The Tanenbaum Peace Fellowship gives students the opportunity to experience first-hand the pervasive role of religion in international conflicts and peacemaking. Two students will receive stipends to spend the summer abroad working for an organization?religious or secular?that works for peace and justice in a part of the world where religious identity is involved in conflict and/or conflict resolution.Applications will be due on March 28, 2008. For more information, contact Stephanie Almozara (stalmozara).
College Center, 223
Vassar College Music Colloquium: Martha Feldman, lecture. "The Man Who Pretended to Be Who He Was: Castrati and other Strange Tales." Skinner Hall of Music, Thekla Hall.
Skinner Hall of Music, 400
Steven Volk, Professor of History, Chair of Latin American Studies, and Director of the Center for Teaching Innovation and Excellence at Oberlin College. "Chile Remembered: The Surprising Persistence of Chile in U.S. Historical Memory." Co-sponsored by International Studies, Latin American and Latino/a Studies, History, Sociology, Political Science and the Dean of the Faculty Office.
Rockefeller Hall, 200
Jamshed Bharucha, Provost and Senior Vice President,Tufts University. "Music, Mind, and the Ineffable." A psychologist who studies cognitive neuroscience and music perception, his research has focused on the cognitive and neural basis of the perception of music, using perceptual experiments, neural net modeling and funtional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Provost Bharucha graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Vassar College, where he majored in biopsychology, received an M.A. in philosophy from Yale University, and a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Harvard University. He received the Distinguished Achievement Award from AAVC, in 2005.
Sanders Hall, 212
College Center, 223
SASA's Annual Diaspora Dinner. Enjoy a delicious feast featuring both h ome-cooked and catered food from around the South Asian diaspora.
College Center, Villard Room
Fiction Reading: Mary Caponegro. Caponegro is the author of the short story collections "Tales from the Next Village," "The Star Cafe," "Five Doubts," and "The Complexities of Intimacy." She is the Richard B. Fisher Family Professor of Writing and Literature at Bard College. William Gass said of her work, "The music of Mary Caponegro's stories is to the mouth what wine is. Readers will find themselves lost among answers, intoxicated, knowing only that these are stories unlike any others before or since, which is, for this reader at least, a relief, a challenge, and a Godsend." Sponsored by the English Department.
Taylor Hall, 203
Vassar vs. College of Mount Saint Mary.
Kenyon Hall, Gym
Columbia Publishing Course.
College Center, Faculty Commons
Information session about a summer service and travel oppurtunity in Ghana. Thursday, February 21, in the Davison MPR at 7pm. We will be teaching and living in Ajumako, a town in the Central Region of Ghana (between Accra and Cape Coast). We'll teach during the week, leaving small trips and exploring for the weekend. The trip will be worth one Field Work credit. Come to learn more. Any questions? Email cafuller@vassar.edu"
Davison, Multipurpose Room
A screening of the film "Bobby" (2006). Sponsored by the College Dems.
Rockefeller Hall, 200
Ntozake Shange's award winning play "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf." A choreopoem, a play choreoographed to music that tells the story of: "Bein' alive and bein' a woman and bein' colored..."A collaboration between the Council of Black Seniors and the Black Student Union. Co-sponsored by Philaletheis.
Susan Stein Shiva Theater
College Center, Matthew's Pub