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Assumption College Announces February Events Friday, February 3, 2006 – Charles Walker Jr., Esq., will present a lecture entitled “Ev’ry Voice Counts: 135th Anniversary of the Right to Vote Amendment,” at 7:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise auditorium. This event is part of the 2006 African American Festival Series sponsored by the Henry Lee Willis Community Center. Walker, the director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law (Boston Bar Association), will lecture on civil rights and the right to vote amendment. A choral program featuring the Christ Tabernacle Apostolic Church Choir follows the presentation. Admission fee: adults $10; seniors $5; children under 12 free. Sunday, February 5, 2006 – Assumption College HUMANARTS presents pianist Nigel Coxe, at 3:00 p.m. in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit. Coxe is a Jamaican born, British trained pianist living in the United States. He has performed widely in Europe, Great Britain, and the U.S., and has appeared as a soloist with the London Philharmonic, London Symphony, Hallé Orchestra, and many others. He has given recitals for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, and has made numerous solo and concerto broadcasts for the BBC London and European stations. Coxe is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music, London and teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Thursday, February 9, 2006 – Assumption will host a screening of the film Bedwin Hacker (2002) at 4:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise auditorium. Directed by Nadia El Fani, Bedwin Hacker tells the story of Kalt who spends her days in an apartment jammed full of equipment, hijacking frequencies of foreign television channels and using them to broadcast messages in Arabic, signed by an animated cartoon character, a camel named Bedwin Hacker. This screening is part of Assumption’s “Envisioning the World of Women: Stories from the Middle East” series of events. Robert Lang, associate professor of cinema at the University of Hartford, and recently a Fullbright scholar at the University of Tunis, will introduce the film. A discussion will follow the screening. Tuesday, February 7, 2006 – Dan Clawson, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, will present a lecture entitled, “Inequality: Where We’ve Been – and Might Go,” at 7:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise auditorium. Clawson has wide-ranging interests and has written extensively on inequality in society, including analysis of families and work, the labor movement, and trends in higher education. His most recent book is The Next Upsurge: Labor and the New Social Movements. Friday, February 17, 2006 – The Emmanuel d’Alzon Arts Series will host a poetry reading with Carle Johnson and Frank Miller at 7:00 p.m. in the Emmanuel d’Alzon Library. Johnson was the founding editor of the WCPA’s Poetry Newsletter in 1979. He has produced and hosted over 100 original TV programs entitled, “Poets-In-Profile,” for WCTC-TV, Worcester. He also served three years as a member of the Massachusetts State Poetry Society's Board of Directors. Since 1989, he has been an editor of the WCPA’s The Worcester Review. He was director of the Stanley Kunitz 75th Birthday Festival in 1985 and was the Executive Director of the Elizabeth Bishop Conference and Poetry Festival, which received the Worcester Telegram & Gazette 1997 Visions 2000 Cultural Enrichment Award as the outstanding cultural event in Worcester for 1997. Carle’s poetry was featured in the Sahara, Vol. 2, No. 1, Spring/Summer 2001. Miller’s works have been published in The Issue, Sahara and, most recently, in The Worcester Review, whose editorial board nominated his poem “Requiem for Remembrance” for a Pushcart. He also attended the Joiner Institute Workshop where he worked with Bruce Weigl and Fred Marchant. Tuesday, February 21, 2006 – Assumption College HUMANARTS presents a lecture by Bill Roorbach, novelist and essayist, at 7:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise salon. Roorbach’s works consist of both books and short stories. His books include: Temple Stream: A Rural Odyssey; A Place on Water; Into Woods; The Smallest Cover; Big Bend; Summers with Juliet; Writing Life Stories: How to Make Memories into Memoirs, Ideas into EssaysandLife into Literature; and Contemporary Creative Nonfiction: The Art of Truth. Thursday, February 23, 2006 – Assumption College HUMANARTS presents lecturer Qianshen Bai, at 7:00 p.m. in the La Maison Francaise Auditorium. Bai’s lecture is entitled, “Chinese Calligraphy in its Cultural Context.” He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Peking University in 1982, teaching the history of political institutions in China, before heading to Rutgers University in 1986 to work on a Ph.D. in comparative politics. He planned to return to China to teach political science, but abruptly terminated that track in 1989 because of the Tiananmen Square event, returning to his earlier love of art — having studied Chinese art since his youth and won a national calligraphy competition while an undergraduate. A University Fellowship at Yale led him to an art history Ph.D. in 1996. He joined the Boston University faculty in 1997 as an assistant professor of Asian art. Bai is the current director of undergraduate studies in Boston University’s Department of Art History. For more information regarding these events, please contact the Public Affairs Office at (508) 767-7160 or acpa@assumption.edu. |