Dartmouth’s Leslie Center for the Humanities invites attention to childhood and the emerging field of child studies with “Reimagining the Child and the Place of Child Studies in the Academy,” an interdisciplinary conference set for Tuesday, May 1, co-presented with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Sessions begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Haldeman Center.
[more]Read the full story at Hopkins Center news. When the students of the Dartmouth Dance Theater Ensemble premiered their original work Undue Influence in May 2011, they wondered—worried, even—how their peers, and the college as a whole, would react to this frank account of sexual assault in the college social environment.
[more]Listen to a February 2011 podcast in which Ted Levin reflects on his three decades of music research and shares an excerpt from "Getme, Getme" from the "Music of Central Asia, Volume 8: Rainbow featuring the Kronos Quartet with Alim and Fargana Qasimov and Homayun Sakhi" Ethnomusicologist Theodore Levin, the Arthur R. Virgin Professor of Music, will present Dartmouth’s 24th Presidential Lecture, “Why Music Matters,” on Tuesday, February 28, at 5 p.m. in Dartmouth Hall 105.
[more]Dartmouth’s Department of Spanish and Portuguese will host a major international symposium, “The Independence Effect,” examining the influences behind independence movements in Latin America. The symposium runs from Thursday, October 27 through Saturday, October 29 and is open to the public.
[more]turkle.jpg Sherry Turkle, author of the new book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. (photo by Peter Urban)
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