Cathy Yandell, the W.I. and Hulda F. Daniell Professor of French Literature, Language and Culture, presented a lecture titled “Les roses de Ronsard: humanisme et subjectivité,” at the Ecole des Chartes, Sorbonne, in Paris, as part of a colloquium with seven scholars from France, Italy and Spain. Their lectures will be published in a volume titled Eléments naturels et paysages: quelques conditions de l’émergence du sujet, auteur et acteur, dans la littérature de la Renaissance.

Daniel Bruggeman, visiting assistant professor of art, has a show titled “New Paintings” at the Groveland Gallery in Minneapolis. The show will be on exhibition until June 12.

Michael McNally, assistant professor of religion, was awarded a research affiliate grant from Harvard University’s Pluralism Project for a Native American Religious and Cultural Freedom initiative. The grant supports the editing, design and Web publishing of case studies where Native communities are seeking protection of sacred lands, religious free exercise and cultural patrimony. Many were initially generated by Carleton students in McNally’s religion course titled “Native American Religious Freedom.”

Thomas Rosenberg, adjunct instructor in cello, is a member of the Artaria String Quartet and was chosen as a recipient of a McKnight Performing Artist Fellowship. Rosenberg also gave two lectures for the Saint Cloud Chamber Music Society.

Journalist Andrew Sullivan will give a convocation titled “American Politics: A View from Home and Abroad” at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, May 14 in Carleton College’s Skinner Memorial Chapel. The event is free and open to the public.

Ruthanna Miller, catering manager, and her husband, Van, were featured in an article and photo in the May 9 issue of the Faribault (Minn.) Daily News. The Millers catered a five-course Italian dinner to raise money for Ruth’s House, a planned transitional shelter for homeless women and their children. A Carleton a cappella group, Exit 69, provided music for the event and other students were among those who served the meal.

Baird Jarman, instructor in art history, presented a paper titled “Feudalism and the White City: Tyrannical Aesthetics at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair” at the 19th Century Studies Association conference.

Carleton College honored 25-year employees and those who are retiring during this academic year at the Employee Recognition Celebration on Thursday, May 6.

David M. McGee ’80 was featured in a May 5 Star Tribune article titled “He’s first string in his arena.” The article was part of a feature on five familiar faces at Minnesota Timberwolves basketball games. McGee often plays cello in the skyway linking the 7th Street parking ramp to Target Center. McGee was a philosophy major at Carleton.

Screenings of 15 South Asian documentaries will be held at various locations at Carleton from Wednesday, May 5, to Tuesday, May 11. The films, part of a traveling festival designed to promote South Asian films, were originally shown at the Film South Asia festival held every two years in Kathmandu. View schedule (PDF Document)