Through May 23
Mandeville Gallery, Nott Memorial
“China/Cuba/Vietnam: Recent Photographs by Martin Benjamin.”
Through end of term
Social Sciences gallery
Drawings by Fatima Mahmood '06
April through June
Arts Atrium Gallery
Senior exhibitions
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Saturday, April 24 to Monday, April 26
8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Along Came Polly
Sunday, April 25
1 a.m. – Reamer Circle — Bus departs for Women's Lives march
in Washington.
Noon
– Central Park Baseball
Field – Baseball vs. Rochester (2)
2 p.m. – Memorial Fieldhouse – The Big
Brothers-Big Sisters present the Harlem Wizards v. Union Alumni “Dream Team.”
Doors open at 1 p.m.
for meet-and-greet with players. Free to kids under 18 and “Big-Little”
matches. Adult admission $5.
Monday, April 26 through Saturday, May 1
Greek Week
activities
Monday, April 26
6:30 p.m. – Hale House – “Romance and Religion:
Islamic & Jewish Perspectives.”
7 p.m. – Old Chapel – Safe Space will present guest
speaker Kellie Greene.
Tuesday, April 27
4 p.m. – Frank Bailey Field – Women's lacrosse
vs. Oneonta.
Wednesday, April 28
Beach Party
dinner at Upperclass.
8 p.m.
– Union College Concert
Series will conclude its season with a performance by renowned pianist Emanuel
Ax. Tickets are $25 general admission; free for Union College students with ID.
8 p.m. – South College, Green Living Room –
Latin American Popular Culture Film Series continues with Missing (USA, Costa-Gavras 1982). Synopsis: Based on true events
during the 1973 CIA-supported military coup in Chile, the plot revolves around the
disappearance of an American writer and his wife's and father's efforts to
discover the truth about his fate.
Thursday, April 29
6:30 p.m. – Everest Lounge – Philosophy talks will
host guest speaker Jerry Fodor of Rutgers University. His topic will be “Concepts: What Are
They?”
7 p.m. – SS016 – ASU hosts speaker Laura
Spielvogel from Western Michigan University. Her topic will be “Aerobics and Fitness
in Japan.”
9 – 10 p.m. – Olin Observatory – Open house. For
information call 388-7100.
Thursday, April 29 to Saturday, May 1
8 a.m. – F.W. Olin Center 115 – Technical presentations kick off
the 2004 SAE Walking Machine Challenge. For a complete schedule of events and
activities, visit http://engineering.union.edu/WalkingMachine/schedule.html
Friday, April 30
9 p.m.
– Old Chapel – Halo Tournament
Friday, April 30 to Monday, May 3
8 & 10 p.m. – Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Big Fish.
Recent
photographs by Prof. Martin
Benjamin
from China, Cuba and Vietnam are featured in a show in the Mandeville
Gallery at the Nott Memorial.
“China/Cuba/Vietnam:
Recent Photographs by Martin
Benjamin”
runs through Sunday, May 23. It is free and open to the public.
Benjamin,
professor of visual arts at the College, grew up in a simple pre-Internet world
when “Main
Street,
the corner store, and trout streams” were his primary sources of amusement and
wonder. He is part of a generation who witnessed some of the nation's most
psychically traumatic events in the 20th century – political
assassinations, atomic bomb tests, the Cuban missile crisis, and the Vietnam
War. As a budding photographer in college he realized what Diane Arbus meant
when she said, “Photographing is not about being comfortable, either for the
photographer or the subject.”
Benjamin's
photos capture what engages him, but that doesn't mean exclusively what is
beautiful. This collection was taken during his forays to China, Cuba, and Vietnam (often at his peril). These photos range
aesthetically from the beauty of the landscape and people to the gritty
realities of the street market and daily life. Along with evoking a range of
reactions, they also tell a between-the-lines story of the photographer and his
subjects.
Gallery
hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily.
For
more information, call 388-8344.
Kenneth G. DeBono,
Gilbert R. Livingston Professor of the Behavioral Sciences,
presented two papers at the annual meeting of the Eastern Psychological
Association in Washington. The
first, “Self-Monitoring and Love Styles” was co-authored with Elana Rudnick
'03. The second, “On the Relations Between Beliefs in a Deity and Indices of
Mental Health,” was co-authored with Angela M. DeSilva '03.
Teresa
Meade,
associate professor of history and director of Women's Studies, has published a
revised and updated paperback version of her book A Brief History of Brazil (Facts
on File, 2003). The new version, in the Checkmark Series, includes a discussion
of the election of Brazil's
president, Luis Inacio Lula da
Silva (“Lula”) in late 2003 and other recent events. In addition
Blackwell Publishers has selected A Companion to Gender History (2004),
which Meade co-edited with Merry Wiesner-Hanks, for
distribution as an “eBook.” It will be
available to library collections through “netLibrary,” the world's premier provider of online reference,
scholarly and professional books. Finally, Meade was the invited commentator at
the European Social Science History Conference, Berlin,
Germany, March
24-27, for a session, “International Technology and American Hegemony in the
1970s.”