Events - Humanities
The Federal Art Project: Supporting Good Artists in Bad Times - 1/27/2008 - 8/24/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=61
Among the many projects to come out of the Great Depression and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal government programs to combat massive unemployment are those that dealt with the arts, architecture and crafts of American workers. Michigan State University Museum presents an exhibition of pieces from public work projects in Michigan and on the Michigan State College campus during the 1930s and early '40s.
More than 8,500,000 Americans were hired through the Works Progress Administration (WPA) mostly to build roads, public buildings and parks. Unemployed artists and writers were also given work through branches of the WPA known as the Federal Art Project and the Federal Writers' Project. Their lasting legacy can still be seen and enjoyed throughout the state and the nation.
Michigan State University and MSU Museum collections are rich with examples of a WPA legacy of art and craft.
One Book, One Community - 8/20/2008 - 9/23/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=705
The annual One Book, One Community (OBOC) program, co-sponsored by the City of East Lansing and Michigan State University, encourages the city-university community to read the same book and come together to discuss it in a variety of settings. The book is also an assigned reading for all incoming MSU freshmen.
OBOC Events
The OBOC program offers a number of events centered around the themes of the book.
Kick-Off
Meet the Author Benjamin Ajak
Wednesday, August 20; 7:30 p.m.
East Lansing High School Auditorium, 509 Burcham Drive
The event is free. Admission will be first come first serve (no tickets required)
Doors open at 6:45 p.m.
Thursday, August 21; 9:30 a.m.&1:30 p.m.
University Welcome for Incoming MSU Students
Wharton Center for Performing Arts, MSU Campus
Public is welcome
Writing workshops follow: Tuesdays in September.
No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age - 8/24/2008 - 12/31/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=466
In this feisty election season, the Michigan State University Museum presents a new exhibition with a political theme: No Holds Barred: Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age. Among the most important developments in the popularization of the Gilded Age press (the late 19th Century) was the increasingly sophisticated use of visual ridicule -- political cartoons that informed, aroused, and pronounced on myriad contemporary issues, explains Samuel J. Thomas, MSU professor of history and the exhibition's curator. Favorite targets included graft and fraud that then, as now, too often characterized political life, most often at the local and state levels, but also at times at the national level.
International Coffee Hour - 8/29/2008 - 12/5/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=707
Want to connect with MSU's vibrant international community? MSU hosts students and scholars from more than 130 countries and the world is literally on our campus. The Office for International Students and Scholars sponsors the popular International Coffee Hour every Friday from 4 to 6 pm in the International Center. Everyone is invited to share friendship and conversation over a cup of coffee or tea.
Computerized Cognitive Rehabilitation Training with Ugandan Cerebral Malaria Survivors - 9/5/2008
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INPEP lecture
Visual Griots: An Exhibit of Photography by African Youth - 9/15/2008 - 3/15/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=467
A new, eye-opening image of Africa will be on display at the Michigan State University Museum, featuring the photos of a group of sixth grade Malian students from two small villages 500 miles southwest of Timbuktu.
"Visual Griots," a project of the Academy for Educational Development, Washington, D.C., sent a team of Malian and U.S. photographers into the villages of Damy and Kouara to put cameras in the hand of youth, empower them to document their lives, and help them better connect with their communities and the world.
Our Journeys/Our Stories: Portraits of Latino Achievement - 9/16/2008 - 1/4/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=468
Our Journeys/Our Stories presents 25 portraits and narratives of well known Latino individuals - a Noble Prize-winning chemist, an astronaut, an athlete, an artist, a labor leader, to name a few -- and their personal stories, photos, oral history interviews and dichos (traditional sayings) to illustrate and celebrate this contemporary anthology of Latino accomplishments.
Study Abroad Fair - 9/25/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=712
The Fall Study Abroad Fair is a comprehensive information fair for students, faculty and staff interested in learning more about the many exciting study abroad opportunities available at MSU. Over 100 exhibits displaying information about MSU's more than 250 programs provide a one-stop shopping experience!
The Key Said Run and the Door Said Fly - 10/3/2008 - 10/5/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=709
Devised by the Sacred Heart Archive, a multi-disciplinary arts project, The Key Said Run and the Door Said Fly reinvents the folk tale of Mr. Fox using physical performance, traditional songs, and found objects. Incorporating a daring use of autobiography, The Key Said Run and the Door Said Fly investigates issues of sexual violence, and the body's capacity to remember. The ultimate result is a compelling picture of the relationship between freedom and fear.
Canadian Thanksgiving - 10/8/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=714
Come join the Canadian Studies Center as they celebrate a traditional Thanksgiving in honor of the Canadian holiday. Please R.S.V.P. by Oct. 1st.
Louis CK "Hilarious" - 10/9/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=724
Age Rating: Contains strong language and is recommended for mature audiences.
With more than twenty years as a stand-up, Louis C.K. is one of the most honest and respected comedic voices of his generation, finding success in television and film as well as the live stage. He will bring his comedy tour Hilarious to Wharton Center on October 9.
As a stand-up, Louis has made the leap from stand-up clubs to theaters with his last national theater tour, Louis C.K.: Chewed Up. His first hour special, Louis C.K.: Shameless, premiered on HBO on January 13, 2007 to critical acclaim. As a filmmaker, Louis is best known for his cult classic Blaxploitation spoof, Pootie Tang, which he wrote and directed.
Louis created and starred in HBO's first traditional sitcom, Lucky Louie, about the struggles of first time parenthood and he is currently co-creating a sitcom for CBS with Pamela Adlon who played his wife on Lucky Louie. The two will star in the comedy about a married couple who have been together too long and have too many children.
Louis will also star in the new Ricky Gervais film, This Side of the Truth, alongside Jennifer Garner and Rob Lowe. He was recently seen in Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins.
Margaret Atwood - 11/17/2008
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=519
As Canada's literary legend, Margaret Atwood is an internationally respected novelist. She's anticipated, explored and changed the popular preoccupations of our time. She writes about issues on a personal and worldly scale. The Sunday Times exclaims Atwood, "one of the most inventive, enthralling and accomplished authors writing in English." Not to be missed!
Threads of Change: The Transformation of African Textiles - 1/18/2009 - 8/30/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=727
Curated by educator and fabric artist Chris Worland, this exhibit of West African traditional and contemporary fabrics at the MSU Museum will include the work of three guest Artists-in-Residence (Kandioura Coulibaly and Boubacar Doumbia of Groupe Kasobane in Mali and American Janet Goldner) who will also participate February 2-16, 2009 in Worland's spring 2009 RCAH 291 Fabric Art Workshop and in several community outreach and engagement projects. Other linkages planned include gallery tours at the MSU Museum and RCAH workshop space for local community and school groups.
Joan Borysenko - 2/16/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=628
As a distinguished pioneer in integrative medecine, behavioral scientist Joan Borysenko is a world renowned expert in the mind/body connection. Her work has been foundational in an international health care revolution and continues to be. Her brilliance, humor and authenticity make her a compelling and inspiring speaker and writer.
Richard Dawkins - 3/2/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=633
Richard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science writer. Dawkins first came to prominence with his 1976 book The Selfish Gene, which popularized the gene-centered view of evolution. He has since written several best-selling popular books, and appeared in a number of television and radio programs, concerning evolutionary biology, creationism, and religion. His most recent book The God Delusion was on the bestsellers list for almost a year.
A NEW Devised Performance Piece (w/ Melissa Thompson) - 3/27/2009 - 3/28/2009
http://www.artsandculture.msu.edu/database_eventview.asp?id=710
The Chicago-based performance artist and women's studies theorist, Melissa Thompson, is teaching and performing with groups of students throughout the year.
