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Faculty Colloquium Series
Sponsored by the Faculty Development Committee
Nazareth College
Fall 2003

You are cordially invited to join your colleagues on the faculty for this series
of colloquia in which they will present their current work or research.

A printable Adobe PDF version of The Spring 2004 Faculty Colloquium Series is available. Download the free Adobe Reader here.

Marie Watkins, "Using a Participatory Action Research Model to Build Agency Capacity In Youth Service Organizations"
This presentation describes a two-year action research project that focuses upon not-for-profit agency development. This project provides an empowerment, strength-based model of organizational development whereby agency staff members are active participants in the visioning, strategic planning, and institutional change process. Nancy Johns-Price, Program Coordinator for the City of Rochester's Bureau of Parks and Recreation, and Linda Braun, a graduate student from Nazareth College, will be co-presenters.
Thursday, September 18, 12:05 p.m., Media A in the Library

Leigh O'Brien, "Resistance on the Playground"
Linked to both her personal and professional life, and grounded in a commitment to activism, this paper highlights some interesting observations about play while raising broad questions about the purpose of schools in the United States.
Tuesday, October 21, 12:05 p.m., The Porthole Lounge

Otieno Kisiara, "Maya Worlds: A Reflection"
Using still images, Otieno will discuss his trip to Central America in the summer 2002 to study Maya cultures in the pre-Columbian, colonial, and contemporary periods. The trip, a summer institute funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, featured seminars and field excursions with internationally renowned Maya scholars in anthropology, literature, archaeology, and art history. Some of the places visited included Copan in Honduras, Quirigua and Santiago Atitlan in Guatemala, and Palenque and Chichen Itza in Mexico. The focus of the presentation will be on colonial and contemporary Maya experiences, especially in the areas of political representation, religion, and economic production.
Tuesday, October 28, 4:00 p.m., Media B in the Library

Marjorie Roth, "Chromaticism in Context: A New View of Orlando di Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum"
The Renaissance composer Roland de Lassus was Flemish by birth and spent almost his entire career at the Bavarian court in Munich. It was his decade of training in Italy, however, that shaped the young man's personal and professional identity. Not only did he thoroughly internalize the avant-garde genres, styles, and compositional techniques popular in mid-16th century Italy, but he also "Italianized" his name. For the remainder of his life he called himself "Orlando di Lasso" (probably after Orlando furioso); friends and colleagues everywhere referred to him as "the Divine Orlando." This paper re-opens the investigation into Lasso's enigmatic motet cycle Prophetiae Sibyllarum, a work which may have been his farewell to Italy before returning permanently to the north. The unusual technical and contextual features of the Sibyl Cycle have puzzled music scholars for decades; neither the documentary evidence nor various theoretical analyses have provided a convincing picture of the cycle's provenance and its meaning in contemporary society. My method has been to approach the cycle through its subject matter-- the prophetic Sibyls of pagan Antiquity. Viewed from this angle, Lasso's Prophetiae Sibyllarum seems no longer to be an inexplicable quirk in the continuum of evolving musical style, but instead a brilliant product of mid-16th century Italian humanism.
Tuesday, November 11, 4:00 p.m., LeChase Lounge in the Casa Italiana

Refreshments will be served. No reservations necessary.
[For more information, call Scott Campbell 389-2719]