News and Events
Spring 2012 Semester
A MASQUE OF CHARACTERS: An early 17th-century English entertainment
April 4, 2012 7:00 - 8:30 pm Glavin Chapel
Performed by Heart's Ease
Pamela Dellal, mezzo-soprano
Carol Lewis, viola de gamba
Olav Chris Henriksen, Renaissance lute
At the Stuart courts, the nobles not only enjoyed characters and revelry, but also appreciated music of depth and sophistication, timeless qualities that make this music as attractive today as it was four hundred years ago.
Professor Janice Yellin Named Director of the Babson-Olin-Wellesley Three-College Collaboration
Janice Yellin, Professor of Art History, has been named director of the Three-College Collaboration among Babson College, Olin College and Wellesley College.
The collaboration was launched in 2009 by the three college presidents—Babson President Len Schlesinger, Olin President Richard K. Miller, and Wellesley President H. Kim Bottomly—in an effort to expand educational opportunities for students and promote interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research. Even this early in existence, the Babson-Olin-Wellesley collaboration serves as a model for integrating the liberal arts and sciences with business and engineering.
Professor Yellin joined the Babson faculty in 1985, and her major interest is in Egyptology and Meroitic Studies. She is currently director of the Royal Pyramids of Kush Project. She has published numerous articles on ancient Sudanese art and religion and recently completed her term as a member of the board of the International Society for Nubian Studies.
She will begin her new role on July 1, 2012.
Hollister Gallery Show
"Weathered Waters" Site-specific wall sculpture by Nathalie Miebach
March 28 - May 15
Opening Reception: March 28, 5-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: April 11, 5:00 pm
Nathalie Miebach brings together rigorous craft, science, and art to create her intricate yet playful sculptures. The artist utilizes scientific data related to astronomy, ecology, and meteorology into woven sculptures whose forms evoke baskets, nets, and models for planetary systems. The forms appropriately parallel the real life counterparts that both affect and are affected by the data that informs their structure. At Babson, she will create a site-specific wall sculpture in the Hollister Gallery. Ms Miebach received her MFA from MASS College of Art. She is a recipient of the MASS Cultural Council Fellowhip in Sculpture and the Blanche Colman and is a 2011 recipient of a Pollack Frasner Grant and a TED Global Fellowship.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LEADERSHIP AWARD
Elizabeth Goldberg, Associate Professor of English, was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award at the 9th MLK Legacy Day Celebration (see below). The citation reads-- "In recognition of: Courage and conviction in valuing differences; Commitment to 'seeing beyond borders' by building inclusion; Acceptance of challenge & risk in achieving goals for the great good; Compassion for humanity."
The Ninth Annual
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. LEGACY DAY CELEBRATION
Wednesday, February 29, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Carling-Sorenson Theater
Featuring KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Rinku Sen
The Quest for Equality: Empathy and Global Justice
in a Divided World
Come together to reflect on the work and teachings of Dr. King, and the efforts that continue in his name today.
Winner(s) of the Marthin Luther King Jr. Leadership Award, The Martin Luther King Jr. Speech Contest, and The Martin Luther King Jr. Creativity Contest will be announced.
A leading figure in the racial justice movement, Rinku Sen is the president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and publisher of Colorlines.com. She has positioned ARC as the home for media and activism on racial justice, drawing on her extensive practical experience on the ground, with expertise in race, feminism, immigration, and economic justice.
She has woven together journalism and organizing to further social change. She has written extensively about immigration, community organizing, and women’s lives for a wide variety of publications.
This year's Arts & Humanities Foundation Speaker:
Junot Díaz
Reading from The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 5:00 pm
Carling-Sorenson Theater
Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.
He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Addmission is free, and the public is welcome.
The Charles D. and Marjorie J. Thompson
Visiting Poet Series for 2012 presents the renowned poet, translator, essayist, and human rights activist,
Carolyn Forché
Reading from her poems
Wednesday, February 8, 2012 7:30 pm
Richard W. Sorenson Center for the Arts
Admission is free and open to all
Reception and book signing following the reading
"Carolyn Forché is creating poems in which there is no seam between personal and political. And she's doing it magnificently, with intelligence and musicality, with passion and precision." --- DENISE LEVERTOV
Hollister Gallery Show
"Constellations" Ceramic Sculpture and Installation by Josephine Burr
February 2 - March 14
Opening Reception: February 2, 5-7:00 pm
Artist Talk: February 7, 5:00 pm
Ceramic Sculptor and designer Josephine Burr will be showing an installation and sculpture created during a 2011 summer residency in Babson's Ceramic Studio. Burr explores the dimensional quality of line across the surfaces of elliptical wall pieces and freestanding "knot" sculpture. Ms. Burr focuses on layering imagery and texture to create a dimensional sense of memory and time in her pieces. Ms. Burr received her MFA from UMASS Dartmouth, and was a Manager of Education and Studio Operations and Artist in Residence at Greenwich House Pottery in New York City from 2002-2007. She has taught at Harvard University, UMASS Dartmouth, and Babson College.
Fall 2011 Semester
December
Sandra Graham's chapter "Reframing Negro Spirituals in the Late Nineteenth Century" was published in the volume Music, American Made, edited by John Koegel and published by Harmonie Park Press (Dec. 2011). In addition, she was recently elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Ethnomusicology.
Hollister Gallery Show
“Loops and Strips” New Paintings by Nataliya Bregel
November 3 - December 30
Opening Reception: November 3, 5-7pm
Artist Talk: November 9, 1-1:30pm
Nataliya Bregel’s paintings are based on video footage from her travels. She shoots footage in both public and domestic environments, observing unfolding interactions between friends and family or groups of strangers. Bregel then selects a group of still shots from a section of video, which she then paints onto thin horizontal panels and more recently, the interiors of hoops, allowing the viewer to become immersed in these intimate portraits. The narrative of memory and travel is built into into her paintings.
Waterline Reading Series
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Glavin Chapel
Carolyn Megan, Fiction Writer & Essayist and
Aimee Sands, Poet
Refreshment's & Open Mic to follow
Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature
PROFESSOR ELIZABETH GOLDBERG'S co-edited collection of essays, Theoretical Perspectives on Human Rights and Literature, has just been published by Routledge in its prestigious Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature Series. Professor Goldberg co-wrote the Introduction and also has an article in the collection, “Intimations of What Was to Come: Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of the Bones and the Indivisibility of Human Rights.” Others in the volume include Joseph R. Slaughter, Carolyn Forché, Wendy Kozol, and Meili Steele. As Homi K. Bhabha, Professor of Humanities at Harvard, says of this book, “These important essays lay out a political direction and an intellectual project for contemporary literary studies.”
Spring 2011 Semester
Writing Awards
2011 Conlon Awards
On behalf of the entire staff of the Writing Center, it is our distinct pleasure to announce the winners of the 2011 Conlon Awards, given to the best analytical writing by a first-year student. These awards commemorate Michael Conlon, a former Writing Center Consultant, and the winners are chosen by a committee of students, Peer Consultants from the Writing Center.
Take the opportunity to congratulate these winners, and the winners of the Wooten Prize, in person at a reception in their honor, Wednesday, April 27th, 5:15-6:00 p.m. in the Global Student Lounge, 2nd floor Reynolds. Conlon Award Winners:
- First Prize: Chia Chou Pan, "The Effect of Modern Technology on Human's Perception of Nature," written for Prof. Jon Dietrick
- Second Prize: Kevin Liu, "An Analysis of *Gattaca* and *The Question Concerning Technology*," also written for Prof. Jon Dietrick
- Third Prize: Robert Williams, "China's Missing Land Ethic," written for Prof. Michelle Graham
We'll see you on Wednesday, but if you see any of these three on campus before then, take the time to recognize their accomplishments!
The Conlon Awards Committee: Nohely Arteaga Pretty Varghese Jennine Sullivan Cassie Lovett Kristin Stack Chanel Andre
All the other Writing Center Peer Consultants and
Kerry Rourke, Director of the Writing Center