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UPCOMING EVENTS AT VASSAR COLLEGE
January 25 - 28, 2010
- Potpourri, 1/25
- Modfest Foreign Film Screening, 1/25
- Panel Discussion: "Understanding Haiti," 1/26
- Modfest Foreign Film Screening, 1/26
- Presentation: Summer Experiences That Make a Difference, 1/27
- Lecture by Alice Pung, 1/27
- Modfest Readings: Translation as an Art, 1/27
- Lecture by Erik Fossing Nielsen, 1/28
- Modfest Vassar Bookstore Writers Circle, 1/28
- Late Night at the Lehman Loeb, 1/28
Additional information is below and available at http://info.vassar.edu
UPCOMING ATHLETICS EVENT AT VASSAR COLLEGE
- Women's Basketball, Athletics and Fitness Center 102, 7:00pm. Vassar vs. College of New Rochelle, 1/26
Additional information is available at http://www.vassarathletics.com
EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA Additional information is below.
Monday, January 25
Potpourri
College Center, North Atrium
Through 5:00pm
Potpourri, a little bit of everything. (Goods for sale.)
http://campuscalendar.vassar.edu/mastercalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=Nghe9Mdf%2b6p08xLR6bkhoj2hkZugoXstEYeI03Yq5p4%3d
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Modfest Foreign Film Screening
Foreign Language Resource Center, Chicago Hall
8:00pm
Toto the Hero, Jaco Van Dormael, director (1991). A Belgian film (co-producers from France and Germany), presented with commentary by Kathleen Hart, Chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies.
http://arts.vassar.edu/2009-2010/100121-eighth-annual-modfest.html
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Tuesday, January 26
Panel Discussion: "Understanding Haiti"
Villard Room, Main Building
6:00pm
In the wake of the major earthquake and the severe aftershock in Haiti this month, Vassar professors Brian McAdoo and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert have worked with the local area Haitian and Jamaican communities to present this panel discussion, "Understanding Haiti," about the disaster. McAdoo, a geologist who studies earthquakes and tsunamis, noted that he will focus on "Why a Magnitude 7 earthquake would kill over 200,000 people in Haiti, while, in 1989, an earthquake of the same magnitude hit a similar-sized urban population in San Francisco and killed 'only' 63 people." Following the presentation by Professors Paravisini-Gebert and McAdoo, the program will include a discussion by a representative from the Haitian community, IBM employee Marc Coq, as well as Vassar students Nicole Krenitsky '11 and Jared Augenstein '10, who were both in Haiti during the earthquake with the student organization ProHealth.
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http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/100126-panel-understanding-haiti.html
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Modfest Foreign Film Screening
Foreign Language Resource Center, Chicago Hall
8:00pm
"Zerkalo / The Mirror," Andrei Tarkovsky, director (1974). This Russian film never had an official premiere and had only a limited, second category release with just 73 copies. Its complex yet simultaneously simple structure makes "The Mirror" one of Tarkovsky's most difficult films, as well as his most personal. Presented with commentary by Daria Kuznetsova, language fellow for Russian Studies.
http://arts.vassar.edu/2009-2010/100121-eighth-annual-modfest.html
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Wednesday, January 27
Presentation: Summer Experiences That Make a Difference
Ely Hall, AULA
4:00pm
The Office of Fellowships and Pre-Health Advising presents an information session about Vassar connected summer experiences that make a difference. Programs represented include: Ann Cornelisen Fellowship for Language Study Abroad, Career Development Office, Community Fellows Program, Ford Scholars Program, Student Employment Office, Tanenbaum Peace Fellowship, Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI), Vassar Burnam Fellowships, Vassar & New York Stage and Film's Powerhouse Theater.
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Lecture by Alice Pung
Rockefeller Hall, Room 200
5:00pm
"Educating the Peril: a history of teaching Asian Australian History and Literature." Alice Pung was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Cambodian parents. She is a non-fiction and fiction writer, journalist, and playwright. Her memoir "Unpolished Gem" (2006) won the Australian Book Industry Association award for Newcomer of the Year and was short-listed for numerous other state and national awards; and her short story collection "Growing Up Asian in Australia" (2008. ed.) is studied at secondary schools around her home country.
http://campuscalendar.vassar.edu/mastercalendar/EventDetails.aspx?data=Nghe9Mdf%2b6ok99Qndx2nTYoj11fT5zCOQBOTVgtnejY%3d
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http://info.vassar.edu/news/2009-2010/100127-asian-alice-pung.html
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Modfest Readings: Translation as an Art
Villard Room, Main Building
5:00pm
Readings of Arabic, French, German, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish poems in their original tongue and of their translations by Vassar students. Includes performance of music by the Mahagonny Choral Ensemble, a student-run contemporary group, Catherine O’Kelly ’11, conductor. Hosted by Kathleen Hart, chair of the Department of French and Francophone Studies. Presented by the departments and programs of foreign language study at Vassar.
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Thursday, January 28
Lecture by Erik Fossing Nielsen
Taylor Hall, Room 203
4:30pm
"Outlook for the World in 2010: Exciting, with Risks!" Erik Fossing Nielsen P'12 is Goldman Sachs' Chief European Economist and Managing Director responsible for the firm's economic research teams for Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 as a senior economist for Russia. He transferred to London in 1997, to build the economic research team for the New Markets in the European time-zone, and in 2005, took over responsibilities for Western Europe as well. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Nielsen worked in Washington, DC, for 10 years, first as an economist at the IMF's European Department and later for the World Bank as a senior economist for Russia and in other roles. Before leaving his native Denmark, he worked as an economist at the central bank and taught at the Copenhagen School of Economics and Business Administration. Nielsen graduated in economics from the University of Copenhagen in 1981.
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Modfest Vassar Bookstore Writers Circle
Vassar College Bookstore, College Center
4:30pm
Individuals from the community share their writings. Please sign up in advance at the bookstore or call (845) 437-5870 to secure a spot to read your work-in-progress during this "open mic" session.
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Late Night at the Lehman Loeb
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
5:00pm - 9:00pm
Modfest presents Art and Music for Late Night at the Lehman Loeb with a recital at 6:00pm of Morton Feldman's “Why Patterns?” for flute, piano, and glockenspiel (1978) and Kurt Schwitters' “Ursonate” for speaker (1922-32), featuring Vassar faculty members John Solum, speaker and flute, and Todd Crow, piano, as well as Alex Goldberg ’11, percussion. Late Night at the Lehman Loeb is made possible by the generous support of the Jane W. Nuhn Charitable Trust.
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EVENTS IN THE LOCAL AREA
Monday, January 25
Waterman Bird Club Lecture
Freedom Plains Church
Arlington
The Waterman Bird Club presents the lecture, "Intrepid Traveler in Birdland," by Harvey Sprung, who has for the past three years undertaken a journey through natural places in all 50 states and much of Canada. His bird photography has been featured on the cover of "Green Times" and in two centerfolds in the past year. A poet and photographer, Sprung shares his poems, pictures, and insights into birds and natural places and the people who preserve them. He will also highlight some gems in the world of North American birdwatching.
Freedom Plains Church Hall, Rt 55, Arlington, 7:30pm.
http://www.watermanbirdclub.org/NewsCalendar.htm#Meetings
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Wednesday, January 27
Science in Your Life Lecture Series
Our Lady of Lourdes High School
Poughkeepsie
The Vassar Brothers Institute presents the lecture "Secret of the Great Pyramid," by Dr. Bob Brier of Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus. Brier is the author of numerous books, including “The Murder of Tutankhamen” (1998), and he has collaborated on several television specials and series, including “Mummy Detective,” “The Great Egyptians,” “Unwrapped, the Mysterious World of Mummies.” Our Lady of Lourdes High School Auditorium, 131 Boardman Road, Poughkeepsie, 7:30pm.
http://vassarbrothersinstitute.org/
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