Students and members of the campus community are invited to drop in on this weekend’s research conference hosted by ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ’s Center for Ethics and World Societies (CEWS).
Sessions will run throughout the day on Friday and Saturday in the conference room at the O’Connor Campus Center.
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The conference’s topic is ‘Transnational Religion and Europeanization,’ a collaborative exploration of the role that three transnational religions, Catholicism, Islam, and Orthodoxy, are likely to play in the European Union as it expands to include nations with distinct religious identities such as Poland, Turkey, and Serbia.
The conference was organized by Timothy Byrnes, professor of political science and director of the center, along with Peter J. Katzenstein, the Walter Carpenter Chair of International Studies at Cornell University.
The sessions will revolve around papers that have been written for the conference by a variety of authors who will be visiting campus from across the United States and from Europe.
On Friday, Thomas Chase, president of the American Institute for Conservation, will visit the Picker Art Gallery for a viewing and reception tied to the exhibition ‘Ancient China: Objects from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation.’
The reception will run from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. The exhibition features 17 Chinese ceramics, bronzes, and sculptures and includes stunning pieces such as a 3-foot high bodhisattva head and an earthen vessel from the late Neolithic period (2500-2000 BC).
Students and other members of the campus community also are invited to attend a night of slam poetry and hip hop music at the Palace Theater.
Helen Yum, a Korean-American who has read her poetry at universities, galleries, prisons, and community centers across the country, will appear at the 8 p.m. Friday event. Also performing is muMs (a k a Craig Grant), a performance artist, poet, playwright, and actor who performed for two seasons of Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry on HBO. Music will be provided by Empire State Project, a Latino hip hop group based in the South Bronx.
The evening is sponsored by the Asian Awareness Coalition, Brothers, Latin American Student Organization, and Sisters of the Roundtable. They urge you to stop by for a night of innovation, liberation, and self-expression.
If you’re in the mood for a movie, the Friday Night Film Series selection is the 1940 classic ‘Philadelphia Story.’ It can be seen at 7 p.m. in Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. CAB and Take Two Films present ‘Pieces of April’ at 9 p.m. Friday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. The midnight movie at the Hamilton Movie Theater is ‘Girls Just Want to Have Fun.’
Saturday is Family Day at the Picker Art Gallery. View the exhibition ‘Braidings and Benches: the Oneida Community and the Arts and Crafts Movement’ at 10 a.m. and then go over to the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Bookstore at 11 a.m. to do some braiding of your own with Vermont rug artist Delsie Hoyt.
The Tri Delta and Phi Delta Theta fraternities will be hosting an Easter egg hunt from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday on the front lawn of the Phi Delta Theta house at 114 Broad St. An arts and crafts table will be available as well as food and drinks.
The ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ softball team plays a doubleheader Saturday (1 p.m.) and Sunday (noon) against Army. Men’s lacrosse takes on Holy Cross at 1 p.m. Saturday while the women’s tennis team plays Lehigh at 2 p.m.
The 10th annual Easter Serenade concert by the ¸Ô±¾ÊÓƵ Chamber Players will be at 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Memorial Chapel. Laura Klugherz will direct the performance featuring works of Brahms, Beethoven, Paquito d’Rivera, Schubert, and Milhaud for winds, strings, and piano. Families are welcome to attend.