*Free Photography Workshop Series - with Dmitri Kasterine. Today: learn to manage color in Photoshop and make digital prints of the highest quality. Please bring Epson Premium Photo Paper, semi-gloss, gloss, or luster, size 8.5" x 11". Enrollment limited to 8 students. *Workshops free and open to the Vassar community only. Please register with Ann Lynch, Campus Activities, x5370, or email anlynch@vassar.edu.
College Center, 235
College Center, Faculty Commons
A Charles C. Griffin Memorial Lecture by Barbara Weinstein, Professor of Modern Latin American History, New York University. "The Color of Modernity: S?o Paulo and the Whitening of Brazilian Regional History."
Sanders Hall, 212
Registration: getter@vassar.edu.
Ely Hall, 114
Political discussion. Students and faculty are invited. Dinner will be served. Sponsored by the Forum for Political Thought.
College Center, Faculty Commons
Vassar vs. Stevens Institute.
Kenyon Hall, Gym
Gail Collins, author and New York Times columnist, "American Women." Ms. Collins will deliver a one hour talk with a question/answer session and a book signing. Gail Collins joined the New York Times in 1995 as a member of the editorial board and later as an op-ed columnist. In 2001 she became the first woman ever appointed editor of the Times editorial page. At the beginning of 2007, she stepped down and began a leave in order to finish a sequel to her book, "America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines." She returned to the Times as a columnist in July 2007.
Students' Building, Second Floor
"Cosmic Voyage" (1935) 70 min. English subtitles. The Soviet spaceship "Stalin" makes a pioneering flight to the Moon? The film's "rocket science" draws on the ideas of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, the visionary founding father of the Soviet Union's space effort. This rare silent flick is accompanied by a hip soundtrack featuring the acclaimed rock artist Mumiy Troll (2006). Introductory remarks by Dan Ungurianu.
Rockefeller Hall, 200
Main Building, Rose Parlor
Take Back the Mug is a speakout event to reclaim the Mug as a safe space.
College Center, Matthew's Pub