Posted on Jan 15, 1999

Dancer Ken Pierce will demonstrate basic steps of the minuet and other dances common at
the time of J.S. Bach in a workshop on Thursday, Jan. 21, 1999, from 1:30 to 3:20 p.m. in
Memorial Chapel. Audience is invited to participate.

On Friday, Jan. 22, at 8 p.m., in Memorial Chapel, four dancers and three musicians
from the Ken Pierce Baroque Dance Company will present a concert, “The Splendor of
Baroque Dance.”

Events are part of “Baroque Dance and Music,” by the Department of Performing
Arts.

Posted on Jan 15, 1999

About 70 attended the annual staff holiday luncheon last month, raising more than $200
for a Union student, and donating more than 70 gifts to residents of the Glendale Nursing
Home, according to Diana Mirabile, chair of the committee that planned the event.

A string quartet from Schenectady High School performed during the luncheon.

Posted on Jan 15, 1999

An ad hoc committee has been formed to consider the tenurability of A.T. Miller,
associate professor of history. Members are Erik Hansen, history; Byron Nichols, political
science; Harry Marten, English; and Jay Newman, physics, committee chair.

Members of the campus community who would like to offer oral or written testimony
concerning Prof. Miller's teaching, scholarship or college service may contact Prof.
Newman (ext. 6506, newmanj@union.edu) or another member of the committee.

Posted on Jan 15, 1999

Members of the campus community are making plans for bus excursions to New York City,
Boston and Montreal this year.

Here is the schedule:

April 24, New York City

July 31, Boston for Red Sox v. Yankees game

Oct. 2, Montreal

Dec. 4, New York City for annual Radio City Christmas Show

For information and reservations, please call George Schiller, who has coordinated the
trips, at ext. 6108. All trips need 40 riders, except for Boston, which needs 45. The
Radio City and Boston trips are starting to fill up from word of mouth only, he reports.

Posted on Jan 15, 1999

January 4, 1999

1. Linda Stanhope welcomed our new member, Alex Militello '01.

2. The minutes of Nov. 9, 1998 were approved.

3. The procedures for the upcoming external review of the Sociology Department were
discussed. The letters of concern from the senior department members written to the Deans
and the chair of the AAC will be distributed to the AAC, and their concerns will be part
of the discussion when the chair of the Sociology Department presents the departmental
discussion of the report to the AAC.

4. Linda Cool presented material on the calendar including a proposed schedule and a
compilation of “pros and cons.” This material will be read by two faculty not on
the AAC, one who is in favor of the trimester and one who is in favor of a semester. The
material will be reviewed by the Board of Trustees, and Dean Cool will report back a sense
of the Board. Following the Board's decision, the AAC will distribute the report to
the community. The Council members will review the material before the next meeting.

Posted on Jan 14, 1999

A dual exhibit opening Jan. 14 in the Nott Memorial explores the

American slave experience.

• Twelve Years a Slave: The Kidnapping, Enslavement & Rescue of Solomon Northup.

  Photographs, prints, documents and artifacts retell the story of Solomon Northup, a

  resident of Saratoga Springs, who was kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery.

• Powre Above Powres: Passing Freedom. Installation exhibit by Terry Adkins, which

  features a series of sculptures and drawings inspired by the story of Solomon Northup and

  attuned to the architecture and geometry of Union's Nott Memorial.

The exhibit opens Thursday, Jan. 14, at 4:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial with a slide

lecture and reception with artist Terry Adkins. A reception and gallery talk by Sue Eakin,

co-editor of the 1968 book Twelve Years a Slave is set for Thursday, Jan. 21, at

7:30 p.m. The exhibits run through March 14.

Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Friday 9 a.m. to 5

p.m.; Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.; and Sunday, noon to 10 p.m.

A number of events to be presented throughout the exhibit will be detailed in future

editions of the Chronicle. The complete listing follows:

NOTED. EVENTS ARE FREE/OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

• Gallery talk and reception with Terry Adkins: Slide lecture and opening reception

  for Powre Above Powres-Passing Freedom.

Thursday, Feb. 4 (rescheduled from Jan. 14)

4:30 – 7p.m.

• The Narrative of Solomon Northup: Gallery talk and opening reception for Twelve

  Years A Slave – The Kidnapping, Enslavement and Rescue of Solomon Northup. Dr. Sue

  Eakin, co-editor of the 1968 biography Twelve Years A Slave, will give a

  walk-through of the exhibition.

Thursday, January 21

7:30 p.m.

• The Kidnapping of Free Blacks: Panel discussion of the issue of kidnapping free

  blacks prior to the Civil War.

Friday, January 29

7:30 p.m.

• The Role of History in Contemporary Art: Panel discussion with regional

  African-American artists.

Thursday, February 4

7:30 p.m.

• The Art of Liberation Lost and Found: Lecture by Union Africana Studies Department

  Professor A.T. Miller.

Wednesday, February 10

7:30 p.m.

• “The Blacks Are Supreme”?: African-American Workers and Southern Visitors in

  Antebellum Saratoga Springs: Lecture by Jon Sterngass, History Department, Union

  College.

Monday, February 15

7:30 p.m.

• Poetry Reading: Princeton University Professor and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef

  Komunyakaa will present a work written specifically for the exhibition.

Thursday, February 18

7:30 p.m.

• The Literature of Slavery – Narrative, Biomythology, and Fiction: Lecture by

  Carolyn Mitchell, Women's Studies Department, Union College.

Tuesday, February 23

7:30 p.m.

• Daughters of the Dust (1992, 113 minutes, unrated): Film written and directed by

  Julie Dash, followed by panel discussion led by Edward Pavlic, Africana Studies

  Department, Union College.

Sunday, February 28

Olin Center Lecture Hall, Room 115

7:30 p.m.

• Solomon Northup and the Meaning of Freedom: Lecture by Joseph Logston, co-editor of

  the 1968 edition of Twelve Years A Slave.

Tuesday, March 2

7:30 p.m.

• Passing Freedom: Performance/concert with Terry Adkins and Union College students

  and faculty using four 18 foot-long brass horn sculptures created by Terry Adkins.

Thursday, March 11

7:30 p.m.