Archive of past Leslie Center Events

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Archive of past Leslie Center Institutes

• Humanities Institute Conference 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity a Humanities Institute Conference. November 8 - 10, 2007. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall(Room 041). Free and open to the public.
• Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences, spring 2006
• Cyber-Disciplinarity, directed by Professor Mark Williams, Spring 2005.
• The Psychology and Biology of Morality, directed by Professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Spring 2004.
• Converting Cultures: Religion, Ideology and Transformations of Modernity, directed by Professors Kevin Reinhart and Dennis Washburn, Fall 2002.
• The Near in Blood, the Nearer Bloody: Inter-Ethnic Civil War/Cultural Genocide/Cultural Resistance, directed by Professors Lynda Boose and Annabelle Winograd, Spring 2002.
• La Frontera - Space Across Borders, directed by Professors Silvia Spitta and Mark Williams, Fall 2000.

Archive of past Leslie Center Projects

• Transatlantic Destinies: Connections and Disconnections Across the Atlantic Seaboard in the Eighteenth Century - NEASECS 2007 Annual Meeting. Haldeman Center. October 25-28,2007.
• Early Modern Religion and Literature in Old and New England - The Fifth Triennial Conference of the International John Bunyan Society. August 15-19, 2007 Time and Location TBA.
• From Discovery to Dartmouth: The Assyrian Reliefs at the Hood Museum of Art, 1856-2006. Symposium. November 3 and 4, 2006. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium.
• Paris as Promised Land: On Eastern European Francophilia, November 19-20, 2004
• Invisible Subjects? Slave Portraiture in the Circum-Atlantic World (1630-1890), Conference, Friday, October 22 and Saturday, October 23, 2004
• Feminism Now, A Roundtable Discussion, Saturday, May 15, 2004.
• The Creative Journey of Nike Davies-Okundaye, Nov 11-20, 2002.
• 2002 German Film Institute: The Cinema of the 1950s, August 4-10, 2002.
• New African Cinema - Films and Directors, winter 2002. Detailed schedule
• Marlene at 100 - An International Conference. Oct 25-27, 2001.
• Things in General: Objects, Facts, and Materiality in Medieval Culture - The New England Medieval Conference, October 13-14, 2001.
• Cognitive Neurosciences and The Arts - June 11-13, 2001.
• Printed Portraits in Early Modern Europe - November 18, 2000.
• Global Humanities 2000 - October 20-21, 2000. News release.
• 2000 German Film Institute (PDF), August 14-19, 2000.
• Global and Multicultural Critiques of Whiteness, August 4-6, 2000.
• 1998 German Film Institute, August 10-15, 1998 (PDF) . Screening schedule (PDF)

Archive of Leslie Center Sponsored Events

• Eli Zaretsky, Professor of History in the Graduate Faculty of the New School University in New York City, will discuss a chapter from his book, Secrets of the Soul: A Social and Cultural History of Psychoanalysis, published in 2004, "The Mother-Infant Relationship and the Postwar Welfare State." Tuesday July 22, 2008. 5.00pm - 7.00pm. Room 031 Haldeman Center. Leslie Center Psychoanalysis Study Group. To attend please email Isabel.Weatherdon@Dartmouth.edu to reserve your space and receive a copy of the paper.
• Steven Bach, Leni: The Life and Works of Leni Riefenstahl. Thursday May 15, 2008
• Marcus Rediker: University of Pittsburgh. Historian, writer, teacher and activist speaks about his recent book The Slave Ship. Tuesday May 13, 2008
• Gioia Timpanelli: Storytelling Performance will include tales from around the world. Thursday May 8, 2008.
• A Poetry Reading and Conversation on Bilingualism, Translation and the Art of Writing Poetry by Caribbean Poet and Educator Rhina Espaillat. Wednesday May 7, 2008.
• Susanne Zantop Memorial Lecture: Don't Touch Me. Presented by Amy Hollywood, Elizabether H. Mondrad Professor of Christian Studies,Harvard Divinity School. Monday May 5, 2008
• Encuentro Filipino: Rediscoverving a Hispanic Nation: The Fine and Performing Arts in the Philippine Islands before the invasion of 1898. Monday April 28 - May 2, 2008. Opening event in the Faulkner Recital Hall. Conference in the Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Concert May 2, 2008. Rollins Chapel. 8.00pm. Cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Department of Music, the Department of History, The Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Office of the Provost, The Handel Society of Dartmouth.
• Dominicanish: A performance by Josefina Baez. Tuesday April 29th, 2008. 6.00pm. Collis Common Grounds. Free Admission. Cosponsored the the Leslie Center for the Humanities, The Bildner Endowment for the Humanities, The Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Office of Institutional Diversity and Equity, the Latin American Latino and Caribbean Studies Program and the Theater Department.
• Lou Renza: Bob Dylan's 116th Dream: Reflections on the Lyrics. A Humanities Forum Lecture. Tuesday April 29, 2008. 4.15pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Audiorium Room 041. Free and Open to the Public - reception to follow.
• Mallika Sarabhai: Arts for Peace in India: Breaking the Silence of the Voiceless. Leading Indian classical dancer and Co-Director, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts.Tuesday April 22, 2008. 4.00pm Rockefeller Center 003. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for Humanities, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of History, Milan, the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program and Women's and Gender Studies Program.
• Harry J. Elam, Jr. and Michele Elam: High Stakes of Mixed Race: Post-Race, Post-Apartheid Performance in the U.S. and South Africa. Thursday April 17, 2008. 4.30 pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, VOICES The Dartmouth Theater Visiting Artist Program, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of English and the African and African American Studies Program.
• Black Womanhood:Images, Icons, and Ideologies of the African Body: A symposium cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Hood Museum of Art. Friday April 11 and Saturday April 12, 2008. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Opening Lecture and Reception - April 11, 2008 4.30pm.
• Defiant Ones, or, Tradesmen Enter by the Rear: A talk by Daniel Itzkovitz, Associate Professor of English at Stonehill College. Thursday April 10, 2008 4.30pm. Location TBA. Sponsored by the Department of Religion.
• Achy Obejas: Identity and Dislocation. Thursday April 10, 2008. 4.00pm. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, La Casa, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Latin American, Latin and Caribbean Studies Program, Office of Pluralism and Leadership, Allen and Joan Bildner Endowment and the Jewish Studies Program.
• El Malecon: A Wall of Shame, a Photography Exhibit and Discussion about Marginality and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic. Exhibition of photographs by John Paul Gallagher. Thursday January 31 - April 15, 2008. Presented in the Russo Gallery in the Haldeman Center with the Dickey Center for International Understanding, and part of the Dartmouth Centers Forum's programming on Class Divide. Free and Open to the Public.
• Ramblings about Technical Fiction: A public lecture by Argentine photographer Esteban Pastorino Diaz. Monday April 7, 2008. 4.30pm. 13 Carpenter Hall. Cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Studio Art Department, the Dickey Center for International Understanding and the Latino, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.
• Valerie Joelle Kouam, Institut de Culture et Langue Yaounde, Cameroon: L'enseignement des langues etrangeres: le cas du Cameroun. Monday April 7, 2008. Brace Commons, East Wheelock Cluster. Cosponsored with Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature, The Paganucci Chair, and the Dickey Center for International Understanding.
• Am Ende Kommen Touristen(Along came the Tourists). Screening of a German-language film followed by a discussion with its Director Robert Thalheim. Saturday April 5, 2008. 6.00pm. Dartmouth Hall Room 105. Cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Department of German Studies.
• Valerie Joelle Kouam, Institut de Culture et Langue Yaounde, Cameroon: La cultura e la lingua italiana in Camerun: 1990-2007. Thursday April 3, 2008. 5.30pm. Brace Commons, East Wheelock Cluster. Cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities,the Department of French and Italian, the Department of Comparative Literature, The Paganucci Chair, and the Dickey Center for International Understanding.
• Jonathan Lethem and cartoonists Farel Dalrymple and Paul Hornschemeir: Writing and Drawing the Unknown. A Conversation. Thursday April 3, 2008. 4.30pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Presented in collaboration with the Leslie Center for the Humanities and the Center for Cartoon Studies and cosponsored by a grant from the Will and Ann Eisner Family Foundation. Free and Open to the Public.
• Humphrey Morris M.D.: Reading Late Freud:"Constructions in Analysis" and the Enactment of the Disavowed. Wednesday April 2. 5.30pm. Haldeman Center Room 125. A Leslie Center Study Group meeting. To register for the meeting and to receive papers please email Isabel.Weatherdon@Dartmouth.edu.
• The Little Heart: A movie screening followed by a discussion with its director, Nguyen Thanh Van, its cinematographer, Nguyen Huu Thuan,and the actress Hong Anh. Thursday March 27, 2008. 7.30pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. In cooperation with the Vietnamese Students Association and cosponsored with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Department of History, AMES, COSO, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, Programming Board and ASEANO.
• Goya and the Foundation of Modernity: 1808 - 2008. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Presented by the Department of Spanish and Portuguese and the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Cosponsors: Dickey Center for International Understanding, Office of the Dean, Hood Museum of Art, the Department of Art History, and the Spanish Consulate at Boston. Free and Open to the Public.
• The Gaze and the Veil: Surveillance and the Legacies of Orientalism. A conference organized by Susannah Heschel (Department of Religion and Jewish Studies Program) and funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation in co-operation with the Leslie Center for the Humanities. Tuesday February 29 - March 2, 2008. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041.
• Keya Ganguly: Towards a 'Third-World' Avantgarde: Satyajit Ray's Mahanagar and Cinematic Imperfection. Wednesday, February 27, 2008. 4:30 pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Cosponsors: Comparative Literature. Free and Open to the Public.
• Yvette Christiansë - A Reading . Tuesday February 19, 2008. 4.30pm Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Free and Open to the Public.
• Rupert Bazambanza: Comics of Tolerance and Conflict Resolution. Graphic novelist and survivor of the Rwandan genocide. Friday February 15, 2008. 3.30pm. Room 013 Carpenter Hall. Presented in collaboration with the Writing Program at Dartmouth.
• George Edmondson: Naked Chaucer. A Humanities Forum Lecture. Thursday February 14, 2008. 4.15pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041.
• Jacqueline Jimenez-Polanco: Opening lecture for El Malecon: A Wall of Shame, a Photography Exhibit and Discussion about Marginality and Human Rights in the Dominican Republic. Thursday January 31, 2008. 4.30 pm. Haldeman Conference Center, Kreindler Auditorium Room 041. Cosponsored with the Dickey Center for International Understanding and part of the Dartmouth Centers Forum's programming on Class Divide. Free and Open to the Public.
• Songs from the Sole, with Savion Glover Panel Discussion: The Pioneers. Thursday January 17, 2008 4.30pm. The Moore Theater, Hopkins Center. Presented by the Hopkins Center with support from the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
• Medieval Colloquium. Saturday November 17, 2007. Contact the Administrator for more information.
• Phoebe Wolfskill: Humor Ill Advised, if not Altogether Tasteless? Caricature and the New Negro in the work of Archibald Motley. Jr. and Palmer Hayden. A Humanities Forum Lecture. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Wednesday November 14, 2007. 4.30pm. Reception to follow.
• Kobena Mercer - Carnivalesque and Grotesque: What Bakhtin's Laughter Tells Us About Art and Culture. Keynote Speaker for the Humanities Institute Conference 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity. November 8, 2007. 4.30pm. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium. Free and open to the public.
• Dean Obeidallah, Comedian. Friday November 9. 8.00pm and 10.00pm Warner Bentley Theater. $20 General Admission. Dartmouth students $5. Presented by the Hopkins Center in conjunction with the Humanities Institute 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity.
• Christopher Cozier, Trinidad Artist-In Residence, Dartmouth College - "it now have kaiso in it"concluding presentation for the Humanities Institute Conference 2007 in collaboration with David Rudder, Calypsonian, Vocalist, Musical Composer. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Saturday November 10,2007. 4.30pm. Free and open to the public.
• Ben Shneiderman: Creativity Support Tools: A Grand Challenge. Friday November 9, 2007 3.00pm - 4.30pm. 105 Dartmouth Hall.
• Ada Cohen, Department of Art History, Dartmouth College. Humor, Sex and Ethnicity in Ancient Greek Art. Part of the the Humanities Institute 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity. Monday October 29, 2007. 4.30pm. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Free and open to the public.
• Sounds and Tastes of the Caucasus: Music, Language, and Food in Georgia. Thursday October 25, 2007. 8.45am - 1pm.Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Food tasting to follow. Free and open to the public.
• The Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting 2007 , will host two special panels on Visual Humor in the Global Eighteenth Century organized in conjunction with the Humanities Institute. Friday October 26, 2007. 3.30pm (Session 13) Saturday October 27, 2007 11.00am (Session 24). Both sessions will take place in the Wren Room, Sanborn (North Main Street, facing the Green). These panels are free and open to the public.
• The Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting 2007 , will host a panel in memory of Suzanne Zantop - Colonial Fantasies: in Room 246 Haldeman Center on Saturday October 27, 2007 at 2.00pm (Session 31). This panel is free and open to the public.
• Christopher Cozier: Conversations from HERE: A discussion with Jerry Philogene, Richard Fung, Krista Thompson, Nicole Awai. Haldeman Center, Kriendler Conference Hall (Room 041). Monday October 8, 2007. 4.30pm.
• Jose Manuel del Pino, Department of Spanish & Portuguese at Dartmouth College. Introduction to and film screening of Salvador Dali's Impressions de la haute Mongolie. Hommage a Raymond Roussel (1974-75): Performance, Psychedelia, and the Enthronement of King Dali. Part of the the Humanities Institute 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity. Friday October 5, 2007. 5.00pm. Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
• Ferid Boughedir. African Cinema: North and South of the Sahara. Roundtable discussion. October 1, 1.30 - 3.30pm. Rockefeller Center 1930 Room.
• Patrick Anderson - There Will Be No Bobby Sands in Guantanamo Bay: Hunger, State Sovereignty, and the Morbidity of Resistance. October 1, 2007. 4.00pm Haldeman Center, Kreindler Conference Hall (Room 041). Free and open to the public.
• Deniz Göktürk - Dressing up in Uniform in Search of a Passport: Attacks on Authority in Film Comedy.Part of the the Humanities Institute 2007 - No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality and Ethnicity. Monday October 1, 2007. 5.00 pm. Carpenter 201C. Reception to follow. Free and open to the public.
• Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival 2007 - Metamorphoses. June 28 to August 18, 2007.
• The Cultures of Migration - Conference June 22-24, 2007.
• Patricia Klindienst - Gardens & the Making of Americans. Tuesday, May 8, 2007. 4.30pm Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• American Tropics: Boy Scouts in the Philippines or, Confederate Rebels in the Tropics - featuring Professor Allan Punzalan Isaac. Keynote for Asian American Studies Symposium. Friday, May 11 7.30pm - 8.30pm B03 Moore Hall. Free and open to the public.
• Indian Classical Music Concert. Friday May 4, 2007 5.30 - 6.30pm Cook Auditorium.
• Ruth Ozeki - Hybrid Vigor: Mixing science and fiction, splicing politics with poetics, and crossbreeding points of view. Wednesday May 2, 2007. 4:00pm, Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041)
• Halving the Bones - Documentary by Ruth Ozeki. Tuesday May 1, 2007. 5.00pm, Carson L01.
• From the Belly of Abraham - a Judeo-Muslim Fusion-Jazz Musical Celebration. Hasidic New Wave with Yakar Rhythms. Tuesday May 1, 2007. 7-9 p.m., Collis Common Ground.
• The Chain of Triumph and the Web of Ruin: A Political Critique of the Network Form - Alexander Galloway, Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University. Reception to follow lecture.Tuesday May 1, 2007. 4.15pm, Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• Digital Media Cultures- Yvonne Spielmann, Professor of Visual Media at the Institute for Media Research, University of Braunschweig (Germany). Reception to follow lecture. Tuseday April 24, 2007. 4.15pm Rockefeller 2.
• Conservatorio di Musica "Santa Cecilia" - A visit by Prof. Lionello Cammarota, Director, Musicologist,and Prof. Cecilia Andreis, Harpist. April 23-27, 2007.
• Matthew Pearl - Dante and Poe: Writing a Bestseller, or Writing for Yourself. Thursday April 19, 2007. 4.30pm Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• Panel Discussion - "Painting and Writing: Relationships Old and New" with Louise Fishman: Dartmouth Artist-in-Residence, Spring Term, Gerald Stern, Poet and Professor Colleen Randall, Dartmouth - Studio Art, Moderator. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. 7.00pm Jaffe-Friede & Strauss Galleries. Reception to follow in the galleries. Open to the public.
• Gerald Stern - Poetry Reading. Tuesday, April 17, 2007. 4.30pm Wren Room. Light Refreshments following in the Poetry Room. Open to the publc.
• Douglas Kahn, Professor of Technocultural Studies, University of California at Davis - Arts of the Spectrum. Sensory understanding of the digital arts has been contained to a sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum: visible light, with its inscriptions, texts and coes. Comprehension will require tuning into histories transduced from the entire range, starting with radiio that was heard before it was invented. Tuesday, April 17. 4.15pm. Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041). Reception to follow.
• Thomas Elsaesser - The Ubiquitously Invisible Walter Reisch. April 16, 2007. 4:15 pm. Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• Antigona - By Teresa Ralli. April 10, 2007. 7.00pm. The Bentley Theater. In Spanish with English Subtitles followed y a Q and A with Terresa Ralli and Director Miguel Rubio.
• Jacques Ranciere - The Misadventures of Critical Thinking (or, how the critique of fetishism, consumerism, spectacle etc. fueled either sheer melancholy or anti-democratic rage.) Thursday, April 5, 2007. 4.30pm Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• Pilobolus - Leaving Tracks: Historicizing Modern Dance - a Symposium. Tuesday, April 3 2007. 3.00pm - 6.30pm Haldeman Center Kreindler Conf. Hall (Room 041).
• Viva-Pedro - The Winter Film Series - January 4 - March 1, 2007. Arthur M. Loew Auditorium
• New England and Afghanistan: Building Paths of Understanding and Collaboration Across Borders - January 27, 2007. Rockefeller Hall. Free and Open to the Public.
• Margaret Williamson - "The Mirror-Shield of Knowledge" - A Classicist in the West Indies in 1825. A Humanities Forum event. Tuesday January 23, 2007. 4.15pm Wren Room. Reception to follow.
• Betool Khedairi - An exciting new voice from the world of modern Arab literature. Tuesday, November 14, 2006. 4.30pm Rockefeller Room 002.
• Alain Badiou - Why philosophy and philosophers today?. Thursday, November 9, 2006. 4.30pm Rockefeller Room 001.
• A Taste of Vietnam - A Night to Celebrate Vietnamese Culture. Saturday, November 11, 2006, 6:00 pm Collis Common Ground.
• The Mediacy of New Media - A Symposium. Friday, October 27, 2006. Haldeman 246.
• Scott McCloud -Comics: A Medium in Transition. Thursday, October 19, 2006. 4.15pm Rockefeller Room 002.
• Håkan P. Tell - Counterfeiting Philosophy: The Sophists as Scapegoats. A Humanities Forum event. Tuesday October 17, 2006. 4.15pm Rockefeller Room 001. Reception to follow in Morrison Commons.
• Gauri Viswanathan - Occultism, History, and Ethical Knowledge: Rethinking the Secular. Thursday, October 12, 2006. 4.30pm Rockefeller Room 001.
• Faculty Seminar with Axel Honneth. August 14, 2006. 1930s Room, Rockefeller Center
• Academic conference on Bob Dylan's lyrical works. August 11-13, 2006.
• Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival 2006 - Beyond the Rim: Asian Arts Today - Summer 2006
• Kinetic Immersion. Thursday, May 25, 2006. 4.30pm - 5.50pm. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Transgressive Body Politics: Artistic and Medical Anatomy Education in Nineteenth-Centry Philadelphia. Thursday, May 18, 2006. 4.30pm - 5.50pm. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Thomas Habinek:Imitation, Evolution, and Cultural Change.Thursday, May 4, 2006, 4:30 pm 13 Carpenter Hall
• Layers of Meaning: Images of Cells and Molecules. Thursday, May 4, 2006. 4.30pm - 5.50pm. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Visible Speech. Thursday, May 11, 2006. 4.30pm - 5.50pm. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Jean McGarry: A Reading.Thursday April 27, 2006. 4.30pm Rockefeller Room 001.
• The Heart Laid Bare: Physiological Demonstrations, ca. 1870-1920. Thursday, April 27, 2006. 4.30pm - 5.50pm. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Simon Schama: Not Going Gentle: Rembrandt and the Roughness of Age. Wednesday, April 26, 2006. 5:30 pm, Moore Theatre, Hopkins Center.
• Early Modern Seminar, Saturday, April 22, 2006. 10.00am - 5.30pm Baker Library Treasure Room.
• Celebrating Rembrandt: A symposium on the art of Rembrandt van Rijn 1606-1669 Saturday, April 22, 2006. 9:00 am - 4:00 pm, Loew Auditorium and Hood Museum.
• Four Cities in Modernity: Bombay, Buenos Aires, London, New York.
• Life Forms, Opening Reception. Tuesday, April 18, 2006. 4.30pm - 6.00pm. Hood Museum.
• Marcel Cornis-Pope: Rethinking Comparative Literary History: The Challenges of Writing a History of East-Central European Cultures. Tuesday, April 11, 2006. 4.00pm 217 Dartmouth Hall.
• Reading/Editing Patterns on a Surface: Imaging Depth and Image Processing in Photomicrographs of Cells and Viruses, c. 1965. Thursday, April 13, 2006. 4.30pm -5.50. Rockefeller Room 002.
• Joan Acocella: Dance and the Crotch. Friday, April 7, 2006. 4.30pm Rockefeller Rooom 001.
• Isabel Hofmeyr: Reading in Heaven. Thursday, March 30, 2006. 4.00 pm Wren Room, Sanborn House.
• Who Really Wielded the Paintbrush? Seeking Answers through Scholarly Examinations and 21st-Century Technologies. March 9-10, 2006 Hood Museum of Art.
• Winter 2006 Film Festival: Bollywood & Beyond. Winter term 2006, Thursdays, Loew Theatre.
• Rochona Majumdar: Bollywood India: Film and History.Thursday February 16, 2006 4:30 pm, Rockefeller 1.
• Galway Kinnell: Poet, Thursday, February 9, 2006, Sanborn Library 4:00pm. Co-sponsored with the English Dept.
• Katie Trumpener: The Divided Screen - Toward the Reunification of the German Cinema. Thursday, November 17, 2005, 4:00 pm, Carson L02. Downlaod PDF (172 KB).
• Medieval Seminar. Saturday, November 19, 2005, Sanborn Library, Sanborn House.
• Klaus J. Milich: Sacralizing the Political-Politicizing the Sacred: Some Remarks on the Differences Between Fascism and Fundamentalism, Tuesday November 15 2005, 4:00pm, Rockefeller 1.
• 2005 Critical Theory Roundtable, November 4-6 2005.
• Ana Merino: Fiction and Autobiography: Representation of Gay and Lesbian Characters in Comic, Tuesday, November 8 2005, 4:00pm, Carson L01.
• Feature Film "Saving Face" with special guest Director - Alice Wu, Wednesday, October 26 2005, two showings- 7:00 & 9:15 pm, Spaulding Auditorium.
• Faith and Knowledge: Friends or Enemies? Tuesday, October 11, 2005, 7:30 pm, Rockefeller 1.
• Austin Sarat: "On Lawful Lawlessness: Sovereign Prerogative in the Killing State", Monday, October 10, 2005, 6:30 pm, Rockefeller 11.
• Josefina Lopez: Reel Women vs. Real Women. Wednesday, October 5, 2005, 6:00 pm, Rockefeller 1. Free public screening of the film Real Women Have Curves, Monday, October 3, 2005, 7:00 pm.
• Lee Bollinger: Academic Freedom and Scholarship. Friday, September 23, 2005, 4:00 pm, Filene auditorium. A Darmouth Centers Forum lecture. Download flyer (PDF, 166 K).
• Encuentro Latino: A Dartmouth Summer Arts Festival, summer 2005.
• Picturing Change: The Impact of Ledger Drawing on Native American Art. Hood Museum of Art, December 11, 2004 - May 15, 2005.
• Cyber-Disciplinarity: May Conference. May 13-14, 2005.
• Sarah Burns: Apocalyptic Carnival: Painting, Satire, and the Very Uncivil War, 1860-65, Friday, May 13, 2005
• Saba Mahmood: Secularity, Hermeneutics, and Democracy: Making Islam Liberal Thursday, May 12.
• Cyber-Disciplinarity: Symposium on Digital Culture and the Arts. Friday, April 22, 2005.
• Early Modern Seminar, April 16, 2005.
• Hong Kong Cinema, Winter 2005
• Shaolin Soccer (Hong Kong Film Series) post-film discussion by Martin Roberts and Jiwon Ahn, Loew Auditorium, February 24, 2005.
• Jonathan Boyarin: The Pig as Poros, Tuesday, February 15, 2005, 7:00 pm, 1930 Room, Rockefeller
• Eric Santner: On Creaturely Life, Monday, February 14, 2005, 4:30 pm, Rockefeller 2.
• Art Spiegelman: Cartooning in The Shadow of No Towers - A Slideshow Lecture and Book Signing. Thursday, November 18, 2004, 4:00 pm, Moore-Filene Auditorium
• Hany Farid: Digital Image Tampering and Forensics, Thursday, November 18, 2004, 7:00 pm, Carson L01.
• The Northern New England Philosophy Association 2004 Annual Conference. November 12 and 13, 2004
• The Liberal Education: Dead or Alive? A Dartmouth Conference, November 5-7, 2004
• Hanan al-Shaykh: A reading, Tuesday, November 9, 2004, 4:00 pm, Rockefeller 1
• lê thi diem thúy: A reading. Thursday, October 28th, 4:00 pm, Rockefeller 1
• Poetry and Politics, featuring Author and Poet Russell Leong, Monday, October 18, 2004, 4:00 pm, Wren Room
• Forget Baghdad - Film Special. Screening and discussion, Monday, October 18, 7:00pm, Loew Auditorium. Free admission.
• Bryan Cheyette: Appropriating Primo Levi, Tuesday, June 8, 2004.
• Sculpture and Its Publics Series: Ikem Okoye: "African 'No Shows'?: Sculpture and the Public for Nausea" Tuesday, May 18, 2004.
• Thiasos Theatre Company: Euripides' Hippolytos: An adaptation of the play as a dance drama in Indonesian style, Monday, May 3, 2004.
• Michael Arad: Reflecting Absence: The Memorial at the World Trade Center Site, Friday, April 30, 2004.
• Mark Hobart: The Transformable Body: A lecture on performance in Balinese culture, illustrated in dance performances by Ni Madé Pujawati, Thursday, April 29, 2004.
• Paul Auster: A reading and film presentation. Wednesday, April 21, 2004. Reading: 4:00 pm, 13 Carpenter. Film Presentation: 7:30 pm, 105 Dartmouth.
• Marcia Pointon: Brilliant Effects: Jewelry and its Images in English Visual culture 1700-1880., Friday, April 16, 2004.
• Contested Memories of the Holocaust, April 9-10, 2004 .
• Lionello Cammarota: Musical Tradition and Culture in late 19th-century Italy, Thursday, April 8, 2004.
• Ingrid de Kok: Poetry Reading, Tuesday, April 6, 2004.
• Sculpture and Its Publics Series: James Young: Memory and the Monument after 9/11: Deliberations at Ground Zero, Tuesday, March 2, 2004.
• Hip Hop Identities and Poetic Race Relations Conference, February 27-28, 2004.
• Sculpture and Its Publics Series: Alex Potts: Post-war Sculpture in the Public Arena: The Real and the Imaginary, Friday, February 6, 2004.
• Laurie Anderson: How do Science and Art Converge? A Panel Discussion, Wednesday, February 4, 2004.
• Begonya Plaza: Souvenir Views: A Film Showing, Wednesday, February 4, 2004.
• Jenny White: The End of Islamism?: Turkey's New Muslimhood Model, Tuesday, February 3, 2004.
• Intercultural Medieval Symposium, Saturday, November 15, 2003.
• Ishmael Reed: A reading. Thursday, November 13, 2003.
• Constructions of Childhood in the Ancient World, November 6-8, 2003, Loew Auditorium.
• Joseph M. Rosen: Human Re-Evolution, 2050 - Redefining the Human in the Next Century. Thursday, October 16.
• Sabine Gölz: Benjamin's "Little History of Photography" . Tuesday, October 7, 2003.
• New Directions in Frost Studies - A Symposium, July 10-12, 2003.
• Asian American Writers’ Festival, April 30 - May 2, 2003.
• Mary Nyquist: Slave-Mastery, Family, and Civil Society in Milton, Locke and Hobbes. Tuesday April 29, 2003, 4:00 pm.
• Rod Coover: Cultures in Webs - Working in Hypermedia with the Documentary Image. Tuesday, April 22, 2003.
• Ernesto Laclau: Catachresis and Metaphor in the Construction of Collective Identities. Tuesday, April 8, 2003.
• Diane Favro: City Limits: Boundaries of Ancient Rome, Monday, April 7, 2003.
• Wendy Brown: Regulating Aversion - A Critique of Tolerance in the Age of Identity. Monday, April 7, 2003.
• Virginia Drachman: Minding Her Own Business - 250 Years of Women Entrepreneurs. Monday, April 7, 2003.
• Oleg Grabar: Islamic Art and the West: Historical and Moral Implications. Friday, April 4, 2003.
• Hugh Macdonald: Berlioz's Imaginary Stage, Thursday, February 27, 2003.
• Margaret Anne Doody: The Novel as Agent of Change, Friday, February 21, 2003.
• Julian Stallabrass: Art and Ownership on the Net, Monday, February 24, 2003.
• Jon McKenzie: Five Technics of Performance, Tuesday, February 4, 2003.
• Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Bodhisattva Fractal World. Tuesday, January 21, 2003.
• Marie-Laure Ryan: Narrative and Digitality: Learning to Think with the Medium, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2003.
• Anime 2003 - Loew film series, Winter 2003.
• Mark Turner: The Cognitive Science of Creativity. Tuesday, November 5, 2002.
• Roger Owen: September 11 -A Year Later in the Middle East. Monday, October 28, 2002.
• Yvette Christianse: A Poetry Reading. Thursday, October 24.
• Writing About Art: A Symposium on the Rhetoric of Art Criticism. Friday, October 18, 2002.
• W.J.T. Mitchell: Art in the Age of Biocybernetic Reproduction. Thursday, October 17, 2002.
• John Esposito: Unholy War- Terror in the Name of Islam. Tuesday, October 15, 2002.
• Jack Shaheen: Hollywood's Arabs - Problems and Prospects. Tuesday, October 8, 2002.
• Niklas Holzberg: Munich Student Resistance to Hitler - The Weisse Rose. Tuesday, October 1, 2002.
• German Colonialism: A Conference to Honor the Work of Susanne Zantop, June 20-23, 2002.
• Marcelo Gleiser: The Prophet and the Astronomer: A Scientific Journey to the End of Time. Tuesday, May 21, 2002.
• Chris Hedges: Israel and the Palestinians - The New Apartheid? Friday, May 17, 2002.
• Mark Seltzer: True Crime. May 9, 2002.
• Terrence Deacon: The Brain as Computer - Issues of Language and Cognition. May 6, 2002.
• Bill Brown: Animate Objects / American Scenes. Thursday, May 2, 2002.
• Wendy Hui Kyong Chun: Human-Mediated-Communications, or How Technology Writes Us. Thursday, April 25, 2002.
• Slavoj Zizek: The Only Good Neighbor Is a Dead Neighbor: Love After September 11. April 10, 2002.
• Mary Childers - Working-Class Studies and the Humanities. Thursday, April 4, 2002.
• Mariners at 50: A Symposium. Friday - Saturday, April 5-6, 2002.
• Ursula Frohne, Christian Katti - Digitally Extended Art Forms and the Politics of New Media, Wednesday, February 27-8, 2002.
• Marilyn Hacker - A Reading, Thursday, February 28, 2002.
• Ruth Leys - Image, Trauma, and the Question of Survivor Guilt. February 19, 2002.
• Eli Zaretsky: War, Women and Psychoanalysis - The Case of Melanie Klein, January 14, 2002.
• Laura-Ann Petitto - Insights into Human Language from the Hands of Young Babies. November 8, 2001.
• The Future of Music Software - A Symposium. Friday, October 19, 2001.
• Mary Thomas Crane - Shakespeare's Brain and Thinking Gender: Macbeth and Binary Logic. Monday, October 22, 4 pm and October 23, 2001.
• Gish Jen - A Reading From "Who's Irish?". Thursday, October 18, 2001.
• Timothy Murray , "Digital Intensities: Humanities and the New Media" Tuesday, October 16 2001.
• Michael Fried - Menzel, Kierkegaard, and the Everyday, October 8, 2001.
• Louis Menand, "The Marketplace of Ideas," part of the "Crisis in the Humanities?" speaker series - Tuesday, October 2, 2001.
• Art Spiegelman: Comix 101. June 29, 2001.
• Jane Caplan: The Privileged Sign - Tattoos as Identification in 19th-Century Europe. May 8, 2001.
• Freeman Dyson: Ten Tales for technophiles - Technology and Social Justice. April 24, 2001.
• Gaps and Overlaps - A LGBTQA Speaker Series. 2000-2001 Academic Year .
• Interdisciplinarity at Dartmouth: Report of a Conference co-organized by the Leslie Humanities Center and the Human Biology Program, Minary Center, November 4th, 2000.