Preview Day Set for April 2

E&H Campus Saturday, April 02

College Welcomes Accepted Students on April 2 Preview

On April 2, accepted students will have the chance to preview their future home with a special day full of unique activities and events designed to make college-level transition simple and fun.

Whether you’ve decided on E&H or still yet undecided, this day promises to give all accepted students and families answers to numerous questions surrounding campus life.  

First-time guests to E&H will also have the chance to take part in personalized campus tours given by top-notch students from Emory & Henry’s Blue & Gold Society. 

You can register online or call 800-848-5493 for more information.

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Fairfield University's Women's History events continue into April

Fairfield University continues its celebration of Women's History Month into April with six events. They are sponsored by the University's Program in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGS).

Take Back the Night, April 3, 6:30 p.m., Barone Campus Center(BCC) - Take Back the Night is a candlelight vigil in memory and protest against the violence women have experienced physically and sexually, especially at night. Students will meet at the campus center information desk for stories and performances, ending in a group discussion about prevention on campus and in the greater community.Women's Day, April 4, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., BCC lower level - Come discover and celebrate women through presentations from campus clubs, arts and crafts, baked goods, a Bead-for-Life jewelry sale and performances throughout the day."In the Works" Faculty Talk, April 4, 6 p.m., BCC 206 - WGS faculty will share their current research on women, gender and sexuality.Film screening: A Question of Habit, April 8, 7:30 p.m., DiMenna-Nyselius Library multimedia room - Filmmaker Bren Ortega Murphy, Ph.D., screens her award-winning documentary about the depiction of Catholic nuns in U.S. popular culture.

Fairfield hosted more Women's History events in March, including an alumnae panel discussion on transitioning from college to career. For more information on these events, visit www.fairfield.edu/wgs.

Media Contact: Meredith Guinness, (203) 254-4000, ext. 2950, mguinness@fairfield.edu

Posted on March 21, 2013

Vol. 45, No. 231

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Fitchburg Art Museum director to discuss Land Art April 10

Fitchburg Art Museum Director Nick Capasso will discuss contemporary art on Wednesday, April 10, as part of Fitchburg State University’s Humanities Visiting Speaker Series.

Capasso, a recognized authority on contemporary sculpture and public art, will present “Understanding Land Art” at 3:30 p.m. April 10 at Ellis White Lecture Hall in Hammond Hall.

His remarks will explain art history and major aesthetic themes in American earthworks and site-specific sculpture from the late 1960s to the present. The Land Art movement will be traced from its roots in minimalism through its engagements with ancient architecture, the American West, environmentalism and public commemoration. Artists to be discussed include Walter di Maria, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Christo, Alan Sonfist, Patricia Johanson, Maya Lin and Andy Goldsworthy.

Admission is free and open to the public.

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Theater production “(Sacco-Vanzetti) Vince, Al & Teddy” April 2-7

A new play that examines “otherness” in America through the immigrant experience – and framed against the backdrop of the polarizing Sacco-Vanzetti trial of the 1920s – will have its world premiere as Fitchburg State University’s spring theater production.

"(Sacco-Vanzetti) Vince, Al & Teddy," written by Bruce Robinson, will be performed at the Wallace Theater for the Performing Arts at the McKay Complex, 67 Rindge Road. Performances will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, April 2 and Wednesday, April 3; 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 4 through Saturday, April 6; and 2 p.m. Sunday, April 7. Admission is free.

The play, presented by the university’s Communications Media and Industrial Technology departments, is directed by faculty member Kelly Morgan.

Set in 1925, “(Sacco-Vanzetti) Vince, Al & Teddy” explores painfully relevant themes. As it does on our time, the shadow of war and political disquiet made fear the atmosphere and personal liberty a luxury. As in our time, anyone too different or foreign caused apprehension.

This two-act play uses the trial of Sacco-Vanzetti as a touchstone and an emblem.  It testifies to a time not so long ago when Italians were marginalized – and were deported or executed because of their beliefs.  It witnesses a complex family and a young man changing against a dynamic background – of course, all executed in a highly theatrical way.  

A talk with scholar Michael Topp will precede the performance at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. Topp will discuss the reverberations from world-wide protests and cultural upheaval surrounding the 1927 execution of the two laborers, provoking anti-Italian, anti-immigrant and anti-anarchist sentiments that still resonate.

A conversation will also follow the final performance on Sunday, April 7, where playwright Bruce Robinson, director Kelly Morgan and regional scholars will reflect on the play’s premiere, Robinson’s three-week residency and the relevance of the play’s issues.

"(Sacco-Vanzetti) Vince, Al & Teddy" is funded in part by the Center for Italian Culture and the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Endowment at Fitchburg State University.

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International Studies speaker April 11

Fitchburg State University will welcome Ambassador Adrian A. Basora – national security strategic and scenario planner, scholar and business leader – to deliver the address at the International and Conflict Studies Keynote Speaker Series at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 11, at the Ellis White Lecture Hall in Hammond Hall, 160 Pearl St.

Basoram, pictured, will discuss “the challenges for post-communist democracies surviving a continued Euro-crisis.” Basora is a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute and director of its Project on Democratic Transitions. He served in diplomatic posts in the Czech Republic, Spain and France and was also a member of the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., where he shaped the U.S. response to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the first Gulf War.

Prof. Joshua Spero (Economics, History and Political Science), coordinator of the International Studies Minor Program, will introduce the ambassador and moderate the discussion.

“Ambassador Basora offers a unique perspective to our university and greater Fitchburg community on international diplomacy and the great challenges facing the emerging European democracies still transitioning from the post-Communist era and now experiencing the daunting upheaval of the Euro-crisis,” Spero said.

Basora is a recognized expert on political, economic and social transitions of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union since the fall of communism. He is a trustee of the International Research and Exchanges Board and a director of the National Futures Exchange, and was also independent director of the Quaker Investment Trust and chairman of its audit committee.

Among his diplomatic posts, Basora served as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic from 1992 to 1995, where he received the Presidential Performance Award for his overall achievements in Prague and he was director of European Affairs for the National Security Council from 1989 to 1991.

His presentation, free and open to the public, is supported by the Office of Academic Affairs and sponsored and hosted by the university’s International Studies Minor. It is co-sponsored by the Department of Economics, History and Political Science, the Center for Conflict Studies, the Office of International Education, the Office of Career Services, and the Office of Student Development.

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Preview Day Set for April 2

E&H Campus Saturday, April 02

College Welcomes Accepted Students on April 2 Preview

On April 2, accepted students will have the chance to preview their future home with a special day full of unique activities and events designed to make college-level transition simple and fun.

Whether you’ve decided on E&H or still yet undecided, this day promises to give all accepted students and families answers to numerous questions surrounding campus life.  

First-time guests to E&H will also have the chance to take part in personalized campus tours given by top-notch students from Emory & Henry’s Blue & Gold Society. 

You can register online or call 800-848-5493 for more information.

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Preview Day Set for April 2

E&H Campus Saturday, April 02

College Welcomes Accepted Students on April 2 Preview

On April 2, accepted students will have the chance to preview their future home with a special day full of unique activities and events designed to make college-level transition simple and fun.

Whether you’ve decided on E&H or still yet undecided, this day promises to give all accepted students and families answers to numerous questions surrounding campus life.  

First-time guests to E&H will also have the chance to take part in personalized campus tours given by top-notch students from Emory & Henry’s Blue & Gold Society. 

You can register online or call 800-848-5493 for more information.

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Preview Day Set for April 2

E&H Campus Saturday, April 02

College Welcomes Accepted Students on April 2 Preview

On April 2, accepted students will have the chance to preview their future home with a special day full of unique activities and events designed to make college-level transition simple and fun.

Whether you’ve decided on E&H or still yet undecided, this day promises to give all accepted students and families answers to numerous questions surrounding campus life.  

First-time guests to E&H will also have the chance to take part in personalized campus tours given by top-notch students from Emory & Henry’s Blue & Gold Society. 

You can register online or call 800-848-5493 for more information.

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