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UC Announces Spring '08 Cultural Events

Utica, NY (01/23/2008) -

Cultural Events at Utica College

Spring 2008 Calendar

 

January 24 - FILM@UC     

Tekkon Kinkreet

[Michael Arias, Japan, 2006, 100 min.]

Two mysteriously powerful, yet vulnerable, street urchins who have cast themselves as the protectors of Treasure Town get caught in the crosshairs of a Yakuza turf war in this visually stunning animated spectacle that weds frenetic action with surprising poignancy and emotional depth.

 

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

January 27 – February 23 - In the Gallery

Utica City School District Art Educators and Students 12^th Annual Exhibit

Monday-Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m.

 

Opening Reception

Sunday, January 27

1 to 4 p.m.

 

In the Gallery:

The Edith Langley Barrett Fine Art Gallery is located on the concourse level of the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library. All receptions are held in the Gallery. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

January 31 - FILM@UC

A New Day In Old Sana’a

[Bader Ben Hirsi, Yemen, 2005, 86 min.]

A well-to-do young photographer is torn between protecting his family’s honor and following his heart in this achingly romantic film shot entirely on location in Yemen’s ancient capitol city of Sana’a.

 

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

February 4 - ACSS (3:30 p.m. in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall)

A Conversation Among Colleagues: Our Quest for the Best in Teaching and Learning

Sandy Dimeo, Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy

This session provides opportunities to exchange strategies that have proven successful, as well as to seek advice from colleagues regarding students and situations that continue to be a challenge.

 

ACSS Mondays:

ACSS Mondays provide an opportunity for ACSS Faculty and interested colleagues to share what they learned from their work with the Adapting Curriculum for Student Success Project. To meet the vision of the ACSS Project, presentations will showcase innovative teaching practices, documented successes, and information on current issues that enable us to improve the quality of higher education for students with disabilities. All seminars are presented in the Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall, unless otherwise noted. Seminars begin at 3:30 p.m. Call (315) 792-3815 for more information.

 

February 6 - The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series

(12:30 p.m. in the Library Concourse)

Rick Montalbano Jazz Trio

Rick Montalbano

John Rohde

Jimmy Johns

 

The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series:

Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs for the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series begin at 12:30 p.m. Musical performances and artist talks are held in the Library Concourse. Literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

February 7 - FILM@UC                        

Belle De Jour

[Luis BuÒuel, France, 1967, 101 min.]

Fantasy and reality become blurred in the life of an unsatisfied young bourgeois wife who turns to prostitution in the afternoons while her husband is at work.

 

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

February 11 - Asa Gray (4 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall)

Using Designer Mice to Study Human Viruses

Jennifer Moffat, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, SUNY Upstate Medical University

Some viruses only infect humans, such as (HIV, chicken pox (VZV), and certain lymphomas (HTLV-1). It has been difficult to study these diseases without a small animal model for biomedical research. To address this problem, models were created that graft human tissues into mice that lack an immune system. Using these "designer mice," much progress has been made in understanding how human viruses cause disease, and new antiviral drugs have been tested. Technology has been developed to measured virus infection in living mice using bioluminescent imaging. These tools are important for developing better treatments and vaccines.

 

Asa Gray:

All lectures are held in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall at 4 p.m. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information

 

February 13 - The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series

(12:30 p.m. in the Library Concourse) 

Alicia Loomis, soprano

Tina Toglia, piano

 

The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series:

Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs for the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series begin at 12:30 p.m. Musical performances and artist talks are held in the Library Concourse. Literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

February 14 - FILM@UC                         

Belle Toujours

[Manoel de Oliveria, France, 2006, 68 min.]

This homage to BuÒuel’s classic film reunites the lead characters 38 years later in an elegant meditation on aging, memory, and yearning.

 

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

February 15 - Nexus, 2:30 p.m. in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall
Why Dembski’s Design Inference Fails

Fred Zammiello, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Philosophy
William Dembski is one of the best known proponents of intelligent design – the argument that the world is too complex to have arisen by purely natural processes and must therefore have been the work of a "designer." One of his central arguments focuses on the bacterial flagellum, a small propeller-like protrusion on some bacteria that allow the bacteria to propel themselves. This presentation argues that Dembski’s Explanatory Filter fails at the first node, making the filter useless for warranting the design inference. In order to warrant the claim that the bacterial flagellum was the product of design, for example, he must show that the event that brought the flagellum into existence could occur in a world with the same natural laws as the actual world, under the boundary conditions present when it occurred in the actual world, yet have a different outcome. He must show that, at the beginning of this event in the actual world, its actual outcome was indeterminate. In fact, he must show that the actual outcome was indeterminate in over 10 to the 150th power equally likely ways, or he will not be able to apply the complexity criterion at the second node. †Unfortunately, the type of thought experiment he relies on at the first node establishes, at most, that the event under consideration would have different outcomes if it were to occur under different boundary conditions. His journey to the design inference ends with the first step.

 

Nexus:

Nexus is a seminar series presented by Utica College faculty members, in which they discuss their research interests and scholarly pursuits. It is an opportunity for participants to explore new findings and viewpoints and share ideas with faculty, students, and the local community. All lectures are held in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall. Refreshments are served at 2:15 p.m.; seminars begin at 2:30 p.m. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

February 20 - The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series

(12:30 p.m. in the Library Concourse)

Dave Bell, fiction writer 

 

The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series:

Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs for the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series begin at 12:30 p.m. Musical performances and artist talks are held in the Library Concourse. Literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

This event is made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.

 

February 21 - FILM@UC

 

An Unreasonable Man

[Henriette Mantel and Steve Skrovan, USA, 2007, 122 min.]

The life and career of legendary consumer advocate Ralph Nader are explored in this illuminating and often entertaining -- and balanced – documentary, the title of which was inspired by George Bernard Shaw’s insight that “all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

February 25 - ACSS (3:30 p.m. in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall)

 

How to stop making your students anxious: Accessible syllabi in-class and on-line

Terri Provost, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biology

M.J. Gelsomino, D.P.T., Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy

Laura Dorow, Ed.D., Professor of Education

Lois Fisch, Ph.D., Professor of Education

 

A well-designed course syllabus can serve as a teaching tool and a valuable resource. This presentation will focus on format, content, and design elements that will address the needs of a diverse student population.

 

The presentation will be held in the Faculty Dining Room, Strebel Student Center.

 

ACSS Mondays:

ACSS Mondays provide an opportunity for ACSS Faculty and interested colleagues to share what they learned from their work with the Adapting Curriculum for Student Success Project. To meet the vision of the ACSS Project, presentations will showcase innovative teaching practices, documented successes, and information on current issues that enable us to improve the quality of higher education for students with disabilities. All seminars are presented in the Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall, unless otherwise noted. Seminars begin at 3:30 p.m. Call (315) 792-3815 for more information.

 

February 27 - The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series

(12:30 p.m. in the Library Concourse)

 

Elizabeth Evans, flute

Susan Sady, piano

 

 

The Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series:

Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs for the Professor Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series begin at 12:30 p.m. Musical performances and artist talks are held in the Library Concourse. Literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.

 

February 28 - FILM@UC

 

Khadak        

[Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, Belgium/Mongolia, 2007, 104 min.]

A young man destined to become a shaman discovers the truth behind a mysterious plague that is killing his people’s animals and destroying their nomadic way of life in this gorgeous and absorbing drama set in the snow-swept steppes of Mongolia.

 

FILM@UC:

All films take place at 7 p.m. in Macfarlane Auditorium, DePerno Hall, and are free of charge and open to the public. Schedule subject to change. Call (315) 792-3055 for more information.

 

February 28-29 and March 1-2 - On Stage

 

Craig Pospisil’s

“Life Is Short”

 

"This hilarious collection of short plays is a comical look at relationships from childhood to old age.†Some are charming and light, others dark and absurdist, but all eight gleefully portray†people at their worst.†And sometimes their best."

 

February 28-29 and March 1 at 8 p.m. and March 2 at 2 p.m. Tickets are $4 for general admission.

 

On Stage:

All performances are held in the Strebel Student Center Auditorium. Call (315) 792-3234 for more information.

 

 

February 29 - Geotalk (2:30 p.m. in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall)

 

Catskills Rocks

Peter A. Pawson, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Physical Therapy and Biology, Utica College

 

The Catskills, located west of New York’s Hudson River, are known for their singular culture and the natural beauty of their streams and mountains. But actually, the Catskills aren't mountains. Geologically speaking, the Catskill "Mountains" are a dissected plateau, the remnants of what was once a huge delta emptying into an inland sea. Deposits of sediment and the clash of continental masses led to the creation of peaks as high as Slide Mountain at 4,180 feet, but only a few miles away can be found marine fossils of the Cambrian Era.

 

The pressures of the earth created a variety of sedimentary rocks and their metamorphic derivatives – shale, limestone, slate, and especially bluestone. Bluestone peels easily from the mountainsides in shapes lending themselves naturally to building. Bluestone from the Catskills has been shipped worldwide, but some of the most beautiful bluestone structures, both natural and man-made, are found in the Catskills region.

 

This talk will discuss the geology of the Catskills and the processes that led to the creation of natural strata of stone. The talk will be illustrated with photographs of some of the most beautiful natural stone formations in the Catskills, outstanding stone structures built of Catskill rocks, and in particular ancient Catskill cemeteries, where the use of the stone for both gravestones and the surrounding walls has led to an unusual feeling of unity with nature.

 

Geotalk:

All lectures are held in Willard Conference Room, DePerno Hall unless otherwise noted. Refreshments are served at 2:15 p.m.; lectures begin at 2:30 p.m. Call (315) 792-3059 for more information.

 

March 3 – March 29 - In the Gallery

 

Martin Weinstein, Solo Exhibition

Teresa in the Landscape

 

Monday-Friday, 1 to 5 p.m.

Saturday, 1 to 4 p.m.

 

Support provided by Katherine T. Carter and Association

 

In the Gallery:

The Edith Langley Barrett Fine Art Gallery is located on the concourse level of the Frank E. Gannett Memorial Library. All receptions are held in the Gallery. Call (315) 792-3028 for more information.