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Friday, April 11, 2008 | Volume 9, Issue 27  |
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The Department of Art, Music & Theater was recently featured in the Washington Post for its D.C. premiere of Stuff Happens. The article praises the new theatre program for keeping its students prominent by designating challenging roles normally assigned to professionals or graduate programs. Professor Derek Goldman is also recognized for the rapid development of the program and its bridging to the theatre community at-large. Stuff Happens continues to run April 16 through April 19. To view the complete article, click here. |
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Monday, April 14 |
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The Department of Art, Music & Theater's Art History Program will host a lecture on "Ways of Seeing" featuring Professor Beth Williamson, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art at the University of Bristol. The lecture will propose an unexpectedly reciprocal, fluid, and active relationship between observers and certain objects they encountered as part of their devotional activities in the late middle ages. The event will take place from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. in 490 Walsh Building. |
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The Department of Art, Music & Theater and the Festival of Interfaith Arts of the Davis Performing Arts Center present The Keynote Bridge To Peace Concert, as part of their The Bridge to Peace Residency series. The residency features Serendipity 4 with renowned actor Theodore Bikel, Grammy nominated conductor Tamara Brooks, accordionist Merima Kljuco and Yiddish folk singer Shura Lipovsky. This capstone of the residency, an inter-ethnic concert of music from different cultures and faiths interspersed with stories and contextualizing narratives, will feature Georgetown student musicians who will rehearse and perform certain selections with the artists. This free performance will take place in Gaston Hall at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to reserve tickets, please visit the Program in Performing Arts website or call 202-687-ARTS(27287). |
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The Department of French will host a public reading in French by Baka Roklo (Guy Regis Junior) from his own creative work. The reading will take place at 5:30 p.m. in the McCarthy space of the French Department on the 4th Floor of the Intercultural Center. All are welcome. |
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The Department of Government's Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy and the Department of History present "Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America," a lecture by Rick Perlstein, author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, the 2001 L.A. Times Book Award winner in history. Responding to Perlstein from the right will be Steven F. Hayward, F. K. Weyerhaeuser Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The discussion will be moderated by Professor Michael Kazin from the Department of History. The event will take place from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Conference Room of the Mortara Building (36th and N St.). To RSVP,please email tocquevilleforum@georgetown.edu. |
Tuesday, April 15 |
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The Department of English's Lannan Literary Programs, the Office of the College Dean, the Lacay Lecture Fund, the African American Studies Program, the Department of History, the Georgetown College Americas Initiative, and the Diversity Action Council will host a symposium and festival titled "'Let Freedom Ring': Art and Democracy in the King Years, 1954-1968" in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther Kings death. The Symposium seeks to acknowledge the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement in changing American life, while paying special attention to the contributions of poets, writers, and artists to the public discourse of the Movement, especially during the period Taylor Branch has called "the King Years," 1954-1968. The festival will include poetry and fiction readings, lectures, and round-table discussions including Amiri Baraka, Jayne Cortez, Professor Michael Eric Dyson, Lawrence Guyot, Vincent Harding, Haki Madhubuti, E. Ethelbert Miller, Sonia Sanchez, Valerie Smith, Eleanor Traylor and many other artists, scholars, and activists. Various events are scheduled from April 15 through April 17. The welcome and plenary event will take place at 5:00 p.m. in Copley Hall Formal Lounge. For details and more information, visit the Lannan Literary Programs website. |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents the Georgetown Jazz Spring Concert featuring the Georgetown University Jazz Ensemble. The evening of music will include selections from Duke Ellington, the Big Phat Band, hot Latin numbers, and outstanding vocals. The concert will take place in Gaston Hall at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). |
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The Department of Physics will host a lecture on "Physics to Finance" featuring Dr. Stephen Bright, Vice President of Quantitative Research at Hyde Park Global Investments, LLC. The event will take place in Reiss Science Building 502 at 4:15 p.m. |
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The Department of Art, Music & Theater and the Festival of Interfaith Arts of the Davis Performing Arts Center present Lives In The Theatre: An Evening of Drama and Music as part of their The Bridge to Peace Residency series. The evening will feature Mr. Bikel and D.C. actor Ed Gero (Shining City and Richard III) performing selections from a range of dramatic texts. This free performance
will take place in the Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts
Center at 7:30 p.m. For more information or to reserve tickets, please
visit the Program in Performing Arts website or call 202-687-ARTS(2787). |
| Wednesday, April 16 | |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents the DC premiere of Stuff Happens by David Hare. Directed by Derek Goldman, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, this play illustrates the diplomatic and political build-up to the Iraq War. Combining documentary-style transcripts with Hare's imaginings of conversations that took place, Stuff Happens examines the dynamic between private and more visible currents of our own contemporary history. The performance will take place in Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center at 8:00 p.m. For more information and tickets, please call 202-687-ARTS(2787) or visit the box office. |
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Mask & Bauble presents Cabaret, adapted from the book written by Joe Masteroff. Directed by Sally Jesmonth, SFS '08, and produced by Sarah Strole, COL '10, Cabaret is rooted in Christopher Isherwood's wonderful book The Berlin Stories, in which the late British writer immaculately captured Weimar Germany of the 1930s. Under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins, with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Cander, the cabaret will tell a story of love, persecution, hypocrisy, and ultimately trying to survive our time and place. The performance will take place on Poulton Hall Stage III at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). For more information contact 202-687-6933. |
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The Department of English will host the final lecture of their Georgetown Writer Series, a weekly 13-part series. This week's lecture is "Writing Memory: 'Praise the Lord, Pass the Ammo'" featuring lecturer Maureen Corrigan. The event will take place in New South Film Screening Room at 3:00 p.m. |
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The Department of Spanish and Portuguese's Catalan Lectureship will host a screening as part of their Catalan Film Series held every Wednesday. This week's film is Salvador (Manuel Huerga, 2006). Pizza and soda will be served. The event will take place in ICC 450 at 7:00 p.m. |
| Thursday, April 17 | |
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The Department of Computer Science will host the Davis Chair Lecture on "Searching in the 'Real World'" featuring the 20072008 Royden B. Davis, S.J., Chair in Interdisciplinary Studies, Professor Ophir Frieder. Dr. Frieder is the IITRI Chair Professor of Computer Science and the Director of the Information Retrieval Laboratory at the Illinois Institute of Technology. This event will take place in Riggs Library at 6:30 p.m. |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents the DC premiere of Stuff Happens by David Hare. Directed by Derek Goldman, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, this play will take place in Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center at 8:00 p.m. For more information and tickets, please call 202-687-ARTS(2787) or visit the box office. |
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Mask & Bauble presents Cabaret, adapted from the book written by Joe Masteroff, directed by Sally Jesmonth, SFS '08, and produced by Sarah Strole, COL '10. Under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins, with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Cander, the performance will take place on Poulton Hall Stage III at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). For more information contact 202-687-6933. |
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The Catholic Studies Program will host a screening of Stepmom. The screening will take place in ICC 103 from 7:45 to 10:30 p.m. This event is open to the public. |
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The Department of Physics will host a talk titled "Closed-Loop Hybrid Neural Systems for Studying Cortical Dynamics and Treating Epilepsy" featuring associate professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Steve Potter. This event will take place in Reiss Science Building 502 at 4:15 p.m. |
| Friday, April 18 | |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents the DC premiere of Stuff Happens by David Hare. Directed by Derek Goldman, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, this play will take place in Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center at 8:00 p.m. For more information and tickets, please call 202-687-ARTS(2787) or visit the box office. |
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Mask & Bauble presents Cabaret, adapted from the book written by Joe Masteroff, directed by Sally Jesmonth, SFS '08, and produced by Sarah Strole, COL '10. Under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins, with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Cander, the performance will take place on Poulton Hall Stage III at 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). For more information contact 202-687-6933. |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents Friday Music: Pianist John Kamitsuka as part of a free concert series featuring artists of regional, national, and international acclaim. Award-winning classical pianist John Kamitsuka will perform a selection of works from Bach, Beethoven, Barber, and Mozart. Concerts take place every Friday at 1:15 p.m. in McNeir Hall. For more information about Friday Music, please visit the Program in Performing Arts website. |
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The Georgetown Players Improv Group invites you to a night of comedy. The event will take place at Bulldog Alley, Leavey Center at 9:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). |
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The Anthropology Program will host a lecture on "Free to Be a Slave: Slavery as a Metaphor in the Afro-Atlantic Religions" presented by Professor J. Lorand Matory from Harvard University. The lecture will be held from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. in ICC 270. Light refreshments will be served. This event is co-sponsored by the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs. To R.S.V.P. and for more information, please visit the Berkley Center's site. |
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The Department of Linguistics will host a lecture featuring Professor Dylan Tsai from the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. This event will take place in ICC 462 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon. For more information, please contact Lissy March. |
| Saturday, April 19 | |
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The Program in Performing Arts presents the DC premiere of Stuff Happens by David Hare. Directed by Derek Goldman, Assistant Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, this play will take place in Gonda Theatre in the Davis Performing Arts Center at 8:00 p.m. For more information and tickets, please call 202-687-ARTS(2787) or visit the box office. |
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Mask & Bauble presents Cabaret, adapted from the book written by Joe Masteroff, directed by Sally Jesmonth, SFS '08, and produced by Sarah Strole, COL '10. Under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins, with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Cander, the performance will take place on Poulton Hall Stage III at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). For more information contact 202-687-6933. |
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The Georgetown Players Improv Group invites you to a night of comedy. The event will take place at Bulldog Alley, Leavey Center at 9:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). |
| Sunday, April 20 | |
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Mask & Bauble presents Cabaret, adapted from the book written by Joe Masteroff, directed by Sally Jesmonth, SFS '08, and produced by Sarah Strole, COL '10. Under the musical direction of C. Paul Heins, with lyrics by Fred Ebb and music by John Cander, the performance will take place on Poulton Hall Stage III at 4:00 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the box office or by calling 202-687-ARTS(2787). For more information contact 202-687-6933. |
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The Program in Performing Arts is exhibiting the work of artist Walter Egan. Known worldwide to music lovers (and crossword puzzle enthusiasts) as Mister Magnet and Steel, Professor Egan (COL '70) has come home to Georgetown University, his alma mater, with an exhibit of his paintings. As one of the school's first art majors, Professor Egan went on to make his name in the world of popular music as the composer of "Hearts On Fire" and his own million-selling top ten hit "Magnet and Steel." He has released eight solo CDs to date. A sculpture major at Georgetown, Professor Egan has mainly concentrated on printmaking and painting during his time in the music business. His works will be displayed in the lower level gallery of the Davis Performing Arts Center. |
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