Dartmouth Now offers a weekly roundup of some of the noteworthy events on campus.
Nov. 14: Slumdog Millionaire co-director Loveleen Tandan speaks on “Song and Dance in Indian Cinema” at 3 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, in Rockefeller 3. The filmmaker’s visit is sponsored by the John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding; the Leslie Center for the Humanities; the Associate Dean for the Humanities; the Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Program; the Women’s and Gender Studies Program; and the Department of Film and Media Studies.
Nov. 14: Thayer School’s Visionaries in Technology Distinguished Speaker for 2014 is Jennifer Healey, research scientist for the Systems and Software Research Lab at Intel. She speaks on “Machine-to-Machine (M2M) Transportation Systems” at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, in the Spanos Auditorium at Thayer’s Cummings Hall.
Nov. 14: Jacqueline Francis, associate professor in the graduate program in visual and critical studies at California College of the Arts, San Francisco, gives the annual Angela Rosenthal Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, in Carpenter 13. The lecture series is a tribute to Professor Rosenthal, who died in 2010. Francis’ talk is titled, “On Norman Lewis and Painting Abstractly in the 1950s and After in New York.”
Nov. 14: The Displaced Theater Company lands in the lobby of the Black Family Visual Arts Center for a site-specific performance of Art, a one-act comedy by Yasmina Reza that won the 1998 Tony Award for Best Play. The show starts at 9 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14.
Nov. 15: Artists from the Pat Metheny Unity Group return to the stage of Spaulding Auditorium for a post-performance discussion, directly after their Nov. 15 show. The conversation, scheduled to start at 10 p.m., is free and open to the public; tickets to the 8 p.m. performance are available through the Hopkins Center box office.
Nov. 18: The Handel Society’s program for Tuesday, Nov. 18, includes the New Hampshire premiere of Annelies, the first choral setting of The Diary of Anne Frank. Tickets for the 7 p.m. performance in Spaulding Auditorium are available through the Hopkins Center box office.
