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noted author toni morrison will be commencement speaker Award-winning author Toni Morrison will address the Class of 2004 at Wellesley’s 126th Commencement Exercises on Friday, May 28. In keeping with tradition, the president of the senior class, Sarah Rogan, announced the selection of the speaker to her classmates at a reception on March 4. Morrison is the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton, an appointment she has held since 1989. Her eight major novels, The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Tar Baby, Beloved, Jazz, Paradise and Love, have received extensive critical acclaim. Morrison’s last visit to campus was May 4, 1998, when she delivered the prestigious Carolyn A. Wilson Lecture. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993, Morrison was the first African-American winner and the first American woman to win since 1938. She also won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for Beloved and the National Book Critics Award in 1977 for Song of Solomon. At Princeton, Morrison is a member of the Creative Writing Program. She founded the Princeton Atelier, which brings to campus renowned artists from all fields to collaborate with students on original performances, productions and exhibitions. Morrison is the recipient of numerous other prestigious awards including the National Humanities Medal, the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters, the Condorcet Medal and the Pearl Buck Award, the Modern Language Association of America Common Wealth Award in Literature and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. journalist bill moyers will discuss chinese experience As part of Wellesley’s Asian Awareness Month, PBS journalist Bill Moyers will be on campus Monday, March 15, to talk about his experience in making the documentary series, “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.” His lecture will be held in Jewett Auditorium at 4:30 pm. A reception will follow the presentation. Moyers is a renowned and respected journalist and film producer. His series, “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience,” depicts the struggles of Chinese-American immigrants. “The event will help us to understand the great odds that certain Asian Americans have overcome to establish themselves in the U.S.,” said Karen Shih, advisor to students of Asian descent at Wellesley. Moyers currently hosts the weekly magazine “Now” on PBS, capping a 30-year career in TV journalism. It was recently announced that he is leaving “Now” after the November elections to begin writing a book about Lyndon Johnson, whom he served before and during Johnson’s presidency. “Now” has aimed “to tell stories nobody else is telling and put on people who have no forum elsewhere,” Moyers recently told The Associated Press. “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience” originally aired on PBS stations in the spring of 2003. The series has been presented at Wellesley in the weeks leading up to Moyers’ visit, and his March 15 lecture will begin with a showing of a synopsis of the series. “Whatever your own roots, this will remind you of the struggle that has shaped our country,” Moyers said. For more information, call x2959. Wellesley’s Economics Department and its faculty have been lauded by the Journal of Economic Education in its report, “Economic Scholarship at Elite Liberal Arts Colleges: A Citation Analysis with Rankings.” Author Howard Bodenhorn, professor of economics at Lafayette College, measured the influence of 439 economists employed at the 50 top liberal arts colleges and ranked departments and individuals on the basis of citations. “The author discovered a hierarchy with a small number of departments whose faculty produce cited scholarship, and a small number of influential economists employed at liberal arts colleges,” according to the report. Wellesley College ranked first among the colleges and, for individual economists considered “most influential scholars,” Wellesley’s Karl Case and Ann Witte appeared in the No. 2 and No. 12 positions. Only Wellesley and Wesleyan had two economists on the scholarly list. education experts to send message to next president What is at stake for education as the 2004 election looms? On Thursday, March 11, from 5-7 pm in the Library Lecture Room, national education experts will present “Town Hall Meeting on Education and the 2004 Presidential Elections: Letters to the Next President” with a reception at 4:15. Rosa Fernández ’07 has planned the event. Like the other speakers, she wrote a chapter in a new book, Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real Crisis in Public Education. Moderated by Barbara Beatty, education, the panel includes:
“The goal of the panel is not to provide answers, but to engage
its audience in an open discussion of the building blocks of democracy
for the youth of the nation,” Fernández said. award-winning political activist to speak The Wellesley Asian Alliance will present a lecture by political activist Yuri Kochiyama Sunday, March 14, at 6:30 pm in Collins Cinema. The 82-year-old has tirelessly dedicated her life to contributing to social change through her participation in social justice and human-rights movements. During World War II, she spent two years in a detention camp in Arkansas. After the war, she married Bill Kochiyama, a veteran of the all-Japanese American 442nd combat unit. Her activism started in Harlem in the early 1960s, where she participated in the Asian-American, Black and Third World movements for civil and human rights and the anti Vietnam War movement. Later, she and her husband worked in the redress and reparations movement for Japanese-Americans. She has received the Charles Bannerman Memorial Fellowship and other awards, has spoken at more than 100 schools and colleges throughout the country and has been featured in books and films. looking at disability and cultural differences How do different cultures view disabilities? On Wednesday, March 10, from 1-2 pm in Pendleton East 239, Professor Nan Zhang Hampton will present a lecture on this topic, “Yin and Yang of Disabilities and Culture: Exploring Chinese and American Attitudes toward Disability and the Role of Gender in High School Achievement.” Hampton’s research most recently has focused on the role of culture, gender and learning disabilities in the achievement of high-school students. The lecture is sponsored by CLCE, Disability Services and Education, Psychology and Chinese departments. For more information, call x3232. The following faculty grant awards have been announced: Two grants from National Science Foundation-Research Experiences for Undergraduates to support summer research programs for students to chris arumainayagam and david haines, chemistry, “REU Site: Chemistry as the Focus of an Interdisciplinary Summer Research Program at Wellesley College” and joe joyce, economics, for “REU Site: Exploring the Social Roles of Women.” joanne berger-sweeney, biological sciences, National Institutes of Health (subcontract from UMass Medical School), “Translational Control in Early Mammalian Development.” christopher candland, political science, Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, in support of early leave, “Pakistan’s Educational System and Violence: Is There a Connection?” courtney lannert, physics, Research Corporation Cottrell College Science Award, “Variational Wavefunction Monte Carlo Analysis of Cooperative Ring Exchange in the Intermediate-U Hubbard Model.” peggy levitt, sociology, Ford Foundation (subcontract from Harvard), “Expanding the Boundaries of Belonging.” Three fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities in support of sabbatical leaves to kathryn lynch, English, for “The Eaten Word: Food and Drink in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”; louise marlow, religion, for “An Arabic Mirror for Princes: A Study and Translation of the Counsel for Kings of Pseudo-Mawardi”; and tak matsusaka, history, for “Defense, Democracy, and Empire: The Politics of Armament in Japan, 1882-1937.” matsusaka, in addition: American Philosophical Society Sabbatical Fellowship. sergio parussa, Italian, Visiting Skirball Fellowship at Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, in support of early leave, “Jewish Italian Literature.” glenn stark, physics, NASA Planetary Atmospheres program, “Laboratory Measurements of Molecular Photoabsoption Cross Sections in the Ultraviolet for Planetary Atmospheres Applications.” meeting. “Disability Discussion.” 12:30-1:30 pm, FND 305. Sponsor: Disability Services. Info: x2434. apt meeting. “Lunch with a Librarian” 12:30 pm, Stone-Davis Dining Hall. Info: x2641. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. cws workshop. “Self Assessment.” 6-8 pm, GRH 428. Preregister. Info: x2352. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. apt meeting. “Majors Panel: Major Decision.” 7 pm, Stone-Davis Living Room. Info: x2641. meditation. 7:30-9 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. open-class session. “Arth 225: Minimalist and Allied Works.” 11:10 am, Towne Gallery, Davis Museum. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2048. spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Private Dining Room. Info: x3571. information session. “Prospective Philosophy Majors.” 4:15 pm, FND 322. Sponsor: Philosophy. Info: x2620. cws workshop. “Second Interview Skills.” 4:30 pm, GRH 330. Info: x2352. unitarian universalist meeting. 6:15 pm, Little Chapel. Info: x3484. CANCELLED: lecture. “Women and Islamic Law.” Speaker: Dr. Ingrid Mattson. 7 pm, Pendleton Atrium. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: azilanaw@wellesley.edu. slides/discussion. “Images of Women.” Speaker: Catherine Collins, health services. 7 pm, Tower Great Hall. Info: mjohnson@wellesley.edu. recital. “Midday Muse: Beethoven’s Piano.” Student performers; Triple Helix Piano Trio. 12:30, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. russian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Russian Dept. Lounge, FND, 4th Floor. Info: x3549. meditation. 12:30-1 pm,meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. lecture. “Yin and Yang of Disabilities and Culture: Exploring Chinese and American Attitudes toward Disability and the Role of Gender in High-School Achievement.” Speaker: Nan Zhang Hampton, UMass. 1-2 pm, PNE 239. (See story, above.) Sponsor: Education. Info: x3235. sustaining prayer. 1-2 pm. Billings 202. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. afternoon tea. 3:30-5 pm, College Club. Info, cost: x2700. lecture. “How Do Quantitative Skills Help Us Understand and Conserve Works of Art?” Speaker: Narayan Khandekar, Harvard University Art Museum. (See story, below.) 4:30-6 pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: QR. Info: x2152. film. Millennium Actress. 4:50 and 7:30 pm, FND 120. Sponsor: Japanese. Info: x3226. lecture. “One Man Can Make a Difference: Varian Fry, American Rescuer of Jews in Nazi-Occupied Europe.” Speaker: Sheila Isenberg. 5 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsors: Jewish Studies, Religion. Info: x2609. art/cooking class. “Appetizing Art: Hail Britannia.” English specialties and gallery talk on artist Angelica Kauffmann. 5:45-8 pm, Collins Café. Preregister. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x3379. concert. Chamber Music Society. Nancy Cirillo and Isabelle Plaster, directors. 8 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. open-class session. “Arth 251: Classical Themes in the Renaissance and Elsewhere.” 9:50 am, Bevington/Duncan Gallery, Davis Museum. Info: x3552. seminar. “Racial/Ethnic Identity Development Among Multiracial/Ethnic Individuals.” Speaker: Peony Fhagen-Smith. 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Sponsor: WCW. Info: x2500. cws workshop. “Job Search Strategies.” 12:30 pm, GRH 428. Info: x2352. japanese table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Severance Conference Room. Info: x4442. french table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court Seminar room. Info: x2497. lecture. "Jews in Latin America." Reception to follow. 4:45 pm, Hillel Lounge, Billings 300. Sponsor: Hillel. Info: x2687. lecture. “Asian-American Women in Politics and Law.” Speaker: Debra Yang, attorney. 5-7 pm, Pendleton Atrium. Info: x2959. lecture. “Writing about Illness: Aporia, Formulation and Narrativity.” Speaker: Anne Hawkins. 5 pm, French House. Info: x2415. panel discussion. “Town Hall Meeting on Education and the 2004 Presidential Elections: Letters to the Next President.” 5-7 pm; reception, 4:15, Library Lecture Room. (See story, above.) Speakers: Ted Sizer, Nancy Sizer ’57, Leslie Hergert, Pam Solo, Louis Casagrande, Rosa Fernández ’07. Sponsors: Education, QR. Info: x3235. film. Spring 2004 African Film Festival opens. 5:30-10:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: WASA. Info: x7015. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. bible study. 7-8 pm; worship services, 8-9 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. meeting. Wellesley Energy and Environmental Defense (WEED). 12:30 pm, Founders 102. Info: x4756. muslim prayer. 12:45-2 pm. Little Chapel. Sponsor: Al-Muslimat. Info: x2656. religious service. "Rockin' Shabbat with Steve Meltzer." 6 pm, Hillel Lounge, Billings 300. Sponsor: Hillel. Info: x2687. theatre. “Portraits of Eden: The Wellesley College Community Speaks Openly about Diversity.” Playwright/performer: Emi Kolawole ’04. 7 pm, Shakespeare House. Sponsors: Shakespeare Society, Theatre Studies. Info: x4703. performance. “Women of Color in Comedy.” 7-9 pm, Alumnae Hall. $5, free with Wellesley I.D. Info: tjeffrey@wellesley.edu. performance. “Pan-Asian Cultural Show.” 7-9 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Info: x2959. film. Dirty Pretty Things. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Info: x7946. saturday march
13 film. Spring 2004 African Film Festival. 12:30-5 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: WASA. Info: x7015. dinner. St. Patrick’s Day buffet. Starts 6 pm, College Club. Info, cost: x2700. theatre. “Portraits of Eden: The Wellesley College Community Speaks Openly about Diversity.” Playwright/performer: Emi Kolawole ’04. 7 pm, Shakespeare House. Sponsors: Shakespeare Society, Theatre Studies. Info: x4703. film. Dirty Pretty Things. 7 pm, Collins Cinema. Info: x7946. party. "1980: Wendy Wellstein Becomes a Woman Bat Mitzvah party." 10 pm, TZE house. Sponsor: Hillel. Info: x2687. gathering. Bagel brunch and social action project. 10:30 am, Hillel lounge. Sponsor: Hillel. Info: x2687. worship services. 11:15-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655. film. Spring 2004 African Film Festival. 12:30-5 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: WASA. Info: x7015. concert. Wellesley College Choir. Lisa Graham, director. 2 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028. catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Religious Life. Info: x2688. theatre. “Portraits of Eden: The Wellesley College Community Speaks Openly about Diversity.” Playwright/performer: Emi Kolawole ’04. 7 pm, Shakespeare House. Sponsors: Shakespeare Society, Theatre Studies. Info: x4703. meeting. Darshana prayer and discussion. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsors: Darshana, Hindu Community. Info: x2794. monday march 15 lecture. “Becoming American: The Chinese Experience.” Speaker: Bill Moyers. (See story, above.) 4:3 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Reception to follow. Info: x2373. english tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC Small Conference Room. Info: x2480. italian table. 6 pm, Tower Court Dining Hall Conference Room. Info: x2616. meditation. 7-8 pm, meditation room, lower chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793. meeting. Amnesty International. 8 pm, Café Hoop. Info: x1787. exhibit. Wellesley in the 1950s. Through March 26. Reference Room, Clapp Library. Sponsor: Archives. Info: x2128. exhibit. One Thing Leads To Another: A Vignette of Black History. 4th Floor, Clapp Library. Through April. Sponsor: Archives. Info: x2127. exhibit. Floral Watercolors by Nancy Howell. Botanic Gardens Visitors’ Center. Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3094. book sale. Clapp Library. Donations: 50 cents-$2. Info: x2894.
don't miss... quantitative reasoning and art explored in new lecture series Are quantitative and mathematical skills really relevant for all students? Even, for example, for art majors? A new lecture series will look at the myriad ways in which quantitative skills are applicable to all subjects, but especially art. The Quantitative Reasoning Program kicks off this new series, “Celebrating QR Connections,” thanks to a gift from alumna Ellen Genat Hoffman ’68 and her husband Stephen. This year’s lectures focus on the connection between quantitative reasoning and art. The first, Wednesday, March 10, at 4:30 pm in Pendleton West Hall, room 212, is by Harvard Art Museum senior conservation scientist, Narayan Khandekar, on the quantitative techniques he uses, including chemical analyses, to understand and conserve works of art. The second talk on March 16 will explore an unusual way in which personal letters and astronomical, meteorological and topographical data were combined to provide evidence on the exact date and location of van Gogh’s Moonrise painting. Don Olson, professor of physics and astronomy, and Marilynn Olson, professor of English, both at Texas State University, will share their story of how art and science combine at 4:30 pm in Pendleton West 212. On March 30 at 5 pm in Collins Cinema, MIT Professor John Meada will talk about his artistic journey and current place at the crossroads of art and technology with his digital designs. The April 7 speaker is famed quilt-maker Jinny Beyer. Her talk at 12:30 pm in Collins Cinema. “Not only have we lined up outstanding public speakers, but each of the images they will show us in these talks speaks far more than the proverbial thousand words,” said QR Director Corri Taylor. “These presentations will fill your senses and make you appreciate both the works of art and the value of QR skills in understanding and creating art.” For more information, call x2157.
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