The Humanities Project Events for February 2007
Richard Crawford (website) is the Hans T. David Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Musicology, School of Music, Theatre & Dance at the University of Michigan. He will present a talk entitled "Ira Gershwin: The Making of a Lyricist."
Celebrated American artist Carrie Mae Weems will be featured at the Hartnett Gallery to coincide with University and community events commemorating Black history month. During the past 25 years, Weems has worked towards developing a complex body of art that has at various times employed photographs, text, fabric, audio, digital images, installation, and, most recently, video.
Appropriately titled “All About Eve,” the exhibition features a cross section of work from this period devoted to women. Including sections from her Kitchen Table series (1990), The Shape of Things (1993), Not Manet’s Type (1997), and Framed by Modernism (1999), the exhibition reflects the artists’ ongoing investigation of family relationships, gender roles, the histories of racism, sexism, class, and various political systems.
This event is free and open to the public.
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub is Director of Education at Rabbis for Human Rights-North America. Weintraub is the author of a number of articles treating the issues of human dignity, war ethics, and human rights, and she is Co-founder and Co-chair of the Jewish-Palestinian Encounter program in Israel-Palestine.
This event is free and open to the public.
Directed by Honey Meconi, Professor of Music, College Music Department.
This event is free and open to the public.
David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered. A graduate of Yale University and Yale Law School, he clerked for Judge Arlin Adams on the Third Circuit. He has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to flag burning.
His talk, "Less Safe, Less Free—Why We are Losing the War on Terror," is part of a year-long series of talks on law and the war on terror by leading figures.
This event is free and open to the public.
Judith Tick (website) is an award-winning scholar, and author of Ruth Crawford Seeger, the first full-scale biography of an American woman composer. She is also co-editor of Women Making Music: The Western Art Tradition 1150–1950, a path-breaking volume that still remains one of the most important texts in the study of women and music.