Arts & Ideas Committee
Dr. Linda Vaden-Goad
Chair
Dr. Lisa Eck
Peace and Conflict Series Chair
Robert Alter
Brian Bishop
Dominique Bourdon
Dr. Sarah Cole
Mark Evans
Millie Gonzalez
Dr. Bernard Horn
David Keil
Jonathan Lee
Bonnie Mitchell
Robin Robinson
Ben Trapanick
Want to register for any of the events below? Register here.
SPRING 2013
Natick Soldier Systems Panel Discussion
January 24, 2013
From 6:30 to 8 p.m., Alumni Room, McCarthy Center
Leaders from three directorates at the Natick Soldier Systems will describe their work, including innovative research activities and formal responsibilities. In addition, the employee relations representative from Natick Labs will discuss job opportunities at the facility and how best to prepare for this work setting.
For more information contact:
Jonathan Lee - jlee8@framingham.edu
Tour of Natick Soldier Systems
January 25, 2013
From 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Students, faculty and staff will visit the Natick Soldier Systems to tour the research facilities and to visit STEM directorates. The tour will include access to the Materials, Food and Airdrop directorates. Limited to 15 members of the FSU community.
To sign up contact:
Jonathan Lee - jlee8@framingham.edu
“Harbor: Survivors Among Us”
February 27, 2013
Interactive Talk, Performance, Installation, and Q and A
7 p.m., McCarthy Center Forum
Artist-in-residence Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed, MFA, a native of Sudan and human rights activist, and Dr. Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg, a professor at Babson College, present an art installation focused on amplifying the voices of torture survivors and political asylees seeking peace and safe harbor in the U.S. The exhibit combines conceptual artwork with poetic testimonials based on asylum seekers’ real life experience.
“War Child: Children Caught in Conflict,” Lecture and Q and A with Martin Parsons
March 28, 2013 at 7 p.m.,
Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center
Dr. Martin Parsons, Director of the Centre for Evacuee and War Child Studies at the University of Reading, UK, will discuss how war child studies works to inform governments on the treatment and welfare of children in war zones. He will also examine the pedagogical value of using photographs, film, and artifacts in the classroom.
Visualizing Conflict, Performing Peace: A Playwriting Festival of One Act, With a Finalé Performance of “Aftermath”
April 1-2, 2013
Heineman Ecumenical and Cultural Center
At this festival of playwrights, Framingham drama students will perform a series of staged readings that explore the theme of peace and conflict.
"Aftermath"
April 5-6, 2013
Location TBD
The play, Aftermath, a work by FSU playwright Dr. Sarah Cole, explores an important after-story, through the particular lens of gender. After struggling with enemies on the battlefield, three women veterans struggle to deal with personal enemies off the battlefield during a court-ordered stay in a VA hospital.
“Here, Bullet: Dispatches from an American Soldier-Poet.”
Poetry Reading And Conversation with Brian Turner
April 3, 2013 at 7 p.m.
Forum, McCarthy Center
A seven year veteran of the U.S. Army and current director of the MFA Program at Sierra Nevada College, Brian Turner will reflect upon his experiences as both a soldier and a writer by reading from his critically-acclaimed collection, Here, Bullet, a New York Times “Editor’s Choice” selection, and his most recent collection of poetry, Phantom Noise.
