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Tuesday, March 2, 2027

Wednesday, March 3, 2027

  • Carol Rifelj Lecture Series, Greg Pask

    Sponsored by:
    Dean of the Faculty

    Adventures in Insect Smell

    Join us for this Odyssey of Olfaction! Insects use smell as their primary sense to detect mates, food, threats, and places to lay their eggs. Over his career, Greg has used a myriad of interdisciplinary approaches to explore the genetic basis of smell in mosquitoes, ants, fireflies, and now butterflies!

    Click here to learn more about this lecture series.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Thursday, March 4, 2027

Friday, March 5, 2027

  • How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850

    Sponsored by:
    Religion

    Bryan Lowe ‘03, Associate Professor of Religion at Princeton University, will lecture on his new book, How Buddhism Spread in Japan, 650–850 (University of Hawai’i Press, 2026).

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

    Open to the Public
  • two dancers kneeling on stage with a puppet

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

    Sponsored by:
    Performing Arts Series and Dance

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT) will share their work Shabaab (meaning “youth” in Arabic), a full-length performance by Samar Haddad King celebrating the intimacy, beauty, and tenderness of Arab male friendship. In a land where shared dreams and struggles are often overshadowed by the structural obstacles and systemic violence of occupation, the strength and sweetness of their bond is what helps these boys grow into men. YSDT believes that art is liberating, transformative, and accessible to all.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    $30/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Saturday, March 6, 2027

  • two dancers kneeling on stage with a puppet

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre

    Sponsored by:
    Performing Arts Series and Dance

    Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT) will share their work Shabaab (meaning “youth” in Arabic), a full-length performance by Samar Haddad King celebrating the intimacy, beauty, and tenderness of Arab male friendship. In a land where shared dreams and struggles are often overshadowed by the structural obstacles and systemic violence of occupation, the strength and sweetness of their bond is what helps these boys grow into men. YSDT believes that art is liberating, transformative, and accessible to all.

    Mahaney Arts Center Dance Theatre

    $30/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Monday, March 8, 2027

Tuesday, March 9, 2027

Wednesday, March 10, 2027

  • Carol Rifelj Lecture Series, Misty Kaplan

    Sponsored by:
    Dean of the Faculty

    Ornament, Crime and the Reglet

    In 1910, the architect Adolf Loos gave a lecture titled “Ornament and Crime.” The lecture gave voice to a conviction central to early Modernism: that a building should honestly express its own structure, materials, and purpose, and that the historical ornament being layered onto the architecture of the time, by disguising all three, was a kind of deception. More than a century later, its influence can still be felt in contemporary architecture that reads as seamless and unadorned.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

  • two artists sitting on the floor holding their instruments

    Théotime Langlois de Swarte, Violin and Thomas Dunford, Lute

    Sponsored by:
    Performing Arts Series

    Violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and lutenist Thomas Dunford illuminate aspects of the elusive amalgamation that is the 17th century English notion of melancholy. The inconsolable “Mad Lover” of this program is reimagined as a character from the reign of Charles II. His tale is told through music from the pen of such violin virtuosos as the prodigiously gifted Nicola Matteis. Heightened by the exuberance and abandon common to those musicians transplanted from Italy, the beguiling nuances of this language of yearning and loss continue to echo in the popular music of our time.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    $30/20/10/5
    Open to the Public

Thursday, March 11, 2027

Saturday, March 13, 2027

  • Student performers and accompanist on stage standing around a piano

    Songs and Arias

    Sponsored by:
    Music

    Music Department vocal students present an lively evening of songs and arias. 

    This concert will also be streamed, with access to the performance stream available starting at showtime. https://www.youtube.com/@robisonhall

    About streaming and sound: Our streams are meant to capture the “sound in the room” without post-production sound editing. Bear in mind the sound quality will not compare to a studio recording.

    Mahaney Arts Center, Olin C. Robison Concert Hall

    Free
    Open to the Public

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