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Renowned
Book Artist to Lecture at Wells College
Buzz Spector of Cornell
University discusses “The Book in/as Landscape”
The
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”
Wells
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
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”
Case
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
The
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.
Formed
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"
Ellen
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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