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Sesquicentennial Calendar: A Year of Special Events
JANUARY
Mortar & Memories: Lake Forest College at 150
Historical photography exhibit opens
Wednesday, January 24
Panel Discussion: Preserving Lake Forest: The Heritage of the City’s Oldest Institutions
7:00 p.m. * Gorton Community Center
FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 1
"Magic Rings and Memory: The Tale of the Clever Wife in Folklore and Hollywood"
Oppenheimer Lecture by Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago Divinity School professor, Hinduism and mythology expert
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Sunday, February 11
Lake Forest Lyrica presents: Vermeer Quartet
3:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Tickets $15 available at the door
Thursday, February 15
“Extreme Architecture: Disaster, Spectacle and Signs of Hope for the Post 9/11 World"
Oppenheimer Lecture by Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize winning architecture critic for Chicago Tribune
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
MARCH
Tuesday, March 6
World premiere of Two Sonnets for Music, for chorus and orchestra, a work created in honor of the Sesquicentennial, with text by Professor Robert Archambeau and music by Professor Rami Levin. The piece will be performed by the Lake Forest College chorus and chamber orchestra under the direction of David Amrein.
7:30 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Monday, March 26
"From Mad Cows to "Psi-chotic" Yeast: Strange Diseases and Strange Genetics"
21st Annual Volwiler Lecture by Susan Lindquist, MIT biologist
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
APRIL
Monday, April 9
"On Democracy and Knowledge"
Ruth Winter Lecture by Danielle Allen, University of Chicago professor and dean of Humanities
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
April 9-10
2007 Steven Galovich Memorial Student Symposium
Thursday, April 12
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: Siddhartha
9:30 a.m. * Glen Rowan House
Discussion led by Professor of Religion Ron Miller
Thursday, April 12
Lecture by Alpana Singh, host of Chicago PBS series Check, Please! and author of Alpana Pours: About Being a Woman, Loving Wine & Having Great Relationships
7:30 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Sunday, April 22
Lake Forest Lyrica presents: Chicago Chorale
3:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Tickets are $15 available at the door.
Tuesday, April 24
"Renewable Energy: Myths and Realities"
A.B. Dick Lecture by Michael P. Polsky, president and CEO of Invenergy LLC
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
MAY
Wednesday, May 16
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: Lost in the City
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. * Calvin Durand Lounge in Stuart Commons
Discussion led by Professor of English Judy Dozier
JUNE
Tuesday, June 5
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: The Road Past Altamont
10:00 a.m. - Noon * Library room 205
Discussion led by Professor of French Cynthia Hahn
SEPTEMBER
Sunday, September 9
"Islam at the Crossroads: In the Media, in the Academy, at Home, and Abroad"
Oppenheimer Lecture by Bruce Lawrence, Duke University religion professor and Islamicist
7:30 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
Monday, September 17
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. * Glen Rowan House
Discussion led by Professor of English Richard Mallette
Saturday, September 29
Lake Forest College International Day of Service
For more information, e-mail lambert@lakeforest.edu.
OCTOBER
Thursday, October 4
"The World is Still Flat"
Lecture by Thomas Friedman, best selling author, New York Times foreign affairs columnist, and three-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize
Tickets are free, but required for admission, please call 847-735-5085; this event is generously supported by the City of Lake Forest and the Oppenheimer Foundation
8:00 p.m. * Sports Center
Friday, October 5
Academic Festival: Celebrating Liberal Learning
October 4-7
Homecoming and Family Weekend
Wednesday, October 10
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: Dream of Scipio
7:00 - 9:00 p.m. * Glen Rowan House
Discussion led by Professor of History Anna Trumbore Jones
Thursday, October 18
"Lupus and Snurps: Uncovering an Extra Step in the Central Dogma"
22nd Annual Volwiler Lecture by Joan Steitz, Yale University chemist
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel
NOVEMBER
Thursday, November 8
Lake Forest-Lake Bluff Reads: The Sixteen Pleasures
Noon - 2:00 p.m. * Glen Rowan House
Discussion led by Professor of Art Ann Roberts
Thursday, November 29
"Chicago's Millennium Park"
Oppenheimer Lecture by John Bryan, Chairman of Millennium Park, Inc.
8:00 p.m. * Lily Reid Holt Memorial Chapel