The Journalism and Creative Writing Departments are hosting an informal conversation with travel adventure writer Tim Cahill, SF State Alumnus and editor at large of Outside Magazine on Wednesday, April 30th at 10:00 in Humanities 512.
The event moderated by Professor Rachele Kanigel is free and open to all students. Cahill, an award winning magazine writer, author, and screenwriter, is the founding editor of Outside Magazine and for years wrote the "Out There" column. Cahill's books include Road Fever, Jaguars Ripped My Flesh, and A Wolverine Is Eating My Leg. Cahill co-authored the Academy Award nominated documentary, The Living Sea. For more information, call ext. 8-7460.
The Jewish Studies Program (Academica Judaica)
and the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Colloquium Series) present:
Francesco Spagnolo, Ph.D.
Head of Research, Judah Magnes Museum, Berkeley
"Doubly Emancipated, Doubly Forgotten: Women and Music in the Italian Synagogue"
Thursday, May 8, 3:30 p.m.
Humanities Building, Room 415
Jewish Studies Reading Room
Francesco Spagnolo is an interdisciplinary scholar who focuses on cultural history and music. Francesco holds a B.A. in music from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory, a Laurea in Philosophy from the University of Milan, and received his Ph.D. in musicology from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has conducted post-graduate research at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris, and is the author of many essays. He is the editor of the audio anthology, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions" (Rome-Jerusalem, 2001). In 1997, he founded Yuval, the Italian Center for the Study of Jewish Music, and since then has actively participated in Italian musical life, most notably on RAI (Italian National Radio) as anchor of its daily national program, "Radiotre Suite" (2000-2002). In 2002-2003, he was a RAI correspondent in Jerusalem, with a weekly radio segment documenting cultural and daily life in Israel.
Co-sponsored by the Italian Language Program, the Department of Women Studies, the World Music and Dance Program and the School of Music and Dance.
The Center for Modern Greek Studies
The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair
and the Department of Classics
are pleased to present a lecture by
Dr. Susan Heuck Allen
"Finding the Walls of Troy: Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at
Hisarlik"
Thursday, March 6, 7:30 pm
HUM 587
Dr. Allen teaches at Smith College and is a visiting scholar in the
Department of Classics at Brown University where her research focuses
on the history of archaeology.
She is the former chair of the Archives Committee of the Archaeological
Institute of America and now chairs its Women in Archaeology Committee.
She has worked in Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, and Israel and swam the
Hellespont, from Asia to Europe in 1997.
Her first book Finding the Walls of Troy received both scholarly and
popular acclaim with the History Book Club. Her second, Excavating Our
Past (2002), looks at the history of American archaeologists.
Other areas of research concern British communities in the Ottoman
Empire and American archeologists’ of the OSS Greek Desk in World War
II, the subject of her next book.
For more information please contact:
The Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University
(415) 338-1892
E-mail: Modgreek@sfsu.edu Web: www.sfsu.edu/~modgreek
Thursday, February 21, 2008, 7:30 pm, HUM 587
The Center for Modern Greek Studies
The Nikos Kazantzakis Chair
San Francisco State University
presents a lecture by Platon Mavromoustakos
“The Art Theatre of Karolos Koun & Modern Greek Theatre Practice”
Thursday, February 21, 2008
HUM 587
7:30 pm
Platon Mavromoustakos is Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Athens, where he has been teaching since 1991. He received his Doctorate in Theatre Studies at the Institut d’Etudes Théâtrales, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris III, in 1987. He has collaborated with many state theatres in Greece and has directed several research projects on the history of Modern Greek theatre, the reception of Italian Opera and the History of Ancient Drama Performances in Europe and Modern Greece. He has published widely a number of books, articles and monographs including the study Theatre in Greece 1940-2000. A Survey (Athens: Kastaniotis, 2005) and is the General Editor of the Greek edition of Moliere’s Complete Works.
This public lecture is sponsored by the Alexander Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)
This event is open to the public and free of charge
For more information please contact:
The Center for Modern Greek Studies at San Francisco State University
(415) 338-1892
email:modgreek@sfsu.edu
web: www.sfsu.edu/~modgreek
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