Brian Curran, assistant professor of art history, will lecture on "Egyptological and Antiquarian Publications from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment," at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, in the Palmer Museum of Art's Palmer Lipcon Auditorium on the University Park campus. Curran's talk is part of the lecture series "Drawing from the Past: Perspectives on Rare Books and Printed Materials in the Visual Arts." The lecture is free to the public.
Curran received master's and doctoral degrees in art history from Princeton University. He also holds a master's degree in art history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Before coming to Penn State in 1997, Curran received a post-doctoral fellowship in the humanities at Columbia University in New York. From 1993 to 1995 Curran worked under an institutional fellowship, awarded by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome. He received a Whiting Foundation Dissertation Fellowship at Princeton University for 1995-96 and a Mellon Foundation Dissertation Grant in 1993. He has published numerous articles and is currently working on a book, The Egyptian Renaissance: Ancient Egypt and its Antiquities in Italian Renaissance Art and Culture.
The lecture series addresses the subject of rare books and printed materials in the visual arts from the 16th century through the 19th century.
A workshop from 8:30 a.m. to
3:30 p.m. for designated sexual harassment resource people at Penn State will be held Tuesday, Nov. 23, at The Nittany Lion Inn, University Park. A sexual harassment resource person is a designated employee trained in all areas of sexual harassment to serve as a first-line contact for faculty, staff and students who have concerns about issues of sexual harassment.
The daylong program is designed to keep individuals abreast of changes in law, policy and regulations pertaining to sexual harassment. Topics of discussion for this program will include changes to Policy AD-41, computer-based harassment and other areas of current interest. The Affirmative Action Office is sponsoring this program in an effort to maintain a learning and working environment free from discrimination and harassment. Sexual harassment resource people have taken on this responsibility over and above their regular full-time positions.
The Affirmative Action Office provides them with assistance and support to resolve the complex issues of sexual harassment that come to their attention. The investigation of complaints, including conducting interviews and requesting documents from those involved, is the responsibility of the Affirmative Action Office. A listing of the sexual harassment resource people can be found on the Web at http://www.psu.edu/dept/aaoffice/.
For program information, contact Carmen Borges by phone at (814) 863-0471 or e-mail at cbb1@psu.edu.
From the clash of the cymbals to the thump of the drums, there's something special about enjoying music in a concert hall. Now, a special colloquium featuring one of the world's foremost concert hall and opera house designers will give the public a peek behind the music's magic.
Cyril M. Harris, the Charles Batchelor professor emeritus of electrical engineering and professor emeritus of architecture at Columbia University, will present "Concert Hall Design: Science, Engineering or Black Magic?" at 5:30 p.m., Nov. 22, in the Applied Science Building auditorium at University Park. The colloquium is free to the public.
Harris will review the acoustical characteristics of early Greek and Roman theaters that impact modern concert hall design before discussing two methods used to describe how sound behaves in an enclosed space: the engineering method and the scientific method.
Harris' designs can be seen throughout the world, and his credits include the Metropolitan Opera House and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, both in Washington, D.C.
Patricia Monaghan, author of The Goddess Path: A Celebration of the Feminine Divine, will share her work on images worldwide through an illustrated lecture at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 22, in 101 Kern Building at University Park.
Her research has taken her to many countries and many cultures. Her books on global female figures, magical gardening, folk tales and her poetry will be on display.
For more information, contact the Women's Studies Program at (814) 863-4026.