Some speakers at Dartmouth during April 1999

Posted 04/05/99

As it does every term, Dartmouth will host many speakers, symposia and conferences on a range of topics throughout its current spring term, which opened March 29 and continues through mid-June. The following overview is not a comprehensive list, but rather a selection of some of the presentations during April which may appeal to the public and which will be free and open to the public.

For further information on any particular event, please call the contact phone number listed with that event (All numbers listed are Area Code 603).

Tuesday, April 6

• David Grubin
• Film producer, director, writer and cinematographer
• Topic: "Presidents On Film"
• 4 p.m., Cook Auditorium
• Contact: Provost's Office, 646-3344

Grubin's presentation continues Dartmouth's Montgomery Fellows series "Power and the Presidency," which began during the winter term and will continue during the spring term, with other speakers to be announced. Grubin's name will be familiar to many who have watched his films for the PBS series "The American Experience," which include biographies of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson; as well as his "America: 1900," a three-hour program that aired as part of the series last November.

Monday, April 12

• Alfred Moses '51
• Former U.S. Ambassador to Romania
• Topic: "Central Europe: fin de siècle"
• 4 p.m., Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center
• Contact: Dickey Center, 646-2023

Monday, April 12

• John Edwards
• Professor of Psychology, St. Francis Xavier University, Nova Scotia
• Topic: "Identities in Flux: Languages and Cultures at Century's End"
• 4:30 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 2
• Contact: Rockefeller Center, 646-2779

Thursday, April 15

• Susan Estrich
• Professor of Law and Political Science, U. of Southern California
• Topic: "The Sorry State of American Politics"
• 7:30 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall
• Contact: Rockefeller Center, 646-2779

Wednesday, April 21

• William R. Ferris
• Chairman, National Endowment for the Humanities
• "The Humanities & Civic Life"
• 7:30 p.m., Hinman Forum, Rockefeller Center
• Contact: Rockefeller Center, 646-2779

Saturday, April 24

• Linda L. Fowler
• Professor of Government
• "Campaign 2000: A Watershed Election?"
• 3:30 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 2
• Contact: Rockefeller Center, 646-2779

April 9-20

• Dartmouth Senior Symposium:
• "The Turning Point: To the Edge and Beyond"

Contacts:

• Dartmouth seniors Wai L. (Willy) Wong, 646-8493 or Leigh Eisenman, 646-5696

Senior Symposium is an intellectual gift from the Dartmouth senior class to the Dartmouth community. Established in 1978, it has since become a tradition, bringing dynamic speakers to campus each spring in an effort to further the education of both students and the Dartmouth community outside the classroom. The 1999 Senior Symposium will bring together a group of speakers who have been involved in the shaping of the next century through their navigation of turning points in this one. Their contributions have spanned different disciplines and issues, but the theme that unifies all of these individuals is their involvement in either advocating or participating in projects that have significantly changed the ways in which others understand the world.

Friday, April 9

• George Gilder
• Author, economist, and technology prognosticator
• 6 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

Saturday, April 10

• Karen Narasaki
• Executive Director of the National Asian-Pacific American Legal Consortium and Executive Committee Member of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
• 5 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

Sunday, April 11

• J. Gordon Edwards
• Professor of Biology and Medical Entomology, San Jose University
• 3 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

Wednesday, April 14

• William Wickner
• Chair, Dartmouth Department of Biochemistry
• 7 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

Sunday, April 18

• David Gelber
• Executive Producer for Correspondent Ed Bradley on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes"
• 7 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

Tuesday, April 20

• William Sloane Coffin
• International peace activist and former Chaplain of Yale University
• 7 p.m., Rockefeller Center, Room 3

April 16-17

• Dedication of Dartmouth's new
• Rauner Special Collections Library in Webster Hall
• Friday, April 16: Dedication of Rauner Library, followed by tours
• 3 p.m., Webster Hall

Contacts:

• Dartmouth Public Programs Office, 646-3749; or
• Dartmouth Special Collections Librarian Philip N. Cronenwett, 646-2037

Saturday, April 17:

"Great Books, Great Libraries: A Symposium at the Dedication of the Rauner Special Collections Library"

9 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., 105 Dartmouth Hall

• Contact: Derika Hermann, 646-2236

9 a.m. -- Registration, 105 Dartmouth Hall

9:30 a.m. -- Welcome:

• Margaret A. Otto, Librarian of the College, Dartmouth
• Philip N. Cronenwett, Dartmouth Special Collections Librarian
• Roderick Steinhour, Chair, Friends of the Dartmouth Library

9:45 a.m. -- Keynote Address: Terry Belanger, University of Virginia

• Introduction: Roderick Steinhour

10:30 a.m. -- The Book Before Printing

• Chair: George Berry, Friends of the Dartmouth Library
• Monika C. Otter, Associate Professor of English and Vice-Chair of the Department of English at Dartmouth
• Paul Saenger, The Newberry Library

1:30 p.m. -- The Book in Europe

• Chair: Ann Mandel, Friends of the Dartmouth Library
• Alexandra Halasz, Associate Professor of English, Dartmouth
• Paul Needham, The Scheide Library

2:45 p.m. --The Book in America:

• Chair: Richard Thorner, Friends of the Dartmouth Library
• Mary Kelley, Professor of English, Dartmouth
• Marcus McCorison, American Antiquarian Society

4 p.m. -- The Study of the Book at Dartmouth College

• Chair: Philip N. Cronenwett, Dartmouth Special Collections Librarian
• Roderick Stinehour, Friends of the Dartmouth Library

4:45 p.m. -- Reception in Rauner Library

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April 13-17

Film Festival and Panel Presentation

"We Are Not What We Seem: Representations of Blacks in the Media"

• Contact: Tiya Miles, 646-1195

Film Presentations, April 13-15:

The panel discussion on April 17 (see below) will be preceded by film showings featuring the work of speakers. All films will be shown from 7-9:30pm in the basement of the Shabazz Center (Cutter Hall).

Tuesday, April 13th

"Color Adjustment" (A film by Marlon Riggs on representations of Blacks on television.)

Wednesday, April 14th

"Secret Daughter" (A documentary by June Cross on her mixed-race family history.)

Thursday, April 15th

"The Watermelon Woman" (A film by Cheryl Dunye on one Black lesbian's search for the history of a mysterious Black actress.)

Panel Discussion on Saturday, April 17th

• 1-4 p.m., Carpenter 13

Panelists and Topics:

-- June Cross

Senior Staff Producer, PBS series "Frontline"; Writer, director and producer of the documentary "Secret Daughter." Topic: Blacks in broadcast and print news.

-- Cheryl Dunye

Independent Filmaker; Director and star of the award-winning feature film "The Watermelon Woman." Topic: Representations of Black women, both lesbian and straight, in film.

-- Smokey Fontaine, Music Editor, The Source magazine

Topic: Representations of hip hop culture and cultural appropriation.

-- Gail Dines

Associate Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, Wheelock College

Topic: Black masculinity and representations of Black men in contemporary pornography. (Note: Attendees should be aware that slides of an explicit nature will be shown.)

Bobby Donaldson, Thurgood Marshall Fellow at Dartmouth, will introduce the panel. J. Martin Favor, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth, will facilitate the question and answer /discussion period.

Sunday, April 18

The Dartmouth Celebrates 200 Years of Student Journalism at Dartmouth

• Contact: The Dartmouth, 646-2600

On Tuesday, August 27, 1799, Hanover residents and Dartmouth students first published The Dartmouth Gazette , which was managed by then-Dartmouth student Daniel Webster (Class of 1801) -- and Dartmouth students have been practicing journalism on the Hanover Plain ever since, a fact that former and current staffers of today's student newspaper The Dartmouth will celebrate in Hanover on the weekend of April 17-18 with events including several panel discussions that Sunday featuring Dartmouth alumni who are prominent in journalism. Presently scheduled are:

Panel Discussion: "Will the Internet Own the News?"

• 9:30 a.m., Cook Auditorium

Panelists:

-- Paul Gigot '77, Reporter for The Wall Street Journal and regular political analyst and commentator on the nightly PBS program "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."

-- Christopher Wren '57, New York Times foreign correspondent.

-- Morton Kondracke '60, Executive Editor, Roll Call; and regular panelist on TV's "The McLauglin Group."

-- David Shipler '64, syndicated columnist, former New York Times correspondent

-- Susan Dentzer ' 77, Correspondent, "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."

-- Jamie Heller '89, Executive Editor of TheStreet.com.

Sunday afternoon's activities will include various panels of former and current staffers of The Dartmouth discussing journalism techniques and fundraising campaigns.