May 8 - Rose Performance Hall
Lyle Davidson
and the students from the New England Conservatory
"Madrigals are not Angry Birds: Narrative in Choral Music and Text"
Professor Lyle Davidson of the New England Conservatory will be giving a performative lecture (chorally illustrated by students from NEC) on the function of narrative in music and text
Professor Lyle Davidson of the New England Conservatory will be giving a performative lecture (chorally illustrated by students from NEC) on the function of narrative in music and text
March 13 - Gerrish School of Business Life Sciences Building 349
Ben Nabors
Documentary Film Director / Producer
Discussing William and the Windmill
Ben Nabors is a documentary filmmaker living in Brooklyn. He’s received filmmaking grants from Participant Pictures, The Tribeca Institute, The Fledgling Fund, and the True/False Film Festival. In 2010, he founded {group theory}, a collaboration-driven production studio that creates documentaries, short narratives, cartoons, and branded content. Current projects include William and the Windmill, a feature length documentary about William Kamkwamba, a young windmill inventor from Malawi, The Happy Film, a feature length documentary about graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister and his pursuit of happiness, and a feature documentary about the making of the Broadway show “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark”. He loves what he does. View work at www.grouptheory.co
February 10 - Gerrish School of Business Life Sciences Building 349
Dr. Michael Antonucci
Keene State College
"A/way Up South: Slavery, Poetry and Colonial New England"
Michael Antonucci’s training in African American literature and culture serves as the foundation for his research and teaching about of Space, Place and Race within the contexts of the United States.
Professor Antonucci's scholarship has appeared in African American Review, American Studies Journal, Arkansas Review, Callaloo, COIN, and Obsidian III, as well as in several edited volumes and anthologies.
His current research project, “A/Way Up South: Black Women, New England and Poetry” traces a set of literary conversations among Black women writers in New England that extend to the eighteenth-century and includes discussion of poetry by Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley. This project finds an important point of intersection with his recent consideration of contemporary African American poet Michael S. Harper, “Taproot of MichaelTree (Black Poetry and New England 1746-Present).”
Other recent research projects include a recovery of Frank J. Basloe's I Grew Up with Basketball published by University of Nebraska Press, in 2012.
Professor Antonucci's scholarship has appeared in African American Review, American Studies Journal, Arkansas Review, Callaloo, COIN, and Obsidian III, as well as in several edited volumes and anthologies.
His current research project, “A/Way Up South: Black Women, New England and Poetry” traces a set of literary conversations among Black women writers in New England that extend to the eighteenth-century and includes discussion of poetry by Lucy Terry Prince and Phillis Wheatley. This project finds an important point of intersection with his recent consideration of contemporary African American poet Michael S. Harper, “Taproot of MichaelTree (Black Poetry and New England 1746-Present).”
Other recent research projects include a recovery of Frank J. Basloe's I Grew Up with Basketball published by University of Nebraska Press, in 2012.
December 12 - Spencer Gallery
Prof. Todd Wemmer
Endicott College
"The Sounds Machine: Storytelling and Podcasting"
Todd Wemmer’s writing on “lost and found photos” explores visual culture, the activation of the archive, and photography in everyday life. In what he describes as “an evolution from an Eye to an Ear,” Todd has immersed himself in recording and listening over the last five years, prompted by the low-fi voicemails called into his lostandfoundphotos.org. He has written and presented at venues including Duke’s Center for Documentary Studies, MIT’s Digital Humanities Conference, and the American Anthropological Association on topics ranging from podcasting photography to the use of voicemail in digital storytelling.
Todd directs a number of innovative projects, including lostandfoundphotos.org, which approaches visual culture, collective memory, and an unconscious archive through the idea that “all photos are trying to get lost”; photosdie.com, a podcast featuring interviews with photographers;withcameras.com, a collection of over 200 snapshots of women holding cameras from the early 1900s to 1960s with accompanying audio stories; I love you more than all the photos I take, a collection of interviews related to personal photography; and The Sound Machine, a podcast he started with his son last summer. He has also been conducting interviews with the speakers for the Narrative Studies Colloquium.
November 20 - Spencer Gallery
Dr. Rocco Gangle
Endicott College
"Formal Investments: Narrative Objects and Values in Greimas"
Professor Gangle specializes modern and contemporary Continental philosophy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in 2007 and before coming to Endicott taught modern religious thought, philosophy and interdisciplinary studies at Oberlin College and the University of California, Merced. He is the author of numerous journal articles on religion and political philosophy, phenomenology and the philosophy of science, as well as a translation of François Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference (Continuum, 2010) and the newly published François Laruelle’s Philosophies of Difference: A Critical Introduction and Guide (Edinburgh UP, 2013).November 7 - Spencer Gallery
Dr. Meredith Reiches
University of Massachusetts Boston
"Adolescent Transition: Coming of Age Narratives in Literature and Biology"
Meredith Reiches is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Massachusetts Boston. She completed her Ph.D. in Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University after receiving an undergraduate degree in Comparative Literature from Brown University. Dr. Reiches’s interests span the humanities and biological sciences. They coalesce around questions of how humans navigate the stages of the life course and how our identities are constructed by the possibilities and limits of our bodies and imaginations. Her work in reproductive ecology concerns the way that human bodies allocate energy among growth and reproduction during adolescence. She strives to put biological data and concepts into conversation with literary narrative in ways that challenge and illuminate both.October 23 - Spencer Gallery
Dr. Willie Young
Endicott College
"Loving to Tell the Story: Scriptural and Personal Narratives in Everyday Religion"
Professor Young is the author of two books, The Politics of Praise: Naming God and Friendship in Aquinas and Derrida (2007) and Uncommon Friendships: An Amicable History of Modern Religious Thought (2009), and a winner of Endicott’s Excellence in Teaching Award. He recently received a year-long sabbatical research grant from the Louisville Institute for his project titled “Listening, Religion and Democracy,” a study of the multiple forms of listening involved in Boston-area religious communities and how they help to cultivate civic and political engagement.October 8 - Spencer Gallery
Dr. Alexander Freund
University of Winnipeg
"Between Torturer and Lover: Oral Historians and the Culture of Confession"
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Dr. Alexander Freund is associate professor of history and holds the Chair in German-Canadian Studies at the University of Winnipeg. He has been co-president of the Canadian Oral History Association and co-editor of the Oral History Forum d’histoire orale since 2006. Since 2010, he has been a member of the International Advisory Group for the Australian Generations oral history project and of the International Advisory Board of Palgrave Studies in Oral History (Palgrave Macmillan). (more) |
Todd Wemmer interviews Alexander Freund
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