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November 19,
2004
MHC
Milestones
All
in the Family Brad Leithauser, Emily Dickinson
Senior Lecturer in the Humanities, and his brother Mark
Leithauser will present their new book, Lettered
Creatures, Monday, November 22, at 4 pm in the New York Room in Mary
Woolley Hall. The book is a collection of 28 light verse
poems by Brad and 29 drawings by Mark, who is chief of
design at the National Gallery in Washington, DC. A reception
will follow. The event is free and open to the public.
The Odyssey Bookstore is sponsoring the event.
Dates with Destiny The Library of Congress’s 2005 Engagement
Calendar, themed “Women Who Dare,” features two very
daring Mount Holyoke women. The first is Connecticut Governor
Ella Grasso ’40 (1919–1981), the first woman elected
to a state governorship in her own right. “It’s not
enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do
something about it,” Grasso said in words which are recounted
in the calendar’s profile—with an impressive photo—of
this prominent alumna who never lost an election in her 28-year
career in Connecticut politics. The second profile features professor
of theatre arts Vanessa James, an internationally recognized
art director and theatrical designer for theatre, opera, television,
and film. In her wide-ranging career, James has worked with such
renowned figures as Andy Warhol, William Burroughs, and Joseph
Papp of New York’s Public Theater. Recently, she wrote
and illustrated The Genealogy of Greek Mythology.
Ethiopian Environment Examined Ethiopia has recently experienced
rapid urban development without necessary improvements in infrastructure
and amenities to maintain healthy living conditions. In his newly
published book, Living with Urban Environmental
Health Risks: The Case of Ethiopia (Ashgate Publishing 2004), Girma Kebbede,
MHC professor of earth and environment, examines the extent and
nature of environmental problems in urbanized Ethiopia, their
impact on health, and possible solutions.
Intimations of Immortality Anthropology professor Debbora Battaglia
gave a keynote address, “The Futurology of Science and
Religion,” for a public conference, Time
and Aging—Mechanisms
and Meanings, sponsored by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, as part of the laboratory’s
Science and Society initiative. Among questions explored by Battaglia
in her November 6 presentation: “How do alternative science
religious communities imagine human life after apocalypse? What
can we learn from their sometimes dangerous, sometimes enlightening
visions? And how does mainstream science and bioethical debate
figure in the futurology of such religions?”
In Force Two Mount Holyoke art students are participating in
a new show at the Contemporary Artists Center at Mass MoCa in
North Adams. Nisha Agha ’05 is exhibiting two screenprints
and Katharine Cope ’05 is showing four color photographs
in the show Forcefield: A Contemporary Salon
of Regional Student Artists. Forcefield is curated by students from area colleges
and displays student work from a variety of institutions, including
Amherst College, Bennington College, Greenfield Community College,
Hampshire College, Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, Mount
Holyoke College, Skidmore College, Smith College, the University
of Massachusetts Amherst, and Williams College.
The show runs through November 20. For more information, go to
www.thecac.org
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