HONORS COLLEGE EVENTS CALENDAR
Oct. 2- Oct. 30
Friday, October 2: The Toll of the Sea-- Silent Film Screening
- 7:30 PM
- Page Hall, Downtown Campus, 135 Western Avenue
- Directed by Chester M. Franklin (United States, 1922, 54 minutes, color) Starring Anna May
Wong, Kenneth Harlan.
- SILENT with live musical accompaniment by Mike Schiffer The first film to use two strip
Technicolor, this technical classic stars pioneering Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as
a Chinese woman who rescues and falls in love with a shipwrecked American seaman. Frances
Marion adapted her own short story, loosely based on Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly, for
the big screen
Tuesday, October 6: Casey Schwartz, science writer- Seminar
- 4:15 PM
- D’Ambra Auditorium, Life Sciences Building (LSRB 2095), UAlbany Uptown Campus
- Casey Schwartz is the author of the new book, In the Mind Fields: Exploring the New Science of
Neuropsychoanalysis (2015, Pantheon Books), a witty, accessible, and entertaining introduction
to new developments in brain science—notably the reconciliation of neuroscience and
psychoanalysis. Schwartz has worked as a science and health reporter for Newsweek/The Daily
Beast and other publications.
Friday, October 9: 4 Little Girls-- Film Screening
- 7:30 PM
- Page Hall (Downtown Campus)
- Directed by Spike Lee (United States, 1997, 102 minutes, color) Nominated for a Best
Documentary Oscar
- Spike Lee’s masterpiece of nonfiction filmmaking chronicles an American tragedy and turning
point of the Civil Rights Movement: the 1967 bombing of an African-American church in
Birmingham, Alabama. The Los Angeles Times said “Lee has made some of the most hard-edged
and unsettling American films on racism and its effects. Yet none has been as moving as this.”
Tuesday, October 13: Adam Johnson, Pulitzer winning novelist—Reading
- 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- Adam Johnson received the Pulitzer Prize for The Orphan Master’s Son (2012). The Pulitzer
Board described it as “an exquisitely crafted novel that carries the reader on an adventuresome
journey into the depths of totalitarian North Korea and into the most intimate spaces of the
human heart.” His new short story collection is Fortune Smiles (2015). Kirkus called it
"Bittersweet, elegant, full of hard-won wisdom." In conjunction with the reading project of
UAlbany’s English Department
Friday, October 16: Oxyana-- Film Screening and Q&A with director Sean Dunne
- 7:00 PM
- Page Hall (Downtown Campus)
- Directed by Sean Dunne (US, 2013, 78 min., color)
- OXYANA is an intimate and harrowing profile of Oceana, West Virginia— a once-thriving coal
town that has become the “capital” of the Oxycontin drug abuse epidemic. Featuring candid
interviews with members of the shattered community, the film earned Sean Dunne the Best
New Documentary Director Award at Tribeca. Dunne also received an Emmy nomination for his
short film, THE ARCHIVE. Cosponsored by the School of Criminal Justice.
Sunday, October 18: University Symphony Orchestra and Concert Band
- 3:00 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Main Theatre)
- $6 general public / $3 students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff
- Two of the University’s large ensembles present a shared program
Tuesday, October 20: American Shakespeare Center's Julius Caesar
7:30 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Main Theatre)
* The Honors College has 10 free tickets. If you want to attend please see Ms. Jupin in the Honors
College Office in LC 31 and pick-up a ticket. When we run out we will send out an email
notification.
- ADVANCE TICKETS: $15 general public / $10 students, seniors & UAlbany faculty-staff. DAY OF
SHOW TICKETS: $20 general public / $15 students, seniors & UAlbany faculty-staff
- In this profoundly moving, breathtaking and deeply human play, Shakespeare shows us a world
on fire; a world turned upside down; a world where some of history’s most famous men commit
horrific crimes in the name of patriotism and honor. American Shakespeare Center’s production
is a dazzling thrill ride of betrayal, violence and, perhaps most surprisingly, love.
Wednesday, October 21: Music My Teacher Taught Me
- 7:00 pm
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- $8 general public / $4 students, seniors and UAlbany faculty-staff
- Pianist Duncan Cumming performs a solo recital featuring Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata and
Chopin's Heroic Polonaise as well as works by Mozart, Schubert and Brahms.
Thursday, October 22: Mark Bittman, major American food writer—Seminar
- 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall)
- Mark Bittman is one of America’s best-known food writers. His 1998 book, How to Cook
Everything has been described as “the bible of basic cooking for millions of Americans” (PBS).
His new book is A Bone to Pick—The good and bad news about food, with wisdom and advice on
diets, food safety, GMOs, farming, and more (2015). Salon said the book “is destined to become
a staple for those who want to consider, more deeply, what’s on their plate." With the Times
Union and UAlbany School of Public Health
Friday, October 23: Kind Hearts and Coronets-- Film Screening
- 7:30 PM
- Page Hall (Downtown Campus)
- Directed by Robert Hamer (United Kingdom, 1949, 106 minutes, b/w) Starring Dennis Price, Alec
Guinness, Valerie Hobson An impoverished cousin of the Duke of D’Ascoyne is determined to
acquire his title by murdering the eight heirs who precede him in the line of succession. Alec
Guinness plays all eight heirs in this beloved Ealing Studios comedy, ranked as one of Time
magazine’s “100 Best Movies of All Time” (2005).
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Thursday, October 29: Mary Gaitskill, fiction writer—Seminar
- 4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
- Campus Center 375
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Mary Gaitskill received a National Book Award nomination for her 2005 novel, Veronica. Her
new novel, The Mare (2015), explores the evolving relationships among a Dominican girl from
the inner city, a middle-aged white woman in Upstate New York, and the abused and spirited
mare who transforms their lives. Bookshout! called the novel “Gaitskill’s most poignant and
powerful work yet…raw, striking, and completely original." A selection of the Times Union Book
Club.
Friday, October 30: Sybarite5
- 7:30 PM
- Performing Arts Center (Recital Hall) Main Campus
* The Honors College has 10 free tickets. If you want to attend please see Ms. Jupin in the Honors
College Office in LC 31 and pick-up a ticket. When we run out we will send out an email
notification.
- From Mozart to Radiohead, Piazzola to Led Zepplin, the eclectic repertoire of this string quintet
coupled with their dynamic performance style is taking audiences by storm. Unsatisfied with the
confines of the stereotypical classical music canon, the group is forever changing the perception
of chamber music performance.
Friday, October 30: House [Hausu]-- Film Screening
- 7:30 PM
- Page Hall (Downtown Campus)
- Directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi (Japan, 1977, 88 minutes, color, in Japanese with English
subtitles) Starring Kimiko Ikegami, Miki Jinbo The story of seven Japanese schoolgirls and the
demonically-possessed house that tries to eat them, HOUSE is a cult favorite—as well as one of
the wackiest horror movies ever made. The New York Times said in 2010 “Delirious, deranged,
gonzo or just gone, baby, gone. The yelps you’ll hear, and possibly emit…will be of surprise and
delight, not terror.