The Margaret Anderson Kiely Memorial Lecture on the Liberal Arts

Life on the Burning Deck: Defending the Humanities in the Twenty-First Century

Monday, November 1, 2010, 4:30 p.m.
Refreshments at 4 p.m.
Richards Auditorium, Murkland Hall

THIS LECTURE is presented by Anthony T. Grafton, the Henry Putman University Professor of History at Princeton University, and President of the American Historical Association. He is the author of nearly twenty books, most recently Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Community in the Modern West (HUP, 2009). This lecture is given in memory of Margaret Anderson Kiely and is organized by the Department of Art and Art History.

Art Exhibition

Fusion: Merging the Arts in PCAC
The Shape of Color: Carol Aronson-Shore

Saturday, November 6 through Monday, December 16
(closed November 11 and 24-28)

Opening Reception
Friday, November 5, 5-7 p.m
Museum of Art
Free

FUSION: Merging the Arts in PCAC, an interdisciplinary installation, follows 50 years of the development of the fine and performing arts in the Paul Creative Arts Center and highlights past presentations by the Museum of Art, and the Departments of Art and Art History, Music, and Theatre and Dance. A special exhibition focusing on the benefactors and supporters of the Center, including Isabel Paul, is featured.

THE SHAPE OF COLOR presents recent paintings by former faculty member Carol Aronson-Shore, highlighting the community and landscape of Strawbery Banke in Portsmouth, N.H. and Monhegan Island, Maine.

Voices of Terezín
“Smoke of Home”

By Zdeněk Eliáš & Jiří Stein
Translated by Dorothy Elias
Prologue and Epilogue by
Barbara Korner
Directed by Professor Raina Ames
Wednesday-Sunday, November 3-6,
7 p.m., and November 7, 2 p.m.
Johnson Theatre
For tickets, visit www.unhmub.com/ticket or call (603) 862-2290.

VOICES OF TEREZÍN incorporates the play Smoke of Home, a powerful piece written by two remarkable Czech men, Zdeněk Eliáš & Jiří Stein, who were imprisoned at Terezín, a concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. Prisoners found release from their unbearable circumstances through artistic creations ranging from operas and cabarets to concerts and covertly produced drawings that collectively recorded the truth of the camp. Although Smoke of Home is a play about prisoners of the Thirty Years’ War, its themes paralleled the longing for home of those interned at Terezín. It was never performed inside the camp.

POST-PLAY DISCUSSION with Holocaust survivors and experts in Holocaust history. Guest artist Gail Humphreys-Mardarosian, original director of Voices of Terezín, joins UNH Professor Ames on Wednesday, November 3, for a special conversation at noon in the Museum of Art. Free.