Posted on Apr 4, 2007

Argentinean pianist Ingrid Fliter, recipient of the prestigious 2006 Gilmore Artist Award, will perform Wednesday, April 18 at 8 p.m. at Memorial Chapel as part of the Chamber Concert Series. The program includes Beethovens’ 32 Variations in c; Schubert’s Sonata in A, D. 959; and Chopin’s 3 Mazurkas and Sonata No. 3 in b, Opus 58.

Fliter is only the fifth pianist honored with the Gilmore award, which is given to an exceptional pianist who "possesses broad and profound musicianship and charisma and who desires and can sustain a career as a major international concert artist." Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, Fliter made her professional orchestra debut at the Teatro Colon in her native city at 16, and since then, she has performed at major concert halls worldwide. In 2002, she made her U.S. debut as the featured soloist on a tour with the Warsaw Philharmonic. This season, she is making recital debuts in San Francisco, Chicago, New York (Carnegie Hall) and London (Wigmore Hall).

The Union concert is free for the campus community; $20 for general admission and $10 for area students. For tickets, call ext. 6080; for more information, call 372-3651 or visit http://www.union.edu/ConcertSeries/.

Posted on Apr 4, 2007

Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m. / Schaffer Library's Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Speakers Series presents UMass-Amherst Professor Louise Antony

Thursday, April 12, 5 p.m. / Nott Memorial / Asian Student Union hosts discussion about the sexual exploitation of children

Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium /American Historical Association President Barbara Weinstein to discuss "Being a Historian in the Age of National (In)Security"

Friday, April 13, noon / Old Chapel / Ozone Café: The Organic Adventure

Friday, April 13, 4 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Memorial service for Hedda Hainebach, former coordinator of the language lab, chamber music enthusiast and loyal supporter of Union

Friday, April 13 – Monday, April 16, 7 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: "Apocalypto"

Saturday, April 14, 9 a.m. / Men’s and women’s crew vs. Rensselaer / Union Boathouse, Mohawk River

Sunday, April 15, noon / Tennis courts / Men’s tennis vs. Vassar

Sunday, April 15, 1 p.m. / Central Park, Schenectady / Men’s baseball vs. Vassar

Sunday, April 15, 1 p.m. / Central Park, Schenectady / Women’s lacrosse vs. Skidmore

Monday, April 16, 5:15 p.m. / Everest Lounge / Social hour with Steinmetz Memorial Lecturer William Wulf, president, National Academy of Engineering; followed by dinner at 6 p.m.

Monday, April 16, 7:30 p.m. / 68th Steinmetz Memorial Lecture / Memorial Chapel / William Wulf, president, National Academy of Engineering

Tuesday, April 17, 4 p.m. / Central Park, Schenectady / Men’s baseball vs. SUNY Oneonta

Wednesday, April 18, 5:30 p.m. / Sorum House / Dinner with author Walter Mosley

Wednesday, April 18, 6 p.m. / Arts 215 / Feminist Film Series presents "The Syrian Bride," directed by Eran Riklis

Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / The Minerva Dessert and Discussion Series presents author Walter Mosley

Wednesday, April 18, 8 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series presents Ingrid Fliter, piano

Friday, April 20, noon / Old Chapel / Ozone Café: The Organic Adventure

Friday, April 20 – Monday, 23, 8 and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: "Stomp the Yard"

Saturday, April 21, 12 p.m. / Central Park, Schenectady / Men’s baseball vs. Rensselaer

Saturday, April 21, 1 p.m. / Alexander Field / Women’s softball vs. Skidmore

Saturday, April 21, 2 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Women’s lacrosse vs. William Smith

Sunday, April 22, 9 a.m. / Union Boathouse, Mohawk River / Men’s and women’s crew vs. St. Lawrence and Skidmore

Sunday, April 22, 1 p.m. / Frank Bailey Field / Men’s lacrosse vs. St. Lawrence

Posted on Apr 4, 2007

Through May 2

This show features 16 photos taken by Hsia, a History major from Shanghai who traveled to Turkey and Israel last winter, in part for her senior thesis research. Her project, she says, “is part of a larger desire I have to explore and understand history and culture in the Middle East. My hope is that this project conveys more than just the beauty of places and people in Israel and Turkey; I also hope to share some insight on my perception of social and cultural realities in the Middle East.”

Through May 6

This selection of prints and photographs from the Union College Permanent Collection and the Special Collections of Schaffer Library includes prints by Albers, Audubon, Blake, Benton, Bittleman, Corot, Hatke, Hockney, Krasner, Millet, Rauschenberg, Rivers, Ruscha, Tiepolo and Wimer; and photographs by Benjamin, Doisneau, Erwitt and Stillman. It is a collaboration among the Gallery, Permanent Collection, Visual Arts Department and Special Collections. It was curated by Rachel Seligman, Mandeville Gallery director, with Visual Arts Professor David Ogawa and Stephanie Berlind '09, for whom it is a Sophomore Research Project.

Posted on Apr 4, 2007

Reappointment review committees have been formed for two assistant professors: George Bizer, Psychology, and Laurie Tyler, Chemistry. Members of the campus community are invited to offer written or oral testimony to committee members. Committees (with chairs listed first), are:

George Bizer: Linda Stanhope, Psychology (ext. 6543, stanhopl@union.edu); Stephen Romero, Psychology; and Melinda Goldner, Sociology.

Laurie Tyler: James Adrian, Chemistry (ext. 6406, adrianj@union.edu); Michael Hagerman, Chemistry; and Kristin Fox, Chemistry.

Posted on Apr 4, 2007

Alan Taylor, the Marie Louise Bailey Professor of Mathematics, has been named the recipient of the Clarence F. Stephens Distinguished Teaching Award of the Mathematical Association of America, Seaway Section. This section includes all of New York north of the Pennsylvania border as well as the provinces of Quebec and Ontario (excluding Thunder Bay). Taylor will receive his award April 27 at the State University of New York College at Oneonta.

Lorraine Morales Cox, assistant professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, presented a paper titled “The Power and Poetics of Jonathan Calm's Urban Video Collages” in October at Columbia University in New York for the New York Metro American Studies Association conference, “Crash / Landings: Friction and Flow in the American City.”

Christine Henseler, associate professor of Spanish and director of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, is the co-editor of “Generation X Rocks: Contemporary Peninsular Fiction, Film and Rock Culture” (Vanderbilt University Press, April 2007), with Randolph Pope, the Commonwealth Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Virginia. This volume of essays explores the popular cultural effects of rock culture on high literary production in Spain in the 1990s.

Hans-Friedrich Mueller, the William D. Williams Professor of Classics and department chair, will deliver a paper at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Cincinnati, Ohio, April 14. The paper is titled, “School Politics and the Monarch's Court: Speusippus' Letter to Philip.”