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Vol. 5, No. 3 - February 2, 2006
| Sterne Virtuoso Series Continues with Euclid Quartet
The quartet will be joined for this event by guest pianist Charles Joseph, professor of music and vice president for academic affairs at Skidmore, who is father of the cellist. With Dr. Joseph, the ensemble will play Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet. The program will also include music for string quartet by Samuel Barber and Dan Welcher. Formed in Ohio in 1998, the Euclid Quartet is the resident string quartet at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. The quartet will conduct master classes and speak at music classes during its February visit, and will return to the campus in March to coach student string quartets at the College's 2006 String Festival. Mimi Hellman, assistant professor of art history, will discuss "The Joy of Sets: The Uses of Repetition in the 18th-Century French Interior" when she gives the Annual Art History Lecture Thursday, Feb. 9. Free and open to the public, the talk begins at 8 p.m. in Davis Auditorium of Palamountain Hall. Hellman, who joined the Skidmore faculty in 2004, will discuss how repetitive design, far from being considered boring, was in fact a defining feature of the elegantly appointed domestic interior in 18th-century France. She will explore the aesthetic appeal and social meanings of repetition in the design of furniture, porcelain, and painting during a period that was simultaneously one of the most admired and most disparaged times in the history of interior decoration. Hellman is a graduate of Smith College, where she earned a B.A. degree magna cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She also obtained an M.A. degree at Smith and a Ph.D. degree at Princeton, where her dissertation focused on interior decoration and the art of ambition in 18th-century France. She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, and the Pittsburgh Foundation. Bloodmobile Upcoming The next Red Cross Bloodmobile is scheduled from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 7, in the multipurpose room of the Sports Center. Those interested in donating may click here to make an appointment. Potential donors should weigh at least 110 pounds and not have donated in the past five days. Guidelines that cover recent travel, surgery, and such topics as tattoos and body piercing also have been issued. Please click here . Following up their previous two sold-out shows at Skidmore, Jamie Masefield's Burlington-based Jazz Mandolin Project returns to the Capital Region for an intimate performance in Filene Recital Hall at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 4. Tickets are $8 in advance (available at Case Center starting Wednesday, Feb. 1) or $10 at the door. The Jazz Mandolin Project, which began as a group of jazz players performing at a local coffeehouse in Burlington, VT, in 1993, has become one of the hardest touring live acts today. Masefield formed the group of ever-changing musicians to give himself the opportunity to do what he loved, to play jazz on the mandolin. The premise was that it wouldn't be looked at as a strict jazz gig but a session where the musicians would play whatever moved them, no matter what genre it took them to. "The whole concept of JMP," says Masefield, "has been one of experimentation. Not everything we play could be considered jazz. We've always just played what interested us, so, often that has taken us far from what a typical person might consider jazz. The hope is that we sound like now rather than then." JMP has shared the stage with diverse artists such as members of Phish, MOE, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Ratdog, Rusted Root, Marc Ribot, String Cheese Incident, John Scofield and Soulive. The Feb. 4 event at Skidmore is sponsored by S.E.C. Governance Challenges in China to Be Topic Miranda Schreurs of the University of Maryland at College Park will discuss "Governance Challenges in China: Confronting Environmental Degradation and Social Inequality" in a lecture scheduled Monday, Feb. 6. Free and open to all, the talk will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Emerson Auditorium.
Schreurs has received fellowships with the SSRC-MacArthur Foundation Program in International Peace and Security, Fulbright, and National Science Foundation/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. She is co-director of the Freeman East Asia Undergraduate Initiative at the University of Maryland. A graduate of the University of Washington, where she earned B.A. and M.A. degrees, Schreurs received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1996. The Feb. 6 event has been coordinated by Eileen Rose Walsh, Luce Assistant Professor of Asian Studies.
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A professor in the Department of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, Schreurs specializes in environmental politics and policy making in Japan, East Asia, and Europe. She is currently leading the Tamaki Environment Project, an international and interdisciplinary team-based analysis of environmental equity and justice in comparative perspective in Japan, Germany, the United States, and China. The work has led to two edited volumes and co-edited manuscripts on environmental security and cooperation in Pacific Asia (with In-taek Hyun), environmental policy across the Atlantic (with Stacy VanDeveer and Henrik Selin), and environmental management in Japan (with Hidefumi Imura). She has recently worked on numerous book chapters and articles dealing with environmental protection, climate change policy, social movements, and energy issues in Japan, East Asia, Europe, and the United States.