Calendar of Events

Friday, April 25

  • 4 p.m., Baseball vs. Olivet
  • 4:15 p.m., East Asian Studies SIP Symposium, Dewing 200

Saturday, April 26

  • 8:30 a.m., Anthropology / Sociology Hightower SIP Symposium. Livestream available.
  • 1 p.m., Softball vs. Alma (DH)
  • 6 p.m., Dalton Theatre, Light Fine Arts: INTERDISCIPLINE, a Senior Integrated Project performance by Cass Martini-Zeller ’25. An evening of jazz open to all. Free admission, doors open at 5:30.

Sunday, April 27

4 p.m., Dewing 103: Join the Department of Spanish Languages and Literatures for the fifth annual Latin American Film Series. All films will be shown with English subtitles and are open to the public. Film No. 5: Angélica (Puerto Rico, 100 min.), directed by Marisol Gómez-Mouakad. After a long absence from Puerto Rico, Angelica returns home when her father, Wilfredo, suffers a stroke. This unexpected return and her father’s illness force Angelica to re-evaluate her relationship with her mother and family members who don’t accept her because of her skin color. She must face herself and discover that she does not know who she is.

Tuesday, April 29

  • 4 p.m., Baseball vs. Wheaton
  • 7 p.m., Dewing 103, Kitchen Lecture: Sarah Koch of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan will present the annual Kitchen Lecture titled “Spotting the Math in Spot It!” In Spot It!, each card has eight pictures and every pair of cards has one picture in common. The basic strategy is to be the first person to spot the common picture between your card and the card in play. We’ll play Spot It! and discuss the math that underlies the game.
  • CANCELED: 7 p.m., author reading, Olmsted Room: Author and Kalamazoo College alumna Elyse Durham ’10 will read from her debut novel, Maya & Natasha (HarperCollins, February 2025), in a public event. The novel is about twin sisters who compete with each other for a spot in the Kirov ballet in Cold War era Russia.

Saturday, May 3

  • 1 p.m., Baseball vs. Alma (DH)

Tuesday, May 6

  • 3:30 p.m., Light Fine Arts: Artist’s reception for Mabel Bowdle, Studio Art SIP. Exhibition is on view in the FAB gallery throughout the week, May 4–10.

Wednesday, May 7

  • 4:30 p.m., Dewing 305: Join us for presentations of research projects related to German Studies. Presentations will be in English.

Thursday, May 8

  • 4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Light Fine Arts: The Art and Art History Department and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts invite you to James Denison’s talk, “Into My Blood: John Marin’s ‘Maine Soil’ and ‘Yankee Folk.’” This presentation offers a new interpretation of the artist John Marin’s (1870-1953) work in Maine. Drawing on Marin’s writings, it investigates his attempted assimilation into what he perceived to be a rustic “Yankee” community on the Maine coast. As well as relating his representations of denizens of the Maine coast to contemporaneous notions of whiteness and New England identity, it situates Marin’s fascination with Maine within the long history of ethnic and cultural tourism in the state. A native of the Washington, D.C., area and a graduate of Bowdoin College, Denison completed his Ph.D. in art history at the University of Michigan, where he wrote a thesis on the connections between the Stieglitz Circle and racism in the interwar U.S. In 2023, he joined Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts as a postdoctoral fellow.