BSC Featured Events Fall 2007

Frank Gorga: Recent Photographs & Cyanotypes

Through Friday, September 28, 8 am-4 pm, weekdays, closed holidays
Artist Reception: Monday, September 20, 4 pm
Art Building, Wallace Anderson Art Gallery

As a photographer, Frank Gorga’s goal is to see (and record) scenes that are missed by most. This can mean traveling to a spot where people seldom go or being present at a time when no one else is around. More often, it simply means taking the time to closely observe one’s environment.

Nuttin’ But Stringz

Struggle From the Subway to the Charts
Saturday, September 15, 7-9:30 pm
Rondileau Campus Center
Admission: No charge, but tickets are required. Call 508.531.6166, or visit www.bridgew.edu/cmia for more information.

N.B.S., or Nuttin But Stringz, was formed by teenage brothers Damien and Tourie Escobar, and bridges the gap between popular and classical genres. The duo play violins in an intense and unique blending of classical music, jazz, r&b and hip hop.

The Escobar brothers studied at the Juliard School of Music and Bloomingdale School of Music and have appeared at the Apollo Theater and on the Jay Leno Show and Ellen Show, among others.

Sponsored by the Center for Multicultural and International Affairs

Business Breakfast Series

Dane Bedward
Senior Vice President, Genzyme International
Tuesday, September 18, 8:30-9:30 am
Rondileau Campus Center, Council Chambers
Admission: No charge, but reservations are required.
RSVP to externalprograms@bridgew.edu

Dane Bedward joined Genzyme in 1995. He is responsible for the international group’s strategic market development and planning process, including designing infrastructure to bring new products to market, as well as managing government relationships and establishing policy objectives. Prior to this role, Mr. Bedward was senior vice president and general manager of international business for Genzyme's biosurgery business unit. He has also served as senior corporate vice president and general manager of the company's Americas group and managing director of Genzyme Canada. Mr. Bedward has an Honors BSc from the University of Ottawa and more than 25 yeas of management experience.

Sponsored by External Affairs and the School of Business

Congress to Campus

Wednesday, September 19, 2 pm
Maxwell Library, Heritage Room

The Congress to Campus Program was created by the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress to improve college students’ understanding of Congress and American government and to encourage them to consider careers in public service. Bipartisan pairs of former members of Congress--one Democrat and one Republican-- visit campuses around the country conducting classes and forums, meeting informally with students and faculty, and making appearances with local media. Republican Andy Jacobs and Democrat Orval Hansen will visit BSC as part of this program.

Andy Jacobs Jr., who served 15 terms in Congress, holds a bachelor’s and a law degree from Indiana University. He was named Honor Man of his Marine Corps boot camp platoon and served in combat as a Marine Corps infantryman in the Korean War, sustaining 10 percent disability.

He was elected to the Indiana General Assembly in 1958 and to the United States House of Representatives in 1964, where he was appointed to the Judiciary Committee. In 1972 he lost his bid for re-election, but was re-elected in 1974, and served on the Ways and Means Committee as chairman of the Medicare Subcommittee and, later, the Social Security Subcommittee.

Orval Hansen earned a BA from the University of Idaho and a JD from The George Washington University, where he later earned an LLM and a PhD in political science. He served in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946, including one year in the Pacific on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga. He was a member of the Air Force Reserve until his retirement as a lieutenant colonel in 1978.

He served four terms in the Idaho House of Representatives, including one as majority leader, and sereved one term in the Idaho Senate. In 1968 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for three terms until 1975.

After serving in Congress, Mr. Hansen resumed practicing law, and in 1977, he founded and became president of the Columbia Institute for Political Research.

Roots & Shoots Peace Day Celebration

Saturday, September 22, 2-4 pm
Rondileau Campus Center, Ballroom
Admission: No charge, but a donation of $5 is appreciated
Proceeds will be sent to Lugufu

Enjoy music, speakers, artwork submitted by 14 Roots & Shoots groups, an awards ceremony, a drawing for prizes, project activities and more when the New England Youth Leadership Council kicks off the New England Roots & Shoots “Peace Through the Arts” campaign with its First Annual Peace Day Celebration. The youth leaders wish to raise $3,500 to support Roots & Shoots programs for Congolese youth living in the Lugufu Refugee Camp in western Tanzania. The program has been successful in helping create sustainable living conditions, reducing the impact of refugees on the local environment, and creating linkages among refugees and local Tanzanians.

Master Piano Class with Visiting Concert Pianist Norman Krieger

Friday, September 28, 12:30-2:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

A native of Los Angeles, Norman Krieger is one of the most acclaimed pianists of his generation, highly regarded as an artist of depth, sensitivity and virtuosic flair.

In 1984, he was selected to join the distinguished roster of Affiliate Artists, where he participated in the Xerox Pianists Program from 1984 to 1986. In 1987, he was named the Gold Medal Winner of the first Palm Beach Invitational Piano Competition. Mr. Krieger is the recipient of the Paderewski Foundation Award, the Bruce Hungerford Memorial Prize, the Victor Herbert Memorial Prize, the Buffalo Philharmonic Young Artists Competition Prize and the Saint Louis Symphony Prize. In 1997, he was appointed associate professor of the distinguished faculty of the University of Southern California. Mr. Krieger is the founding artistic director of The Prince Albert Music Festival in Hawaii.

Sponsored by the Music Department.

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, Foster Family Program

Saturday, September 29, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

Judi Hindman, a volunteer with Helping Hands: Monkey Helpers for the Disabled, will discuss the program.

Autumnfest

Saturday, September 29, 10 am-3 pm
Boyden Hall Quadrangle

This annual event for people of all ages features vendors, a food court, live music, children’s entertainment, and more. It will be held rain or shine.

october

Decadence, by John Hooker

Monday, October 1-Friday, October 26, 8 am-4 pm, weekdays, closed holidays
Artist Reception: Wednesday, October 3, 4:30 pm
Art Building, Wallace Anderson Art Gallery

For this exhibition, John Hooker was interested in creating work that related to decadence in physical objects and ideology. Sculpture’s physical presence creates a myth of immortality, but, like all else, it has a finite existence. Sometimes the physical aspects of sculpture lend to its downfall (for example, corroding metals or decaying wood), and sometimes the beauty of a particular sculpture becomes passé (for example, an excessively stylistic movement’s attraction has come and gone). In either case, it is the materials and form of the sculpture itself that causes its decline. Ideas, too, have a limited lifespan. Often an ideology, philosophy or unbridled political perspective, becomes so great that it develops into an all-powerful, gross manifestation of itself. For example, a culture bent on progress and affluence will overindulge. A society depleting its resources in overproduction will threaten the health of its environment. A nation so powerful risks corruption without proper checks and balances.

Patch Adams

Physician, Clown, Social Activist
Wednesday, October 3, 7:30 pm
Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium
Admission: This event is free and open to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets, a maximum of four per person, will be available beginning September 18. To reserve tickets, call 508.531.2956 and leave a message.

Patch Adams, M.D., is a nationally known, popular speaker on wellness, laughter, humor and life, as well as on the subjects of health care and health care systems. He is the founder and director of the Gesundheit Institute, a free health facility in operation for 15 years that has provided free medical care for more than 15,000 people. Through the success of this program at the Arlington, VA, location, a model health care facility is being planned on 310 acres Pocahontas County, WV. It will include a 40-bed hospital, theater, arts and crafts shops, horticulture and vocational therapy. More than five years ago, Dr. Adams and staff temporarily stopped seeing patients so that they could coordinate plans for raising $5 million needed for the institute's permanent and expanded home, a "model health care community." Currently planned is an immediate phase of this dream, a $400,000 WV facility, allowing them to resume medical service to patients within the next two years.

The institute addresses by action four major issues in health care delivery: rising cost of care, dehumanization of medicine, malpractice suits and abuses of the third-party insurance system.

Dr. Adams adds to his training as a physician his experience as a street clown. In working with health and mental health professionals, he explores the relationship between humor and therapy using his unique blend of knowledge, showmanship and "hands on" teaching techniques. Each year since 1985, he has led a two-week clown tour of Russia, visiting hospitals and orphanages. The motion picture Patch Adams, starring Robin Williams, was released in 1998 by Universal Studios. Dr. Adams was also the subject of the PBS documentary A Different Drummer.

Sponsored by the Student Government Association

John Amaechi

Former NBA Player and Author
Wednesday, October 10, 7 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium
Admission: No charge, but tickets are required. To reserve tickets, call 508.531.1408.

Self-limitation is not a term in John Amaechi's vocabulary. At 17, an overweight, not incredibly athletic young British man who had never touched a basketball embarked on an incredible journey that has yet to be duplicated.

Despite such a late start to the game and a devastating injury that nearly severed his dominant hand, he would rehab his injury, becoming ambidextrous in the process, and move to the United States without knowing a soul. From there, he became the surprising star of a Big Ten basketball program and eventually reached one of the first of many lifetime goals he had set – becoming a professional player in the NBA.

As the first, and to date, only, NBA player from Great Britain, Mr. Amaechi has always set his sights high, while demanding a lot of himself to get there. What separates him from the pack is an unwavering and conscientious focus on remaining true to himself and his ideals, even when it's inconvenient or financially detrimental. Turning down $17 million from the Los Angeles Lakers (during the years of Shaq and Kobe) was just one decision led not by Mr. Amaechi’s financial appetite, but by a bigger promise and commitment to others on which he couldn’t place a value.

Mr. Amaechi has added another first to his biography. As described in his New York Times best-selling book, Man in the Middle, he goes from an awkward, overweight kid in Manchester, England, to the high-flying, hyper-masculine world of the NBA. Along the way, he endured endless obstacles to his hoop dreams – being abandoned by his father, being cut from his first college team, recovering from a life-threatening injury, playing for abusive coaches and losing his mother – while also protecting a vital secret that could have ended his career: John Amaechi is gay.

His inspiring story has been profiled on dozens of national television programs, including Good Morning America, CNN’s Headline News, ESPN’s Outside the Lines, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Paula Zahn Now and Your World with Neil Cavuto on FOX News.

Mr. Amaechi is the official spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign’s Coming Out Project, a program designed to help gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people come out and live openly.

Sponsored by Athletics and Recreation, Career Services, Community Service Center, GLBTA Pride Center, Health Services, Office of Institutional Diversity, Office of the President, Office for Student Affairs, The Program Committee, Residence Life and Housing, Student Government Association, Women's and Gender Studies

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
Volunteerism: A Means of Connecting to Needs and Purposes That are Greater Than Our Own Comfort

Saturday, October 13, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

This talk will be given by Chris Burr, past president of Burr Associates and a graduate of Harvard Divinity School.

Business Breakfast Series
Mary-Pat Cormier, Esq.,

Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
Tuesday, October 16, 8:30-9:30 am
Rondileau Campus Center
Admission: No charge, but reservations are required.
RSVP to externalprograms@bridgew.edu

Mary-Pat Cormier practices civil litigation and has trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts. Her practice focuses on financial services and securities litigation, including disputes arising out of bad faith claims handling against professional and specialty lines liability carriers, banking, creditors’ rights, and limited partnership disputes. Ms. Cormier, who is fluent in French, is also knowledgeable about the scope and terms of the European Union’s personal data privacy directive and analogous Canadian Federal and Provincial legislation and their implications for North American companies. Ms. Cormier’s particular experience in financial services issues, coupled with her reasoned tenacity, provides Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge’s clients with quick, efficient and desirable results.

Sponsored by External Affairs and the School of Business

Romeo Dallaire
TD BANKNORTH DISTINGUISHED CANADIAN SPEAKER-2007-2008

Military Leader, Author, Senator
Thursday, October 18, 3:30 pm (Note: this event was original scheduled for Nov 8th)
Moakley Center Auditorium

A decorated Lieutenant General, Romeo Dallaire served 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces. His best-selling book, Shake Hands With the Devil, is a stirring account of his experience as the Force Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Rwanda that exposes the failures of the international community to stop one of the worst genocides of the 20th century.

Lieutenant-General Dallaire's story shares the most extreme results of being given responsibility without authority. He was limited by immovable parameters, overseen by an organization that didn't fully support the mission and put into situations that forced him to question ethics every step of the way.

Lieutenant-General Dallaire retired from the Canadian Armed Forces in April 2000 and has worked to bring an understanding of post-traumatic stress disorder to the wider Canadian public. He is a Fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University and continues as a special adviser to the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) on matters relating to war-affected children around the world, as well as to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade on the non-proliferation of small arms. He has been named Fellow of the Ryerson Polytechnic University and received honorary doctorates from several Canadian universities.

Sponsored by the Canadian Studies Program and TDBanknorth

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
Care and Treatment of Overweight Type II Diabetic Children

Saturday, October 20, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

Lori Laffel, MD, MPH, Chief of Pediatrics, Adolescent and Young Adult Section of Joslin
Diabetes Center and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School will speak.

Third Annual Jazz Festival

Thursday, October 25, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

Fall Musical 'King of Hearts'

Friday and Saturday, October 26 and 27, 8 pm; Sunday, October 28, 2 pm;
Thursday-Saturday, November 1-3, 8 pm
Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium
Admission: Contact the box office at 508.531.1321 for ticket information.

Directed by Dr. Stephen Levine, this whimsical musical comedy unfolds as a young WWI American soldier, Johnny Able, stumbles upon the curious inhabitants of a French asylum who greet him as their long-lost king. He finds refuge and love while saving the village from German forces.

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
From Where I Stand: Work and Lifestyle Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities in this New Century

Saturday, October 27, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

The guest speaker is Marie Trottier, disability coordinator at Harvard University.

Through the Eyes of Nigerian Artists: Confronting Female Genital Mutilation

Monday, October 29-Friday, November 16, 8 am-4 pm, weekdays, closed holidays
Reception: Friday, November 2
Art Building, Wallace Anderson Art Gallery

An exhibition of paintings and sculpture, Through the Eyes of Nigerian Artists depicts the suffering, sorrow and dignity of Nigerian girls and women. Conceived by Joy Keshi (Ashibuogwu) Walker, this show seeks to provoke dialogue and stimulate projects opposed to female genital mutilation. Its opening in Nigeria in 1998 and presentation during the WAAD (Women in Africa and the African Diaspora) Conference at IUPUI preceded six years in Europe where, between 2000 and 2006, it appeared in more than 65 venues, including city halls, medical schools, Expo 2000 and the British Parliament. It returned to the United States to open at Brandeis University’s Kniznick Gallery in 2006.

The renowned Cambridge-based women's choir Libana will perform at the opening reception. Libana enlists African songs, instruments and musical traditions to create a beautiful and soulful evocation of African culture, folklore and healing.

Sponsored by the Women's and Gender Studies Program, with support from the President's, Provost's and dean's offices, and the Office of Institutional Diversity

Business Breakfast Series
Holly Bond

Founder, Bulldog Interactive Fitness
October 29, 8:30-9:30 am
Rondileau Campus Center, Council Chambers
Admission: No charge, but reservations are required.
RSVP to externalprograms@bridgew.edu

Holly Bond has close to 20 years of experience in the sales industry and has been an avid fitness enthusiast for the same number of years. Her background is diverse, including positions in finance, sales management, executive recruitment and pharmaceutical sales. She is a certified Youth Fitness Trainer and is a graduate of Mount Saint Vincent University with a Bachelor of Business Administration. She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, with her husband, James, co-founder of the Bulldog system, and their two active teenagers and two lovable pugs, Lily and Daisy.

Sponsored by External Affairs and the School of Business

november

The Indian DNA Project

Thursday, November 1, 5 and 8 pm
Maxwell Library Lecture Hall
Admission: $5

This performance is a dance interpretation of the science and culture surrounding DNA interpreted in Bharatanatyam classical Indian dance. The choreography is by visiting scholar Kausalya Srinivasan.

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
Strategies for Getting and Keeping a Job: Practical Pointers

Saturday, November 3, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

Educational Coordinator Susan Bycoff will lead this presentation.

Sixth Annual Piano Festival

Sunday, November 4, 2 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium
Admission: Community $10; Faculty/Staff $5; Students $3
Proceeds support BSC’s Piano Scholarships Fund

Performances by BSC pianists from the United States and China will be featured.
For more information, please e-mail Dr. Deborah Nemko at dnemko@bridgew.edu.

Faculty Showcase Recital

Thursday, November 8, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

The college’s faculty musicians will entertain with an evening of classical and jazz music.

Children’s Physical Developmental Clinic Speaker
My State of Mind in the Rehabilitation Process: Physical and Mental Adjustments after a Spinal Cord Injury

Saturday, November 10, 8:15-9:15 am
Maxwell Library, Lecture Hall

The speaker will be Charlie Hince, past president of the Greater Boston Chapter of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.

PRESIDENT’S DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER–FALL 2007
Sherry Turkle

Abby Rockefeller Mauze Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology
Director, MIT Initiative on Technology and Self
Wednesday, November 14, 7 pm
Moakley Center Auditorium
Admission: No charge, but tickets are required. To reserve tickets, call the President’s Office Events Line at 508.531.6123.

Sherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, a center of research and reflection on the evolving connections between people and artifacts. Professor Turkle received a joint doctorate in sociology and personality psychology from Harvard University and is a licensed clinical psychologist. The title of her speech will be "Cyber Intimacy vs. Cyber Solitude."

Professor Turkle is the author of Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan and Freud's French Revolution (Basic Books, 1978; MIT Press paper, 1981; second revised edition, Guilford Press, 1992); The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit (Simon and Schuster, 1984; Touchstone paper, 1985; second revised edition, MIT Press, 2005); and Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet (Simon and Schuster, November 1995; Touchstone paper, 1997).

Seminars at the Initiative on Technology and Self led to three edited collections, all to be published by the MIT Press, on the relationships between things and thinking. The first volume, Evocative Objects: Things We Think With, was published in June 2007. The second volume, Falling For Science: Objects in Mind, will appear in early 2008. The third volume, The Inner History of Devices, will follow in Spring 2008. Professor Turkle is currently completing a book on robots and the human spirit based on the Initiative's 10-year research program on relational artifacts.

Professor Turkle has written numerous articles on psychoanalysis and culture and on the "subjective side" of people's relationships with technology, especially computers. She is engaged in active study of robots, digital pets and simulated creatures, particularly those designed for children and the elderly as well as in a study of mobile cellular technologies. Profiles of Professor Turkle have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, Scientific American and Wired Magazine. She is a featured media commentator on the effects of technology for CNN, NBC, ABC and NPR, including appearances on such programs as Nightline and 20/20.

This bi-annual event is sponsored by the Office of the President.

Wind Ensemble Concert

Thursday, November 15, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

Beyond The Gender Frontier By Mariette Pathy Allen

Monday, November 26-Wednesday, December 19, 8 am-4 pm, weekdays, closed holidays
Art Building, Wallace Anderson Art Gallery

Mariette Pathy Allen has been a professional photographer, writer and speaker on, and on behalf of, the transgender community for 30 years. She is the author of Transformations: Cross dressers and Those Who Love Them and The Gender Frontier, which won the 2004 Lambda Literary Award in the transgender category. Ms. Allen’s photographs have been exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and are in numerous permanent collections. She has worked on five documentary films, the most recent being “Southern Comfort,” which won the Grand Jury prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival.

BSC Faculty Piano and Jazz Trios Inaugural Concert

Tuesday, November 27, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

This concert features professional musicians performing together in small ensembles that are sure to please. For more information, call 508.531.1377.

Lab Show: Measure for Measure

Thursday, November 29-Saturday, December 1, 8 pm; Sunday, December 2, 2 pm
Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium

The BSC theater department’s lab shows are an intensive investigation of a particular genre, playwright or script. This production, a tragicomedy in five acts by William Shakespeare, is directed by Professor Henry Shaffer and examines the nature of mercy and justice, proposing that a good government is one that is flexible and based on common sense.

The play opens with Vincentio, the Duke of Vienna, telling his deputy Angelo to govern his duchy while he travels to Poland. In actuality, the duke remains in Vienna disguised as a friar. Following the letter of the law, Angelo passes the death sentence on Claudio, a nobleman convicted for impregnating his betrothed, Juliet. Claudio's sister Isabella, a novice in a nunnery, pleads his case to Angelo, who offers to spare Claudio in exchange for her favors. On the advice of Vincentio, Isabella schedules the rendezvous but secretly arranges for Angelo's spurned fiancee, Mariana, to take her place. Afterward, Angelo reaffirms the execution. Vincentio comes to the rescue, and in the end Claudio is saved and wed to Juliet, Angelo is discredited and ordered to marry Mariana, and Vincentio asks Isabella to be his wife.particular genre, playwright or script.

Khakatay Concert

Thursday, November 29, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall, Horace Mann Auditorium

Khakatay, a West African drumming ensemble at the college, will present an invigorating performance.

december

Opera Ensembles Recital

Tuesday, December 4, 7:30 pm
Rondileau Campus Center, Demonstration Room

Winterdance 2007

Thursday, December 6, 8 pm; Friday, December 7, 4 pm; Saturday, December 8, 8 pm Rondileau Campus Center Auditorium
Admission: Community $10, $8 BSC faculty/staff/students

The BSC Dance Company continues its annual tradition of student-choreographed dances in a variety of styles based on the priniciple "dance is for every body." The performances are directed by Dr. Nancy Moses and Dr. Jody Weber.

Choral Society Concert

Friday, December 7, 7:30 pm
Boyden Hall Horace Mann Auditorium

The BSC Chamber Singers, an a cappella ensemble, will perform music by Italian composers from the Baroque era.