Thursday, Jan. 29, 4:30 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Lecture: “Mexican Art Today: Enrique Chagoya and Nahum Zenil” by Guisela Latore, assistant professor at The Ohio State University; part of a series of events connected with the Mandeville Gallery’s “Parabolas Mexicanas – Paintings, Prints and Drawings by Bernardo González and Francisco Verástegui”
Thursday, Jan. 29, 5-7 p.m. / Breazzano House / Sigma Delta Tau wine and cheese ge-together with faculty and staff; administrators
Thursday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. / Yulman Theater / Departments of English, and Theater and Dance present a staged reading of Schenectady native Josh Tobiessen’s “Election Day,” a romp through the wild world of eccentric environmentalists, yuppies and a mayoral candidate who will do anything for a vote. Directed by Prof. William Finlay, with Q & A and reception to follow. Called “an outrageous comedy” by the New York Times, the play is included in the collection, “New Playwrights, the Best Plays of 2008” (Smith and Kraus) and is also published separately by Samuel French Publishers. Tobiessen is the son of Peter Tobiessen, professor of biology emeritus, and Joanne Tobiessen, retired director of Becker Career Center.
Thursday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m. / Iris House / Speaker from Lambda Legal, LGBTQ advocacy group, on marriage, civil unions and other legal issues facing the LGBTQ community
Friday, Jan. 30, 6 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. Vassar
Friday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Harvard (ECAC contest)
Friday, Jan. 30- Feb. 2, 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Role Models”
Friday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men’s basketball vs. Vassar
Friday, Jan. 30, 2 p.m. / Women’s basketball vs. RPI
Friday, Jan. 30, 4 p.m. / Men’s basketball vs. RPI
Saturday, Jan. 31, 4 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Women’s hockey vs. Dartmouth (ECAC contest)
Sunday, Feb. 1, 3 p.m. / Memorial Chapel / Chamber Concert Series presents: Emerson String Quartet
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 6 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Women’s basketball vs. Skidmore
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 8 p.m. / Viniar Athletic Center / Men’s basketball vs. Skidmore
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Parabolas Mexicanas Film Series presents: “Batalla en el Cielo.” Co-sponsored by the Mandeville Gallery, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, and the departments of History and Modern Languages and Literatures.
Wednesday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m. / Nott Memorial / 2009 Environmental Science, Policy and Engineering Winter Seminar Series presents: “From Silent Spring to Silent Night,” presentation by Tyrone Hayes, integrative biologist, of the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on the role of steroid hormones in amphibian development
Thursday, Feb. 5, 4:30-6:30 p.m. / Schaffer Library, Phi Beta Kappa Room / Philosophy Speaker Series presents: Louis Loeb, University of Michigan on “Locke and British Empiricism”
Thursday, Feb 5, 7:30 p.m. / Taylor Music Center, Fred L. Emerson Foundation Auditorium / Department of Music presents: A Trio of Trios, Florence Piano Trio with Sarah Briggs Cornelius, violin; Volcy Pelletier, cello; Monica Jakuc Leverett, piano in program of Haydn, Tann, Turina, Brahms; free and open to the public
Friday, Feb. 6 – Monday, Feb. 9, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. / Reamer Campus Center Auditorium / Film: “Changeling”
Saturday, Feb. 7, 2 p.m. / Alumni Gymnasium Pool / Women’s and men’s swimming vs. Ithaca
Saturday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m. / Messa Rink at Achilles Center / Men’s hockey vs. RPI (ECAC contest)
Saturday, Feb. 7, 8 p.m.- midnight / College Park Hall / Winter Ball, featuring music, food, dancing, entertainment and raffles; proceeds support the Diana Legacy Fund for Hospice Care in sub-Saharan Africa.