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take a look at current history through documentary films
wellesley summer theatre wins moss hart award
it’s fall open campus
roses is named w.e.b. du bois fellow
fun with science marks national chemistry weeklooking at the environmental life-cycle
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2004
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take a look at current history through documentary films
On Oct. 15-17, the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee and the McNeil Program for Studies in American Art will present a film festival, “Deconstructing Master Narratives: Recent Documentaries,” featuring nine films that address 9/11, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and related issues.
An expert will lead a discussion following each of the showings of the films The Fog of War, The Corporation, Edward Said: On Orientalism, Fahrenheit 9/11, 11’09”01, Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear and the Selling of American Empire, Control Room, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War and Outfoxed.
“Just as Martin Luther King Jr. became increasingly critical of the Vietnam War and the persistence of poverty in the late ’60s, more and more Americans and others are raising questions about the Iraq War and the political economy of ‘globalization’—how the two are linked, the validity of the given justifications for undertaking the war, and what is seen by some as the manipulation of the tragedy of 9/11,” said Judith Rollins, chair, Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee. “The unprecedented reception these documentaries have received is an indication of a hunger for a fuller, more nuanced discussion of current events than is being presented by this administration and most of the media.”
Salem Mekuria, art, added, “Documentary filmmakers commit themselves to this form because they believe that to every story, there is at least one and a half sides—a right side and a side that, despite possibly having some redeeming aspects, is, on balance, wrong. Come and participate in an open educational experience that will enrich your understanding of current history beyond one-liners.”
Discussions will be led by Mark Solomon, professor emeritus, history, Simmons College; Sut Jhally, filmmaker; Seble Dawit, human rights lawyer; Bo Smith, film director, Museum of Fine Arts; Elaine Hagopian, professor emerita, sociology, Simmons; Shahid Alam, economics, Northeastern University; Julie Matthaei, economics, and Pat Berman, art, Wellesley. Films and discussions will take place in Collins Cinema and Jewett Arts Center. For more information, see www.wellesley.edu/Art/events/docfest, WellesleyWeek calendar or call x2563.
wellesley summer theatre wins moss hart award
Wellesley Summer Theatre has won the Moss Hart Memorial Award for theatrical excellence in the professional division for the third year in a row. The honor will be bestowed at the New England Theatre Conference in Portland, Maine, in November.
Jane Eyre. From L-R: Kortney Adams (Bertha), Alicia Kahn (Jane Eyre), Derek Stone Nelson (Edward Rochester).
Photo by D. Andrews.“It is being awarded this year for our summer production of Jane Eyre,” said Nora Hussey, theatre studies. “This represents the fifth time overall, as we won it twice in the college division in prior years. The award is extremely meaningful because it not only recognizes high artistic achievement and a fresh visionary approach to a script but is considered a reflection of the ideals exemplified by (playwright) Moss Hart.”
The New England Theatre Conference, in making the annual award, seeks to encourage artistic growth and the highest standards of excellence in theatre, saying it “honors the memory of Moss Hart with outstanding productions which present affirmative views of human dignity and courage, which have strong literary and artistic merit, and which in their productions exemplify fresh imaginative treatment within the intent of the playwright.”
“Because our mission at Wellesley Summer Theatre is to ‘present works that challenge and move our audiences to new understanding of the world and ourselves within it,’ this is a true honor,” Hussey said. “I feel we are accomplishing what we set out to do seven years ago. The company is strong and dedicated to the idea of theatre as a transformative element in the lives of audiences and participants.”
On Monday, Oct. 11 Wellesley’s Office of Admission will hold Fall Open Campus for prospective students for the Class of 2009. On Oct. 17-18, the annual ALANA (African American, Latina/Hispanic, Asian American, Native American) Fall Open Campus will be held, which is an overnight program for high school women of color. On Monday, Nov. 8, a second Fall Open Campus will be held.
Open campus events feature tours, information sessions, class visits, student panels, workshops, lunch in a residence hall and more.
For more information on visiting Wellesley, log onto www.wellesley.edu/admission/fall2004/index.html or call x2270.roses is named w.e.b. du bois fellow
Lorraine Roses, Latin American studies, has been awarded a 2004-05 fellowship at the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African American Research at Harvard University. Her research on “Black Boston’s Cultural Flowering, 1920-1940” will be supported by the Sheila Biddle Ford Foundation.
“At the Du Bois I will be writing a book called Hidden from View: Black Boston’s Cultural Awakening, 1920-1940,” said Roses. “It’s about cultural life in Black Boston. We have all heard of New York’s Harlem Renaissance, but few of us have known the Boston scene. The work of those writers, artists and performers has disappeared and their voices have been silenced. It has taken a lot of archival research to find traces of their work. I have also relied on interviews with members of the African American community who were witnesses of the era.”
The fellowship will provide a special impetus for her work. “I have the generous resources of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at my disposal and a group of outstanding scholars to confer with,” she said. “Most important, though, is the opportunity to bring attention to an underexamined chapter of American history.”
The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute awards 10-15 fellowships annually to scholars in the fields of African and African American studies. The Fellows Program forms the vital nucleus around which an array of lecture series, readings, colloquia, conferences and forums, as well as research, archival and publications projects, revolve.
fun with science marks national chemistry week
Wellesley will host National Chemistry Week activities Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Science Center. The 2004 Brauner Memorial Lecture, held at 11 am and again at 2 pm in SCI 277, will star chemists Jerry Bell and Jim Golen. Watch liquids “magically” turn different colors and take part in hands-on experiments. While tickets are free, reservations are strongly recommended; e-mail Marilou Cashman at mcash0953@aol.com. From 10 am to 4 pm, children can participate in hands-on activities and demonstrations focusing on the event’s theme, Health and Wellness. Events are sponsored by the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society and are fun for all ages.looking at the environmental life-cycle
Environmental chemist Angela Lindner will talk about “A Life-Cycle Approach to Green Design” Friday, Oct. 15, at 12:30 pm in Science Center 278. Lindner, who teaches in the environmental engineering program at the University of Florida, is an expert in green design, which the World Commission on Environment and Development defines as design “that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”
Lindner will talk about making environmental choices based on the complete life-cycle of products, from the resources used to make them through their use and eventual disposal. “Life-cycle assessment is an important and powerful tool for environmental decision making that we have not yet fully examined at Wellesley, but will be integrated into the capstone Environmental Studies seminar this spring,” said Elizabeth DeSombre, environmental studies. For more information, call x2168.
Research grants have been awarded to Wellesley faculty members as announced at Academic Council. Four grants from the National Science Foundation went to stanley chang, mathematics, three years of research support for “RUI: Noncommutative Geometry: Curvature and Rigidity of Noncompact Manifolds”; jennifer hood-degrenier, biological sciences, three years of research support for “RUI: The Role of Subcellular Localization in the Function of the Yeast Cyclin Clb2”; sally merry, anthropology, and peggy levitt, sociology, three years of research support for “Localizing the Global: A Comparative Study of Women’s Human Rights”; and andrea sequeira, biological sciences, the Major Research Instrumentation Program, “Acquisition of an Automated Sequencer for Interdisciplinary Research and Teaching in an Undergraduate College Setting.” Other awards have gone to dan brabander, geosciences, from the MIT-Department of Energy Reactor Sharing Program, “Environmental Biomonitoring of Cr and As in Shallow Groundwater: Do Red Oak Trees Preserve Long Term Records of Contaminant Loading?”; martin brody, music, from the Roger Sessions Memorial Fellowship of The Bogliasco Foundation, “Composition of an Opera, Bisclavret, Based on a Lai of Marie de France”; tom cushman, sociology, a Visiting Research Fellowship at the School of Law (Birkbeck College, University of London), “International Law and Human Rights” and david haines, chemistry, from Merck Research Laboratories, “Merck Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship.”
joanne murray, director, Center for Work and Service, spoke to The New York Times about extended job tryouts without fair compensation, saying she would “question the advisability of devoting so much time to something like this. Not paying someone for that much time is also problematic.”
columbus day. administrative holiday.
fall open campus. 8:30 am-4 pm. Sponsor: Admission. Info: x2270.
lecture. “Heart of Awareness.” Speaker: Red Pine, author. 7-8:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
president’s open office hour. 12:30-1:30 pm. GRH 350.
field hockey vs. Babson. 4 pm. Info: x2003.
lecture. “Passing Through Asian America.” Speakers: Jennifer Ho, UNC Chapel Hill, and Stephanie Dunson, UMass, Amherst. Sponsor: Women’s Studies. Info: x2199.
meeting. “Travel Talk in the Hoop: Studying at Oxford and Cambridge.” 4:15 pm, Café Hoop. Sponsor: International Study. Info: x2320.
volleyball vs. Mount Holyoke. 7 pm. Info: x2003.
apt workshop. “Aha! I Remember!” 7 pm, McAfee. Info: x2641.
sharing circle. 7-8 pm, Little Chapel. Sponsor: Unitarian Universalists. Info: x3484.
german table. 7:30-8:30 pm, Schneider loft. Info: x2584.
apt workshop. “Worst Case Scenario: Test Survival.” 8:30 pm, Bates living room. Info: x2641.apt workshop. “Making the Most of Study Period.” Time: TBA, Freeman living room. Info: x2641.
meditation. 12:30-1 pm, Meditation Room, chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
discussion. “Should Information Be Free?” 12:30-1:30 pm, Library Lecture Room. Sponsor: Library; Mellon Librarian Recruitment. Info: x3512.
concert. New England Chamber Opera Series. Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti; Hulse’s The Game. 12:30-1:30 pm, Jewett Auditorium. Info: x2028.
spanish table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court small dining room. Info: x3571.
russian table. 1-2 pm, FND 416. Info: x3584.
apt workshop. “Note This Down.” 4:30 pm, Tower Great Hall. Info: x2641.
cws workshop. “Interview Skills.” 4:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352.
meeting. “Good Book Club.” 6:30 pm, BIL 202. Sponsor: Protestant CC. Info: x2655.
lecture/film. “No Hair Day/Hair Stories.” Part of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Discretion advised for children. 7-9 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
presidential debate. 8:45 pm, PN Atrium. Broadcast; discussion. Sponsor: CPLA. Info: x1644.
workshop. Session 1, HOR 0504. “Making Prints with Plants: Portable Herbarium.” Speaker: Erika Sonder, biologist. Registration, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, Botanic Gardens Visitor Center. Members: $35; others: $45.Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3094.
cws workshop. “Internships in Costa Rica.” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352.
wcw seminar. “African-American Survivors’ Insights Concerning Intimate Partner Violence.” 12:30-1:30 pm, Cheever House. Info: x2500.
padykula lecture. Speaker: Edward Kravitz, neurobiology, Harvard Med School. 5 pm, SCI Sage Lounge. Sponsor: Biological Sci. Info: x3153.
cws workshop. “Interview Skills.” 4:30 pm, FND 120. Info: x2352.
apt workshop. “Let’s Talk.” 4:30 pm, Munger living room. Info: x2641.
lecture. “Possibilities of Justice: The Civil Sphere and Its Contradictions.” Speaker: Jeffrey Alexander, Yale. 4:30-6 pm, PNW 212. Sponsor: Sociology. Info: x2137.
lecture. “Baudelaire 9/11: Poetry and Urban Violence Writ Large.” Speaker: Edward Aheard, Cornille Professor in Humanities. 5:15 pm, Collins Cinema. Info: x2427.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm, PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
apt workshop. “Escaping the Time Trap.” 7 pm, Stone-Davis living room. Info: x2641.
theatre. As You Like It. 7 pm, Barstow Stage, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free for faculty/staff/students; $8, seniors, $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. (See story) Info: x2220.
apt workshop. “Aha! I Remember!” 8 pm, Shafer living room. Info: x2641.
concert. Melissa Lee. 8:30 pm, Molly’s Pub. Sponsor: WLBTF. Info: WLBTFmail@wellesley.edu.
ramadan begins. Islamic tradition through 11/13.
cws workshop. “Los Angeles Film Internship Program.” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352.
cws info session. “Rutgers University School of Law.” 12:30 pm, PNW 116. Info: x2352.
cws workshop. “Interview Skills.” 12:30 pm, GRH 428. Info: x2352.
cws info session. “Management Basics 2005.” 12:30 pm, PN Atrium. Info: x2352.
lecture. “A Life-Cycle Approach to Green Design.” Speaker: Angela Lindner, environmental engineering. 12:30-1:20 pm, SCI 278. (See story) Sponsor: Environmental Studies. Info: x2168.
prayer/discussion. Muslim communal (Jummah). 12:45-1:30 pm, lower chapel. Info: x2025.
film festival. “Deconstructing Master Narratives: Recent Documentaries.” Fog of War and The Corporation. Reception, 5 pm, Collins Café; films, 6-10:30 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsors: MLK Jr. Memorial Committee, American Art Studies. (See story) Info: x2563.
wine dinner. Cost: $75. 6:30 pm, College Club. Reservations required. Info: x2700.
bible study. “Through the Book of Matthew.” 7 pm, lower chapel. Sponsor: ABSK. Info: x4692.
theatre. As You Like It. 8 pm, Barstow Stage, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free for faculty/staff/students; $8, seniors, $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. (See story) Info: x2220.
athletics homecoming. 8 am-5 pm. Info: x2019.
workshop. Session 2, HOR 0505: “Making Prints with Plants.” Registration, 9:30 am-12:30 pm, Botanic Gardens Visitor Center. Members: $35; others: $45.Sponsor: Friends of Horticulture. Info: x3094.
volleyball invitational. 10 am. Info: x2003.
workshop. “Papermaking.” 10 am-4 pm, PNW 114. Sponsor: Art. Info: x2030.
field hockey vs. Gordon. 1 pm. Info: x2003.soccer vs. Coast Guard. 1 pm. Info: x2003.
film festival. “Deconstructing Master Narratives: Recent Documentaries.” Edward Said: On Orientalism and 11'09"01. 2-6:45 pm, JAC 450. (See 10/15 listing.) Info: x2563.
theatre. As You Like It. 2 and 8 pm, Barstow Stage, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free for faculty/staff/students; $8, seniors, $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. (See story) Info: x2220.
film festival. “Deconstructing Master Narratives: Recent Documentaries.” Fahrenheit 9/11. 7-10 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsors: MLK Jr. Memorial Committee, American Art Studies. (See story) Info: x2563.
sunday october 17fair. National Chemistry Week, 10-4 pm, Science Center. Brauner Lecture, 11 am and 2 pm, SCI 277. Speakers: Jerry Bell and Jim Golen, chemists. Sponsor: Northeast section, Am. Chemical Society. (See story) Info: 800-872-2054.
alana fall open campus. 11 am. Sponsor: Admission. (See story) Info: x2270.
worship service. 11:15 am-12:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Protestant CC. Info: x2655.
cws mockathon. 12-4 pm, GRH 441. Info: x2352.
film festival. “Deconstructing Master Narratives: Recent Documentaries.” Hijacking Catastrophe; Control Room. 1-5 pm, Collins Cinema. Sponsors: MLK Jr. Memorial Committee, American Art Studies. (See story) Info: x2563.
theatre. As You Like It. 2 pm, Barstow Stage, Alumnae Hall. Cost: Free for faculty/staff/students; $8, seniors, $10, others. Sponsor: Upstage. (See story) Info: x2220.
catholic mass. 4 pm, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Newman Catholic Ministry. Info: x2688.
meeting. Darshana. 5 pm, meditation room, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor: Hindu Community. Info: x2794.
monday october 18
alana fall open campus. (See story) Sponsor: Admission. Info: x2270.volunteer docent training. Six Mondays starting today. 9:30 am-12:30 pm, Botanic Gardens Visitor Center. Sponsor: FOH. Info: x3094.
cws workshop. “Self-Assessment for Sophomores.” 12:30 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
cws workshop. “Internships in Africa.” 12:30 pm, PNE 239. Info: x2352.
italian table. 12:30-1:30 pm, Tower Court private dining hall. Info: x2616.
open class. “Cultures of Cancer.” Speaker: Anastasia Karakasidou, anthropology. 2:50-5:20 pm, PNW 116. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
cws workshop. “Navigating the CWS Library.” 6 pm, GRH 442. Info: x2352.
cws workshop. “Alumnae/Student Mock Interviews.” 6 pm, GRH 441. Info: x2352.
meeting. College Government Senate. 6 pm, Academic Council Room. Info: x1181.
esl tutoring. 6-8:30 pm. PLTC small conference room. Info: x2480.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, Meditation Room, chapel. Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
concert. “Oktoberfest.” 7-8:30 pm, PNW 220. Sponsor: Music. Info: x2028.
exhibit. Inspired by Flowers. Botanic Gardens Visitor Center. Info: x3094.
exhibit. Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th Century Drawings. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
exhibit. American Identities: Twentieth-Century Prints from Nancy Gray Sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection. Sponsor: DMCC. Info: x2051.
10/22-24/04: Family and Friends Weekend. Distinguished Faculty Lecture, “Celestial Worlds Discover’d: Exploration of the Solar System,” by Richard French, astronomy, 10/22, 4:30 pm, Houghton Chapel. Info: www.wellesley.edu/FamilyWeekend/index.html
don't miss...shakespeare’s look at love, happiness and forgiveness
Upstage, the student theatre group, will present Shakespeare’s As You Like It on the Barstow Stage in Alumnae Hall Thursday, Oct. 14, at 7 pm; Friday, Oct. 15, at 8 pm; Saturday, Oct. 16 at 2 and 8 pm; and Sunday, Oct. 17, at 2 pm. Director Alison Buchbinder ’05 calls it “a great play about artifice, love, finding happiness and forgiveness. We’re setting it in Louis XVI’s court, 10 years before the French Revolution. Versailles was a gilded cage and Louis’s inner circle would often escape into the woods and pretend they were peasants. The characters in As You Like It also go into the forest to escape court life, but they find you can’t escape your problems.” Buchbinder spent her summer working at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., learning the ins and outs of professional theater. “I want to make this production as professional as possible and really create a magical weekend of theater,” she said. For more information, call x2220.
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