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Navaratri Festival: Henna and Chaat

festivalFrom the Center for the Arts:

Experience South Asian culture through henna art and sampling of chaat (savory snacks), hosted by Shakti, Wesleyan’s South Asian Students’ Association.

Date: Thursday, October 27
Time: 7-8:30PM
Place: Olin Library Lobby, 252 Church Street, Middletown

 

COL Open House

colFrom Sun Lee ’17:

Open house reception for prospective COL applicants will be held on Wednesday, October 12, 2016 at 4:30 PM in COL Library, 41 Wyllys Ave (3rd floor). This year the deadline for applications is Monday, March 27, the first day after Spring vacation.

Date:  Wednesday, October 12
Time: 4:30-5:30PM
Place: COL Library (Boger Hall fka 41 Wyllys 3rd Floor)

Art Talk by Rosalyn Deutsche: “We don’t need another hero”

cfaFrom the Center for the Arts:

Rosalyn Deutsche is an art historian and critic who teaches modern and contemporary art at Barnard College in New York City. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has written extensively and lectured internationally on such interdisciplinary topics as art and urbanism, art and the public sphere, art and war, art and psychoanalysis, and feminist theories of subjectivity in representation. Her essays have appeared in Grey Room, October, Artforum, Art in America, and Society and Space, among other journals, in many exhibition catalogues and anthologies, and in numerous translations. Ms. Deutsche is the author of “Evictions: Art and Spatial Politics” and “Hiroshima After Iraq: Three Studies on Art and War.”

This talk is presented in conjuction with the exhibition “here is new york: a democracy of photographs,” featured in the Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery through October 9, 2016. Co-sponsored by the Samuel Silipo ’85 Distinguished Visitor’s Fund and the Department of Art and Art History.

Date: Wednesday, October 5
Time: 5:30-7PM
Place: Ring Family Performing Arts Hall (former CFA Hall), 287 Washington Terrace, Middletown