Events
Exploring interactions between text and image at the Zimmerli
Prominent researchers from the United States and France will look at the visible dimension of writing and discuss intersections between text and image in a major international colloquium, “Visible Writings/Écrits Visibles,” scheduled from November 16 to November 18.
This bilingual colloquium, organized by the French department, is free and open to the public. It will include discussion of several exhibits at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum devoted to “Word and Image” in the permanent French, Russian, and American collections, as well as an exhibition of turn-of-the-century posters. The program, to take place at the museum, also honors the memory of Richard Lockwood, chair of Rutgers’ French department, who died in March 2005.
The event opens at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 16, with welcoming remarks by Isabel Nazario, Rutgers’ associate vice president for academic and public partnerships in the arts and humanities, and presentations by several scholars of the “Word and Image” exhibitions at the Zimmerli. Conference highlights will include lectures and discussions on Mesoamerican scripts, Chinese calligraphy, art and writing in ancient Greece, and Medieval manuscripts; other sessions will look at ornamental typography in Renaissance print, as well as modern hybrids of text and image in poetry, poster art, comics, writers’ manuscripts, and artists’ books. The colloquium ends Saturday, November 18, with a day of lectures capped by a 5 p.m. presentation by book artist Buzz Spector and the opening of a major exhibition: “Toulouse-Lautrec and the French Imprint: Sources and Legacies of Fin-de-siècle Posters–Paris-Brussels-Barcelona.”
Sponsors include the Rutgers’ French department, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, the Office of the Associate Vice President for Academic and Public Partnerships in the Arts and the Humanities, and the Transliteratures Project, as well as several departments and offices from Rutgers’ partner institution, Université Paris 8-Saint-Denis, with whom a cooperation agreement was signed a year ago. For more information, visit french.rutgers.edu/headline.htm
Geology museum public talk November 14
Recent studies of Neanderthal fossils are helping scientists get a better idea of when and how modern humans, or Homo sapiens, started replacing Neanderthals more than 30,000 years ago. Shara Bailey, an assistant professor at New York University affiliated with the school’s Center for the Study of Human Origins, will describe her research on these fossils at a Geology Museum public talk on Tuesday, November 14, at 8 p.m. in the Winants Hall Assembly Room. Some scientists propose that Neanderthals coexisted and even mated with modern humans; but, Bailey notes, recent discoveries of fossil specimens and artifacts make this theory unlikely. For more information, contact Bill Selden at rwselden@rci.rutgers.edu or 732-932-7243.
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Camden students present ‘The Madwoman of Chaillot’
Students at Rutgers-Camden will present Jean Giraudoux’s comedy “The Madwoman of Chaillot” at 5 p.m. Thursday, November 30; 8 p.m. Friday, December 1; and 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, December 2. Written in 1943 during the German occupation, “The Madwoman of Chaillot” depicts a Paris rich with oil that some want to destroy for profit. Only an allegedly mad café owner and her band of wayward comrades take a stand against corruption. The production is directed by Audubon resident Paul Bernstein, an associate professor of theater in Camden. Bernstein has taken a highly physical approach to the comedy, which he has set in the 1950s and against a cinematic backdrop of the destruction of Paris, and the world. Sponsored by the Department of Fine Arts, the production will be held in the Gordon Theater on the Camden campus. Admission is $8. Tickets are free for students with I.D. For information, call 856-225-6176.
Student Life Conference
The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs is hosting the 10th Annual Student Life Conference at the Busch Campus Center Friday, November 17. The theme this year is "Learning in Communities." The program will include a general session in the morning, lunch, and breakout panels in the afternoon followed by a closing session.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Lee Williams, Dean of Students at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Williams is a leading expert on living and learning communities, residential colleges, and academic and student affairs partnerships.
If you have additional questions about the conference, contact Meredith Davis-Johnson at medavis@rci.rutgers.edu.
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