Thursday, January 24
King's Dream: A Key Arts Production
Co-sponsored by the Office of Multicultural Affairs, SGA Diversity Committee, and the Office of Student Affairs
This multi-media performance celebrates the life and legacy of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. through live music, video images and stories of struggle and perserverance.
Norman James Theatre, William Smith Hall, 7:00 p.m.
Thursday, February 14
The Future of "Ride for the Future"
Jamie Beaber '09, Spencer Case '09, Brian Gamble '10, and Katherine Wilson '06 of last summer's Ride for the Future team will share their experiences biking 3500 miles cross-country to raise awareness of lung cancer. A reception in the Toll Atrium will follow the presentation.
Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center, 4:30 p.m.
Sunday and Monday, February 17 and 18
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
Washington College Film Series, introduced by Jill Ogline
Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center, 7:30 p.m.
Sunday, February 17: Parts I & II
Monday, February 18: Parts III & IV
Friday, February 22
George Washington's Birthday Convocation
In keeping with the institution's 225th-anniversary theme of "Making History," Washington College is awarding honorary degrees to three exceptional Americans who have made history in the realm of civil rights: Birch Bayh, Taylor Branch, and Gloria Richardson. See the College's website for details.
Benjamin A. Johnson Lifetime Fitness Center, 3:30 p.m.
Civil Rights Pioneer Interviewed Before Annual Washington's Birthday Convocation (Listen here...)
Thursday, February 28
Voices of the Chesapeake Bay: The Interview Project
C.V. Starr Center Program Manager Michael Buckley discusses his seven-year
radio project interviewing the people of the Chesapeake Bay region.
He will also present opportunities for students to learn more about interviewing and oral history techniques. Copies of Michael's newly published book, Voices
of the Chesapeake Bay,
will be available at the bookstore. Free pizza provided!
Student Center, 6 p.m.
Saturday, March 8
AMERICAN PICTURES DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Allan Gurganus on Thomas Eakins' Portrait of Walt Whitman
Co-sponsored with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, and the Washington College Department of Art and Art History
Click here for a description of this new series at the Smithsonian.
John Cheever wrote: "I consider Allan Gurganus the most technically gifted and morally responsive writer of his generation." For more than thirty years, Gurganus' fiction has been acclaimed for its dark humor, erotic candor, and folkloric sweep.
He is the author of Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, White People, Plays Well with Others, and, most recently, The Practical Heart: Four Novellas.
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
8th and F Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Saturday, March 15
AMERICAN PICTURES DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Laurie Anderson on Andy Warhol's Electric Chair
Laurie Anderson is one of today's premier performance artists. Known for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Her visual work has been presented in major museums throughout the United States and Europe.
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
8th and F Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, March 18
CROSSINGS TO FREEDOM LECTURE SERIES
Looking for Bijah and Lucy: The Search for an African American Family that Moved into Legend
Gretchen Gerzina
Frederick Douglass Visiting Fellow, C.V. Starr Center
Generally recognized as the first published African American poet, Lucy Terry Prince and her husband Abijah, a French and Indian War veteran, moved from slavery to pursuit of the American dream. Gerzina, who is Vernon Professor in Biography at Dartmouth College, will share their dramatic story.
Litrenta Lecture Hall, Toll Science Center, 7:30 p.m.
Book signing to follow
Tuesday, March 25
GUY F. GOODFELLOW MEMORIAL LECTURE
Karen Halttunen
Professor of History, University of Southern California
The Face of the Land: Natural Histories of Colonial New England, 1790-1876
Co-sponsored by the History Department
Casey Academic Center Forum, 4:30 p.m.
Monday, March 31
CROSSINGS TO FREEDOM LECTURE SERIES
A Slave No More: Two Recently Discovered Slave Narratives and the Story of Emancipation
David Blight
Professor Blight, who is director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance & Abolition atYale University, will discuss the discovery of
two previously unpublished slave narratives - powerful testimonies of heroic, painful and inspiring lives.
Casey Academic Center Forum, 7:30 p.m.
Book signing to follow
Wednesday, April 16
Fredrika J. Teute
C.V. Starr Fellow, Washington College
"The Spectacle of Washington: Picturing Margaret Bayard Smith's Metropolis of a New World"
C.V. Starr Center Fellow Fredrika Teute describes her ongoing work on the novelist, journalist, and saloniste Margaret Bayard Smith.
Litrenta Lecture Hall. Toll Science Center, 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 26
AMERICAN PICTURES DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Garry Wills on Thomas Eakins' William Rush Carving His Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River
One of America's most distinguished public intellectuals, Garry Wills has published more than thirty books and countless essays on history, politics, religion, and culture. He was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism in 1992 and the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction in 1993 for Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America.
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
8th and F Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C.
Saturday, May 10
AMERICAN PICTURES DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES
Anna Deveare Smith on Ruth Orkin's Member of the Wedding, 1950: Ethel
Waters, Carson McCullers, and Julie Harris
Anna Deavere Smith is an actress, playwright and author. She is renowned for pioneering a new form of theatre, combining the journalistic technique of interviewing her subjects with the art of interpreting their words through performance, and looking at controversial events from multiple points of view.
She is University Professor at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium, 4:30 p.m.
Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture
8th and F Sts., N.W., Washington, D.C.
