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Carleton has received a grant of $350,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) in support of an endowed Postdoctoral Fellows Program in the Humanities. The NEH Challenge Grant, which will be matched on a four-to-one basis by the College, will create a permanent endowment of $1.75 million that will ensure the ongoing implementation of the Fellows Program. In total, 20 challenge grants were awarded, but only two were won by undergraduate, four-year liberal arts colleges: Carleton and Eckerd College (Fla.). Nine of the twenty grants went to higher education institutions, or programs affiliated with higher education institutions.
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Dialogos 2: Faculty Research Exchange, Wednesday, February 17 at 4:30 p.m.
22 September 2009Tragedy and Contending Truths
Wednesday, February 17 – 4:30 p.m., Gould Library Athenaeum
Angela Curran, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, “Aristotle on Tragic Truth and the Emotions”
Clara Hardy, Professor of Classical Languages, “Tragic Rhetoric: Contending Truths in Euripides’ Trojan Women,”
Moderator: Timothy Raylor, Professor of English
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Acclaimed writer and wide-ranging cultural critic Lawrence Weschler will appear Wednesday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m. in the Boliou Hall Auditorium on the Carleton College campus. Entitled “Two Giants of Contemporary Art with Conflicting Ideas about How to Best Illuminate Human Perception,” Weschler’s presentation will focus on Robert Irwin and David Hockney—two artists with long histories of experimentation in human perception. Following Weschler’s lecture, he will sign copies of his books, which will be available for purchase at the event. Weschler’s appearance is free and open to the public.
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Carleton will screen a modern dance interpretation of Beauty and Love, a Sufi mystical poem on Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at 4:30 p.m. in Carleton’s Gould Library Athenaeum. The video screening will be followed by a discussion led by Carleton graduate and University of Washington professor and Ottoman scholar Walter Andrews ’61. A Mediterranean reception will immediately follow the discussion. This event is free and open to the public.
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Teatro del Pueblo, “Help Wanted,” Friday May 8, 8 p.m.
26 March 2009Friday, May 8, 8 p.m., Great Hall
We are thrilled to welcome Teatro del Pueblo, a Latino company based in Saint Paul. “Celebrating diversity through theater,” the company will be featured in the Humanities Center’s “Migration, Immigration, Hybridity” series. The short play “Help Wanted” depicts a landmark case in which the human rights of undocumented workers were trampled on and eventually redeemed. In English with some Spanish. Discussion following with members of the cast. See Teatro del Pueblo’s website for further information.
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Robert S. Levine speaks on “Hawthorne’s ‘Dramatic'”, Friday 27 February, 4:00 p.m.
26 February 2009Robert S. Levine: “Hawthorne’s ‘Dramatic’ THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES”
Friday , February 27
4:00-5:00 p.m.
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Talk-back after The House of Seven Gables, Friday 27 February
26 February 2009Ruth Weiner, Robert Levine, Barbara Field, and Peter Balaam will facilitate a talk-back with the audience immediately following the play. The play begins at 8:00 p.m. at Arena Theater.
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The House of The Seven Gables, Friday 27 and Saturday 28 February
25 February 2009This is a new adaptation of the Hawthorne novel by nationally known playwright Barbara Field (adaptor of the Guthrie CHRISTMAS CAROL), designed by Tony Award-winning (THE WHO’S TOMMY) designer John Arnone, original music to be composed by Hiram Titus, directed by Ruth Weiner.
Arena Theater, 8 p.m.
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Javier Gomá Lanzón is director of the most important foundation that promotes cultural activities in Spain: Fundación Juan March.
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The Birth of Freedom: A Symposium on Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man
Monday 2 March at Macalester