The Institute for the Arts and Humanities sponsors
a number of regular events. In addition, it co-sponsors events and activities
with other institutes, centers, departments, and programs within the College
of Arts and Architecture and the College of the Liberal Arts. For further information
on those units' events, please visit their websites (see under "Links").
For 2005/06 IAH events, please click here.
FALL 2006
SEPTEMBER 14
COMMITTEE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES LECTURE
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library
Annabel J. Wharton
William B. Hamilton Professor
Department of Art and Art History
Duke University
“Replicating the Sacred: Early Modern Jerusalem at Varallo”
SEPTEMBER 16
“LIEBE UND LEBEN": A DRAMA WITH MUSIC ON THE LIVES OF ROBERT AND CLARA SCHUMANN
Presented by the Penn State School of Music, featuring Sue Haug, piano and guest artists Jane Cox and Mary Creswell
8 p.m.
Citizens Bank Theatre in the Penn State Downtown Theatre Center
Free and open to the public.
Seating is limited; please arrive early. For more information, please call
the
Penn State School of Music at 865-0431.
Co-sponsored event
SEPTEMBER 20
GRADUATE STUDENT SUMMER RESIDENCY PROGRAM ROUNDTABLE
12:30-2:00 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
SEPTEMBER 21
FRENCH FILM SERIES
6:30 and 9:00 p.m.
113 Carnegie Building
Mondovino
By Jonathan Nossiter
Co-sponsored event
SEPTEMBER 26
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Paul Chidester
Associate Professor of Art
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
“Recent Towers, new paintings from 2005-06”
SEPTEMBER 26-DECEMBER 3
PRINT EXHIBIT
Robeson Gallery, HUB-Robeson Center
“Three Decades of American Printmaking: The Brandywine Workshop Collection”
An exhibit of 70 prints by African American, Asian American, Latin American, and Native American artists. Allan Edmunds, director of the Brandywine Collection, will give a lecture on Monday, November 13, at 4:00 p.m. in the HUB Auditorium. On Tuesday, November 14, there will be a printmaking workshop with James Dupree, master printer at Brandywine, from 11:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. in the print shops located in 216 Arts Building.
This event is part of the on-going initiative “In Pursuit of Social Justice: Recognizing Pennsylvania Black Artists,” a partnership between the Africana Research Center and the IAH.
OCTOBER 5
TRANSFORMING LANGUAGE: BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT, AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
Distinguished Scholars in Bilingualism Lecture Series
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
101 Thomas Building
Carol Myers-Scotton
Emerita Carolina Distinguished Professor
University of South Carolina
Janice Jake
Midlands Technical College
“The grammar of codeswitching and language shift among Xhosa-English bilinguals in South Africa”
OCTOBER 6
BREAKING THE SILENCE LECTURE SERIES
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
302 Pond Laboratory
Dylan Penningroth
Associate Professor of History
Northwestern University
“Slaves’ Claims to Family and Property in the Southern Gold Coast and the U.S. South”
OCTOBER 12
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:00-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Daniel Purdy
Associate Professor of German
IAH Fall Semester Resident Scholar
“Immanuel Kant’s Architectural Knowledge”
OCTOBER 26
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Daniel Berman
Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
IAH Fall Semester Resident Scholar
“Mythic Streams and Real Springs in Greek Thebes”
OCTOBER 31
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
Esber Recital Hall
Kim Cook
Professor of Music
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
“Exploring the Soul of Russian Music; Recording Shostakovich's Cello Concerto in Volgograd”
NOVEMBER 2
TRANFORMING LANGUAGE: BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT, AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
Distinguished Scholars in Bilingualism Lecture Series
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
102 Thomas Building
Michel DeGraff
Professor of Linguistics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Transforming the Language (and Politics?) of Creole Studies ”
NOVEMBER 7
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
John Bowman
Associate Professor of Art
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
“Anabasis, or Journeys in a Desert Kingdom by the Sea”
NOVEMBER 8
BARBARA JORDAN LECTURE SERIES
7:30 p.m.
Schwab Auditorium
Julian Bond
Civil rights activist
Chairman of the Board, NAACP
Co-sponsored event
NOVEMBER 9
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Nan Woodruff
Professor of Modern U.S. History
IAH Fall Semester Resident Scholar
“When Saying Sorry Is Not Enough: The Legacy of Terror and Truth and Reconciliation Efforts in the Contemporary South”
NOVEMBER 14
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Vincent Benitez
Assistant Professor of Music
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
“The Influence of Saint Thomas Aquinas' Summa Theologiae on the Compositional Aesthetic of Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992)”
NOVEMBER 15
COMMITTEE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES LECTURE
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
3:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library
Christiane Hertel
Professor of Art History
Bryn Mawr College
“The Pygmalian Impulse in Historic Preservation: Observations on the Zwinger in Dresden ”
NOVEMBER 16
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Patrick Cheney
Professor of English and Comparative Literature
IAH Fall Semester Resident Scholar
“Shakespeare’s Literary Authorship”
NOVEMBER 20
IAH DISTINGUISHED VISITING FELLOW LECTURE
4:00 p.m.
Foster Auditorium
Fredric Jameson
William A. Lane, Jr. Professor in the Literature Program at Duke University
"Method as Utopia: The Functions of Utopia in Contemporary Politics"
DECEMBER 6
LECTURE
7:30 p.m.
Palmer Lipcon Auditorium
Ingrid Mattson
President, Islamic Society of North America
Professor of Islamic Studies, Director of Islamic Chaplaincy and Associate Editor of The Muslim World at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT
"Knowing and Not Knowing: The Psycho-Spiritual State of the Muslim
Ethicist"
SPRING 2007
JANUARY 30-APRIL 22
EXHIBITION
Co-sponsored event
Special Exhibitions Gallery II
Palmer Museum of Art
Museum Hours:
10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday
Noon to 4:00 p.m Sunday
Closed Monday
Family Legacies. The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar
Family Legacies unites the work of three nationally recognized women artists: mother Betye and daughters Lezley and Alison Saar, who share a passion for transforming found objects and materials in their richly evocative art.
FEBRUARY 1
LECTURE
3:30-5:00
102 Weaver Building
Ann Baynes Coiro
Associate Professor of English
Rutgers University
“Drama in the Epic Style: The Narrator and the Muse in Paradise Lost”
Co-sponsored event
FEBRUARY 2
BREAKING THE SILENCE LECTURE SERIES
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
Location to be announced
Toyin Falola
The Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History
University of Texas at Austin
“The Yoruba in the Comparative World of Slavery”
FEBRUARY 8
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks
David Atwill
Assistant Professor of History
IAH Spring Semester Resident Scholar
“Lin Zexu and the Boundaries of 'Barbarianism' in 19th-Century Imperial China”
FEBRUARY 13
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Vera Mark
Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"Situating French Milicien Violence: The Battle of Rovide, June 7-8, 1944"
FEBRUARY 15
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Ken Graves
Professor of Art
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"The Body in Water"
FEBRUARY 20
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
William Cobb
Associate Professor of English
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"The Birdist": A novel-in-progress”
FEBRUARY 23
BREAKING THE SILENCE LECTURE SERIES
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
Location to be announced
Patrick Manning
Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History
University of Pittsburgh
“African Slavery: A New Comparative History of the U.S. and West Africa”
FEBRUARY 27
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Jean Sanders
Associate Professor of Art
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"On-the-Spot Tonglin: From Me to You”
FEBRUARY 27
COMMUNITY READ
Discussion Session
7:00-9:00 p.m.
102 Kern
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
For more information, please visit the Center for American Literary Studies web site or contact Professor Robin Schulze at rgs3@psu.edu.
Co-sponsored event
MARCH 1
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks
Eric McKee
Associate Professor of Music Theory
IAH Spring Semester Resident Scholar
“Watching Waltzers Waltz and the Musical Visions of Fryderyk Chopin”
MARCH 6
COMMUNITY READ
Discussion Session
7:00-9:00 p.m.
102 Kern
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
For more information, please visit the Center for American Literary Studies web site or contact Professor Robin Schulze at rgs3@psu.edu.
Co-sponsored event
THE LUTHER H. HARSHBARGER LECTURE IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM L. PETERSEN
7:30 p.m.
Palmer Lipcon Auditorium
Bart Ehrman
James A. Gray Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Lost in Transmission: the Story of Who Changed the Bible and Why”
Co-sponsored event
MARCH 20
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Rachel Teukolsky
Assistant Professor of English
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"Sexual Geographies: Utopian Terrains of the Late-Victorian Counterculture”
COMMUNITY READ
Discussion Session
7:00-9:00 p.m.
102 Kern
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
For more information, please visit the Center for American Literary Studies web site or contact Professor Robin Schulze at rgs3@psu.edu.
Co-sponsored event
MARCH 22
LIBESKIND LECTURE SERIES
11:30-1:00 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Daniel Purdy
Associate Professor of German
"Gothic Deconstruction: Libeskind's Jewish Museum"
TRANSFORMING LANGUAGE: BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT, AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
Distinguished Scholars in Bilingualism Lecture Series
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
101 Thomas Building
Pieter Muysken
Professor of Linguistics
Radboud University Nijmegen
“Language contact among South American Indian languages ”
MARCH 23
BREAKING THE SILENCE LECTURE SERIES
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
102 Weaver Building
Sandra Greene
Professor of African History
Cornell University
"Remembering Enslavement: Ghana Memories of the Slave Trade"
MARCH 27
COMMUNITY READ
Discussion Session
7:00-9:00 p.m.
102 Kern
Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist
For more information, please visit the Center for American Literary Studies web site or contact Professor Robin Schulze at rgs3@psu.edu.
Co-sponsored event
MARCH 29
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks
Micaela Amato
Professor of Art and Women’s Studies
IAH Spring Semester Resident Artist
“LAPSWIMMER, CROSSING ”
MARCH 30-31, 2007
CENTER FOR MEDIEVAL STUDIES SPRING CONFERENCE
Co-sponsored event
9:00 a.m.
Palmer Lipcon Auditorium
"The Grail, the Quest, & the World of King Arthur"
Eleven distinguished European and U.S. scholars will discuss the medieval connections and conflicts between Grail and Arthurian themes, and additional sessions will deal with Grail films and recent Grail conspiracies. For more information, please visit http://www.psu.edu/dept/medieval/conference.html.
MARCH 31
SOUNDS – ENVIRONMENTS – AUDIO
Inaugural Symposium
Co-sponsored event
10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Stuckeman Family Building
Please visit http://www.music.psu.edu/audiosym.html for additional information.
APRIL 2-3
VISUALIZING ANIMALS
Workshop
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
10:00-5:00 p.m.
All events (panel discussions and lectures) take place in Foster Auditorium, except Panel 3 which will be held in the Mann Assembly Room, Paterno Library
Please contact Joan Landes (jbl5@psu.edu) for more information.
APRIL 5
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks
Julia Kasdorf
Associate Professor of English and Women’s Studies
IAH Spring Semester Resident Scholar
“Mirror of the Martyrs: The Martyr's Mirror (Thieleman J. van Braght, 1660) and its American Legacy”
APRIL 10-12
IAH DISTINGUISHED VISITING FELLOW
Alberto Pérez-Gómez
Saidye Rosner Bronfman Professor, History and Theory of Architecture
McGill University
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Fellow
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
5:30 p.m.
101 Stuckeman Family Building
"Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics"
APRIL 12-15
COMMITTEE FOR EARLY MODERN STUDIES SYMPOSIUM
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
Time and location to be announced
“Imaginary Cities: Fictions of Space in the Early Modern World”
For more information, visit http://www.earlymod.psu.edu.
APRIL 17
LECTURE
7:30 p.m.
Schwab Auditorium
Daniel Libeskind
“A Vision for the Future. Architecture, Art and Urban Life”
The lecture is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets are available starting Tuesday, April 3, through the Arts Ticket Center at 814-863-0255 or 1-800-ARTS-TIX. For additional information, please call the Institute at 814-865-0495 or e-mail at arts-humanities@psu.edu.
APRIL 19
POETRY READING
Co-sponsored event. This anthology received an IAH Individual Faculty Grant, awarded to Julia Kasdorf.
12:00-1:00
Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library
Poems will be read from the anthology Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn (NYU Press, 2007) by editors Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell and Brooklyn writers and readers Melissa Beattie-Moss, Kevin Browne, and Robert Secor.
TRANFORMING LANGUAGE: BILINGUALISM, LANGUAGE CONTACT, AND LANGUAGE CHANGE
Distinguished Scholars in Bilingualism Lecture Series
Co-sponsored event, supported by an IAH Interdisciplinary Group grant
4:00 p.m.
Location TBA
Carmen Silva-Corvalan
Professor of Linguistics
University of Southern California
“Developing English and Spanish from birth”
APRIL 21
ARCHITECTURAL TREASURE ROADSHOW
A Public Humanities Scholars Event
10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and
1:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Public Library for Union County
255 Reitz Blvd.
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Dr. Irwin Richman, Professor Emeritus, Penn State Harrisburg, author, and expert on Pennsylvania architecture will offer comments from color photographs on the architectural features of event participants’ homes. Following this session, Dr. Richman will lead a short walking tour in the 2nd Street area of Lewisburg, discussing architectural qualities of selected homes and other buildings.
Both events are free and open to the public, but space is limited. To register or for more information, please call (717) 523-1172.
APRIL 24
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
12:15-1:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Cristin Millett
Assistant Professor of Art
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"The Spectacle of the Anatomy Theater”
APRIL 26
FACULTY LECTURE SERIES
3:00-4:30 p.m.
124 Sparks Building
Brian Curran
Associate Professor of Art History
IAH Individual Faculty Grant Recipient
"The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy"
