Major Lectures & Events for the 2004-05 Academic Year
Lectures & Symposia Planned for 2004-05
Saturday, October 2 - Robert A. Jones Conference Room
Conference: Crusading and Against Whom? Holy Violence in the Middle Ages
- 9:00-12:15: Panels 1 & 2 (4 speakers)
- 1:45-5:00: Panels 3 & 4 (4 speakers)
Sponsored by the Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Initiative, Religion Department, History Department and Cook Commons. Contact Louisa Burnham (History) & Suleiman Mourad (Religion).
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Lecture: “Fernando Pessoa Unveiled,” by Richard Zenith, who lives in Lisbon and is the editor and translator of The Book of Disquiet and Fernando Pessoa & Co: Selected Poems. Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and Wonnacott Commons.
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Tuesday, October 5, 4:30 p.m., Periodicals Reading Room, Library
Abernethy Lecture
The Abernethy Lecture Series will be reopened, in the new library, by College Professor John McWilliams, speaking on “American Wilderness Narratives: Doubling the Last Survivor.” A reception will follow in Room 145.
Wednesday, October 6, and Thursday, October 7 - 4:30 and 7:30 p.m.
The Clifford Symposium, in connection with the dedication of the New Library: “Ways With Words: A Celebration of Libraries.”
Speaker on Wednesday, October 6, 7:30 p.m.: Janet Murray, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Information Design and Technology Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, author of “Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of the Narrative in Cyberspace,” speaking on “Ways with Words: The Future of Storytelling in the Digital Age.”
Speaker on Thursday, October 7, 7:30 p.m.: Siva Vaidhyanathan, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, author of Copyrights and Copywrongs and The Anarchist in the Library, followed by a panel discussion with guest lecturers and Middlebury faculty and staff
Friday, October 8, 12:30 p.m., in front of the New Library
Dedication Convocation for the New Library. The speaker, who will receive an honorary degree, will be Vartan Gregorian, President of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and former President of Brown University and the New York Public Library.
Sunday, October 10 - 11:30 a.m., Library Lawn
Presidential Inauguration: Full schedule of events.
Monday, October 11 - 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones 59 House conference room
Lecture by Clifford G. Gaddy, senior fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies and Governance Studies programs at the Brookings Institution, visiting professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, and author of Siberian Curse: How Communist Planners Left Russia Out in the Cold (with Fiona Hill) and Russia’s Virtual Economy (with Barry William Ickes). Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the C.A. Johnson Economics Fund.
Monday, October 11 - 7:30 p.m., Warner Hemicycle
Lecture, “Colonial Racial Discourse,” by Margarita Zamora, professor of Spanish, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Co-sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs and the Department of Spanish.
Thursday, October 21, - 4:30 p.m., Johnson 304
“The Devil in the Details: A Closer Look at Hadrian’s Pantheon,” a lectureby Rabun Taylor, Associate Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. The Pantheon — the most talked about Roman monument — is in many ways the least looked at Roman building nowadays, at least in term of its fabric, because people falsely believe that we understand its constructional history. Sponsored by the History of Art and Architecture department, Wonnacott Commons, and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund.
Thursday, October 21 - 4:30 p.m., Sunderland 110
Lecture, “Lives Interwoven by Celluloid: The Multi-Storyline Film,” by Sarah Kozloff, Professor and Chair of Film Studies, Vassar College. Sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Culture and the Hirschfield Fund
Friday, October 22, 4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
Professor Priscilla Parkhurst Ferguson, French and Sociology Departments, Columbia University. Lecture on the history of French cuisine.
Tuesday, October 26, 4:30 p.m. - Johnson 304
” ‘My Architect’: an Insider’s View.”John McLeod will draw on his insights from work as a consultant to Nathaniel Kahn’s “My Architect” to discuss the making of the film and the influence of the architect and his works. Sponsored by the Dept. of the History of Art and Architecture, the Program in Film and Media Culture, and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund.
Thursday, October 28 - 4:30 p.m., Twilight Auditorium
“Rodin/Rose/Camille: What to do about love if you want to be a genius,” a lecture by Ruth Butler. Butler is Professor Emerita of the History of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and the author of numerous works on Rodin, including the award-winning biography Rodin: the Shape of Genius (Yale University Press) and Rodin in Perspective, as well as essays for Rodin Re-Discovered, and Rodin’s Monument to Victor Hugo. She currently serves as a trustee of the Musée Rodin in Paris, the first American ever so honored. Sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, the Middlebury College Museum of Arts, the Committee on the Arts, and the Christian A. Johnson Enrichment Fund.
Friday, October 29 - 4:30 p.m., Redfield Proctor Room
Lecture, “The Election of 2004: Analysis and Projections,” by Eric Davis, Professor of Political Science.
Thursday, November 4, 4:30 p.m. - Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
Lecture by Joshua A. Tucker, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs (joint appointment in the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs and the Department of Politics). Sponsored by the Rohatyn Center for International Affairs.
Friday, November 5, 12:15 p.m. - Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
International Studies Colloquium lunchtime lecture, “The Brazil of Lula,” by Timothy J. Power, Associate Professor and Graduate Director, Department of Political Science, Florida International University, and President, Brazilian Studies Association. Reservations essential; RSVP by Monday, November 1, to Martha Baldwin, ext. 5324 or email baldwin@middlebury.edu.
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Trinh T. Minh-ha, filmmaker, writer, and composer, Professor of Women’s Studies, Rhetoric, and Film, University of California - Berkeley. Author of seven books, including: The Digital Film Event (forthcoming), Cinema Interval (1999), and Framer Framed (1992). Sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Culture, the Hirschfield Fund, the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, The Committee on the Arts, and the Anthropology Department.
4:30 pm. - Twilight Hall Lecture: BOUNDARY EVENT
7:30 pm - Dana Auditorium: NIGHT PASSAGE (USA 98 mins., color, 2004) Directed and produced by: Trinh T. Minh-ha & Jean-Paul Bourdier. Film followed by discussion with Trinh T. Minh-ha
Saturday, November 13 - 2:00-5:30 p.m.
Silberman Symposium in Jewish Studies
The symposium topic will be connected to the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the first Jews in North America in 1654.
Tuesday, November 16 - Saturday, November 20
Amnesty International Symposium
Tuesday, November 16 - 7:00 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room
Janice Raymond, Co-Executive Director, Coalition Against Trafficking in Women
Wednesday, November 17 - 7:00 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room
Suzanne Tomatore, Esq., Program Director, Immigrant Women & Children Project, Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.
Thursday, November 18 - 7:00 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room
Vivian Itchon Gupta, Education Director, GABRIELA Network
Friday, November 19 - 12:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room
Amy Bodbosser, Program Officer, International Organization for Adolescents (Accompanied by lunch service)
Saturday, November 20 - 3:00 p.m., Dana Auditorium
Screening of “The Selling Of Innocence” followed by a discussion led by Ruchira Gupta, Producer and Anti-Trafficking Expert, Development Alternatives, Inc.
Saturday, November 20 - 6:00 p.m., Redfield Proctor
Keynote Address: Ruchira Gupta, Anti-Trafficking Expert, Development Alternatives Inc.
Friday, March 4 - 4:30 p.m., Sunderland 110
Lecture, “Amnesis Time: The Films of Marjorie Keller,” by Robin Blaetz, Associate Professor of Film Studies at Mount Holyoke College. Sponsored by the Program in Film and Media Culture, the Program in Women and Gender Studies, and the Hirschfield Fund.
Saturday, March 5 - 9:30 a.m., Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre
Art & Nature: Seventh Annual Christian A. Johnson Symposium. Co-sponsored by the Department of History of Art and Architecture and the Middlebury College Museum of Art. To register, order lunch, and for further information, please call 802-443-5234.
Thursday, March 10 - 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House conference room
Lecture by Katherine Verdery, Collegiate Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, author of What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change, and The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Post-Socialist Transylvania. Lecture title to be announced. This is the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar lecture for 2004-05.
Friday, April 15-Sunday, April 17
Jerusalem Conference
Guest speakers include:
Francis E. Peters (NYU), Jerusalem through the Centuries
Lee I. Levine (Hebrew University, Jerusalem) Jerusalem and Judaism
Christiane J. Gruber (U. Penn) Jerusalem and the Ascension of Muhammad
Alexander Van Der Haven (U. of Chicago) The Jerusalem Syndrome
Salim Tamari (Bitzeit University) Nationalizing Jerusalem: The Palestinian Perspective
Bernard Wasserstein (U.of Chicago) Whose Jerusalem?
Ian Lustick (U. Penn)
In addition, the following Middlebury faculty will participate:
Larry Yarbrough, Jerusalem and Early Christianity
Katie Abbott, The Ideal Jerusalem
Suleiman Mourad, Jerusalem the Islamic City
Bob Churchill, Jerusalem in Maps
Tamar Mayer, Nationalizing Jerusalem: The Jewish Israeli Perspective
Note: The titles are working titles.
Thursday, April 21, 4:30 p.m., McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216
Lecture by Robert W. Bagley, “An Underground Palace in Ancient China: The Tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng”
The tomb of the Marquis Yi of Zeng is one the most important archaeological discoveries of recent decades anywhere in the ancient world. It yielded a full court orchestra, including a monumental chime of fifty-six bronze bells, drums, stringed and wind instruments, as well as elaborate ritual vessels, lacquer, jade, and gold. The lecture will discuss the significance of the discovery and explore its contribution to the study of ancient Chinese music. Robert W. Bagley is a distinguished authority on ancient China. His publications include Shang Ritual Bronzes in the Arthur M. Sackler Collections and Ancient Sichuan: Treasures of a Lost Civilization (ed.), as well as many scholarly articles on Chinese archaeology. Supported by the Middlebury College Museum of Art, the Barbara and Robert Youngman Fund for Asian Art, and the Department of History of Art and Architecture.