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In this talk Dr. David Smith presents the case for a reinterpretation of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s full throated entrance into the world of popular commercial theatre with his last Opera die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute, 1791). In the context of Dr. Smith’s ongoing composition of an operatic sequel to die Zauberflöte, he discusses the nature
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to October's Works-in-the-Works event In this talk Prof. McAuliffe will examine the design of sixteenth-century European tapestries and the cartoons, or full-size colored drawings, that were used as models in the workshops of Flemish weavers. The artists Raphael (1483–1520) and Giulio Romano (1499–1546) were the most influential Italian
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to February's Works-in-the-Works event A talk by Profs. Ting Chin and Christopher S. The City Performs: An Architectural History of NYC Theatre. In this presentation, we will discuss our teaching collaboration in the interdisciplinary course History of the Theatre: Stages and Technology. Faculty, staff, and students are invited. Refreshments served, no
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to March's Works-in-the-Works event Two Spanish authors propose different ideas of love. St. John of the Cross, a 16th-century mystic, is devoted to spiritual,
Citation processes are shaped in a textual context that characterizes the academic discourse within each genre, such as disciplinary community or cultural framework The interplay between the citation processes and context in turn generates new knowledge between the writer and reader. In this presentation, I discuss the cross-cultural differences in citations used in their research
The Humanities Department presents…………… A Talk by Sarah Standing Beginning in the mid-1970s, Greenpeace’s “Save the Whales” Campaign became a successful weapon against international whaling. Today, oceanic warming causes shifts
The Humanities Department cordially invites you to September's Works-in-the-Works event A talk by Prof. Zheng Zhu Ending Stereotypes on The College Campus – An Unending Journey This talk
A talk by Kerin E. Coughlin These are the stories of three mothers who, over one hundred years, used the U.S. courts to fight gender inequality. One fought for women's
Speaker: Zheng Zhu, Humanities Department This talk analyzes a Hong Kong-based newspaper's representation of African countries and how it constructs the mainland government's neo-imperialistic domination of Sino-Africa trade relations. The findings reveal that The South China Morning Post, a privately-owned Hong Kong newspaper, criticizes the Chinese government's exploitation of the African continent by adopting the
Clowning Around?: Reimagining Political Transformation in Late-Twentieth-Century Grotesque Theatre In this presentation, I discuss my most recent book project, which focuses on the figure of the clown in late twentieth-century
