Vol. 20, No. 12 |
March 15, 2001 |
Middle East expert to speak on diplomacy, peace process
Since 1985, Miller has served as an adviser to four U.S. secretaries of state, making him one of the most influential and key diplomats in the Middle East peace process over the past decade. He helped formulate U.S. policy on the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli peace process. Before assuming his current position, he served on the State Department's policy planning staff, the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Office of the Historian. He has received the department's distinguished, superior and meritorious honor awards. Currently, he just returned from Secretary of State Colin Powell's trip to the Middle East, where he served as an adviser to Powell in meetings with Arab and Israeli leaders. Miller has negotiated and continues to negotiate, on behalf of the United States, with all of the players in the Middle East (Yasser Arafat, the Israeli prime ministers, the Jordanian king, the Syrian president and the Egyptian leadership). He was instrumental in the bright aftermath of the Gulf War in 1991, when the historic Madrid Peace Conference was convened and has participated in all the negotiating sessions since then. "Miller is genuinely one of the deepest insiders in the Arab Israeli peace process, one of the key 'who's who' diplomats in the contemporary history of the peace process," former CNN world correspondent Ralph Begleiter, now Rosenberg Professor of Communication at UD, said. Miller received his doctorate in American diplomatic and Middle East history from the University of Michigan in 1977. During 1982 and 1983, he was a Council on Foreign Relations fellow and a resident scholar at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 1984, he served a temporary tour at the American Embassy in Amman, Jordan. In 1998, he was appointed by President Clinton to serve on the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. He has written three books on the Middle East and has lectured widely at universities and Middle East symposia across the country. The March 22 program in the series will feature Harriet Elam, U.S. ambassador to Senegal and a career foreign service officer, who is among the first women ambassadors representing the U.S. abroad. Sizzling salsa sound spices up Mitchell Hall stage April 6
The Latin Legends, who carry on the rich traditions of salsa recordings made famous on the old New York City Fania record label, include Harlow, Yomo Toro and Adalberto Santiago. A classically trained musician, Harlow holds a bachelor's in music from Brooklyn College and a master's in philosophy from the New York School of Social Research, both in New York City. He began studying music at age 5 and now specializes in jazz and classical piano as well as conducting, composition, orchestration and audio engineering. Through the years he has expanded his musical horizons through performances on the oboe, English horn, flute bass, vibraphone and assorted percussion instruments. Joining Harlow in the 11-piece band are Yomo Toro on cuatro, a small, guitar-like instrument with five sets of double strings, and vocalist Adalberto Santiago, a singer who has also coached such notable vocalists at Linda Ronstadt and Ray Sepulveda. Helping to keep the strong Latin beat percolating are Bobby Sanabria on drums and timbrels, Luis Bauzo on bongos and Chembo Cornier on congas. Harlow has received three Grammy nominations and six gold records as well as numerous Record World and Billboard awards in many categories. He was the primary force in instituting the first Grammy for Latin music. Tickets for the series are $15 for the general public, $10 for UD faculty, staff, alumni and senior citizens and $6 for UD students and children. Tickets are available at the Hartshorn box office, from noon-5 p.m., weekdays, or with credit card payment by fax at 831-4366 or phone at 831-2204. Tickets also are available through Ticketmaster at 984-2000, and a convenience charge will apply. The series is made possible by Barba & Reynolds Insurance Agency, Embassy Suites and the Delaware Division of the Arts. A special Latin-themed pre-concert dinner will be available on Friday, April 6, at the Blue and Gold Club, 44 Kent Way, before the 8 p.m. concert. The dinner will include Cuban pork roast, chicken paprika over saffron rice and chocolate banana bread pudding. Cost is $12.50 per person. For more information or to make a reservation, call the club at 831-2582. The public also is invited to attend a free workshop with Harlow, scheduled at 2:30 p.m., Friday, April 6, in the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. For more information, call 831-2577. Annual teaching career fair scheduled two days in March Project Search: Careers for Teaching will be held for two days this month for those interested in teaching jobs in September. The first, Delaware Day, will held from 12:30-5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in the Bob Carpenter Sports/Convocation Center, when Delaware school district personnel will be on hand to meet and interview candidates. The second session scheduled from 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, will feature school district personnel from Delaware and many other states who will meet and interview candidates. More than 275 school district personnel will be on hand during the sessions, and, as many states are experiencing teacher shortages, this is an excellent opportunity for those interested in teaching careers. Both events are open to the public, but preregistration is required. To register, call Kathy Suiter, Career Service Center, at 831-8570. Proust scholar, prolific author to speak in April Michael Wood, the author of many books on contemporary literature, film and culture, will speak on "Proust, the Novel and the Visual" at 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 10, in Room 127 Memorial Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Critic Janet Malcom has called him "one of our most distinguished and lucid writers on contemporary literature." Wood also is a well-known fiction and film critic and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Book Review, the London Review of Books, The New Republic, Harper's, The New York Review of Books and other publications. Wood received his doctorate in modern and medieval languages from Cambridge University and became a fellow at St. John's College there. He served on the faculty at Columbia University and the Exeter before coming to Princeton in 1995. A visiting professor at the National University of Mexico and the Middlebury Breadloaf School of English, Wood has received Guggenheim and National Endowment of the Humanities fellowships and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the New York Institute for the Humanities. The talk is sponsored by the English department and the University Faculty Senate Committee on Cultural Activities and Public Events. For more information, call Linda Russell, English at 831-1974. Jazzworks to perform in Loudis Recital Hall concert
Pianist and composer Ridl will join UD Faculty Jazz members Vernon James, alto sax; Wendell Hobbs, tenor sax; Doug Mapp, bass; and Tom Palmer, drums. Ridl is active as a jazz pianist, arranger and composer in Philadelphia and New York. The Jim Ridl Trio's debut recording 5 Minutes to Madness and Joy was released in 1999 on the Synergy Music label. Ridl has just released his first solo piano recording, Blues Liberations, on the Dreambox Media label. In this recording, he stretches the boundaries of the blues by combining his jazz improvisation and compositional talents. He has been featured in Piano and Keyboard magazine, and recognized by DownBeat and Jazz Times as a fresh talent emerging in jazz. For information about the concert, call 831-2577. Organ selections March 21 to mark J.S. Bach's 316th birthday The popular "Bach's Lunch" series is continuing this spring with presentations and musical programs from 12:10-12:50 p.m., on select Tuesdays and Wednesdays through May 16 at Bayard Sharp Hall, celebrating the building's restoration and the installation of the Jefferson Music Gallery. Those attending may bring their own lunches or purchase items from a Blue and Gold Club food cart outside Bayard Sharp Hall. Seating is limited and will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Upcoming concerts will feature
Up in the Club to feature slam poet, comedy and dance Slam poet Steve Colman and comedians Ruperto Vanderpool and Rob Stapleton kick off a celebration of cultures with Up in the Club, a free, public night of comedy, poetry and dance at 9 p.m., Friday, March 16, in the Multipurpose Room of the Trabant University Center. Colman is an award-winning poet, spoken-word performer and activist. He was a member of the 1998 national champion Nuyorican Poets Cafe Slam Team and was named the Fresh Poet of 1999 by the Nuyorican Poets Café. He has been profiled on CNN's Entertainment Weekly as part of a feature story on slam poetry and is currently coediting an anthropology and CD sampler of hip-hop poetry. In addition to Colman, Vanderpool and Stapleton, the evening will include demonstrations of a variety of cultural contemporary dances. For more information, call UD1-HENS. Veggie workshop on March 17 Organic Veggies," a New Castle County Master Gardener workshop, will be presented twice: from 9:30-11:30 a.m., Saturday, March 17, and from 7-9 p.m., Monday, March 19. The workshops will he held at the University of Delaware's Fischer Greenhouse in Newark. The fee for each workshop is $12. To obtain a brochure listing all workshops with details on their content and a registration form, call (302) 831-2606 or visit the New Castle County Cooperative Extension web site at [http://ag.udel.edu/ncc]. Innovation fund director to speak on venture capital
The Delaware Innovation Fund is a $10 million private, nonprofit venture capital firm established in 1995 to provide seed money for emerging companies in Delaware and the surrounding region. The leader in venture and entrepreneurial development throughout the state with a current portfolio of 12 companies, it has been recognized nationally as a unique entrepreneurial funding source. Before launching the fund, Freschman worked with entrepreneurs and new venture companies for 16 years at Arthur Andersen & Co.'s Enterprise Group in Philadelphia. In 1990, he established McBride Shopa & Co., a Wilmington-based CPA and consulting firm. A native of Delaware, Freschman graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in accounting from UD in 1984 and is a John B. Lynch Scholar. For information on his UD appearance, call 831-2221. Guest conductor featured at Wind Ensemble concert At 8 p.m., Sunday, March 18, the University of Delaware Wind Ensemble, under the direction of Robert J. Streckfuss, will present a free concert in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. Joining Streckfuss on the podium will be guest conductor Lloyd Ross, director of bands at Newark High School. Ross will conduct On An American Spiritual by David Holsinger. The Wind Ensemble also will perform two works composed in the year 2000 and inspired by the tragedy at Columbine– American Elegy by Frank Ticheli and Can It Be by David Gillingham. Graduate conducting student John Mayer will conduct the Gillingham piece. The Wind Ensemble is a select group of 46 wind and percussion instrumentalists that performs music originally written for wind band, as well as transcriptions from all style periods. In March, the Wind Ensemble will perform in Pittsburgh at the Eastern Division meeting of the Music Educators National Conference. Guest conductor Ross has been director of bands at Newark High School since 1973. He has twice been named Teacher of The Year for the Christina School District and served as conductor for the First State Symphonic Band for 10 years. For information, call 831-2577.
Tours of exhibit offered to public Free, public tours of the exhibition, "The Art of Botanical Illustration," now on display at the Morris Library, are scheduled at noon, Thursday, April 26, and at 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 23. Reservations are not needed. For more information, call 831-2231. Spring dance classes offer ballroom, swing, Latin steps
Sunday classes include "Ballroom" at 7 p.m. and "Swing" at 8 p.m. On Mondays, classes will be offered in "Ballroom I" at 7 p.m. and "Ballroom II" at 8 p.m. Tuesday classes include "Ballroom I" at 7 p.m. and "Ballroom III" at 8 p.m. On Wednesday, classes will be offered in "Ballroom I" at 7 p.m. and "Latin" at 8 p.m. Monday and Wednesday classes will be held in the Newark United Methodist Church, 69 East Main St. All other classes take place in the Pearson Hall Gym. For information, call 831-1117 or check out the web site at [www.udel. edu/dance]. Comedian Rob Paravonian in Perkins Center coffeehouse Comedian Rob Paravonian will perform at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 20, in the Scrounge of the Perkins Student Center, as part of the UD coffeehouse series. The public is invited to relax and be entertained while enjoying free coffee.
On April 3, comedian Hood, with guest Michael Aronin, will be featured at the Tuesday Night Coffeehouse, at 7:30 p.m., in the Perkins Student Center Scrounge. Born in Iran but raised in the United States, Hood has a different spin on life. Dating, growing up and culture take on a new twist though his observations and often wacky humor. In his senior year at the University of Pennsylvania, he won the Cert's National College Comedians Competition. His comedy routines paid for his graduate degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but he decided to pursue comedy full time. He has been featured at the Montreal Comedy Festival and is a regular at comedy clubs on the East Coast. Aronin is a person with cerebral palsy who also is a funny stand-up comedian. He says he has found that laughter at oneself opens the door to acceptance and breaks down prejudices for all people. For more information on this series, call UD1-HENS. Orchestra will play works by Copland, Dvorak, Schubert The University Orchestra, directed by Hekun Wu, will present a free concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, March 21, in the Loudis Recital Hall of the Amy E. du Pont Music Building. The program includes Aaron Copland's Fanfare for The Common Man, Dvorak's Czech Suite and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. In addition to directing the University Orchestra, Wu teaches cello in the Department of Music. For information, call 831-2577. HTAC cast will present 'Fantasticks' The Harrington Theatre Arts Company will present several performances of The Fantasticks in March. Shows are scheduled at 7 p.m., tonight, March 15, and at 8 p.m. on Friday ad Saturday, March 16-17. All performances will be held in the Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. Tickets, available at the door, are $5 for the general public and $3 for students and seniors. For more information, call 837-3542. Academic Bowl contest set March 17 The University of Delaware Academic Bowl team will host the Blue Hen Invitational III, an academic challenge competition for 28 teams from Delaware and the surrounding states, from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, March 17. The event, free and open to the public, will be held in Purnell Hall. For additional information about the team or the event, send e-mail to [18059@udel.edu]. Noted author to address Library Associates dinner Simon Winchester, the widely acclaimed author of The Professor and the Winchester's topic will be "Remarks on The Professor and the Madman." The book is the true story of a professor, J.A.H. Murray, the editor behind the publication of the massive dictionary, and Dr. W. C. Minor, who contributed more than 10,000 entries to the work. After 17 years of correspondence with Minor, Murray decided to visit him and was shocked to discover that the doctor was confined to Broadmoor Asylum for the criminally insane. William Safire wrote in The New York Times Magazine, "The Professor and the Madman is the linguistic detective story of the decade....Winchester does a superb job of historical research that should entice readers even more interested in deeds than words." David Walton called the book "elegant and scrupulous" in The New York Times Book Review. A reviewer in the Economist, wrote that the book was "an extraordinary tale and that Simon Winchester could not have told it better...He has an engaging sympathy with the main characters...Mr. Winchester has written a splendid book." A journalist, correspondent and senior feature writer of the London Sunday Times, Winchester has written several books, including The Fracture Zone: A Return to the Balkans, Their Noble Lordships: Class and Power in Modern Britain and The River at the Center of the World: A Journey up the Yangtze and Back in Chinese Time. The annual dinner is open to be public but reservations are required. The cost is $68 per person for Library Associates members, $88 for guests and $700 for a corporate table of eight. Printed invitations will be mailed in March. For information or to request an invitation, contact the Office of the Director of Libraries by phone at 831-2231 or send an e-mail to [UDLA@udel.edu] with full name and mailing address. Family care-giving focus of international conference focus Families as They Interact with Care-Giving Institutions" will be the theme of the 38th Committee on Family Research Seminar of the International Sociological Association, March 28-31, to be held at UD. The conference is one of a series of meetings that are held in such locations as Canada, Lithuania, Sweden, Germany, South Africa and Israel to bring scholars together on issues of family research on policy, with a World Congress of the International Sociological Association in Brisbane, Australia, next year. The conference at UD will focus on the interface of families with organizations that provide information, diagnosis, services and support in care-giving. The speakers represent several colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Those from UD include Sally Bould, sociology; Ruth Flexman, continuing education; Joseph Lucca, physical therapy; and Michael Gamel-McCormick, Barbara Settles and Bahira Sheif, all individual and family studies. Graduate students from the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy presenting papers and serving as seminar interns are Christy Jensen, Ilka Phister, Julia Fisher, Erin Holmes, Sheyn Xuewen and Seongeun Kim. Katie Esposito HP 2003, and Monica Marchetta, HP 2002, are public service interns helping with conference arrangements. Settles chairs the seminar and serves as president of the Committee on Family Research. The seminar is cosponsored by the Department of Individual and Family Studies, the Center for Community Development and Family Policy, the Center for Disabilities Studies, the College of Human Services, Education and Public Policy and the Delaware/Panama Partners of the Americas. For additional information, contact Settles by phone at 368-0263 or by e-mail at [settlesb@udel.edu]. Residence hall tours for faculty and staff March 21 Residence life is offering a series of guided tours, beginning at 11 a.m., Wednesday, March 21, for faculty and staff with children who may be attending UD in the near future or for staff interested in visiting a UD residence hall. This is an opportunity for faculty and staff who have never been inside a residence hall to see what one looks like. Residence Hall complexes included in the tour are Dickinson, Pencader, Russell and Rodney, and tour guests will be invited to lunch at one of UD's dining halls afterwards. For information on the program, call 831-3001 or send e-mail to [michelon@ udel.edu]. Physical therapy to present talks by noted physiologist Internationally renowned physiologist Douglas G. Stuart, Regents Professor of Physiology at the University of Arizona, will give three free, public lectures on campus, sponsored by the physical therapy department.
Refreshments will be available before each talk. Part of the Traveling Scientist Lecture Series, the talks are funded by the Grass Foundation, in association with the Society for Neuroscience and the physical therapy department. For information or to schedule time to talk to Stuart, contact Cole Galloway, physical therapy, by phone at 831-3697 or via e-mail at [jacgallow@udel.edu]. Theatre prof guest director for Chapel Street Players
The play, which is both funny and poignant, focuses on three Vietnam veterans in an Army hospital as they cope with postwar life and each other. The cast includes Scott Mason, student centers, Anthony Bosco and Michael Sultzback, with a cameo appearance by Brian Guest, AS 2001. Tickets are $10 for adults, $8 for senior citizens and $5 for students. For more information and tickets, call 368-2248. |
Aaron David Miller, senior adviser for Arab-Israeli negotiations at the U.S. Department of State, will speak at UD on Thursday, March 15, as part of the Global Agenda 2001 lecture series. His free public talk will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Clayton Hall. Miller replaces Jordanian Ambassador Marwan Muasher, who was originally scheduled to speak that night.
Larry Harlow and the Latin Legends, with a sizzling Salsa blend of Puerto Rican and Afro-Cuban rhythms spiced with a smidgen of New York bebop, will perform at 8 p.m., Friday, April 6, in Mitchell Hall as part of UD's 2000-2001 Performing Arts Series.
The Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English and chairperson of the English department at Princeton University, Wood is the author of America in the Movies, Stendahl, Garbriel Garcia Marquez: One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, Children of Silence: On Contemporary Fiction, Bunuel's Belle de Jour and A Short History of Oracles, to be published this spring. He currently is working on a book about Proust.
Jazzworks: The UD Jazz Project will present a free concert at 8 p.m., Tuesday, April 3, i n Loudis Recital Hall. Representing both traditional and contemporary genres and a variety of jazz styles, the concert will feature guest artist Jim Ridl.
David J. Freschman of Hockessin, president and CEO of the Delaware Innovation Fund, will speak on "Venture Captial for the New Millennium" at 1:30 p.m., Friday, March 16, in Room 125 of MBNA America Hall.
Learn ballroom, s wing and Latin steps by enrolling in the 10-week UD Ballroom Dance Team spring dance series beginning March 25.
Paravonian has been seen on both Comedy Central's HiFi Party and on Premium Blend, and he will be a regular on the upcoming VH-1 series Random Play. He has been featured on several national and local radio shows and is the three-time New York Post "Comedy Pick of the Week."
Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, published by HarperCollins, will be the featured speaker at the annual dinner of the University of Delaware Library Associates, beginning at 6 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, at Arsht Hall on the Wilmington Campus.
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James Cunningham, theatre, is special guest director for a production of PVT Wars by the Chapel Street Players. He previously directed the play for the Professional Theatre Training Program and for the Reader's Theatre. Performances are scheduled at 8:15, Friday and Saturday, March 16-17, at the theatre at 27 Chapel St.