Start the new year with lectures, performances, and more!
January 9, 7 PM |, Elliott Bay Book Company
蘑菇视频 Professors Bettina Judd and Dr. Dian Million gather in support of the former’s new book Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought (Northwestern University Press, December 2022). In the book, the poet, artist, and scholar Bettina Judd argues that Black women鈥檚 creative production is feminist knowledge production produced by registers of affect she calls 鈥渇eelin.鈥�
Free |
January 11, 6:30 PM |,听Zoom
Parenting can be challenging at the best of times, let alone parenting children through war or refugee contexts. Global conflicts entail many changes for children and their families, with the potential for acute and longer-term impact on well-being and mental health. What can we do to help? Effective parenting can act as a protective shield against the difficulties that children face in challenging times. Providing interventions that focus on building strengths in parenting practices can be protective and predict more positive outcomes for children. In this talk, a wide range of open access family skills resources will be shared. As all families can experience highly stressful times, whether it is illness, relationship breakdown or living through a global pandemic, these resources have universal importance and applicability. This talk will reflect on the diverse public health implications of availing family skills resources for the prevention of drug use, mental health, violence and several adverse health and social consequences.
Free |
January 12, 6 PM | University Book Store
University Book Store is proud to present Max Hunter for a conversation with Dr. Chandan Reddy about Dr. Hunter’s book听Speech Is My Hammer.
With听Speech Is My Hammer,听Max Hunter听draws on memoir and his own biography to call his readers to reimagine the meaning and power in literacy. Defining literacy as a spectrum of skills, abilities, attainments, and performances, Hunter focuses on dispelling literacy myths and discussing how Black male artists, entertainers, professors, and writers have described their own literacy narratives in self-conscious, ambivalent terms.
Free |
January 18, 6:30 PM | Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part II, Kane Hall
Join 蘑菇视频 Professor Jacob Grumbach for the second and final lecture on the 2022 midterm elections. In this talk, he will address the election results as well as ways we can protect and improve American democracy through reforming the Constitution, updating election laws, and revitalizing the labor movement.
Free | More info.
January 20 – 22 | , Meany Hall
Made possible by the Kawasaki Guest Artist Fund, undergraduate students will perform an excerpt of听Dancing Spirit听(2009) an ode to Emeritus Artistic Director of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Judith Jamison,听by award winning choreographer and artistic director of EVIDENCE Ronald K. Brown.
The program will also include a听tryptic of short contemporary dance works staged by Rachael Lincoln听that includes an excerpt from the highly praised听an attic an exit听(2006).听New works will be presented by faculty听Alana Isiguen, guest choreographer听Nia-Amina Minor who was named one of听Dance Magazine鈥檚 25 Artists to Watch,听and听a dance film installation by听Juliet McMains.
$10-22 tickets |
January 18 – February 15, 7:30 PM |, Kane Hall
The medieval period has always occupied a paradoxical position in our cultural memory. An age of fantasy unimaginably distant from historical reality, it is also an era onto which writers and artists鈥攁nd now moviemakers and gamers鈥攈ave long projected their fears and desires. Why do cultures remake certain figures from the past鈥攂ut not others–in their own image?
Join Professor Emerita Robin Stacey for this five-lecture series where she looks at the present鈥檚 relationship with the past through the lens of the making and remaking of important historical figures鈥攕ome real, some fictional, and some the creatures of myth.
Free |
January 21, 8 PM |, Meany Hall
Produced in partnership with Bill T. Jones and New York Live Arts
Co-presented with On the Boards
Performance artist, vocalist, clarinetist and composer Holland Andrews explores healing and freedom in a solo program of unique multilayered musical soundscapes. Through abstract operatic and extended vocal techniques, coupled with a dynamic range of sonic influences, Andrews expresses the chaos and oppression of our times. Their work is a rich aesthetic journey of profound creative balance, showing us what it听means to create revolution, unlearn destructive patterns and 鈥� ultimately 鈥� transform the world around us.
$10 – 28 tickets |
January 24, 7:30 PM |, Meany Hall
Since winning the London International Piano Competition in 2009, Behzod Abduraimov鈥檚 passionate and virtuosic performances have dazzled audiences around the world. His 鈥減rodigious technique and rhapsodic flair鈥� (The New York Times) have defined his career as a recording artist, recitalist, chamber musician and soloist with major orchestras worldwide. The Tashkent, Uzbekistan native presents a program specifically crafted for his Meany debut, featuring Uzbek composer Dilorom Saidaminova, along with works by Florence Price, Robert Schumann and Modest Mussorgsky.
$48- 60 tickets |
School of Music Concerts 
January 23 | ,听Brechemin Auditorium
January 25 |,听Meany Hall
January 28 – 29 | , Meany Hall
January 31 | , Brechemin Auditorium