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News: October, 2004 
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Renowned Book Artist to Lecture at Wells College

Buzz Spector of Cornell University discusses “The Book in/as Landscape”

Buzz SpectorThe Wells College Book Arts Center is proud to announce that Buzz Spector will present the 20th Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture. Mr. Spector’s presentation, entitled “The Book in/as Landscape,” will focus on a selection of his work as well as work in book form by a number of artists who work with metaphors of the land or of place. The lecture will be given at 7:30 pm on Friday, November 5 in the Art Exhibit Room of Macmillan Hall on the Wells College campus. The event is free and open to the public. A reception for the speaker will follow.

Buzz Spector is an artist and critical writer whose artwork has been shown in such museums and galleries as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. His work makes frequent use of the book, both as subject and object, and is concerned with relationships between public history, individual memory, and perception. Spector has issued a number of artists’ books and editions since the mid-1970s, including most recently, Between the Sheets, a limited edition book published by The Ink Shop/Olive Branch Press of Ithaca, New York.

In 1978, Spector was a co-founder of WhiteWalls, a magazine of writings by artists, and served as the publication’s editor until 1987. Since then he has written extensively on topics in contemporary art and culture, and has contributed reviews and essays to a number of publications, including American Craft, Artforum, Art Issues, Dialogue, Exposure, New Art Examiner, and Visions. He is the author of The Book Maker’s Desire, a book of critical essays on topics in contemporary art and artists’ books (Umbrella Editions, 1995), and numerous exhibition catalogue essays, including Ann Hamilton: Sao Paulo & Seattle (University of Washington Press, 1992), and Dieter Roth (University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1999).

Spector earned his B.A. in art from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1972, and his M.F.A. with the Committee on Art and Design at the University of Chicago. In 1991 he was awarded a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Fellowship, and on three separate occasions he received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Awards. He is currently professor and chair of the Department of Art at Cornell University.

Buzz Spector’s lecture is part of the Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 Memorial Book Arts Lecture Series, a semi-annual event at Wells College which is made possible through the Heiland-Garretson Book Arts Lecture Fund, established by Susan Garretson Swartzburg ’60 and sustained through the generosity of her family.

Inspired by Victor Hammer, an internationally renowned calligrapher, painter, printer and type designer, the Wells Book Arts Center was established in 1993 to instruct in all areas of book arts and technologies. Hammer also founded the Wells College Press. Students in book arts classes at Wells learn the history and philosophy of their craft as they develop hand skills in the fabrication of books. They gain international perspective on book arts with visits from accomplished lecturers, writers, and artists, and with field trips to the area’s remarkable collection of libraries, presses, paper mills and binderies. Current classes teach design, typography, the evolution of letterforms, letterpress printing, bookbinding, and the history of the book. Though it embraces historical arts and technologies, the Center also actively investigates and incorporates innovations of our digital age. The Wells Book Arts Center supports the mission of the college by revealing the essential role of the book in Western culture and the liberal arts.

For more information about Buzz Spector’s lecture and the book arts at Wells College, please contact the Wells Book Arts Center by phone at 315-364-3420 or by email at bookartscenter@wells.edu, or visit us on the web at http://aurora.wells.edu/~wbac/bookarts/index.html

October, 2004


Wells College Partners with Cornell for 8th Annual Environmental Film Festival

Festival brings cinema with a message to region; Wells offers screening of “This Black Soil: A Story of Resistance and Rebirth”

This Black SoilWells College is one of several venues hosting films and filmmakers during the 8th annual Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival held from Friday, October 22 through Thursday, October 28. On Wednesday, October 27, Wells will present “This Black Soil: A Story of Resistance and Rebirth” at 7:00 pm in Cleveland Hall Auditorium. Filmmaker Teresa Konechne will be present for the free screening and will lead a discussion afterwards. The public is invited to participate.

The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival returns for its eighth year as a showcase of films and performances with a message. More than thirty films ranging from documentaries and narratives to animation and comedic shorts will screen on six campuses and three other venues in Ithaca and surrounding areas. Most of the screenings feature an introduction and discussion with an expert on the film’s topic; five will be presented by their filmmakers or special guests.

In “This Black Soil: A Story of Resistance and Rebirth,” producer Teresa Konechne captures the power of participative democracy on film. Looking for an underdeveloped rural area with little political power, the state of Virginia thought it had found the perfect site to build a maximum-security prison in the town of Bayview. Although severely impoverished, the citizens successfully resisted the plan. Empowered by the experience, the town strove to recreate their village for a sustainable future, managing to secure enough money to purchase the prison site and work against all odds to remake their town along sustainable lines. “This Black Soil” chronicles Bayview’s struggle to build a prosperous future that respects the roots of this rural African-American community.

In addition to Wells, screenings will take place at Ithaca College, Cornell University, Longview, the Ithaca Sciencenter and the Museum of the Earth, Syracuse University and SUNY School of Environmental Science and Forestry, and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva.

For additional information about the screening of “This Black Soil” at Wells College, please contact Professor of Anthropology and Religion Ernie Olson at 315/364-3206.

All screenings and discussions are open to the public and most are free of charge.  The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival is presented by Ithaca College, the Cornell Center for the Environment, the Einaudi Center for International Studies, and Cornell Cinema, with support of other units at Cornell. Additional support is provided by the participating colleges and museums, and by WSP Environmental, Inc, part of WSP Group. More information may be found by calling 607/255-3522; detailed descriptions of the film festival and a full list of sponsors are available at the web site <http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/>. 

October, 2004


Wells College Presents Pan-Asian Contemporary Modern Dance Concert

Wells dance students collaborate with guest performing artists from New York City

The Wells College Performing Arts Department presents its all-women student company, Wells Dance Ensemble, and New York City guest performing artists Karen DiIuro and John Zullo. The fall dance concert will take place on Friday, November 12 and Saturday, November 13 at 7:30 pm in the Sommer Center. Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance. Prices are $3 students/children, $5 seniors/Wells community, and  $7 general admission. 

The evening’s program of contemporary modern dance with an Asian fusion blend will include choreographic works by Filipino-American Jeff Michael Rebudal, who is artistic director of the show and visiting professor of dance at Wells College. Among the dances performed will be Filipinese, Past (the Third), and Sarong Banggi

Rebudal explores the relationship between Filipino folk and contemporary modern dance in Filipinese, which celebrates womanhood and modern society’s diverse culture and lifestyles. This Pan-Asian dance will feature the full company and is performed to a mixed sound score including Filipino folk music by Ate Mariano and Ramon Obusan. As quoted by The Washington Post, Rebudal “weaves together images and gestures that suggest the complexity of Asian-American life.”

Guest performers Karen DiIuro and John Zullo will be featured with the ensemble in Past (the Third), danced to music by Phillip Glass and Musique. This piece delineates the idea that life has no boundaries and that in any given situation there are “shades of gray” and one’s role or responsibility is often blurred and overlapped with other coexisting thoughts and issues. According to the New Jersey Ledger, this is demonstrated through a “simple, yet powerful device: a line of white powder along the floor that ruled the space.” 

To complete the program, a solo titled Sarong Banggi (One Night) will be performed by Rebudal to music by Filipino violinists Gilopez and Corazon Kabayao. Lighting will be designed by Joe DeForest of Wells College, with costumes by Filipino costume designer Zeny Dio and Robin Burnosky.

Wells Dance Ensemble members are: Robyn Bookland ’05, Rachel Gaskill ’08, Ashante McLeod-Perez ’08, Zoe Malinchoc ’05, Christina Miglino ’07, Shelly Ray ’05, Whitney Sampson ’05, Elizabeth Sesera ’05, and Sarah Woodward ’06. 

Jeff Michael Rebudal is artistic director of the Manhattan-based Rebudal Dance and is an original founding member of the critically acclaimed Seán Curran Company in which he performed and toured throughout the nation and abroad from 1995 to 2003. Prior to moving to New York City in 1993, he performed professionally in Honolulu, where he has born and raised. He received an MFA in Performing Arts from The American University and a BA in Dance/ Journalism from the University of Hawaii-Manoa. Since 1996, Rebudal has worked in academia as visiting assistant professor at Connecticut College, the University of Oklahoma and currently at Wells College. He is a 2004 Fulbright finalist and a recipient of grants including the Asian- American Arts Alliance/JP Morgan Chase Regrant, Ruth and Seymour Klein Foundation, the 92nd Street Y - Harkness Space Grant, and the R.F. Johnson Grant.

Karen E. DiIuro has performed in New York City with Rebudal Dance since 2001 and is a recipient of the Richard Ellner Scholarship from Broadway Dance Center where she is on the faculty. Ms. DiIuro graduated magna cum laude from Connecticut College with degrees in both dance and international relations. 

John Zullo, originally of the Bronx, completed his MA in dance from The American University. He has performed works by Batsheva Dance Company, Heidi Latsky, Peter DiMuro and Dance Alloy. In NYC, he has performed for Andrew Jannetti, TAPFUSION and has been with Rebudal Dance since 2001. He also performed for Project Motion, Sister’s Trousers, and Tony Powell/Music & Movement in D.C. His own choreography has been presented at Dance Place, the American College Dance Festival, and Dance Space Center in NYC. He received the 1998 Emerging Choreographers Award from the Arts Club of Washington.

For more information about the fall dance concert and the Wells Dance Ensemble, please contact Jeff Michael Rebudal at 315/364-3213.

October, 2004


Poetry Reading and Writing Workshop at Wells College

Ralph Black shares his poetry, writing skills with students

The Wells College Visiting Writer Series is pleased to welcome poet Ralph Black to the Aurora campus. The creative writing professor from Rochester will read from his work at 7:30 pm on Thursday, October 28 in the Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall. The free reading will be followed by a reception with an opportunity to meet the author. Refreshments will be served, and Black’s book will be available for purchase and signing.

Born and raised in Maryland, Ralph Black received his B.A. from the University of Oregon and his M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. His poetry has appeared in such journals as The Georgia Review, Orion, The Gettysburg Review, and Pequod, and has won awards from the Academy of American Poets and Chelsea. His first book of poems, Turning Over the Earth, was published by Milkweed Editions in 2000. Ralph has lived for periods of time in Italy and Ireland, and has taught at NYU, Davidson College, and Wake Forest University. He teaches creative writing at SUNY- Brockport, where he is co-director of the Brockport Writers Forum.

While on campus, Mr. Black will also participate in classes and present a poetry-writing workshop for students.

This reading and the Wells College Visiting Writer Series are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.  Poets and writers are invited to campus throughout the academic year to meet with students, present writing workshops, and read from their respective works.

For more information about Ralph Black and the Visiting Writers Series at Wells College, please contact English professor Bruce Bennett at 315/364-3228.

October, 2004


Friends & Family Weekend 2004

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October, 2004


Wells College Presents Off-Broadway Production

“Squeeze Box” is one-woman play featuring Ann Randolph

Squeeze Box
The Wells College Performing Arts Department is proud to announce the guest residency of Ann Randolph, playwright and actor direct from New York City. Ms. Randolph will present her one-woman comedy Squeeze Box on Saturday night, October 23 in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall. Curtain time is 8:30 pm. The performance is free for Wells students; $3 for students and children, $6 for senior citizens and the Wells College community, and $10 for the general public. Tickets are available at the door the night of the show.

With pathos and humor, Squeeze Box skillfully weaves together Ms. Randolph’s personal experiences of working in a women’s homeless shelter, and of her love affair with the accordionist of her dreams. Using her expressive face, acrobatic voice, and attuned body language, Ms. Randolph paints painfully funny portraits of the shelter’s residents.

Accompanied only by a chair, a banjo, and a guitar, Ms. Randolph brings to life her compelling and comical journey of discovery and self-acceptance with remarkable freshness and vibrancy. Squeeze Box illuminates the dignity and grace in unusual people and places, reflecting upon the relationship between where we are and where we expect to be.

“I was production manager for this off-Broadway show last summer, and had the pleasure of working with Ann Randolph and Alan Bailey again; we all are Ohio University alums,” says Susan Forbes, Wells theatre professor. “I am thrilled I was able to negotiate Squeeze Box’s showing here at Wells before the production goes on tour. Squeeze Box is expected to be made into a major motion picture in the next couple of years. Now our students can say they saw the original here first!”

While at Wells, Ms. Randolph will also offer a master class in playwriting and solo performance. 

Ann Randolph is a writer, performer, and filmmaker from Los Angeles. She wrote Squeeze Box while working in a women’s shelter for eight years. The play was originally staged at the Court Theatre in Los Angeles, where in 2002 it won the L.A. Theatre Alliance’s award for best solo performance. Ms. Randolph has performed her original monologues on NPR and PBS, and was a member of The Groundlings with Will Ferrell, Cheri Oteri, and Chris Kattan. Her credits include “Two Guys and a Girl” and “The Drew Carey Show.”

Squeeze Box has been playing at the Acorn Theatre in New York City, and is produced off-Broadway by Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks, and directed by Alan Bailey.

For more information about Squeeze Box and the performing arts at Wells College, please contact theatre professor Susan Forbes at 315/364-3232.

October, 2004


Wells College Professor Invited to Give Lecture at Case Western Reserve University

Dr. Niamh O’Leary to speak on “Food: Think Globally, Act Locally”

Professor Niamh O'LearyCase Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio has invited a Wells College faculty member to speak at its annual Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day. Environmental Studies professor Niamh O’Leary will address attendees on Monday, October 18. This year’s Lecture Day theme is “Food: Think Globally, Act Locally.” 

Niamh O’Leary is associate professor of environmental studies at Wells College; she is currently on sabbatical leave for the Fall 2004 semester. On Lecture Day, O’Leary will address the topic “Food for the Future: Developing Crops for a New, More Sustainable Agriculture.” 

According to O’Leary, this lecture discusses how highly productive modern agricultural methods are in developed countries, “but this bounty comes at a cost,” she says. “Significant negative environmental effects…are among the concerns and challenges associated with industrialized agriculture…Shortages of fossil fuels, increased government regulations, and growing awareness of our obligations to the environment and to society have led to a new vision for the future of agriculture.” 

O’Leary will talk about how new agricultural methods will require genetic modification of crops to adapt them to a relatively unaltered farming environment. The other guest speaker, Professor Robert Paarlberg of the political science department at Wellesley College, will discuss “Why is Africa Still Hungry?”

The Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day is sponsored annually by the Association for Continuing Education at Case Western Reserve University. ACE is a volunteer organization dedicated to providing continuing education programs in cooperation with CWRU. Lecture Day is named in honor of Grazella Shepherd, who was the creative genius behind a unique educational lecture series that began in 1939 when she was the head of the General Educational Division of Cleveland College.

Lynn Reboul of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, (Wells Class of 1960) serves on the ACE Committee that organizes Lecture Day each year. Lynn was instrumental in bringing Professor O’Leary to Cleveland this fall. Other Wells faculty members have also spoken in the past: in October 1996, then-Assistant Dean Nan DiBello presented a talk entitled “Governments in the United States: Federalism, Politics, and Public Policy,” and professor Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo gave a presentation in October 2000 on “Globalization, Its Claims, and Its Contradictions with a Special Reference to International Political Economy and Democracy.”

For more information about Professor O’Leary’s lecture, please call Kelly Tehan at 315/364-3416. Additional information about Grazella Shepherd Lecture Day may be found by calling the Office of Continuing Education at Case Western (216/368-2090) or on their website at www.cwru.edu/artsci/conted/ace.htm.

October, 2004


Trustees Announce Decision

Wells will begin admitting men in the Fall of 2005

The Wells College Board of Trustees voted on Saturday, October 2, 2004 to admit men as matriculated undergraduate students. The college will begin enrolling men in the 2005-06 academic year. 

Wells College is a four-year, private liberal arts college located in Aurora, New York, on the eastern shore of Cayuga Lake. It was established in 1868 by Henry Wells, founder of the Wells Fargo Express and the American Express Company. Wells boasts small class sizes, an extensive experiential learning program, a diverse off-campus study program, and cross-enrollment with both Cornell University and Ithaca College. The academic program allows students substantial freedom to create individually unique educational experiences. In addition to becoming coeducational, the college is strengthening its off-campus study programs and introducing new initiatives in its Book Arts Center.

Coeducation has been considered by several Wells administrations over the course of at least four decades.  In fact, the college’s Charter was amended in 1969 to allow the college to grant degrees to men. For more than a year, Wells’ trustees had seriously been studying the possibility of coeducation to grow the college’s enrollment and financial resources. 

“For 40 years, Wells has made countless attempts to increase enrollment, including cutting tuition by 30%, adding new programs, trying innovative marketing and advertising campaigns, and increased spending on student aid,” said Stephen L. Zabriskie, chair of the Board.  “Yet we have not been able to get above an enrollment of 400 for a sustained period of time. From all the information we studied, it was clear to us that we had run out of time to continue as we were. It was time to change.”

For the current school year, residential enrollment is 302; and Wells needs at least 450 students living on campus, along with more commuters and other part-time students, to grow toward fiscal stability. 

“We have decided it is time to make everything Wells has to offer available to all potential students – both women and men,” said Lisa Marsh Ryerson, president of the college. “All the evidence made it abundantly clear that we could not grow our enrollment by remaining in our present state. We looked at nearly 200 liberal arts colleges, including a number of women-only colleges, and found that in nearly every case, applications and enrollments went up for colleges that made the transition from single-sex to coeducation. That is what we need for Wells College.”

A continued focus on the advancement of women will remain a key objective in the college’s new mission. “Wells will always be a small, close knit, high-quality liberal arts college, with our rich traditions as a women’s college. Even as we welcome more men to the campus, we will remain a college that honors women, and our deeply held values will still predominate,” she said. 

According to The College Board, only 3% of college-bound women consider an all-women’s school as their first choice for college. Other research indicates that after women-only institutions become coeducational, most of the enrollment increases came from women, and the campus population usually remains at about 80% female, even over the course of decades.

 “We believe that now many more prospective students will look at Wells and see it as a desirable destination, a place to get an excellent education in a beautiful environment. They will want to come here for our small class sizes and for the opportunity to interact closely with faculty.”

In a letter to alumnae announcing the decision, Ryerson wrote,  “Wells College confronted a stark choice: continue to shrink and decline until we were no longer viable, or choose to transform to fit new realities leading to an opportunity to survive and prosper. We chose change over decline. And we are committed to the future.”

October, 2004


Madcap Dance Trio Performs at Wells College

Galumpha combines acrobatics, comedy, pantomime, special effects

GalumphaThe Wells College Arts & Lecture Series committee is pleased to announce that Galumpha will perform its modern dance routine on the Aurora campus this fall. Everyone is invited to this eclectic and entertaining show on Saturday, October 16 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall. Prices are $3 for students and children, $6 for senior citizens and the Wells College community, and $10 for the general public. Tickets are available at the door the night of the performance. Please call 315/364-3456 or 364-3428 to reserve seats.

Combining acrobatics, striking visual effects, physical comedy and inventive choreography, Galumpha brings to life a world of imagination, beauty, muscle, and merriment. Formerly known as the Second Hand Dance Company, the three performers from Binghamton have created a sensory feast of images ranging from the ridiculous to the sublime, drawn together into a seamless whole which consistently brings audiences to their feet. Galumpha is a triumphant mix of art and entertainment, offering world class, award winning choreography that is equally at home on the concert stage, at a comedy club, or at an outdoor festival.

GalumphaFormed in 2002 by Andy Horowitz and Greg O’Brien, and featuring newcomer Marlon Torres, Galumpha delivers a fast-paced, athletic brand of movement, distinctive for its ingenuity. Highlights include “Velcro” as seen on The Late Show with David Letterman and the 2002 MDA Jerry Lewis Telethon; and “Clackers,” seen on MTV, Showtime, and A & E. Horowitz and O’Brien are on the faculty of Binghamton University as Theater Department Artists-In-Residence. The trio will also offer a master class to Wells students the afternoon of the performance.

The Wells College Arts & Lecture Series features professional guest artists and performers who are brought to campus to enrich the cultural and academic components of Wells as a learning community. The acts are selected annually by a committee comprised of Wells faculty, staff, administrators, and students.

For more information about Galumpha and the Wells Arts & Lecture Series, please contact Meagen Mulherin, assistant dean for campus involvement, at 315/364-3428 and visit the college's website: www.wells.edu. Additional information about Galumpha may be found at www.galumpha.com.

October, 2004


Internationally Published Poet to Give Reading at Wells

Ann Jonas will read from her work, meet with students

The Wells College Visiting Writer Series is pleased to welcome poet Ann Jonas to the Aurora campus. Jonas will read from her work at 4:30 pm on Thursday, October 14 in the Art Exhibit Room, Macmillan Hall. The free reading will be followed by a reception with an opportunity to meet the speaker. Jonas’ books will be available for purchase and signing.

Ann Jonas has published poems in literary journals and anthologies in England, Canada, and India as well as the United States. She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America and the Henry Rago Poetry Award of the New York Poetry Forum, as well as grants for residencies at Yaddo artist retreat center and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

Clandestine Press recently published a collection of her poetry, So Small This Arc, with an introduction by Wells College English professor Bruce Bennett. In his introduction, Bennett states: “So Small This Arc distills feelings, insights, and the hard-earned wisdom of a fully-lived life. Characters come alive, and when they speak, they are worth listening to.”

Ms. Jonas, a native Missourian, lives in Louisville, Kentucky. Her reading and the Wells College Visiting Writer Series are made possible in part by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.  Poets and writers are invited to campus throughout the academic year to meet with students, present writing workshops, and read from their respective works.

For more information about Ann Jonas and the Visiting Writers Series at Wells College, please contact English professor Bruce Bennett at 315/364-3228.

October, 2004


Wells College Hosts Visiting Islamic Scholar

Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi presents public lecture, offers insight into "Understanding Contemporary Islam"

Nadia Al-BagdadiEllen Hall, vice president for academic affairs at Wells College, announces that Wells is hosting a visiting Islamic scholar for the Fall 2004 semester. In that role, Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi will be presenting a formal lecture entitled "Good Islam, Bad Muslims, and Public Spectacle" on Wednesday, October 13. The talk will take place at 7:00 pm in the Chapel, Main Building, and will be followed by a question and answer period. The public is invited to attend this timely presentation and meet Dr. Al-Bagdadi.

"Wells is so fortunate to host Dr. Nadia Al-Bagdadi as our visiting scholar of Islamic Studies for the fall semester," says Hall. "Dr. Al-Bagdadi has engaged her class fully in the study of modern Islam, and is making herself available for a large number of speaking engagements. She is doing an exceptional job of fulfilling the role envisioned for this new program sponsored by the American University of Beirut.”

Dr. Al-Bagdadi is a specialist in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies of the modern period. She earned her D. Phil. in Islamic Studies at the Free University Berlin. Her main field of research focuses on modern socio-cultural history, including literature, religion and print culture, in the Arab world, as well as on vision and visuality in classical Arab civilization. She is presently a long-term visiting professor at Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, where she teaches in the History and Sociology/Social Anthropology Departments.

Professor Al-Bagdadi’s fellowship is sponsored through the "Understanding Contemporary Islam" program of the American University of Beirut in partnership with the Council for International Exchange of Scholars. The AUB has served as a bridge between East and West for more than 125 years. The University recently implemented the new “Understanding Contemporary Islam” program to expand the University’s existing emphasis on cross-cultural dialog. The program aims to increase the level of knowledge and understanding between Muslims and the West by sending scholars from the Islamic world to universities and colleges in the United States as visiting fellows who will serve as resources on Islam and life in contemporary Muslim societies. 

In addition to this lecture, while at Wells, Al-Bagdadi is teaching a seminar class entitled “Islam and the Modern World.” She will also host an informal discussion series, participate in several conferences and symposia, and will give the inaugural address for Seneca Falls Library’s new Wells College Lecture Series.

For more information about Dr. Al-Bagdadi’s fellowship and presentation, please call Professor of Religion Joseph Hoffmann at 315/364-3294 and visit the college's website: www.wells.edu. Additional information about the library’s lecture series may be found at www.senecafallslibrary.org.

October, 2004


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