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Gender, Power and Religion: Women's Leadership in the Aladura Church in West Africa and the United States of America
On Thursday, February 26 at 5pm, Mojubaolu Okome, Five College Women’s Studies Research Associate from Brooklyn College will give a talk entitled “Gender, Power and Religion: Women's Leadership in the Aladura Church in West Africa and the United States of America.” The experiences of contemporary African Christian immigrants in terms of gender are yet to be understood. These developments generate important questions on contemporary African immigrant Christianity in America.
Like their African American sisters, women in West Africa's African Initiated Churches (AICs) play multifarious, crucial and extraordinary roles fundamental to the churches' survival.
Paradoxically, some women attained public leadership and institutional power in some West African churches, but branches in the United States do not replicate such examples. This paper will focus on the Aladura (*Prayerful ones*) churches among the AICs, founded among the Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria, in response to missionary marginalization of the new Christians and spiritual, existential and material problems encountered by Africans in the early 20th century. As well, it should contribute to deeper understanding of the relationship between space, religion, culture, translocality, gender and power.
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2010 J-Show
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How Many Mics? Spoken Word Open Mic Night
The Phenomenal Women of Color Association presents HOW MANY MICS? Spone Word Open Mic Night, Thursday February 26, 2009 7:30-10pm. Sign-ups begin at 6:15 Show begins promptly at 7:30pm. Join us as we celebrate Black History Month with our Host Conscious and 3 surprise features. Come and enjoy poetry of the best poets in our own backyard.
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Love Your Body
Speaker Rachel Goren discusses eating disorders and positive body image in society and on campus as part of National Eating Disorder Awareness Week.
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Exhibitions
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"the periodic table after primo levi"
An exhibit entitled "the periodic table after primo levi" will be on display from November 1st 2008 through February 28, 2009 at the National Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West Street, Amherst, MA 01002. This exhibit is a series of narrative works on paper created by Claudine Mussuto in response to Primo Levi's memoir "The Periodic Table." The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Contact: 413-256-4900, or go to www.yiddishbookcenter.org for more information.
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Exhibition: Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection
Exhibition runs February 5-March 29, 2009.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 5, 5-7:30 pm.
In Conversation: Artist Sheron Rupp discusses her exhibition with art critic Gloria Russell. Wednesday, February 25, 5 pm.
The University Gallery is pleased to present Sheron Rupp: Dialogue with a Collection, the second exhibition in an annual series in which we invite an artist to study the permanent collection first-hand, curate an exhibition from our holdings, and integrate their own works in direct dialogue within the exhibition. Sheron Rupp's idiosyncratic selection, ranging from photographs by Jan Groover and Ralph Eugene Meatyard to prints and drawings by Judy Pfaff and Theodore Stamos, provides unexpected juxtapositions and conversations between her own works with those in the permanent collection. The exhibition also affords the opportunity to premiere Sheron Rupp's recent color photographs of formal and social landscapes.
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Video Installation Miroslaw Balka: Gravity
Exhibition runs February 5-May 24.
Exhibition Preview: Thursday, February 5, 5 pm.
Reception: Thursday, February 5, 6:30-7:30 pm.
The University Gallery is pleased to premiere recent video works by the internationally acclaimed Polish artist, Miroslaw Balka. This is the artist's first museum exhibition in the U.S. to focus on his new video installations.
In Conversation: Thursday, February 5, 5:30-6:30 pm.
Artist Miroslaw Balka and Barbara London, curator of media, Museum of Modern Art, NY; moderated by Barton Byg (UMass Professor of German and Scandinavian Studies and founding director of DEFA Film Library)
Gallery hours: Tuesday-Friday 11 am-4:30 pm; Saturday & Sunday 2-5 pm. Wheelchair accessible. Free parking evenings and weekends.
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Exhibit: Natural History Prints
Exhibition runs through May 3, 2009. Photos by John Green, nature photographer. For hours, call 545-1370.
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“Thin” and “Girl Culture”
“Thin” is a documentary project by noted contemporary photographer Lauren Greenfield on the subject of eating disorders. Greenfield followed and photographed a group of women in treatment at the Renfrew Center in Florida, producing color photographs and a documentary film about the women and their experiences. “Thin” grew out of an earlier body of work, “Girl Culture,” which focused on the image-obsession of women of all ages in the United States. Selections from “Girl Culture” will be displayed in an adjacent gallery to provide a context for “Thin” and expand the themes of the show. “Thin” was curated by the artist Trudy Wilner Stack and was organized by the Women’s Museum: An Institute for the Future, Dallas, Texas, and Greenfield/Evers, LLC. Ends April 26.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Emulation or Imitation: The Case of Dürer vs. Marcantonio Raimondi
This small-focus show presents a singularly important early stage in the emergence of the concept of the individual artist and his work in the Northern Renaissance. Dürer’s unprecedented lawsuit against the Venetian printmaker Marcantonio Raimondi, who, ca. 1511, copied his series “Life of the Virgin,” spotlights an important historical turning point in which the conception of originality was beginning to emerge as the definition of artistic creativity. Through April 19.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 p.m. Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum.
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Post-Mao Dreaming: Chinese Contemporary Art
This exhibition celebrates the recent gift of 34 works by 22 noted Chinese contemporary artists to SCMA by Smith alumna Joan Lebold Cohen and her husband. The works provide a look into the era when Chinese artists began to throw off the restrictions of China’s 30 years of Maoist communism and reclaim their individuality. Through May 31.
The Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) is open 10 a.m. to 4 pm.\ Tuesday through Saturday and noon to 4 pm.\ on Sunday. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors, $3 for students and $2 for youth ages 6 to 12. Free admission to all the second Friday of the month, from 4 to 8 pm.\ Free passes are available at Forbes Library, 20 West St., with a Forbes Library card. For more information, visit http://www.smith.edu/artmuseum
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Field Report: A Members’ Exhibition of the Boston Printmakers
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of its first members’ show, The Boston Printmakers present this traveling show of representative original prints from across North America. Opening reception Saturday, Feb. 7, 2 to 4 p.m.
Exhibit hours: M-F 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; Sa 10:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m.
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Midway MFA Exhibition
Exhibition runs 2/17/09-2/27/09. Midway, an interdisciplinary exhibition of the work of MFA students Ryan Feeney, Chun-Tso Lin, Camila Molestina, Kerry O'Grady, and Sarah Purnell at the mid-point in their program.
Reception 2/23/09, 5-7 pm.
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City of Champions: A Portrait of Brockton, Massachusetts
An exhibition of photographs by artist Mary Beth Meehan, entitled “City of Champions,” will be on display at the Oresman Gallery, Smith College Department of Art, from February 5-28, 2009. The work looks at the artist’s hometown of Brockton Massachusetts, one of the state’s older industrial “gateway” cities (such as Holyoke and Springfield) and explores the personal effects of the global economic and cultural changes underway there.
Mary Beth Meehan is an award-winning photojournalist who has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Time, and DoubleTake. Her work has been honored by Pictures of the Year International and the National Conference for Community and Justice, and was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. A Providence resident, she was a staff photographer at The Providence Journal, and is currently a 2009 Photography Fellow with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. She is a native of Brockton, Massachusetts, and graduated from Amherst College in 1989.
Gallery hours: M-F 10am -4:30pm; Sat and Sun 12pm - 4pm.
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Lecture/Reading
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Evolution, Religion, and the Search for Meaning - LECTURE CANCELLED
Unfortunately, Dr. John F. Haught had to cancel his lecture scheduled for today.
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UMass Amherst Libraries Hosts 15th Annual Du Bois Lecture with Howard Dodson
Du Bois Birthday Lecture by Howard Dodson. Howard Dodson is the founder of Africana Studies and Research Center and professor of African and African American Politics at Cornell University. Sponsored by UMass Amherst Library, Special Collections and University Archives.
Handicap accessible.
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“The Little Death of Self”
Award-winning poet Marianne Boruch will discuss the use of the first-person in writing poetry with reference to works by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost and other poets.
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Aspects of Breast Cancer: Race, Class, and Access.
The Smith Breast Health Collective presents: Breast Cancer and the Intersectionality of Race, Class, and Gender. This panel will discuss the biology of breast cancer and the roles that race, class, and gender play in getting breast cancer and being treated for breast cancer. Panelists will include Smith College faculty and activists from the area.
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