Feb. 4: Neil Roberts, assistant professor of Africana Studies and faculty affiliate in political science, delivered a pubic lecture at Dartmouth College on January 28, 2010. His talk was part of an inaugural series entitled “Perspectives on Haiti: An Interdisciplinary Discussion of the Haitian Revolution.” The aim of the series is to bring together a collection of scholars that can contextualize both to a campus community and wider global audience key historical, economic, and political factors in Haiti past and present, thereby providing a deeper understanding of the current situation facing the Haitian republic following the recent major earthquake and conscious forward-looking strategies being enacted by those living internal and external to the polity.
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Feb. 4: Peter Erickson, visiting professor of humanities, has conducted an extensive, wide-ranging interview with the African American actor Harry Lennix, whose roles encompass both Shakespeare and August Wilson. “From Lear’s Button to Harmond’s Paintbrush: A Conversation with Harry Lennix” appears in issue 102 (January 2010) of Transition, a journal published under the auspices of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University. Jan. 4 Peter Erickson, visiting professor of humanities, has published “Black Characters in Search of an Author: Black Plays on Black Performers of Shakespeare” in the collection Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance (Palgrave, 2010). This article examines the varied critical perspectives generated when contemporary black dramatists focus on Shakespearean performances by black actors. The Bauhaus restored | December 2009 The New Criterion On “Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In his feature in The New Criterion on MOMA’s show, ‘Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity,’ Lewis writes “the spellbinding exhibition now at the Museum of Modern Art.[1] Although it topples a good many cherished myths, and does so with patent glee, it cannot properly be called revisionist for there has never been a lucid and comprehensive presentation of the Bauhaus to revise. Every previous exhibition, including with MOMA’s own path-breaking 1938 show, has been able to present only a selected aspect, the inevitable consequence of the dispersal of the Bauhaus collections following Hitler’s rise to power, world war, and the subsequent division between East and West Germany.” To read more, go to http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/The-Bauhaus-restored-4332 Dec. 9: Kevin Jones, McElfresh Professor of Physics, working with colleagues at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, published a paper describing a technique for producing light beams whose fluctuations are more highly correlated than those produced by any classical optics technique. Such light sources are of potential interest for quantum communication and quantum measurement schemes. The paper appeared as “Quantum correlated light beams from non-degenerate four-wave mixing in an atomic vapor: the D1 and D2 lines of 85Rb and 87Rb,” in Optics Express, Vol. 17, 16722 (2009), a leading peer reviewed journal published by the Optical Society of America. |
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