Tuesday April 3, 2102: 12pm - 1.30pm: FIRST TUESDAY LUNCHTIME DISCUSSION - A HUMANITIES FORUM EVENT. Haldeman 246. Facilitator: Bill Boyer (Institute for Writing and Rhetoric), A VOICE AND NOTHING MORE. Please contact Isabel Weatherdon if you wish receive a reading and book your spot for lunch (seating is limited).
Thursday April 12, 2012: 4.30pm: EXPLORING THE PUBLIC LIFE OF THE IMAGINATION: LEWIS HYDE: Kemeny 008. The Leslie Center for the Humanities in cooperation with the Center for Cartoon Studies. Book signing to follow. Free and open to all.
April 25 - April 29: UNDUE INFLUENCE: DARTMOUTH DANCE ENSEMBLEwith Ford Evans and Peter Hackett. A repeat engagement of the DDTE's original dance-theater work examining the impulse, incidence and implications of sexual assault in a college social environment. The culminating performance event for Sexual Assault Awareness Month.Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Centers Forum and the Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Friday April 27, 2012: 4.15pm:(** NOTE NEW TIME ) NAYAN SHAH: STRANGER INTIMACY, TRANSIENCE, AND ASIA/PACIFIC/AMERICA. Wren Room Sanborn House. Part of the Asian American Conference Series. Free and open to all.
Thursday May 3,2012: 4.30pm: THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF DIGITAL MEDIA: LYDIA LIU (Columbia) will speak on an aspect of critical translation theory. Carpenter 013. This is the 2012 annual Zantop Lecture cosponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities and The Comparativie Literature Department at Dartmouth, and the Charles & Elfrieda Collis Professorship in History. Free and open to all.
May 22, 2012 12pm - 1.30pm: BOOK PROPOSAL WRITING WORKSHOP FOR JUNIOR FACULTY presented by Richard Pault UPNE. Haldeman 124. Please contact the Administrator if you are interested in attending.
May 22 - May 24 2012: ICONS, CHARTS, AND TALISMANIC SCRIPTS: Daoist Visual Culture: A Workshop led by Gil Raz (Religion). Haldeman 246. By invitation only please contact Administrator if you wish to attend the workshops. Sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, John Sloane Dickey Center for Interntational Understanding,Department of Religion and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program at Dartmouth.
Wednesday May 23, 2012 5.30 - 7.30pm CONFERENCE PANEL : ICONS, CHARTS AND TALISMANIC SCRIPTS: Arthur M. Loew Auditorium, Hood Museum of Art. Panelists: Mark Meulenbeld, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Dancing with the Gods: Village Daoists in China"; Maggie Wan, Department of Fine Arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, "Image and Power: Visual Representations of Gods in Daoist Scriptures"; David Mozina, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, "The Life of a Ritual Artisan in Today's China" Moderator: Gil Raz, Associate Professor of Religion, Dartmouth College, and conference organizer. Reception to follow in Kim Gallery. Part of the Icons, Charts and Talismanic Scripts Workshop co-sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Dickey Center for International Understanding, the Department of Religion, the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program, and the Hood Museum of Art. Free and open to all.
Wednesday May 23, 2012 5.30 -7.30pm: RICHARD BROOKS (Vermont Law School) presents Freud, Elegy, and Old Age. Haldeman 031. A Psychoanalysis Study Group Meeting. Please contact the Administrator if you wish to attend to book your spot and receive a reading.
Friday May 25, 2012: MANUSCRIPT REVIEW FOR KLAUS MLADEK: Walter Benjamin and the Idea of Justice. By invitation only.
Friday June 1, 2012: MANUSRIPT REVIEW FOR PRAMIT CHAUDHURI: Theomachy: The War with God in Roman Imperial Poetry, By Invitation only!
July 30 - Auguest11, 2012: ARTIST RESIDENCY for Hope Azeda and Kay Matschullat.
Fall 2012
Friday September 14, 2012: 3 - 5pm WELCOME RECEPTION: The Leslie Center welcomes faculty for the new year. New faculty especially welcome. Haldeman 246.
Thursday September 20 2012 4.30pm:ALEXANDER NEMEROV (STANFORD). Haldeman 041.
