Events
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Challenging the Pivot: The U.S., China, & Alternatives to Asia-Pacific Militarization
Presented by Massachusetts Peace Action at Episcopal Divinity School March 13, 2012 Join American Friends Service Committee's Jason Tower and acitivist Joseph Gerson on China's security perspective and the US military posture towards Asia. Cosponsored by American Friends Service Committee and Massachusetts Peace Action. For more information contact swolman@afsc.org or call 617-661-6130 ext. 119
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Massachusetts Peace Action |
03/13/12 |
Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge |
Distinguished Writers Series
Presented by The Arts at Wellesley at Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College March 13, 2012 Leah Hager Cohen is the author of four novels, most recently The Grief of Others, and four works of narrative nonfiction, including Train Go Sorry and Glass, Paper, Beans. She serves as the Jenks Chair in Contemporary American Letters at the College of the Holy Cross and on the faculty of Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing. After years of swearing she would never write criticism, she has also become a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review.Jim...
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The Arts at Wellesley |
03/13/12 |
Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
Revealing Histories: Multiple Perspectives on Islamic Metalwork
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 14, 2012 Katherine Eremin, Patricia Cornwell Conservation Scientist, Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums; Mary McWilliams, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Islamic and Later Indian Art, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Among the decorative arts of Islam, metalwork offers a uniquely promising focus for art-historical and scientific investigation. Numerous copper-alloy objects survive, from utilitarian vessels...
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Harvard Art Museums |
03/14/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky
Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) at Museum of Fine Arts Boston March 14, 2012 Robert Hammond shares the story of how the High Line, a new public park atop an elevated freight rail structure in Manhattan, became an innovative urban reclamation project. Hammond and his co-founder collaborated with neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders in horticulture and landscape architecture to create a park celebrated as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space.
Book signing follows.
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) |
03/14/12 |
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: Chinatown
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House March 15, 2012 Did you know that Boston is home to the third largest Chinatown in the continental United States? Professor Wing-Kai To, Vice President of the Chinese Historical Society of New England will discuss the history and growth of this historic and active community. Discover how this neighborhood was settled by Chinese workers in the 1870s and shaped by years of laws excluding and limiting Chinese immigrants, urban renewal and community organizing. More than its famous restaurants, Chinatown today...
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Old South Meeting House |
03/15/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Northeast GNU/Linuxfest
Presented by Northeast GNU/Linuxfest March 17, 2012 Where: Worcester State University When: March 17, 2012 Website: http://northeastlinuxfest.org Last year we had just speakers at the event. This year we are stepping it up considerably. We are featuring a hackerspace competition where teams from across the Northeast will compete for prizes for best design. This years theme is accessibility. We will also hold LPI and BSD exams on the morning of the event. We also have tables from various sponsors. Among the keynote speakers this...
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Northeast GNU/Linuxfest |
03/17/12 |
Worcester State University, Worcester |
The Warmth Of Other Suns: Discussion by Isabel Wilkerson
Presented by Historic Newton at Newton Free Library March 19, 2012 Join Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson for a discussion of her book about the epic journey of African Americans from the Jim Crow South to U.S. cities in the North and West in search of a better life in the early half of the twentieth century. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and...
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Historic Newton |
03/19/12 |
Newton Free Library, Newton |
ArtisTalk: Laurie Simmons
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 20, 2012 Laurie Simmons has been staging scenes for the camera that feature dolls, dollhouses, and other toy objects since the 1970s. Simmons’ interest in creating and photographing small self-contained worlds that often touch on themes of nostalgia and memory echoes Feininger’s practice of recording miniature wooden villages, model yachts, and mannequins in shop windows.
ArtisTalk is a new six-part series of lectures by and conversations with some of today’s most...
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Harvard Art Museums |
03/20/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Contemporary Perspectives Lecture: April Greiman
Presented by Boston University College of Fine Arts at CFA Concert Hall March 20, 2012 An award-winning designer who revolutionized digital communications design, April Greiman studied at the Kansas City Art Institute and Switzerland's Basel School of Design. Evolving a design style that links American Postmodernism with the rational clarity of the Swiss school, she continues her innovative work in digital media and hybrid processes from Made in Space, her multidisciplinary design studio in Los Angeles. Presented by the Boston University College of Fine Arts. Free and open to...
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Boston University College of Fine Arts |
03/20/12 |
CFA Concert Hall, Boston |
Is the Pen or Collective Song More Powerful than the Sword?
Presented by Boston College March 20, 2012 Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan from Shaw University Divinity School presents an overview of African American spirituals, their connections with Scripture, and how these “chants of collective exorcism” inspired African Americans and bolstered their courage and faith during the antebellum and 1960s Civil Rights eras. Parallels will also be drawn between the spirituals and selected pieces of hip hop music.
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Boston College |
03/20/12 |
Boston College, Corcoran Commons, Heights Room, Chestnut Hill |
The Lowell Humanities Series presents Claudia Kinmonth: Rural Ireland – The Inside Story
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall March 21, 2012 In 2012, in collaboration with the University’s Irish Programs, Boston College’s McMullen Museum will present an exhibition, "Rural Ireland: the Inside Story," inspired by Claudia Kinmonth’s groundbreaking scholarship in Irish Rural Interiors in Art (2006). Her work reveals that, contrary to earlier assumptions, artists working in Ireland did turn to the lives of the country’s rural poor for subject matter.
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Boston College |
03/21/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
Author Julie Orringer at the JCC
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 21, 2012 Author Julie Orringer will discuss her novel, The Invisible Bridge, at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:30pm. Named Best Book of the Year by the Boston Globe and Washington Post, The Invisible Bridge is a love story set against the backdrop of Budapest and Paris in the 1930s. It is a tale of three brothers whose lives are ravaged by war, and the chronicle of one family’s struggle against the forces that threaten to annihilate it. ...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
03/21/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: Roxbury
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House March 22, 2012 Originally founded as an independent community, after massive landfill and annexation to Boston, today Roxbury is at the city’s geographical center. Its buildings and landmarks tell the story of three centuries, from its rural beginnings to suburbanization to industry. Thomas Plant, President of the Roxbury Highlands Historical Society, will discuss the history of the neighborhood, which includes the Shirley Eustis House, the only remaining country house in America built by a British...
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Old South Meeting House |
03/22/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Elusive Originals: Greek Bronze Statues and Roman Marble Copies
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum March 22, 2012 Carol Mattusch, Mathy Professor of Art History, George Mason University
When we speak of Greek bronze originals and Roman marble copies, we may not be taking into consideration the importance of ancient technologies and the ancient marketplace. What is a true Greek bronze "original," and was there a market for copies in Greece as well as in Rome? This lecture will explore the relationships between technology and market demand in the classical world, and address...
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Harvard Art Museums |
03/22/12 |
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge |
Readings by the Writer- Tony Eprile
Presented by Wheaton College March 22, 2012 South African writer Tony Eprile is the author of Temporary Sojourner and Other South African Stories and The Persistence of Memory—named “best book" by The L.A. Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. A book signing will follow the reading.
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Wheaton College |
03/22/12 |
May Room, Mary Lyon Hall, Norton |
Teen Night: Streetology
Presented by The Institute of Contemporary Art at Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA) March 23, 2012 What happens when you invite teens to a party in an art museum? Teen Nights-the ICA's art happenings organized and promoted for teens by teens. Our Teen Arts Council plans the events, which can include artist talks, workshops, and other fun activities designed to expose their peers to contemporary art. What will these creative minds come up with next?
March 23: Streetology
For this very special Teen Night, artist Swoon will co-host an unforgettable evening celebrating...
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The Institute of Contemporary Art |
03/23/12 |
Institute of Contemporary Art /Boston (ICA), Boston |
Highfield Hall: Meet the Chefs: The International Series, Chef Tim Miller of The Glass Onion
Presented by Highfield Hall at Highfield Hall March 25, 2012 The Glass Onion in Falmouth became a favorite the day it opened its doors. Meet and talk with Chef Tim and learn preparation secrets to some of the chef’s favorites.
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Highfield Hall |
03/25/12 |
Highfield Hall, Falmouth |
Adam Bradley: Hip-Hop Lecture
Presented by The Arts at Wellesley at Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College March 26, 2012 Adam Bradley, Professor of English, University of Chicago, Boulder, is a scholar of African American literature and a writer on black popular culture. His commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal as well as on PBS, NPR, and C?SPAN. Adam is the author or editor of several books, including Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip Hop and The Anthology of Rap. Most recently, he collaborated with the rapper and actor Common on Common’s...
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The Arts at Wellesley |
03/26/12 |
Newhouse Center for the Humanities, Green Hall 237, Wellesley College, Wellesley |
The Lowell Humanities Series presents Téa Obreht: The Tiger’s Wife
Presented by Boston College at Devlin Hall March 28, 2012 Téa Obreht is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller The Tiger's Wife. She was born in 1985 in the former Yugoslavia, and spent her childhood in Cyprus and Egypt. She was the youngest writer named to The New Yorker's "Best 20 Writers Under 40" and was also named a "Best 5 Writers Under 35" by the National Book Foundation.
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Boston College |
03/28/12 |
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill |
Treating History in Adolphus Busch Hall
Presented by Harvard Art Museums at Adolphus Busch Hall March 28, 2012 Louise Orsini, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Paintings Conservation, Museum of Fine Arts; Lynette Roth, Daimler-Benz Associate Curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, Harvard Art Museums
In light of an ongoing revitalization of Adolphus Busch Hall (home to the Busch-Reisinger Museum from 1921 to 1991), Orsini and Roth will examine the unique history of the building and the collections still housed within it. Special emphasis...
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Harvard Art Museums |
03/28/12 |
Adolphus Busch Hall, Cambridge |
Creating a Musical-The Choreographer's Role
Presented by The Hanover Theatre at The Hanover Theatre March 28, 2012 Russell Garrett, freelance director and choreographer and former artistic director of Foothills Theatre Company in Worcester, will lead this discussion on the role of the choreographer in contemporary musical theatre. Russell will share his experience and insights on choreographing for both new works and established musicals, collaboration with the director and artistic team, and balancing the workload when both directing and choreographing a musical.
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The Hanover Theatre |
03/28/12 |
The Hanover Theatre, Worcester |
Boston Neighborhood History Series: Charlestown
Presented by Old South Meeting House at Old South Meeting House March 29, 2012 Rebuilt after it was burned by the British following the Battle of Bunker Hill in 1775, and annexed to Boston in 1874, today Charlestown is home to extraordinary historical architecture; major national landmarks and a new generation of immigrants and young professionals that have joined its traditionally Irish-American population. Carl Zellner, Historian of the Charlestown Historical Society, explores the city’s oldest neighborhood, which today is a thriving 21st Century community.
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Old South Meeting House |
03/29/12 |
Old South Meeting House, Boston |
Paint, Pollen, Polymorphy: Sargent's Allegorical Self-Portraits
Presented by Wheaton College March 29, 2012 4th Annual Mary L. Heuser Lecture featuring Alison Syme, associate professor of art history at the University of Toronto, where she teaches courses in European and American 19th & 20th century art and visual culture.
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Wheaton College |
03/29/12 |
Ellison Lecture, Watson Fine Arts, Norton |
The States of Jewish Belief
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 29, 2012 Jewish beliefs—from the most fervently Orthodox to the determinedly secular—are magnificently inconsistent. Is there a core Jewish belief system? If so, who create it, and who is responsible for maintaining it? And how does the system attach to individual Jewish identity construction and observance?
Art Green, Rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, is recognized as one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Jewish thought and spirituality. His most...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
03/29/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Trends and Issues in Immigration and the Law, A Roundtable Symposium
Presented by University of Massachusetts Law Review March 29, 2012 Each year, the UMass Law Review publishes The University of Massachusetts Roundtable Symposium Law Journal. Prior to publishing, the Law Review hosts a symposium conference to provide a forum for discussion and debate on legal trends and issue. There will be presentations, discussions, and debates on The Dream Act, ICE and the Secure Communities Program, Human Trafficking, The Role of Immigrants in Business, Perspectives on Immigration Advocacy, and Recent Developments in Immigration Law.
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University of Massachusetts Law Review |
03/29/12 |
UMass Law School, Dartmouth |
Masterpiece Lecture Series: Richard Ormond, Former Director, National Maritime Museum
Presented by Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum March 29, 2012 John Singer Sargent's picture of El Jaleo caused a sensation at the Salon of 1882 and marks one of the high points of his career in Paris. The lecture will examine the creation of this masterpiece in the heady atmosphere of progressive art in the early 1880s. Sargent's passion for Spanish music and dance, his deep admiration for the work of Velazquez and Goya, his debt to Manet, and his high sense of theatre all find expression in this painterly tour-de-force.
Richard Ormond is...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
03/29/12 |
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston |
Historic Newton Book Club Meeting
Presented by Historic Newton at Historic Newton March 29, 2012 The club’s book selection is "The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West: 1840-60" by John Unruh Jr. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in history and the winner of seven awards for historical writing, "The Plains Across" is a thoroughly researched study of the Oregon/California Trail. Relying on contemporaneous newspaper reports, letters, personal journals and diaries, Unruh explores the reasons emigrants undertook the arduous journey...
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Historic Newton |
03/29/12 |
Historic Newton, Newton |
Forum to Discuss the States of Jewish Belief
Presented by Leventhal-Sidman JCC at Leventhal-Sidman JCC March 29, 2012 Three renowned Jewish thought leaders will discuss the range of Jewish beliefs – from the fervently traditional to the decidedly secular – and existence (or not) of a core belief system at a forum titled The States of Jewish Belief at the Leventhal-Sidman Jewish Community Center in Newton on Thursday, March 29 at 7:30pm.
Art Green, Rector of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College, is one of the world’s preeminent authorities on Jewish thought...
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Leventhal-Sidman JCC |
03/29/12 |
Leventhal-Sidman JCC, Newton Centre |
Jeffrey Foucault
Presented by Club Passim at Club Passim March 31, 2012 Jeffrey Foucault grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. His father played a plywood guitar and his mother liked to sing. Winter Sundays were for church or ice fishing, which are not so different when you think about it. He went to college and dropped out, took a job on a fruit farm and started writing songs about a girl from Iowa. He finished school, roofed houses, drove a snowplow, and home-schooled the son of the local bar owner in exchange for beer. He cut his first album in the winter of...
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Club Passim |
03/31/12 |
Club Passim, Cambridge |
What Makes it Great? The Music of Richard Rodgers
Presented by Celebrity Series of Boston at NEC's Jordan Hall April 1, 2012 Songwriting legend Richard Rodgers composed over 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals, including Oklahoma!, Carousel, South Pacific, The King and I, and The Sound of Music. He is also one of only two people to receive an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award plus the Pulitzer Prize. His partnerships with lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II are the source of his most famous work, and in this edition of What Makes It Great? the inimitable Rob Kapilow explores the best from Rodgers'...
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Celebrity Series of Boston |
04/01/12 |
NEC's Jordan Hall, Boston |