Today: Sojourner Truth Lecture
Margaret Washington, professor of history at Cornell University, will be presenting the James Field Lecture in History entitled “Sojourner Truth: Writing the Lift of a Legend.” Washington is the author of “Sojourner Truth’s America and A Peculiar People: Slave Religion and Community-Culture Among the Gullahs.” The lecture will be held at 4:30 p.m. in the Scheuer Room.
Field was a history professor at Swarthmore from 1947 to 1984. The lecture series brings visiting scholars on U.S. History and was started by Thomas D. Jones Jr. ’53 and Vera Lundy Jones ’58 in memory of Field.
Today – Friday: International education week
This week is international education week, sponsored by the Off-Campus Study Office. Program representatives will be on campus today and tomorrow to give presentations. The information session will be held in Sharples rooms 4, 5, and 6 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Today’s programs include IES, Austria, Japan and Spain; Internships in Francophone Europe, Paris, France; Organization for Tropical Studies, Costa Rica, S. Africa; Queen Mary, England, UK, London School of Economics, UK; and Swedish Program, Stockholm.
Friday’s programs include ISLE Program in Sri Lanka and Swarthmore Pograms: Swarthmore in Grenoble; University of Ghana, Legon; Globalization and the Natural Environment, Capetown, S. Africa; Swarthmore in Buenos Aires, Argentina; Environmental Studies in Poland, Krakow, Performing Arts Program in Bytom/Krakow.
Tomorrow – Sunday: Outrage
This weekend the Drama Board will present “Outrage,” its fall mainstage show. The play will run three times: tomorrow at 8 p.m., Saturday at 6 p.m., and Sunday at 2 p.m. It will be on Lang Performing Art Center’s mainstage.
Written by playwright Itamar Moses and directed by Dustin Trabert ’10, the play is split into four different time periods that present commentary on intellectualism in a comedic way.
Each semester the Drama Board has a mainstage production. Last semester the board’s production was “12 Angry Men.”
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