[Geo_scholars] Some events this weekend!

[Xiaolei Gu]

Hi, there,
I hope you are all doing well and have had enough clothes for the cold
weather. Let me know if you need anything.

There are lots of exciting events going on these days for you to check out:

1) EARTH 2100 Will America Collapse Due to Climate Change?
    *TODAY 7:30pm @ Hampshire College FPH main lecture hall*
    Featuring Betsy Hartmann, Michael Klare and Srreve Roof

2).The Main Gallery at Hampshire College will present an exhibition of
recent work by selected members of the Hampshire College art faculty,
opening October 8 and running through October 28, 2009.
This year’s exhibit is curated by Hampshire Professor of Visual Art Robert
Seydel. Participants are: Jacqueline Hayden, Greg Kline, Thom Long, Kara
Lynch, Judith Mann, Matthew Phillips, Abraham Ravett, Daniel Kojo Schrade
and Kane Stewart. Work in all media will be presented, including painting,
photography, sculpture, film, and video.

*There will be a reception with artists present on Friday, October 16, 2009,
from 5-7 pm. *
Gallery hours are Monday-Friday, 10:30-4:30 and Sunday, 2-5.

3).*God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation*.
Guest speaker Joseph Sebarenzi, former head of the Rwanda Parliament, will
speak about his book, *God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of
Transformation*published recently by Simon & Schuster. The book traces
his life as a Tutsi
youth in rural Rwanda, his experiences studying in the Congo, how the Rwanda
genocide of 1994 affected his extended family and the political maneuvering
of which he became a victim after the genocide.
October 15th 2009 Lecture/Reading  *Time* 7:30 pm  *Admissions / Ticket
information*  Free.  *Campus*  SC  *Location* Neilson Library Browsing Room.
*Title*  *God Sleeps in Rwanda: A Journey of Transformation*.
4).October 15th 2009 Conference/Symposium  *Time* 8:00 pm  *Admissions /
Ticket information*  Open  *Campus*  AC  *Location* Fayerweather: Pruyne
Lecture Hall  *Speaker* William Taubman   *Title*  “If a Wall Fell in
Berlin, and Moscow Hardly Noticed, Would it Still Make a Noise?”  A lecture
“If a Wall Fell in Berlin, and Moscow Hardly Noticed, Would it Still Make a
Noise?” by William Taubman, Author and Professor of Political Science at
Amherst College, will take place on Thursday, October 15, at 8:00 pm at
Pruyne Lecture Hall, Fayerweather.
5).October 15th 2009 Lecture/Reading  *Time* 5:30 pm  *Admissions / Ticket
information*  Free  *Campus*  SC  *Location* Weinstein Auditorium, Wright
Hall  *Title*  Lecture by Todate Kazuko  In conjunction with the new
exhibition "Touch Fire" at the Smith College Museum of Art, Todate Kazuko,
chief curator at the Tsukuba Art Museum (Ibaraki, Japan) and featured
ceramicist Shigematsu Ayumi will discuss the role of women artists in the
world of contemporary Japanese ceramics. A reception will follow in the
atrium of the Smith College Museum of Art.6). October 15th 2009 Theater  *
Time* 7:00 pm  *Admissions / Ticket information*  Free and open to the
public   *Campus*  AC  *Location* Campus Center Friedman Room  *Title*  Body
Politics: An Award-Winning Play by and about Women of Color  *Phone
Contact*  (413)
545-1671   Body Politics is presented in collaboration with the Five College
Eating Disorder Committee, with the support of Five Colleges, Inc. 7).October
16th 2009 Dance Performance  *Time* 8:00 pm  *Admissions / Ticket
information*  Suggested Donation $3   *Campus*  HC  *Location* Hampshire
Dance Studio/Theater  *Title*  Hampshire Family and Friends Choreographers'
Showcase  *Phone Contact*  Reservations 413-559-5889   The annual Family and
Friends Weekend Choreographer's Showcase is a program of new, re-staged and
experimental works by Hampshire and Five College faculty and alumni. This
year's program includes the premier of a beautiful new solo by alumna Fritha
Pengelly and a group improvisation under the direction of adjunct faculty
Griff Goehring. Faculty Rebecca Nordstrom and her UMass colleague Billbob
Brown will present a re-staging of their multi-media work T.O.E. Dance in
which the intrepid quantum mechanics Clock and Quark seek to solve the
deepest mysteries of the Universe. The program will be followed by a
Talk-Back with the artists. 8).October 16th 2009 Film/Video  *Time* 7:30 pm
*Admissions / Ticket information*  Free.  *Campus*  SC  *Location* Seelye
106.  *Title*  Film Screening.  Liberation in North Korea (LINK) will be
showing a powerful film that follows several groups of North Korean refugees
as they struggle for safety and freedom. It highlights the dire
circumstances of the crisis and allows the audience insight into the
personal struggles that many North Koreans are facing. It's a great film for
those already familiar with the issue and newcomers alike. This is able to
happen because of volunteers from LINK who will show the movie to multiple
campuses.9).
October 16th 2009 Conference/Symposium  *Time* 3:30 pm  *Admissions / Ticket
information*  Open  *Campus*  AC  *Location* Alumni House  *Speaker* Jon
Greenbaum, Dave Levinthal, Theodore Lowi, Frederick A.O. Schwarz
*Title*  Colloquium
on the Constitution and the Imagining of America  On Friday, Oct. 16, and
Saturday, Oct. 17, in the Alumni House, the Colloquium on the Constitution
and the Imagining of America will reconvene to discuss the topic of
“Constitutional Scandals?” Guest speakers will be Jon Greenbaum, Lawyers
Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Dave Levinthal, Center for Responsive
Politics; Theodore Lowi, Cornell University; and Frederick A. O. Schwarz,
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School. All are welcome. For a
complete schedule, go to www.amherst.edu/~ljst/conferences.html. 10).October
16th 2009 Conference/Symposium  *Time* 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm  *Admissions /
Ticket information*  Open  *Campus*  AC  *Location* Porter House
*Speaker* Stefan
Roloff, Holger Teschke, Ute Brandes   *Title*  Amherst College Symposium
Commemorating the Fall of the Berlin Wall: Documentary/Luncheon  On Friday,
October 16, from 12:00 to 2:00, there will be a free buffet lunch in Porter
House. Documentary videos will be shown by Stefan Roloff, Video Artist, Film
Maker, and Writer, and there will be a round-table discussion by Ute
Brandes, Professor of German at Amherst College, Stefan Roloff, and Holger
Teschke. This is the final event of the Amherst College Symposium
commemorating the Fall of the Berlin Wall. All are welcome!11).October 17th
2009 Lecture/Reading  *Time* 3:00 pm  *Admissions / Ticket information*  Free
and Open to the Public   *Campus*  HC  *Location* Jerome Liebling Center  *
Speaker* Elaine Mayes   *Title*  "Seeing, Conceptual Art, and
Transformation"- Elaine Mayes  Hampshire College invites the public to a
lecture by photographer Elaine Mayes on October 17 at 3 p.m. in the Jerome
Liebling Center for Film, Photography, and Video. A gallery reception will
follow.
Mayes will speak as part of the Tashmoo Lecture Series, which brings
filmmakers, photographers, media artists, critics, and historians to
Hampshire.

An exhibition of her work, Elaine Mayes’ Photographs 1971-2009, is on view
in the Leo Model Gallery in the Liebling Center through October 30. Gallery
hours are 1 to 6 p.m.

Mayes is a professor emerita of Hampshire College, where she taught from
1971 to 1981. An endowed scholarship fund named in her honor has been
established by alumni and faculty to support Division III student projects
(senior theses).

Mayes has had a 40-plus year career in the arts of photography and film as a
cultural documentarian. Her well known works include early rock-n-roll
performers and audiences from the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 through the
Punk New Wave and No Wave Ska music scenes. Haight Ashbury Summer of Love
portraits from the late 1960s are a cultural document of a major moment in
U.S. history.

In her latest work, shown for the first time in Hampshire’s Leo Model
Gallery, Culture Landscapes, Italy-France, summer of 2009, Mayes continues
to probe the iconography of contemporary culture through photography, asking
rather than telling, who are we? 12). October 17th 2009 Lecture/Reading  *
Time* 4:30 pm  *Admissions / Ticket information*  Free and Open to the
Public   *Campus*  HC  *Location* Franklin Patterson Hall  *Speaker* John
Felstiner   *Title*  "Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature
Poetry"  *Sponsor* Hampshire College and the Kestrel Trust.
John Felstiner, who has taught literature at Stanford University for 45
years, will speak about nature poetry and his new book, "Can Poetry Save the
Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poetry" on Saturday October 17 at 4:30 pm in
Franklin Patterson Hall at Hampshire College.

Felstiner is known for his previous works,"Translating Neruda: The Way to
Maccu Piccu," and "Paul Celan: Poet,Survivor, Jew."

This event is jointly sponsored by Hampshire College and the Kestrel Trust.
It is free and open to the public. Call 413.253.7393 for further
information.12).October 18th 2009 Exhibitions  *Time* 8:30 am - 4:00
pm  *Admissions
/ Ticket information*  Free  *Campus*  SC  *Location* Church Exhibition
Gallery, Lyman Conservatory  *Title*  A Plantsman in Asia  Compelling color
photographs by Paul W. Meyer tell vivid stories about the importance of
plants in the lives of Asian peoples. The photos were taken over a period of
20 years of plant exploration in the Far East. Meyer, a
leader in the field of plant exploration and evaluation, will be speaking at
Smith Nov. 13 in conjunction with Bamboo and Blossoms: The Fall
Chrysanthemum Show at Smith Nov. 7-22. The photographs will be on exhibition
October 17 through December 15.13).October 18th 2009 Film/Video  *Time* 8:00
pm  *Admissions / Ticket information*  Free  *Campus*  MHC  *Location*
Cleveland
L 1, Cleveland Hall, Mount Holyoke College  *Title*  "Not Evil Just Wrong"
Film Screening  *Sponsor* MHC College Republicans  "Not Evil Just Wrong"
shows how Global warming alarmism and the tax increases that go along with
it are going to increase costs for working families during one of the worst
recessions in living memory. FREE.Thank you for reading through this long
email. I will stop by this weekend and say hi!
Hope to see you soon!


-- 
Xiaolei Gu
Hampshire College
xg07 at hampshire.edu
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