Arts at Wellesley Fall 2011 Calendar

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AKATBA: Opening Reception

4:00 PM–6:00 PMJewett Art Gallery

09/06

Russia Now8:00 PM

Clapp Library Lecture Room

09/10–09/11

The Guys7:00 PM

The Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

09/12

The Goldman Lecture:

Esther Duflo8:00 PM

Tishman Commons

09/13

Russian Poet Vera Pavlova

4:30 PM

The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for

the Humanities

09/20

Distinguished Writers Series:

Lydia Davis4:30 PM


the Humanities

WELLESLEY ARTS CALENDARFALL 2011

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Calendar of events

Fall 2011The Arts at Wellesley

09/20–10/23

The Standing Reserve

Jewett Art Gallery

09/20

The Standing Reserve:

Opening Reception4:45 PM–6:00 PMJewett Art Gallery

09/22

Poet Michal Held4:30 PM


the Humanities

09/22

Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo7:00 PM

Multifaith Center

09/27

The Wilson Lecture:

Amy B. Smith8:00 PM

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

09/28

Possente Spirto Faculty Concert

12:30 PMJewett Auditorium

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Malini Srinivasan: Indian Classical

Dancer8:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

10/04


Martín Espada and Aracelis Girmay

4:30 PMThe Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for

the Humanities

10/04

D’FaQTo Life6:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

10/05

Aomar Boum: The Holocaust in Moroccan Newspapers

4:30 PM Pendleton East,

Room 239

10/05

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture:

Farai Chideya7:00 PM

Tishman Commons

10/06

The Halverson Lecture: Alison

Isenberg5:00 PM

Jewett Arts Center, Room 450

10/12

Triple Helix Piano Trio:

Lecture-Recital12:30 PM

Jewett Auditorium

10/13–10/16

Dog Sees GodThe Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

10/15

Triple Helix Piano Trio: Concert

8:00 PMHoughton Chapel

10/18


Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell

4:30 PMThe Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for

the Humanities

10/19

This Rhythm Is Not Mine

7:00 PMMultifaith Center

10/19

Fall Celebration: Welcome Back to

the Davis.5:00–7:00 PM

the Davis.

10/19/11–1/15/12

Double Solitaire the Davis.

10/19/11–1/15/12

Global Flora the Davis.

10/19/11–1/15/12

Five Watercolors by Madame Chiang

Kai-shek the Davis.

10/20–10/22

Actors From The London Stage:

The Tempest7:00 PM

Diana Chapman Walsh Alumnae Hall

10/22

Family Day at the Davis: Play Like the

Surrealists!11:00 AMthe Davis.

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10/22

Studio Ghibli and the Culture of

Childhood 4:30 PM

Collins Cinema

10/22

Hotter than That: Jazz through Time


10/25–11/27

PrimordialJewett Art Gallery

10/25

Primordial Opening Reception

4:45 PM–6:00 PMJewett Art Gallery

10/27

In Fact and Fiction6:30 PM

Collins Cinema

10/29

Jean Ferrard, Organ8:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

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Francisco Goldman4:30 PM

The Susan and Donald Newhouse Center for the Humanities

11/02–12/30

Helen Suzman: Fighter for

Human RightsMultifaith Center

THE ARTS AT WELLESLEYWELLESLEY CAMPuS MAP

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The arts demand more than passive observation or mere participation—they awaken our keenest intellect and call our most creative selves to not just the arts, but every endeavor.

Their impact is both immediate and lifelong.

Through the arts, we learn to tackle that which at first seems incomprehensible. Newfound knowledge—or knowledge found anew—is transformative, inspiring innovation and revealing what—and who—we have the potential to be.

This fall, immerse yourself in the arts at Wellesley. The programs featured in this calendar are free of charge and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

The City ............................................................................... 2

Double Solitaire ................................................................. 4

The Tempest ....................................................................... 6

Aviv String Quartet ............................................................ 8

The Newhouse Center for the Humanities........................ 10

The Davis .......................................................................... 14

The Art of Good Taste ....................................................... 17

The Concert Series ........................................................... 18

Theatre .............................................................................. 22

Art Department .................................................................. 24

Art and Soul at the Multifaith Center ................................. 26

Arts and the Liberal Arts .................................................... 28

The Spoken Word ............................................................. 30

Visiting Wellesley .............................................................. 32

About Wellesley College ................................................... 33

11/03

The Domna Stanton Lecture: Anne-Emanuelle

Birn4:30 PM

Collins Cinema

11/05

Pamela Z8:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

11/9

Global Flora: Interdisciplinary

Gallery Walk6:00 PM

the Davis.

11/10

The Cornille Lecture:

On the Diasporic Imaginary

4:30 PMCollins Cinema

11/10

Eliyaku and the Qadim Ensemble


11/10–11/13

Nine ArmeniansThe Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

11/12

Wellesley Choral Program:

The Dober Concert8:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

11/14

Wine: A Matter of Life and Death

4:30 PMScience Center

Room 278

11/16

Collegium Musicum


11/17

In the Mecca6:30 PM

Collins Cinema

11/20

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra


11/28/11–01/02/12 Collaborations Jewett Art Gallery

11/30

Triple Helix Piano Trio:

Lecture-Recital12:30 PM

Jewett Auditorium

11/30

Film Screening: Anomaly


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Chamber Music Society7:00 PM

Pendleton Concert Salon

12/02

Wellesley BlueJazz7:30 PM

Jewett Auditorium

12/03

Triple Helix Piano Trio: Concert


12/04–12/11

PlayfestThe Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

12/04


Jewett Auditorium

12/04

Vespers7:30 PM

Houghton Chapel

12/05


Pendleton Concert Salon

12/07


Jewett Auditorium

12/10

Aviv String Quartet8:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

12/10

Yanvalou6:00 PM

Jewett Auditorium

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Season’s GreetingsThe Ruth Nagel Jones Theatre

Table of ConTenTs

Cover and side image: Isabella Kirkland, detail from Back from the portfolio Taxa,

2008 (inkjet print). The nancy Gray sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, 2010.42.4.

on view at the Davis.

THE ARTS AT WELLESLEY FALL 2011

Ah, the City! With its layers of humanity, its multi-dimensionality, and its magical complexity. The City, with its enthusiasm for diversity; for the gifted and the driven; for the seekers, the dreamers, and the crazy. The City as the font of our future. The City as hell-hole.

As our cities grow, so do the challenges of actually living in them: poverty and crowding, and the public health crises and criminal activity these engender, that gut formerly vital communities (one-third of the global population currently lives in slum conditions; by 2050, it will be half ). Their massive environmental impact—pollution, waste, and their contribution to climate change. The domination of the world economy by a handful of volatile markets. The City’s concentration of physical and cultural power distorts and attenuates its relationship to its rural surround—and the social and religious structures, the historic context, from which it emerged.

And yet. For all the challenges with which the City presents us—as planners and architects, as sociologists and artists, as scholars and citizens—its benefits are immeasurable. The City enlarges the scope and impact of human activity and resourcefulness. It is the center of creativity and innovation, of social ferment and invention, of wealth creation. The City is the beating heart of a culture, a “complex adaptive system” pumping out Bigger, Better, and Faster to its inhabitants, and to the world.

The City is our future. This is the reality—and the promise—to which we turn our attention this fall.

THE ciTy[Cities] convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity. — lewis Mumford

Kay sage, Men Working, 1951 (oil on canvas). Joslyn art Museum, omaha, nebraska, Museum Purchase, 1994.19

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THE DAVIS PRESENTS

Free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu

DoublE SoliTairE

THE SurrEal WorlDS of Kay SagE anD yvES Tanguy

The Davis presents Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, the first major touring exhibition to explore the dynamic exchange of ideas that shaped the astonishing landscapes of these Surrealist artists.

This groundbreaking exhibition, which features approximately 25 paintings along with selected ephemera by each artist, provides unprecedented access to the couple’s intertwined artistic and personal lives.

Sage and Tanguy were inseparable throughout their 15-year marriage, sharing adjoining studios in Woodbury, Connecticut and communicating only in French until Tanguy’s untimely death in 1955. As Karen Rosenberg writes in The New York Times, this “fascinating” exhibition “intently explores the couple’s sinister dreamscapes of polymorphous pebbles (his) and menacing monoliths (hers).” Both artists sought to create paintings that the French poet André Breton called “peinture-poésie,” a style influenced by poetry and dreamlike imagery.

Organized by the Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, and the Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina, Double Solitaire is curated by Stephen Robseon Miller and Jonathan Stuhlman, two of the country’s foremost scholars of Surrealism. Major funding for the exhibition was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation. The presentation at the Davis is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art and the Sandra Cohen Bakalar ’55 Fund.

1. Kay sage, The Unicorns Came Down to the Sea, 1948 (oil on canvas). Philadelphia Museum of art, bequest of Kay sage Tanguy

2. Kay sage, Small Portrait, 1950 (oil on canvas). The frances lehman loeb art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, new York, bequest of Kay sage Tanguy, 1963.7

3. Yves Tanguy, The Hunted Sky (Le Ciel traqué), 1951 (oil on canvas). The Menil Collection, Gift of françois and susan de Menil, 91-106

4. Yves Tanguy, detail from A Little Later (Un peu après), 1940 (oil on canvas). Private Collection, Usa

(left panel) Yves Tanguy and Kay sage, august 1954. Photograph by Irving blomstrann, Courtesy the Wadsworth atheneum Museum of art archives

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On View: october 19, 2011–January 15, 2012

Marjorie and Gerald bronfman Gallery

Camilla Chandler and Dorothy buffum Chandler Gallery

Opening Celebration: october 19 / 5:00 PM–7:00 PM

The Davis lobby and galleries

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Returning for a much-anticipated sixth year, Actors From The London Stage (AFTLS) will bring Shakespeare’s culminating masterpiece, The Tempest, to vivid life.

Prospero, magician and exiled Duke of Milan, has spent the past 12 years stranded on a desert island with his daughter Miranda, robbed of his throne by his brother Alfonso. To exact revenge upon his brother, Prospero uses his powers to raise a storm at sea, bringing the family that betrayed him within his grasp again. AFTLS will bring its signature spare and inventive style to this classic tale of love, deception, power, and ultimately, forgiveness.

Formed 36 years ago, AFTLS is one of the oldest established touring companies in the world. Coming from such prestigious companies as the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, and Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, AFTLS’s classically trained actors are equally dedicated to presenting fine professional performances at American colleges and universities and to working with students.

actors from The london Stage

october 20 / 7:00 PM



Diana Chapman Walsh alumnae Hall

William SHaKESpEarE’S

THE TEmpEST

Free and open to the public. No advance reservations. www.theatre.wellesley.edu

THE DEPARTMENT OF THEATRE STuDIES PRESENTS

Images courtesy of shakespeare at notre Dame | Photos: Patrick Ryan

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THE CONCERT SERIES PRESENTS

Free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/music

Founded in Israel in 1997, the Aviv String Quartet has given critically acclaimed performances at such esteemed venues as the Kennedy Center, Library of Congress, Wigmore Hall in

London, Sydney Opera House, Verbier Festival in Switzerland, and Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels. The recipients of numerous prizes, including first prize at the Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition and at the Bordeaux International Quartet Competition, the quartet’s program at Wellesley will feature Erwin Schulhoff's String Quartet No. 1, Felix Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No. 3, Op. 30.

December 10 / 8:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

If this concert is anything to go by, the Aviv String Quartet is rapidly emerging as one of today’s finest chamber ensembles…An impressive evening that marked the Aviv String Quartet out as a force to be reckoned with. –The guardian, London

Aviv STring QUArTeT

Free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/Music

Sergey Ostrovsky, violin / Evgenia Epshtein, violin Timur Yakubov, viola / Aleksandr Khramouchin, cello

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the distinguished Writers seriesThis series reminds the world that reading, writing, conversation, and laughter are related arts. The format is simple, the emotional reward complex. The writers read, have a conversation with the series curator, and then engage in an open dialogue with the audience.

THE SuSan anD DonalD nEWHouSE cEnTEr for THE HumaniTiES

founded in 2003 by a generous gift from susan Marley newhouse '55 and Donald newhouse, the newhouse Center for the Humanities generates and supports innovative, world-class programming in the humanities and arts. The mission of the newhouse Center is to create a dynamic and cosmopolitan intellectual community that extends from Wellesley College to the wider boston-area community and beyond.

Lydia Davis

september 20 / 4:30 PM

The susan and Donald newhouse Center for the

Humanities (237 Green Hall)

Lydia Davis is the author of one novel and seven story collections, the most recent of which was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Award. Farrar, Straus and Giroux published The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis in 2009. Davis is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and was named a Chevalier of the Order of the Arts and Letters by

the French government for her fiction and her translations of modern writers, including Maurice Blanchot, Michel Leiris, and Marcel Proust. Her translation of Madame Bovary was released in the fall of 2010.

Martín Espada and Aracelis Girmay

october 4 / 4:30 PM



Called “the Latino poet of his generation” and “the Pablo Neruda of North American authors,” Martín Espada has published more than 15 books as a poet, editor, essayist, and translator. His new collection of poems is entitled The Trouble Ball (Norton, 2011). The Republic of Poetry (Norton, 2006), received the Paterson Award for Sustained Literary Achievement and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Harper’s, The Nation, and The Best American Poetry.

Curbstone Press published Aracelis Girmay’s first poetry collection, Teeth, in 2007. Her second, Kingdom Animalia, is scheduled for release this fall from BOA Editions. It has received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, given every two years to a poet with a new book of exceptional merit. Ms. Girmay has also been awarded has

been awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship in poetry.

Nina Revoyr and Christian Campbell




Nina Revoyr was born in Japan and raised in Tokyo, Wisconsin, and Los Angeles. She is the author of four novels. Her second, Southland, was an Edgar Award finalist, won the Lambda Literary Award, and was a Los Angeles Times “Best Book” of 2003. Nina’s new novel, Wingshooters, published in March 2011, was an IndieBound “Indie Next” selection and one of O, The Oprah Magazine’s “Books to Watch For.” Library Journal called it “hauntingly provocative,” and Booklist described it as “a shattering northern variation on To Kill a Mockingbird.”

Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage and the author of Running the Dusk. His work has been published widely in journals and anthologies in the Caribbean, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. Running the Dusk was a finalist for the Cave Canem Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the Best First Book in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Campbell was the first poet of color to win the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.

lydia Davis Martín espada aracelis Girmay

nina Revoyr Christian Campbell | Photo by Jerry Bauerfrancisco Goldman |Photo by Jerry Bauer

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Francisco Goldman Hosted by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Junot Díaz

november 1 / 4:30 PM

The susan and Donald newhouse Center for

the Humanities (237 Green Hall)

Francisco Goldman is the author of four novels: The Long Night of White Chickens, which won the Sue Kaufman Award for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award; The Ordinary Seaman, which was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Fiction Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the PEN/Faulkner award. His new book, Say Her Name, is based on his marriage, which ended tragically when his wife died in a body-surfing accident.

In Fact and Fiction: A conversation between The New Yorker Fiction Editor, Deborah Treisman and Authors Hilton Als and Aleksandar Hemon


Collins Cinema

Since its debut in 1925, The New Yorker has been noted for its reporting, strong critical voice, and groundbreaking fiction. In 2003, when Deborah Treisman became the magazine’s youngest fiction editor ever, she built on her predecessor’s achievements by bringing new voices to the fore: Miranda July, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Junot Díaz are just some of the writers who have blossomed under Treisman’s tutelage. But her work is not solely restricted to fiction. She has also edited some of the magazine's stellar non-fiction writers, including foreign correspondent Jane Kramer, and television critic Nancy Franklin.

In this conversation, Treisman will discuss her work as an editor of fact and fiction with two of her writers, each of whom works in both genres: the Bosnian-American novelist and MacArthur fellow, Aleksandar Hemon and New Yorker staff writer, Hilton Als. Deborah Treisman

Deborah Treisman became Fiction Editor of The New Yorker after serving six years as the magazine's Deputy Editor. Previously, she was the managing editor of Grand Street, and has been a member of the editorial staffs of The New York Review of Books, Harper’s, and The Threepenny Review. Her translations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, Harper’s, and Grand Street. Aleksandar Hemon

Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Lazarus Project, which was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award, and three collections of short stories: The Question of Bruno; Nowhere Man (also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Love and Obstacles. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003 and a “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2004.

Hilton Als

Hilton Als became a staff writer at The New Yorker in October 1994. He has also written articles for the Village Voice and The New York Review of Books, and served as an editor-at-large at Vibe. He was awarded a Guggenheim for Creative Writing in 2000 and the George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for 2002–2003. Als is the author of two books, The Women (1996) and Justin Bond/Jackie Curtis (2010) and is currently the Newhouse Visiting Professor of Creative Writing at Wellesley College.

In the Mecca


Collins Cinema

In 1968, the poet Gwendolyn Brooks published a book-length work called “In the Mecca.” In it, an inner city mother searches for her child in an urban housing project. In this program, the writers Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts and Sarah Broom discuss their interest in two communities that are closely identified with people of color: Harlem and the city of New Orleans. As a New Orleans native, Broom will discuss the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina on the city’s current status and the dispossessed; Rhodes-Pitts, who currently resides in New Orleans, will read from, and comment on, her book, Harlem Is Nowhere, a meditative account of her life in New York’s “black mecca.” Their conversation will be moderated by Noah Chasin, an art historian from Bard College, whose research focuses on the intersection of human rights and urban contexts.

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts

Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts is a writer whose work has appeared in Transition, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe. She has received awards from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Originally from Houston, Texas, she graduated in 2000 from Harvard University and was a Fulbright Scholar in the United Kingdom. Sharifa is writing a trilogy on African-Americans and utopia; her first book, Harlem Is Nowhere, was published in 2011 by Little, Brown and Company.

Sarah M. Broom

Sarah M. Broom is a New Orleans native whose essays have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Oxford American, and O, The Oprah Magazine. She has worked as senior writer

for Mayor C. Ray Nagin after Hurricane Katrina and most recently served as Executive Director of Village Health Works, a New York–based international nonprofit that provides health care to Burundi’s poorest. Ms. Broom is currently at work on The Yellow House, which will be published by Grove in 2013. Broom lives in Harlem.

Noah Chasin

Noah Chasin is Assistant Professor of Art History at Bard College where he also teaches in the Human Rights and the Environmental and Urban Studies programs. He has written criticism in many venues including Artforum, Art Journal, and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

the Mary l. Cornille leCture:

On the Diasporic Imaginary: History, Methods and Meanings


Collins Cinema

Ato Quayson, Professor of english and inaugural

Director of the Centre for Diaspora and Transnational

studies at the University of Toronto, and Mary Cornille

Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities

Diaspora, the dispersal of a people from their original homeland, has come to dominate the literary imagination as much as it has affected the lived experience of many peoples. In his lecture, Quayson will draw upon examples from Jewish, African American, and Postcolonial literature to outline this "diasporic imaginary" and its relationship to both literature and politics of the world today.

Quayson is currently working on the social, economic, demographic and political history of the city of Accra from the perspective of a single street: Oxford Street.

Deborah Treisman Hilton als aleksandar Hemon Treme

All events are free and open to the public. www.newhouse-center.org

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DaviS muSEum anD culTural cEnTEr

one of the oldest and most acclaimed academic fine arts museums in the United states, the Davis is a vital force in the intellectual, pedagogical, and social life of Wellesley College. Its mission is to create an environment that encourages visual literacy, inspires new ideas, and fosters involvement with the arts in the academy and in life.

Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves TanguyOn View october 19, 2011–January 22, 2012

Opening Celebration october 19 / 5:00 PM–7:00 PM


Please see pages 4 and 5 for more information.

Isabella Kirkland, Back from the portfolio Taxa, 2008 (inkjet print). The nancy Gray sherrill, Class of 1954, Collection, 2010.42.4

Robert John Thornton, The night-Blowing Cereus from the illustrated book, The Temple of Flora, 1807 (mezzotint). Wellesley College special Collections

Kay sage, On the First of March Crows Begin to Search, 1947 (oil on canvas). bequest of Kay sage Tanguy, 1964.28. Davis Museum at Wellesley College.

Five Watercolors by Madame Chiang Kai-shekOn View october 19, 2011–January 15, 2012

Richard and Claire freedman lober Viewing alcove

Soong May-ling (1898–2003) graduated from Wellesley College as a Durant Scholar in 1917 with a major in English literature and a minor in philosophy. She married Chiang Kai-shek in 1927.

Madame Chiang began to paint in 1951 and quickly distinguished herself as a gifted pupil. A 1952 feature on her watercolors in Life magazine proclaimed her “aptitude far greater than that of most amateurs.” Madame Chiang made a gift of five paintings to Wellesley in 1958, during her third post-graduation campus visit.

Global Flora: Botanical Imagery and ExplorationOn View october 19, 2011–January 15, 2012

Morelle lasky levine ’56 Works on Paper Gallery

Long admired for its aesthetic qualities and scientific importance, botanical imagery traces the links from historical encounter, conquest, and collecting to the contemporary effects of globalization on our experience of place. This exhibition, drawn from collections of the Davis and the Wellesley College Library Special Collections, features prints and illustrated books that resulted from exploratory missions, and also those that demonstrate the current interconnectedness of our world. This exhibition is curated by Elaine Mehalakes, Kemper Curator of Academic Programs.

Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Chinese Orchid for Spring (watercolor). Gift of the artist, Davis Museum at Wellesley College, 2006.170.1

This exhibition is generously supported by Wellesley College Friends of Art, and the Claire Freedman Lober ’44 Davis Museum Endowment Fund.

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The Davis Museum and Cultural Center is supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.

Museum Hours Tuesday–Saturday, 11:00 AM–5:00 PM Wednesday until 8:00 PM Sunday, 12:00 PM–4:00 PM

The Davis will reopen to the public on Wednesday, October 19.

Closed Mondays, major holidays, and campus recesses.

To schedule a tour, please call: 781.283.3382

Reservations are required for these special programs.

Please call 781.283.2700 for reservations and membership inquiries.

www.wellesleycollegeclub.com

MassCulturaCouncil.org

All events are free and open to the public. www.davismuseum.wellesley.edu

A ceremony in the sculpture court of the newly built Jewett Arts Center celebrated the occasion. The paintings, recently transferred from the Wellesley College archives, have never before been on view at the Davis.

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Fall Celebration: Welcome Back to the Davisoctober 19 / 5:00-7:00 PM


Celebrate the new academic year with the opening of our extraordinary fall exhibitions, including Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy and Global Flora: Botanical Imagery and Exploration.

Join us for an evening of fine art, food, and fun at the Davis!

Family Day at the Davis: Play Like the Surrealists! october 22 / 11:00 aM–1:00 PM

Davis Museum Plaza and galleries

Held in conjunction with the special exhibition Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy, Family Day invites young visitors to explore the works on view and then immerse themselves in the Surrealist creative process through collaborative word and picture games. Fun activities, based on the creative accident, include “calligramme” (poems in which the words take the shape of an object), “coulage” (sculptures created by pouring hot materials into cold water), and “cubomania” (images cut up into squares and rearranged to create nonsensical compositions).

THE arT of gooD TaSTE The Wellesley College Club, situated on the shores of lake Waban, is delighted to open its doors to the public for three culinary events designed to complement programs in the fall calendar.

the ConCert series presents

triple helix piano trio High Teaoctober 12 / 2:00 PM

following concert in Jewett auditorium at 12:30 PM

aCtors froM the london stage

present The TempesT Pre-theatre Dinneroctober 22 / 5:00 PM

prior to performance of at 7:00 PM

the davis presents double solitaire: the surreal Worlds of yves tanguy and Kay sage Brunchnovember 13 / 11:00 aM

followed by a tour of of the exhibition at 1:00 PM

Global Flora: An Interdisciplinary Gallery Walknovember 9 / 6:00 PM

Morelle lasky levine '56 Works on Paper Gallery

Reception to follow

Exhibition curator Elaine Mehalakes is joined by Kristina Jones, Director of Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, to discuss botanical imagery on view, from historical, artistic, and scientific perspectives.

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THE concErT SEriES

organized by the Department of Music, the Concert series brings world-class performers to campus, complementing the department’s academic offerings and augmenting the cultural life of the College and surrounding community. With concerts ranging from early music to jazz, the series features both visiting artists and members of the performing faculty.

Love Songs of the Dark LordIndian Classical Dancer Malini Srinivasan

october 1 / 8:00 PM

Jewett auditorium

A disciple of world-renowned artist Sri C.V. Chandrasekhar, Malini Srinivasan is a third-generation Bharatanatyam dancer, teacher, and choreographer. Bharatanatyam is an Indian classical dance form that dates back to ancient Indian drama from 2 B.C.E. Notable for its complex rhythmic footwork and intricate patterns made by the hands and arms, the dancer’s body becomes geometry in motion. Malini is a lecturer in Asian and Asian American Studies at Stony Brook University and is a member of the dance faculty of the Young Indian Culture Group. Her performance will feature a live orchestra composed of voice, violin, mridangam, and tambura.

Hotter than That: Jazz through TimeJazz and World Music Faculty in concert


Jewett auditorium

reception to follow

A beloved annual Concert Series feature, this year the jazz and world music faculty have teamed up with Tamar Barzel's music department course on the history of jazz, bringing the syllabus alive onstage. Kris Adams, voice; Glorianne Collver-Jacobson, guitar; Mark Henry, bass; Greg Hopkins, trumpet; Doug Johnson, piano; Steve Langone, drums; Lance Martin, flute; Cercie Miller, saxophones; Kera Washington, percussion and voice; Paula Zeitlin, violin; and guest vocalist, Lisa Graham, will present a program that ranges from classic jazz through swing, bebop, funky post bop, and free.

enseMble-in-residenCetriple helix piano trio BAyLA KEyES, VioLiN RHoNDA RiDER, CELLo LoiS SHAPiRo, PiANo

Returning to Wellesley after a refreshing sabbatical year, the award-winning Triple Helix Piano Trio will explore the role of the city as music’s inspiration and incubator. Music can conjure a sense of place, a culture, an ethos; its cadences can capture the heartbeat of a people in a particular landscape at a particular point in time.

And All That JazzLecture-Recital november 30 / 12:30 PM

Jewett auditorium

Concert December 3 / 8:00 PM

Jewett auditorium

Triple Helix takes a refreshing look at the cool and urbane world of jazz, a quintessentially American breed of music that owes its birth, evolution, and dissemination to the cross-cultural exchanges inherent in urban life. The program will include Maurice Ravel’s Violin Sonata; Astor Piazzolla’s Le Grand Tango for cello and piano—with a special guest dance performance; Donald Reid Womack’s Three Blues; and Out of the Shadows, by Wellesley College performance faculty member Greg Hopkins.

professional series

Possente Spirto: 400 Years of Musical VirtuosityClassical Performance Faculty in concert


Jewett auditorium

Wellesley College performance faculty members Randall Hodgkinson, piano; Laura Jeppesen, viola da gamba; Aaron Sheehan, tenor; and Suzanne Stumpf, flute and traverso, along with guest artist Daniel Ryan, present a program of music highlighting 400 years of virtuosic composition. Designed in conjunction with music department seminars “Virtuosity, Suspicion, Transcendence” and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, the program will include selections from Monteverdi’s Orfeo and Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, Busoni’s transcriptions of Bach, and Two by John Cage.

A Journey to St. Petersburg: Mother Russia’s Radiant City of Warriors and Poets Lecture-Recital october 12 / 12:30 PM

Jewett auditorium

Concert october 15 / 8:00 PM

Houghton Chapel

From Arensky’s world of resplendent Romantic harmonies to Shostakovich’s transformation of the musical language and his one-time student Sviridov’s bitter and spare nostalgia, Triple Helix will trace the diverse ways that all three yearned to capture in music something of the essence of the eternal Russian soul.

Ganesh Ramachandran: www.purpleganesh.com

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All events are free and open to the public. www.wellesley.edu/Music

Jean Ferrard, OrganThe Spanish Netherlands and Jan Pieterszoon

Sweelinck


Houghton Chapel

Considered one of the most energetic, expert, and wide-ranging musicians of our time, Jean Ferrard has integrated performance, teaching, scholarship, and music journalism at the highest level. Ferrard recently retired from the prestigious post of professor of organ at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels, a position he held for 26 years.

Pamela Z


Jewett auditorium

Pamela Z is a wonderful performer. She was wired up like a suicide bomber. I couldn’t quite make out which wires led to where but every time she moved a part of her body she triggered a sound bite. Her voice is beautiful and her range is broad… —Kenneth Goldsmith, WFMU, Jersey City

A composer/performer and media artist who makes solo works combining a wide range of vocal techniques with electronic processing, samples, gesture-activated MIDI controllers, and video,

Pamela Z has presented her work at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can in New York, the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds in San Francisco, the Venice Biennale, and the Dakar Biennale. Her numerous awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Creative Capital Fund, the CalArts Alpert Award, the MAP Fund, the ASCAP Music Award, an Ars Electronica honorable mention, and the National Endowment for the Arts/JUSFC Fellowship. Pamela Z’s performance at Wellesley will include multiple, varied short pieces, including excerpts from her multimedia performance work Baggage Allowance.

Aviv String Quartet Please see page 8 and 9 for more information.

student enseMbles The Wellesley College Choral Program lisa Graham, DirectorThe Dober Concert november 12 / 8:00 PM

Houghton ChapelVespers December 4 / 7:30 PM

Houghton Chapel

The choral program at Wellesley, celebrating its 111th anniversary, allows students to experience the exhilaration and joy of performing the great choral repertoire from the Renaissance through the present day. National and international tours have led them to perform in such venues as the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C., Basilique Notre-Dame de Montréal, and the Mezquita de Córdoba. The Wellesley College Choir regularly performs in collaboration with

choral groups from schools including Harvard, Cornell, the University of Virginia, and Rutgers. They appeared in the 2003 motion picture Mona Lisa Smile.

Collegium MusicumSlavic Splendor: Medieval and Renaissance

Music of Eastern Europe

Tom Zajac, Director


Houghton Chapel

An ensemble of singers and instrumentalists, Collegium specializes in the performance of Western music from the Middle Ages to the early 19th century. Members of the Collegium enjoy the use of the music department’s unusually fine collection of historical instruments.

Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestraneal Hampton, Conductor


Houghton Chapel

The Brandeis-Wellesley Orchestra is composed of students, faculty, staff, and associates of Wellesley College and Brandeis University. Uniting the standards of excellence associated with Wellesley and Brandeis, the orchestra brings inspiring performances of the great orchestral literature—past and present—to a new generation of musicians and audiences. Its fall program will include Elgar’s Enigma Variations and Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7.

Chamber Music SocietyDavid Russell, Director

Jenny Tang, assistant Director

December 1 / 7:00 PM | Pendleton Concert salon

December 4 / 2:00 PM | Jewett auditorium

December 5 / 7:00 PM | Pendleton Concert salon

December 7 / 12:30 PM | Jewett auditorium

The Wellesley College Chamber Music Society offers students the opportunity to explore and perform the classical repertoire for small ensembles—including strings, winds, guitar, harp, piano, harpsichord, and voice—and to be coached weekly by members of the music department faculty. Each semester culminates in a series of concerts given by participants.

Wellesley BlueJazzCercie Miller, Director


Jewett auditorium

Wellesley BlueJazz provides students with the opportunity to develop and nurture their love of jazz—one of the most vibrant American contemporary art forms. Composed of a large ensemble as well as smaller combos, BlueJazz plays contemporary and classic jazz repertoire, including the music of Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington.

YanvalouKera Washington, Director


Jewett auditorium

Yanvalou is an ensemble that performs the traditional music of Africa and the Caribbean. The ensemble lets students perform on authentic instruments and to experience a variety of cultures through their music. Performances are presented in collaboration with the Harambee dancers.

photo courtesy of ars electronica

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THEaTrEThe Department of Theatre studies at Wellesley College allows students to explore the

history and literature of the theatre, and then bring their knowledge from the classroom

to a hands-on application of the craft. To facilitate this essential experiential learning, the

department hosts three active performing programs on campus: Wellesley summer Theatre,

Wellesley College Theatre, and the Upstage series.

This year’s season is dedicated to “the family,” here and across the globe.

The TempestActors From The London Stage

Please see page 6 for more information

Wellesley suMMer theatre CoMpany

Wellesley Summer Theatre Company is the professional Equity theatre company in residence at Wellesley College.

www.wellesley.edu/Theatre

Please visit our website for the latest information about our season.

Pay what you can. Proceeds will support Wellesley’s Fireman’s Benevolent Fund and the 9/11 Fund.

Season’s Greetingsby alan ayckbournDirected by shelley bolman with nora HusseyJanuary 5–29 Thursdays / 7:00 PMfridays / 8:00 PMsaturdays / 3:00 PM and 8:00 PMsundays / 3:00 PMThe Ruth nagel Jones Theatre

Half a dozen relatives and friends are celebrating the Christmas season with Neville and Belinda Bunker. Petty and not-so-petty squabbles break out, Christmas presents are rifled, and a general state of chaos hangs about the edges of the home. Season's Greetings is a dark, yet farcical, comedy about families doing what they do best at holidays: inadvertently making each other crazy.

$20 general admission $10 for seniors, students, and members of the Wellesley College community

Wellesley Summer Theatre box office: 781.283.2000

Wellesley College theatreUnder the direction of the Department of Theatre Studies, performances feature cast members from Wellesley College, Olin College, Babson College, and the Boston theatre community.

Nine Armeniansby leslie ayvazian

Directed by nora Hussey

november 10–13



november 12 / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM


The Ruth nagel Jones Theatre

Three generations of an Armenian-American family yell, dance, carry food around, play tambourines, Rollerblade, cry, scream, laugh, and support each other. When daughter Ani, 21, travels to Armenia, she discovers her history and troubled heritage. When she returns, she learns

much from her recently widowed grandmother, Non, who teaches her how to incorporate this new knowledge into her life. In doing so, Ani empowers her mother, who embarks on her own pilgrimage to the homeland. As they confront their tragic pasts, these women find strength in themselves and one another.

$10 general admission $5 for seniors, students, and members of the Wellesley College community

Wellesley College Theatre box office: 781.283.2000

upstage seriesUpstage productions are student produced and directed. They provide Wellesley College students with the opportunity to explore all aspects of working independently in theatre.

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockheadby bert V. Royal

Directed by Kat Chen '12



october 15 / 2:00 PM and 8:00 PM



An unauthorized parody that re-imagines the characters from the classic Peanuts comic strip as teenagers enduring issues such as sexual identity, drugs, alcohol, eating disorders, bullying, and suicide. This darkly humorous play is ultimately a moving study of teenage life and the quest for self-understanding.

Theatre Studies 203/212 PlayfestDecember 4–11 / performance times tbd


A celebration of theatre productions written or developed during the fall semester.

Free to Wellesley, Babson, and Olin students with ID.

$5 general admission Upstage Series box office: 781.283.2220

The Guysby anne nelson




In honor of the 10th anniversary of the day the World Trade Center’s twin towers fell, Wellesley Summer Theatre presents a staged reading of the now-classic play about September 11. A journalist attempts to help a distraught fire chief write eulogies for his lost men. In the process each learns what it is to be a citizen of the world as well as of their wounded city.

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Fifty years ago, Jane Jacobs’s devastating critique of urban renewal in The Death and Life of Great American Cities helped galvanize a new framework that pitted “preservation” against “the bulldozer.” Jacobs observed that city planning had “stagnated” since the 1930s. “It bustles but it does not advance,” she wrote.

Alison Isenberg brings fresh perspective to 1950–1970s urban planning, years when design professionals tried to remake urban renewal and offer Americans something better. In the era’s controversies over redevelopment, whether for

the harry halverson leCture on aMeriCan arChiteCture Beyond the Bulldozer: Rethinking the Divide between Urban Renewal and Historic Preservation in the 1960salison Isenberg, Professor of History,

Princeton University

october 6 / 5:00 PM

Jewett arts Center, Room 450

THE arT DEparTmEnT: EXHibiTionS anD

lEcTurESThe Department of art is home to art history, studio art, architecture, and media arts at

Wellesley. each year, the department brings guest lecturers, exhibitions, films, and visiting

artists to the campus and community. The Jewett Gallery is the department’s teaching

gallery; it hosts exhibitions generated by faculty for teaching purposes as well as exhibitions

of student work.

Jen barrows, Power Wheels, archival inkjet print, 2009

Courtesy of Rockefeller archive Center, and used by permission of Mick stevens.

Myles Dunigan, Altar, etching, 18 x 12.5 inches (from The Standing reserve)

The Standing ReserveOn View september 20–october 23

Opening Reception september 20 / 4:45–6:00 PM

Featuring works by the studio art staff of the art department.

PrimordialOn View october 25-november 27

Opening Reception october 25 / 4:45-6:00 PM

Artists Constance Jacobson, David Hart

Primordial pairs two artists who use new and traditional media to explore generation, evolution, and genetics, and to create new universes and life forms. Fabricated organisms that resemble actual scientific imagery, and range in scale from microscopic to cosmic, come alive in these imagined worlds.

ARTS 317: CollaborationsOn View november 28–January 2

This exhibition will showcase works by students in Professor David Olsen’s visual arts seminar.

www.wellesley.edu/Art jewettgallery.wordpress.com

gallery hours Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM Free and open to the public. Gallery hours subject to change when school is not in session.

David Hart, i had 25 empty thoughts today, in varying sizes. They're all gone now. digital variations, dimensions variable, 2005

skyscrapers or historic plazas, the distinctions between renewal and preservation were rarely clear. Professor Isenberg will discuss how property managers, publicists, artists, architects, and the alternative press energized urban design experimentation “on the ground.” Looking closely at San Francisco—its fight against “Manhattanization,” and its efforts to forge alternative development models—the talk is part of a larger study of how Bay Area urban design was immersed in the crosscurrents of social revolution.

JeWett art gallery

AKATBAOn View august 22–september 18

Opening Reception september 1 / 4:45–6:00 PM

AKATBA showcases the work of new studio art faculty joining the Department of Art this fall: David Kelley, Heddi Siebel, and Andrea Evans.

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arT anD Soul aT THE mulTifaiTH cEnTEr

The office of Religious and spiritual life (oRsl) at Wellesley strives to embody the College’s

historic belief that education is both an intellectual and a spiritual journey. With this mission

in mind, oRsl has developed art and soul as a program to foster a community exploration

of spirituality and the arts.

Say YesIyeoka Ivie okoawo


Multifaith Center

Nigerian-born Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is one of the most sought-after poetry slammers in the country. A 2010 TED Global Fellow and a powerful songstress, her lyrical prowess and vocal talents invoke the spirit of soul-shakers Nina Simone, Sade, Lauryn Hill, and Amy Winehouse. Her song, Yellow Brick Road, was chosen this year as the official theme song of the USA Network’s Fairly Legal. All events are free and open to the public.

www.wellesley.edu/RelLife

This Rhythm Is Not MineJohn de Kadt, Ramchandra Pandit, and R.n. Goswami


Multifaith Center

Tablaist Ramchandra “Ramu” Pandit is a longtime professional performer of classical Indian music and one of the musically rich city of Banaras’s foremost tabla teachers. Sitarist R.N. Goswami is known as a senior artist in Banaras; he is one of Banaras’s most prominent sitar teachers. On this night, their traditional Indian ragas converse with the powerful percussion of world music artist, John de Kadt, in an exploration of the cultural exchanges of rhythm, poetry, and song—an exuberant journey into the rhythm of the soul.

Eliyaku and the Qadim EnsembleMystical Music of the near east


Multifaith Center

Qadim is a word found in both Arabic and Hebrew, meaning ancient as well as that which will come. Representing music from many traditions of the Near East, the Qadim Ensemble brings the richness and beauty of these ancient melodies to contemporary audiences. Their repertoire includes Arabic, Jewish, Turkish, Sufi, Hebrew-Yemenite, Armenian, Persian, and Moroccan music, celebrating the common musical and spiritual heritage of the region’s cultures while honoring the great diversity found within them.

Anomalyfilm screening and Discussion with Jen Chao ’99


Multifaith Center

Anomaly takes a thought-provoking insider’s look at multiracial identity by combining personal

narratives with the larger drama of mixed race in American culture. Featured interviewees use spoken word and music to tell their stories. Community leaders and academic experts, including Jen Chau ’99, provide context and analysis. As it unfolds, Anomaly tells a story that is deeply personal, yet broadly, American. Anomaly won the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival’s Local Filmmaker Award in Seattle in April 2010, and was featured in the Best of the African Diaspora Film Festival in Brooklyn in February 2010

Chau is founder and executive director of Swirl, Inc., a national community organization founded in 2000 that serves the mixed-race community. As a student at Wellesley, Chau served College Government as the multicultural affairs coordinator. Helen Suzman: Fighter for Human RightsOn View november 2–December 30

Multifaith Center

Helen Suzman was one of South Africa’s most vociferous and energetic opponents of apartheid. A member of the South African Parliament from 1953–1989, Suzman was the sole opposition voice condemning apartheid during the 13-year period (1961–1974) during which she was the governing body’s only member of the Progressive Party. This series of graphic panels explores nearly four decades of Suzman’s life and vision through photographs, personal letters, quotations from speeches, and news articles.

Organized by the Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research at the University of Cape Town under its director, professor Milton Shain, this is the first presentation of the exhibition in New England.

art and soul CaféThe Art and Soul Café is an evening of community celebration and participation around themes of spirituality and the arts. It features performances by guest artists followed by an open-mike session during which community members are invited to share their talents. Delicious treats are served to nourish the body as performances feed the soul.

eliyaku and the Qadim ensembleIyeoka Ivie okoawo Jen Chau ’99

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arTS anD THE libEral arTS

The arts are a vibrant part of the greater intellectual community at Wellesley College. every

year, various academic departments bring art and artists from all over the world to campus

to enrich their own curriculum and enliven the cultural life of the greater Wellesley community.

* Mosaic from the House of the faun, Pompeii, 2nd century b.C.e. (Museo archeologico nazionale, naples)

In the words of Michal Held, author, professor, and researcher at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Center for Research on Jewish Language and Literatures, the Jewish language has historically functioned as a “portable homeland.” In her lecture, Held will explore the confluence of Jewish and Spanish culture and language by reflecting on her own Ladino history as well as collected personal narratives from her book Come, I’ ll Tell you/Ven, te Kontare. In doing so, she will raise questions about the journey toward finding refuge in imagined communities.

The Immortal Shore: Studio Ghibli and the Culture of Childhood A Lecture by Susan Napier, Tufts university

(Keynote lecture from the Association for Asian

Studies Regional Conference)


Collins Cinema

The child and the fantastic, children and cartoons, childhood on film—these conjunctions have been part of cinematic representation since as early as Winsor McKay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland. In Japan children have also consistently played important roles on film from Ozu’s prewar comedies to Koreeda’s recent tragedy Nobody Knows. But it is in Japanese anime and above all in the films of Japan’s preeminent animation studio Studio Ghibli that childhood takes a central place. Virtually every film produced by Ghibli highlights child protagonists and the studio is famous for its child focalized narratives. This lecture discusses the construction of childhood in Ghibli’s films, both in relation to cinematic diegesis and imagery and also in terms of audience reception.

Vera Pavlova

still from Totoro.

Roman, Skeleton of a Cup-Bearer* D’lo

Russian Poet Vera Pavlovaseptember 13 / 4:30 PM


Humanities (237 Green Hall) Vera Pavlova was born in Moscow. She is a graduate of the Gnessin Academy where she specialized in history of music. Since 1997 she has published fifteen collections of poetry in her native Russian, and authored five opera librettos, as well as lyrics to three cantatas. Pavlova’s works have been translated into over twenty languages.

D’FaQTo Lifeoctober 4 / 6:00 PM

Jewett auditorium

D’Lo is a queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American, political theatre artist/writer, director, comedian, and music producer. D’Lo has performed or facilitated performance and writing workshops internationally; D’Lo’s work has been published in various anthologies and academic journals, most recently Desi Rap: Hip Hop and South Asia America and Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic. D’Lo explores topics relating to South Asia and transgender social justice from the perspective of being a child of immigrant parents, raised in hip hop culture while trying to negotiate how identifying as “queer” intersects with a passion to create political art.

Wine: A Matter of Life and DeathA Lecture by John L. Varriano, Professor of Art

Emeritus, Mount Holyoke College


science Center Room 278

John Varriano will examine two aspects of the cultural history of wine: its central role in theories of medicine from ancient Greece to the present and its changing meaning over the ages in artistic and literary meditations on the afterlife.

Sponsored by The Davis Museum, the Friends of Horticulture, and the First-Year Seminar Program, in conjunction with the Wellesley course; The Art and Science of Food in Italy in from the Renaissance to the Slow Food Movement.

Her first collection in English, If There Is Something to Desire (Alfred A. Knopf, 2010), was among the top-10 bestselling poetry books for that year in the United States.

Funded by The Maria Opasnov Tyler '52 Endowed Fund for Department of Russian. Michal HeldPoetry and Personal Narratives: The Judeo-

Spanish (Ladino) Culture as an Imagined

Community and a Portable Homeland




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sponsored by the davis fund for russian area studies

Russia Now: The Current State of the Former Soviet Unionseptember 6 / 8:00 PM

Clapp library lecture Room

In this annual panel discussion, Russian Area Studies faculty members Marshall Goldman, Nina Tumarkin, Phil Kohl, Tom Hodge, Alla Epsteyn, Adam Weiner, and Adam Van Arsdale will discuss their recent experiences in and around Russia, and Russia’s role in current events.

THE SpoKEn WorD: maJor lEcTurES aT

WEllESlEyWellesley’s liberal arts education exposes students to distinct and diverse viewpoints.

bringing this “worldly” view to bear on the great issues of the 21st century is accomplished

in part by bringing leading intellectuals to speak at the College.

the goldMan leCture in eConoMiCs: Esther Duflo, abdul latif Jameel Professor of

Poverty alleviation and Development economics in the

Department of economics at MIT

Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way

to Fight Global Poverty


Tishman Commons

A founder and director of the Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL), a research network specializing in randomized evaluations of social programs, Esther Duflo is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, serves on the board of the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis

of Development (BREAD), and is director of the Center of Economic Policy Research’s development economics program. Her research focuses on microeconomic issues in developing countries, including household behavior, education, access to finance, health, and policy evaluation.

Listed as one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, Duflo has received numerous academic honors and prizes including the John Bates Clark Medal, a MacArthur Fellowship, the American Economic Association’s Elaine Bennett Research Prize, and the Best French Young Economist prize (Le Monde/Le Cercle des économistes).

the Wilson leCture:

Amy B. Smith, Inventor and engineer, senior

lecturer at MIT

How to Design a Better World: Low-Cost

Innovations that Solve Global Problems


Diana Chapman Walsh alumnae Hall

Mechanical engineer Amy Smith’s approach to problem solving in developing nations is refreshingly common sense: Invent cheap, low-tech devices that use local resources so that communities can reproduce her efforts and ultimately help themselves. Smith, working with her students at MIT’s D-Lab, has come up with several useful tools, including an incubator that stays warm without electricity, a simple grain mill, and a tool that converts farm waste into cleaner-burning charcoal.

The inventions have earned Smith three prestigious prizes: the B.F. Goodrich Collegiate Inventors Award, the MIT-Lemelson Prize, and a MacArthur Fellowship. Funded by an endowed fund established by Carolyn Ann Wilson, Class of 1910.

the departMent of JeWish and Middle east studies presents:

Aomar Boum, assistant Professor of near

eastern and Religious studies at the University

of arizona

Acceptance and Denial: Discourses of the

Holocaust in Moroccan Newspapers

october 5 / 4:30 PM

Pendleton east, Room 239

Aomar Boum’s research revolves around the Middle East in general and North, West, and Sub-Saharan Africa in particular. He has published a number of articles on the history and historiography of the Jewish communities of southern Morocco, Jewish-Muslim interfaith dialogue, representation of Jews in Moroccan museums, Jewish migration in the context of Arab nationalism and Zionism, and the Alliance Israélite Universelle in rural Moroccan communities.

the Martin luther King, Jr. leCture

Farai Chideya, Provocative author, broadcaster,

and sociopolitical Pundit

october 5 / 7:00 PM

Tishman Commons

Farai Chideya is an award-winning multimedia journalist, novelist, and host. The author of numerous books and articles on race and politics in America, she has been a correspondent for ABC News, and anchored the prime-time program Pure Oxygen on the Oxygen women’s channel. In addition to hosting NPR’s News and Notes with Ed Gordon, she has contributed commentaries to CNN, Fox, MSNBC, and BET.

the doMna stanton leCture:

Anne-Emanuelle Birn, Global Health scholar

Women/Gender and International/Global Health:

Convenience, Co-optation and Co-production


Collins Cinema

Anne-Emmanuelle Birn is a renowned global health scholar, Professor at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health, and the lead editor of the recently revised classic Textbook of International Health: Global Health in a Dynamic World. Birn’s areas of research include international health; women; history of public health in Latin America (particularly Mexico and Uruguay); international health policy and politics (past and present); and historical demography—infant mortality, societal determinants of health, and comparative health policy of Latin America.

left to right: amy b. smith, anne-emanuelle birn, esther Duflo (photo by Kris Krug), farai Chideya

Funded by an endowed fund established by Kathryn Wasserman Davis, Class of 1928.

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ABOuT WELLESLEYVISITING WELLESLEY

Just 12 miles from Boston, Wellesley’s rich and diverse arts scene feels worlds away. Nearby neighbors and Bostonians alike will discover that Wellesley is a wonderful untapped resource for cultural and intellectual pursuits.

attending an event at Wellesley is as stress free as it is affecting. Parking is free and readily accessible, our performance spaces are intimate and inviting, and the nearby town of Wellesley offers a variety of fine restaurants. Or join students and faculty on campus for a lively meal at the Lulu Chow Wang Campus Center, affectionately called the Lulu. The Wellesley College Club is another option for lunch or dinner.

take in the celebrated landscape and architecture. Combine your visit to Wellesley with a stroll through the grounds and see if you don’t feel as inspired by our surroundings as by our guest artists. Designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., the campus is an historic landmark

that showcases the work of distinguished architects, including Ralph Adams Cram, Paul Rudolph, and Raphael Moneo. Podcast tours are available at the Davis Museum—check out Landscape and Architecture and walk with Professor John Rhodes as he presents highlights of the campus. You’ll see Wellesley’s Alumnae Valley—honored in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum for returning a parking lot to native wetland. Pause on the shores of Lake Waban to take in the elaborate topiary garden on the far shore. And don’t miss the Botanical Gardens, featuring specimens from around the world and its own butterfly garden.

leave inspired. Even if you visit for just an afternoon or an evening, you’ll find that Wellesley will leave you feeling renewed and enriched.

For directions to campus, please visit web.wellesley.edu/web/AboutWellesley/VisitUs.

The world’s preeminent college for women, Wellesley is known for its intellectual rigor, its belief in the enduring importance of service, and its cultivation of an inclusive, pragmatic approach to leadership.

We take great pride in what we produce here: women who know how to succeed in every arena, public and personal, while keeping their values intact; women who bring world-changing vision and an inimitable sense of purpose to even the smallest endeavor; women who understand that effective leadership means tempering the exercise of power with the commitment to serve. And as the sense of what it means to be an effective leader

evolves, the crucial role that women are playing in making the world a better place is becoming increasingly apparent.

Preparing women for this role is perhaps Wellesley’s unique strength.

From the moment they step onto the campus, our students are cultivating not only their minds, but an aspirational drive and sense of responsibility. They know they are carrying forward a very special legacy, one in which purposeful leadership is a way of life, regardless of the life they choose — and one in which they are committed to taking their place at the table, to getting things done, to making a difference.

Your gift to Wellesley helps maintain the excellence of our arts programming, and keeps our events free of charge. www.wellesley.edu/give | 800.358.3543

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