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Finding Your Voice in 2019
January 2, 2019
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
For those with New Years’ resolutions to write or those just wanting to write more clearly and deliberately, Dartmouth writing instructor Julie Kalish leads an interactive exploration of the principles of context, audience, tone, purpose, and message.
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The Music of the Late 1960s: Social Upheaval in Song
January 2, 2019
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Music historian David Tibbs shares and discusses music from this turbulent era and explores how its songs helped bring revolution into our living rooms.
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Mad Men and Mad Women: The Construction of Gender in Mid-Century America
January 2, 2019
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Using AMC’s TV series Mad Men as an introduction, Middlebury professor Joyce Mao examines the Cold War foundations of gender in the US at the dawn of the 1960s, when the federal government and corporate America indelibly shaped middle-class masculinity and femininity.
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The Original Renaissance Man: Understanding Leonardo da Vinci
January 2, 2019
7:00 pm
7:00 pm
Famed for paintings such as The Last Supper and the portrait of Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci was also a dedicated observer and a prolific journal writer. Middlebury associate professor Katy Smith Abbott considers what set him apart, then and now.
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