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2001 > November November Calendar of Events NOVEMBER 2 Romance Languages French Table for faculty and staff. Laminan Lounge, Olin Center, 1-2 p.m. For more information, e-mail ehenein@emerald.tufts.edu NOVEMBER 3 Women's Cross Country ECAC Championship at Williams, 11 a.m. Football Middlebury at Tufts, noon. Concert "Romantic Voices," the Tufts Symphony Orchestra presents works of the Romantic period, including Dvorak's "Cello Concerto;" featuring guest artist Emmanuel Feldman on cello. Cohen Auditorium, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 4 NOVEMBER 5 Academic Calendar Graduate student registration for spring 2002 semester. Through November 9. top NOVEMBER 6 Chemistry Seminar "Radicals, Single Collisions and Single Molecules," Prof. David Nesbitt, University of Colorado. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. Africana Film Festival "Daughters of the Dust," this Julie Dash film, which examines the effects of isolation and assimilation on a Gullah family, won the 1991 Sundance Film Festival Award. Room 314, Tisch Library Media Center, 8:30 p.m. top NOVEMBER 7 NOVEMBER 8 Earle P. Charlton Lecture "Role of the Smad Pathway in Pathogenetic Mechanisms Dependent on TGF-b," Dr. Anita B. Roberts, chief, Laboratory of Cell Regulation and Carcinogenesis, National Cancer Institute. Sackler Center, DeBlois Auditorium, 4 p.m. Boston campus. Chaplain's Table on the Sesquicentennial "Religion & International Relations: What Has Risen to the Top of the Agenda?" the Rev. David O'Leary, associate Catholic chaplain and lecturer, Department of Comparative Religion. Dewick MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. top NOVEMBER 9 Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology "Separate Roles for FGF and VEGF in Vascular Development," Thomas J. Poole, associate professor, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, SUNY-Upstate Medical University. Chitra Biswas Conference Room, M&V 206, 4 p.m. Boston campus. top NOVEMBER 10 Women's Cross Country NCAA Regional Championship, Westfield State, 11 a.m. Football Tufts at Colby, 1 p.m. top NOVEMBER 12 NOVEMBER 13 World Music Week at Tufts Guest Artist Alessandra Belloni in "Tarantata: The Dance of the Ancient Spider," featuring traditional southern Italian folk dances and tambourine techniques. Belloni, a singer, percussionist, actress and dancer, has presented her "Tarantata" performance all over the world. She is currently artist-in-residence at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in New York City. Goddard Chapel, 8 p.m. Africana Film Festival "I Is a Long Memoried Woman," this video combines monologue, dance and song to tell the story of an African slave on a sugar plantation, based on the poems of Guyanese British writer Grace Nichols. Room 314, Tisch Library Media Center, 8:30 p.m. Academic Calendar Last day for first-year students to submit petitions to Dowling Hall to DROP courses without record of enrollment. Academic Calendar Registration for spring 2002 semester for undergraduates. Through November 16 and November 19. top NOVEMBER 14 Regional Alumni Event-New York City The New York City Tufts Alliance hosts a reception to welcome President Lawrence Bacow. New York Athletic Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.tufts.edu/alumni or call Leeann Kluskiewicz at 1-800-THE-ALUM. World Music Week at Tufts Kiniwe, Tufts' West African drum and dance ensemble, presents a traditional repertoire of Dagomba and Ewe music from West Africa and contemporary innovations inspired by the experience of reproducing this music at Tufts; featuring audience participation through sound and movement. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 15 Romance Languages French Table for faculty and staff. Laminan Lounge, Olin Center, 1-2 p.m. For more information, e-mail ehenein@emerald.tufts.edu Cell, Molecular and Developmental Biology "Growth Regulation of the Endochondral Skeleton by Indian Hedgehog Signalling," Fanxin Long, postdoctoral fellow, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University. Chitra Biswas Conference Room, M&V 105, 4 p.m. Boston campus. Chaplain's Table on the Sesquicentennial "Islam and Democratization in Africa," Pearl Robinson, associate professor of political science at Tufts. Dewick MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. World Music Week at Tufts The Third Day Gospel Choir celebrates this year's World Music Week in song and spirit. You can clap your hands or stomp your feet to selections from both traditional and contemporary gospel music. Goddard Chapel, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 16 NOVEMBER 17 World Music Week at Tufts Gamelan Festival, featuring Balinese music and dance by the Balinese Gamelan Galak Tika of MIT and the Boston Village/Tufts Gamelan central Javanese ensembles. Cohen Auditorium, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 19 NOVEMBER 20 NOVEMBER 21 NOVEMBER 22 NOVEMBER 23 NOVEMBER 27 Regional Alumni Event-Los Angeles The Los Angeles Tufts Alliance hosts a reception to welcome President Lawrence Bacow. Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, 6:30-8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.tufts.edu/alumni or call Leeann Kluskiewicz at 1-800-THE-ALUM. Concert "The Genius of Josquin," Tufts' Early Music Ensemble, in collaboration with the Tufts Renaissance Wind Band, will perform the music of Josquin des Prez, featuring secular songs and excerpts from "Missa Fortuna Desperata." Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. Africana Film Festival "W.E.B. DuBoisÑA Biography in Four Voices," four African American writers, Wesley Brown, Thulani Davis, Toni Cade Bambara and Amiri Baraka, each narrate a period in the life of DuBois, civil rights pioneer and a founder of the NAACP, in a documentary by Louis Massiah. Room 314, Tisch Library Media Center, 8:30 p.m. top NOVEMBER 28 Regional Alumni Event-San Francisco The San Francisco Tufts Alliance hosts a reception to welcome President Lawrence Bacow. W Hotel, 6:30-8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.tufts.edu/alumni or call Leeann Kluskiewicz at 1-800-THE-ALUM. Concert "The NME Decade II: Commissions and Cadenzas," Tufts' innovative New Music Ensemble continues celebrating its 10th anniversary by presenting a new commission by Diana Dabby alongside solo essays composed or improvised by present and past NME performers. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 29 Chaplain's Table on the Sesquicentennial "What Idols Are Falling?" Madeline Caviness, Mary Richardson Professor and professor of art history at Tufts. Dewick MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. An Evening of Chamber Music Students who have been working in small classical ensembles perform repertoires from their semester of study. Ensembles include string quartets, woodwinds and duos and trios with piano. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. top NOVEMBER 30 Concert The Tufts Flute Ensemble and Chamber Singers join together to present a wide range of music. The Flute Ensemble will perform a variety of compositions from the Renaissance to the avant-garde. The Chamber Singers will perform madrigals, part-songs and sacred music from the 15th century to the present day. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. top December Calendar of Events DECEMBER 4 Africana Film Festival "James Baldwin: The Price of a Ticket," excerpts from Baldwin's major works are paired with events during different stages in 20th-century black-white relations. Room 314, Tisch Library Media Center, 8:30 p.m. top DECEMBER 5 Regional Alumni Event-Washington, D.C. The Washington Tufts Alliance hosts a reception to welcome President Lawrence Bacow. National Press Club, 6:30-8:30 p.m. For more information, visit www.tufts.edu/alumni or call Leeann Kluskiewicz at 1-800-THE-ALUM. top DECEMBER 6 Editor's note: The deadline for Calendar submissions for the December 7 issue of the Tufts Journal is Monday, November 26. Submissions may be e-mailed to barbara.lewis@tufts.edu or you may send Calendar announcements to Barbara Lewis, Office of Publications, 200 Boston Ave., Medford campus. As the university celebrates its sesquicentennial during the 2001-2002 academic year, a number of events revolve around the 150th anniversary of Tufts. For more information about sesquicentennial events, visit the web site celebrate150.tufts.edu. top |
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