Class of 2009 First-Year Experience

"Imagining America"

...is the theme of the Class of 2009’s first-year experience. Lafayette’s newest students are exploring issues related to America’s identity, human security, and civil society, with the visual arts serving as a catalyst for intellectual dialogue.

Overview of the program


“Lafayette affirms students’ right to be welcome participants, regardless of their viewpoints, in our community’s important discussions.”
—Gladstone A. (Fluney) Hutchinson, dean of studies


Summer Reading and Internet Discussion

Towers of Shadow & Light
Documentary film by Lafayette students and faculty

State of the Union 2003
Address by President George W. Bush (excerpts on America’s changing identity and responsibility in the world)

In the Shadow of No Towers
Book by Art Spiegelman

Freedom Flag Story #1: On Tuesday Morning
Art by Faith Ringgold


Orientation, August 26-28

Schedule

Convocation Address: Ed Kerns, Eugene Clapp II Professor of Art

Keynote Presentation: Art Spiegelman

Events Through the Year

Exhibit: Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia
Curated by Alexandre Gertsman
Grossman Gallery, Sept. 2 through Oct. 22

Documentary Film: The Day the Towers Fell
Screening and discussion with filmmaker Lou Reda, Sept. 11

Exhibit: Limits on Freedom: Art of Taiwan Today
Curated by Wei Jane Chir
Grossman Gallery, Nov. 4 through Jan. 28

Exhibit: Imprints and Artifacts
Art of Diane Samuels
Grossman Gallery, Feb. 11 through April 1 (tentative)

Keynote Presentation: Joel Myerowitz
April 4

Exhibit: After September 11: Images from Ground Zero
Photographs by Joel Myerowitz
Skillman Library, Spring

Exhibit: How Graphic Art and Comics Reflect the Changing Character of America’s Identity Through Time
Curated by Jose Tano ’06 and Allan Amanik ’06
Farinon College Center, Spring


Class of 2008 First-Year Experience

Class of ’08 is "Imagining America"

The 51st (Dream) State
Students collaborate with artist Sekou Sundiata in the development of his latest creative endeavor, The America Project



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