April 1, 2008

Contact: Ruth Jacobs
(pr@colby.edu)
P: 859-4353

Colby College is pleased to announce the following April events.  All are open to the public and free.

Fiction Reading: Waterville Novelist Ron Currie
Tuesday, April 1, 7 p.m.
Room 100, Lovejoy Building
Currie is the author of God is Dead, which the Los Angeles Times called "impressive" and "riveting" and USA Today called "juvenile and offensive." This is the debut novel by Currie, a native of Waterville.
Contact: Professor Peter Harris, 859-5270, pbharris@colby.edu

The Quiet Catastrophe: Iraqi Refugees and Contemporary Politics
Thursday, April 3, 7 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Roughly four million Iraqis are now refugees/displaced persons. This panel will explore major dimensions of the crisis: where refugees live, why they left/can't go home and what we can do about it. Jennifer Kemp of the Organization for Women's Freedom in Iraq, Jacob Kurtzer, a congressional advocate for Refugees International and Shirmila Cooray, a Colby junior who worked with Iraqi refugees in Denmark, will share the stage.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lecture
Friday, April 4, 4:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Jennifer Gold '08 will discuss Robert Polidori's Classroom in School #5 Pripyat, 2001 and Music Theory Classroom in School #5, Pripyat, 2001
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Amnesty International Sierra Leone Aid Project
Friday, April 4, 8 p.m.
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
Amnesty International's benefit concert, including live music and other performances, will raise money for the Sierra Leone Aid Project. Three Colby students will travel to Sierra Leone this summer to install malaria bed nets as part of the project.
Contact: Caroline Turnbull '10, cbturnbu@colby.edu

In the Heart of America
Friday-Saturday, April 4-5, and Thursday-Saturday, April 10-12, 7:30 p.m.
Cellar Theater, Runnals Building
Propelled by love, cruelty and loss, survivors and ghosts wander the sands of the Iraqi desert and the corridors of a cheap motel in the heart of America. They torment each other in an embrace from which none of them can escape. (Mature teens and adults.) Written by Naomi Wallace and directed by Laura Chakravarty Box.
Contact: Deborah Ward, 859-4520, djward@colby.edu

Colby College Woodsmen's Team's Annual Mud Meet
Saturday, April 5, 9 a.m.
Woodsmen's Field (across Washington Street from Johnson Pond)
The meet will include competitions in burling, chopping, sawing, axe throwing, chainsawing, log rolling and fire building. Teams from Colby, Unity, University of Maine, Dartmouth, University of New Hampshire and State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry will compete.
Contact: Jamie Poster '08, woodsmen@colby.edu

Story Time in the Museum
Saturday, April 5, 10 a.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Student volunteers and museum docents will read art-related stories, play games, and lead discussions in the museum's galleries. The program, offered every Saturday morning, is designed for young children, and no registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Colby Wind Ensemble: Ethnic Celebrations
Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.
Lorimer Chapel
Raga! by Arnold Rosner, and selections from The Nutty Nutcracker by Mike Hannickel will be featured. Other works on the program include "Short Ride in a Fast Machine (Fanfare for Great Woods)" by John Adams and the final movement, "Dancing to Restore an Eclipsed Moon," from Eric Ewazen's Shadowcatcher. Finally, "Sing the Saddest Song" by Kevin Beavers will celebrate the graduation of this year's seniors from the Colby band program.
Contact: Vivian Lemieux, 859-5670, vlemieux@colby.edu

Tour of the Colby College Museum of Art
Sunday, April 6, 2 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
The museum now offers free, guided tours every Sunday.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Brody Award Panel Discussion
The Conflict Between Protected Civil Liberties and Government Intrusion in a Time of Terrorist Threats
Sunday, April 6, 3:30 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Panelists are ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg, University of Maine Professor James Friedman, and U.S. District Court Judge for the Central District of California Margaret Morrow. Chief Judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine George Z. Singal will moderate.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Brody Award Ceremony and Address
Sunday, April 6, 7:30 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
The 2008 Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award will recognize the Honorable Leonie M. Brinkema, U.S. District Court judge for the Eastern District of Virginia. Brinkema presided over the case of 9/11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui. As she sentenced Moussaoui to life in prison, she told him he would "die with a whimper." Important notice: For the judge's safety, no photographs will be permitted at this event.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Congressman Tom Allen
Monday, April 7, 4 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
Congressman Tom Allen, representative of the First Congressional District of Maine, is speaking on his campaign for the U.S. Senate and other topics relevant to the upcoming November election.
Contact Marcy Shrader-Lauinger '08, mashrade@colby.edu

Dolfine Gumba Dawa Lecture
Monday, April 7, 7 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Dolfine Gumba Dawa Oliech started the Korando Faith Widows & Orphans Group (KFWOG) in 1997 in Kisumu, Kenya, to address the needs of local children left without parents and women widowed by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Today, Dawa and her husband have 27 orphans living in their home and run a school for more than 20 orphans. Her story inspired residents of central Maine to start the Ripple Effect Project to benefit orphanages in sub-Saharan Africa.
Contact: Elizabeth Rowden, 859-4421, errowden@colby.edu

The Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic: A Case Study
Tuesday, April 8, 7:30 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
Stephen Stamos, a professor of international relations at Bucknell University, has written six books including Economics: A Tool for Understanding Society, The ABC's of International Finance and Energy Economics. He is currently working with a young student from the community of Gualete in the Puerta Plata region of the Dominican Republic.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Visiting Writers Series: Barbara Hamby
Tuesday, April 8, 7 p.m.
Robinson Room, Miller Library
Poet Barbara Hamby has won various prizes for each of her three books: Delirium, The Alphabet of Desire and Babel. Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2000, Pushcart Prizes 2001, The Paris Review, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review and many other magazines. She has won three fellowships from the Florida Arts Council and one from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Contact: Professor Peter Harris, 859-530, pbharris@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lecture
Wednesday, April 9, 4:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Emily Stoller-Patterson '09 will discuss John Marin's A Looking Back -- The Marin Family, 1953, and Alfred Stieglitz's John Marin, Mrs. Marin and John Marin, Jr., 1921
Contact: Colby College Museum of Art, 859-5600, museum@colby.edu

Noontime Art Talk: Aaron Rosen
Thursday, April 10, 12 noon
Colby College Museum of Art
Aaron Rosen, adjunct lecturer in philosophy at the University of Maine, Orono, and adjunct lecturer in art history at the Maine College of Art will discuss Adolph Gottlieb and the question of Jewish art. Free bag lunches to the first 40 people.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Pride and Prejudice from Soccer to Politics:
How the Germans and the British Have Viewed Each Other Since the Second World War
Thursday, April 10, 7 p.m.
Room 215, Lovejoy Building
Richard Bessel, a professor at the University of York in England, specializes in the social and political history of modern Germany, the aftermath of the two world wars and the history of policing. His books include Political Violence and the Rise of Nazism, The Storm Troopers in Eastern Germany 1925-1934, Germany after the First World War and, most recently, Nazism and War.
Contact: Sharon Lee, 859-5320, slee@colby.edu

Story Time in the Museum
Saturday, April 12, 10 a.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Student volunteers and museum docents will read art-related stories, play games, and lead discussions in the museum's galleries. The program, offered every Saturday morning, is designed for young children, and no registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Colby Jazz Band
Better Get It In Your Soul
Saturday, April 12, 7:30 p.m.
Given Auditorium, Bixler Art and Music Center
Music ranging from "The Godfather of Soul" to Charles Mingus and friends will be featured. Other soulful works included are "Slam" by Marcus Miller, Marvin Gaye's "What's Goin' On," "Fee Fi Fo Fum" by Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea's "500 Miles High" and "Armando's Rhumba," and Mingus's "Opus 4, Songs With An Orange." This blockbuster concert also features Colby junior Peter Matson's work in the style of James Brown.
Contact: Vivian Lemieux, 859-5670, vlemieux@colby.edu

Tour of the Colby College Museum of Art
Sunday, April 13, 2 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
The museum now offers free, guided tours every Sunday.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

The 2008 Presidential Campaign: How Did We Get to Where We Are Now -- and What's Next?
Sunday, April 13, 7 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Jim Vandehei, cofounder and executive editor of Politico.com, covered the White House and was national political correspondent for the Washington Post before he and his colleague John Harris founded Politico.com. Before joining the Post, Vandehei reported on Washington and politics for Roll Call and the Wall Street Journal. He appears frequently as a guest commentator on various television talk shows.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Reading: Hubert Kueter
Monday, April 14, 7 p.m.
Miller Library
German professor emeritus Hubert Kueter will read from his recent memoir, My Tainted Blood, about his experiences as a half-Jewish teenager scrambling to survive in Germany during and after World War II. A reception and book signing will follow the reading.
Contact: Denise Goff, 859-4400, dmgoff@colby.edu

Engaged Anthropology Lecture Series
Confronting Empire on Diego Garcia: Anthropology as a Tool for Progressive Social Change
Monday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
Since 2001, David Vine of American University has conducted research about the U.S. military base on the Indian Ocean island Diego Garcia and the expulsion of its native people during development of the base. He is serving as an expert witness for lawyers bringing suits in the U.S. and Great Britain against those governments on behalf of the exiled people, known as Chagossians. Vine recently completed a book about the history of the base, the lives of the people, and U.S. foreign policy, titled Imperial Paradise: Expulsion and the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia.
Contact: Professor Mary Beth Mills, 859-4706, memills@colby.edu

Grossman Lecture
Emissions Trading: Evolution of an Economic Idea from Concept to Global Implementation
Tuesday, April 15, 7:30 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Over the last thirty-plus years, the use of transferable permits to control pollution has evolved from little more than an academic curiosity to the centerpiece of the U.S. program to control greenhouse gases. Tom Tietenberg, one of the key people involved in this transformation, will describe how this policy approach has evolved over time, assess some of its key strengths and weaknesses and share some specific lessons on policy design and effectiveness that emerge from our experience with it.
Contact: Beth Kopp, 859-5356, Beth.Kopp@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lectures
Wednesday, April 16, 4:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Elizabeth Bower '08 will discuss on Charles Codman's The Forest Near Portland, Maine, c. 1830.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Reconsidering the Relationship Between Two Democracies: India and the USA with
Tarlochan Singh, member of Indian parliament
Wednesday, April 16, 7 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Unintended Consequences: The Effect of Cultivation on Malaria Transmission
Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m.
Room 100, Lovejoy Building
The Institute for Food Policy Research predicts that by the year 2020 maize will be the world's dominant food crop. Malaria continues to be the most widespread infectious disease affecting people in Africa and the developing world. James McCann, a professor of history at Boston University, will discuss how current trends in sub-Saharan Africa suggest that small farms bear an increasing burden of maize production and thus potential increased malaria risk.
Contact: Beth Kopp, 859-5356, Beth.Kopp@colby.edu

China Town Hall Local Connections, National Reflections:
The China Issue in the 2008 Presidential and Congressional Campaigns
Thursday, April 17, 6:30 p.m.
Room 141, Diamond Building
Norman J. Ornstein, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, will speak via a live webcast. Ornstein studies politics, Congress and elections. He was the director of the Transition to Governing Project and the founder of the Campaign Finance Reform Working Group.
Contact: Sarah Ward, 859-5300, spward@colby.edu

Building Social Capital in Maine's Communities
Thursday, April 17, 7 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
The Maine Community Foundation works to strengthen Maine by working in partnership with donors and community groups. Speakers will be Henry Schmelzer, president and CEO of the foundation, and Garrett Martin, director program strategy.
Contact:  Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lecture
Friday, April 18, 4:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Margie Gribbell '09 will discuss John Watson's Portrait of Governor William Burnet, c. 1726, and John Singleton Copley's Portrait of Benjamin Hallowell, 1765-68.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

An Evening of North Indian Music
Friday, April 18, 7:30 p.m.
Lorimer Chapel
This concert of traditional Indian music features music artist in residence Aditya Verma on the sarod, Satish Kumar on the mridangam, Abhiman Kaushal on the tabla, and Jayanthi Kumaresh on the veena.
Contact: Vivian Lemieux, 859-5670, vlemieux@colby.edu

Story Time in the Museum
Saturday, April 19, 10 a.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Student volunteers and museum docents will read art-related stories, play games, and lead discussions in the museum's galleries. The program, offered every Saturday morning, is designed for young children, and no registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Tour of the Colby College Museum of Art
Sunday, April 19, 2 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
The museum now offers free, guided tours every Sunday.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lecture
Wednesday, April 23, 4:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Nicolyna Enriquez '11 will discuss Madonna and Child from the Cuzco School.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Noontime Art Talk: New Sculpture
Thursday, April 24, 12:30 p.m.
Lauren Lessing, Mirken Curator of Education, will discuss Thomas Crawford's Adam and Eve, 1856. Free bag lunches to the first 40 people.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Buddhism and Human Rights
Thursday, April 24, 4 p.m.
Room 141, Diamond Building
Charles Keyes, a professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, studies the relationship between religion, politics and economics in Southeast Asia and how modern states intrude into people's lives. He has conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam.
Contact: Professor Mary Beth Mills, 859-4706, memills@colby.edu

Making Sound Environmental Policy
Thursday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Room 122, Diamond Building
The lecture will feature Richard Opper, director of the Montana State Department of Environmental Quality.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Hunt Lecture for International Studies
Thursday, April 24, 7 p.m.
Room 1, Olin Building
Mark Goodale, assistant professor of conflict analysis and anthropology at George Mason University, specializes in legal anthropology, human rights and culture, comparative ethical practice and epistemology, the anthropology of morality and conflict studies. During 2003-2004 he studied Romania's efforts to reform their political and legal institutions in preparation for accession to the European Union in 2007. He is the author of many books including The Anthropology of Human Rights: Critical Explorations in Ethical Theory and Social Practice.
Contact: Dianne Labreck, 859-5230, dlabreck@colby.edu

Colby Dance Theater
Thursday, April 24-Saturday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
Strider Theater, Runnals Building
Expression on the move! Once again, audiences will see an evening of work that speaks to their emotions through body, color, light, and sound. With sculptural figures that move through liquid space, dance touches the soul. Developed throughout the year, this evening of contemporary dance highlights the work of Colby's finest student choreographers, performers, and designers choreography by faculty and students. Guest artistic direction by Kim Vetter
Contact: Deborah Ward, 859-4520, djward@colby.edu

Preserving Polar Antiquities: The 1896 Andrée Ballooning Expedition to the North Pole
Thursday, April 24, 7:30 p.m.
Room 14, Miller Library
In 2004 Noel Broadbent joined the Arctic Studies Center at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History with funding from a National Science Foundation grant for the project "The Search for a Past: The Prehistory of the Indigenous Saami in Northern Coastal Sweden." He has published more than 100 scientific papers and five books and has carried out research in North America, Europe, Africa, the Arctic and Antarctica.
Contact: Alice Ridky, 859-5801, amridky@colby.edu

Student Docent Gallery Lecture
Friday, April 25, 12:30 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Maya Steward '10 will discuss Lauren Greenfield's Girl Culture series, 1997-2001.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Story Time in the Museum
Saturday, April 26, 10 a.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
Student volunteers and museum docents will read art-related stories, play games, and lead discussions in the museum's galleries. The program, offered every Saturday morning, is designed for young children, and no registration is required. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Collegium Musicum
William Byrd and his Circle of Friends
Saturday, April 26, 7:30 p.m.
Lorimer Chapel
During the second half of the 16th century, England enjoyed a relatively stable political life under Elizabeth I, a time that allowed the arts to flourish. Byrd enjoyed Her Majesty's patronage at the Chapel Royal, which led to his most varied compositional output of secular and sacred, vocal and instrumental music. This concert will offer a variety of genres by Byrd and his contemporaries from that rich Elizabethan era.
Contact: Vivian Lemieux, 859-5670, vlemieux@colby.edu

Tour of the Colby College Museum of Art
Sunday, April 26, 2 p.m.
Colby College Museum of Art
The museum now offers free, guided tours every Sunday.
Contact: Lauren Lessing, 859-5609, llessing@colby.edu

Cotter Debate on Health Care Reform
Sunday, April 27, 7:30 p.m.
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

Undergraduate Research Symposium Keynote Address: Celebration of Research
Looking Backward/Looking Forward: Spaceflight at the Turn of the New Millennium
Wednesday, April 30, 7 p.m.
Room 1, Olin Science Center
Roger D. Launius of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum will assess five core challenges for the future of spaceflight in the 21st century: political will; inexpensive, reliable access to space; smart robotics for exploration; protecting this planet and this species; and human exploration of the Moon and Mars.
Contact: Marnie Terhune, 859-5319, mterhune@colby.edu

For up-to-date events listings, visit www.colby.edu.

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Ongoing exhibitions at the Colby College Museum of Art

Adolph Gottlieb: Paintings and Early Prints
Through April 13
Adolph Gottlieb (1903-1974) was an early member of the Abstract Expressionist movement and a productive painter, printmaker, and sculptor. Primarily self-taught as a painter and printmaker, Gottlieb aimed to synthesize an intellectual approach to painting with his own emotional experience. This exhibition brings together 50 early prints and paintings that demonstrate Gottlieb's significant contribution to the changing face of American art at mid-century. Organized by the Colby College Museum of Art and the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation, Inc.

currents4: Amy Stacey Curtis
Through April 13
The fourth exhibition in the museum's annual emerging artist series, currents, presents work by Maine-based installation artist Amy Stacey Curtis. Curtis, who has been working in abandoned industrial sites throughout the state for the past seven years, creates interactive works that examine our interconnectedness through themes of chaos, order, and repetition.

Joan Whitney Payson Collection
Through June 1
The Colby College Museum of Art presents seven world-class works of art from the Joan Whitney Payson Collection on biennial loan from the Portland Museum of Art. This impressive collection includes paintings by Marc Chagall, Gustave Courbet, Edgar Degas, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Sir Joshua Reynolds, and Alfred Sisley.

Whistler at Work: The Process of Printmaking
Through June 15
Peter and Paula Lunder have assembled one of the foremost collections of prints by James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903), comprising more than 200 etchings and lithographs of the highest quality. The latest in a continuing series of exhibitions drawn from this collection not only serves as an overview of Whistler's printmaking career but also highlights a number of rare examples that reveal Whistler's working process. Important selections include examples of Whistler's trial proofs, three pairs of prints that show how the artist developed his images through successive printings from the same plate, and a rare pastel that illuminates how Whistler treated similar subjects in different media. Curated by David P. Becker

The Colby College Museum of Art is open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, noon to 4:30 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free and the museum is accessible to people with disabilities. For more information call 859-5600 or visit http://www.colby.edu/museum/.