|
Weekly Calendar
Artist/Author Barry Nemett to Speak in Mattin
Center
Artist Barry Nemett, chair of the Painting Department at
Maryland Institute College of Art,
will give a slide talk and reading from his new novel, Crooked
Tracks, at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, in
Room 101 of the Mattin Center's F. Ross Jones Building, Homewood
campus.
The talk, "Fiction and Vision: Pigments of Imagination,"
will explore the overlap of Nemett's twin
passions, painting and writing. Recently published by Barnhardt &
Ashe, Crooked Tracks is an unusual
coming-of-age tale set in the 1960s that interweaves color
reproductions of classical and
contemporary masterworks with a compelling, intimate
narrative.
While it is not unusual for a painter to write poetry,
essays or criticism, Nemett is one of only a
few to publish a work of sustained fiction.
Nemett has taught drawing and painting at MICA for more than
35 years, chairing the Painting
Department since 1990. He received his bachelor of fine arts
degree at Pratt Institute and his
master of fine arts degree at Yale. In addition to his novel, he
has written a textbook, Images,
Objects and Ideas: Viewing the Visual Arts, and numerous catalog,
magazine and journal articles.
Nemett has curated several traveling exhibitions and has
exhibited his own work nationally and
internationally. His visiting artist residencies have included
the Art Institute of Chicago, New York
Studio School and Prince-ton University, as well as international
programs in Italy, France, Scotland
and Japan. His awards include a Ford Foundation grant to Italy
and an ITT International Travel
Fellowship/Fulbright Hays grant to Spain.
"Fiction and Vision: Pigments of Imagination" is
co-sponsored by Homewood
Art Workshops, the
Writing
Seminars and
Homewood Arts Programs. A book signing will follow Nemett's
talk and reading.
Refreshments will be served. For more information, call
410-516-6705.
Colloquia
Tues., Feb. 5, 4 p.m. "The Identity of the Scottish
Enlightenment," a Political and Moral Thought
seminar with Knud Haakonssen, University of Sussex. Sponsored by
Philosophy. 315 Gilman. HW
Wed., Feb. 6, 4:30 to 7 p.m. "Dub Music of Jamaica: The
Acoustics of Diaspora and the Post-Colony," a
Peabody Musicology colloquium with Michael Veal, Yale University.
308 Conservatory. Peabody
Thurs., Feb. 7, 3 p.m. "Unmade Men: Impotence in
18th-Century England," a History of Science,
Medicine and Technology colloquium with Barbara Chubak, SoM.
Seminar Room, 3rd floor, Welch
Library. EB
Discussion/Talks
Thurs., Feb. 7, 5:30 p.m. Africana Studies Critical
Thought Collective discussion of Saidiya Hartman's
book Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route.
Sponsored by the Center for
Africana Studies. 113 Greenhouse. HW
Forum
Thurs., Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m. "Science for Global Health
Research: Fostering International Collaboration,"
a Global Health Leaders forum with James Herrington, Fogarty
International Center/NIH. Sponsored
by International Health and the Center for Global Health. W1214
SPH (Sheldon Hall). EB
Lectures
Mon., Feb. 4, 3 p.m. "Proteolysis and the Cell Cycle," a
Cell Biology "Discovery" lecture by Marc
Kirschner, Harvard Medical School. WBSB Auditorium. EB
Mon., Feb. 4, 5:15 p.m. "Changer la Vie: Poetique de la
Revolution Litteraire" ("Changing Life: The
Poetics of Literary Revolt")," a German and Romance Languages and
Literatures lecture by Arnaud
Buchs, University of Lausanne. 336 Gilman. HW
Wed., Feb. 6, 5:15 p.m. "Dadomorphosis — The Case of
Claude Louis-Combet," a German and Romance
Languages and Literatures lecture by Stephanie Boulard, Georgia
Tech. 336 Gilman. HW
Thurs., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. The Templeton Lectures —
"Religion Is Natural" by Paul Bloom, Yale University.
Part of the Evolution, Cognition and Culture Project. Fourth in
the series. 26 Mudd. HW
Mon., Feb. 11, 12:15 p.m. "Finding Funding for Your
Research," a Welch Library lecture by Stella Seal,
SoM. B14B Hampton House. EB
Mon., Feb. 11, 4 p.m. Dean's Lecture II — "The Golgi
Complex: Life and Death of an Enigmatic Cellular
Organelle" by Carolyn Machamer, SoM. Hurd Hall. EB
Mon., Feb. 11, 5:15 p.m. "Remarks on a New Regime of
Historicity: Marcel Proust and Jacques
Roubaud," a German and Romance Languages and Literatures lecture
by Maria Muresan, ENS. 336
Gilman. HW
Music
Fri., Feb. 8, 8 p.m. Peabody Concert Orchestra performs
music by Ives, Mahler and Strauss, with
baritone William Sharp. $15 general admission, $10 for senior
citizens and $5 for students with ID.
Friedberg Hall. Peabody
Sun., Feb. 10, 4 p.m. Organ recital by distinguished
visiting artist and concert organist Dame Gillian
Weir. $15 general admission, $10 for senior citizens and $5 for
students with ID. Griswold Hall.
Peabody
Seminars
Mon., Feb. 4, noon. "Sudan Village Midwives, 1920-2008:
Pioneering Programming in Primary Care," an
International Health seminar with Hassan Bella, King Faisal
University, Saudi Arabia. W2015 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 4, 12:15 p.m. "Muscle Regeneration: Basic and
Applied," a Carnegie Institution Embryology
seminar with Eric Hoffman, Children's National Medical Center.
Rose Auditorium, 3520 San Martin
Drive. HW
Mon., Feb. 4, and Tues., Feb. 5, 3 p.m. "On Rankin-Cohen
Deformations," a Mathematics seminar with
Yi-Jun Yao, Vanderbilt University. 302 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 4, 3 p.m. "Super-Rigidity of CR Embeddings Into
Pseudo-Concave Hyperquadrics," a
Mathematics seminar with Peter Ebenfelt, University of
California, San Diego. 308 Krieger. HW
Mon., Feb. 4, 4:30 p.m. "Representing Cohomology Theories
in the Triangulated Category of Motives," a
Mathematics seminar with Chenghao Chu, Northwestern University.
308 Krieger. HW
Tues., Feb. 5, noon. "Regulation of Myc-Induced Cell
Growth by the Novel Histone H3-K4 Demethylase
Lid," a Biological Chemistry seminar with Julie Secombe, Fred
Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Co-
sponsored by the Center for Epigenetics. 612 Physiology. EB
Tues., Feb. 5, 4:30 p.m. "Arithmetic Properties of
Rationally Con-nected Varieties and Other Similar
Varieties," a Mathematics seminar with Chenyang Xu, Princeton
University. 308 Krieger. HW
Wed., Feb. 6, 8:30 a.m. "Why Bother with Quality
Assessment of Studies Included in Systematic
Reviews?" a Center for Clinical Trials seminar with Henry Jampel,
SoM. Sponsored by Epidemiology.
W4030 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 6, 10 a.m. "Women's Place of Delivery and
Experience of Quality in Delivery Care: A
Quantitative and Qualitative Study in Nairobi's Informal
Settlements," a Population, Family and
Reproductive Health thesis defense seminar with Eva Bazant. E4611
SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 6, noon. "Role and Mechanisms of Endothelial
Cell Apoptosis in Ventilator-Induced Lung
Injury," an Environmental Health Sciences seminar with Anne Le,
SoM. W7023 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 6, 12:15 p.m. "Toxicity Testing for Hazard ID
and Dose Response in Risk Assessment:
Current Practice and Strategy for the Future," a Risk Sciences
and Public Policy Institute seminar
with James Yager, SPH, and Alan Goldberg, SPH. Co-sponsored by
the Center for Alternatives to
Animal Testing. W3030 SPH. EB
Wed., Feb. 6, 1:30 p.m. "Structure, Function and Evolution
of Bacteriophage Tails," a Biophysics and
Biophysical Chemistry special seminar with Petr Leiman, Purdue
University. 517 PCTB. EB
Wed., Feb. 6, 3 p.m. "Groups of Smooth Loci of Log Del
Pezzo Surfaces," a Mathematics seminar with
Chenyang Xu, Princeton University. 308 Krieger. HW
Thurs., Feb. 7, noon. "The Illusion of Certainty: Health
Benefits and Risks," an Institute for Policy
Studies brown-bag seminar with Edward Bouwer, WSE. 526 Wyman Park
Bldg. HW
Thurs., Feb. 7, noon. Randolph Bromery Seminar —
"Powering the Planet With the Sun: Chemical and
Molecular Approaches" with Gerald Meyer, KSAS. 305 Olin. HW
Thurs., Feb. 7, 12:10 p.m. "Identifying, Packaging and
Disseminating Effective HIV Behavioral
Interventions: CDC's Approach to Translating Research Into
Practice," a Health, Behavior and Society
seminar with Agatha Eke, National Center for HIV/STD/TB
Prevention, CDC. Part of the series
Translation and Dissemination Research: The Scholarship of Public
Health Action. 250 Hampton House.
EB
Thurs., Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m. "Concordant Perceptions of
Descriptive and Injunctive Norms as a Mediator
of the Relationship Between Mass Media Program Exposure on
Contraceptive Adoption in Nepal," a
Center for Communication Programs seminar with Marc Boulay, SPH.
Suite 310, Candler Bldg., 111
Market Place.
Thurs., Feb. 7, 4 p.m. "Models and Models: Statistical
Approaches to Combining Regional Climate Model
Output," an Applied Mathematics and Statistics seminar with
Stephan Sain, University of Colorado,
Denver. 304 Whitehead. HW
Fri., Feb. 8, 11 a.m. "Dispersion of Pollution in and
above Cities," a CEAFM/Mechanical Engineering
seminar with Pablo Huq, University of Delaware. 110 Maryland.
HW
Mon., Feb. 11, 12:15 p.m. "The Politics of Obesity:
Ethical and Historical Considerations," a Berman
Institute of Bioethics seminar with Rogan Kersh, New York
University. W4030 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 11, 12:15 p.m. "Fidelity in RNA Folding From
Ribozymes to Ribosomes," a Carnegie
Institution Embryology seminar with Sarah Woodson, KSAS. Rose
Auditorium, 3520 San Martin Drive.
HW
Mon., Feb. 11, 3 p.m. "Stability of Minimal Mass Soliton
Solutions for Saturated NLS," a Mathematics
seminar with Jeremy Marzuola, Columbia University. 308 Krieger.
HW
Mon., Feb. 11, 4 p.m. "Structural Studies of
Metabolite-Sensing mRNAs," a Biophysics seminar with
Rob Batey, University of Toronto. 111 Mergenthaler. HW
Mon., Feb. 11, 4 p.m. "Hormonal Control of
Spermatogenesis," a Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
seminar with Jonathan Jarow, SoM. W2030 SPH. EB
Mon., Feb. 11, 4:30 p.m. "Operator Categories for Homotopy
Coherent Algebra," a Mathematics
seminar with Clark Barwick, IAS. 302 Krieger. HW
Special Events
Mon., Feb. 4, through Fri., Feb. 29. Black History Month
events, with the theme VISAGE: Visualizing
Independence While Studying African Greatness Everywhere. Various
locations. (See story, "Black
History Month events reflect many aspects of black culture," in
this issue.)
Tues., Feb. 5, 8 p.m. 2008 Foreign Affairs Symposium: A
Decade of Discussion — "Hotel Rwanda: A
Lesson Not Learned," a talk by Paul Rusesabagina, the inspiration
behind the Academy AwardÐwinning
film Hotel Rwanda. (See story, "A decade of global discussion,"
in this issue.) Shriver Auditorium. HW
Thurs., Feb. 7, 6 p.m. "Fiction and Vision: Pigments of
Imagination," a slide talk and reading by Barry
Nemett, Painting Department chair at MICA, from his new novel,
Crooked Tracks. A book signing will
follow. Sponsored by Homewood Art Workshops, Writing Seminars and
Homewood Arts Programs. 101
Ross Jones Bldg., Mattin Center. HW
Fri., Feb. 8, 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Summer Camp Discoveries
Fair, a chance to meet with representatives
from various camp organizations and other groups offering summer
activities. Sponsored by Worklife
Programs. Turner Concourse. EB
Workshops and Training
Thurs., Feb. 7, 1 p.m. "J-Share: Keep Your Files Online,
Share If You Like," a Center for Educational
Resources workshop with Brian Cole, KSAS. Register at www.cer.jhu.edu. Garrett Room,
MSE Library.
HW
GO TO FEBRUARY 4, 2008
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
GO TO THE GAZETTE
FRONT PAGE.
|
