COLBY COLLEGE NEWS

Service of Lessons and Carols: Colby College Chorale (Click Here to View) Thursday, December 08, 7:30pm The Colby College Chorale revives a wonderful, historically rich musical experience. This performance of a wide variety of seasonal carols (distinct from Colby?s Carols and Lights ceremony) follows the format devised for use at King?s College, Cambridge, in England more than a century ago: verses from the Old and New Testaments, read by members of the College and representatives of the community, are coupled with sacred and secular carols from across the centuries and continents as well as congregational singing of favorite carols. Come experience a beautiful musical moment in Advent. No tickets are required for this event.

 

OTHER COLBY COLLEGE NEWS

"Reflections of Terrorism" Open Class: Arsonists and Upright Citizens
Thursday, April 05, 1:00pm How is one to differentiate terrorism from a lust for violence? How does the so-called "common man" react to extremism? Max Frisch's drama The Firebugs (Biedermann und die Brandstifter) can be read as a critique of political power-grabbing through media hysteria, a warning to the masses from being duped into paranoia, or a parable for the  public's complicity in violent ideologies.


The Politics of Blackness, Vigilantism, and Hoodies: In Search of Justice for Trayvon Martin
Wednesday, April 04, 6:00pm


Alewives in the St. Croix River
Wednesday, April 04, 11:30am - 1:00pm John R.J. Burrows, director of New England Programs for the Atlantic Salmon Federation, and Landis Hudson, executive director of Maine Rivers, will discuss the threat alewives pose to fish populations in Maine rivers. Since the closing of the fish ways on the St. Croix in 1995, the alewife population has crashed, falling from a high of 2.6 million fish in 1987 to only 1,300 returning adults in 2007. Maine Rivers and allies have been advocating to reopen the river for this critical native species. Lunch with the speaker begins at 11:30 a.m.


Lecture: The Use of Music as Torture in the 'Global War on Terror'
Tuesday, April 03, 4:00pm It is well established that United States authorities have systematically used music and sound as elements of detention and interrogation practices so harsh as to have been defined by some as psychological torture aimed at destroying prisoners' subjectivities. This talk, by Suzanne Cusick, professor of music at New York University, draws on first-person accounts of former prisoners to explore how "the music program" in many detention centers constitutes a form of violence that causes great psychological harm to detainees and does indeed constitute a form of torture.


Wind Energy in Maine: Clean, Renewable, and Homegrown
Tuesday, April 03, 7:00pm A discussion with Jack Parker '76, president of Reed & Reed, Inc., one of the main providers of wind turbines in Maine, and Jeremy Payne, executive director of the Maine Renewable Energy Association, including a brief film on wind as a clean energy alternative. 


Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award and panel discussion honoring Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson
Sunday, April 01, 4:00pm - 6:30pm Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, the first African-American to sit on the Texas Supreme Court and the first to serve as that court?s chief justice, will be the seventh recipient of the Morton A. Brody Distinguished Judicial Service Award. Jefferson, the first state judge and the first elected judge selected as a Brody Award winner, recently completed service as president of the Conference of Chief Justices. More information on the Brody Award.   Prior to the Brody Convocation, a distinguished panel moderated by Hon. John Woodcock (U.S. District Court, District of Maine) will discuss the questions focused around electing, as opposed to appointing, state judges. Panelists: Hon. Barbara Lynn, U.S. District Court, North District of Texas Dmitry Bam, associate professor of law, University of Maine School of Law Jed Shugerman, assistant professor of law, Harvard Law School James Sample, associate professor of law, Hofstra Law School Schedule of Events: 4:00 p.m. Panel discussion (Ostrove Auditorium) 5:00 p.m. Break and refreshments (Diamond Atrium) 5:30 p.m. Brody Convocation (Ostrove Auditorium)


Vichy France and the Jews: Shield or Traitor?
Thursday, April 05, 7:00pm Mellon Professor Emeritus of History Robert Paxton of Columbia University will give the Annual Berger Holocaust Lecture. Paxton is a pioneering scholar of Vichy France, fascism, and Europe during the World War II era. His 1972 book, Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944, shattered the myth that French collaboration with the Nazis resulted from German pressure. Rather, Paxton demonstrated the extent to which the French Vichy Government volunteered its cooperation, including its persecution of Jews. Paxton's unsparing scholarship has been acclaimed in France as well as the United States. In April 2009 the French government awarded Paxton the Légion d'honneur.


Egg-sploring Art
Saturday, March 31, 10:00am The workshop will begin with a scavenger hunt in the Colby Museum followed by an egg-decorating workshop at Freshwater Arts. This event is free and open to all ages, but attendance is limited and preregistration is required. To register, call 207-680-2055.


America's Energy Future: A View from the Producers
Thursday, March 29, 7:00pm Kristen Lingley, manager of Government Relations for the Independent Petroleum Producers of America, will present a discussion of the nation's energy needs and ways they can be met from the perspective of the independent crude oil and natural gas explorers/producers in the U.S. Note location change for this event (moved from Ostrove Auditorium, now in Diamond 122)


The Swing Vote: The Untapped Power of Independents
Wednesday, March 28, 7:00pm Focusing on swing demographic groups in swing states, Linda Killian will discuss her new model of the swing voters, revealing who they are and what they want from their government. Her work examines this intense frustration that these voters feel with government policies and with the two-party system. Linda Killian is Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars.


TaikoProject Drumming Concert
Tuesday, March 27, 7:30pm TaikoProject was founded by a group of young, emerging taiko drummers seeking to create an American style of taiko?blending traditional forms in which they were raised, with an innovative and fresh aesthetic approach to the Japanese drum. They first made waves when they became the first American taiko group to win the prestigious Tokyo International Taiko Contest in 2005, beating out all the Japanese taiko groups in attendance. They have performed at some of America's highest profile events, including the 2009 Academy Awards and the 2011 Grammy Awards, and with ??some of the world's most well-known musical artists, including Stevie Wonder, Usher, Kanye West, and Blush.


Zen Master Robert Kennedy Roshi on Contemplation in Higher Education
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00pm What would be the Zen or meditative view of what we are up to as educators at Colby? What would the Jesuit view be? How about the view of a psychoanalyst? Robert Kennedy Roshi will address the subject of contemplation in higher education. After the talk, there will be a meditation session for interested students, faculty, and staff. Kennedy is the abbot of Morning Star Zendo in New Jersey. He's also a Jesuit priest, a professor of both Japanese and theology, and a psychoanalyst. Author of Zen Spirit, Christian Spirit, Kennedy is a representative to the United Nations of the Institute for Spiritual Consciousness in Politics. Sponsored by Dean Kletzer and the Colby Contemplative Mind Interest Group.


Noontime Art Talk: Exploring a Chinese Official Scroll
Wednesday, March 28, 12:00pm Visiting Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History Man Xu


Journey Into Climate
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00pm Paul Andrew Mayewski, director of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine, shares personal experiences of going to some of the Earth?s most remote and challenging places, the scientific discoveries he and his teams have made there. He describes the journey that his team and the scientific community made from a "gradualist" viewpoint?thinking that humanity was an inconsequential observer in a slowly changing climate?to the realization that we are deeply and irrevocably involved in the short- and long-term fate of a temperamental climate capable of dramatic changes in a matter of only a few years. He also describes discovering the worldwide reach of industrial emissions; their effects on climate, civilization, ecosystems, and our individual quality of life; the remarkable success of the Clean Air Act and the Montreal Protocols; and how some of the effects can clear up in weeks or months?and others only over centuries.


The Road Less Traveled: Medical Science and the Delivery of Health Care to Women
Tuesday, March 27, 7:00pm


No Papers in the Academy: Undocumented Immigrant Students and the Crisis of Citizenship
Monday, March 26, 7:30pm Evelyn Nakano Glenn is a professor of ethnic studies and gender and women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of three books: Issei, Nisei, War Bride: Three Generations of Japanese American Women in Domestic Service, Unequal Freedom: How Race and Gender Shaped American Citizenship and Labor, and Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America.  She is also the editor of an important and pathbreaking volume, Shades of Difference: Why Skin Color Matters, a volume that places colorism, skin lighteners, and gendered racism in a global context. In addition to the lecture, Glenn will speak at an open class on Tuesday, March 27, at 9:20 a.m. in Room 100, Lovejoy Building.


Civil Society, Policy and the Environment: How Environmental Laws Sustain and Constrain Environmental NGOs in Ethiopia, Assistant Professor Travis Reynolds, Colby
Wednesday, March 14, 11:00am - 1:00pm Assistant Professor Travis Reynolds focuses his research on international environmental policy and sustainable international development. Drawing on institutional theories and ecological economics, his research looks at common pool resource management problems and the roles of international, national, and local organizations involved in forestry and other natural resource management systems. His current work focuses on the design and performance of small- and large-scale carbon forestry projects in Sub-Saharan Africa.


The Healthcare Debate: Perspectives from the American Hospital Association
Monday, March 12, 7:00pm Dr. John R. Combes, senior vice president of the American Hospital Association and president and chief operating officer of the Center for Healthcare Governance, an AHA affiliate organization dedicated to advancing excellence, innovation and accountability in healthcare governance, will discuss the recent political debates over the cost and provision of health care to American citizens from the perspective of the hospital industry.


Colby Symphony Orchestra Concert
Saturday, March 10, 7:30pm Johannes Brahms was nearly 40 years old before he felt ready to write his first symphony. And what a debut work it was. From the foreboding and insistent boom of timpani in the opening measures to the final triumphant thematic statement, the first symphony is a testament to Brahms's astounding genius. The concert will also feature the winner of Colby's annual student concerto competition. Past performances have included works by composers ranging from Mozart to Mahler to Aaron Copland and have consistently demonstrated the high level of technical virtuosity and musical sensitivity produced by Colby students with majors that have included not just music but economics, philosophy, and physics. Jonathan Hallstrom, conductor


Tartuffe
Thursday, March 08 - Saturday, March 10, 7:30pm Tartuffe, the scoundrel we love to hate, leads Orgon and his family to the brink of disaster before his religious hypocrisy is finally uncovered. Colby's production of Molière's 17th century comedic masterpiece features a delightful combination of linguistic wit and physical shenanigans?a most entertaining way to expose an impostor.


Roundtable: Varieties of Terrorism
Thursday, March 08, 7:00pm How do language and feeling shape terrorism? How in turn are they shaped by terrorism? What defines bioterrorism? What differentiates eco-activism from eco-terrorism? What role do nuclear weapons play in global terrorist threats? In this roundtable, five Colby faculty members will share their perspectives on these questions: Keith Peterson (philosophy), Charles Conover (physics), Hollis Griffin (WGSS), Arthur Greenspan (French & Italian), and Susan Childers (biology).


All Children Left Behind: Public Education in America
Thursday, March 08, 8:00pm - 9:00pm Gordon Fischer '13 will screen the 30-minute documentary he made over JanPlan about public education in America. The film exposes the flawed nature of the educational system in America. It presents a case that the system is broken and that therefore the idea of democracy is also broken. One of the major issues explored is the emphasis placed on standardization over multicultural education. Discussion will follow.


The American Election From an International Student Perspective
Wednesday, March 07, 7:00pm As Super Tuesday primary results take over the headlines, a panel of Colby international students will discuss their perspectives on the American election process, its impact on foreign policy as it relates to their home countries, and how the process compares to their idea of democracy.  The panel will be moderated by Assistant Professor of French Valerie Dionne. Panelists are Ness Dong '14 (China), Jozef Moffat '15 (Zimbabwe), Jonathan Sommer '14 (Germany), and Khaled Wardak '13 (Afghanistan).This panel was proposed and organized by Russell Wilson '14, member of the Goldfarb Center Student Advisory Board.


Visiting Writers Series: Poet Bob Hicok
Tuesday, March 06, 7:00pm A recipient of five Pushcart Prizes, a Guggenheim, and two NEA Fellowships, Hicok's poetry has been selected for inclusion in six volumes of Best American Poetry. He is also the recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize from The American Poetry Review and the Anne Halley Prize from The Massachusetts Review. Hicok is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. Prior to teaching, Hicok worked for nearly two decades as an automotive die designer and eventually owned his own business.


Filmmakers Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
Tuesday, March 06, 6:30pm Perhaps no two filmmakers have had a more profound effect on the recent history and future of U.S. independent film than Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon. Haynes's credits include Poison, Velvet Goldmine, Superstar, and I?m Not There. His films have received the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, a Special Jury Award at Cannes, and multiple Academy Award nominations. Beyond producing Todd Haynes?s feature films, Vachon has also produced such groundbreaking independent films as Boys Don't Cry, I Shot Andy Warhol, Go Fish, Swoon, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Happiness, Kids, One Hour Photo, and dozens more.  


Hugo Schwyzer: Men, Women, and Body Image
Monday, March 05, 7:00pm - 8:30pm Hugo Schwyzer will discuss current cultural issues surrounding body image, gender identity, media, and social pressures. This presentation will provide insightful perspective on an important part of our culture (our physical and internal identity). The program will provide a safe space for students to discuss these issues.  


The Red Market - Every Body Has a Price
Monday, March 05, 7:00pm Scott Carney will discuss his book, Red Market, and the issues surrounding organ trafficking. From Bloomberg-Businessweek: "In 2008 police officers smashed open the doors of a dairy farm in northern India and found 17 people hooked to IV tubes, being drained of blood, too weak to run away. The farmer and his staff had kept them alive simply to milk their veins and sell off the contents to local blood banks. This is just one of the horrifying everyday tales of the body trade documented in Scott Carney's The Red Market -- his coinage for the mostly legal and sometimes creepy multibillion-dollar business of buying and selling the stuff of human life, including organs, bones, embryos, and blood."


The Strider Concert: Apple Hill String Quartet
Saturday, March 03, 7:30pm Members of the internationally renowned Apple Hill String Quartet will be joined by Colby?s Eric Thomas for an eclectic program drawn from standard and not-so-standard string quartet literature. Franz Josef Haydn?s charming Lark Quartet will be followed by Five Pieces for String Quartet by Erwin Schulhoff, a Jewish-German composer whose rise to prominence was halted when his music was deemed "degenerate" by the Nazis. His quartet blends jazz and dance rhythms from a variety of sources and cultures. The ensemble will be joined by clarinetist Thomas for a work by Bernard Herrmann, an eminent composer for 20th-century films who wrote music for Citizen Kane, Vertigo and Psycho.


Artist's Talk: James Lucas
Thursday, March 01, 6:30pm The Student Art Committee presents an evening with Colby student James Lucas '15, who will present and discuss his distinctive origami works.


Escape From the Nazis
Thursday, March 01, 5:00pm As a 16-year old youth, Francis de Marneffe?encouraged by his family but traveling alone?escaped from advancing German troops at the time of the invasion of Belgium in May 1940. He journeyed west across Europe as it began to fall to Nazi rule. In this first-hand witness to the chaotic and dangerous weeks leading up to the German occupation of France, de Marneffe will speak about his solo flight across the continent, his understanding of the political and cultural moment of Nazi power and European appeasement, the plight of the refugee populations he encountered, and the relationship between history and memory in our perception of the Second World War.  After escaping occupied Europe to England, he studied medicine in the United States. de Marneffe is now on the faculty at Harvard and general director emeritus and senior consulting psychiatrist of McLean Hospital. His memoir, Last Boat from Bordeaux, chronicles his experiences of German-occupied France. Refreshments, book signing, and conversation to follow.


Noontime Art Talk: Rediscoveries 2
Wednesday, February 29, 12:00pm President William D. Adams discusses the exhibition he curated: Rediscoveries 2: New Perspectives on the Permanent Collection. Founded on the belief that a museum is a platform for new ideas from diverse perspectives, Rediscoveries, an ongoing exhibition series, presents rotating selections from the permanent collection chosen by members of the Colby College community. Representing a wide range of disciplines, interests, and areas of expertise, guest curators include Colby faculty, students, staff, and friends of the museum.


From Sound to Sound: Gulllah Geechee Culture Heard 'Round the World
Tuesday, February 28 - Tuesday, March 06 As a child, David Pleasant was immersed in the rich sounds and rhythms of the Gullah?Geechee culture. This legacy fueled his unique rhythmic style. In 1993, Pleasant created ?RiddimAthon!??a performance and teaching method developed from a synthesis of African, Caribbean and African?American musical traditions. His rhythm?effects vocals and drum?voice?body techniques have been featured in numerous theatrical and  broadcast programs including MTV Unplugged, ABC News, Nightline, and Reading Rainbow. During his extended visit, Pleasant will offer a number of programs, all of which are open to the public. Open Class: Religion in Gullah Geechee Culture Tuesday, Feb. 28, 1 p.m. Lorimer Chapel Open Rehearsal: Calling All Students Interested in Percussion Tuesday, Feb. 28, 4 p.m. Lorimer Chapel Open Class: Gullah Geechee Culture and the African Diaspora Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2:30 p.m. Room 243, Diamond Building Open Class: The Gullah Geechee Roots of African American Culture in the United States  Thursday, March 1, 9:30 a.m. Room 100, Lovejoy Building  From Sound to Sound: An International Jazz Concert    Thursday, March 1, 7:30 p.m. Selah Tea Cafe, 177 Main Street, Waterville David Pleasant presents Miles Griffith, Tony Pancella, and Gina Rapattoni Diversity in Rhythm and Motion Workshop     Friday, March 2, 2:30 p.m. Dance Studio, Runnals Building (registration required) From Sound to Sound: An International Jazz Concert Sunday, March 4, 7 p.m. David Pleasant presents Miles Griffith, Tony Pancella, and Gina Rapattoni Parker Reed Room, Schair-Swenson-Watson Alumni Center Images of Gullah Geechee Culture: "Daughters of the Dust" Monday, March 5, 7:30 p.m. Film Viewing with Master Teacher, David Pleasant  Room 100, Lovejoy Building Open Class: Gullah Geechee Memories: "The Language You Cry In" Tuesday, March 6  Lecture and Film Viewing Room 100, Lovejoy Building


The Kemba Smith Story
Monday, February 27, 7:00pm - 8:00pm At the age of 24, Kemba Smith, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute crack cocaine for her boyfriend's drug activities. Smith, seven months pregnant at the time with no criminal record, became a "poster child" for mandatory sentencing when she was sentenced to 24.5 years in prison with no possibility of parole. Mandatory minimum sentencing laws have made her and an increasing number of women casualties of excessive punishments that do not fit their crimes. Smith will share how she became the "poster child" by coming from a middle class, college experience to dating one of the FBI's most wanted and then having her sentence commuted by former President Bill Clinton.


International Lawyering for the U.S. Government in an Era of Smart Power
Sunday, February 26, 7:00pm Harold Koh, legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State and to Secretary of State Clinton, will deliver the sixth George J. Mitchell Distinguished International Lecture. Koh, a former dean of Yale Law School, will discuss his role in providing legal opinions to the United States Government facing controversial decisions, including those regarding the use of drone missiles to attack terrorist targets. 


Award-Winning Filmmaker Spike Lee
Friday, February 24, 7:00pm Free tickets are required. Tickets will be made available to the Colby community on February 15th. Members of the public interested in attending can send an e-mail to ngsintet@colby.edu to reserve tickets. Live feeds in Lovejoy, the Pugh Center, and LoPo (Cotter Union) are free, open to the public, and do not require a ticket. S.H.O.U.T! (Speaking, Hearing, Opening Up Together) is a student-organized weekend of events celebrating multiculturalism and community building at Colby. Doors open at 6:15 p.m. Screenings of three of Spike Lee's films will be held at Railroad Square Cinema, Waterville, in the weeks preceding the event. Crooklyn (1994), Wednesday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m. Malcolm X (1992), Wednesday, Feb. 15, 7 p.m. Do the Right Thing (1989), Wednesday, Feb. 22, 7 p.m.


The Hammill Family Native Spirit Dancers
Thursday, February 23, 7:00pm Hoop dancing is a form of story telling dance incorporating any number of hoops, which are used to create both static and dynamic shapes or formations representing various animals and storytelling elements. These include the butterfly, the eagle, the snake, and the coyote, with the hoops symbolizing the never-ending circle of life. (The Foothills Focus,  Feb. 2011) Part of S.H.O.U.T! week.


Between Civility and Barbarism: Some Thoughts on the Fate of the Humanities
Wednesday, February 22, 7:30pm Renowned scholar/cultural critic Homi K. Bhabha will address important issues facing the academy and the larger culture. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities in the department of English, the director of the Mahindra Humanities Center, and the senior advisor on the humanities to the president and provost at Harvard University. Bhabha is the author of numerous works exploring postcolonial theory, cultural change and power, and cosmopolitanism, among other themes. Some of his works include Nation and Narration and The Location of Culture, which was reprinted as a Routledge Classic in 2004. Harvard University Press will publish his forthcoming book, A Global Measure, and Columbia University Press will publish his next book, The Right to Narrate.


The Medicalization of Society
Tuesday, February 21, 7:00pm Peter Conrad of Brandeis University teaches medical sociology and qualitative research and is chair of  the Health: Science, Society & Policy program. His most recent book, The Medicalization of Society, discusses origins and consequences of the growth of medical jurisdiction over human problems.


Climate Policy and Carbon Pricing: Problems and Prospects with Professor Emeritus Thomas Tietenberg
Tuesday, February 21, 7:00pm Tietenberg will discuss the scientific and economic cases for action on climate change and the current political situation both domestically and globally. He will explore the potential role for carbon pricing (emissions trading and/or carbon taxes) by reviewing how well existing programs work and what their evolution over time suggests for their future. This talk will draw upon both Tietenberg?s participation in a National Academy of Sciences project on climate change and a recent survey paper that he completed for the International Monetary Fund, an organization that is getting more heavily involved in carbon pricing. Tietenberg retired from Colby in 2008 after more than 30 years at Colby. More on his career in Colby magazine


Exhibit and Lecture: Photojournalist Andrea Bruce
Monday, February 20, 7:00pm Photojournalist Andrea Bruce has documented the horrors of political violence in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq. She will present her work and speak about the experience of being a photojournalist in parts of the world marred by terrorism.


Elijah Parish Lovejoy Visiting Fellow in Journalism: Andrea Bruce, photojournalist
Monday, February 20, 7:00pm Andrea Bruce, a freelance photojournalist who has worked in the Middle East for nearly a decade, will narrate a viewing and discussion of photos she has taken while in Afghanistan and Iraq and while covering the Arab Spring. Bruce was last on campus in 2007, as part of a panel before the Lovejoy Convocation, when she discussed the unique problems confronting photojournalists covering wars.


Mars, Venus, or Planet Earth? Women and Men on Campus in a New Millennium
Monday, February 20, 7:00pm We're often told that men and women are so different we might as well come from different planets. In this presentation, Michael Kimmel strips away those myths and suggests that women and men aren't so different after all. Surveying the landscape of current controversies about gender, he shows how men and women are transforming our campus and our culture?and why gender equality is actually a good thing for men. Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. He is the author or editor of more than twenty volumes, including Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity, Men Confront Pornography, The Politics of Manhood, Manhood in America, The Gender of Desire, The History of Men, Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men, and The Guy's Guide To Feminism.


Crystal Night: A Lesson for Our Times
Monday, February 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Educator David O. Solmitz shares his father's story about surviving the Holocaust and what others can learn from that terrible time and behavior. The discussion will focus on warning signs of genocide and will engage those who attend in a thought-provoking discussion. This program will promote awareness and understanding, and ask us to reflect on how conflict arises (in the context of genocide) and what we can do to prevent it.


Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Terrorism
Tuesday, February 14, 7:00pm This roundtable brings together five Colby professors to talk about how terrorism is conceptualized from within their disciplines: Jennifer Yoder (government), Walter Hatch (government), Margaret McFadden (American studies), Elena Monastireva-Ansdell (German and Russian) and Lydia Moland (philosophy).


Ringing the Doorbell: Saner, Healthier Sex in College
Monday, February 13, 7:00pm Guest speaker Cindy Pierce offers a fresh, honest and funny perspective for young men and women on the ins and outs of healthier, saner (and safer!) sex. In this hilarious keynote, Pierce uses anecdotes and her social research to demystify sex and relationships in college. Students walk away with safer and more realistic expectations around sex. Pierce is shaking people out of their comfort zones. She is the co-author of Finding the Doorbell: Sexual Satisfaction for the Long Haul. 


Art to Heart: Printmaking Workshop
Saturday, February 11, 10:00am - 12:00pm Learn about prints and patterns at the museum, then, at Barrels Community Market, create stamps to print valentine cards. This event is free and open to all ages, but attendance is limited and preregistration is required. To register, please call 207-859-5613.


Noontime Art Talk: Images of Abraham Lincoln in the Permanent Collection
Thursday, February 09, 12:00pm A discussion by Lincoln scholar and John J. and Cornelia V. Gibson Professor of History Elizabeth Leonard


Sail Your Passion: Navigating the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Life with Tom Whidden II '70
Wednesday, February 08, 7:00pm Thomas Avery Whidden II '70 is one of the most experienced America's Cup sailors in the modern era. He has sailed in eight America's Cup challenges and won the race three times. He is president, CEO, and co-owner of North Marine Group, a $300-million family of nautical companies (such as North Sails Sportswear and EdgeWater, a manufacturer of outboard power-boats). North Marine Group is the most successful sail maker in the world. Every America?s Cup contender in 2003 used North Marine?s sails. Whidden is assisted by a worldwide group of managers who oversee sales, service, and manufacturing in 29 countries. In this presentation, Whidden will discuss setting and managing personal and professional goals: how to do exactly what you want to do after college and create a successful business at the same time. It's not as hard as it might seem. Reception begins at 6:30 p.m.


The European Debt Crisis: Economic, Political and Social Perspectives
Tuesday, February 07, 7:00pm The plight of the European Union remains in the headlines as the effects of the economic crisis continue to unfold. A panel of Colby professors will articulate their thoughts on what the future holds for the EU, shedding light on questions such as: Economically: How did the EU get here? Does it have the economic means to handle this crisis? Is it likely that the Euro will be abandoned and if so, what would be the potential repercussions? Politically: How does the crisis impact the EU as an institution? What does the current shaky status of the EU mean for its legitimacy among member states? Does this change how the EU is viewed by member states as a legal institution? Socially: What social impact has the crisis had on individual citizens in the member states?  How do they view the EU, and has the current crisis changed their perceptions? For better or for worse? Panelists: Associate Professor of Economics Andreas Waldkirch Robert E. Diamond Professor of Government and Global Studies Jennifer Yoder Julian D. Taylor Associate Professor of Classics Kerill O'Neill


Visiting Writers Series: ZZ Packer
Tuesday, February 07, 7:00pm Fiction writer ZZ Packer's stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Harper?s, Story, Ploughshares, and Best American Short Stories 2000, Best American Short Stories 2003 and NPR?s Selected Shorts series. Her non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Essence, O Magazine and the New York Times Book Review. She is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer?s Award, a Whiting Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her book Drinking Coffee Elsewhere won the Commonwealth First Fiction Award and an ALEX award. It became a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner award and was selected for the Today Show Book Club by John Updike. She is currently at work on a novel about the Buffalo Soldiers, titled The Thousands, an excerpt of which appeared in The New Yorker?s 20 Under 40 Fiction Issue under the title Dayward.


Punishment, Morality, and Deviance
Friday, February 03, 3:00pm As society struggles with how to detain and punish terrorists, what psychological factors are at play? How do punishers understand their role, and how does it affect their conception of their own moral standing? Gabrielle Adams will address the topic of punishment and deviance.


"Mars, Venus, or Planet Earth? Women & Men on Campus in a New Millennium"
Wednesday, February 01, 7:00am We're often told that men and women are so different we might as well come from different planets. In this presentation Michael Kimmel strips away those myths and suggests that women and men aren't so different after all. Surveying the landscape of current controversies about gender, he shows how men and women are transforming our campus and our culture -- and why gender equality is actually a good thing for men! Michael Kimmel is among the leading researchers and writers on men and masculinity in the world today. He is the author or editor of more than twenty volumes, including Changing Men: New Directions in Research on Men and Masculinity (1987), Men Confront Pornography (1990), The Politics of Manhood (1996), Manhood in America (1997), The Gender of Desire (2005), The History of Men (2005), Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (2008), and The Guy's Guide To Feminism (2011). Co-sponsors: Health Center, Interdisciplinary Studies Division, Dean of Faculty, Education Program, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.


Civility and American Democracy Forum
Friday, February 17, 8:30am - 4:15pm Has civility in America disappeared? Did it ever truly exist? A group of leading scholars and journalists, including Ellen Goodman, Joe Klein, Randall Kennedy and Jill Lepore, will gather at the University of Massachusetts-Boston to discuss those questions and more about the role civility plays in American politics.  The event will be moderated by Tom Ashbrook, award-winning journalist and host of NPR?s On Point. The Goldfarb Center will host a live webcast of the daylong event.


Are Fish Safe to Eat?
Thursday, February 16, 11:30am - 1:00pm David O. Carpenter serves as director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at University at Albany's School of Public Health. Carpenter was recently named to New York's Renewable Energy Task Force, charged with implementing plans to reduce electricity use through new energy efficiency programs in industry and government. Carpenter, who received his doctorate from Harvard Medical School, has 220 publications, 37 reviews and book chapters and 12 other publications to his credit.


Mapping Power, Mapping Resilience: Black Mothers' Photovoice in Syracuse
Thursday, February 16, 7:00pm Kishi Ducree is an professor of African American Studies at Syracuse University.  Her research focuses on environmental sociology and environmental justice. She is a contributing author to Echoes from the Poisoned Wells: Global Memories of Environmental Injustice.


Climate Change and the Search for Meaning, from Neanderthals to Extreme Skiers
Thursday, February 09, 11:30am - 1:00pm Auden Schendler is vice president of Sustainability at Aspen Skiing Company. He was named a global warming innovator by Time magazine and a climate saver by the EPA. Schendler has testified to congress on the impacts of climate change on public lands, and he speaks widely on sustainability. His book Getting Green Done: Hard Truths from the Front Lines of the Sustainability Revolution was called ?an antidote to greenwash? by NASA climatologist James Hansen. His writing has been published in Harvard Business Review, the Los Angeles Times, Slate, Scientific American, Orion, Rock and Ice, Salon and other media, and his work has been covered in Outside, Fast Company, Travel and Leisure, and Businessweek. An avid outdoorsman, Schendler has climbed Denali, North America?s highest peak, and kayaked the Grand Canyon in winter.


Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul
Friday, January 27, 2:00pm


Challenging White Privilege
Wednesday, January 25, 7:00pm Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He was named one of ?25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,? by Utne Reader in 2010. Wise is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son; an academic volume on affirmative action titled, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; an essay collection, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male; two books on race and racism in the Obama era, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity; and his latest, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, which examines rising white anxiety in an increasingly multicultural nation. He is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories. 


Time Wise on White Privilege
Wednesday, January 25, 7:00pm Tim Wise is among the most prominent anti-racist writers and educators in the United States. He was named one of ?25 Visionaries Who are Changing Your World,? by Utne Reader in 2010. Wise is the author of six books, including the highly acclaimed memoir, White Like Me: Reflections on Race from a Privileged Son; an academic volume on affirmative action titled, Affirmative Action: Racial Preference in Black and White; an essay collection, Speaking Treason Fluently: Anti-Racist Reflections From an Angry White Male; two books on race and racism in the Obama era, Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama, and Colorblind: The Rise of Post-Racial Politics and the Retreat from Racial Equity; and his latest, Dear White America: Letter to a New Minority, which examines rising white anxiety in an increasingly multicultural nation. He has contributed essays to twenty-five books, and is one of several persons featured in White Men Challenging Racism: Thirty-Five Personal Stories, from Duke University Press. He received the 2001 British Diversity Award for best feature essay on race issues, and his writings have appeared in dozens of popular, professional and scholarly journals.


PechaKucha Night Waterville Volume 6
Friday, January 20, 6:00pm The presenter lineup for PKN Volume 6 includes:     ?    Tim Forsman, disc jockey, ?Woody?s Children: The Legacy of Woody Guthrie?     ?    Alder Stone Fuller, educator, ?Cells, Organisms, Symbiosis & Gaia?     ?    Peter Harris, professor, ?What is Zen??     ?    Al Heath, energy auditor, ?Deep Energy Retrofit?     ?    Barbara Joseph, wellness consultant, ?Divine Elegance?     ?    Brian Phipps, fundraiser and eccentric, ?Eccentricity and Its Value to Society?     ?    Lauren Sterling, child and youth advocate, ?Change Agents?     ?    Malley Weber, potter, ?On Digging Clay? Waterville Mayor Karen Heck will serve as emcee. PechaKucha Night (PKN) began in Tokyo in 2003 and has turned into an international phenomenon with events in hundreds of cities around the world. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for "chit chat," PechaKucha features a series of creative presentations by creative people following a simple formula: 20 images x 20 seconds per image. It's a format that makes presentations concise, keeps the evening moving at a rapid pace, and allows for plenty of pecha-kucha among participants and attendees. Admission is $5 for the general public, free with a student ID. The doors open at 6:00p.m. with presentations starting at 6:40 p.m. and a 10 minute intermission after the first four presenters.   PKN Waterville is sponsored by the Colby College Museum of Art with additional support provided by businesses throughout the community.


Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Program: The MLK Day Community Choir and Keynote Speaker Walter E. Fluker
Monday, January 16, 6:30pm Walter Fluker is the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of Ethical Leadership at Boston University School of Theology. Previously he served as executive director of the Leadership Center and the Coca-Cola Professor of Leadership Studies at Morehouse College. His recent publications include two volumes of a multi-volume series entitled The Papers of Howard Washington Thurman: Volume I My People Need Me and Volume II Christian, Who Calls Me Christian? (University of South Carolina Press, 2009, 2011); and Ethical Leadership: The Quest for Character, Civility, and Community (Fortress, 2009).


Standing on My Sisters' Shoulders: Video Viewing
Monday, January 16, 2:00pm - 5:00pm This documentary reveals the movement in Mississippi during the 1950s and 1960s from the point of view of the courageous women who lived it and emerged as its grassroots leaders. Film by Joan Sadoff, Robert Sadoff, and Laura J. Lipson The film restarts on the hour in the Pugh Center from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.


Reflections of a King and the Civil Rights Movement
Monday, January 16, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Join us for a community lunch and discussion about the influence of the Civil Rights Movement.


New Students Arrive
Monday, January 02


Joy to the World: A Global Celebration of Christmas (42nd Annual Service of Carols and Lights)
Friday, December 09 - Saturday, December 10, 7:00pm - 7:00pm This Colby tradition continues to thrive. A musical prelude begins one half hour before the processional and includes the Colby Handbell Choir and other College instrumental groups. The service includes Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany readings and the singing of carols by the congregation. Student vocalists, instrumentalists, choral, and a cappella groups, as well as dancers, will take part in the services using both traditional and contemporary music from around the world. The singing of ?Silent Night? and special instrumental music during the traditional lighting of candles throughout the congregation will be followed by a joyful recessional carol and postlude on the Nickerson Carillon. Dec. 9 and 10, 7 p.m December 10, 3:30 p.m. Free tickets are required. The Dec. 9 service is sold out, but tickets for both Dec. 10 services are available at the information desk in Pulver Pavilion, Cotter Union.


Service of Lessons and Carols: Colby College Chorale
Thursday, December 08, 7:30pm The Colby College Chorale revives a wonderful, historically rich musical experience. This performance of a wide variety of seasonal carols (distinct from Colby?s Carols and Lights ceremony) follows the format devised for use at King?s College, Cambridge, in England more than a century ago: verses from the Old and New Testaments, read by members of the College and representatives of the community, are coupled with sacred and secular carols from across the centuries and continents as well as congregational singing of favorite carols. Come experience a beautiful musical moment in Advent. No tickets are required for this event.


The Missing Link: The Ecology of the Serpentine and its implications for East and North Ponds
Thursday, December 08, 6:30pm East Pond and North Pond are part of the Belgrade Lake system and have been studied, on and off, by previous environmental studies classes. It is well known that East Pond experiences severe algae blooms and the frequency and regularity of these blooms seems to be increasing annually. North Pond, however, does not experience these widespread algae blooms. To date, the research on these ponds, as well as on the Belgrade Lakes in general, has focused on describing the lakes as stand-alone systems. Students in this course set out to describe the role of the Serpentine, a slow, meandering stream, as a connective system between East and North Ponds.