Posted on May 14, 2004

Saturday, May 15
8 p.m. – Yulman Theater – The Mountebanks
present The Complete Works of Shakespeare

Saturday, May 15, to Monday, May 17
8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: 50 First Dates

Saturday, May 15
West Beach – Spring Fest
3:30 p.m. – Arts Bldg, 215 – A lecture featuring Anthony Bannon, director
of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film in
Rochester, N.Y.

Monday, May 17
7 p.m. – Old Chapel – Holocaust survivor Yaffa
Eliach will present Hasidic Tales of the
Holocaust. Sponsored by the College's Jewish Chaplaincy, History
Department, Minerva Committee, and Hillel.

Tuesday, May 18, to Saturday, May 22
8 p.m. – Yulman Theater – Play, Six Degrees of Separation, directed by Joann Yarrow. For tickets and information, call the
box office at 388-6545. (Final performance Sunday, May 23, 2 p.m.)

Wednesday, May 19
7:30 p.m. — Nott Memorial — Martin Jay '65, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak on “The Ambivalent Virtues of Mendacity: How Europeans Taught (Some of) Us to Learn to Love the Lies of Politics.” His talk, part of 2004 Perspectives at the Nott series, is free and open to the public.
8 p.m. – South College,
Green Living Room – LACS Film Series continues with Amores Perros (Mexico, A. González Inárritu, 2000). Synopsis: A car
crash links a young punk, a supermodel, and an ex-radical turned hit man.

Friday, May 21 to Sunday, May 23
ReUnion Weekend – For the events schedule, visit http://www.union.edu/Reunion

Friday, May 21
10 p.m. – Jackson's Garden – “Party in the Garden.”

Friday, May 21 to Monday, May 24
8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Miracle.

Sunday, May 23
2 p.m. – Yulman Theater – Final performance, Six Degrees of Separation. Call the box
office for tickets and information 388-6545.

Posted on May 14, 2004

Cheikh M. Ndiaye, assistant professor
of French, published an article, “La
Mort, signe de révèlation de soi dans Une si longue lettre
de Mariama Bâ et dans L'Interdite
de Malika Mokeddem” in Francographies,
a  Francophone review for the SPFFA (Society of French and Francophone
Professors in America)
(Issue 12, Nouvelle Série 2003:
69-77). He also published in the same review, “Voix d'une femme exilée: L'écriture de l'espace et de la mémoire chez
Calixthe Beyala,” in 2002 (Issue 11, Nouvelle Série: 135-143)

Posted on May 14, 2004

Christine Henseler, assistant professor
of Spanish, gave a lecture at Harvard University on May 10 in honor of retiring
University of Kansas Professor Robert C. Sprires at a conference titled
“Narrative Aspirations: Spain, Modernity, and Literature.” The title
of Henseler's talk was “Uncovering Lucía Etxebarria: The Visual Power of
Female Authorship in Contemporary Spain.” Also, her interview with contemporary Spanish writer Espido Freire,
was accepted for publication by the academic journal Letras Peninsulares. “Del
bien y del mal: una entrevista con Espido Freire” is to appear in the 17.2 Fall
2004 issue.

Posted on May 14, 2004

The
1993 award-winning play, Six Degrees of
Separation, will be performed by Theater Union Tuesday through Saturday,
May 18 to 22 at 8 p.m.;
and Sunday, May 23, at 2 p.m.

The
play, directed by Prof. Joanne Yarrow, is based on a true-life incident. It reveals
in alternately comic and dramatic portrayals, the delicate “threads of chance”
that mysteriously wend through our lives.

The
plot centers on an urbane conman's sophisticated incursion into the lives of Manhattan's Upper Eastside gentry. Arriving bloodied and battered
on a couple's doorstep after being “mugged,” he reveals that he is Sidney
Poitier's son and their son's college chum. Intelligent, articulate, and witty,
the young man soon inveigles his way into their lives. The dénouement comes
when his ruse unravels and the couple learns that others in their social set
have been similarly scammed. Yet, their lives have been touched by their shared
experience.

“[The
play] presents us with a myriad of social issues and questions,” Yarrow explains.
“John Guare, the playwright, brings to the stage the subjects of homosexuality,
racism, classism and the indirect relationship we have to all other human
beings on this planet. The play is an act of self-reflection through
storytelling and the sharing of an experience. It questions our morals, our
values, our depth, our reality, our humanity and above all our imagination. It
is a play that lets you laugh, cry and think. The play is about the imagination
and, as one of the characters states: 'The imagination is not our escape – it
is the place we are all trying to get to.'”

Theater
Union's production is different, Yarrow says,
in that “We are setting it in the present time, in a cocktail bar with the
audience sitting on three sides of the theatre.”

The
play won an Oliver Award and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

For
tickets and information, call the Yulman Theater box office at 388-6545.

Posted on May 14, 2004

The Alumni
Council will recognize the service of three alumni and one faculty member at
their ReUnion convocation on May 22.

Receiving the Alumni
Gold Medal will be William Burns '54, retired
vice chairman and director of NYNEX and life trustee of the College; James
Lippman '79, president of JRK Asset Management and chair of ReUnion 2004; and
Dr. Estelle Cooke-Sampson '74, a Washington, D.C.-based radiologist and trustee
of the College.

George Gmelch,
professor of anthropology and leader of many Union term abroad programs, is to
receive the Alumni Council's Faculty
Meritorious Service Award.

The convocation is set for
Saturday, May 22, at 11 a.m. in
Memorial Chapel. The traditional ReUnion Alumni
Parade steps off at 10:30 a.m.

For more about ReUnion 2004, visit
the website: http://www.union.edu/ReUnion.