DePaul University LA&S Events Calandar 2004

Tuesday, May 4 (tentative, date to be confirmed)
“Open Season? Media Coverage of the 2004 Presidential Race” (inaugural session of a quarterly series):
A Media Roundtable with Laura S. Washington
(DePaul Humanities Center)
DePaul University Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield Avenue, Room 314B; 6:00 p.m.
Description: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Professor Laura S. Washington, Ida B. Wells-Barnett University Professor and Fellow of the DePaul Humanities Center, welcomes Don Wycliff, public editor of the Chicago Tribune (invited), Jeff Zeleny, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune (invited), David Axelrod, political consultant and director of the recently victorious Barak Obama campaign (invited), and Maria de Los Angeles Torres, Professor of Political Science, DePaul University, for a discussion of the media's coverage of the 2004 presidential election season.
The panel will assess the media's coverage of the presidential primary race and what might be ahead in the fall. Key questions include: After a year of continuous revelations about ethical missteps by the media, how can readers and voters assess the accuracy and fairness of campaign coverage? How do the media promote or hinder the democratic process? Do the media bring biases to its coverage of presidential campaigns? How should voters "read the media" in an election year? THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
Moderator: An award-winning editor and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, Laura S. Washington is an expert on media coverage and issues, including journalistic ethics and investigative reporting. Her other areas of specialization include African-American affairs, Illinois and national politics, diversity, race and racism, and social justice.

Wednesday, May 5
“Mendez vs. Westminster: ?For All the Children/Para Todos los Ninos?”
(Center for Latino Research)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Activity Center, Room 154; 6:00 p.m.
Description: The film entitled “Mendez vs. Westminster” tells of the Mendez family and other Hispanic families who filed a lawsuit in 1944 against four school districts for school segregation. The three-year court battle with the judicial system was instrumental in changing discriminatory practices in Orange County, California and beyond. William Guillermo Luna, President and curator of the Museum of Mexican Culture and History and the Mexchicana Bookstore is the featured speaker. For more information please call 773.325.7316.

Wednesday, May 5
“The Nonprofit Public Services Lecture Series 2003-2004”
(Master of Public Services Graduate Program in association with DePaul University Alumni Relations and Networking)
Loop Campus, Chaddick Institute, 243 South Wabash, 9th Floor; 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Description: “#9 Negotiating with Policymakers”. This session provides positive strategies to build partnerships with elected officials to achieve positive policy outcomes. Speaker: Gloria Simo, Public Services Graduate Program professor. Call Jennifer Benstein at (312) 362-5564 for more information.

Thursday, May 6 & Friday, May 7
Celebracion de Nuestra America conference: “Latinos in the Global City”
(Latin American Studies Program)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Activity Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Room 154; 6:00 p.m.
Description: Featuring speakers Saskia Sassen, Carlos Monsivais, Sam Quinones, and Dagoberto Gilb, readings from Gritos. Reception to follow. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information please call 773.325.7316 or e-mail cmorales@depaul.edu.

Friday, May 7
Celebracion de Nuestra America conference: “Latinos in the Global City”
(Latin American Studies Program)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Activity Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Room 154; 3:00 p.m.
Description: Featuring speakers Carlos Monsivais, Max Castro, Silvia Torres and Arlene Davila. Light snacks will be served.
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Activity Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Room 154; 6:00 p.m.
Description: Session One featuring speakers Marcos Raya, Jesus “Chuy” Negrete, Camilla Fojas, Marisa Alicea and Carlos Flores.
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Activity Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Avenue, Room 161; 3:00 p.m.
Description: Session Two featuring speakers Lorraine Mora, Raul Dorante, Febronio Zatarain and Frances Aparicio.
THESE EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. For more information please call 773.325.7316 or e-mail cmorales@depaul.edu.

Monday, May 10
Community Connection Series 2004: “Homefront: Silenced Voices of War”, by Patricia Monaghan
(DePaul Humanities Center)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield Avenue; 7:00 p.m.
Description: 2003-2004 Humanities Center fellow Patricia Monaghan presents a staged reading, with musical accompaniment, of poems from her manuscript Homefront: Silenced Voices of War. The literature of war is typically silent about those who suffer war's aftermath. While authors of war literature break the silence that envelops their life-threatening and life-changing experiences, the silence deepens around the lives of those who welcome the warriors home. Homefront gives voice to these lives, exploring war from the vantage point of a veteran's child. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Tuesday, May 11
Community Connection Series 2004: “Girls’ Theory: Me-Search Research” Film Screening and Discussion
(DePaul Humanities Center)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield Avenue, Room 314B; 6:00 p.m.
Description: Humanities Center fellow Camilla Fojas hosts a screening of “Girls’ Theory: Me-Search Research.” This documentary was produced in a year-long workshop with girls aged 14-17, using the media to explore their own lives and the world around them. In their own voices, the girls cover topics such as violence, stereotypes of women, sex, relationships, reputation, and the future. The video and project was organized by beyondmedia founder Salome Chasnoff. Salome will be featured on a post-screening panel with some of the girls she works with who will discuss the impact of media on their lives. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

Wednesday, May 12
“Taafe Fanga, Skirt Power” (Mali)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield Avenue, Room 120B; 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Reel Images and Cinematic Representations of the Black Diaspora Film Series and Colloquium
(The Center for Black Diaspora)
Description: “Taafe Fanga, Skirt Power” (Mali) an adaptation of an African myth, by Adama Drabo. Set among the cliff-dwelling Dogon of 18th century, this film explores women’s challenges to male domination. Narrated by a griot, we hear a story about how women capture a powerful mask and terrorize the men into assuming traditional women’s roles.” Hence, “the triumph of the skirts over shorts.”

Thursday, May 16
Last day of “Fitter Happier”
(DePaul University Art Museum)

Wednesday, May 19
“The Joseph and Marie Grant Annual Spring Concert”
DePaul Symphony Orchestra at Orchestra Hall
(DePaul School of Music, Mark Maxwell, coordinator)
Chicago Symphony Center, 220 South Michigan Avenue; 8:00 p.m.
Description: With special guests Stephen Balderston, cello, and Ilya Kaler, violin. PROGRAM: Double Concerto, Brahms; Serenade for Strings, Movement 3, Tchaikovsky; and Symphony No. 5, Shostakovitch. Admittance is free, but tickets are required, and will be available beginning April 12th. Please call (773) 325-7260 for reservations.

Thursday, May 20
NPSN Conference: “Building Organizational Capacity Inside and Out”
(Master of Public Services Graduate Program in association with DePaul University Alumni Relations and Networking)
Location and times TBD.
Description: This conference will give participants a chance to network with other participants, faculty and professionals from nonprofit and governmental organizations in the Chicagoland area. Participants will hear presentations from practitioners in the public sectors, participate in large and small group discussions and develop new strategies on organizational capacity. This conference will also give the participants a chance to discuss particular problems with experts in the nonprofit field.

Friday, May 21
“Opening Reception of the Annual DePaul Art Students' Juried Exhibition”
(Art Department)
Lincoln Park Campus, DePaul Art Museum (Richardson Library), 5:00-7:00 pm
Exhibit runs March 21-June 28

Friday, May 28
Opening reception for “Annual Juried Student Exhibition”
(DePaul University Art Museum)
Lincoln Park Campus, Richardson Library, Main Gallery; reception 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.
Description: Work by DePaul students enrolled in Studio Arts courses, selected by an external curator, this annual event showcases the best of student work in all media. Main Gallery; and Teaching and Learning: Artists as Professors. Concurrent with an exhibition of student work, this exhibition drawn from DePaul’s permanent collection shows work by famous teachers (Laszlo Moholy-Nagy) and teachers of the famous (Van Gogh’s professor) to examine the changing practices of teaching artists their trade. French academic drawings, pastel landscapes from a summer art school, and a chronological sequence of Chicago photographers are included.

JUNE 2004

Early June (date TBA)
Community Connection Series 2004 “Family Art Workshop: Aztec Genealogies”
(DePaul Humanities Center)
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, 1852 West 19th Street; 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Description: Led by 2003-2004 Humanities Center fellow Delia Cosentino will host a free family art workshop. Families will be introduced to the Aztec art of pictorial genealogies, which were used to prove ancestral rights and justify power based on lineage. Using both traditional and modern materials, participants will be invited to create their own family trees in the style of the ancient Mexican examples. For more information, please call (312) 738-1503.

Saturday, June 5
“Then and Now: The Missouri River Sites of the Lewis and Clark Expedition”
(DePaul Geographical Society)
Lincoln Park Campus, Schmitt Academic Center, Room 154; 1:30 p.m.
**Nominal admittance fee for non-members**
Description: In 2003 the U.S. celebrated the 200th anniversary of the historically and geographically significant Louisiana Purchase. On October 31, 1803, Congress gave President Jefferson power to purchase from the French Emperor Napoleon a basically unknown area, one third the size of the present U.S. Hoping to find a waterway from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean, Jefferson chose his secretary Meriwether Lewis to lead the government-financed expedition. Lewis chose Captain William Clark to co-lead this expedition. In October, 2003, Dr. Vernon Prinzing, who recently retired from DePaul’s Department of Geography, celebrated the anniversary of this event by conducting a unique tour visiting Lewis and Clark expedition sites along the Missouri River from St. Louis to the river’s source in Montana. In this presentation Dr. Prinzing shares highlights of the group’s tour following in the footsteps of Lewis and Clark. (A reception follows this final program of the 43rd Annual Series.)

Monday, June 7
Community Connection Series 2004: “Conversations with Bill Irwin” hosted by Rachel Shteir
(DePaul Humanities Center)
Steppenwolf Theatre, 1650 North Halsted, Chicago; 7:30 p.m.
Description: An awarding-winning playwright, clown, actor, and director, Bill Irwin began clowning with San Francisco’s famous Pickle Family Circus. He would later create many original works, including the Broadway productions of the Tony Award-winning Fool Moon, The Regard of Flight and Largely/New York. His appearances as an actor range from Edward Albee’s The Goat on Broadway and Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center Theater to Mr. Noodle on “Sesame Street,” and span many other television and film roles. This evening, Irwin will perform as part of Steppenwolf Theatre Company’s Traffic Series. Contact Steppenwolf for details and ticket information (312) 335-1650, or www.steppenwolf.org.

Tuesday, June 8
Community Connection Series 2004: “Conversations with Bill Irwin” hosted by Rachel Shteir
(DePaul Humanities Center)
Lincoln Park Campus, Student Center, 2250 North Sheffield Avenue, Private Dining Room 200; 1:00 p.m.
Description: An awarding-winning playwright, clown, actor, and director, Bill Irwin began clowning with San Francisco’s famous Pickle Family Circus. He would later create many original works, including the Broadway productions of the Tony Award-winning Fool Moon, The Regard of Flight and Largely/New York. His appearances as an actor range from Edward Albee’s The Goat on Broadway and Waiting for Godot at Lincoln Center Theater to Mr. Noodle on “Sesame Street,” and span many other television and film roles. This afternoon, Shteir, head of dramaturgy at the DePaul Theatre School, will conduct a Q&A with Irwin. They will talk about comedy, collaboration, and contemporary theatre. THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Mr. Irwin will also teach a master class to DePaul Theatre School students