The next Heinz Blum Memorial Lecture at Boston College will be given by our own Jan Ziolkowski, Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin and Director of the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. In "Boston/Cambridge and the Making of American Gothic," Prof. Ziolkowski will explore the vogue for things medieval in the Boston-Cambridge area in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epitomized by historian and intellectual Henry Adams (descendant of the presidential family) and his influential book, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, as well as architect Ralph...
Happy New Year! I hope you will all take a break from shopping week and come to The Sloth next Wednesday, January 28, at 8:00 pm in the Barker Café. The theme this month is: Out on a Limb. Start imagining a story and come put your name in the hat! ...
Since the second half of the twentieth century, Kutiyattam Sanskrit theater of Kerala, India, has been embedded in several realms of official identity construction — Kerala state, the Indian nation, and, via UNESCO recognition, the world. Yet, among artists, the region persists as the primary locus of identity. This talk will examine how Kutiyattam theater has reflected the changing social body in Kerala — from the solidification of official identity via the construction of a regional heritage canon, to the state's legacies of matrilineality, caste, and Communism.
