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Graduate encouragement
Approximately 60 people attended a reception sponsored by
the Black Graduate Caucus at Prospect House on March 4. The
purpose of the annual event, according to Caucus chair
Michelle Fowles, is "to honor academic achievement of
sophomore students of color, encouraging them to seriously
consider graduate education, and giving them the opportunity
to meet a diverse group of faculty, administrators and
graduate students." Pictured is Gilbert Collins (r), a
graduate student in the Woodrow Wilson School, talking with
a group of sophomores. Claudia Tate (third from r),
professor of English, was among the faculty members present,
as was Dean of the Faculty Joseph Taylor (far l), who is
McDonnell Distinguished Professor of Physics.
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Fulbright scholar presents annual Drucker lecture
Monika Adamczyk-
Garbowska will address the question "Is There a Place for
Jewish Culture in Contemporary Poland?" at 8:00 p.m. on
March 24 in 2 Robertson Hall, presenting the annual Carolyn
L. Drucker Memorial Lecture.
Associate professor of comparative
literature at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin,
Garbowska is currently a Fulbright Scholar at Brandeis
University. Her research focuses on Yiddish literature,
Polish-Jewish literature and literature of the Holocaust.
Author of a book on I.B. Singer, she is also a translator
from English to Yiddish and one of the editors of Polin:
A Journal of Polish Jewish Studies.
The Drucker lecture is sponsored by
the Near Eastern Studies Department and the Jewish Studies
Program.
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Thomson gives Tanner Lectures
Judith Thomson, professor of philosophy at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, will deliver the Tanner Lectures on
Human Values on "Goodness" and "Moral Requirement."
Sponsored by the Center for Human Values, they will be held
at 4:30 p.m. on March 24 and 25 in Dodds Auditorium,
Robertson Hall.
On March 24, Thomson will speak on
"Goodness." A discussion following the talk will begin with
remarks from Philip Fisher, professor of English and
American literature at Harvard University, and Martha
Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of
Chicago.
On March 25, "Moral Requirement" will be
followed by remarks from Jerome Schneewind, professor of
philosophy at Johns Hopkins University, and Barbara
Herrnstein Smith, professor of comparative literature at
Duke.
Thomson's work on ethics and metaphysics
is reflected in her book, The Realm of Rights, a
study of what it means to have rights and what rights humans
have.
Each lecture will be followed by a
reception in Schultz Dining Room.
Theater event celebrates women's history
The Women's Center will present Singular Women, a
theatrical event in celebration of Women's History Month, at
8:00 p.m. on March 26 in Taplin Auditorium, Fine Hall.
The production, created by Catherine
Keyser '01, features 11 Princeton women students directing
and acting in 12 monologues from plays that feature women's
voices throughout history: Antigone by Sophocles,
The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare, The
Rover by Aphra Behn, A Doll's House by Ibsen,
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams,
WOMBman WARS by Judith Jackson, And Baby Makes
Seven by Paul Vogel and The Heidi Chronicles by
Wendy Wasserstein.
A reception honoring the student
directors and actors will follow the production. At 10:00
p.m. a cappella groups Culturally Yours, TigerLilies,
Tigressions and WildCats will sing in 1879 Arch.
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Senior thesis
Arma Opmesci '00 (bottom) and Kristin Horrigan '99 (top)
will present "Kinetic Elements" at 8:00 p.m.
on March 26. Sponsored by the Program in Theater and
Dance, the concert is a senior thesis project. It will be
held in the Hagan Dance Studio, 185 Nassau St.
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