The daughter of a Jamaican mother and an English father, novelist Zadie Smith writes stories about people who straddle different cultures and ideologies, from Bangladeshi immigrants in London to Jehovah’s Witness converts to affluent professionals still reluctantly tied to their working-class roots.
[more]Novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje will read from his work at 4 p.m., on Oct. 20, in an event sponsored by Dartmouth’s Leslie Center for the Humanities. The reading will take place in room 003 in the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy.
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Hands crawling with ants, eyeballs slit with razors, men in nuns’ habits riding bicycles? If Hanover seems more surreal than usual next week, it’s because the international conference “Dalí, Lorca, and Buñuel in America,” which runs from Oct. 15–17, will be in town.
[more]On Oct. 16 the College will host “Catalyzing Community: A Humanities Symposium on Digital Learning and Engagement” from 1-5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall Room 105. The symposium will address what it means to teach arts and humanities disciplines for global audiences such as those made possible by massive open online (MOOC) platforms—exploring ways both to scale learning opportunities in these disciplines to larger audiences and adapt digital learning strategies in traditional residential classroom settings.
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