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Filmmaker takes camera behind scenes with Whirling Dervishes
To the advantage of her audiences, filmmaker Nefin Dinc’s eyes become theirs. A documentary filmmaker allowed to follow a group of whirling dervishes behind the scenes as they prepare for a ceremony in Turkey, she turned her camera on a 12-year old girl who was undergoing the spiritual and physical training to perform the ancient devotional dance. “I wanted to show a glimpse of Islamic life in Turkey,” the SUNY Fredonia communication professor said. Professor Nefin Dinc
Dean Schwartz accepts post in France
Dr. Paul Schwartz, Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities for more than eight years, has been selected to be the next Dean of Academic Affairs at the Institute for American Universities in Aix-en-Provence, France.
Pearl Harbor Day observed in arts series
“Things We Carried,” a traveling exhibit from the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago, opens Nov. 15 in the Main Gallery of the Access to The Arts, opening the second annual Healing Arts program sponsored by the SUNY Fredonia Carnahan Jackson Humanities Fund.
SUNY Press to publish Nelson's book on Rt. 20
Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Malcolm Nelson is currently working on an anecdotal study of the longest highway in the United States. It is this road, U.S. 20, which he takes to work every day, and indeed, offers him an exceptionally personal vista of human traffic going east or west as it passes by the front door of his home in Brocton, N.Y. SUNY Press has selected Dr. Nelson's book, Twent West: The Great Road Across America, as one of its books to be published in 2007. Dr. Malcolm Nelson
SUNY technologists review Fredonia's success
Employees of the SUNY Learning Network (SLN) visited SUNY Fredonia on Tuesday, Oct. 24, to learn about Fredonia's success in migrating to the ANGEL Learning System in preparation for the SLN’s upcoming migration to ANGEL.
Tenor speaks at Brown Bag Lecture series
Tenor Joe Dan Harper of the SUNY Fredonia School of Music voice faculty will present, “Why Should We Listen,” on Wednesday, Nov. 1 at noon in room G-144 of the Williams Center. Sharing his experiences, he will discuss the viability of the art song recital as a socially relevant and compelling form of creative expression
Is slavery the world's oldest trade?
Slavery in ancient Egypt Slavery is not a pleasant subject. The suffering of slaves and the brutality of slavery is a black page writ large in American history, and most SUNY Fredonia freshmen come into Markus Vink’s history classes carrying powerful images of slavery as it was practiced in their own country in the 19th century. But, in his research seminar, Dr. Vink takes them on a different journey across time and space. He directs their attention eastward across the Atlantic, across the continent of Africa and into the world of the early modern Indian Ocean. He points them back to a time earlier than the American colonies. Here they find a world in which slaves are already ubiquitous, and where the practice of slavery is traditional. His research has traced slavery as far back as 1500 B.C.E., to the beginnings of (recorded) history and to the times of stateless peoples, hunter-gatherers, and pastoral nomads. Since then, a steady stream of captive humanity continued to flow through the rise and fall of empires, sultanates, confederations and kingdoms “Slavery,” Dr. Vink maintains, “is the world’s oldest trade.”
Geosciences riding crest of new gas boom
Technology is making the difference in modern gas exploration. Dr. Lash studies data from a well already drilled for clues to subsurface characteristics in Western...
Women in chemistry subject of Fall Gathering
Cheryl Campo is the speaker at the Fall Gathering of the Women’s Studies Program on Wednesday, Sept. 27 from 5 to 7 p.m. Her talk is titled, “Wine, Women and Song…Mixtures, Men and Science,” as her topic.
Tenor and pianist to perform Schubert song cycle
Gerald Gray, Tenor Tenor Gerald Thomas Gray of the Fredonia School of Music and fortepianist David Breitman of Oberlin Conservatory of Music will present Schubert’s...