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NOVEMBER 10, 6 PM BEYOND THE GAME: WOMEN, SPORTS, AND COMPETITION A PANEL WITH SARAH HUGHES, JUDIE LOMAX ’10, DONNA ORENDER, AND ERINN SMART ’01 Event Oval, The Diana Center The panel will explore how sports impact women’s lives beyond the playing field, addressing such questions as: Do women athletes lead differently? How does professional competition impact leadership outside the sports arena? Sponsored by the Office of the President. NOVEMBER 18, 6 PM TRANSLATION AS PERFORMANCE A MULTIMEDIA DEMONSTRATION James Room, 4th Floor Barnard Hall Two translators will render a text from Spanish into English in real time, as it is projected on adjacent screens. The audience will experience the act of translation firsthand, comparing the choices made by either translator. Marko Miletich (Hunter College) will act as moderator. Sponsored by the Barnard Center for Translation Studies thanks to a grant from the Mellon Foundation. For more information: 212.851.5979 or sjohnson@barnard.edu.
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1 Zora Neale Hurston ’28, novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, was the College’s first black graduate. In addition to her masterpiece, Their Eyes Were Watching God, she is known for her journalistic, cinematic, and nonfiction work, as well as her active role in the politics of Harlem. Photography by Carl Van Vechten, used with permission granted by the Van Vechten Trust. 2 Francine du Plessix Gray ’52, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer and literary critic, received the National Book Critic’s Circle Award in 2006 for Them: A Memoir of Parents. Also in 2006, she was awarded Barnard’s Medal of Distinction and delivered the Commencement address. Photograph by Jacques Moritz-Miller. 3 Susan (Levitt) Stamberg ’59 is a radio journalist and special correspondent for National Public Radio. As co-host of All Things Considered she was the first woman full-time anchor of a national nightly news program in the United States. She has received the Edward R. Murrow Award and been inducted into the Broadcasting Hall of Fame and the Radio Hall of Fame. Photograph courtesy of National Public Radio. 4 Ida Rolf ’16 was a biochemist and the creator of a method of structural integration that came to be known as Rolfing®. Rolf worked at the Rockefeller Institute and her book, Rolfing: The Integration of Human Structure, was written in 1977. Photograph by Ron Thompson, courtesy of the Rolf Institute. 5 Jeane Jordan Kirkpatrick ’48 was the first woman to serve as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. She became professor of political science at Georgetown University, contributed to many journals and, although initially a Democrat, held consistently conservative and staunch anti-communist views. Kirkpatrick served as Reagan’s foreign policy advisor and in his Cabinet; she was the only woman on the National Security Council. 6 Ntozake Shange ’70 is a poet, performance artist, playwright, and novelist whose work includes the 1975 OBIE-winning choreopoem, for colored girls…who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuff. Among her awards are The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, an Outer Critics Circle award, a Barnard Medal of Distinction, and a Columbia University Medal for Excellence. Photograph by Val Wilmer.
DECEMBER 2–4 THE BARNARD PROJECT AT DANCE THEATER WORKSHOP 219 West 19th Street The Barnard Project at DTW continues to receive national attention and serves as a model of sustainability for artistic ecosystems. Choreographers Kimberly Bartosik, Ori Flomin, Will Rawls, and Gwen Welliver offer premieres that engage Barnard students in the artistic and intellectual rigors of the creative process. Sponsored by the Barnard dance department. For more information: 212.854.9769 or mcochran@barnard.edu. DECEMBER 9, 7 PM STUDENT READING Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor Barnard Hall Barnard has produced some of today’s most exciting young writers, including Galaxy Craze ’93, Suki Kim ’92, Eliza Minot ’91, Meg Mullins ’95, and Marisha Pessl ’00. Join the English department for a celebration of the next generation of literary talent, as current Barnard students read from their work. DECEMBER 11, 8 PM THE ANNUAL CANDLELIGHT CONCERT THE BARNARD-COLUMBIA CHORUS Union Theological Seminary, Broadway at West 120th Street This year the Barnard-Columbia Chorus performs Mozart’s Vesperae solennes de confessore K339 and Beethoven’s Mass in C. Cast in the glow of hundreds of candles, the concert is a festive way to ring in the season. Reception to follow—all are invited. $5/$3 students and seniors. For more information: 212.854.5096 or garcher@barnard.edu. Full calendar of events at barnard.edu/calendar.
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