Posted on Feb 22, 2002

Events

Friday, Feb. 22, through Monday, Feb. 25, 8 and 10 p.m.

Reamer Auditorium

Film: Training Day

Friday, Feb. 22, 8 p.m.

Memorial Fieldhouse

Men's basketball vs. Hamilton in UCAA tournament Championship is Saturday at 4 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 26, 4:30 p.m.

Reamer Auditorium

General faculty meeting

Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.

Social Sciences Theater

Union Scholars film series “Testing the Limits” presents

Pink Flamingos with Charles Batson, modern languages, moderating.

Wednesday, Feb. 27, 7 p.m.

Social Sciences Theater

Union Scholars film series presents The Crying Game, moderated by Suzie Benack, psychology.

Thursday, Feb. 28, 11:30 a.m.

Memorial Chapel

Founders Day convocation with address by Cynthia Enloe, professor of government and director of women's studies at Clark University, titled “What Does it Mean to be a Global Citizen in a Militarized World? Some Feminist Clues.”

Convocation also will include presentation of the Gideon Hawley Teacher Recognition Award to a high school teacher who has been influential to a Union student.

Thursday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.

Arts Atrium Gallery

Reception for exhibitions “Pilgrimage” by Kevin Bubriski of visitors at the World Trade Center site; and “Clips,” a collection of news clips about photography coverage of recent world events from the New York Times, the New Yorker, and Life curated by Prof. Martin Benjamin.

Bubriski will give a slide talk at 3:30 p.m. in Arts 215. For more information, call ext. 6714.

Thursday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.

Memorial Chapel

The College's chamber concert series presents Lang Lang, piano, in a program to include Mendelssohn's Fantasies or Caprices, Op. 16; Schubert's Wanderer Fantasy; Chopin's Two Nocturnes; and Liszt's
Paganini Etudes. Tickets are $20,
half-price for students, Union students free. For more information, call 388-6131 or 372-3651.

Friday, March 1, 4:15 p.m.

Humanities 213

Rachel Brown of McGill University on “Where's the Self-Knowledge in Self-Deception?” Her talk is the last in the
philosophy department's Winter Colloquia.

Friday, March 1, 7 p.m.

Achilles Rink

Men's ice hockey vs. Colgate

Friday, March 1, through Monday, March 4, 8 and 10 p.m.

Reamer Auditorium

Film: The Last Castle

Exhibits

Through March 10

Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial

“Archi-neering,” an exhibition of drawings, photographs, models and video of work by the architect Helmut Jahn, named one of
the Ten Most Influential Living American Architects by the Institute of American Architects.

Through March 15

Social Science Faculty Lounge Art Gallery

“Intricate Perceptions,” a collaborative exhibit by Davide Cervone, mathematics; Patrick O'Rourke, formerly of Mandeville Gallery; and artist Jonathan Leavitt. Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Through March 21

Arts Atrium Gallery

Photography exhibits: “Pilgrimage” by Kevin Bubriski of visitors at the World Trade Center site; and “Clips,” curated by Prof. Martin Benjamin, a collection of news clips about photography coverage of recent world events. Slide talk and reception is set for Thursday, Feb. 28, at 3:30 p.m. in Arts 215 (talk) and in the gallery (reception at 4:30 p.m.).

Posted on Feb 22, 2002

His works are featured in “Pilgrimage” this month in

the gallery.

Showing concurrently is “Clips,” a selection of news

clips pertaining to photography coverage of recent world

events from sources such as the New York Times, New Yorker

and Life. It was curated by Martin Benjamin, professor of photography.

Both shows run through March 21.

Bubriski is a Vermont-based photographer who has

received Guggenheim and Fulbright fellowships as well as a

grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Some of

the photographs in “Pilgrimage” were published in a recent

special edition of DoubleTake magazine.

In that issue, Bubriski wrote: “I found people experiencing

a profound sense of community, but also the deepest kind

of personal reflection on loss and mortality … In this silence,

most visitors appeared to finally grasp the horror of the images

on television and in magazines and newspapers.”

For more information, call ext. 6714.

Posted on Feb 22, 2002

Daffodils, besides being the ushers of spring, are the

symbol of the American Cancer Society's fight against cancer.

Campus representatives are supporting Daffodil Days, an

ACS fundraiser, by taking flower orders through Monday, Feb.

25. Flowers will be delivered the week of March 18.

Bunches are $7; vases are $8; and bunches, greens and vases

are $20.

For information, contact Gretchel Tyson at ext. 6609,

or Kelly Lussier at ext. 6277.

Posted on Feb 22, 2002

Prof. Joyce Madancy's class in East Asian Traditions will

have an unusual visitor in Friday morning's class _ a

samurai personified by Ryan Mackey '01, complete with armor

and weapons.

Mackey, a member of the area chapter of the Society

for Creative Anachronism, adopted the Japanese warrior

persona after learning about the SCA from Prof. James Adrian of

chemistry, himself a former member of the organization.

For Mackey, a European history major with a minor

in East Asian Studies, the samurai was in part an outgrowth of

his senior thesis in which he compared European and

Japanese feudalism.

European knights were motivated largely by

religion, whereas their counterparts in Japan were internally

motivated by allegiance to their warlords, he explains. The knights of

Europe went on the Crusades. The Japanese warriors invaded

North Korea. Like the knights, samurai were either born into the

fighting caste or demonstrated an affinity for battle.

Mackey meets regularly with other members of the

local chapter of the SCA, but not entirely out of a passion for

re-creating the Japanese warrior class. “I'm in it for the

sword fighting,” he admits. “But I try

to make things historically accurate.”

Mackey made his own suit of armor, which goes from his

neck to his thighs. He has a helmet (now on loan to another

SCA samurai) and weapons made of bamboo.

A student in the College's MAT program, Mackey is

doing his student teaching at Ballston Spa High School. The ninth

grade class he is teaching is about to embark on a unit on

feudalism, and Mackey plans to play the part for their benefit: “I hope to

bring this into the classroom,” he said. “This is the history of the

world we're talking about.”

Madancy's class meets Friday at 10:50 a.m. in Social

Sciences 014.

Posted on Feb 22, 2002

If you live in France, you'll be able to see Lang Lang's

Union College concert series debut on television.

The rest of us can watch the 19-year-old piano virtuoso

in person on Thursday, Feb. 28, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel.

A French film crew will accompany the

Chinese-born prodigy at this Union concert. They are gathering footage for

a program about Lang Lang to be broadcast on ARTE,

France's cultural television channel. The show also will be seen in

Germany and other parts of Europe, but there is no indication it will

be seen by an American audience.

The Chinese-born prodigy has become an

international sensation, filling the world's most renowned venues, including

a sold-out Carnegie Hall debut last spring.

The solo piano program includes Mendelssohn's

Fantasies, Op. 16; Schubert's Wanderer

Fantasy; Chopin's Two Nocturnes; and Liszt's

Paganini Etudes. Tickets are $20, half-price

for students, Union students free. For more information, call

388-6131 or 372-3651.