New College of Florida Publishes Events Calendar for 2011-2012
August 30, 2011 – New College of Florida, the state’s honors college for the liberal arts and sciences, invites the public to attend a wide variety of special events in 2011-2012, from lectures and performances to symposiums, exhibits and fundraisers. For further information, contact the New College Events Office at 941-487-4888 or visit www.ncf.edu/events. Reservations for many events can be made online at donate.ncf.edu.
SEPTEMBER 2011
September 21, 2011, at 6 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
“Ft. Mose: America’s Black Fortress of Freedom”
Free; reservations recommended 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
In this talk, Kathleen Deagan, Distinguished Research Curator Emerita and Lockwood Professor of Florida and Caribbean Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History (UF), will tell the story of the black settlement of Ft. Mose. By 1738, more than 100 freedmen had escaped bondage as slaves in South Carolina to find refuge with the Spanish in St. Augustine, establishing a community and a fort named Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose. This lecture will explore the history, research and contemporary political context of this National Historic Landmark.
September 23, 2011, at 3:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Violinist Miranda Cuckson
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888; www.newmusicnewcollege.org
September 24, 2011, at 8 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Violinist Miranda Cuckson, “Past, Present, Future”
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
Miranda Cuckson has emerged as one of the rising stars of contemporary music, a violinist of perfect technique and deep musical insight. Cuckson’s debut concert for NMNC will include works by J. S. Bach, Reiko Fuetig, Georg Friedrich Haas and Eugene Ysaye.
OCTOBER 2011
October 20, 2011, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Climate Change through the Camera’s Lens
Tickets: $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
Environmental photojournalist Gary Braasch’s work has appeared in National Geographic, Smithsonian, Audubon, Time and hundreds of other publications. Since 2000, his keystone project has been to capture on film the effects of rapid climate change. Braasch will talk about his journeys and show many of the iconic images he’s captured of how climate change is altering our world. Braasch’s talk is co-sponsored by Tree Foundation (www.treefoundation.org).
NOVEMBER 2011
November 1, 2011, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, The Natural World of Disney
Tickets: $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
Scientists at Disney’s Animal Kingdom are working locally and globally to learn more about animals and their habitats. The Animal Kingdom’s Dr. Jill Mellen and several of her colleagues will share stories about Disney’s work – from restoring reefs in The Bahamas and building a gorilla orphanage in the African Congo to figuring out the recipe for success in propagating one of the most endangered birds on Earth, the Micronesian kingfisher.
November 9, 2011, at 6 pm, College Hall Bay Front
New College of Florida’s New England Clambake
Tickets $150; reservations 941-487-4600
The New England Clambake is a fundraiser for New College of Florida sponsored by the New College Foundation.
November 10, 2011, at 3:30 pm, College Hall Music Room, 351 College Drive
New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Margaret Eginton and Stephen Miles
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888; www.newmusicnewcollege.org
November 11, 2011, at 8 pm, College Hall Music Room, 351 College Drive
New Music New College, Margaret Eginton and Stephen Miles: New Experimental Works (performance)
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
Miles and Eginton worked with New College students and alums throughout the 2010-11 academic year in the Experimental Performance Lab. Focusing on improvisation, the lab put a simple question to the test: What would happen if a group allowed its own impulses to suggest material and its development? Some of the results will be presented in this performance by New College students.
November 12, 2011, at 8 pm, College Hall Music Room, 351 College Drive
New Music New College, Margaret Eginton and Stephen Miles: New Experimental Works (performance/participation mix)
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
Miles and Eginton worked with New College students and alums throughout the 2010-11 academic year in the Experimental Performance Lab. Focusing on improvisation, the lab put a simple question to the test: What would happen if a group allowed its own impulses to suggest material and its development? Some of the results will be presented in this mix of performance and audience participation.
November 13, 2011, at 3 pm, College Hall Music Room, 351 College Drive
New Music New College, Experimental Music Public Workshop
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888; www.newmusicnewcollege.org
Move from the safety of your seat into the thick of creative exploration through this participatory experience, led by New College professors Stephen Miles and Margaret Eginton, along with New College students.
November 15, 2011, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, What’s Ahead for the Global Markets?
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
As the post-crisis economic order slowly takes shape, it is clear much has and is changing. What will be the impact on the world’s stock markets? Cumberland Advisors founder David Kotok, a frequent commentator and essayist for Bloomberg, CNBC, Barrons and others, will share his views on the current and future directions of the global markets. Co-sponsored by the Philadelphia-based Global Interdependence Center (www.interdependence.org).
November 15, 2011, at 7:30 pm, College Hall Music Room
New College Chorus Fall Recital
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
For details, contact music professor Bret Aarden at 941-487-4639.
DECEMBER 2011
December 3 & 4, 2011, at 7:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
Fall Dance Tutorial with New College students
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
December 13, 2011, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Deepwater Horizon: What Happened and Where Do We Go From Here?
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
It’s been little more than a year since the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What really happened, and why? How do we minimize future risks? Associate Professor of Political Science Frank Alcock, recently returned from a Senior Fulbright fellowship in New Zealand where he studied that country’s climate policies, will discuss the technical and ecological dimensions of the disaster, the regulatory context that allowed it to happen and the broader implications for offshore drilling activity and U. S. energy policy.
JANUARY 2012
January 10, 2012, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Why Chipotle Wins! The Changing Face of Value for the New Consumer
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
New College alumnus Jonathan Smiga has a knack for anticipating health-conscious consumer trends in food. His career has taken him to senior positions with the Culinary Institute of America, Darden Restaurants and Orlando-based Barnie’s Coffee and Tea Co., where as CEO he is remaking the Barnie’s brand and the coffee shop experience. Mr. Smiga will let us peek behind the counter of the multi-billion dollar food and beverage industry and share what we can expect to see in the future.
January 20, 2012, at 3:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Pianist Kathleen Supové and Randall Woolf
Free, no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
www.newmusicnewcollege.org.
January 21, 2012, at 8 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Pianist Kathleen Supové, “Digital Diva”
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
Kathleen Supové, one of today’s finest contemporary pianists, returns to New College for the latest installment in her Exploding Piano series. Through electronic media, costume and direct engagement with the audience, Supové transforms the piano recital into performance art. The program will feature selections from the “Digital Debussy Project,” in which contemporary composers fashion new works in response to works of the French master.
FEBRUARY 2012
February 7 – March 30, 2012, Jane Bancroft Cook Library, 5800 Bay Shore Road
“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”
Through the auspices of the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.; sponsored by New College Library Association
Free; open during library operating hours
For information, call the Library Association at 941-487-4600
For Americans, the iconography of Nazism is found in the swastika, the jackboot, the Nazi banner. But another symbol –flames and fire– accompanied the Third Reich from its strident inception to its apocalyptic demise. On January 30, 1933, torchlight parades announced the onset of the Nazi revolution. One month later, the flames of the Reichstag fire consumed the last vestiges of the Weimar Constitution. On May 10, 1933, German university students launched an “Action Against the Un-German Spirit” targeting authors ranging from Helen Keller and Ernest Hemingway to Sigmund Freud. Americans quickly condemned the book burnings as antithetical to the democratic spirit. The exhibition “Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings” focuses on how the book burnings became a potent symbol during World War II in America’s battle against Nazism, and concludes by examining their continued impact on our public discourse.
February 11, 2012, at 6 pm, Polo/Fête Ballroom in Lakewood Ranch
New College Foundation Gala Event; fundraiser for New College of Florida
For details and reservations, call New College Foundation at 941-487-4600
February 14, 2012, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Special Event with Dennis Lockhart: Views on the Economic Outlook and Federal Reserve Policy.
Event is for New Topics season subscribers and by invitation. For details and reservations, call New College Foundation at 941-487-4600
Lockhart is the 14th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and an expert in global banking and commerce, with extensive experience in Middle Eastern, Asian, African Latin American markets. Co-sponsored by the Global Interdependence Center.
February 15, 2012, at 6 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
“These Old Streets: The Archaeology of Spanish St. Augustine”
Free; reservations recommended 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
Robin Moore, historic resources coordinator for St. Johns County Environmental Division, will give a presentation on the archaeology of St. Augustine, our nation’s oldest, continuously-occupied European city. Hundreds of years of Native American and colonial activity lie in layers beneath the modern town. For over fifty years, archaeologists have explored these layers, revealing fascinating insights into the struggle of cultures that is the history of La Florida.
February 15-17, 2012, various times, Sudakoff Conference Center, 5845 General Dougher Place
Sarasota Bay Watershed Symposium
For further information, contact Julie Morris at 941-487-4527
The Symposium will bring together scientists, managers, policy makers, educators and the interested public to discuss watershed research findings, identify policy disconnects and develop strategies to remedy, and identify education priorities. The Symposium will consist of a number of topics-based sessions in the form of a round-table discussion followed by concurrent breakout sessions. Summaries of the round-table discussion and breakout sessions will be integrated into a synthesis on the third day of the Symposium. Presented by New College of Florida in partnership with the Sarasota Bay Estuary Program.
MARCH 2012
March 2, 2012, at 8 pm, PepsiCo Arcade (located behind the Mildred Sainer Pavilion), 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Crossroads 4: The Meeting of the Minds Festival Concert I (Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers)
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
New Music’s annual Crossroads performances are the scene of musical mixing – performers from different backgrounds, performing together, learning from each other. The first of two outdoors festival performances will feature jazz legend Sam Rivers, who will perform with Fluid Motion.
March 3, 2012, at 3:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Panel Disussion: “The Politics of Race and American Experimental Music”
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
This panel discussion on race and experimental music will be moderated by New Music New College Director Stephen Miles. The distinguished panelists will include MacArthur Award-winning composer and scholar George E. Lewis, celebrated write and theorist bell hooks and Sam Rivers.
March 3, 2012, at 8 pm, PepsiCo Arcade (located behind the Mildred Sainer Pavilion), 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Music New College, Crossroads 4: The Meeting of the Minds Festival (Fluid Motion with Sam Rivers, Sarasota Orchestra and New College Students)
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
New Music’s annual Crossroads performances are the scene of musical mixing – performers from different backgrounds, performing together, learning from each other. New College student musicians will collaborate with principal musicians of the Sarasota Orchestra in an outdoor rock happening under the stars. The second of two Festival concerts will feature a special performance by jazz legend Sam Rivers, who will join the musical revels.
March 6, 2012, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Charting and Ethical Path for Clinical Medicine and Scientific Research
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
New College alumna Anita L. Allen is an expert on privacy law, bioethics, and contemporary values, and is recognized for her scholarship about legal philosophy, women’s rights, and race relations. For the past two years, she has served on the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues that advises the President on policies to ensure that scientific research, health care delivery and technological innovation occur in an ethical manner. Prof. Allen will discuss the Commission’s findings relating to synthetic biology, human subject research, genetics and neuroscience and their implications for health care, research and innovation in the United States.
March 8-10, 2012, from 9 am – 5 pm each day, Sudakoff Conference Center, 5845 General Dougher Place
The New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Registration: $10 (for all 3 days)
Information: Professor Nova Myhill, [email protected] or [email protected].
More information at www.faculty.ncf.edu/medievalstudies
The Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies in a biennial event covering all aspects of the Middle Ages and renaissance including topics in European and Mediterranean history, literature, art and religion from the fourth to the seventeenth centuries. Featured speakers are Duane Osheim (University of Virginia) and Jody Enders (University of California, Santa Barbara). There will be about 130 speakers participating in the Conference. This is an academic conference, but members of the public are welcome.
March 20, 2012, at 5:30 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
New Topics New College, Medicine, Atom by Atom: From the Atomic Force Microscope to the Clinic
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
For 25 years, the Paul Hansma Research Group at the University of California at Santa Barbara has been developing Atomic Force Microscopes (AFMs) for a startling variety of scientific uses. This ingenious device — New College uses one in its own research on carbon nanotubes – has shown there are adhesive molecules in abalone shell, bone and other materials that use the nanoscale mechanism of “sacrificial bonds” and “hidden length” to dissipate energy and protect these materials from fracture. These instruments have the potential to diagnose bone fragility and guide development of new therapies for decreasing bone fragility. Hansma is a New College alumnus.
APRIL 2012
April 11, 2012, at 11 am, Powell Crosley Estate, 8374 N. Tamiami Trail
Pique Nique sur-la-Baie
Fundraiser for New College of Florida sponsored by the New College Library Association
Reservations & Info: 941-487-4600
April 20, 2012, at 3:30 pm, Sudakoff Conference Center, 5845 General Dougher Place
New Music New College, Artist Conversation with Michael Gordon and Mantra Percussion
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
April 21, 2012, at 8 pm, Sudakoff Conference Center, 5845 General Dougher Place
New Music New College, Michael Gordon’s Timber, performed by Mantra Percussion
Tickets $15; reservations call 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
www.newmusicnewcollege.org
This concert marks the Florida premiere of a new work by Michael Gordon, noted American composer and founder/co-director of Bang on a Can, the legendary contemporary music organization in New York. Timber is a concert-length tour de force, scored for six graduated wooden Simantras — percussion instruments devised by French composer Iannis Xenakis. In this new work, Gordon shapes the music in both polyrhythmic and dynamic waves of textures.
April 29, 2012, at 4 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
The Composers Concert: The Sarasota String Quartet Performs Student Works
Free; no advance reservations
Information: 941-487-4888
For over a decade, the New College music department has partnered with a resident ensemble from the Sarasota Orchestra to promote music created by New College students. This concert by the Sarasota String Quartet will be the culmination of rehearsals that took place in 2011-2012 between the Quartet and students.
MAY 2012
May 16, 2012, at 6 pm, Mildred Sainer Pavilion, 5313 Bay Shore Road
“The Emmanuel Point Ships: Florida’s Earliest Shipwrecks”
Free; reservations recommended 941-487-4888 or donate.ncf.edu/events
The Florida Public Archaeology Network’s Della Scott-Ireton will speak on Tristan de Luna’s 1559 colonization attempt at present-day Pensacola and the archaeological investigation of his lost fleet. Ravaged by storms and privation, the ephemeral colony was abandoned and lost to time, known to historians only through a few letters and documents. No evidence of the colony had been discovered until 1992, when Florida archaeologists discovered the remains of one of Luna’s sunken ships at the bottom of Pensacola Bay. This presentation will describe the Luna expedition and the archaeological research of Luna’s shipwrecked fleet.