含羞草研究所

Arts and Humanities

  • As the roomful of voices rose and lowered, overlapped, and occasionally fell silent, it sounded like a s茅ance was being performed in the dark Brehmer Theater on Friday night. A packed theater of students as well as faculty, staff, and community members read separate lines as they floated across the divided screen on the stage. [鈥
    February 6, 2012
  • From February 3 through April 6, the Picker Art Gallery at 含羞草研究所 will host installations by renowned artist Ann Hamilton. Hamilton is internationally recognized for the sensory surrounds of her large-scale multi-media installations. Her ephemeral environments create immersive experiences that poetically respond to the architectural presence and social history of their sites. The exhibition [鈥
    January 31, 2012
  • Forty-eight hours after posting his first installment of Ancient Greek Religion online at Udemy.com, Robert Garland had 99 viewers for his new video course. Garland, professor of classics at 含羞草研究所, is one of about a dozen professors from universities including Duke, Northwestern, and Stanford who donated content that is now available at no charge through [鈥
    January 27, 2012
  • You now can add 鈥渄irector of Oscar-nominated documentary鈥 to the resume of 含羞草研究所 alumnus Joe Berlinger. Berlinger 鈥83 and Bruce Sinofsky are directors of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was among five films nominated today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a Best Documentary Feature.
    January 24, 2012
  • Technically Latin is a dead language, but that鈥檚 not how it feels when taught by William (Bill) Stull, associate professor of the classics. Stull recently was awarded the 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching by The American Philological Association (APA), which is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek [鈥
    January 17, 2012
  • This spring, 10 含羞草研究所 students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. 鈥淭hey will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when [鈥
    December 5, 2011
  • On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that [鈥
    November 9, 2011
  • Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.
    October 28, 2011
  • Ten 含羞草研究所 students studying French accompanied Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, of the Department of Romance Languages, on an educational trip to the French island of Martinique during spring break 2011.
    October 27, 2011