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Featured Events

April 10, 20134:15 PM – 5:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

Compass Points: Art, Science and the Arctic

What is the path that an individual takes that leads to a life of art influenced by science? From the Italian Alps to the Arctic, from research station in Manitoba to Bowdoin, this talk will take you on a visual tour of how science informs artistic practice and development.

April 10, 20137:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

"Things That Matter: How Inuit Artists Create Meaning" - Arctic Museum Exhibit Opening Lecture

Dr. Norman Vorano, curator of contemporary Inuit Art at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, will present a talk, "Things that Matter: How Inuit Artists Create Meaning," in conjunction with the opening of the Peary MacMillan's Arctic Museum exhibit, Spirits of Land, Air, and Water: Antler Carvings from the Robert and Judith Toll Collection.

April 11, 20137:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Harry Spindel Memorial Lectureship Allegra Goodman

Allegra Goodman is the author of Intuition, Paradise Park, Kaaterskill Falls, The Family Markowitz, and Total Immersion . The Other Side of the Island is her first book for younger readers

April 12, 20138:45 AM – 5:30 PM
Moulton Union, Lancaster Lounge

Symposium: Collaborative Organizations and Social Media

Collaborative Organizations and Social Media is a one-day symposium which will consider the ways in which the developing scholarship on social media and social networking might be incorporated into thinking critically about how social computing may be affecting and even forming organizations.

April 12, 201312:30 PM – 4:30 PM
Thorne Hall, Daggett Lounge

Telling Stories About Data: Writing in Science and Other Quantitative Fields

One of the most frequent pieces of advice given to writers is "Tell a good story!" But because "good" stories are usually defined in terms of plot, narrative arc, and characters, writers in quantitative fields seem to have no stories to tell. In this workshop, we investigate writing in quantitative fields to find the stories we tell about data.

April 12, 20136:00 PM – 7:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Mathematics and the Melting Polar Ice Caps

April 16, 20134:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Unveil the Mysterious Tibet Through a Candid Lens

Distinguished linguist and photographer, Kuo-ming Sung is Associate Professor and Chair at Lawrence University. Prof. Sung has published several books on Tibet and the Tibetan language, and is currently working on a textbook of Colloquial Lhasa Tibetan language.

April 18, 20134:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom

James Smalls, Art Historian - Feral Benga: An African Muse of Homo-Utopia

University of Maryland, Baltimore County art historian James Smalls will speak on the influence of the Senegalese dancer and artist/model Feral Benga on early to mid-twentieth century queer visual representation.

April 23, 20137:30 PM – 9:30 PM
Visual Arts Center, Kresge Auditorium

Switch- a film screening

Now playing at more than 300 universities, see the film that's changing the global energy conversation. Nonpartisan, yet revolutionary, Switch united diverse audiences in a shared understanding of energy.