Louise Erdrich '76 received the National Book Award a prestigious award whose previous recipients include Ray Bradbury, Judy Blume and Tom Wolfe for her fiction novel "The Round House" on Wednesday.
Rebecca Xu / The Dartmouth Staff Over the summer, Interim College President Carol Folt announced the Year of the Arts initiative, a project that coincides with the dedication of the College's new Arts District, with the opening of the Black Family Visual Arts Center and with the 50th anniversary of the Hopkins Center.
American women not only outperform men in college enrollment and graduation, but also value education more highly than men, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Under the guiding hand of Paul Finkelstein '13, the Dartmouth Summer Orchestra performed in Rollins Chapel for the first time in 12 years on Monday night.
When Dartmouth students graduate, they join a distinguished group of famous men and women both real and fictional.
The latest exhibition displayed in the Barrows Rotunda in the Hopkins Center for the Arts is an assortment of colorfully painted objects precariously balanced on blocks and shelves or hanging from wires.
Courtesy of IMDB.com Terrence Malick's new film "The Tree of Life" chronicles the history of a 1950s Texan family through a series of existential questions that wrestle with the origins of the universe and life after death.
Courtesy of Gutenberg.org To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the novel "The Secret Garden" by Francis Hodgson Burnett, the College's Leslie Center for the Humanities co-sponsored a conference this past weekend organized by English professor Gretchen Gerzina author of "Frances Hodgson Burnett: The Unexpected Life of the Author of the Secret Garden" and English department librarian Laura Braunstein. The children's book, published in 1911, remains one of Burnett's most popular works, according to Gerzina, who presented the keynote address on Friday. "We are so familiar with this book and its impact on boys and girls around the world that it's hard to imagine that it was appreciated, but not celebrated, in its own time that it took decades for it to achieve the kind of fame that we associate with it today," Gerzina said in the address. The centennial conference included an exhibit in Rauner Special Collections Library, a screening of the 1949 film adaptation starring Margaret O'Brien on Friday and a series of panels with biographers, children's literature editors and relatives of Burnett on Saturday to discuss topics from biography writing to editing and collecting. Burnett wrote 53 novels, wrote numerous stories and magazine articles and produced 13 plays on both London's West End and Broadway, according to Gerzina. Burnett "see-sawed" across the Atlantic between her original home in England and America, her adopted home, 33 times, according to Gerzina. "Americans thought of her as American, and the English though of her as English," Gerzina said. Gerzina's keynote opened the conference after an introduction by Dean of the Libraries Jeffrey Horrel, which focused on the themes of illness and disability in the context of Victorian society. Friday's reception was held in Rauner for a viewing of the exhibition, entitled "Cultivating Secret Gardens: Frances Hodgson Burnett and Children's Fiction," curated by Braunstein and special collections librarian Jay Satterfield. The collection consists of materials ranging from first editions of the novel to film and play adaptations. "The exhibition is really important to put materials in context and to understand any individual item by seeing things around it and having the curator give some sort of narrative to it," Braunstein said. Burnett was instrumental in advocating for authors' rights to retain control of adaptations of their novels and characters, according to Braunstein.
In the heavily segregated city of Mostar in Bosnia-Herzegovina, former Dartmouth education professor Andrew Garrod, who retired from the College in 2008, is challenging the country's ethnic tensions this summer by directing a theatrical production of Shakespeare's "The Tempest." Garrod is the founder and director of the Dartmouth Volunteer Teaching Program, which sends recent Dartmouth graduates to the Marshall Islands for a year to teach adolescents and undergraduates over Winter term, Andrew Rayner '10 said in an email to the Dartmouth. Rayner, who volunteered this past year in the Marshall Islands, is currently in Mostar for the summer. "We are using theater to bring together youth from the different ethnic groups in Mostar, which is a city that is still very distinctly segregated between the Bosniaks [Muslims] and Croats [Croatians] and Christians, using something as timeless as Shakespeare to bring these kids together and explore the themes of vengeance and forgiveness," Rayner said. Garrod and David Yorio GR'04 co-founded the international non-profit organization Youth Bridge Global, which facilitates youth theater productions in domestic and international developing companies, according to its website.
Documentarian Ken Burns presented the world premiere of the first episode of his and Lynn Novick's three-part film "Prohibition" last Saturday at the Hopkins Center for the Arts.
Martin Espada read samples of his poetry and prose, rife with religious symbolism, in Sanborn yesterday.
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer spoke about the debt, fair trade and campaign finance reform in Moore Theater on Thursday.