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Performing arts showcased at Augusta Savage Gallery

The Augusta Savage Gallery this month is hosting a series of events representing various facets of performing arts.

Playwright and Fine Arts Center staff member Richard Ballon, along with veteran tubist Joseph Daley and saxophonist Marty Ehrlich, respectively, will perform in the Augusta Savage Gallery on Monday, Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.

Ballon’s compilation of monologues challenges what it is assumed to be ordinary life.

Israeli writer Gail Hareven to speak Oct. 14

Gail Hareven, one of Israel's most prominent writers, will speak at the Yiddish Book Center, 1021 West St.,  on Sunday, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. Her topic will be “Is there room for a room of one's own? On politics and writing in Israel.”
 
Hareven is a highly regarded author of five novels, three story collections, plays, nonfiction and children’s books. She is a winner of the Sapir Prize for literature, among Israel’s most prestigious literary prizes, awarded for her novel The Confessions of Noa Weber (English translation), which also won the Best Translated Book Award in 2010. In addition,

Tropp assists reconciliation initiative in Cyprus

Professor Linda Tropp, director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, recently returned from Cyprus where she worked with an initiative aimed at supporting reconciliation between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities on the divided island.
 
Cyprus 2015, which is supported by the UN Development Programme - Action for Cooperation and Trust and funded by the U.S.

University Libraries and partners host Open Access Week

As part of Open Access Week, a global event in its sixth year, the Libraries are hosting a series of events relevant to open access, copyright and fair use, data sharing, electronic theses and dissertations, and sustainability from Oct. 22-26.
 
The events begin Oct. 22 with “Perspectives on Open Access: Practice, Progress and Pitfalls,” a panel discussion via webcast, on the 26th floor of the Du Bois Library from 4-5:30 p.m.
 
Laura Quilter, copyright and information policy librarian, will present “Copyright & Fair Use,” on Oct. 23 from noon to 2 p.m. on the 26th floor of the Du Bois

Majors Fair to take place Oct. 24

Undergraduate Advising’s annual Majors Fair will be held Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 5:30-7:30 p.m in the Campus Center Auditorium and concourse.
 
Students (undeclared and declared) attend the Majors Fair to speak with representatives from virtually every department on campus and to learn more about potential areas of study. In this informal setting, faculty, staff and current students can discuss an assortment of majors, minors and certificates as well as an array of resources and career opportunities connected to the various majors.
 

Multibands Pops Concert set for Oct. 26

The Multiband Pops Concert, showcasing 15 ensembles including dance, brass, jazz, orchestra, percussion, vocal and wind, plus the Minuteman Marching Band, will be presented Friday. Oct. 26 at 8 p.m. in the Fine Arts Center Concert Hall as part of Homecoming.

The musical extravaganza is produced and directed by professor Jeffrey W. Holmes of the Music and Dance Department.

Tickets are $20 general public and $15 other students, children, seniors. Call the Box Office at 545-2511 or order online.

Flags lowered Oct. 7 for firefighters service

Gov. Deval L. Patrick has ordered that the United States and Commonwealth flags be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Sunday, Oct. 7 in observance of the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Service.

Voices of Afghanistan perform at Bowker

The Voices of Afghanistan featuring Farida Mahwash, Homayoun Sakhi and the Sakhi Ensemble, perform Friday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m. in Bowker Auditorium.

The concert will highlight the traditional and new innovative musical idioms that enrich and expand the repertoire of Afghan music. Farida Mahwash is considered Afghanistan’s greatest contemporary woman singer, Homayoun Sakhi is the most outstanding and innovative Afghan rubâb player of his generation and the Sakhi Ensemble is comprised of some of the most sought-after Afghan musicians living in the United States.

Tickets are $30 and $15; 1$10 for

Doctoral oral exams for Oct. 15-19

The graduate dean invites all graduate faculty to attend the final oral examinations for the doctoral candidates scheduled as follows:

Jyoti Prakash Mahalik, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering. Monday, Oct. 15, 10 a.m., A110 Conte Polymer Science Building. Dissertation: “Computer Simulation of Viral-assembly and Translocation.” M. Muthukumar, chr.

Jun Cui, Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering. Monday, Oct. 15, 1 p.m., A111 Conte Polymer Science Building.

New England Medieval Conference coming to campus Oct. 13

"Objects of Desire: The Materiality of the Middle Ages" is the focus of the 39th Annual New England Medieval Conference to be held in the Campus Center on Saturday, Oct. 13.
 
The conference will feature eight distinguished speakers from Harvard, MIT, Yale, Holy Cross, Brown, West Virginia, Dartmouth and Boston College. All talks will take place in 160 Campus Center.
 
According to the conference organizers, “We inhabit a world filled with material objects.

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