Hotseat Panel: Convocation.
This Hotseat Panel, presented by the Smith College Chapel and the Nolen Arts Lounge in the Campus Center, will discuss the issue, "Is Convocation Sexual Harassment?" Staff, student and faculty panelists will discuss this issue with moderator, Jennifer Walters, dean of religious life.

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National Teach-In on Global Warming.
At the beginning of the first 100 days of the new administration, this Teach-In will engage over a million Americans in solutions-driven dialogue. As educators, students and citizens, we owe our nation a focused conversation about the critical decisions that will determine if our descendants will inherit a prosperous or an impoverished planet. This series of lectures will help engage the community in that dialogue. Join us for tea and conversation. All welcome. Session One: “Transportation Transformation: How Getting from Point A to B Affects the Planet” by James Lowenthal, associate professor of astronomy. Noon, Campus Center 103 Session Two: “Making the Consumption/Global Climate Change Connection” by Roger Guzowski, Five College recycling coordinator. Noon, Campus Center 205 Session Three: “Climate Change and Water: Flood or Drought?” by Andrew Guswa, professor of engineering. For more information, call (413) 585-3951. 4:15 p.m., Campus Center 103 Session Four: “Can Life on Earth Stand the Heat? Biodiversity and Climate Change” by David Smith, professor of biological sciences. 4:15 p.m., Campus Center 102 Session Five: “Thin Ice: An Exploration of the Bering Sea in the Age of Climate Change” by Tom Litwin, director, Clark Science Center, Smith College. 7 p.m., McConnell B05

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Hampshire College Winter Dance Concert
A variety of new works will be presented in Hampshire College’s annual Winter Dance Concert, February 5-7 at 8pm in the Dance Studio Theater, Music and Dance Building. The performance showcases the diverse and vital talents of 12 student choreographers and 32 student dancers. Also on the program will be a new work choreographed for and with a large cast of Hampshire and Five College students by visiting artist Cathy Nicoli.

Reservations are recommended and may be made by calling 413-559-5889 beginning January 22nd. Ticket prices are $10 for general admission and $5 for students and seniors. The space is accessible to the handicapped.

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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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Black Men View Nature . . . and Beyond
Exhibition runs 2/2-2/13/09. Reception, Thursday 2/12, 4-6 pm.

Part of a celebration of Black History Month, OPSAS and the Student Union Art Gallery present the work of John Green, Barry Brooks, and George Moonlight Davis. Their photographs tell the stories of the natural landscape of the region.

Gallery hours: Monday-Thursday 10 am-5 pm; Friday 10 am-3 pm. Wheelchair accessible.

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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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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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“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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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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Detained: The New Bedford Immigration Raid: Film screening and discussion.
On March 6, 2007, US immigration officials raided a New Bedford, MA factory that makes vests and backpacks for US soldiers. Many of the 361 immigrants who were detained were women with small children, from Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Portugal and Cape Verde. Film screening followed by a discussion with filmmaker Jenny Alexander, workers who were detained, and allies, including Alexandra Pineros Shields, Director of Immigrant Programs at the Irish Immigration Center in Boston, and Corinn Williams, Director of the New Bedford Community Economic Development Center. Sponsored by the History Department.

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"The Secret Pain" Female Genital Mutilation
The documentary film "The Secret Pain", a film about female genital mutilation, will be presented by Kate Kendel, the main character and project consultant, on Thursday February 5th, 5:30pm-7:30pm, in the east lecture hall, Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College.
Dramatic events destined Kate Kendel to live with various missionary foster parents in Sierra Leone and Scandinavia. At the age of 16, she returned to her biological family in Sierra Leone and was genitally mutilated against her will. The film follows Kate back to her roots, where the circumcisers' secret society is so feared than no government has been able to shake its power. "The Secret Pain" is a strong portrait of the psychological consequences women face as the consequence of FGM. It is also a hopeful story of what can be done to support women and end the practice. After the film, Kate will speak on her work CREATING ENERGY FOR DEVELOPMENT.
This event is sponsored by: The Women’s Center, Population and Development Program, Feminist Studies and Third World Studies. It is free (with pizza) and wheelchair accessible.
For information, contact Emily Rimmer,Coordinator of Women's Student Services,Hampshire College at erSA@hampshire.edu

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"Interpreting Financial News".
Professor Mahnaz Mahdavi (Economics) will be joined by visiting speakers to provide valuable insight into current financial news. Topics include: the financial crisis and the economy; how to read financial publications; "green" investing today; how current conditions affect investment strategies.

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“Can a Colored Woman be a Physician?”: Discovering African-American Women Physicians in the History of Medicine.
Hampshire College invites the public to Academics, Activism, Art, and Ascendancy: Women of Color Who Change the World, a lecture and panels series February 5 and 6, featuring distinguished alumnae.

The program celebrates college trustee Florence Ladd, who has provided leadership and service to Hampshire College and to higher education within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond. Florence Ladd will conclude her service as a college trustee at the close of the current academic year, and her fellow trustees and college staff organized the program in her honor. All events will be in the main lecture hall of Franklin Patterson Hall.

On Thursday, February 5, at 4 p.m., physician and medical historian Vanessa Northington Gamble will deliver the inaugural Trustees’ Lecture, based on her current research and titled “Can a Colored Woman be a Physician?”: Discovering African-American Women Physicians in the History of Medicine.

Dr. Gamble is University Professor of Medical Humanities and a professor of history at George Washington University. She is an influential spokesperson for equal access to quality medical care for all Americans, and in 1997 served as chair of the Legacy Committee of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, which prompted a U.S. Presidential apology for the treatment of African American patients. A 1974 graduate, Gamble wrote her Hampshire College senior thesis (Div III) on the Tuskegee Syphilis Study.

All events are open to the public and free. For more information, please call the office of the secretary of the college at 413.559.5780 or e-mail nkelly@hampshire.edu.

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Who Will Win the Israeli Elections: An Analysis and Prediction.
Panel Discussion with Justin Cammy, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, and Donna Robinson Divine, Morningstar Professor of Jewish Studies and Government. Includes Campaign videos.

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Poetry Reading
Poet Craig Arnold will read from his work as part of the Amherst College Creative Writing Center's Spring Reading Series.

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Faultlines Festival Performance Workshop: Curtis Clark
Clark, a pianist who has recorded and toured with David Murray, Oscar Brown Jr., Billy Bang, Richard Davis, Abby Lincoln, Charles Tyler, John Tchicai and Han Bennink, "sounds like a combination of Bill Evans and Red Garland," wrote JazzWord reviewer Ken Waxman, "with tingling arpeggios falling from his fingers." He spent decades living in Amsterdam, playing with leading Dutch and South African musicians and recording a number of outstanding releases for Nimbus Records.

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National Teach-In on Global Warming.
At the beginning of the first 100 days of the new administration, this National Teach-In will engage over a million Americans in solutions-driven dialogue. As educators, students and citizens, we owe our nation a focused conversation about the critical decisions that will determine if our descendants will inherit a prosperous or an impoverished planet. This series of lectures will help engage the Smith community in that dialogue. Join us for one of our lunchtime talks and join the conversation! Session 1: Campus Center 103 - Engineering professor Drew Guswa talks about "Climate Change and Water: Flood or Drought?" Session 2: Campus Center 205 - Five College Recycling Coordinator Roger Guzowski makes the consumption/climate change connection.

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Opening Reception.
Opening Reception for Field Report: A Members’ Exhibition of the Boston Printmakers. See Exhibitions. For more information, call (413) 585-4568 or e-mail jcartled@email.smith.edu.

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New Play Reading Series.
Etty, written by Susan Stein and directed by Austin Pendleton. A one-woman show that has been performed in New York City and internationally. Its presentation at Smith will allow Stein to further develop her piece based on audience feedback. Well-known director, playwright and actor for stage and screen, Austin Pendleton, previously directed Lillian Hellman’s “The Children’s Hour” at Smith. For more information, call 413-585-ARTS.

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Sway: Three Student-Written Plays
PROJECT: Theatre presents three plays on identity written and performed by Mt. Holyoke students.

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"Stop Kiss" by Diana Son: Tierra Allen's Senior Project in Acting
"Stop Kiss" by Diana Son will be directed by Court Dorsey. Performances will be Feb. 5-7 at 8 p.m. in Kirby Theater. Set in present-day New York City, "Stop Kiss" is about two women who meet, become friends and, unexpectedly, begin to fall in love. This comic, emotionally-charged and painfully bittersweet story unfolds through two converging narratives: one detailing the progression of their relationship and the other documenting the aftermath of the shocking hate crime provoked by their first kiss. Tickets are free. Call the Box Office at 413-542-2277.

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