Humanities
Photo Gallery: Student Ensembles Present Spring Performances
The Music Department celebrated the end of the school year with spring concerts by its student ensembles. Students from any major can perform in a variety of ensembles including Chamber Orchestra, Concert Band, Concert Choir and Chamber Singers, Contemporary Music Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, Marquis Consort, and Percussion Ensemble. Below is a photo gallery from the [...]
Karalyn Enz ’13 Receives Top Research Honor at College Music Society Conference
Music and psychology double major Karalyn Enz ’13 (Milford, N.J) presented the best student paper at the 34th Northeast Regional Conference of the College Music Society at Keene State College last month. “The Intimacy of Expression: Implications of Performance Indications in Federico Mompou’s Impresiones Íntimas for Guitar Arrangement and Performance” resulted from a collaboration between [...]
Joel Vargas ’14 Receives Prestigious Beinecke Scholarship to Pursue Filmmaking
By Shehtaz Huq ’14 Film and media studies major Joel Vargas ’14 (Bronx, N.Y.) is a recipient of the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. The award will provide $4,000 now and $30,000 when he attends a graduate school in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Vargas is one of 20 exceptional students nationwide who received the scholarship [...]
Professor Nandini Sikand Receives National Postdoctoral Fellowship for New Book
The American Association of University Women has awarded Nandini Sikand, assistant professor of film and media studies, a postdoctoral American Fellowship for her book project, Bodies, Bells and Borders: Choreographing a New Odissi Tradition. The work is an ethnography of how Odissi, a classical Indian dance dating from the second century B.C., has transformed from a [...]
Professor Skip Wilkins Always Ready for the Unexpected on European Jazz Tour
Whirlwind doesn’t even begin to describe the last two years of Skip Wilkins’ life. He performed and gave workshops during his sabbatical last academic year in the Czech Republic and Slovakia and has done three European tours since. Like the jazz music he plays, much of it has been about improvisation. His European tours have [...]
Zachary Jones ’13 to Co-Author Book on Composer Antonio Molino with Professor Anthony Cummings
By Shehtaz Huq ’14 By the time Zachary Jones ’13 (Bethlehem, Pa.) is 24 years old, he will be the co-author and co-publisher of a major international collaboration. A Marquis Scholar and double major in music and anthropology & sociology, Jones recently presented one of three undergraduate papers selected for the prestigious 2013 College Music Society conference. The paper [...]
Students Work with Community Partners to Find Solutions, Locally and Globally
For young parents, finding safe and affordable housing can be a challenge. Although shelters are available, many find their rules too restrictive, so they avoid them. Deborah Byrd, professor of English, and research assistant Kristin Anderson ’14 (Newburgh, N.Y.) spent the summer and fall meeting with teens from the Family and Development Research Program, which [...]
19 Students Invited to Present at National Conference on Undergraduate Research
Nineteen students have been invited to present their research at the 27th National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) April 11-13 at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. NCUR is the largest conference of its kind in the country with approximately 2,000 undergraduates from more than 250 colleges and universities in attendance. This is Lafayette’s 26th year of [...]
Photo Gallery: College Theater Presents Arabian Nights
Lafayette College Theater presented its production of Arabian Nights March 6-9 at the Williams Center for the Arts. Magical, poignant, bawdy, and cruel, the classic tales known around the world came to stunning theatrical life in an abridged version of Mary Zimmerman’s inventive and ingenious adaptation. The production was directed by Mary Jo Lodge, associate [...]
Martin Amis to Speak at Lafayette Feb. 26
Lafayette will present “An Evening with Martin Amis” 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 26, in Colton Chapel. The talk will be followed by a book signing and reception in the Faculty Dining Room, Marquis Hall. Amis will read from his work and engage in conversation about his work and the life of the late Christopher Hitchens. [...]
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