Attend lectures, performances, and more!
January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall
The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image?
Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present鈥檚 relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures鈥攕ome real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.
Free |
February 16, 7:30 PM | Brechemin Auditorium
Students from the 糖心少女Keyboard Program perform in this quarterly presentation of works from the piano repertoire.
Free |
New Exhibition: , Henry Art Gallery
February 3, 7 – 9 pm |
Thick as Mud explores how mud animates relationships between people and place, with works by an international roster of artists. Across multiple geographies and a range of aesthetic approaches鈥攆rom figurative clay sculpture to audio recordings of the swamp鈥攖hese artists engage mud as a material or subject that shapes personal and collective histories, memory, and imagination.
Free |
February 22, 7:30 PM | Meany Hall
2023 marks the 75th year of musique concr猫te with the premiere of Pierre Schaeffer鈥檚 Cinq 茅tudes de bruits (Five Studies of Noises), composed and premiered in 1948. In celebration, the Department of Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS) is pleased to host Annette Vande Gorne, who will present a program of recent work from the pioneers of this art of spatial sound crafted for an orchestra of loudspeakers.
Free |
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