Monday, March 31, 2008

4/2 Athenaeum at 1pm - Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 years

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 at 1:00pm

Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 years
Presentation by: Nancy Peterson, Rill Reuter, and Beth Halleck

Winona State University Scrapbook 1858-2008: Celebrating 150 Years was published in early 2008 as part of the sesquicentennial. In this forum Peterson and Reuter will discuss how pictures were chosen for inclusion in the book and how those selections dictated what text was included. Sesquicentennial Coordinator Beth Halleck will explain the book’s scrapbook concept and discuss working with the publisher. Examples of representative and interesting pictures will be shown.

Monday, March 24, 2008

3/26 Athenaeum at 1pm - The Sordid Past of the Piano Recital by Deanne Mohr

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 1:00pm

The Sordid Past of the Piano Recital: A Brief and History and Personal Reflections
Deanne Mohr a WSU Professor of Music will present on the history of the piano recital as a performance vehicle and reflection on my own experience in programming repertoire, preparing for a recital and performing as a solo pianist. Performance of works by Frank Martin and Cesar Franck.

Monday, March 17, 2008

3/19 Athenaeum at 1pm - Dusty Archives & Fond Memories: A WSU Sesquicentennial History by Peter Henderson

On Wednesday, March 19, 2008 at 1:00pm Peter Henderson, WSU Professor of History will present Dusty Archives & Fond Memories: A WSU Sesquicentennial History. This event is co-sponsored by the WSU Celebration of the Book Series.

Please join us at 12:45 for a piano recital by WSU Music major Kate Hujda.

Friday, March 7, 2008

3/12 Athenaeum at 1pm - Culture Shock and Political Correctness by Juan Fernandez Iglesias

On Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 1:00pm Juan Fernandez Iglesias, WSU Professor of Foreign Languages, will present Culture Shock and Political Correctness: The Challenge of Teaching Foreign Cultures in America.

Culture is often perceived as something that, well, other cultures have. Think, for example, of the French, with their “peculiar” culinary and social eccentricities. We, on the other hand, (whomever that “we” may be in any particular instance) tend to behave and interact with each other and interpret the world around us following the sometimes vague but generally accepted rules of what could be described as “common sense.” This stance makes us look at other cultures as literally eccentric, that is, out of center, not normal. Since they behave differently than us, and our behavior is determined by common sense, then their behavior has to be motivated by something else, something strange. When two cultures interact, this clashing of two different systems of “common sense” results in what has come to be known as “culture shock,” the seed of stereotypes and ultimately of ethnic and cultural chauvinism.