professor
harvey cox to discuss religion and politics
 On
Tuesday, Feb. 14, at 4:30 pm in Collins Cinema,
Harvey Cox, the Mary
L. Cornille Distinguished Visiting Professor and
the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard, will
present a lecture, “The Armageddon Syndrome:
the Apocalytic Sensibility in Current Religion
and Politics.”
Cox teaches a course this spring, “Fundamentalisms:
A Comparative Approach,” with the following
description: “From its earliest application
to a movement within American Protestantism, the
term ‘fundamentalism’ is now often
used to characterize the most conservative wings
of several different religious traditions.
| Harvey Cox, author of When Jesus
came to Harvard |
Focusing
on such representative groups as American TV
evangelists, ‘End-Time’ Christian
Zionism, the Catholic Opus Dei, Marian apparitions,
the Jewish ‘Messianic Zionism’ of Israeli
settlers, the Lubavitcher movement and Hamas, we
will ask such questions as: Can we learn anything
useful about a religion by examining an extreme
form? Do these movements have anything in common?
Is ‘fundamentalism’ anti-modern or
itself a modern religious phenomenon? Is the term ‘fundamentalist’ helpful
or misleading?”
Cox has taught at Harvard since 1965, at the
Divinity School and in the Faculty of Arts and
Sciences.
An American Baptist minister, he was the Protestant
chaplain at Temple University and director of
religious activities at Oberlin College, an ecumenical
fraternal
worker in Berlin with  Gossner Mission and Evangelical
Academy; and a professor at Andover Newton Theological
School.
His research and teaching interests focus on
the interaction of religion, culture and politics.
Among the issues he explores are urbanization,
theological developments
in Christianity, Jewish-Christian relations and
current spiritual movements in
the
global setting (particularly the global growth
of Pentecostalism). He has been a visiting professor
at Brandeis University, Seminario Bautista de
Mexico, the Naropa Institute, and the University
of Michigan.
He is a prolific author. His most recent book
is When Jesus Came to Harvard: Making Moral
Decisions Today. His best-selling Secular City,
published in 1965, was selected by the University
of Marburg
as one of the most influential books of Protestant
theology in the 20th century. The lecture is
sponsored by the Newhouse Center for the Humanities.
For
more, call x2698.
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aaron lazare will talk ‘on apology’
On Wednesday, Feb. 15, at
7:30 pm in Pendleton 212, Dr. Aaron Lazare
will present a lecture, “On
Apology.”
Lazare has written a book by the same name that
is an exploration and analysis of the power of
apology for individuals, groups and nations—for
example, Abraham Lincoln’s apology for
slavery and the U.S. government’s apology
to Japanese-Americans interned during World War
II. Publishers Weekly noted, “Lazare succeeds
in showing that a true apology is among the most
graceful and profound of all human exchanges.
When it is sincere, it is not an end but a new
beginning.”
Lazare will discuss why people apologize, why
some apologies heal while others fail and the
differences between public and private apologies.
| Aaron Lazare is chancellor of
U-Mass. Medical School |
“It
is a behavior that requires of both parties
an attitude of honesty, generosity,
humility,
commitment and courage,” writes Lazare,
who has lectured extensively on the relevance
of apology in law, conflict resolution and
mediation, globalization, sociolinguisitics,
theology, philosophy,
ethics and medicine.
Lazare is chancellor, dean and professor of
psychiatry at the University of Massachusetts
Medical School
and senior psychiatrist at the Massachusetts
General Hospital. The first 100 Wellesley students
to arrive for the lecture will receive a free
copy of Lazare’s book, On Apology. A booksigning
and reception will follow in Pendleton Atrium.
For more information, call x2665.
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volunteer
service
 Wellesley has recently been recognized for its
alumnae volunteers by the Peace Corps in its 2006 listing
of “Top Producing Colleges and Universities.” With
20 alumnae currently serving as Peace Corps volunteers, Wellesley
ranks 11th among colleges with fewer than 5,000 undergraduates.
Every year, thousands of college graduates travel
across the globe to assist those they have never
met as Peace Corps volunteers. In what has become
an annual tradition, Peace Corps Director Gaddi H.
Vasquez and the rest of the Peace Corps staff recognize
those alumni who take on this challenge and serve
the Peace Corps worldwide. The majority of its volunteers
over the past 44 years have been college graduates.
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walra
will demonstate sweatshop
conditions
The
Wellesley Association of
Labor Rights Activists (WALRA)
will hold its fourth annual
Sweatshop Simulation Wednesday,
Feb. 15, from 7 am to 7 pm
in the Student Resource Room
on the second floor of the
Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center.
 The Sweatshop Simulation
replicates conditions of
a sweatshop to raise awareness
about labor rights. Eight
to 10 student volunteers
perform a task in an assembly-line
fashion for 12 hours under
fluorescent lighting, with
loud and constant factory
noises and heat. They are
allowed two short bathroom
breaks and a lunch break;
they receive wages in cash
comparable to those of an
overseas sweatshop worker.
The sweatshop produces bags
stamped “This Bag Was
Made in a Sweatshop,” which
will be sold for $5.
“The sweatshop
simulation is a way to raise
awareness
about sweatshops through
powerful, concrete images,” said
organizer Felice Espiritu ’06. “We
want people to start thinking
about labor issues, to which
we are all connected to in
some way. We are simply putting
the indisputable facts out
there, and people can form
their own opinions based
on what they see.”
WALRA hopes to inspire other
schools across the country
to have sweatshop simulations;
members have posted a manual
on organizing a simulation
online and hold workshops
for other schools. For more
information, e-mail walramail@wellesley.edu.
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landscape
designer to discuss home gardening
Acclaimed landscape designer Julie
Moir Messervy ’73
will present a free (with a Wellesley College ID)
Friends of Horticulture lecture, “Outside the
Not So Big House: Creating the Landscape of Home,” Thursday,
Feb. 16, from 4:30-6 pm in the Lulu Chow Wang Campus
Center Tishman Commons. Messervy’s approach
helps homeowners, gardeners and professionals explore
ways to embrace the habitat of home, link inside
to outside and craft the elements of nature, extending
the presence of home out onto the land.
“Messervy sees the world as a garden, be
it a vista from a hike in the mountains or the ripples
made
by a stone skipping across a quiet pond,” notes
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goff-crews
helps to honor a famous relative
 Wellesley Dean of Students Kim
Goff-Crews was among the guests when movie actress
(and her great-great
aunt) Hattie McDaniel became the 29th honoree in
the U.S. Postal Service’s Black Heritage
commemorative stamp series. “This stamp is
a powerful reminder of her unprecedented contribution
to Hollywood and to her pioneering legacy to help
make this country a better place,” said James
Miller, chairman of the U.S. Postal Service’s
Board of Governors, who dedicated the stamp highlighting
the achievements of McDaniel, who won the Oscar
for her role as Mammy in the 1939 film Gone
With the Wind, becoming the first African
American to win an Academy Award.
Goff-Crews
said McDaniel worked to improve the lives of
black actors and actresses: “She
was in the forefront
to outlaw restrictive
residential covenants, helping to overturn
that law.
| Hattie McDaniel as "Mammy" in Gone
with the Wind |
She
was a mentor for young actors, both black and
white. She even founded an all-woman African
American
acting troupe. She wanted to make sure
they
had an outlet for acting but also a place
where they
could talk about what it was like to
be in their situation.”
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don't
miss: musuem opens new exhibition on contemporary
chinese art
 The Davis
Museum and Cultural Center will open its
latest exhbition,
On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists
Encounter the West, this month, with a
reception on Wednesday, Feb. 15, from 6-8
pm featuring a 7:30 pm lecture by guest
curator Britta Erickson. The exhibition
explores recent Chinese art from a perspective
rarely presented in the West. Featuring
experimental work from the 1980s through
2004 by 12 of China’s leading avant-garde
artists, the show looks at the artists’ position
in a West-centric global art world and
China’s political situation in regard
to the West.
“China’s
avant-garde artists are doubly marginal.
They are marginalized in their
own country, and China’s art is considered
marginal by the international art community,” says
Erickson, a leading Western authority on Chinese
contemporary art. “This has given many
Chinese artists — whether living in China
or the West — a heightened appreciation
of their tenuous situation. The result is the
creation of a large body of bold experimental
works dissecting the artist’s
position in the art world and China’s
position in the world."
| Zhang Huan, My New
York: #4 (detail) 2002, chromogenic
print, collection of the artist |
The
DMCC has also commissioned Chinese artist
Xu Bing to create a site-specific
lobby installation,
Any Opinions? A key figure in the Chinese New
Wave movement, Xu Bing gained international
recognition for his iconic and monumental installation
A Book from the Sky (1988). His playful, probing
and often politically controversial work earned
him the MacArthur Award in 1999. Any Opinions?
addresses his fascination with words, calligraphy,
the evolution of language and the juxtaposition
of eastern and western culture. For more information,
go here.
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colleagues
in the news
The
program “Beyond Tolerance: Engaging
Religious Diversity and Spirituality at
Wellesley College,” established by
victor kazanjian, dean, religious and spiritual
life, has been selected as the Silver Award
winner in the International, Multicultural,
Cultural, LGBTQ, Spirituality, Disability
and related programs and services category
of the National Association of Student
Personnel Administrators (NASPA) Excellence
Awards. The program is designated as the
second best out of a national pool of program
entries for this category.
robert
paarlberg, political science, has published
an essay, “Let Them Eat Precaution: Why
GM Crops Are Being Over-Regulated in the Developing
World,” in a new book, Let Them Eat
Precaution: How Politics is Undermining the
Genetic Revolution
in Agriculture ( AEI Press). Opposition to
biotechnology may help to keep a third of all
Africans malnourished, as they are today, he
notes. Despite the fact that genetically modified
foods have been grown and consumed for a decade
without any known negative results for human
health or the environment, many countries still
withhold their approval.
susan
reverby,
women’s studies, organized
and chaired the plenary session at the 2005
annual Human Research Protections Program Conference
in Boston for over 2000 participants involved
in institutional review boards and human subject
research. The panel, “Facing History
and Ourselves: Looking Back to Move Forward,” focused
on why history matters. A historian of the
infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, she will
lecture on this topic for a program about the
50th anniversary of the Nazi doctor trials
to be televised on PBS and as part of a university
lecture series at Case Western Reserve University
(lecture series online here)
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save the date!
2/23/06: Quintessence Day. Speaker:
Poet Sonia Sanchez. 7:30 pm, Alumnae
Hall Auditorium. Sponsor: Ethos. Info:
Ethosmail@wellesley.edu.
2/27/06 “The Biology of Human
Breast Cancer.” Speaker: Nancy
Davidson ’75, oncology, Johns
Hopkins University School of Medicine.
5:30 pm, SCI 277; reception, 5 pm,
Sage Lounge. Sponsor: Biological Sciences.
Info: x3153.
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calendar
monday
february 13
administrative council meeting. 11 am-noon, Academic
Council Room.
japanese table. 12:30-1:20 pm, Tower Court. Info:
x7922.
workshop. “A Woman’s Money, A Woman’s
Future.” 12:30-1:30 pm, Wang Center 413.
WC employees only. Sponsor: Human Resources. Info:
x2215.
lecture. “Exploiting Structure: A Guided
Approach to Robotic Motion Planning.” Speaker:
Brendan Burns, Computer Science Norma Wilentz Hess
fellow candidate. 4:15 pm, SCI E111. Sponsor: Computer
Science. Info: x3102.
info meeting. “Wellesley-in-Aix.” 4:30
pm, French House. Sponsor: French. Info: x2733.
meeting. College Government Senate. 6 pm, Academic
Council Room. Info: cgpresident@wellesley.edu.
esl tutoring. 6-8 pm, PLTC small conference room.
Info: x2480.
cws workshop. “Alumnae/Student Mock Interviews.” 6-8
pm, GRH 441. Info: x2352.
meditation. 7-8:15 pm, meditation room, lower chapel.
Sponsor: Buddhist Community. Info: x2793.
german table. 8-9 pm, Stone. Info: x1685.
bahá’í gathering. 8:30 pm,
Freeman. Info: x4188.
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tuesday
february 14
valentine’s
day.
lecture. “Student Differences and Curriculum
Differentiation in the Context of School Reform:
Reflections on Teacher Expectations.” Speaker:
Donna Harris, Mellon post-doctoral fellow and Education
Department candidate.12:30-1:20 pm, PNE 139. Info:
x3232.
student preview. On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese
Artists Encounter the West. 4-6 pm, DMCC lobby.
WC students only. (See story.) Info: x2065.
lecture. “The Armageddon Syndrome: The Apocalyptic
Sensibility in Current Religion and Politics.” Speaker:
Harvey Cox, humanities. 4:30 pm, Collins Cinema.
Sponsor: Newhouse Center. (See story.)
Info: x2698.
discussion. “Halaqa/Study Circle.” 6:45-8:30
pm, lower chapel. Info: nkhalil@wellesley.edu.
basketball vs. MIT. 7 pm. Info: x2003.
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wednesday february
15
sweatshop
simulation. 7 am-7 pm, Wang
Center 213. Sponsor: WALRA. (See story, page
2.) Info: walramail@wellesley.edu.
russian table. 12:30 pm, FND 416. Info: x3549.
spanish table. 12:30 pm, Tower Court. Info:
x3571.
academic council meeting. 12:30-2 pm, Academic
Council Room.
lecture. “Bringing the Body to Light.” Speaker:
Marya Hornbacher, author, Wasted. 5 pm, Wang
Center, Tishman Commons. Sponsor: OMHA. Info:
x1163.
meeting. 6-7 pm, lower chapel. Sponsor: Unitarian
Universalist Community. Info: x3484.
exhibit opening. On the Edge: Contemporary
Chinese Artists Encounter the West. 6-8 pm,
DMCC. (See story.) Info: x2051.
lecture. “On Apology.” Speaker:
Aaron Lazare, UMass Medical School. 7:30
pm, PNE 212. Sponsor: CE. (See
story) Info:
x2665.
lecture. “On the Edge and Beyond: A
Curator’s Perspective.” Speaker:
Britta Erickson, contemporary
Chinese art.
7:30 pm, DMCC. (See story.) Info:
x2051.
cws workshop. “Q&A: Summer Internships
with Stipend Funding.” 10-11 pm, Freeman,
McAfee, Dower. Info: x2352.
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thursday
february 16
chinese
table. 12:30 pm, Stone-Davis living
room. Info: CSAmail@wellesley.edu.
arabic table. 12:30 pm, Tower Court private
dining hall. Info: x2916.
french table. 12:30 pm, Bates private dining
hall. Info: x2403.
lecture. “The Politics and Economics
of U.S. Food Aid.” Speaker: Robert
Paarlberg, political science. 12:30-1:30
pm, PNE 225A. Sponsor: IRC. Info: IRCmail@wellesley.edu.
lecture. “Redefining the Landscape
of Home.” 4:30-5:30 pm, Wang Center,
Tishman Commons. WC ID required. Sponsor:
FOH. (See story.) Info: x3504.
exhibit opening. COLLISIONnine BOTbits.
4:30-6:30 pm, Jewett Art Center. Info: x2043.
italian table. 5:30 pm, Tower Court. Info:
x2616.
esl tutoring. (See 2/13 listing.)
worship service. 7 pm, lower chapel. Sponsor:
Protestant Christian Chaplaincy. Info: x2655.
meeting. Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.
7-9 pm, Wang Center Multipurpose Room 2.
Info: wivcfmail@wellesley.edu.
film. Seven Years in Tibet. 7:30 pm, Collins
Cinema. Sponsor: Students for a Free Tibet.
Info: lpahl@wellesley.edu.
cws workshop. “Q&A: Summer Internships
with Stipend Funding.” 10-11 pm, Tower
Great Hall, Lake, Claflin, Severance, Stone-Davis,
Cazenove, Beebe, Munger, Pomeroy, Shafer.
Info: x2352.
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friday
february 17
prayer/discussion. Muslim communal (Jummah).
12:30-2:30 pm, lower chapel. Info: x2656.
shabbat service. 5:30-6:30 pm, BIL 300. Info:
x2685.
bible study. 7 pm, Wang Center 413. Sponsor:
Asian Baptist Student Koinonia. Info: x1831.
films. The 40-Year-Old Virgin, 7 pm; The Wedding
Crashers, 9 pm. Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film
Society. Info: x7043.
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saturday
february 18
basketball
vs. WPI. 2 pm. Info: x2003.
films. The Wedding Crashers, 7 pm; The 40-Year-Old
Virgin, 9 pm. Collins Cinema. Sponsor: Film Society.
Info: x7043.
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sunday february 19
fencing. NE Championship. 8 am. Info: x2003.
worship service. 11:15 am, Houghton Chapel. Sponsor:
Protestant CC. Info: x2655.
meeting. Darshana. 5 pm, lower chapel. Sponsor:
Hindu Community. Info: x2794.
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monday
february 20
presidents’ day.
symposium. “Violence in Religion.” 9
am-4 pm, PNE 212. Sponsor: Religion. Info: x2609.
meditation. (See 2/13 listing.)
bahá’í gathering. (See 2/13
listing.
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ongoing
exhibit. On the Edge: Contemporary Chinese Artists Encounter
the West. 2/15-5/24/06, DMCC. (See
story.) Info:
x2051.
exhibit. Any Opinions? Artist: Xu Bing. 2/15-6/3/06, DMCC.
(See story.) Info: x2051.
exhibit. COLLISIONnine BOTbits. 2/16-3/8/06, Jewett Art Center. Info: x2043.
book sale. Clapp Library reading room. 50 cents to $4. Info: x2894.
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