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November Calendar of Events November 1 University Gallery “Günther Selilchar: Media Machines,” an exhibition of photographs and a public art project by this Austrian artist. Selichar’s work invites viewers to scrutinize the structure of media apparatuses and to decode the messages embedded in their surfaces. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. Aidekman Arts Center, Tisch Gallery, through November 19. For more information, call 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. University Gallery “Baghdad and Beyond: Drawings by Steve Mumford,” during four trips to Iraq in 2003 and 2004, Mumford traveled with Army units to Baghdad and seven other cities in Iraq, producing drawings and written accounts that were posted on the website http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/features/baghdadjournal.asp. In 2006, Mumford spent three days at Brooke Army Medical Center drawing portraits of disabled Iraqi War veterans. The exhibition features 41 watercolor and sepia drawings from the Baghdad Journal series and eight watercolors from the Brooke Army Medical Center. Mumford, a 1986 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, revives a great tradition of combat art characterized by Winslow Homer’s Civil War paintings. Aidekman Arts Center, Koppelman Gallery, through November 19. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. University Gallery “Nuvolomondo,” the first site-specific installation by Boston painter Cristi Rinklin, commissioned for the Harry Remis Sculpture Court at the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts. Culling imagery from sources as varied as Rococo art, cellular biology, natural history illustration, cosmological phenomena and decorative patterns, Rinklin’s lush environment depicts a world based on real objects and pictorial traditions, altered by technology, and completed by the imagination of the artist. Inspired by her recent visiting artist and scholar residency at the American Academy in Rome, Rinklin’s “cloud-world” installation is a “techno-ornate” burst of color and form. A contemporary interpretation of Baroque ornament, architectural details and stained glass panels, the installation is a stimulating experience that changes form and mood throughout the day. Aidekman Arts Center, Remis Sculpture Court, through January 14, 2007. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call the gallery at 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. Engineering Career Series “The Value of a Tufts Engineering Education,” Suzette Braun, E97, director of strategic projects and process redesign, Stop & Shop Supermarket Co. Anderson Hall, Nelson Auditorium, noon-1 p.m. Nutrition Policy Seminar “Major Trends and Key Challenges for the Future of Humanitarian Agencies,” Peter Walker, director of the Feinstein International Center at Tufts. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, noon-1 p.m. Boston campus. Computer Science Distinguished Lecture Series “Autonomous Bidding Agents: Strategies and Lessons from the Trading Agent Competition,” Amy Greenwald, Brown University. Halligan Hall, Room 111, 2:50-4 p.m. Wellington-Burnham Lecture “Identity and Economics,” George Akerlof, University of California at Berkeley, the 2001 Nobel laureate in economics and the president of the American Economics Association. Braker Hall, Room 08, 4:30-6 p.m. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “SNPs and Haplotypes: The Informatics of Genetic Variations,” Gabor Marth, Boston College. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. Writing in the Web of Words A trilingual reading in Japanese, German and English. Paige Hall, Crane Room, 8-9:30 p.m. November 2 Molecular Microbiology Seminar “Legionnaires’ Disease: Dots Upon Dots Upon Dots,” Dr. Joseph P. Vogel, Department of Molecular Microbiology, Washington University, St. Louis. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, noon. Boston campus. Anatomy and Cell Biology Seminar “Successful Curriculum Change: The Vermont Integrated Curriculum,” Cynthia J. Forehand, professor of anatomy and neurobiology and foundations director, Vermont Integrated Curriculum. Chitra Biswas Conference Room, M&V 105, 3 p.m. Boston campus. Medical School Town Meeting Dr. Michael Rosenblatt, dean of the School of Medicine, hosts this open forum for medical faculty, staff and students to learn about school news, ask questions, express viewpoints and offer feedback. Sackler Center, DeBlois Auditorium, 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “When Is a Religion Not a Religion? When It Doesn’t Go to War?” Kate Wheeler, Buddhist and lecturer in English. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. Book Discussion Charles Chester, a professor at the Fletcher School, will discuss his new book, Conservation Across Borders: Biodiversity in an Interdependent World. Cabot Center, Room 703, 5:30-7 p.m. Artist’s Talk Boston native Steve Mumford discusses his exhibition, “Baghdad and Beyond,” on view through November 19 at the Aidekman Arts Center. During four trips to Iraq in 2003 and 2004, Mumford traveled with Army units to Baghdad and seven other cities in Iraq, producing drawings and written accounts. In 2006, Mumford spent three days at Brooke Army Medical Center drawing portraits of disabled Iraqi War veterans. Mumford, a 1986 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, revives a great tradition of combat art characterized by Winslow Homer’s Civil War paintings. His talk will be followed by a book signing and wine and cheese reception. Aidekman Arts Center, 6 p.m. Tufts Composers “Animalia,” new works by student and faculty composers featuring anthropomorphized creatures. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. Theater Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” translated and directed by Laurence Senelick and featuring Darcy Pulliam, J65, in the role of Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina. Balch Arena Theater, 8 p.m. Additional performances are November 3 at 8 p.m. and November 4 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and $7 with a valid Tufts ID. All tickets for the November 2 show are $1. Group rates are available. For more information and to purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card, call the Balch Arena Theater box office at 617-627-3493, weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Queer History Project Elena Mead, a junior in the School of Arts & Sciences, will present her research as part of the Queer History Project, an ongoing multimedia project documenting queer social and political life at Tufts. Barnum Hall, Room 008, 8-9:30 p.m. November 3 Philosophy Lecture “Pornography’s ‘Divine Command’: A Response to Judith Butler,” Rae Langton, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT. Eaton Hall, Room 206, 3-5 p.m. Opening the Doors: Art and Autism Communication is one of the many daily activities that an individual with autism struggles with. In many ways, the process of creating art can be a form of communication. This exhibition, a project of the Boston Higashi School, explores art as a means to “open the doors.” Aidekman Arts Center, Slater Concourse Gallery, through December 17. Opening reception: November 3, 6:30-8:30 p.m., featuring a live performance by the Boston Higashi School Jazz Band. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call the gallery at 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. Theater Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” translated and directed by Laurence Senelick and featuring Darcy Pulliam, J65, in the role of Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina. Balch Arena Theater, 8 p.m. Additional performances are November 4 at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and $7 with a valid Tufts ID. Group rates are available. For more information and to purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card, call the Balch Arena Theater box office at 617-627-3493, weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. November 4 Men’s Cross Country ECAC Championship, Williams College, noon. Football Colby at Tufts, Ellis Oval, 12:30 p.m. Men’s Swimming & Diving Tufts at Wheaton College (scrimmage), 1 p.m. Women’s Swimming & Diving Tufts at Wheaton College (scrimmage), 1 p.m. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with a Tufts gallery guide. Aidekman Arts Center, 2:30 p.m. Theater Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull,” translated and directed by Laurence Senelick and featuring Darcy Pulliam, J65, in the role of Irina Nikolaevna Arkadina. Balch Arena Theater, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Tickets are $10 for the general public; $7 for senior citizens and $7 with a valid Tufts ID. Group rates are available. For more information and to purchase tickets over the phone with a credit card, call the Balch Arena Theater box office at 617-627-3493, weekdays 9 a.m.-5 p.m. November 6 Center for Engineering Educational Outreach Seminar “Teach Engineering.com: Resources for K-12 Educators,” Malinda Zarske, University of Colorado at Boulder. Curtis Hall, 3:30-4:30 p.m. November 8 Computer Science Colloquium “Meaning and Links: Some Theory and Some Practice,” Bill Woods, Sun Microsystems. Halligan Hall, Room 111, 2:50-4 p.m. Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Computational Approaches for Identifying Optimal Compounds in Drug Discovery,” Peter V. Henstock, Pfizer. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. November 9 Noontime Concert The Marty Theater Ensemble, featuring Arnold Friedman on cello and Richard Melde on double bass. Goddard Chapel, 12:30 p.m. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace Open discussion. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. November 10 November 11 Men’s Cross Country New England Championship, Springfield College, noon. Football Tufts at Middlebury College, 12:30 p.m. November 13 New Campaign Celebration Learn about the university’s new fund-raising endeavor, “Beyond Boundaries: The Campaign for Tufts,” which will infuse academic and research priorities with critical resources that will transform Tufts’ global reach and impact. Highlights include a photo exhibit, a campaign video and remarks by President Lawrence S. Bacow. Refreshments will be served. Mayer Administration Building, Kohnstamm Room, 2:30-4 p.m. Grafton campus. HNRCA Seminar “Metabolomic Applications of Electrochemistry-Mass Spectrometry,” Pau Gamache, vice president, ESA Biosciences, Chelmsford, Mass. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Mezzanine Conference Room, 711 Washington St., 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. Women’s Studies Research Colloquium “Casting Call: A Feminist Revision of Shakespeare’s ‘Othello,’ ” Linda Bamber, associate professor of English, Tufts University. The event is free and open to all. For more information, call 617-627-2955 or visit http://ase.tufts.edu/womenstudies. East Hall Lounge, 4:30 p.m. Immortal Fire: Choral Classics The Tufts Chamber Singers and conductor Andrew Clark present an evening of a cappella artistry, featuring the timeless Spanish mysticism of Victoria and Busto, recent choral works by Tufts alumni, American classics and Benjamin Britten’s “Hymn to St. Cecilia.” Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. November 14 Chemistry Seminar “The Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Metalloproteins,” Prof. Harry Gray, California Institute of Technology. Pearson Chemistry Building, Room P-106, 4:30 p.m. Music from Odhecaton The Tufts Early Music Ensemble, directed by Jane Hershey, and the Renaissance Wind Band, directed by Dan Stillman, perform gems from the first book of printed part-music, Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, along with the music of Josquin, Yzac and other Franco-Flemish masters. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. November 15 Experimental College “Scaling the Ivy? Reputation, Ranking and Reality,” dinner and conversation with students, faculty and administrators. RSVP required at 617-627-3384 or excollege@tufts.edu. Ballou Hall, Coolidge Room, 5:30-8 p.m. November 16 Computer Science/Cognitive Studies Colloquium “A System Architecture Approach to the Brain: From Neurons to Consciousness,” Andrew Coward, Australian National University. Halligan Hall, Room 111, 2:50-4 p.m. Energy and Climate Forum Arnulf Grubler, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Anderson Hall, Burden Lounge, 4-5:30 p.m. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “John Wesley’s Perspective on Religion, War and Peace,” Geoffrey Whitlock, chaplaincy intern, Boston University School of Theology. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. November 17 Biology Seminar “Predator-Induced Plasticity in Operculum Morphology of the Barnacle Chthamalus fissus,” Jeremiah Jarrett, Connecticut State University. Barnum Hall, Room 104, 4-5 p.m. Women’s Basketball Tufts vs. Suffolk University at Endicott College, 5:30 p.m. Men’s Basketball Lasell at Tufts, Cousens Gym, 7 p.m. Ice Hockey Tufts at Middlebury College, 7 p.m. November 18 Men’s Cross County NCAA Championships, Wilmington Ohio. Men’s Swimming & Diving Connecticut College at Tufts, Hamilton Pool, 1 p.m. Women’s Swimming & Diving Connecticut College at Tufts, Hamilton Pool, 1 p.m. Men’s Basketball Endicott College at Tufts, Cousens Gym, 2 p.m. Gallery Tour View the fall exhibitions with a Tufts gallery guide. Aidekman Arts Center, 2:30 p.m. Ice Hockey Tufts at Williams College, 3 p.m. Women’s Basketball Tufts at Endicott College, 3 p.m. Men’s Basketball Rhode Island College at Tufts, Cousens Gym, 4 p.m. Symphony Concert The Tufts Symphony Orchestra, directed by Malka Sverdlov Yaacobi, performs its fall concert. Faneuil Hall, Boston, 8 p.m. November 19 Women’s Swimming & Diving Tufts at Trinity College, 1 p.m. Applied Music Student Recitals Students studying in the applied music program perform works from their semester of private study. Alumnae Lounge, 6 and 8 p.m. November 20 HNRCA Seminar “Carnosine and Related Dipeptides: Quenchers of Reactive Carbonyl Species and Their Therapeutic Potential,” Giancarlo Aldini, associate professor, Istiuto Chimico Farmaceutico Tossicologico, University of Milan, Italy. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Mezzanine Conference Room, 711 Washington St., 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. Tufts Composers Concert Keke Xu presents her M.A. composition thesis, a new work for piano, string quartet and percussion, and other works she has composed over the past three years. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. November 21 Men’s Basketball Tufts at Western New England, 7:30 p.m. Ice Hockey Tufts at Southern New Hampshire University, 7:30 p.m. November 22 November 23 November 24 November 26 November 27 HNRCA Seminar “Weight-Reducing Diets: Current State of the Art and What’s on the Horizon,” Susan B. Roberts, director, Energy Metabolism Laboratory, HNRCA, and professor, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Mezzanine Conference Room, 711 Washington St., 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. Biochemistry Seminar “A Systems View of Signal Transduction Using Protein Microarrays,” Gavin McBeath, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology, Harvard University. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. November 28 Men’s Basketball Springfield College at Tufts, Cousens Gym, 7 p.m. Ice Hockey Salve Regina at Tufts, Malden Forum, 7:30 p.m. Autumnal Reflections: A Tufts Composers Concert Tufts composers present their final concert of the fall, featuring new seasonal chamber music for varied ensembles. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. November 29 Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Seminar “Knowledge-Based Methods for Gene Expression Analysis,” Jill Mesirov, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Halligan Hall, Room 106, 5-6 p.m. Women’s Swimming & Diving Wellesley College at Tufts, Hamilton Pool, 7 p.m. November 30 Sackler Science Frontiers “Cellular Mechanotransduction and Developmental Control.” Sackler Center, DeBlois Auditorium B, 4-5 p.m. Boston campus. Chaplain’s Table on Religion, War and Peace “The Instrumentality of Religion and Political Violence,” Sherman Teichman, director, Tufts’ Institute for Global Leadership. MacPhie Conference Room, 5-7 p.m. MFA Thesis Exhibition Students in the combined Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts MFA program exhibition their capstone projects. Featured artists are Leah Gauthier, Rebecca Heyl, Jia-Jen Lin, Julie Lohnes, Inki Min, Natacha Villamia Sochat and Laura Stewart. Aidekman Arts Center, Tisch and Koppelman galleries, through December 17. Opening reception: November 30, 5:30-8:30 p.m. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., and Thursday until 8 p.m. For more information, call 617-627-3518 or go to http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gallery. Men’s Swimming & Diving Babson College at Tufts, Hamilton Pool, 7 p.m. NME’S Fourth Annual Physical The Tufts New Music Ensemble, directed by Donald Berman and John McDonald, presents improvisations and constructs inspired by the life and commitments of Johnny Physical (a.k.a. Jonathan Neuman, former NME member) and a commissioned work by Sidney Boquiren, assistant professor at Adelphi University. Alumnae Lounge, 8 p.m. Molecular Microbiology Seminar “Learning about RNA Polymerase from Bacteriophage I: Antitermination by Q Protein,” Dr. Jeffrey W. Roberts, Cornell University. Jaharis Center, Behrakis Auditorium, noon. Boston campus. Editor’s note: The deadline for Calendar submissions for the December issue of the Tufts Journal is Monday, November 27. 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., Suite 4600, Medford campus. |
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