| January |
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Pattern Interference: Digital Media and the Visual Arts
Mike Miller, assistant professor of art at the University of Illinois, Springfield, explores the aesthetic appearance of digital media using traditional "analog"
practices such as painting, printmaking, and drawing. His pixilated, multilayered abstract images are inspired by the new digital environment. A Fulbright Scholar recipient in the field of New Media, Miller has exhibited his work in numerous international competitions, including in the Philippines and Japan. Miller's "Digital Environment" exhibition runs Jan. 24-Feb. 14 in Gallery Visio on the first floor of the Millennium Student Center; opening reception 4:00-7:00 p.m. Jan. 24.
Location: SGA Chamber, third floor of Millennium Student Center. |
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| February |
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The Heart of Translation—Poetry Reading
Michael Castro and Gabor G. Gyukics read their translations of modern Hungarian poetry, featuring work from their recent book, A Transparent Lion, with poems by Hungary's greatest 20th-century poet, Attila Jozsef. Castro, a local poet, has published 10 books of poetry, translations, and prose and was the founder of River Styx. He is the recipient of two lifetime achievement awards, the Angel Award as Guardian Angel of St. Louis Poetry from River Styx and the Warrior Poet award from Word in Motion. Gyukics is a Hungarian-born American poet living in Budapest. He has authored five books of poetry and six books of translations. Gyukics established Hungary's only open mike reading series and served as an editor for English to Hungarian and Hungarian to English dictionaries.
Location: Gallery 210, Telecommunity Center. |
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On Being an Aunt—Literary Reading
Kathleen Finneran reads from her memoir-in-progress, Motherhood Once Removed: On Being an Aunt, about her relationships with her six nieces and nephews, who appeared in her first memoir, The Tender Land: A Family Love Story. Finneran's essays have been published in such anthologies as The Place That Holds Our History, Seeking St. Louis: Voices from a River City, and The "M" Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage. She is a recipient of the Missouri Arts Council Writers' Biennial Prize, a Whiting Writers' Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. |
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Terma: Exploring Acoustical Properties of the Greek Language through Contemporary Music
Stella Markou, director of vocal studies in the UM-St. Louis Music Department, discusses and performs the work of Guggenheim Fellowship composer Craig Walsh. A passionate promoter of new music, Markou has been a featured soloist at prominent musical festivals in the United States and Europe. She holds music degrees from Oberlin Conservatory of Music and the Cleveland Institute of Music, and won first place at a recent Arizona Opera Guild Competition. |
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Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence
Jody Miller, associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at UM-St. Louis, discusses her new book, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence. Drawing from richly textured interviews with adolescent girls and boys in St. Louis, Miller's research reveals gendered harms resulting from racial inequality and urban neglect. Examining sexual harassment, sexual coercion and assault, gang rape, and dating violence, Getting Played analyzes how racial, economic, and gender inequalities shape girls' experiences of violence as a pervasive feature of the urban landscape. |
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| March |
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Games Poets Play
UM-St. Louis Language and Literature faculty, in honor of National Foreign Language Week, celebrate the creativity and playful spirit of poets from around the globe as they read and discuss poems in a variety of languages, including French, German, Spanish, Basque, Chinese, Japanese, and Modern Greek, along with translations of these poems. |
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Threats to the Wildlife of the Galapagos Islands
Patricia Parker, Des Lee Professor of Zoological Studies at UM-St. Louis and senior scientist at the Saint Louis Zoo, shares her studies of the Galapagos Islands, where the fairly simple ecologies of different islands present a "laboratory" for investigating ecological and behavioral components of fitness. Wildlife populations on remote oceanic islands seem particularly susceptible to extinction. Arrival of new diseases may be one of the largest threats endemic birds of the Galapagos face, as tourism and the resident human population grow. |
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A Documentary Filmmaker's Journey
Josh Aronson, Academy Award nominated documentary filmmaker, talks about challenges he faced over three years of making The Opposite Sex Showtime films about the gender-crossing journeys of two transsexuals. Aronson followed with his next film, Beautiful Daughters, about the first all-transsexual production of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. Aronson shows clips from these films, as he shares what he learned from this three-year trip into a world of gender fluidity. A native St. Louisan now working in New York, Aronson has directed and produced documentaries ranging widely over such topics as deafness, rodeo bull riding, and sculpture. Aronson screens Beautiful Daughters at UM-St. Louis on March 18. |
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Choral Music—Discussion and Performance
Jim Henry, associate professor of music and director of choral studies at UM-St. Louis, discusses choral music and conducts an illustrative performance by a UM-St. Louis choral group. Conductor of the University Singers and the A Cappella Ensemble, Henry holds degrees in vocal music education, music theory, and music composition. His singing experience ranges from classical music to jazz. As a composer, Henry has won many awards for his songs and piano pieces. He is also a contributor to the new Encyclopedia of American Gospel Music. |
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| April |
| 7 |
Behind the Scenes with the Arianna String Quartet
The Arianna String Quartet members, based at UM-St. Louis, describe how the life of a professional string quartet is a complicated scheme of cooperation and coordination. Listen to examples and learn more about what goes into the music that you hear—all the negotiations and compromises that lead to compelling performances. |
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Stories from the World Village
Blake Travis, vocalist and percussionist, presents songs and stories celebrating human diversity and unity that spark our creative spirits. Blake shares stories from European, African, Native American, African American, and Asian cultures; cultures that have vast treasures and are rich in the storytelling tradition. This program previews those by Blake and other nationally known storytellers at the 29th annual St. Louis Storytelling Festival, April 30-May 3, with a final concert May 3 at the Touhill Performing Arts Center. Festival events are free and open to the public. |
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Land of the Dancing Gods: Inherited Guilt in Post-British India—Fiction Reading
Tony D'Souza reads from his new novel, The Konkans, a tale of adultery and crime set in India's Catholic Konkan community that follows a family of collaborators during the colonial period, the collapse of their luxurious lifestyle, and their immigration to America. Praise for The Konkans includes a "starred" Publishers Weekly review that raves, "D'Souza follows up the promise of Whiteman with this moving portrait of a mixed Indian—American family ... puts a fresh spin on the theme of cultural alienation, and achieves something even more universal as he shows how the characters are alone together in their family." D'Souza's first novel, Whiteman, received the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction and The New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award. He has
contributed fiction to The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, and O Henry: Prize Stories. |
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Women in Politics Worldwide: From Participation to Representation
Mona Lena Krook, assistant professor of political science and women and gender studies at Washington University, examines the state of women in world politics today. She looks at gender gaps in voting behavior, gender differences in social movement participation, variations in women's access to elected office, and the growing number of women national leaders. Krook has published extensively on women, gender, and politics worldwide, with a focus on women's political representation. |
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See the North Campus map for building and parking lot locations:
J.C. Penney Conference Center is building 2.
Park in Continuing Education spaces in Lot C.
Gallery 210 is in the Telecommunity Center, building 7.
Millenium Student Center is building 4.
Visitor parking is available in the MSC Garage North, building 54.
Campus is accessible by MetroLink. Get off at UMSL-North stop.
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| Financial assistance for this project was provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency; The Regional Arts Commission of Saint Louis; and Gallery 210. |
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