy Smith’s approach to problem solving in developing nations is refreshingly common sense: Invent cheap, lowtech devices that use local resources so that communities can reproduce her efforts and ultimately help themselves. Smith, working with her students at MIT’s D-Lab, has come up with several useful tools, including an incubator that stays warm without electricity, a simple grain mill, and a tool that converts farm waste into cleanerburning charcoal.
THE DOMNA STANTON LECTURE:
Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Global Health Scholar Women/Gender and International/Global Health: Convenience, Co-optation and Co-production November 3 / 4:30 PM Collins Cinema
The inventions have earned Smith three prestigious prizes: the B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, the MIT-Lemelson Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship.
Anne-Emmanuelle Birn is a renowned global health scholar, Professor at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the lead editor of the recently revised classic Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World. Birn’s areas of research include international health; women; history of public health in Latin America (particularly Mexico and Uruguay); international health policy and politics (past and present); and historical demography— infant mortality, societal determinants of health, and comparative health policy of Latin America.
Funded by an endowed fund established by Carolyn Ann Wilson, Class of 1910.
THE DEPARTMENT OF JEWISH AND MIDDLE EAST STUDIES PRESENTS:
Aomar Boum, Assistant Professor of Near Eastern and Religious Studies at the University of Arizona Acceptance and Denial: Discourses of the Holocaust in Moroccan Newspapers October 5 / 4:30 PM Pendleton East, Room 239
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Visiting Wellesley
Just 12 miles from Boston, Wellesley’s rich and diverse arts scene feels worlds away. Nearby neighbors and Bostonians alike will discover that Wellesley is a wonderful untapped resource for cultural and intellectual pursuits.
that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Raphael Moneo. Podcast tours are available at the Davis Museum—check out Landscape and Architecture and walk with Professor John Rhodes as he presents highlights of the campus. You’ll see Wellesley’s Alumnae Valley—honored in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for returning a parking lot to native wetland. Pause on the shores of Lake Waban to take in the elaborate topiary garden on the far shore. And don’t miss the Botanical Gardens, featuring specimens from around the world and its own butterfly garden.
Attending an event at Wellesley is as stress free as it is affecting. Parking is free and readily accessible, our performance spaces are intimate and inviting, and the nearby town of Wellesley offers a variety of fine restaurants. Or join students and faculty on campus for a lively meal at the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, affectionately called the Lulu. The Wellesley College Club is another option for lunch or dinner.
Leave Inspired. Even if you visit for just an afternoon or an evening, you’ll find that Wellesley will leave you feeling renewed and enriched.
Take in the celebrated landscape and architecture. Combine your visit to Wellesley with a stroll through the grounds and see if you don’t feel as inspired by our surroundings as by our guest artists. Designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the campus is an historic landmark
about wellesley
The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley is known for its intellectual rigor, its belief in the enduring importance of service, and its cultivation of an inclusive, pragmatic approach to leadership.
evolves, the crucial role that women are playing in making the world a better place is becoming increasingly apparent.
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. And as the sense of what it means to be an effective leader
From the moment they step onto the campus, our students are cultivating not only their minds, but 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.
Preparing women for this role is perhaps Wellesley’s unique strength.
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