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Russian folk ensemble to perform at Bates
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:20 pm
The Karelian folk band Sattuma, on tour from the province of Russia that borders Finland, comes to Bates College to perform at 7 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 1, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.
Sociologist to discuss race and diversity at Bates
Tuesday, October 21, 2003 8:11 am
Troy Duster, professor of sociology at New York University, will give a talk titled "Colorblindness and the Veil of Privilege: From Redress to Diversity and Back" at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 29, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. Sponsored by the Office of Affirmative Action and Institutional Diversity, the talk is open to the public free of charge.
Bates exhibition spotlights Chinese documentary photographers
Friday, October 17, 2003 8:29 am
Focusing on the impacts of urbanization and industrialization in China, an exhibition of documentary images by seven Chinese photographers opens at the Bates College Museum of Art on Jan. 9, 2004.
‘Life in Expanding Universe’ is poet’s Otis Lecture topic
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:37 am
Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled "Life in an Expanding Universe" for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.
Louisiana's popular 'Sunpie' Barnes to discuss music of the African Diaspora
Wednesday, October 15, 2003 9:22 am
An accomplished musician equally at home with blues, zydeco and a spectrum of African and Caribbean styles, Bruce "Sunpie" Barnes comes to Bates College to explore the music of the African Diaspora in a lecture-workshop at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.
Spanish professor to discuss Puerto Rican experimental art
Tuesday, October 14, 2003 9:52 am
Dolores Aponte Ramos, professor of Spanish at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, will present a lecture titled "Performing Transgression: Race and Gender in Experimental Art in Puerto Rico" at 4 p.m. Monday, Oct. 20 in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue, Bates College. The public is invited to attend the event free of charge.
Japanese scholar compares ghosts from East and West
Monday, October 13, 2003 10:14 am
Ghosts from Japan and England will share the podium at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in the Benjamin Mays Center, Bates College, when an associate professor of English literature at the University of Kyoto contrasts traditional Japanese ghosts with the spirits in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister’s Journey
Monday, October 13, 2003 10:03 am
The Rev. Jane Adams Spahr of the Downtown United Presbyterian Church in Rochester, N.Y., presents "Coming Out as a Holy Calling: A Lesbian Christian Minister's Journey" at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27, in Room G65 of Pettengill Hall, Bates College. The public is invited free of charge.
Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland discusses veterans' issues
Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:30 pm
Max Cleland, a Vietnam veteran and former U.S. senator from Georgia, discusses veterans' issues and the impact the Bush administration has had on American military veterans in a speech at 5:30 p.m. today in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, Bates College, Campus Avenue.
Nationally acclaimed poet Pattiann Rogers to speak at Bates
Wednesday, October 8, 2003 10:39 am
Award-winning poet Pattiann Rogers presents a talk titled "Life in an Expanding Universe" for the 2003 Philip J. Otis lecture at Bates College at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 22, in the Muskie Archives, Campus Avenue.