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Poetry, Music & Translation

2010-09-11T09:45:50.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-10-29 09:00:00 EDT
Duration: 28800
Where: Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A conference Friday, 10/29–Sunday, 10/31 Event Oval, The Diana Center This conference explores the problem of translating the musical qualities of poetry, and more broadly, the question of “music”—in all its forms—for literary studies, the philosophy of aesthetics, and translation studies. The conference is both international and interdisciplinary, featuring participants from the U.S. and the U.K., and including specialists in German, French, and English literature, philosophers of aesthetics and philosophers of music, and academic and professional translators. The keynote speakers are Professor Peter Dayan (University of Edinburgh), holder of the first-ever Chair of Word and Music Studies, and Professor John Sallis (Boston College), well known for his contributions to Continental philosophy as well as for his book On Translation. This event is sponsored by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Visit barnard.edu for the conference program or contact Susan Johnson at sjohnson@barnard.edu. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1029

Beyond The Game: Women, Sports, and Competitio. A Panel With Jane Geddes, Sarah Hughes, Donna Orender and Erinn Smart '01 Moderated by Juliet Macur '92

2010-11-01T15:13:19.000Z

When: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11pm to Thu Nov 11, 2010 1am UTC

Where: Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: The panel will explore how sports impact women's lives beyond the playing field, addressing such questions as: Do women athletes lead differently? How does professional competition impact leadership outside the sports arena? Panelists include: Jane Geddes, US Open winner and Senior VP at the LPGA; Sarah Hughes, Olympic figure skating gold medalist; Donna Orender, President of the WNBA; and Erinn Smart '01, Olympic fencing medalist. Juliet Macur '92 of The New York Times will moderate. Sponsored by the Office of the President.

The Annual Candlelight Concert

2010-09-10T13:48:27.000Z

When: Sun Dec 12, 2010 1am to 2am UTC

Where: Union Theological Seminary: Broadway at West 120th Street
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Featuring the Barnard-Columbia Chorus Saturday, 12/11 8 PM Union Theological Seminary Broadway at West 120th Street Featuring members of the university’s student choirs, the annual Candlelight Concert includes choral masterworks with orchestra, as well as holiday favorites that will have you singing along. This year the Barnard-Columbia Chorus performs Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 and Beethoven’s Mass in C. Cast in the glow of hundreds of candles, the concert is an especially festive way to ring in the season. Reception to follow—all are invited! $5/$3 students and seniors Information 212.854.5096 garcher@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1012.html#1211

Silence

0001-12-29T00:00:00.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-12-09 20:00:00 EST
Duration: 3600
Who: Barnard College Events
Where: Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre, LL200 Diana Cente
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A play by Moira Buffini Thursday, 12/09–Saturday, 12/11 8 PM Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre, LL200 Diana Center Silence is Moira Buffini’s “witty, provocative … prize-winning comedy” (The New York Times) that leaps back in time 1,000 years to follow the unlikely marriage of the adolescent Lord Silence and the fiercely independent Princess Ymma of Normandy. Along with the tyrannical King Ethelred, a French maid, the warrior Eadric Longshaft, and a priest named Roger, the newlyweds embark on an extraordinary adventure filled with forbidden love, cross-dressing, telepathy, and magic mushrooms. This production will be the theatre department’s first in The Diana Center’s state-of-the-art Glicker-Milstein Black Box Theatre. Directed by Adjunct Lecturer Rob Bundy. Tickets & Information 10/$5 with CUID tic.columbia.edu barnard.edu/theatre http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1012.html#1209b

The Barnard Project at Dance Theater Workshop

2010-09-10T13:43:51.000Z

When: Sat Dec 4, 2010 7pm to 8pm UTC

Where: 219 West 19th Street
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Thursday, 12/02–Saturday, 12/04 7:30 PM Saturday, 12/04 2 PM 219 West 19th Street This marks the sixth season of the groundbreaking collaboration between the department of dance and Dance Theater Workshop. The Barnard Project at DTW continues to receive national attention and serves as a model of sustainability for artistic ecosystems. Choreographers Kimberly Bartosik, Ori Flomin, Will Rawls, and Gwen Welliver offer premieres that engage Barnard students in the artistic and intellectual rigors of the creative process. $20/$12 student Reservations 212.924.0077 dtw.org Information 212.854.9769 mcochran@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1012.html#1202

The Barnard Project at Dance Theater Workshop

0001-12-29T00:00:00.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-12-02 19:30:00 EST
Duration: 3600
Where: 219 West 19th Street
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Thursday, 12/02–Saturday, 12/04 7:30 PM Saturday, 12/04 2 PM 219 West 19th Street This marks the sixth season of the groundbreaking collaboration between the department of dance and Dance Theater Workshop. The Barnard Project at DTW continues to receive national attention and serves as a model of sustainability for artistic ecosystems. Choreographers Kimberly Bartosik, Ori Flomin, Will Rawls, and Gwen Welliver offer premieres that engage Barnard students in the artistic and intellectual rigors of the creative process. $20/$12 student Reservations 212.924.0077 dtw.org Information 212.854.9769 mcochran@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1012.html#1202

Student Reading

2010-09-10T13:45:16.000Z

When: Fri Dec 10, 2010 1am to 2am UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Thursday, 12/09 7 PM Sulzberger Parlor 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Barnard has produced some of today’s most exciting young writers, including Galaxy Craze ’93, Suki Kim ’92, Eliza Minot ’91, Meg Mullins ’95, and Marisha Pessl ’00. Join the English department for a celebration of the next generation of literary talent, as current Barnard students read from their work.

Translation as Performance: From Español into English

2010-09-10T13:39:09.000Z

When: Thu Nov 18, 2010 11pm to Fri Nov 19, 2010 12am UTC

Where: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A multimedia demonstration Thursday, 11/18 6 PM James Room 4th Floor Barnard Hall A text is usually translated in isolation. At this event, however, two translators will encounter a text in performance—rendering it from Spanish into English in real time, as it is projected on adjacent screens. The audience will thus be able to experience the act of translation firsthand, comparing the choices made by either translator in the “alchemical” transformation of a text from one language into another. Marko Miletich (Hunter College) will act as moderator. Refreshments will be served. This event is sponsored by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. Information 212.851.5979 sjohnson@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1118

Yvette Christiansë, Ellen McLaughlin, & Meg Wolitzer

2010-09-10T13:35:04.000Z

When: Thu Nov 18, 2010 12am to 1am UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A reading Wednesday, 11/17 7 PM Sulzberger Parlor Yvette Christiansë’s poetry collection, I, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her acclaimed first novel, Unconfessed, is based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway/PEN International Prize for First Fiction. Ellen McLaughlin’s plays include: Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Penelope, and Ajax in Iraq. Meg Wolitzer is a novelist whose first book, Sleepwalking, was published the year after she graduated from Brown University. Since then, her books have included The Wife, The Position, and The Ten-Year Nap, among others. Her new novel, The Uncoupling, will be published by Riverhead in the spring of 2011. Poet and fiction writer Yvette Christiansë was born in South Africa under apartheid and immigrated with her parents to Australia at age 18. Her work has been published internationally, and her poetry collection, Castaway, was a finalist for the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her acclaimed first novel, Unconfessed, is based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway/PEN International Prize for First Fiction. Christiansë received her PhD from the University of Sydney and teaches in the English department at Fordham University. Sponsored by the Barnard Africana Studies Program. Ellen McLaughlin’s plays include: Infinity’s House, Iphigenia and Other Daughters, Tongue of a Bird, Trojan Women, Helen, The Persians, Penelope, and Ajax in Iraq. Regional and international venues include the Guthrie Theater; Actors’ Theater of Louisville; Almeida Theatre, London; and the Mark Taper Forum, L.A. Off-Broadway: National Actors’ Theater, CSC, New York Theater Workshop, and the Public Theater. Awards include the Writer’s Award, Lila Wallace-Reader’s Digest, and the Susan Blackburn Prize. She has taught playwriting at Barnard since 1995. She is also an actor. Meg Wolitzer is a novelist whose first book, Sleepwalking, was published the year after she graduated from Brown University. Since then, her books have included The Wife, The Position, and The Ten-Year Nap, among others. Her new novel, The Uncoupling, will be published by Riverhead in the spring of 2011. Wolitzer, whose fiction has appeared in The Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize, has taught in the MFA program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts, as well as at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop, Boston University, and Skidmore College. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1117

Opera Hispanica: Sonetos de Amor y Muerte

2010-09-10T13:34:09.000Z

When: Tue Nov 16, 2010 1am to 2am UTC

Where: The Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: Monday, 11/15 8 PM The Event Oval The Diana Center Opera Hispanica is a new company devoted to presenting the best of Spanish and Latin-American opera. In Sonetos de Amor y Muerte (“Songs of Love and Death”), a quintet of singers performs an hour-long program of Spanish-language art songs from a wide spectrum of composers. Sponsored by the Barnard department of music. Information 212.854.5096 garcher@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1115

Roslyn Silver Science ’27 Lecture: Current Cravings, Strange Desires & Frightening Things - The Effect of the Frontal Lobe and Amygdala on Affect and Actions

2010-09-10T13:32:42.000Z

When: Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:30pm to Thu Nov 11, 2010 12:30am UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture with Elisabeth A. Murray Wednesday, 11/10 6:30 PM Sulzberger Parlor 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Dr. Elisabeth A. Murray, senior investigator at the National Institute of Mental Health’s Laboratory of Neuropsychology, studies the neural basis of learning, memory, emotion, and action. One topic of particular interest is the neural bases of decision-making. Examining the neural circuits critical for affective processing and the way in which affective information, including reward, guides decision-making, Dr. Murray will discuss her research in macaque monkeys, showing that the amygdala and a part of the frontal lobe operate as part of a network involved in reward-based decision-making. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1110b

Helen Pond McIntyre '48 Lecture: Intimacies Deferred - Genealogies of Freedom

2010-09-10T13:28:13.000Z

When: Thu Nov 4, 2010 10:30pm to 11:30pm UTC

Where: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture with with Lisa Lowe Thursday, 11/04 6:30 PM James Room 4th Floor Barnard Hall Historians characterize the early-nineteenth-century arrival of Chinese “coolies” to the Americas as “the transition from slavery to free labor,” in which the abolition of slavery and the introduction of indentured labor comprised the conditions for the emergence of liberal political reason. In this lecture, Lisa Lowe, professor of comparative literature at the University of California, San Diego, explores the 1840s–50s as a period of the ascendancy of “free trade,” the rubric under which Britain and the U.S. sought to open Chinese ports, observing that the coolie not only figured a new division of labor, but became a sign of the shift from colonial mercantilism to a new international trade in manufactured goods. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1104

The Arts of Healing: The Work of Quilts in Grief

2010-09-10T13:29:55.000Z

When: Tue Nov 9, 2010 5pm to 6pm UTC

Where: BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lunchtime lecture with Lisa Collins Tuesday, 11/09 12 PM BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall This visual presentation explores possible parallels between the process of grieving and the practice of quilt-making by focusing on a 1942 quilt from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, created by Missouri Pettway (1902—81). Featured in the popular traveling exhibition “The Quilts of Gee’s Bend,” this 7 1⁄2 foot by 5 3⁄4 foot stained “work-clothes” quilt offers lessons not only about the work of farming, but also about the work of grieving. Professor Lisa Collins returns to our lunchtime lecture series to present her new work on quilts and the personal stories that they are capable of telling. Professor Collins is the author of The Art of History: African-American Women Artists Engage the Past and Art by African- American Artists: Selections from the Twentieth Century. 'http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1011.html#1109

HollaBack: Feminist Responses to Street Harassment

2010-09-10T12:23:50.000Z

When: Mon Oct 25, 2010 10:30pm to 11:30pm UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A panel Monday, 10/25 6:30 PM Sulzberger Parlor 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Street harassment, or sexual harassment in public spaces, is an issue that just about every woman has some experience with, regardless of her race, class, or location. Activists from New York City and Washington, D.C., will discuss innovative ways to combat street harassment using technology, mapping, and community organizing. Through online activism, public policy, and advocacy and outreach, these activists have succeeded in giving people from many different communities a forum in which they can speak out against gender-based street harassment. Shannon Lynberg and Chai Shenoy are cofounders of HollaBack DC! Emily May is cofounder of HollaBack! and New Yorkers for Safe Transit, a coalition dedicated to safe transit for all. Oraia Reid is executive director of RightRides for Women’s Safety, whose mission is to create safer communities by ending sexual harassment and assault. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1025

The Process of Embodiment

2010-09-10T12:22:48.000Z

When: Fri Oct 22, 2010 5:30pm to 6:30pm UTC

Where: Streng Studio, Barnard Hall Annex
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: An Interactive Dance Performance Friday, 10/22 1:30 PM Streng Studio Barnard Hall Annex Witness students and dance faculty engaging in and elaborating on the methods that are the magic of artistic development. Information 212.854.9769 mcochran@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1022

The Physicists

2010-09-10T12:21:16.000Z

Recurring Event
First start: 2010-10-21 20:00:00 EDT
Duration: 3600
Where: Minor Latham Playhouse, 118 Milbank Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A play by Friedrich Dürrenmatt Thursday, 10/21–Saturday, 10/23 8 PM Minor Latham Playhouse 118 Milbank Hall Einstein. Newton. Möbius. Three men in an insane asylum believe themselves to be three of history’s most brilliant scientists. Or is their madness merely a ruse, a means of hiding (or pursuing) a scientific discovery that could lead to inconceivably destructive forces being unleashed upon the world? “Drama,” Swiss playwright Friedrich Dürrenmatt observed, “can dupe the spectator into exposing himself to reality, but [it] cannot compel him to withstand … or even to master it”—a fitting motto for the Barnard College department of theatre’s 2010–11 season, which aims to “expose” audiences to the intersection of history and politics through the provisional reality of the stage. Dürrenmatt’s scalding and farcical parable about the moral dilemma of the modern scientist is an excellent place to begin this yearlong project. Alice Reagan, assistant professor of professional practice, directs. Tickets & Information 10/$5 with CUID tic.columbia.edu barnard.edu/theatre http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1021b

Christianity & the Global Politics of Sexuality

2010-09-10T12:19:12.000Z

When: Thu Oct 21, 2010 11pm to Fri Oct 22, 2010 12am UTC

Where: Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A panel Thursday, 10/21 7 PM Event Oval, The Diana Center Christianity’s claims about sexuality reverberate far and wide. Not only do transnational and non-governmental Christian organizations have a decided impact on legal and social policies—especially those related to sexuality—but the topic continues to rankle and even divide Christian churches themselves, as evidenced by the recent tensions in the Anglican Communion over LGBT clergy members. Here, panelists explore these debates within Christian churches and the global reach of Christian claims about sexuality. Panelists include Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College (moderator); Eng-Beng Lim, Brown University; Ju Hui Judy Han, University of British Columbia; Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University; and Jordan Alexander Stein, University of Colorado at Boulder. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1021a

Poems from the Women's Movement

2010-09-10T12:18:27.000Z

When: Wed Oct 20, 2010 11pm to Thu Oct 21, 2010 12am UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A reading Wednesday, 10/20 7 PM Sulzberger Parlor 3rd Floor Barnard Hall “What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?/The world would split open.” Muriel Rukeyser’s lines epitomize the spirit that animated a whole generation of women poets, from the 1960s to the 1980s, who in exploring the unspoken truths of their lives sparked a literary revolution. Join Jorie Graham, Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins, Honor Moore, Eileen Myles, and Anne Waldman in an evening that celebrates the work of poets whose writing was shaped by, and helped shape, the women’s movement. Jorie Graham has, for 30 years, “engaged the whole human contraption—intellectual, global, domestic, apocalyptic—rather than the narrow emotional slice of it most often reserved for poems.... Like Rilke or Yeats, she imagines the hermetic poet as a public figure, someone who addresses the most urgent philosophical and political issues of the time” (James Longenbach). Her books include Sea Change (Ecco, 2008), Swarm (2000), and The Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems 1974—94, which won the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Elizabeth Lorde-Rollins is a physician, a poet, and the daughter of Audre Lorde (1934—92), the author of nine collections of poetry, including Cables to Rage (1970). Her first poems were published in Langston Hughes’s New Negro Poets USA (1962), and her collected poems were published in 1997. She wrote “as a Black woman, a mother, a daughter, a Lesbian, a feminist, a visionary; poems of elemental wildness and healing, nightmare and lucidity” (Adrienne Rich). Honor Moore, editor of the Library of America’s Poems from the Women’s Movement anthology, has written three collections of poems, including Red Shoes (2005) and Memoir (1988). Her other editorial projects include The New Women’s Theater (1977). She is also the author of the biography The White Blackbird and the memoir The Bishop’s Daughter. “The streak of white daubed inside each poem is like a secret ticket to lightness and shining” (Fanny Howe). Eileen Myles has published more than 20 books of poetry and other genres, including The Irony of the Leash (1978), Sorry, Tree (2007), and Inferno, a poet’s novel, forthcoming in the fall of 2010. She writes as someone “with an uncanny knack for making people feel uncomfortable and awake … chanting softly and beautifully the harsh if humorous realities that combine to make whatever life a poet can piece together today” (John Ashbery). Anne Waldman is the author of more than 40 books of poetry, including On the Wing (1968) and Manatee/Humanity (2009), and is an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry movement. “I’d like here to declare an enlightened poetics,” she has written, “an androgynous poetics, a poetics defined by your primal energy not by a heterosexist world that must measure every word, act against itself.” She has been connected to the Beat movement and the second generation of the New York School. She and Allen Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1020b

In Quest of a Modernist Voice: Bronislava Nijinska in Post-Revolutionary Kiev

2010-09-10T12:17:31.000Z

When: Wed Oct 20, 2010 4pm to 5pm UTC

Where: BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lunchtime lecture with Lynn Garafola Wednesday, 10/20 12 PM BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall Bronislava Nijinska is the most celebrated woman choreographer of the twentieth century working in the ballet idiom. This talk will explore a pivotal moment in her development as an artist: her years in Kiev just after World War I, and the impact of the city’s multiethnic avant-garde on the creation of her first original works. Lynn Garafola is a professor of dance at Barnard College. A dance historian and critic, she is the author of Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes and Legacies of Twentieth-Century Dance, and the editor of several books. She is a former Getty Scholar, a recipient of fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and National Endowment for the Humanities, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1020a

Forum on Migration: Immigrant Bankers - East European Jewish Migration and American Capitalism, 1870—1914

2010-09-10T12:16:20.000Z

When: Tue Oct 19, 2010 10pm to 11pm UTC

Where: Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lecture with Rebecca Kobrin Tuesday, 10/19 6 PM Sulzberger Parlor 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Between 1870 and 1914, thousands of immigrant entrepreneurs opened “banks” that they ran in conjunction with other commercial enterprises, such as boarding houses, groceries, saloons, and ship-ticket shops. Rebecca Kobrin examines several scandals involving Jewish immigrant bankers in 1914 to show how these entrepreneurs’ speculation in the businesses of shipping, real estate, and banking transformed not only the process of migration for millions of arrivals, but also America’s banking system during the era of great upheaval. Rebecca Kobrin is Knapp Assistant Professor of American Jewish history at Columbia University and the author of Jewish Bialystok and Its Diaspora. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1019

Makeshift Reclamation

2010-09-10T12:15:03.000Z

When: Thu Oct 14, 2010 10:30pm to 11:30pm UTC

Where: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A multimedia panel Thursday, 10/14 6:30 PM James Room 4th Floor Barnard Hall This multimedia event showcases how contemporary feminists are combating not only gender-based oppression but also a collapsing economic system, an ever more serious climate crisis, and more. Featuring live readings, performances, and video works by Jessica Hoffmann, Hilary Goldberg, and a rotating cast of artists and activists including Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore, Timmy Straw, Anastacia Tolbert, Irina Contreras, and others. Hilary Goldberg is a filmmaker whose work has been screened at numerous festivals, including Outfest, Frameline, Reel Women International, and LGBT film festivals around the world. Jessica Hoffmann is a coeditor/copublisher of the independent, transnational, antiracist feminist magazine make/shift, a freelance writer and editor, and an activist. In 2008, Utne named her one of “50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.” http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1014

China Online: Politics, Activism, and the Internet

2010-09-10T12:13:53.000Z

When: Wed Oct 13, 2010 10:30pm to 11:30pm UTC

Where: James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A conversation Wednesday, 10/13 6:30 PM James Room 4th Floor Barnard Hall The Internet has developed rapidly since China was connected in 1994. An important part of China’s economic miracle, the Internet has also transformed Chinese politics, culture, and society. Full of contradictions and ambivalence, however, these transformations present many baffling questions: Why and how has the Chinese government attempted to control the Internet? How do Chinese Internet users engage in social activism using digital technologies? What explains the paradox of increasing Internet control and growing digital activism in China? Xiaobo Lu, Barnard professor of political science, and Guobin Yang, Barnard professor of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures and author of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, discuss these questions in a wide-ranging intellectual conversation between themselves and with the audience. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1013

A, R + D: Architecture, Research, and the Design Process

2010-09-10T12:12:42.000Z

When: Wed Oct 6, 2010 4pm to 5pm UTC

Where: BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A lunchtime lecture with Karen Fairbanks Wednesday, 10/06 12 PM BCRW, 101 Barnard Hall The role of digital design and fabrication has transformed contemporary architecture. This talk will look at architecture projects by Marble Fairbanks that engage these new technologies to explore new logics of design and assembly. Parallel to this research is a commitment to collaborative design processes and a belief that the collective intelligence of a team approach is the future model for the most innovative solutions to design problems. Karen Fairbanks is the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Professional Practice and chair of the architecture department at Barnard College, as well as a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks, an architecture, design, and research office in New York City. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1006

Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College: Building Partnerships - What Men Can Do to Advance Women's Leadership

2010-09-10T12:11:41.000Z

When: Tue Oct 5, 2010 4:30pm to 5:30pm UTC

Where: Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A conference with keynote by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Tuesday, 10/05 12:30 PM Event Oval, The Diana Center The Athena Center for Leadership Studies hosts this half-day conference to explore ways to inspire and build alliances between male and female leaders so that together we can reimagine and transform the world for the better. Nicholas Kristof (below) and Sheryl WuDunn, authors of Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide, will keynote the opening luncheon. During the afternoon there will be two panels—one focusing on leadership in government, NGOs, and philanthropy, and the other on the private sector. The conference will close with a cocktail reception. Please mark your calendars and plan to stay for the afternoon. http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1010.html#1005

On Dance: Alwin Nikolais & His Legacy

2010-09-10T12:09:48.000Z

When: Mon Sep 27, 2010 11pm to Tue Sep 28, 2010 12am UTC

Where: Event Oval, The Diana Center
Event Status: confirmed
Event Description: A panel Monday, 09/27 7 PM Event Oval, The Diana Center 2010 marks the centennial of the birth of visionary choreographer Alwin Nikolais who pushed beyond the boundaries of contemporary dance. A pioneer of multimedia, Nikolais’s prolific imagination shaped twentieth-century performance and continues to inspire and astound artists and audiences today. Panelists include: Anna Kisselgoff, writer/critic; Alberto Del Saz, artistic director of The Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance; Phyllis Lamhut, choreographer, original member of the Nikolais Dance Theater; and James Seawright, professor emeritus of visual arts, Princeton University. Information 212.854.9769 mcochran@barnard.edu http://www.barnard.edu/events/archive/1009.html#0927