Photographs
Far left: Dorothy Allison (third from left) and students following Allison's 2005 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 2005 Summer Arts Festival coordinated by the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Hopkins Center Film: Ushpizin
A devoted couple struggles to afford the high costs of religious observance. Ushpizin is an unusually sensitive look at the everyday concerns of ultra-Orthodox Jews in today’s Israel.
7 & 9 p.m., Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
* $7 • $5 w/Dartmouth ID
Panel 2: Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights
"Do Religious Beliefs and Ideas Define the Boundaries of Civil and Human Rights?"
Featuring the Rev. Dr. Stuart Lord, Echo Brown '06, professor Nancy Crumbine; Charlie Reilly, former Peace Corps director, Guatemala; Rehman Sheikh '07; and professor Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
4:30–6 p.m., 3 Rockefeller Center
Film: Hiding and Seeking: Faith and Tolerance after the Holocaust
A father alerts his adult Orthodox Jewish sons to the dangers posed by defenders of the faith who preach intolerance of the “other". Discussion of this film will take place on Jan. 31 after the showing of Belarus 2005.
7 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall
Film: Here Am I, Send Me: The Journey of Jonathan Daniels
Recognized as a martyr by the Episcopal Church, New Hampshire seminary student Jonathan Daniels was murdered by a sheriff’s deputy while answering King’s call to march from Selma to Montgomery and to help register African-American voters. Discussion with the Rev. Canon Henry L. Atkins, Jr., interim priest, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, follows.
7 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall
Lecture by Sadik al-Azm
Orientalism and Fundamentalism Re-Visited
Lecture on Christian-Muslim relations by Sadik al-Azm, professor of philosophy, University of Damascus.
2:00 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall (time and location tentative: call 603/646-8172 or email meredyth.morley@dartmouth.edu to confirm)
Fifth Annual MLK Social Justice Awards
Honoring Grace Paley ’98H, Nick Kotz ’55, Matthew Wilson ’83, Thokozani Xaba ’89, Meleia Willis-Starbuck ’07, and the student groups Darfur Action Group, Engineers Without Borders, and Outdoor Leadership Experience.
5 p.m., Alumni Hall, Hopkins Center
Reception to follow
Hopkins Center Film: The War Within
Hassan, a Pakistani engineering student involved in a planned attack in New York, turns to a friend who has rejected radicalism to raise a family. Torn between his friend’s generosity and the political imperative to carry out the attack, Hassan experiences a crisis of conscience.
7 & 9 p.m., Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art
* $7 • $5 w/Dartmouth ID
Panel 3: Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights
"Why We Work for God, Humanity, or Our Neighbors: Are You Feeling Inspired?"
Featuring Tucker Foundation associate dean Jan Tarjan, professor Kathleen Allden, welfare and civil rights activist Ruby Duncan, Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Nick Kotz, and Nicholas Taranto '06.
4:30–6 p.m., 3 Rockefeller Center
Film: Belarus 2005: Remembering the Jews of Lunna
This documentary records the response of a diverse group of students to the genocide of the 1900 Jews who lived in Lunna, Poland (now Belarus) during the Holocaust. A discussion on genocide with the participants and Rabbi Edward Boraz follows.
7 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall
Panel 4: Religion, Politics, and Civil Rights
"My Heaven, Your Hell: What Is the Meaning of Religious Conscience in the Temporal Realm of Politics?"
Featuring Rabbi Edward Boraz, the Rev. Canon Henry Atkins; Bridgette Hylton '06; campus minister Nicole Leonard; Shamis Mohamud '08; and Doreen Schweizer, Valley Insight Meditation Community.
4:30–6 p.m., 3 Rockefeller Center
