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Bloomington
Colin Graham, who has directed 55 world opera premieres, is the guest director of the IU Opera Theater’s production of the late British composer Benjamin Britten’s Peter Grimes, which opens tonight (April 9) at the Musical Arts Center in Bloomington. Graham directed the premieres of the last eight operas written by Britten but this is the first time he will lead the opera for a university company. Additional performances: April 10, 16 and 17.
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Seyyed Hossein Nasr, University Professor of Islamic studies at George Washington University, will present the second annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture in Islamic Studies Thursday (April 15) at 7:30 p.m. in Woodburn Hall 101 on the IUB campus. His topic will be religious and Islamic studies in America. A reception will follow.
Nasr, one of the world’s leading experts on Islamic science and spirituality, is the author of numerous books, including Man and Nature: the Spiritual Crisis of Modern Man (Kazi Publications, 1998); Religion and the Order of Nature (Oxford University Press, 1996); Knowledge and the Sacred (State University of New York Press, 1989) and The Heart of Islam: Enduring Values for Humanity (Harper, 2002).
Darlene Clark Hine, the Hannah Professor of history at Michigan State University, will present two Patten Lectures next week on the IUB campus. “Black Professionals: The Intersection of Race, Class and Gender, 1890-1930” will be her topic Monday (April 12) at 7:30 p.m. in Myers Hall 130. At the same time and place on Wednesday (April 14), her topic will be “Black Before Brown: Health, Education, Social Welfare Professionals 1930-1954.”
She is a founder of the Association of Black Women Historians and founding editor of the Blacks in the African Diaspora Series for the IU Press. She recently completed terms as president of both the American Historical Association and the Southern Historical Association. Her lectures at IU will be based on her current research project exploring the black professional class in the early to mid-20th century, specifically nurses, physicians and lawyers as well as the race-defending organizations they created in the period preceding the civil rights movement.
Fort Wayne
Author Joyce Carol Oates will be reading from her work and providing commentary about her prolific body of literary work Monday (April 12) at the Walb Union Ballroom on the IPFW campus as an Omnibus Lecturer. Her appearance begins at 7:30 p.m. In addition to numerous novels and short-story collections, she has published several volumes of poetry, literary criticism and theater pieces. Recent works include Faith of a Writer, a book of essays about the art and craft of writing; The Tattooed Girl, a novel; Small Avalanches and Other Stories, a collection of short stories; I’ll Take You There; Big Mouth & Ugly Girl, her first novel for young adults; and Beasts.
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