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Wednesday, February 17, 2027

  • Carol Rifelj Lecture Series, Nicholas Shea

    Sponsored by:
    Dean of the Faculty

    Fretboard Networks: Musical Understanding in the Self-Taught Musician Digital Ecosystem

    As many as 72 million people play guitar, yet most don’t go on tour or make records. Instead, “…people want to play quietly and solo in their own home, singing along with their favorite songs,” notes Fender CEO Andy Mooney. In this talk, Nicholas explores how self-guided guitar instruction contributes to musical understanding — the awareness of musical organization in time — within an online community of mostly amateur and semi-professional guitarists.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Friday, February 19, 2027

Saturday, February 20, 2027

Monday, February 22, 2027

Tuesday, February 23, 2027

Wednesday, February 24, 2027

  • Carol Rifelj Lecture Series, Eunyung Lim

    Sponsored by:
    Dean of Faculty

    Dear Aborted Apostle (1 Cor 15:8): Reproductive Loss and Women’s Rituals in Ancient Corinth

    In 1 Corinthians, Paul uses an unusual metaphor to describe his past, saying that Christ appeared to him “as to one untimely born” (ektroma; ?κτρωμα). Because ektroma can denote “abortion,” “miscarriage,” or “stillbirth,” scholars have long debated Paul’s use of the term, often interpreting it as a form of rhetorical self-defense.

    Franklin Environmental Center, The Orchard-Hillcrest 103

Sunday, February 28, 2027

Monday, March 1, 2027

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