Foreign Languages & Literatures Prizes 2012

Academic Festival 2012 and our students!

Odissi dance expert Guru Sanchita Bhattacharya will perform Odissi, classical dance from East India, in a free performance April 30. The program also will include a dance demonstration by Skidmore students to Indian music by Veena Chandra, of the music department, and Devesh Chandra.

Skylar Sasson '12 to present on importance of study abroad

Can the conflict be resolved? What is the outlook for the future? Author/scholar Norman Finkelstein will answer both questions during his Tuesday lecture.

David Schlenker, class of 2013, will be heading to New Delhi, India this summer for an 8 week teaching internship. He also recently received the Educational Experience Award (SEE Beyond) that will help fund this endeavor. Below are excerpts from an essay he wrote on the project. Congratulations to David!

CHALLENGING THE MYTH!! Can Education Majors Study Abroad? Of Course they can!! So why does the myth persist?

Historian Stephen Berk of Union College will discuss Jewish involvement in the Civil Rights movement when he presents this year's Balmuth Lecture on Tuesday, April 17. (Union College photo)

Imperial Designs is the first text in English dealing comprehensively with the subject of the Italian colonial experience in China in the 19th and 20th centuries. (Emma Dodge Hanson photo)

Founded in 2000 in Los Angeles by a group of young, emerging taiko drummers, Taiko Project wanted to create an American style of taiko, blending traditional forms in which they were raised with an innovative and fresh aesthetic approach to the Japanese drum.

START TIME CHANGE: In Between is a semi-autobiographical, 50-minute show that portrays the complexities and contradictions inherent in someone who grew up with a dual, Palestinian-Israeli identity. Ibrahim Miari will present the program at 7:30 p.m. March 6 in Skidmore's Dance Theater.

Erika Wohl '14 has organized an panel of guest speakers to help the Skidmore community learn more about 'The Faces of Israel.' The free program begins at 7 p.m. Feb. 29 in Gannett.

Skidmore anthropologist Noah Coburn and collaborator Greg Thielker want to expand the way anthropology is done and how we perceive other cultures. In a Feb. 20 talk and photography exhibit they will share information gathered during their January visit to Afghanistan.

A new member of the Art History faculty, Saleema Waraich has titled her talk 'Muslim Identity, Artistic Practice, and Authenticity in Early 20th-Century British India.' The lecture is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, in Davis Auditorium. Admission is open to the public.

Actor/writer Vickie Tanner brings her one-woman show Running Into Me to Bernhard Theater Saturday, Feb. 18. The performance is free and open to the public.

Bringing King to China is the bittersweet story of Caitlin McKiernan, a young American teacher in Beijing, whose failed protests against the Iraq war inspire her to produce a play in China about Martin Luther King, Jr. Director Kevin McKiernan (left) will answer questions about the film.

With a selection of 136 approved programs in 47 countries, including eight Skidmore programs in such locations as China, France, Spain, and England, it's no wonder that Skidmore's rank in the prestigious IIE Open Doors survey has climbed.

Soundtrack for a Revolution tells the story of the American Civil Rights movement through its powerful music -- the freedom songs protesters sang on picket lines, in mass meetings, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells as they fought for justice and equality. See it on Jan. 30.

Students are invited to wage peace with the support of a $10,000 grant from the Davis Projects for Peace Foundation. (Left: Preschoolers in Nicaragua show off their first books borrowed from the Paz Movil. This project was completed in 2011.)

Those attending the celebration made a donation in order to paint the atrium's windows with holiday cheer. The result? More than $400 raised for Shelters of Saratoga.