It's almost LAX time--free tix available for faculty and
staff
The countdown begins to March 4, when the Blue Jays open the
2000 lacrosse season at home against Princeton. Other teams
visiting Homewood Field this year are North Carolina, Villanova,
Ohio State, Maryland and Towson.
Faculty and staff members can receive two complimentary
season's passes by bringing a valid university I.D. to the main
office in the Athletic Center after Feb. 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday to Friday. All full-time students get free admission
by showing their JCards at the gate.
For a look at the season ahead, log onto the Athletic
Department's website at
http://www.HopkinsSports.com.
Noted historian to address Holocaust, German identity
Hans Mommsen, a professor at Ruhr-University Bochum and
currently the J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Senior
Scholar-in-Residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., will lecture at Homewood on the topic of the
ongoing problem of the Germans and the Holocaust at 4 p.m. on
Thursday, March 2, in the Garrett Room of the Eisenhower
Library.
Considered one of the most distinguished historians of
20th-century Germany, Mommsen will address the question of
collective responsibility and how the Holocaust and the memory of
it influence the sense of German identity.
"Amidst all the historians who have written on Nazi Germany
and the Holocaust, Mommsen stands out for his sober and honest
judgments, his willingness as a German to face the most wrenching
problems and his great knowledge and scholarly productivity,"
says Vernon Lidtke, professor of history.
The lecture, sponsored by the
Department of History, is free and open
to the public.
Sculptors creating new works for an Evergreen
exhibition
Ten sculptors selected in a competition entered by 130
artists have begun designing sculptures for an outdoor exhibition
that will open May 7 and run through October on the grounds of Evergreen House.
The large-scale, site-responsive sculpture will be installed
on the historic mansion's front lawn, in the back meadow and
along a branch of Stoney Run and will focus attention on the
history and nuances of the site and its environment.
The competition for the 10 commissions for the exhibition
was judged by Michael Brenson, author, curator, educator and
former art critic for The New York Times. The winners are
Derek Arnold, White Hall, Md.; Brent Crothers, Bel Air, Md.; Gale
Jamieson, New Park, Pa.; Leonard Streckfus, Upperco, Md.; and
Maren Hassinger, Timothy Lonergan, Beth Ann G. Morrison, Wayne
Nield, Jann Rosen-Queralt and John Ruppert, all of Baltimore.
Programs planned in conjunction with the exhibition include
lectures and panel discussions by the exhibiting artists and a
series of sculpture tours in the Wurtzburger and Levi gardens at
the Baltimore Museum of Art; at the Walters Art Gallery; at the
Maryland Institute, College of Art's Rinehart studios; and in
four city neighborhoods.
Fowler architecture books on display at Eisenhower
Library
Learn the stories behind some of history's most interesting
architecture in the exhibit "Palaces to Cottages: Additions to
the Fowler Architectural Collection," on display from now through
May in the Milton S.
Eisenhower Library.
Laurence Hall Fowler (1876-1971), the Baltimore architect
who designed the War Memorial and the library at Evergreen House
as well as some of the most notable residences located near the
Homewood campus, donated his collection of the classic works of
architecture to the university in 1945. A catalog was published
in 1961, and Fowler left an endowment to add to the collection.
The 13 books displayed in the library's M-Level cases
illustrate finished buildings, designs, theory and construction
methods from the Renaissance to the early 19th century. Among the
palaces featured are Pratolino, a Medici villa near Florence, and
the Grotto of Versailles, a work of architectural fantasy
employing Louis XIV's imagery of the Sun King. More modest
buildings include the imaginative private house of the British
architect Sir John Soane and laborers' cottages designed by one
of the principal architects of Bath.
The Sciagraphia of Johann Schubler, published in
1736, explains some preindustrial building practices, and a
French book published 50 years later explores the psychological
effects of space in design.
Local film, TV veteran to talk on women in film and
video
Gayle V. Economos, president of Women in Film and Video of
Maryland, will give a lecture, "Women in Film and Video:
On-Screen and Behind the Scenes," at noon on Wednesday, March 1,
in Shriver Hall, Homewood campus.
Economos, a veteran of local film and TV, will share a
revealing look at the past, present and future of women in those
media, both generally and in Maryland specifically; at national
studies of women in front of and behind the camera and their
portrayal in TV series; and at local opportunities for women in
film and TV.
Women in Film and Video of Maryland is an all-volunteer,
nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting women in film, TV
and related industries.
This lecture is part of the Wednesday Noon Series presented
by the Office of Special Events.
Admission is free.