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Your Convocation Events - 2012-2013!

Mark your calendars now!  Some fascinating people in store for you...

 

FALL 2012 CONVOCATION!

   Wednesday, September 19, 2012 at 7:00 p.m.

   Jones Auditorium
  

   Pre-lecture music at 6:30 p.m.- Ed Stephenson & his Flamenco Band!

 

 

 

 

 

 Chris Jordan,

 

 photographer,

 

 film maker,

 

 thinker.

 

             "Running the Numbers"

 

                                   
      >>>>>>>>>          His images will astonish, entertain, & jolt you. They are about us.

 

 

Chris Jordan creates images that open our eyes. Museums around the world have his thought-provoking

images on their walls. We experience his photographs at multiple levels -- they are beautiful, they are social

commentary, and they change their meanings right before your eyes. You don't want to miss Chris Jordan.

 

To learn more about the Chris Jordan, click here. So who is this Chris Jordan guy? Click to find out.

 

- Opportunities for you to connect with Chris Jordan -
     

Take the bus to NC Museum of Art & tour the photography section with Chris Jordan & museum docents.  

Wednesday, Sept. 19, 10:15-11:45 am (departing from the front of the Art Department)

 Reserve a seat on the bus at x8332 . We'll be back before noon.

     

Join in the afternoon Informal Conversation with Chris Jordan! Ask him tough questions!

Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2-3:20pm in the back of Jones Auditorium. (not a lecture, just time to exchange ideas!)

Academic/Cultural event for General Education Credit

     

Attend the evening Convocation! Chris Jordan will speak and show some of his incredible & challenging visual work. Mind-blowing stuff.

Wednesday, Sept. 19, 7:00-8:15 pm in Jones Auditorium, reception to follow in Johnson Hall

Academic/Cultural event for General Education Credit

 
ALL EVENTS ARE FREE!
 

 

 

The Top Five Reasons to Go Hear CHRIS JORDAN:

   Number Five:      OMG. Not a bad looking dude at all.

   Number Four:      I need academic/cultural event credits!

   Number Three:    The NC Museum of Art owns two of his photographs.

   Number Two:      He will make you think.


   Number One:      It just might change your life.

 


  

  Meet a TED speaker at Meredith!
  Bonus: Chris' latest project: Midway
  Don't miss this convocation! Wednesday, Sept. 19 at 7pm

             

 

 

And here's another great event for your calendar...

 

 



DR. SHERRY SHAPIRO

The Faculty Distinguished Lecture
:



THE HAIR PROJECT

 

Negotiating the Politics of

the Body


March 12, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

Jones Auditorium

Each year one Meredith faculty member is honored by the Faculty

Development and Instructional Technology Committee and the Vice

President for Academic Programs by being chosen to deliver the FACULTY

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE. The speaker is chosen for the excellence of

her scholarship or research, and it is always fascinating to hear these

presentations. This year the FDL will bring together dance, society, world

cultures, and you.  The FDL counts as an Academic/Cultural Event.

 

 

 

Hair symbolizes the conversations we have between our culture and


ourselves. It can tell us much about how cultures perceive race, class

and gender. Even economic differences. Shaved. Frizzy. With Perm.

Afro. Jewfro. Liberty Spikes. Beehive. Rattail. Comb Over. Cornrow.

Buzz Cut. All symbolize acts of conformity, resistance, or

transgression. Shapiro will illuminate how her recent choreographic

work in South Africa was a process for increasing personal reflection,

written narrative, movement, and cultural analysis.

 

 


Okay, who in the world is

Sherry Shapiro? (Click)

Sherry Shapiro

 

 


RECEPTION TO FOLLOW IN JOHNSON HALL.

 

 

The 2012-2013 Convocation events are made possible by

the Meredith College Convocation Committee and its

excellent partners:

 

The Art Department

The Environmental Sustainability Initiative MAC Grant

 

 

Selection of Convocation presenters is based on faculty

and student input.We always welcome suggestions from

the entire Meredith Community. For further information,

contact John Kincheloe, Committee Chair at

kincheloej@meredith.edu


 

 

 

 

 

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