Through March 16
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“Recent Work: Sculpture & Drawings”
A Union College
Faculty Exhibition by Chris Duncan.
Through March 21
SSFLAG Gallery, Social Sciences
Exhibit of quilts by Linda O'Connor and Barbara Mellinger
Through March
24
Arts Atrium Gallery
“Time and Youth,” photographs by Knut Hybinette examining the aging process and
the individuals' stories.
Friday, Feb. 21, 1 to 3 p.m.
Old
Chapel
Contra Dance with fiddle music by Taconic Tonic with caller Paul Rosenberg
Free with Union ID; $5 general admission. Info: (518) 388-6201
Friday, Feb. 21, 3:30 p.m.
Women's Studies Lounge, Reamer Campus Center
“Motherless Daughters” with Shelly Cofield and Sarah Dohrmann, discussing “The Mommy Place” program they founded in New York City to work with girls who have lost their mothers. Especially important in assisting girls who lost mothers in the World Trade Center attacks, the organization also assists fathers who are raising children alone.
Friday, Feb. 21 to Monday, Feb. 24, 8 & 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: Jackass, the Movie
Friday, Feb. 21, 6 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. St. Lawrence
Friday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence
Saturday, Feb. 22, 2 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Clarkson
Saturday, Feb. 22, 4 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. Clarkson
Monday, Feb. 24, noon
First floor Reamer Campus Center
Opening of Women's History Month bulletin board that will feature photos and narratives from members of the campus community under a banner that reads, “This is what feminists look like.” The opening will feature a reading by Prof. Peter Heinegg.
Monday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.
SS016
Film, Bread and Roses, about Latino
work and union organizing in Los Angeles.
Discussion to follow moderated by Profs. John Stoner and Teresa
Meade. Also sponsored by Latinas Hermanidades.
Monday, Feb. 24, 7 p.m.
Chet's
Debate with students and faculty, “Can Minorities Be Racist? Or is it
Prejudice?”
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 6 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. Williams
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.
Yulman Theater
Opening performance of The Laramie Project – the story of bigotry and tolerance as told by Laramie, Wyo., residents after gay student Matthew Shepard's 1998 murder. Performances will be at 8 p.m. Feb. 25 through March 1 and at 2 p.m. March 2. For tickets and information, contact the theater box office at (518) 388-6545.
Tuesday, Feb. 25, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Williams
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
A Panel on Derogatory Words – Learn the history and impact of these damaging
words
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 7:30 p.m.
Nott Memorial
Science writer Philip Ball on “The Age of Molecular Engineering.” Part of the series on General Education Science sponsored by the Hewlett Foundation. Free and open to the public.
Wednesday, Feb. 26, 8 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Union College Jazz Ensemble with Prof.
Tim Olsen, director
Free admission. Info: (518) 388-6201
Thursday, Feb. 27, 11:30 a.m.
Memorial
Chapel
Founders Day Convocation. Address by science writer Philip Ball:
“Nanotechnology in Fact and Fiction.”
Thursday, Feb. 27, 7:30 p.m.
Nott
Memorial
“Vagina Monologues”
$5 admission – Proceeds to benefit a women's shelter
Friday, Feb. 28 to Monday, March 3, 8 & 10 p.m.
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium
Film: 8 Mile
Friday, Feb. 28, 4:30 p.m.
Humanities
213
Philosophy Colloquia: Guest speaker Regina Kreide, University of Frankfurt, “Human Rights and Its
Critics”
Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Men's basketball vs. Vermont
Friday, Feb. 28, 7 p.m.
Achilles
Rink
Men's hockey vs. Vermont
Friday, Feb. 28, 8 p.m.
Memorial
Field House
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence
Women's Studies is getting a head start on Women's History
Month in March.
“Because Union's calendar gives us
only a couple weeks in March, we are beginning the events in late February and
extending them into March,” said Teresa Meade,
director of Women's Studies. For more information, call ext. 6423.
Here is the schedule of events:
Friday, Feb. 21, 3:30 p.m.
Women's Studies Lounge, Reamer
Campus Center
“Motherless Daughters” with Shelly
Cofield and Sarah Dohrmann, discussing “The Mommy Place” program they founded
in New York City to work with girls
who have lost their mothers. Especially important in assisting girls who lost
mothers in the World Trade
Center attacks, the organization
also assists fathers who are raising children alone.
Monday, Feb. 24, noon
First floor Reamer Campus
Center
Opening of Women's History Month bulletin board that will
feature photos and narratives from members of the campus community under a
banner that reads, “This is what feminists look like.” The event will feature a reading by Prof. Peter Heinegg.
Monday, Feb. 24, 6:30 p.m.
SS016
Film, Bread and Roses, about Latino
work and union organizing in Los Angeles.
Discussion to follow moderated by Profs. John Stoner and Teresa
Meade. Also sponsored by Latinas Hermanidades.
Thursday, Feb.
27, 7:30 p.m.
Nott
Memorial
“Vagina Monologues”
$5 admission – Proceeds to benefit a women's shelter.
Friday, March 7, 7 p.m.
Hale House
FemFest dance party with DJ.
Party with DJ in Hale House Lounge. An event for the entire campus
community in support of International Women's
Day on March 8.
Robert Sharlet,
Chauncey Winters Research Professor of Political Science, served as commentator
on a panel on the jurisprudence and case law of the Russian
Constitutional Court at the national conference of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies held in Pittsburgh
recently. He has agreed to serve as consultant to Law and Society Review, an international journal of comparative law, for manuscripts on Russian law and
courts.
Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor
of Literary and Historical Studies, has published a critical edition of
Gertrude Stein's Three Lives (Simon
& Schuster, Pocket Books). The edition contains the introduction written by
Wineapple and an appendix that includes her selection of Stein's comments on
the stories and excerpts from critical responses,
positive and negative, to Stein's unusual style.