Attend lectures, performances, and more!
January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall
The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image?
Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present鈥檚 relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures鈥攕ome real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.
Free |
New Exhibition: , Henry Art Gallery
February 3, 7 – 9 pm |
Thick as Mud explores how mud animates relationships between people and place, with works by an international roster of artists. Across multiple geographies and a range of aesthetic approaches鈥攆rom figurative clay sculpture to audio recordings of the swamp鈥攖hese artists engage mud as a material or subject that shapes personal and collective histories, memory, and imagination.
Free |
February 1, 7 – 9 PM | , Music Building – Brechemin Auditorium
A selection of 12 poems by poets from Latin America, Spain, US Hispanics and a Sephardic poet from Greece, set to music and sung by renowned Spanish musician and ethnomusicologist Paco D铆ez, and translated and read in English by Tony Geist.
Sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese Studies, the Dean of Arts, the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the President of 天美影视传媒, and the Cervantes Institute.
Free |
February 3, 7:30 PM | , Meany Hall
David Alexander Rahbee leads the University Symphony in a program of music by Debussy, Dukas, Ligeti, Reynaldo Hahn, and Haydn. With faculty artist Carrie Shaw, coloratura soprano on Ligeti鈥檚 Mysteries of the Macabre, from Le Grand Macabre.
$10 tickets |
February 4 and 5 | , Henry Art Gallery Auditorium
Attend a film screening curated by DIS Collective as the final programming of Donna Huanca: MAGMA SLIT, which closes Sunday, February 5. The screening is also held in conjunction with the opening weekend of the Thick as Mud.
DIS is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle, Solomon Chase, Marco Roso, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. Across its various endeavors, DIS explores the tension between popular culture and institutional critique, while facilitating projects for the most public and democratic of all forums鈥攖he Internet. DIS has recently shown work at Frieze Art Fair, New Museum Triennial, Mus茅e d鈥橝rt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MoMA, and more.
Free |
School of Music Concerts 
January 31 | , Brechemin Auditorium
February 3 | , Brechemin Auditorium
PLAN AHEAD:
February 8 |
February 9 – 11 |
February 11 |
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