Fall 2003 Events
September 4: Honors Forum reception for Class of 2007
5:00-7:00pm, Tang Teaching Museum
September 29, 5:30pm
A uniquely talented scientist and artist, Jonathan Kingdon, Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Biological Anthropology and Department of Zoology at Oxford University, and former Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Arts and Sciences at Skidmore, returns to campus for a series of events. The Honors Forum is sponsoring a presentation on the LOWLY ORIGIN work at 5:30, in the Payne Room of the Tang. A reception will follow.
Professor Kingdon’s earlier works include the 7-volume East African Mammals: An Atlas of Evolution in Africa, Island Africa, African Mammal Drawings, Kilimanjaro: Animals in a Landscape, Arabian Mammals: A Natural History, and Self-Made Man: Human Evolution from Eden to Extinction? In addition to his zoological expertise, he is a brilliant illustrator of his and others’ texts. The Millennium issue of American Scientist named Kingdon’s Atlas of E--volution in Afri-ca one of the “100 books that shaped a century of science.”
October 28: October Symposium
8:00pm, Emerson Auditorium
Alabaster Cities Gleam: the Great Chicago Fair
Retired Associate Professor of English, Alan Wheelock will present a talk on one
of the most significant "World's Fairs" ever created: The World's Columbian Exposition
of 1893. On 600 acres of swampy Chicago lakefront, America's foremost artists and
architects erected a great "white city,"an assemblage of neo-classic structures of
faux- marble, whose spectacular beauty would provide the impetus for an entire generation
of city planners, utopian and pragmatic.
November 8: Trip to Mass MOCA
Skidmore's own Professor Victoria Palermo's work is on display in the Kidspace at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA).
November 13 : Dounts and Discussion II
6:00pm Honors Forum Lounge
Come for a lively discussion of current events and issues on campus and around the world. Bring your voice and enthusiasm! Refreshment will be served.