UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 3, Page 4
September 17, 1992
Up and coming
Kipnis and Calliope to open 1992 Performing Arts Series
World-renowned harpsichordist Igor Kipnis will join forces with
the Renaissance band Calliope to present a most unusual evening of
music to open the University's l992 Performing Arts Series at 8 p.m.,
Friday, Sept. 18, in Newark Hall auditorium.
Kipnis and Calliope will perform separately and then come
together to present The Bestiary, a theatre piece written by Pete
Schickele (aka PDQ Bach).
The light-hearted piece, performed on 27 different instruments
and narrated by Kipnis, portrays nine different animals including
frogs, hedgehogs and unicorns.
Tickets for the performance are $15 for the general public; $10
for University faculty and staff; and $5 for University, high school
and elementary school students. Ticket packages for the Performing
Arts Series also are available. For ticket information, call the new
Hartshorn box office from noon to 5 p.m., Mondays through Fridays, at
831-2204.
Harpsichord fans also can attend a lecture/demonstration by
Kipnis scheduled for 2:30 p.m., Sept. 18, also in Newark Hall
auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Winner of the 1975 Naumburg Chamber Music Award, Calliope has
toured most of the United States, performing on more than 40
instruments.
International films on Sundays nights
Recent films from France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Japan and the
United States will be featured in the University's fall international
film series.
The free public screenings are held at 7:30 p.m., Sundays, in
Room 140 of Smith Hall.
September films include:
* Delicatessen, a stylistically dazzling, black comedy from
France, Sept. 20; and
* Europa, Europa, a German film based on the true story of a
Jewish teenager who survived World War II by posing as a Nazi,
Sept. 27.
Four films are scheduled in October:
* The Story of Boys and Girls, a comic, lyrical film from Italy,
Oct. 4;
* American Dream, Barbara Kopple's Oscar-winning documentary
about a strike at a meat-packing plant, Oct. 11;
* The Double Life of Veronique, a Polish film about two identical
women, Oct. 18; and
* Rhapsody in August, Akira Kurosawa's latest film, Oct. 25.
Concluding the series on Nov. 1 will be Robert Altman's The
Player, a dark satire about power, passion and hypocrisy in Hollywood.
Lecture series to examine 1492
"The Consequences of 1492: A New World Perspective," is the focus
of a lecture series, sponsored by the Department of History. The
series explores the biological and social consequences of European
voyages of exploration.
All lectures will be held at 7 p.m. in 120 Clayton Hall.
The series begins on Tuesday, Sept. 29, with Calvin Martin,
associate professor of history at Rutgers University, whose talk "When
the Gods Wept: Disease and European Colonization of America" will
focus on the nature of Native Americans, their religion and culture
before and after the influx of Europeans, alcohol and disease.
Alfred Crosby, professor of American studies at the University of
Texas, will speak on Thursday, Oct. 8, on "Ecological Imperialism."
His talk will encompass the dramatic changes in Europe and the
Americas arising from the exchange of plant and animal life with the
opening of the New World.
Speaking on Tuesday, Oct. 13, is Edith Couturier, humanities
administrator from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will
discuss "Women and the Encounter: 16th-Century Hispanic America."
Couturier's work on the history of women and the family in
colonial Latin America is widely respected. She is the author of
Hacienda de Hueyapan 1560-1936 and numerous articles on women,
families and philanthropy in Mexico.
Wrapping up the series on Tuesday, Oct. 20, will be Franklin
Knight, professor of history, at Johns Hopkins University who will
speak on "Christopher Columbus: Looking Forward or Looking Back? The
Challenges of a Quincentenary Commemoration."
Knight has authored and edited numerous books and articles on
slavery, slave societies and the history of the Caribbean, including
the recently published Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture and
Society in the Atlantic World, which he co-edited. Currently he is
serving as a volume editor for Slave Societies of the Caribbean, to be
published by UNESCO.
The lectures will run concurrently with an exhibit of
photographs, "Peru Mestizo," which will be on view in Clayton Hall.
The exhibit, organized by the Texas Humanities Resource Center,
features photographs of colonial paintings, the scenery and peoples of
Peru from 1540 to the early 1880s.
E-52 to present 'Agnes of God'
Agnes of God, the hit Broadway drama by John Pielmeir, will be
presented by the E-52 student-run theatre at 8:15 p.m. on Friday and
Saturday, Sept. 18, 19 and 25 and 26 and on Sunday, Sept. 20 at the
Bacchus Theatre of the Perkins Student Center. Admission is $3.
Tickets will be on sale at the door. For information, call
831-6014.
Series on lesbian, gay, bisexual issues
A series of lectures and a short course examining lesbian, gay
and bisexual studies will be held, beginning Sept. 29. The free public
lectures will be held 12:30-1:45 p.m., Tuesdays, in the Kirkwood Room
of the Perkins Student Center.
Lecture topics, speakers and dates include:
"Gay Theatre," Richard Brown, professor of theatre, Sept. 29;
"The Law, Gays and Lesbians," Shku Bhaya, attorney, Oct. 13;
"Gay Identity in America," Leslie Goldstein, professor of
political science and international relations, Oct. 20;
"Rallying Around the Well of Loneliness: Djuna Barnes and
Virginia Woolf," Bonnie Scott, professor of English, Nov. 10;
"AIDS, Knowledge and Pedagogy," Jonathan Silin, Harvard Institute
for Research on AIDS, Nov. 17;
"Patriarchy's 'Longtime Companion' or What Every Heterosexual
(Woman) Should Know About AIDS," by Paula Jayne White, graduate
student in English, Nov. 24; and
"The Gay Artist and His Work," Hilton Brown, professor of art
conservation, Dec. 1.
Students enrolled in the short course also must attend three
discussion dates open to enrollees only.
For more information, contact the course coordinators, Mark
Amsler in the Department of English, at 831-2361; or Holly Baggett in
the Department of History, at 831-2371.
Daniel Barshay in 'I, Walt Whitman'
Daniel Barshay will perform in his one-man show, I, Walt Whitman,
at 8 p.m., Monday, Sept. 21, at Newark Hall Auditorium. The event is
free and open to the public.
Barshay, who trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in
New York City, portrays Whitman at three crucial periods of his
life-as the 36-year-old author of the just published Leaves of Grass,
as a 45-year-old hospital volunteer during the Civil War and as a
54-year-old prophet, half paralyzed by a stroke, protesting the
excesses of the Golden Age.
Performing as Whitman for 13 years, Barshay has taken his show to
theatres, schools, prisons and Indian reservations. Last spring, he
performed for 10 weeks in New York as part of the the commemoration of
the 100th anniversary of Whitman's death, sponsored by the Museum of
the City of New York.
I, Walt Whitman is sponsored by the Student Program Association
and the Department of English.