| Monday-Friday,
March 2-6, 2009 |
| March 3, 5:30-7:30 |
James Wood, Visiting Fellow, Literary Critic, The New
Yorker
Lecture and Reception, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall |
| March 4, 12:00-2:00 |
James Wood and
Alex Ross, Music Critic, The New Yorker
Panel Discussion, Fisher Room, Granoff Music Center
(Lunch provided)
|
Susannah Heschel, Visiting Fellow at CHAT
Thursday, March 26, 2009: "The Value of Art: The
Place of Art in the University Today"
6:30pm,
Remis Sculpture Court
A wide ranging discussion of the values of art, including
aesthetic, social, cultural, and economic perspectives. How has
the controversy surrounding the threatened closing of the Rose
Art Museum at Brandeis University and the selling of its
collection heightened our awareness of these values? What is the
place of art in the university and what is the role of the
university in preserving our artistic and cultural legacy?
Panelists:
Jamshed Bharucha
Provost and Senior
Vice President, Tufts University
Title:
"Music as a Binding Force"
James Ennis
Associate Professor of
Sociology, Tufts University
Title: "The Social Construction of Artistic Value: When the 'Economy of Symbolic Goods' Meets the Real Economy"
Andrew McClellan
Dean of Academic
Affairs and Professor of Art History, Tufts University
Title: "The Role of Art Museums in Society"
Amy Ingrid Schlegel
Director of
Galleries and Collections, Tufts University
Title: "Daily Interruptions in a Liberal Education: The Role of the Fine Arts Collection at Tufts (and beyond)"
Mary Ellen Strom
Video Artist and
Professor, School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Title: "From the Perspective of an Artist"
Peter Probst
Associate Professor of Art
History, Tufts University
Title: "The Value of Art: An African Perspective"
Moderated by Eva Hoffman
Associate Professor of Art
History
Free and open to the public. Reception to follow sponsored by
the Humanities Center. Co-sponsored by the Department of Art and
Art History, The Tufts University Art Gallery, and the
Humanities Center.
March 31 - April 1, 2009: Literature,
History and the Environment: Lecture and Discussion
To be held at the Center for the Humanities, 48 Professors Row
| March 31 - April 1, 2009 |
March 31,
4:30 - 5:30 |
"Birds, Extinction and the
Hunger for Meaning"
Lecture by
Jonathan Rosen |
March 31,
5:30 - 6:30 |
Reception to follow lecture |
April 1,
12:00 - 1:30 |
"The Life of the Skies:
Birding at the End of Nature" Lunch and Discussion with
Jonathan Rosen. Light
lunch provided. |
April 2, 2009:
5:00pm, Center for the Humanities
Adina Hoffman: "Map of a Vanished
Town: Recollecting the Palestinian Past through Biography"
April 27, 2009:
5:00pm, Coolidge Room, Ballou Hall
Lecture by Susannah Heschel, Visiting Fellow at CHAT
Title: "How the Jews Invented Jesus and Mohammed:
The History of Jewish Scholarship on Islam"
Reception to follow.
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