Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration keynote address. Photo by Joseph Mehling, College Photographer. Center: Members of AXIS Dance Company, a mixed-ability dance troupe, performing at the Hopkins Center as part of a Hopkins Center campus residency cosponsored by IDE. Photo by Jack Rowell. Right: Discussions at a Diversity Forum hosted by IDE. Photo by The Dartmouth.
Artwork
Detail from mural produced by Ernesto Cuevas and Dartmouth students as part of Encuentro Latino, a Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Monday, January 19Free tickets available at the Hopkins Center Box office beginning at 12 noon on Jan. 13 for those with Dartmouth student, faculty, or staff I.D.; beginning Jan. 15 for the general public. Two-ticket limit per person. Ticket holders must be in their seats by 6:45 pm, after which empty seats become available to all.
Named one of The New Yorker's 20 top writers for the 21st century and described by The New York Times Book Review as "one of the major lyric voices of our time," author, poet, and screenwriter Sherman Alexie is known for his films Smoke Signals and The Business of Fancydancing as well as for his books Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Flight, and many others.
Alexie explores multiple facets of conflict-between and within cultures, communities, and individuals-throughout his works. His nuanced stories examine confrontation and violence on large and small scales, considering the variety of ways in which we move through conflict and probing the complexities of what awaits us on the other side. In depicting human discord through a variety of mediums, also including spoken word poetry and comedic monologue, Alexie has been able to passionately convey the experience of those who have worked their way through overwhelming struggle-and who have emerged both true to themselves and profoundly transformed.
President James Wright and Afro-American Society President Anna Bofa '09 also will speak at this event.
