Thursday, Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m. / Old Chapel / “From Auction Block to Hip Hop,” an off-Broadway play that chronicles the life of a young black entrepreneur; sponsored by Black Student Union, ALAS, UNITAS, departments of History, Music and English, Africana Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Campus Diversity and Multicultural Affairs. Reception to follow at Sorum House. Part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Series. For more information, contact BSU President Nadia Alexis, alexisn@union.edu.
Thursday, Jan. 15, 7 p.m. / Breazzano House / Memorial and candlelight vigil for Mumbai; hosted by Breazzano House and Hillel
Friday, Jan. 16, 5 p.m. / Mandeville Gallery and downtown Schenectady, various venues / Art Night Schenectady
Friday, Jan. 16, 7 p.m. / The Nott Memorial / The Dutch Pipers host Drew University’s all-male a cappella group, with performances by the Dutch Pipers, Garnet Minstrelles and Eliphalets
Friday, Jan. 16, 7:30 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. Cornell (ECAC contest)
Friday, Jan. 17, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. Colgate (ECAC contest)
Friday, Jan. 17 – Monday, Jan. 19, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist”
Monday, Jan. 19, 9 a.m. (and continuing for six sessions throughout the day) / Reamer Campus Center Room 305, Strauss Unity Room: The Human Race Machine, a computerized program, will enable participants to see themselves with African, Asian, Hispanic, Indian, Middle Eastern and white facial characteristics mapped onto their own faces; part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Series. To reserve space, contact Karen Ferrer-Muniz, ferrermk@union.edu.
Monday, Jan. 19, 5:30 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium: PBS documentary, “Race: the Power of an Illusion”; part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Series.
Tuesday, Jan. 20, 11:30 a.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium: Broadcasting of the presidential inauguration. The theme for the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama is “A New Birth of Freedom,” which honors the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 7 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Latin American and Caribbean Studies Film Series presents: “Frida”; part of series of events connected with the Mandeville Gallery’s “Parabolas Mexicanas – Paintings, Prints and Drawings by González and Francisco Verástegui”
Wednesday, Jan. 21, 7 p.m. / Old Chapel: “Léonora Miano: France’s Hippest Afro-Francophone Writer.” The author reads from her latest novel, “Tel des astres éteints (Like Fading Stars)”; part of the Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Series.
Thursday, Jan. 22, 12:50 p.m. / Social Sciences Room 104 / Pizza & Politics presents historian Mark Lytle of Bard College, speaking on "Rachel Carson: Saint or Sinner"
Thursday, Jan. 22, 4:30 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Department Speaker Series presents Tom Kasulis of The Ohio State University on: “Zen Buddhism and Creativity,” co-sponsored with the Religious Studies Program. Funding provided by the Ichabod Spencer Foundation
Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. St. Lawrence (ECAC contest)
Friday, Jan. 23 – Monday Jan. 26, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Zack and Miri”
Saturday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Clarkson (ECAC contest)
Sunday, Jan. 25, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series presents: Emanuel Ax, piano