Students Find Creative Spanish Immersion in �鶹��Ƶ’s Casa Hispánica</h1> <article> <h1>Students Find Creative Spanish Immersion in �鶹��Ƶ’s Casa Hispánica</h1> <p>anagy — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 20:12:16 +0000</p> <span>Students Find Creative Spanish Immersion in �鶹��Ƶ’s Casa Hispánica</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2022-11-22T15:12:16-05:00" title="Tuesday, November 22, 2022 - 15:12">Tue, 11/22/2022 - 15:12</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>�鶹��Ƶ College, a campus filled with international and domestic students speaking an array of languages and practicing a spectrum of cultures, has affinity houses for different communities. One such place is the Harvey House, or <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic-studies/la-casa-hispanica">La Casa Hispánica</a>, which regularly organizes social and cultural events, workshops, and talks. Filled with students who are native-Spanish speakers of Hispanic heritage and non-Hispanic students wanting to immerse themselves in a Spanish-speaking environment, one of the house’s most notable components is its language table—El Rincón.<br> <br> Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday during lunch time, native Spanish speakers, students from Spanish 101 classes, and everyone in between gather in a conference room in Stevenson Dining Hall to take advantage of their peers’ willingness to help learn the language. Wayleen Arrieta Ariza, the <a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic-studies">�鶹��Ƶ</a> program assistant, says,“I like that you can practice your Spanish or the fact that you can take a topic from class and you can apply it to the table.”</p> <p>While the Spanish table is one of the more visible learning opportunities offered by the house’s community, Harvey House does a lot more. Events have included trivia and movie nights, celebrations of different holidays, and an annual Latino Festival. The most recent Latino Festival was hosted at a local retail store, Ben Franklin, in early October. Students and faculty showed up to taste home-cooked cuisine, hear Portuguese and Spanish music, and enjoy the opportunity to speak Spanish to peers and professors.</p> <p>The cultural immersion at �鶹��Ƶ College doesn’t stop there. For Día de los Muertos, Harvey House organized an event where they put up traditional <em>ofrendas</em> (altars) and invited the community to share in the tradition of the holiday with hot chocolate and <em>pan de muerto</em>, a type of sweet bread prepared for Day of the Dead.</p> <figure class="captioned-image obj-left"> <figcaption>A Day of the Dead ofrenda (altar) in La Casa Hispánica. Photo credit: Madelenne Arredondo '26</figcaption> </figure> <p>Hispanic House also offers a variety of ways for students to engage with the Hispanic community. There are 30 students residing in the house, and according to Ariza, students are required to organize one event during the year. Her favorite house event is <em>almuerzo yuno</em> (brunch) organized by the resident assistant, program assistant, and the director of Harvey House, Yorki Encalada. All events are open to the public, except this brunch, which Ariza says is a great way to bond within the smaller community.</p> <p>Harvey House is a space for students who wish to integrate themselves into a community they want to learn about, or those looking to live in a familiar environment while speaking the language. As Ariza says, “it’s Spanish immersion in a creative way.”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-subhead field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Harvey House offers a variety of opportunities for students to be integrated into a Spanish-speaking environment.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2022-11-22T12:00:00Z">Tue, 11/22/2022 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Maja Saveva '26</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2363">Academics & Research</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2379">Student Life</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2391">Languages & Literatures</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4796">�鶹��Ƶ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/hispanic-studies" hreflang="und">�鶹��Ƶ</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">A concert performed on the patio of Harvey House for the annual Latino Heritage Festival in 2021.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Jonathan Clark '25</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Presents Cantonese Opera Scenes Nov. 14</h1> <p>eburnett — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:49:03 +0000</p> <span>Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Presents Cantonese Opera Scenes Nov. 14</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2019-11-07T10:49:03-05:00" title="Thursday, November 7, 2019 - 10:49">Thu, 11/07/2019 - 10:49</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For years, �鶹��Ƶ students have enjoyed opportunities for cultural exchange through winter-term excursions to Hong Kong.</p> <p>This year, for the first time, a contingent from the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts will pay a visit to �鶹��Ƶ—and they will bring a key facet of their culture with them.</p> <p>Performers from the Hong Kong Academy’s School of Chinese Opera will present an exclusive performance of Cantonese opera scenes at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, November 14, in �鶹��Ƶ’s Warner Concert Hall.</p> <p>Prior to the evening performance, representatives from the Hong Kong Academy will present “Music in Cantonese Opera: An Example in Connecting Music with Language.” It will be led by professor Leung Bo-Wah from the Education University of Hong Kong and dean Martin Lau from the Hong Kong Academy. The discussion takes place from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. in the Birenbaum Innovation and Performance Space, in the lower level of the Hotel at �鶹��Ƶ (10 E. College Street). A light lunch will be available beginning at noon.</p> <p>Admission is free to both the afternoon discussion and evening performance.</p> <p>The events are part of �鶹��Ƶ’s <a href="/artsguide/arts-of-asia">Arts of Asia </a>series, an autumn celebration that has also showcased music, performing arts, and visual arts of Japan, India, and Bali. Arts of Asia is sponsored in part by �鶹��Ƶ College’s Departments of East Asian Studies, Theater, History, and Religion, as well as the conservatory and the Allen Memorial Art Museum.</p> <p>Developed more than 700 years ago, Cantonese opera is a traditional Chinese art form that illustrates stories from China’s history and lore through singing, acting, and music, with a heavy emphasis on choreography—especially in the form of martial arts and acrobatics. Cantonese opera enjoyed a surge in popularity in Hong Kong and southern China through the 1950s and 1960s, but later began to lose its cultural foothold to the burgeoning entertainment outlets of television and cinema.</p> <p>The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts’ seven-year-old degree program in Cantonese opera is intended in part to preserve the ancient form for future generations—a mission made more urgent in part because of recent political unrest in Hong Kong.</p> <p>The academy’s November 14 program at �鶹��Ƶ will consist of excerpts from several operas. Among them are <em>The Legend of the White Snake</em>, which introduces operatic movements typical of the northern Chinese style, and <em>The Jade Bracelet</em>, in which performers convey emotion through mime-like acting techniques. A third excerpt, <em>The Villain, the General, and the Heroic Beauty</em>, exemplifies traditional Cantonese opera and features music sung in the ancient dialect of China’s Central Plains.</p> <p>In addition to the excerpts, musicians will demonstrate various forms of percussion and melodic instruments that are frequently used in Cantonese opera.</p> <p>�鶹��Ƶ Professor of Music Education <a href="/node/6816">Jody Kerchner</a> took part in a winter-term trip with �鶹��Ƶ students to Hong Kong in January 2019. During that visit, the group experienced an unforgettable performance of Cantonese opera at the newly opened Xiqu Center in the West Kowloon arts district.</p> <p>“It’s a full sensory buffet between these vibrant colors coming at you through costumes and makeup and scenery, as well as an incredible diversity of sounds,” says Kerchner.</p> <p>“It is exciting that we have the opportunity to experience this ancient art form and that we can actually play a role in sustaining it. We talk a lot about environmental sustainability on this campus. This is <em>cultural</em> sustainability.”</p> <p>The November 14 performance in �鶹��Ƶ is part of a cultural exchange for the Hong Kong Academy’s student performers, who will learn about performing arts in America in addition to sharing their own artistry. Their visit is made possible with support from the Education University of Hong Kong, with which Kerchner has had a professional relationship since 2006.</p> <p>In advance of the performance, students from Kerchner’s Community Engagement in the Schools course will visit children at �鶹��Ƶ’s Prospect Elementary to prepare them for an in-school presentation made by performers from the Hong Kong Academy on November 13. Topics will include tonal colors of the traditional instruments used and cultural perspective pertaining to the use of costumes, martial arts, and other means of storytelling.</p> <p>Community Engagement in the Schools is presented through the conservatory’s <a href="/conservatory/divisions/pace">Division of Pedagogy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement</a>. It is open to students in both the conservatory and the College of Arts and Sciences.</p> <p><a class="view-more" href="/artsguide">Learn more about the arts at �鶹��Ƶ</a></p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2019-11-07T12:00:00Z">Thu, 11/07/2019 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Erich Burnett</div> <div class="text-content field field--name-field-intro-text field--type-text-long field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A cultural exchange highlighted by midday discussion on Chinese operatic music followed by an evening performance.</p> <p> </p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2385">Community</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25336">East Asian Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25421">Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25441">Theater</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25381">History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-faculty field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/jody-kerchner" hreflang="und">Jody Kerchner</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/pace" hreflang="und">Pedagogy, Advocacy, and Community Engagement</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/east-asian-studies" hreflang="und">East Asian Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/religion" hreflang="und">Religion</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/theater" hreflang="und">Theater</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/history" hreflang="und">History</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Courtesy Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Pride of People</h1> <p>anagy — Fri, 26 May 2017 21:12:24 +0000</p> <span>Pride of People</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-05-26T17:12:24-04:00" title="Friday, May 26, 2017 - 17:12">Fri, 05/26/2017 - 17:12</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>When Aiury Cavallo entered a contest to design a mural for El Rincon Latino in Stevenson Dining Hall, the budding artist’s only comparable experience was with spray-painting walls and large surfaces.</p> <p>After a year of labor, the finished 16-foot-by-6.5-foot mural has been installed in the public space where students and faculty can practice speaking Spanish while having lunch.</p> <p>Cavallo, a third-year Africana studies and visual art major, is among a small minority of Brazilian, Portuguese-speaking students on campus. Cavallo also learned to speak Spanish in high school.</p> <p>“The Latinx community really is important to me. I wanted to make an image that’s a symbol of unity and us coming together, having fun together, organizing, and doing difficult work together, all in this space where people speak Spanish and eat together.”</p> <p>The college announced the design contest in late November 2015. The idea sprang from a guest lecture by muralist Cesar Viveros, who spoke about urban murals as a social tool. Viveros, an artist and muralist based in Philadelphia, is well known for his most recent mural, which was dedicated to Pope Francis in honor of his visit to Philadelphia in September 2015. His lecture explained how programs to create collective mural-making are powerful tools for generating dialogue, building relationships, empowering communities, and sparking economic revitalization.</p> <p>The Stevenson mural consists of four sections with acrylic paint as the primary medium. Cavallo explains that all the flags of Central America, South America, and the Caribbean are represented. The colors, however, “represent people to me, way more than the shapes of the flags.”</p> <p>“The forms of the flags tell a lot of the imperial, colonial history—the bloody history of how theses countries came to be and how these flags were created. The colors have an energy to them. They are the pride of people. The colors are what can be taken out of those flags and made ours again. I wanted to design around the colors coexisting with each other and intersecting. I also wanted each flag to be recognizable so that people can take it and apply it in our shared heritage, even if they were born here and removed from wherever their parents came from.”</p> <p>The process took longer and was more labor intensive than expected, but Cavallo was passionate about making it look professional.</p> <p>“It’s been a lot of fun. I loved making this.”</p> <p>A formal unveiling ceremony will be held later this spring.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2017-04-20T12:00:00Z">Thu, 04/20/2017 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2391">Languages & Literatures</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2591">Art Installation</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Third-year Aiury Cavallo</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Dale Preston</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Black History Month Celebration: United by Ubuntu</h1> <p>hhempste — Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:10:52 +0000</p> <span>Black History Month Celebration: United by Ubuntu</span> <span><span>hhempste</span></span> <span><time datetime="2017-02-10T16:10:52-05:00" title="Friday, February 10, 2017 - 16:10">Fri, 02/10/2017 - 16:10</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The term “ubuntu” is a Nguni Bantu term that, at its core, means "humanity." It also may be used philosophically to convey the belief in a “universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity." This concept also served as the guiding principle for this year’s programming during <a href="https://new.oberlin.edu/events-activities/black-history/index.dot">�鶹��Ƶ’s Black History Month</a>, themed <em>Ubuntu: I am Because We Are.</em></p> <p>For third-year environmental studies major, politics minor and Black History Month committee member Skyler Davis, ubuntu is something that has application in daily life. “Ubuntu conveys kindness,” stated Davis. “I don't want it to be a profound concept; I want it to be a natural, everyday belief.”</p> <p>The <a href="https://new.oberlin.edu/events-activities/black-history/events.dot">series of programs</a> in this month-long tribute aims to express unity, community togetherness, and continued struggle for recognition. The collection of speakers, workshops and other events convey a strong commitment to ubuntu as a foundation for Africana communities.</p> <p>Among the broad array of performances is a re-imagined American classical theater production of Tennessee Williams’ <em>The Glass Menagerie</em>, starring Oscar-nominated actress Margaret Avery. Directed by �鶹��Ƶ <a href="https://new.oberlin.edu/arts-and-sciences/departments/theater/faculty_detail.dot?id=20723">Associate Professor of Theater and Africana Studies Justin Emeka '95</a>, this production on February 20 at Cleveland Playhouse Square features Williams’ text with black culture and music incorporated into the classic story. Members of the campus community will also have the opportunity to attend a performance of <em>Oh! Freedom: Commemorating the Negro Spiritual and the Underground Railroad</em> when Wesley Williams returns to campus at 7 p.m. on February 11 for this performance at �鶹��Ƶ’s First Church.</p> <p>Another of the month’s events is a talk by Eddie Glaude Jr., a professor of religion and African American studies at Princeton, who coined the term “value gap” which is the “belief that white people matter more than others.” Glaude will discuss how this mindset is entrenched within American values, practices, and systems at 7:30 p.m. February 23 in Dye Lecture Hall.</p> <p>“This month is about reflecting our culture and history and various forms of heritage,” said RaShelle Peck, Black History Month cochair and faculty in residence. Among one consideration when planning the month’s events was how to identify the programs for inclusion.“How do we create events that help us celebrate Africana and also address the problems that our community faces?” said Peck. “We chose to focus on the theme of community given the particularly precarious situation in the country and globally.”</p> <p>For Davis, the goal of any Black History Month is to “educate, inspire, heal, and fight back” regardless of the political climate. “It's important for us to have a dialogue both within our community and in others about what has happened, what is happening, and where we go from here,” emphasized Davis.</p> <p>Black History Month at �鶹��Ƶ officially begins with an <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/opening_meal_for_black_history_month?utm_campaign=widget&utm_medium=widget&utm_source=�鶹��Ƶ+College#.WJCk4dz7m-c">opening meal on February 5 at the Afrikan Heritage House</a>. Throughout the month, a diversity of programming takes place both on and off campus and includes teach-ins, talks, and theatrical performances.</p> <p>More about programming for <em>Ubuntu, I am Because We Are</em> is on the <a href="http://go.oberlin.edu/BHM">Black History Month webpage</a> and the <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/search/events?search=BLack+History+Month">�鶹��Ƶ Events Calendar</a>.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2017-02-02T12:00:00Z">Thu, 02/02/2017 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Hillary Hempstead</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2495">Black History Month</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Learning from Activist Mary Church Terrell</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:01:50 +0000</p> <span>Learning from Activist Mary Church Terrell</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:01:50-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:01">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:01</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>This weekend, scholars, historians, and activists will gather on campus to attend the symposium <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/complicated_relationships_mary_church_terrells_legacy_for_21st_century_activists#.Vssh0owrJaR">Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell's Legacy for 21st Century Activists</a>. Beginning at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, February 26, and concluding early evening on Saturday, February 27, the symposium will celebrate a significant gift of Mary Church Terrell’s papers to the �鶹��Ƶ College Archives and closely examine Terrell’s life for guidance on how activists can better work toward social justice today. The symposium is a featured event of <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/search/events?search=Africana+Unity">Africana Unity and Celebration Month</a> and the Think/Create/Engage series on the Framing of Race.</p> <p>Born to mixed-race formerly enslaved parents in 1863, the year of the Emancipation Proclamation, Mary Church Terrell was an educator, feminist, and civil rights activist who worked tirelessly across lines of race and gender to achieve a more just and equitable society. An 1884 graduate of �鶹��Ƶ College—the same year as lifelong colleagues Anna Julia Haywood Cooper and Ida Gibbs (later Hunt)—Terrell went on to become the founding president of the National Association of Colored Women, founder of the College Alumnae Council, charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and a member of the Women’s Committee for Equal Justice, the Civil Rights Congress, and the Women’s Republican League of Washington, D.C. She was the first African American woman to serve on the Washington, D.C., Board of Education. In 1891, she married Robert H. Terrell, the first African American man to graduate magna cum laude from Harvard University, a justice of the peace (nominated 1901), and a municipal court judge (nominated 1901).</p> <p>Mary Church Terrell is drawing attention today for her role in the case <em>District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co., Inc.</em>, which she brought against the D.C.-based Thompson’s Restaurant in 1950 after she and three compatriots were refused service. The U.S. Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in that case in 1953 that invalidated the capitol’s segregated restaurants. This was one year before the <em>Brown v. Board of Education</em> ruling, six years before the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, and a decade before sit-ins “<a href="http://time.com/4196840/mary-church-terrell/">rocked lunch counters in the South</a>.”</p> <p>The Mary Church Terrell papers being celebrated in this symposium were donated to the college by Raymond and Jean Langston at the suggestion of Alison Parker, professor of history at the College at Brockport, State University of New York, and Stephen Middleton, biographer of Robert H. Terrell and professor of history at Mississippi State University. Parker learned from Middleton that the Langstons still had private holdings of Terrell’s papers at their home in Highland Beach, Maryland—formerly Terrell’s summer house, where she died at age 91—after Parker had been working on a biography of Mary Church Terrell for several years.</p> <p>The Langstons welcomed Parker and Middleton to their home shortly thereafter to examine the collection. “The Langston family’s Mary Church Terrell papers include a wonderful collection of artifacts and papers, some from the 1890s or earlier. They are of great historical value and were in need of a permanent home. Stephen Middleton and I agreed to ask the family if we might help facilitate finding a safe long-term home for these primary source documents. Ray and Jean Langston enthusiastically consented,” Parker says.</p> <p>“I immediately thought of offering the papers to �鶹��Ƶ College because Terrell was very proud of having graduated from the college and was thrilled when she was honored with an honorary doctorate in 1948. I knew that �鶹��Ƶ has a well-respected archive that could handle a new donation and take good care of it. When I returned from Highland Beach, I contacted my friend and colleague, [Professor of History and Director of Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies] Carol Lasser, on behalf of the Langstons to extend an invitation to �鶹��Ƶ College to house the papers.”</p> <p>College Archivist Ken Grossi traveled to Highland Beach, Maryland, to retrieve the papers in June 2015. Once he had arrived, Grossi says he, with the help of Ray Langston, was able to parse through the entire collection in just a little more than an hour. He returned to �鶹��Ƶ with six boxes that contained letters, diaries, photographs, flyers, awards, and more.</p> <p>Grossi says he finds Terrell’s diary entries and writings of particular interest and that the collection provides some evidence of the complicated relationship Terrell had with �鶹��Ƶ College throughout her lifetime. “We have a letter in another collection sent to Henry Churchill King (�鶹��Ƶ College President, 1902-1927) where she is conveying her thoughts about her conversations with the then secretary of the college, George Morris Jones, about his feelings toward African American students and minorities. She was not happy with [Jones], and she made that clear in the letter,” Grossi says.</p> <p>“In 1911 on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Terrell wanted to come to �鶹��Ƶ and give a series of lectures. Henry Churchill King and his dean put her off. They didn’t want her to come because they thought there was too much attention to matters of race on campus already,” Lasser explains. “She brought her daughters to look at �鶹��Ƶ as a place to attend college in 1914, not our finest hour. When she came she discovered that the school provided segregated housing for male and female students of color. That reflected a loss of commitment to racial equality. But she hung in there and when the college was celebrating its 100 years in 1933, she was named as one of the 100 most important graduates of the college.</p> <p>“There are moments where �鶹��Ƶ has been more positive than others. Really from the 1910s through the 1950s, there was more ambivalence about racial equality at �鶹��Ƶ than you would have expected from the first college to admit students of color. What’s amazing is she still believed �鶹��Ƶ is capable of better and she kept pushing. She did not give up. It’s lovely to have these papers because some of them document that very interesting and conflicted relationship.”</p> <p>A curated display of the newly acquired collection can be viewed in the Academic Commons on the first floor of Mudd library this week and throughout the symposium. Students who have used these and other Mary Church Terrell papers housed in the �鶹��Ƶ Archives in research projects will discuss their projects at 1 p.m. on Saturday in Azariah’s Cafe.</p> <p>The presentations will conclude a morning of reflecting on Terrell’s life, as the remaining panels focus on how today’s activists can emulate Terrell’s strategies and tactics for achieving her goal of a more just and equitable society. “As much as we love this history, we know we live in 2016,” Lasser says. “We think Terrell can help us think about social justice and engage in issues of social justice.”</p> <p>Pam Brooks, Jane and Eric Nord Associate Professor and chair of Africana studies and member of the Advisory Council for gender, sexuality, and feminist studies, cochairs the symposium and will serve as chair of the panel Conversation & Reflections on Terrell’s Legacy for Today’s Activists, which begins at 3:15 p.m. on Saturday. The panel, Brooks and Lasser explain, will open with a discussion of Terrell’s strategy of, as Lasser puts it, “radical respectability.”</p> <p>“Terrell knew that…black women could be disparaged in ways that refer to their sex, their sexuality, their a-sexuality, their lack of chastity—a myriad of ways of dehumanizing and insulting the humanity of black women,” Brooks says.</p> <p>“Terrell embodies respectability. She’s the wife of a judge, a college-educated woman. She is smart, interesting, well read, well traveled, and she speaks three languages. To charge your attackers with lacking respectability, to charge your attackers with being the people who are violating respectability is a turnaround that is a weapon,” Lasser says.</p> <p>Brooks will transition the conversation on how this legacy can help one think about the challenges to gender, social, and racial justice faced on campuses and beyond today. “What many contemporary activists think about as the so-called politics of respectability is not at all what Terrell and her cohort were doing. Terrell accused her opponents of the lack of decency, of having a rapacious sexual appetite. She was turning respectability on its head.”</p> <p>Brooks and Lasser agree that the symposium, particularly the afternoon panels, will be of enormous interest to students to attend. Grossi agrees. “Hopefully many students will come because it is an opportunity to reflect on how Terrell’s life and accomplishments are an inspiration for all of us today.”</p> <p>To register for Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell's Legacy for 21st Century Activists, visit the <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/office/alumni/events/mct-symposium.dot">Alumni Association website</a>. To view the preliminary symposium schedule, <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/dotAsset/d0b4d118-7089-4b0d-a328-fbd9ba378176.pdf">see this PDF</a>. This symposium is cosponsored by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies; the Africana studies department; �鶹��Ƶ College Archives; �鶹��Ƶ Alumni Association of African Ancestry (OA4); and the Alumni Association. The symposium received support from the Comparative American Studies Program, the history department, �鶹��Ƶ College Libraries, the Office of the Dean of Students, the Dean of College of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the President.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2016-02-13T12:00:00Z">Sat, 02/13/2016 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Lisa Gulasy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2374">Archives & Special Collections</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2384">Libraries</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4821">Africana Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25361">Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25311">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies" hreflang="und">Africana Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/comparative-american-studies" hreflang="und">Comparative American Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">A portion of the Mary Church Terrell exhibit that will be on display during a symposium February 26-27.</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Lisa Gulasy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Celebrating Africana Unity and Celebration Month</h1> <p>Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:01:50 +0000</p> <span>Celebrating Africana Unity and Celebration Month</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:01:50-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:01">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:01</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Every year in February, the �鶹��Ƶ community comes together to study the history, politics, and economics of black people in America, acknowledge their central role in shaping our nation, and celebrate their achievements. Known as Black History Month, �鶹��Ƶ has traditionally recognized this time with panels, lectures, readings, symposia, and artistic displays and performances. This tradition continues with a new identity: Africana Unity and Celebration Month. In addition to acknowledging the historical legacies and contemporary contributions of African Americans, Africana Unity and Celebration Month is inclusive of queer, trans, and femme-identifying people, as well as Africana groups throughout the diaspora and those with intersectional identities.</p> <p>Read on to learn about a few featured events of this year’s Africana Unity and Celebration Month. A complete listing of events can be seen on the <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/search/events?search=Africana+Unity">Events Calendar</a>, and more information about the monthlong celebration can be found on <a href="https://new.oberlin.edu/events-activities/black-history/">this webpage</a>.</p> <h3><em>Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom</em></h3> <p> </p> <p>Saturday, February 6, 6:30 p.m.</p> <p>Finney Chapel</p> <p> </p> <p><em>Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed That Line to Freedom</em> is a new two-act theatrical work by Nkieru Okoye that tells of how a young girl born in slavery becomes Harriet Tubman, the legendary Underground Railroad conductor. Based on recent Tubman biographies, the story is narrated and told in the context of Tubman’s tight-knit family of lively characters. Harriet Tubman carries the universal themes of sisterhood, courage, sacrifice, and doing what is necessary to keep a family together.</p> <p>This touring co-production with the �鶹��Ƶ Opera Theater is part of the Cleveland Opera Theater New Opera Initiative and is the Midwest premiere of the opera. The performance is sponsored by the �鶹��Ƶ Conservatory of Music, the Africana Studies Department, the Office of the President, the Multicultural Resource Center, and Christ Episcopal Church of �鶹��Ƶ.</p> <h3>”Transpacific AntiRacism”</h3> <p> </p> <p>Friday, February 19, noon</p> <p>Wilder 101</p> <p> </p> <p>”Transpacific AntiRacism” is a lecture by Yuichiro Onishi, associate professor of African American and African studies and Asian American studies at the University of Minnesota, and author of the recent publication <em>Transpacific Antiracism: Afro-Asian Solidarity in 20th Century Black America, Japan and Okinawa</em> (New York University Press in 2013).</p> <h3>”Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience,” a Convocation Featuring Rhiannon Giddens ’00, Bhi Bhiman, and Leyla McCalla</h3> <p> </p> <p>Saturday, February 20, 8 p.m.</p> <p>Finney Chapel</p> <p> </p> <p>Folk singers, protest singers, and singer-songwriters have been symbols of American resilience for generations. But while the voices most closely associated with such movements tend to be white, a strong history of protest, subversion, and cultural resistance from musicians of color abounds throughout America’s history.</p> <p>Led by Rhiannon Giddens ’00, founding member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, “Swimming in Dark Waters: Other Voices of the American Experience” explores old and new songs of resistance of the South, protest songs from Leyla McCalla’s Haiti and Louisiana, and the experiences of first-generation American Bhi Bhiman, an “outsider looking in” on issues of culture and race in 21st-century America.</p> <p>A limited number of free tickets (up to 2 per person) for this event will be available starting at noon on Friday, February 5. See the <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/special_convocation_swimming_in_dark_waters_other_voices_of_the_american_experience_featuring_rhiannon_giddens_00_bhi_bhiman_and_leyla_mccalla#.VqjgPBgrJaQ">Events Calendar</a> for more information on ticketing.</p> <h3>Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell’s Legacy for 21st Century Activists</h3> <p> </p> <p>Friday, February 26, 4:30 p.m.</p> <p>Saturday, February 27, all day</p> <p>Most Events in King 106, Selected Events in Mudd Learning Center</p> <p> </p> <p>Occurring at the intersection of Black History Month and Women’s History Month, the Complicated Relationships: Mary Church Terrell’s Legacy for 21st Century Activists symposium celebrates the life of Mary Church Terrell, Class of 1884, and the significant gift of the Mary Church Terrell papers to the �鶹��Ƶ College Archives. The symposium is also an opportunity to think together about social justice today.</p> <p>Terrell was a feminist and civil rights activist and a founding member of the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and NAACP, who worked tirelessly across lines of race and gender to achieve a more just and equitable society. Symposium participants include Terrell descendants Ray and Jean Langston; keynote speaker Johnnetta Cole ’57; prominent �鶹��Ƶ College Alumnae Lillie Edwards ’75, Treva Lindsey ’04, Rachel Seidman ’88, Jennifer Morgan ’86, and Lori Ginzberg ’78; and current �鶹��Ƶ students.</p> <p>The symposium is cosponsored by the Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies Institute; the Africana Studies Department; the �鶹��Ƶ College Archives; the �鶹��Ƶ Alumni Association of African Ancestry (OA4); and the Office of Alumni Relations. Support comes from the Comparative American Studies Program, the History Department, �鶹��Ƶ College Libraries, the Dean of Students Office, the Dean of Arts and Sciences, and the Office of the President.</p> <p>Session information can be found in <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/dotAsset/d0b4d118-7089-4b0d-a328-fbd9ba378176.pdf">this PDF</a>. The symposium is part of the 2016 Think/Create/Engage series, The Framing of Race.</p> <h3>“Fighting Apartheid Since 1948: Key Moments in Palestinian and Black Solidarity”</h3> <p> </p> <p>Thursday, March 3</p> <p>Dye Lecture Hall, Science Center</p> <p> </p> <p>“Fighting Apartheid Since 1948: Key Moments in Palestinian and Black Solidarity” is a lecture by Robin D.G. Kelley, distinguished professor of history and Gary B. Nash endowed chair in United States history at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The lecture will explore how the Palestinian and black communities have common interests and challenges and their methods for addressing them. See the <a href="http://www.history.ucla.edu/faculty/robin-kelley">UCLA website</a> for information about Kelley’s research interests and selected publications.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2016-02-11T12:00:00Z">Thu, 02/11/2016 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Lisa Gulasy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2392">Social Justice</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2383">Convocation Series</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=4821">Africana Studies</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=25361">Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/arts-and-sciences/departments/africana-studies" hreflang="und">Africana Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>�鶹��Ƶ Opera Theater Co-Presents Harriet Tubman Jan. 29-Feb. 7</h1> <p>eburnett — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:01:50 +0000</p> <span>�鶹��Ƶ Opera Theater Co-Presents Harriet Tubman Jan. 29-Feb. 7</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:01:50-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:01">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:01</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p><i><a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/harriet_tubman_when_i_crossed_that_line_to_freedom#.VqKUAVJb8WE">Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom</a></i>, an original opera by Nkeiru Okoye ’92, will be performed in Cleveland-area churches and in �鶹��Ƶ five times from January 29 through February 7. It takes place at Finney Chapel on Saturday, February 6. All performances are free.</p> <p>Presented by <a href="http://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/">Cleveland Opera Theater</a>'s New Opera Initiative in conjunction with <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/departments/opera-theater/">�鶹��Ƶ Opera Theater</a>, <i>Harriet Tubman</i> tells the story of the influential former slave and her rise to a pivotal role in the Underground Railroad. Based on recent biographical research, the opera focuses on Tubman’s close bond with her family and celebrates the universal themes of sisterhood, courage, sacrifice, and familial devotion. It draws upon a wide range of musical influences including opera, gospel, spirituals, ragtime, and minstrel songs.</p> <p><i>Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom</i> premiered in New York City in February 2014. The Cleveland production, the opera's Midwest premiere, is directed by <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/departments/opera-theater/faculty_detail.dot?id=20743">Jonathon Field</a>, associate professor of opera theater at �鶹��Ƶ, and conducted by Julius P. Williams.</p> <p>It features a cast and orchestra made up of Cleveland artists as well as �鶹��Ƶ students, including Amber Monroe, Victoria Ellington, Sophia Bass, Kojo Appiah, Ryan Dearon, Cory McGee, and David Hughey ’03. The orchestra includes �鶹��Ƶ students Ryan McDonnell (violin), Molly Tucker (violin), and Ivan Aidun (bass), as well as alumna Rebecca Reed ’11 (cello) and Assistant Dean for Academic Support Chris Jenkins (viola).</p> <p>Presented as part of �鶹��Ƶ College's Africana Unity and Celebration Month, <i>Harriet Tubman</i> opens at 7 p.m. Friday, January 29, at Christ Temple Apostolic Church in �鶹��Ƶ. It continues with �鶹��Ƶ performances at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 31, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church, and 6:30 p.m. Saturday, February 6, in Finney Chapel. For a complete list of northeast Ohio performances, visit the <a href="http://www.clevelandoperatheater.org/#!harriet-tubman/c97l">Cleveland Opera Theater site</a>.</p> <p>A composer since age 13, Okoye graduated from �鶹��Ƶ Conservatory at age 20 and earned master’s and doctoral degrees at Rutgers University. She is director of music theory and composition at the State University of New York at New Paltz.</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2016-01-22T12:00:00Z">Fri, 01/22/2016 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Erich Burnett</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2402">Winter Term</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2974">Conservatory Alumni</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=32971">Opera Theater</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-departments field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/conservatory/divisions/vocal-studies" hreflang="und">Vocal Studies</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>�鶹��Ƶ Orchestra Concert, Colloquium Keep the "Pan-American Dream" Alive</h1> <p>eburnett — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:03:39 +0000</p> <span>�鶹��Ƶ Orchestra Concert, Colloquium Keep the "Pan-American Dream" Alive</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:03:39-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:03">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:03</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>As fascism and other forms of dictatorship engulfed Europe in the 1930s and ’40s, the United States began to fear that the whole world would be consumed by such regimes. To prevent totalitarianism’s spread to Latin America, the federal government enacted a “Good Neighbor” policy, in which the United States encouraged solidarity between the Americas.</p> <p>One aspect of that policy was a cultural-exchange program that sent North American composers to Latin America and vice versa. “It had fantastic musical consequences,” says Director of �鶹��Ƶ Orchestras <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/faculty/faculty-detail.dot?id=3275001">Raphael Jiménez</a>, citing Latin-inspired works created by Aaron Copland and friendships that blossomed between U.S. composers and their Latin counterparts such as Alberto Ginastera and Heitor Villa-Lobos.</p> <p>Jiménez and the �鶹��Ƶ Orchestra will celebrate that spirit of musical solidarity on Saturday, September 27, with an <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/oberlin_orchestra_raphael_jimenez_conductor_2735#.VCG9Puv74hE">8 p.m. concert in Finney Chapel</a> showcasing composers of the Americas.</p> <p>Prior to the performance, Carol Hess, a music professor at the University of California, Davis, will present a talk about the Good Neighbor policy and the state of Latin American classical music in the United States. Part of �鶹��Ƶ’s Richard Murphy Musicology Colloquium series, <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/richard_murphy_musicology_colloquium_carol_hess#.VCHFt-v74hE">Hess’ talk will take place at 4 p.m. in Stull Recital Hall</a>.</p> <p>Jiménez’s inspiration for the orchestra program emerged in part from reading a recent book by Hess—his former colleague at Michigan State University—about the Good Neighbor policy and the “Pan-American Dream” of music.</p> <p>The program will feature works by two Latin American composers, Ricardo Lorenz and Ginastera, and two North American composers, Derek Bermel and George Gershwin. In a living embodiment of the Pan-American connection, both Bermel and Lorenz will attend the concert and collaborate with student musicians in the days leading up to the performance.</p> <p>Lorenz’s <i>Olokun’s Awakening</i>, written for Jiménez and the �鶹��Ƶ Orchestra, will receive its world premiere. It is the first scene for a large-scale, as-yet-unwritten melodrama titled <i>The Tale of Chacumbele</i>, which weaves together the life of a fictitious, legendary Cuban composer with Yoruban mythology.</p> <p>Bermel’s <i>Slides</i>, meanwhile, explores different types of vocal inflection: moaning, Sarah Vaughan-style swoops, and the flow of rapping. All of that sliding finds an echo in Gershwin’s <i>Rhapsody in Blue</i>, with its famous opening clarinet glissando. Professor of Piano <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/departments/piano/faculty_detail.dot?id=20977">Sanford Margolis</a>, a longtime fixture on the �鶹��Ƶ faculty who will retire at the end of the 2014-15 academic year, will be the soloist in the Gershwin piece.</p> <p>Finally, Ginastera’s <i>Pampeana No. 3, Op. 24</i>, composed after Ginastera studied with Copland as part of the composer-exchange program of the ’30s and ’40s, demonstrates the musical effects of the Good Neighbor policy.</p> <p>“Ginastera’s depiction of the wide-open pampas of Argentina was obviously influenced by Copland’s musical evocations of the American West,” Jiménez says.</p> <p>The concert and colloquium are part of a series of events on campus in honor of <a href="/news/oberlin-celebrates-latinx-heritage-month">Latinx Heritage Month</a> (September 19 to October 18), which coincides with National Hispanic American Heritage Month. Events at �鶹��Ƶ range from the Allen Memorial Art Museum’s exhibition of <a href="https://amam.oberlin.edu/exhibitions-events/exhibitions">Latin American and Latino Art</a> (through June 28, 2015) to concerts, lectures, and workshops.</p> <p>Jiménez, who was born in Florida and raised in Venezuela, speaks of the musical fraternity between the Americas with infectious enthusiasm.</p> <p>“There are so many angles to this program,” he says. “So many connections!”</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-09-23T12:00:00Z">Tue, 09/23/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Daniel Hautzinger</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2370">Ensembles & Orchestras</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-programs field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?program=29541">Piano</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-caption field--type-string-long field--label-hidden field__item">Ricardo Lorenz</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>12 Hours in South India: Thyagaraja Festival Arrives April 22</h1> <p>eburnett — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:04:10 +0000</p> <span>12 Hours in South India: Thyagaraja Festival Arrives April 22</span> <span><span>eburnett</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:04:10-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:04">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:04</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>For 37 years, the Cleveland Thyagaraja Festival has celebrated the artistry and culture of South India on the campus of Cleveland State University. Over the years, it has grown to be the largest Indian classical music festival outside of India.</p> <p>For the first time, �鶹��Ƶ College will celebrate Earth Day with a Thyagaraja Festival of its own: For 12 hours on Tuesday, April 22, the college will host South Indian musicians who have traveled halfway around the world to join in the Cleveland festival.</p> <p>Named in honor of the prolific Indian composer—the Beethoven of Indian classical music—Thyagaraja includes four performances of traditional South Indian music and dance, and a midnight film.</p> <p>All activities are free and are scheduled to take place at the historic Apollo Theatre (19 East College St.) in downtown �鶹��Ƶ from 2 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, through 2 a.m. Wednesday, April 23.</p> <p>“This is a glimpse into a whole culture that very rarely gets seen in America,” says <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/faculty/faculty-detail.dot?id=233443">Jamey Haddad</a>, professor of advanced improvisation and percussion at �鶹��Ƶ and the organizer of the festival. “Almost everything that we know about India in America pertains to Northern India. This festival represents the entire other half of the subcontinent.</p> <p>“In the past, whenever our students have gone to Cleveland to see the fest, it has generated a lot of excitement,” Haddad adds. “We’re happy that we can share that energy with �鶹��Ƶ for a day.”</p> <p>The performance schedule is as follows, and each performance will be preceded by a brief Q&A with the artists:</p> <p>2-4 p.m. Featuring Mudikondan Ramesh (playing the <i>veena</i>, a predecessor of the modern sitar), Atul Kumar (flute), and Trivandrum Balaji (<i>mridangam</i>, an ancient tabla). Preview the performance <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4huPn5TcO4U">here</a>.</p> <p>4:30-6:30 p.m. Featuring Vyasarpadi Kothandaraman (<i>nadaswaram</i>, a predecessor of the modern oboe or bassoon), B. Kesanna (nadaswaram), Panruti Venkatesan (<i>thavil</i>, a barrel-shaped drum), and S. Palanivel (thavil). See a preview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iD3899p39g">here</a>.</p> <p>7-9 p.m. Featuring Suguna Varadhachari (voice, with Carnatic violin and mridangam), R. Suryaprakash (voice), V.V.S. Murari (violin), and Rohan Krishnamurthy (mridangam). See a preview <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib3DbuAgi1w">here</a>.</p> <p>9:30-11:30 p.m. A demonstration of Bharatanatyam dance.</p> <p>Midnight: Screening of the Indian film <i>Ship of Theseus</i> (2012).</p> <p>For more information on �鶹��Ƶ’s Thyagaraja Festival, please contact Jamey Haddad at jhaddad@oberlin.edu.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-04-07T12:00:00Z">Mon, 04/07/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Conservatory Communications Staff</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2356">Conservatory</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> <article> <h1>Civil Rights, Then and Now</h1> <p>anagy — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 18:04:10 +0000</p> <span>Civil Rights, Then and Now</span> <span><span>anagy</span></span> <span><time datetime="2016-11-07T13:04:10-05:00" title="Monday, November 7, 2016 - 13:04">Mon, 11/07/2016 - 13:04</time> </span> <div class="text-content field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>The Rev. James Lawson was a divinity student at �鶹��Ƶ when he met Martin Luther King Jr., who urged him to postpone his studies, move south and take an active role in the civil rights movement. “We don't have anyone like you,” King told him. Lawson took King’s advice, and from that point on he became a champion of civil rights and nonviolence.</p> <p>In connection with �鶹��Ƶ’s Black History Month celebration, Lawson will return to �鶹��Ƶ in March to lead a minicourse on nonviolent conflict. Lawson will be joined by the Rev. Allan Boesak, who was a key leader of the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Both men will give free, public talks.</p> <p>Lawson will speak on Monday, March 3, at 7 p.m. in First Church in �鶹��Ƶ, 106 North Main Street. His talk is titled “The Influence of Plantation Capitalism on Today’s Human Rights.”</p> <p>Boesak will give a talk, “South Africa Apartheid, Mandela, and Challenges of a Post-Mandela Era,” at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 10, in Hallock Auditorium in �鶹��Ƶ’s Lewis Center for Environmental Studies.</p> <p>�鶹��Ƶ’s <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/events-activities/black-history/">Black History Celebration</a> draws attention to the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act and the 20th anniversary of the end of the apartheid regime in South Africa.</p> <p>The minicourse will focus on understanding the use of strategic nonviolent conflict to bring about social and political transformation. The course will examine the history and theory of nonviolent campaigns, and their application in such cases as the civil rights movement and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.</p> <p>After Lawson left �鶹��Ƶ, he became the foremost strategist and tactician of nonviolence. His profound impact stemmed from his early adoption of Mahatma Gandhi’s nonviolent civil disobedience philosophy—a technique that ultimately became the movement’s most compelling and effective political weapon.</p> <p>Lawson led workshops on nonviolent action and mentored students who later became prominent activists, including John Lewis, Diane Nash, James Bevel, and Marion Barry. In 1958, he gave the Little Rock Nine their first major workshop in nonviolent resistance. Lawson also helped lead and organize some of the first student sit-ins, which later spread throughout the South, and he participated in the Freedom Rides.</p> <p>Throughout his career and into retirement, Lawson has remained active in various human rights advocacy campaigns, including immigrant rights and opposition to war and militarism. In recent years he has been a distinguished visiting professor at Vanderbilt University. He served as pastor of Holman United Methodist Church in Los Angeles for 25 years, retiring in 1999.</p> <p>Boesak holds the position of Desmond Tutu Chair of Peace, Global Justice and Reconciliation Studies, held jointly at Butler University and the Christian Theological Seminary.</p> <p>Boesak studied at the University of Western Cape and earned his doctorate in theology at the Protestant Theological University in Kampen, the Netherlands. His early activism and service led to international recognition as an influential leader in the fight against apartheid. During the 1980s, he helped found the United Democratic Front, a multiracial association of groups opposed to apartheid, and he worked alongside Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela to lead efforts against apartheid and promote reconciliation.</p> <p>A full list of Black History Celebration programs and events can be found <a href="https://calendar.oberlin.edu/search/events?search=Black+History+Month&utf8=%E2%9C%93">on �鶹��Ƶ’s website</a>.</p></div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-type field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item">News Story</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-date field--type-datetime field--label-hidden field__item"><time datetime="2014-02-21T12:00:00Z">Fri, 02/21/2014 - 12:00</time> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-author field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">Amanda Nagy</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news?tag=2404">Cultural Celebrations</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-pin-school-page field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">Off</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-photo-gallery-top field--type-boolean field--label-hidden field__item">false</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-image-credit field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">�鶹��Ƶ College Archives</div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-media field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__item"> </div> </article> </main></body></html>