Humanities & Sciences

A modern staging of two short operas in one evening, composed by Gian Carlo Menotti.

In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock Reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to be the largest Indigenous protest movement in the twenty-first century. Water Protectors knew this battle for native sovereignty had already been fought many times before, and that, even after the encampment was gone, their anticolonial struggle would continue. In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement.

Leslie Jamison is the best-selling author of the novel The Gin Closet, the essay collection The Empathy Exams, and The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath, which blends memoir, cultural history, literary criticism, and reportage. She currently is an assistant professor at the Columbia University School of the Arts MFA program, where she directs the nonfiction concentration.

A veteran of the Vietnam War, Bruce Weigl has published more than a dozen poetry collections — among them The Abundance of Nothing, The Unraveling Strangeness, Sweet Lorain, and Song of Napalm — in addition to the memoir The Circle of Hanh. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Weigl has received the Robert Creeley Award, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, the Paterson Poetry Prize, and the Poet’s Prize from the Academy of American Poets, among other distinctions.

David Lazar is the author of three essay collections — I’ll Be Your Mirror, Occasional Desire, and The Body of Brooklyn — and the prose poetry collection Powder Town. The editor of several anthologies on the essay — among them Truth in Nonfictionand After Montaigne — he also is the founding editor of the literary magazine Hotel Amerika. Lazar teaches in the undergraduate and M.F.A. programs in Nonfiction Writing at Columbia College Chicago.

Get your hands dirty and your brains thinking about environmental responsibility!

Come celebrate a belated Tu B’Shevat, or the Jewish New Year for the Trees, with Hillel! This festival involves eating exotic foods, exploring our relationship to the earth, and planting trees... what could be better?!?! Each celebrant will leave with their own home-made tiny terrarium to bring back to your room and nurture all year long!

RSVP HERE REQUIRED TO ATTEND: https://goo.gl/forms/sxUyjUesfCexCdUu2

Please join Dr. Jason Corwin for the screening of the documentary Defending Ohi:yo’ as well as other short videos highlighting Seneca environmental topics. Discussion will cover the vital importance of media production by Indigenous people.