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Spring 2008 Recap
Spring 2008 Recap
This is a reflection of all the events of spring 2008. Be sure to join us next semester for more.
Sonic Crossroads Concert
Jan. 17, 2008
The second concert of the Sonic Crossroads music initiative featured music of Japan including works by Toru Takemitsu, Minoru Miki, Somei Satoh and Texas A&M University faculty member Martin P. Regan. The performers included visiting artists Theresa Salomon, violin, and Ariane Lallemand, cello, along with Texas A&M faculty Kathryn Woodard, piano, and Martin P. Regan, composer and shakukachi.
Common Ground lecture and book signing
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| Cathy Small book signing. |
Cathy Small, professor of anthropology at Northern Arizona University, who wrote the book My Freshman Year under the pseudonym Rebekah Nathan, came to Texas A&M in conjunction with the Common Ground reading initiative. As a response to her own students who seemed disinterested in class, Small went back to college to pose as a freshman student and then catalogued her experiences in My Freshman Year. Small’s lecture shared selected incidents that occurred during her “freshman year” and the lessons she learned.
Africana Studies at the Gateway: Marooning in Miami
Feb. 28, 2008
The Africana Studies program presented this lecture by Carole Boyce Davies, professor of English and African-new world studies at Florida International University.
Exploring New Media Worlds: Changing Technologies, Industries, Cultures, and Audiences in Global and Historical Context
Feb. 29 – March 2, 2008The Department of Communication hosted this to address the issues in the growing and ever changing field of media studies. The conference focused on the changing configurations of media in social life and in historical and global contexts.
Intellectuals, Nationalisms and European Identity
Feb. 29, 2008
The Department of European and Classical Languages and Cultures hosted a one-day symposium discussing how important writers and intellectuals have defined and reacted to a variety of forms of European nationalism from the 19th century to the present.
Experience Expansion: notes from a road less traveled
Feb. 29, 2008
The Department of Performance Studies along with the English Department’s Creative Writing Program and the Africana Studies Program hosted David Alexander Jones, a playwright, performer and director, rooted in the black avant-garde theatre movement. Jones delivered a lecture, demonstration and discussion session for the event.
Women’s Studies lunch lecture
March 4, 2008
Women’s Studies hosted Elizabeth Jameson, Imperial-Oil Lincoln McKay Chair in American Studies and professor of history at the University of Calgary. Jameson gave her lecture “This Bridge Called My Story: Private Lore and Public History.”
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March 20, 2008
The Africana Studies program hosted Kevin Willmott, director of The Confederate States of America, to show his film and take audience questions. The film discusses an alternate American history had the South won the Civil War.
Glasscock Center Symposium
April 5, 2008
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research hosted a symposium titled “How Do We Keep Knowing: A Symposium on the Transmission and Preservation of Knowledge,” a culminating event in the center’s two-year study on the theme “How Do We Keep Knowing?”
2008 Fay Lecture Series in Analytical Psychology
April 5-6, 2008
The 2008 Fay Lecture Series was delivered by Joseph Cambray, a Jungian analyst in private practice in Boston, Mass., and Providence, R.I., and a faculty member in the Center for Psychoanalytic Studies at Massachusetts General Hospital. His presentation was themed “Synchronicity: Nature & Psyche in an Interconnected Universe.”
Lewis Lecture discussed transnationalism
April 15, 2008
The Department of English hosted the 19th annual General L.M. Lewis Lecture, with Texas A&M English Professor Dennis Berthold speaking on “Chasing Garibaldi: Transnationalizing American Literature.” The lecture addressed the recent trend in American literacy called “transnationalism.”
Composer Hyo-shin Na and Seoul-based kayageum residency and concert
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Composer Hyo-shin Na and the Seoul-based kayageum (Korean zither) ensemble Sagye along with pianist Thomas Schultz visited campus April 15-16. The musicians conducted residency workshops for students in the Department of Performance Studies followed by a concert on April 16.
Flamenco and classical guitarist class and concert
April 22, 2008
Gifted guitarist
Grisha Goryachev visited campus April 21-22. On April 21, he gave a
classical guitar master class followed by a concert on April 22. The
event was sponsored by the Department of Performance Studies.
Fallon-Marshall Lecture
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| Walter D. Kamphoefner delivers the 2008
Fallon-Marshall Lecture. |
Walter D. Kamphoefner, professor of history, delivered the 2008 Fallon-Marshall Lecture. His presentation, “What’s New about the Newest Immigration? A Historian’s Perspective,” recounted the process of negotiation and mutual accommodation in the integration of immigrants into American society over the past two centuries.
Shakuhachi performer lecture and recital
April 29, 2008
Musician Christoper Yohmei Blasdel gave a recital and lecture on campus. The recital featured classical shakuhachi works as well as a new composition by the Department of Performance Studies’ faculty member Martin P. Regan. His lecture was titled “Seeking Spirituality in the Performing Arts of Japan.” The event was sponsored by the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research, Academy for the Visual and Performing Arts, Asian Studies Program, Department of Performance Studies, and Institute for Pacific-Asia.
Contact: Holly
Lambert, hollyalyselambert@libarts.tamu.edu
