University of San Diego CAS and Sciences Spring 2022 Calendar

Events

SPRING 2022 | UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

College of Arts and Sciences Art, Theatre and Music

ART + ARCHITECTURE LECTURE SERIES

Janine Antoni

Ikem Okoye Thursday, March 17 at 4 p.m.

Friday, February 11 at 12:30 p.m.

Virtual event

Virtual event

Ikem Okoye is an associate professor in the

Janine Antoni is a visual artist who was born

Department of Art History at the University of

in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. She received a

Delaware, and is joint faculty in the Africana

Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College

Department. Currently a Canadian Centre for

and an MFA from the Rhode Island School

Architecture/Mellon researcher on the “Centring

of Design. Antoni is known for her unusual

Africa” initiative, his writing project there is

processes — her body is both her tool for

Where Was Modernism. His essays on art,

making and the source from which her meaning

architecture and the landscape are published in

arises. Her early work transformed materials

journals and book anthologies.

like chocolate and soap and used everyday activities like bathing, eating and sleeping as

Hugo Crosthwaite

sculptural processes.

Thursday, May 5 at 4 p.m.

(Left) Janine Antoni, I speak up, mixed media gilded with

French Parlor, Founders Hall

24 karat gold leaf, 181/8 x 21 in. Courtesy of the artist,

Hugo Crosthwaite was born in Tijuana, Mexico,

Luhring Augustine, New York, and Anthony Meier Fine Arts,

in 1971 and has lived and worked between

San Francisco.

Tijuana, San Diego, Los Angeles and Brooklyn.

He currently lives in Tijuana and his work has been included in numerous museum exhibitions, including National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC; Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art; and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. He received a Bachelor of Arts from San Diego State University.

DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC CONCERTS

PRESENTED BY THE OLD GLOBE AND

Student Composers Concert

UNIVERSIT Y OF SAN DIEGO SHILEY

Saturday, April 23 at 7:30 p.m.

GRADUATE THE ATRE PROGRAM

The Skin of Our Teeth

French Parlor, Founders Hall USD students work alongside invited professional musicians in the composition studio of Professor Christopher Adler, PhD. Together, these musicians bring to life world-premiere performances of student compositions.

Written by Thornton Wilder Directed by Matt M. Morrow Friday, February 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, February 26 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Sunday, February 27 at 2 p.m.

Kay Etheridge and Friends: Three Works for Two Pianos

Studio Theatre, Sacred Heart Hall Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy

Sunday, May 1 at 2 p.m.

depicts an Everyman family as it narrowly

Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall

escapes one end-of-the-world disaster after

Join us for a farewell recital for Kay Etheridge,

another, from the Ice Age to flood to war.

DMA, faculty member in USD’s Department of

Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 seniors,

Music for 31 years. At this concert, Professor

active military and students with ID. Tickets are

Christopher Adler, PhD, premieres his new work

available at usdglobe.eventbrite.com. For more

MESSAGE FROM THE DE AN

for two pianos, and Dana Burnett and Karen

information, visit graduateacting.com.

Although virtual events kept us connected over the last two years, I

Follingstad also perform piano compositions with Dr. Etheridge.

Music Ensemble Concerts All events to be held at Shiley Theatre, Camino Hall

PRESENTED BY USD’S UNDERGRADUATE

am delighted to welcome you back to

THE ATRE PROGRAM

the beautiful University of San Diego

The Dentist

campus this spring semester to enjoy our exhibitions, music and theater

Written and directed by Terry Glaser

Student ensembles under the direction of Department of Music faculty

Friday, May 6 at 7:30 p.m.

perform an exciting set of concerts to showcase their work throughout

Saturday, May 7 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

the semester.

Sunday, May 8 at 2 p.m.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre

performances, guest lectures and more, in person. Here’s a sampling of the robust programming we have planned. I look forward to seeing you soon.

Noelle Norton, PhD

Wind Ensemble

Choral Scholars and Concert Choir

Friday, April 29 at 7:30 p.m.

Saturday, May 7 at 8 p.m.

Gamelan Ensemble

Chamber Music Ensembles

Monday, May 9 at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 10 at 6 p.m.

romance, aging lust, clever servants and

POSSIBLE EVENT CHANGES

Jazz Ensemble

Student Recital

foolish masters. After Pantalone woos his son’s

All event dates and locations are subject to change or cancellation

Wednesday, May 11 at 8 p.m.

Thursday, May 12 at 1 p.m.

sweetheart, the townsfolk enlist the local baker,

based on the evolving nature of the pandemic. For the most up-to-date

Mariachi Ensemble

Interactive Digital Music

Pulcinella, a dental guild dropout with a bagful of

event information, visit sandiego.edu/events/cas.

Thursday, May 12 at 8 p.m.

Tuesday, May 24 at 2 p.m.

This original script based on a classic commedia

Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

dell’arte scenario scrambles love, vengeance and slapstick in crazy combinations of youthful

terrifying tools, to save the young lovers.

COV ID-19 PROTOCOLS

Tickets are $10 general admission; $8 seniors,

Event attendees are expected to comply with all USD COVID-19 protocols.

Unless noted, all Department of Music concerts are free. Seating is limited.

active military and students with ID. Tickets

This includes wearing face coverings in indoor spaces and on trams

You can reserve your seats ahead at usdmusic.eventbrite.com. Remaining

are available at usdtheatre.eventbrite.com. For

for everyone until further notice. Visit sandiego.edu/onward for current

seats are available at the door. Visit bit.ly/usd-music to sign up for the

more information, email theatre@sandiego.edu

vaccination requirements and campus protocols. Thank you for your

e-newsletter and to follow us on social media.

or visit sandiego.edu/theatre.

cooperation and concern for our community’s well-being during this time.

Humanities ILLUME SPEAKER SERIES

ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES KNAPP LECTURE

Marie Watt: A Conversation with the Artist

To champion the tradition and future of the artes liberales, the USD Humanities Center created the Illume Speaker Series featuring USD’s own renowned faculty scholars, invited thought leaders and

Marie Watt, Knapp Chair of Liberal Arts

prominent public figures to advance the liberal arts on campus and

Wednesday, February 16 at 5 p.m.

inspire lifelong learning in our surrounding communities.

French Parlor, Founders Hall Marie Watt is an American artist. She is an enrolled member of the Seneca Nation of Indians and also has German-Scot ancestry.

Her interdisciplinary work draws from history, biography, Iroquois protofeminism and Indigenous teachings. Her work is the subject of a major traveling retrospective — Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt — initiated by University Galleries and supported by the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation in Portland, Oregon, where Watt lives with her family and maintains a busy studio.

ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES KNAPP LECTURE

The Physics of Mentorship: The Love, Labor and Language

ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES SPECI AL GUEST

Willie S. Rockward, PhD

Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road

Monday, March 28 at 6 p.m.

Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall

Matthew B. Crawford, PhD

Has mentorship always been a major yet

Monday, February 21 at 7 p.m.

unspoken part of the STEM community?

Warren Auditorium, Mother Rosalie Hill Hall

Dr. Willie Rockward, chair and professor in

The bestselling author of Shop Class as Soulcraft

the Department of Physics and Engineering

and senior fellow at the University of Virginia’s

Physics at Morgan State University in Baltimore,

Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture joins

Maryland, shares a physics perspective of

us to discuss his most recent book, Why We

mentorship using simple, nonmathematical,

Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road.

everyday concepts, such as energy, momentum

Dr. Crawford’s work investigates “one of the

and force as it relates to the love, labor and

more insidious assumptions of the artificial

language of relational mentorship.

intelligence revolution that we are currently living through” (The Observer). Books will be available for purchase.

ILLUME SPE AKER SERIES SPECI AL GUEST

A Conversation With Mark Z. Danielewski Monday, April 11 at 7 p.m.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice Theatre ILLUME COLLEGE LECTURE

Mark Z. Danielewski, award-winning author of House of Leaves and National

Edmund Burke: Revolution, Equipoise and Making the Best of Things

Book Award finalist for Only Revolutions, joins us for a conversation with

Brian Clack, PhD Monday, April 4 at 6 p.m.

Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall In this lecture, Dr. Brian Clack will discuss his experience of editing Edmund Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France. Addressing issues both in political thought and in the nature of education, he will reflect upon the meaning and style of Burke’s philosophy and make a case for its continued significance for our time.

Joshua Hall, lecturer in USD’s Department of English, to discuss his work and latest release, The Little Blue Kite. Books will be available for purchase.

ILLUME MINERVA LECTURE SERIES

James Joyce and Virginia Woolf in 1922: The Effect of History on Literary Narrative Fred Miller Robinson, PhD Tuesday, April 26 at 6 p.m.

Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall How might the history of the time have affected the stylistic innovations of Ulysses and Jacob’s Room, both published in 1922? Join Dr. Fred Miller Robinson at the Humanities Center’s new Minerva Lecture Series, designed to honor the ideas of retired and emeriti USD faculty members and to provide a showcase for their reflections on the life of the mind — wisdom acquired after a lifetime of work in the field of education.

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Special

Exhibitions

The Gout and the Guillotine: The Satirical Imagination in Britain 1790-1799 On view: March 14 to May 20 Humanities Center Gallery, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall This exhibition, centered principally on the work of James Gillray (1756-1815), explores how the grotesque imagination of 18th century satirists interrogated the apparently distinct realms of physical pain and revolutionary politics. Caricatures of the diametrically opposed political thinkers Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine are presented alongside images of that event about which they most fervently disagreed: the French Revolution and its aftermath. And hovering above it all is Gillray’s horrific representation of the body in pain: The Gout.

(Left) James Gillray, The Blood of the Murdered Crying for Vengeance, 1793, etching and engraving with watercolor, 137/8 x 93/4 in.

Purchased with funds provided by the Humanities Center, PC2021.08.

(Above) James Gillray, The Gout, 1799, etching and aquatint with hand coloring, 101/16 x 133/8 in. Purchased with funds provided by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, PC2021.01.

Storywork: The Prints of Marie Watt

Screenings 8: Lorna Simpson

On view: February 4 to May 15

On view: January 27 to March 4

Hoehn Family Galleries, Founders Hall

Humanities Center Gallery, Saints Tekakwitha and

David W. May Gallery, Humanities Center, Saints

Serra Hall

Tekakwitha and Serra Hall

The eighth iteration of the Humanities Center

Marie Watt (Seneca, b. 1967) is one of the

Gallery’s series of time-based works focuses

country’s most celebrated contemporary artists

on Lorna Simpson’s Corridor (2003). Simpson

whose work draws on personal experience,

is a contemporary artist whose practice

Indigenous traditions, protofeminism, mythology

evolved around the camera, creating engaged

and art history. Drawing on the collections of the

juxtapositions through conceptual photography

Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation and USD,

and film. This work positions two narratives

Storywork presents a mid-career retrospective

in the context of one uninterrupted screen,

of Watt’s work as a printmaker, accompanied

presenting distinct yet parallel routines of

by a fully illustrated catalog. Watt is also in

women living a century apart — one during the

residence at USD as a Humanities Center Knapp

Civil War and the other during the Civil Rights

Chair of Liberal Arts, starting with a public

movement.

lecture on Feb. 16.

(Above) Lorna Simpson, still from Corridor, 2003, two-channel color video installation with sound, 13:15 minutes, looped.

Image courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

(Above) Marie Watt, Companion Species (Words), 2017, etching, 221/4 x 161/2 in. Purchased through the David W. May Endowment, A2018-4-1.

Special

Events L ABOV ITZ-PEREZ LECTURE SERIES

The Role of Critical Race Theory Wednesday, February 23 (time to be announced) This year’s event will engage the role of critical race theory at USD. The annual lecture brings renowned scholars to campus who as practitioners, theorists and social action researchers, contribute to the field of ethnic studies. Sponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies.

New Ports of Call in the Infrastructure of Islamic Identity Monday, February 28 at 4 p.m.

Humanities Center, Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall From Slave Island to Victory Island, how do Belt Road Initiative investments effect Malay-Muslim mobilizations across the Indian Ocean? Laura Elder, PhD, chair of global studies at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, leads this discussion.

Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies program, the USD Humanities Center, the Department of Anthropology, the USD Honors Program and the Department of Economics at the Knauss School of Business.

LINDSAY J. CROPPER MEMORI AL WRITERS SERIES

Poet Kazim Ali Reading, Craft Talk and Q&A Thursday, February 24 at 12:30 p.m.

Virtual event Kazim Ali was born in the United Kingdom and has lived transnationally in the United States, Canada, India, France and the Middle East. After a career in public policy and organizing, Ali taught at various colleges and universities. He is currently a professor of literature at the University of California, San Diego. His newest books are a volume of three long poems, titled The Voice of Sheila Chandra, and a memoir of his Canadian childhood, Northern Light.

LINDSAY J. CROPPER MEMORI AL WRITERS SERIES

Cropper Creative Writing Student Reading Thursday, April 28 at 12:30 p.m.

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice, Garden of the Sea Reception to follow English majors in the creative writing emphasis read from their own works.

The Department of English creative writing emphasis (fiction, nonfiction and poetry) is composed of four rigorous, upper-division creative writing courses in which students practice the dedication and commitment required of the serious writer.

ABOUT THE COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The College of Arts and Sciences is at the heart of the University of San Diego, providing a 21st century liberal arts education that sharpens minds and develops students holistically. Building Toreros at the convergence point of the arts, humanities, and natural and social sciences. Together students think, learn and experience across 19 departments and 13 interdisciplinary programs from theatre to theology, music to math and physics to philosophy. Our diverse, award-winning faculty engage in research both local and global, mentoring students in the lab, studio and community.

Graduates gain the intellectual and ethical footing to take on challenges and navigate them with purpose.

HOW TO SUPPORT THE COLLEGE To support the College of Arts and Sciences, please contact College of Arts and Sciences Director of Development Tania Batson at tbatson@sandiego.edu.

Founders Hall, Room 106 5998 Alcalá Park, San Diego, CA 92110-2492 (619) 260-4545 | sandiego.edu/cas Giuseppe Barberi, Genius of Arts and Science, collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Museum purchase through gifts of various donors.

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