After roughly a year of work, the noise and dust emanating from behind Haldeman and Kemeny Halls will disappear as the landscaping project enters its final stages. Barring unforeseen delays, the landscaping will be completed within the next week, according to Bill Kitchel, project manager for the Office of Planning, Design and Construction. More »
The memoirs of Emmy award-winning screenwriter Stanley Rubin and an analysis of computer-generated poetry are featured in the first issue of the new online Journal of Media Studies, founded by Mark Williams, the chair of Dartmouth’s film and television studies department. The journal, which debuted this month, will make peer-reviewed articles about electronic media available to the public free of charge and provide a forum for readers to discuss the articles. More »
With a program that ranged from bagpipes to poetry readings, the Active Minds benefit concert “Seasons of the Mind” celebrated the works of musicians and poets who suffered from mental illness. Approximately 50 students attended the event, held Tuesday evening in Collis Common Ground. More »
While economic and cultural conflicts have made the situation in Sudan difficult to address, the humanitarian crisis in Darfur is of immense proportions, Rhode Island College anthropology professor Richard Lobban said Tuesday at the Rockefeller Center. Lobban is also the executive director of the Sudan Studies Association. More »
While researching the history of slave ships, University of Pittsburgh history professor Marcus Rediker came across accounts of captain James D’Wolf who, on one of his voyages, had a sick, enslaved woman bound, gagged and thrown overboard. Rediker, one of the nation’s leading maritime historians, discussed the research he conducted for his book — “The Slave Ship: A Human History” (2007), which was published last fall — during a speech in Filene Auditorium on Tuesday. More »
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