冈本视频

Arts and Humanities

  • You now can add 鈥渄irector of Oscar-nominated documentary鈥 to the resume of 冈本视频 alumnus Joe Berlinger. Berlinger 鈥83 and Bruce Sinofsky are directors of Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory, which was among five films nominated today by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as a Best Documentary Feature.
    January 24, 2012
  • Technically Latin is a dead language, but that鈥檚 not how it feels when taught by William (Bill) Stull, associate professor of the classics. Stull recently was awarded the 2011 Award for Excellence in Teaching by The American Philological Association (APA), which is the principal learned society in North America for the study of ancient Greek [鈥
    January 17, 2012
  • This spring, 10 冈本视频 students and Elizabeth Marlowe, assistant professor of art and art history, will be part of a discovery process that professional art historians would envy. 鈥淭hey will practice exactly the kind of original research, and engage with the same thorny ethical and theoretical issues, that curators, dealers, collectors and scholars do when [鈥
    December 5, 2011
  • On a rainy October night in 1961, Soviet and American tanks sat muzzle to muzzle at Checkpoint Charlie, the infamous boundary between East and West Berlin. Fifty years later, Frederick Kempe, chief executive officer of the Atlantic Council and author of Berlin: 1961, stood before an audience in Persson Auditorium to discuss the issues that [鈥
    November 9, 2011
  • Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core, packed Memorial Chapel with people eager to hear his inspiring message: that young people are the key to building religious cooperation and interfaith leadership.
    October 28, 2011
  • Ten 冈本视频 students studying French accompanied Mahadevi Ramakrishnan, of the Department of Romance Languages, on an educational trip to the French island of Martinique during spring break 2011.
    October 27, 2011
  • Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo will speak at 冈本视频 at 4:30 p.m. Thursday in Love Auditorium, Olin Hall. For those who can鈥檛 attend the free session, his talk will be webcast live, allowing online viewers to pose questions and interact with other viewers.
    October 19, 2011
  • Author Colson Whitehead, who visited campus Thursday as part of the Living Writers course, shared thoughtful insights and lots of laughs with audience members who filled Persson Auditorium and with about 60 others who watched him through a live webcast.
    September 16, 2011