Arts and Ideas is a program at Lewis University to organize unique cultural, artistic, and entertainment events on campus. Founded in 1984 by Br. Paul French and Chester Kondratowicz, Arts and Ideas has grown immensely from offering only a handful of events at its beginning to currently over 100 events each semester. Faculty from virtually every department at Lewis University have participated in presenting programs.
Arts and Ideas regularly receives funding from the Illinois Arts Council, the Cultural Advisory Board, and individual and corporate donors.
Please contact artsandideas@lewisu.edu for further information.
Arts and Ideas Events
From 3/15/2010 through 3/21/2010
LECTURES
STAND: Women's Rights in Burma
MAR. 15 - Nora Rowley, who has worked with Doctors without Borders, and Andre Foisy, Adjunct Faculty at Columbia College and Chicago representative of the U.S. Campaign for Burma, will present about the oppression of women by the Burmese (Myanmar’s) government. MONDAY, 1:00 PM, D"Arcy (10 pts).
Adolescent Psychiatry
MAR. 16 - The speaker is Dr. Robert Edger from Northwestern Hospital. This presentation will give a brief review of adolescent issues in mental health, trends in diagnosis and treatment. TUESDAY, 7:00 PM, Oak Brook (10 pts).
STAND: Hiroshima-Nakasaki Atomic Bomb Phote Poster Exhibition
MAR. 16 - Presented by Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum the Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Photo Poster Exhibition in the USA consists of 30 posters that detail the horrors of the only two nuclear bombs used during a time of war in human history. The posters will be located throughout campus for viewing purposes. TUESDAY, 12:00 AM, Various (0 pts).
STAND: Hiroshima Survivor Testimony
MAR. 17 - This is truly a once in a life time opportunity. Come and participate in a live web-chat with a survivor as they detail their experience of the US atomic bomb attack on the city of Hiroshima in Japan. Hear both their account of the attack, and plea that we do all we can to prevent the use of nuclear weapons in the future. Presented by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum.—. WEDNESDAY, 6:00 PM, D'Arcy Great Room (10 pts).
STAND: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
MAR. 17 - Michael Peshkin (Northwestern University) is involved with the Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, and J Street, the new peace-oriented Israel lobby. The talk will be on prospects for a peace settlement, US involvement in that, and the political role that lobbying groups in the US play. WEDNESDAY, 1:00 PM, D'Arcy (10 pts).
STAND: Bethlehem University - Symbol of Peace Amidst Conflict
MAR. 17 - Learn about the first university in the West Bank from Dr. Jamil Mustafa who taught there in 2007. Bethlehem University of the Holy Land is the official Catholic University of the Holy Land, was founded in the Lasallian tradition, and is still operated by the Christian Brothers. WEDNESDAY, 11:00 AM, D'Arcy (5 pts).
Women's Studies - Desire and Demonization: From Chivalric Code to Witchcraft
MAR. 18 - As part of the “Sexuality in Context” series, Marianna Beck, Ph.D., of the School of the Art Institute and Columbia College explains how the era of chivalry and the troubadour, although brief, emerged from a brutish warrior culture and gave the West its first taste of romance. This period was eventually followed by a profound historical shift in attitude surrounding female power — resulting in the complete demonization of women in the form of witch-hunting. THURSDAY, 2:00 PM, Sancta Alberta Chapel (10 pts).
The Rise and Fall of Football at Lewis
MAR. 18 - Football not only has provided considerable glory – four league titles and bowl win – for small Lewis College, but it has also helped fulfill the school’s early mission to provide a higher education that would otherwise be unattainable to Catholic youth. That mission was achieved through an ambitious scholarship program that benefited half the students. Such scholarships were not fully accepted and that ultimately contributed to the demise of the football program. THURSDAY, 3:30 PM, AS 158 (5 pts).
The Art of Memory: "Consciousness and Memory in the Modernist Novel"
MAR. 18 - One of the features of high literary modernism is the writer’s attention to the inner life of characters. Three writers in particular – Joyce, Wolff, and Faulkner – were especially devoted to rendering faithfully the nature of consciousness, of which memory is an important dimension. In this panel presentation, Dr. Wallace Ross will examine Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and other Joyce fiction, Dr. Nancy Workman will look at Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, and Dr. Michael Cunningham will reveal Faulkner’s methods in The Sound and the Fury.THIS EVENT IS A RESCHEDULED EVENT FROM FEBRUARY 11TH. IT REPLACES THE EVENT DEVOTED TO THE POETRY OF WISLAWA SYZMBORSKA. THURSDAY, 2:00 PM, AS158 (5 pts).
The Art of Memory: Faultlines: Memory and Forgetting in the Poetry of Wislawa Szymborska
MAR. 18 - Dr. Nancy Workman (English) will focus on select poems of the Nobel Laureate Szymborska to address how she examines the tension between memory and forgetting. Herself a victim of intolerance on the part of the Nazis and later Russian occupiers of her native Poland, she avoids polarizing the responses to war and establishes that both impulses are needed to establish and maintain personal and national identity. THURSDAY, 2:00 PM, AS 158 (5 pts).
PERFORMANCES
Common Reader Encore - Chicago Literature
MAR. 16 - Current and former faculty as well as English majors do readings from Chicago writers who have the described the city in all of its “ugly beauty.” Writers to be included are Carl Sandburg, Gwendolyn Brooks, Saul Bellow, Mark Smith, and Ben Hecht. TUESDAY, 2:00 PM, AS158 (10 pts).
Schubert Recital
MAR. 17 - Brother Robert Wilsbach, accompanied by Robert Holst on piano, will perform fourteen songs from Franz Schubert’s Schwanengesang, the final work of the composer. WEDNESDAY, 3:00 PM, Ives Hall (10 pts).
International Night
MAR. 18 - International Night is an opportunity for the Lewis University community to come together and express their pride in the rich diversity which makes up the campus. A fun filled night of international music, performance, dancing and more, the event brings together students, faculty and staff who share their own cultural backgrounds, talents and skills. THURSDAY, 7:00 PM, Student Union (10 pts).
FILMS
STAND: The Greatest Silence - The Rape of the Congo
MAR. 15 - Sara Reschly of the Christian Peacemaking Teams will screen the documentary “The Greatest Silence” and lead a discussion afterwards based upon her experience in the region. As a member of CPT, Sara has spent time in the DRC as a member of Christian Peacemaking teams and will speak to the effects of ongoing conflict particular to women. MONDAY, 2:00 PM, D'Arcy (10 pts).
STAND: Jerusalem Stories
MAR. 17 - One key to understanding the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is getting a grasp of the region’s religious history. In the documentary, Jerusalem Stories, Peter Jennings helps us do just that by investigating the history and hearing the stories of the area’s residents today. WEDNESDAY, 4:00 PM, Big Red Room (10 pts).
The Art of Memory: Hiroshima, Mon Amour
MAR. 18 - While in Hiroshima, a woman creating a film about peace has an affair with a Japanese man while remembering an affair during World War II. Dr. Christopher Wielgos (English) will lead the discussion. THURSDAY, 5:00 PM, AS 158 (10 pts).
STAND: Invisible Children - The Rough Cut
MAR. 18 - What started out as a filmmaking adventure transformed into much more when these boys from Southern California discovered a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them, a tragedy where children are both the weapons and the victims. “Invisible Children: Rough Cut,” is a film that exposes the tragic realities of northern Uganda’s night commuters and child soldiers. See this film and you will be forever changed. THURSDAY, 12:30 PM, D'Arcy (10 pts).
STAND: Daughters of the Canopy
MAR. 19 - This vibrant film focuses on the struggles and successes of two local women’s groups fighting to preserve their land, forests and way of life in Brazil’s Amazon region. Dr. William Malone (History) leads the discussion. FRIDAY, 1:00 PM, Sancta Alberta (10 pts).
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