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Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works: Exploring Persuasion in Health Communication (from Stating to “Shoulding”) A Talk by David Lee

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Date: Thursday, March 10, 2016 Time: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Location: A631   Globalization, migration, extreme weather events and multilingual populations present a need for better Health Communication. Public health campaigns are always trying new ways to reach target populations but these days people are bombarded with a cacophony of health related messages and it's harder

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Prof. Christopher Swift presents The Cantinas de Santa Maria: Illuminating a History of Performance in 13th-Century Seville and Toledo

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Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2016 Time: 1 - 2 pm Location: A631   Christopher Swift discusses evidence of performance in the four extant manuscripts of the Songs of Holy Mary by King Alfonso X "El Sabio". Although this talk will not definitively settle the academic debate about staging of the songs during Alfonso's reign, Dr. Swift presents abundant visual

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Professor Khalid Lachheb presents The “Modern” Arabic Dictionary: Truth or Fallacy?

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Place: A-631 Date: May 17, 2016 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM Although the first Arabic dictionary was developed with Al-Khalil in the eighth century, the state of the art in Arabic dictionaries has not made much progress and falls far behind dictionaries for other languages, namely the Oxford and Cobuild for English and Larousse and Le Robert

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Professor David Sanchez Jimenez presents 400 Years: Cervantes in the Spanish Language and the Spanish Language in Cervantes

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Professor David Sanchez Jimenez writes: In 2016 we celebrate the death anniversaries of Miguel de Cervantes and William Shakespeare, two of the most influential authors of all time in Spanish and English literature. Both of them are well known for their contributions to spreading language in a universal way, much as Homer, Virgil or Ovid

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Prof. Zhijian Qian presents Is There a Chinese Type of Abstraction?

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Professor Zhijian Qian writes: In the recent worldwide resurgence of abstract art, Chinese artists are making their unique contribution with works inspired by the tradition of Chinese ink painting and calligraphy. Their exploration of new possibilities of abstraction is part of a global endeavor to revive and redefine abstract art. This presentation discusses the achievements

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Music by Harris, Lyrics by Shakespeare

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Matthew Harris’s award-winning Shakespeare Songs, Books I-VI is performed by choruses worldwide. Come hear him play selections and discuss the texts. Professor Harris’s contrarian approach to Shakespeare’s texts sometimes involves turning them into folk or even quasi-pop songs. Professor Harris will end with a preview of his work-in-the-works, Book VII, which premieres this spring.

Humanities Seminar: Works in the Works – Pinkie and The Blue Boy: Material Culture and Immigrant Identity

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In June Cleaver’s home, reproductions of Thomas Gainsborough’s The Blue Boy (1770) and Sir Thomas Lawrence’s Pinkie (1794) hang in the foyer. For television viewers who tuned in to watch their favorite postwar family sitcom, “Leave it to Beaver,” the paintings represented traditional gender roles and a new type of domestic affluence and consumerism for

Works in the Works: Beyond Broadcasting presented by Professor Robert Redding

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Veteran broadcaster for over 20 years, Professor Robert Redding has been heard in all 50 states. This best-selling music artist and author of seven best-selling books has now brought his innovative art to the largest art market in the world. Our newest adjunct explains how and why he keeps looking beyond broadcasting. Faculty, Staff, and

Works in the Works: Cathy Santore

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Delight in Disorder "A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness;... Do more bewitch me, than when art Is too precise in every part." Sixteenth-century Venetian painters catered to the niche market for pictures of “disheveled” women, a new genre of portraiture—half-length, close-up, pictures of women with hair and clothing in slight

Humanities Department presents Works in the Works:A Talk by Sarah Standing

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350.org as Localized Trans-Global Performance

On a single “Day of Climate Action” in 2009, 350.org created over 5,000 eco-actions in 180 countries around the world. The next year, they initiated the "Planet-Scale Art Project." In this talk, Professor Standing investigates the implications of 350’s trans-global activism as art and performance.

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