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McMullen
Events Calendar
All events and programs are free and open to the public.
Free group tours may be arranged by calling the Museum at
617-552-8587.
For a calendar of all Boston College events, visit the Boston
College Event Calendar. |
September
20
Opening Celebration: The Power of Conversation:
Jewish Women and Their Salons
Dessert reception, exhibition viewing, and music by BC
bOp!
7:00 - 9:00 pm, McMullen Museum of Art |
September
25
Concert: A
Single Bright Beam
Music of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn featuring the Trio in D
Minor by Fanny Mendelssohn performed by Sandra Hebert, piano;
Kirsi Perttuli, violin; Junko Simons, cello
3:00 pm, Gasson 100 |
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September
27
Film: The Nasty Girl
Part of Transforming Lives: Women in Focus –
Two part film series at Boston College
Discussion following screening with director – Anna
Rosmus
7:00 pm, Devlin 026 |
October
2
Fall Salon: Jewish
Civilization and its Place in the World
3:00 - 6:00 pm, Gasson 100
Presented
in cooperation with the Boston College Jewish Studies Program |
October
9
Concert: "A Room of
her Own" - A Salon of Women Composers
Music of Fanny Mendelssohn, Alma Mahler, Rebecca Clarke, and
Lili Boulanger
Virginia Eskin, piano; Mark Ludwig, viola.
8:00 pm,
Gasson 100
contact phone: 617-552-6004
Email: concerts@bc.edu
Sponsored
by the Boston College Music Department |
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October
11
Lecture: Funny,
They Don't Look Jewish: Confusing Converts in Medieval Spain
Dwayne Carpenter, Professor of Hispanic Studies, Boston College
Department of Romance Languages & Literatures
7:00 pm, Devlin 101
Presented
in cooperation with the Boston College Jewish Studies Program |
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October 27
Symposium: Affirmation,
Indifference, Assimilation: Identity Choices of Jewish Salonieres
and of Jews Today
Participants: Moderator, Gail Reimer, Founding Director,
Jewish Women’s Archive, Boston; Emily Braun, Co-curator
of Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons;
and Deborah Hertz, Herman Wouk Chair in Modern Jewish Studies,
University of California, San Diego
7:30 - 10:00 pm, Devlin 101; extended Museum hours,
open until 7:30pm
contact phone: (617) 558-6447
Sponsored by the New Center for Arts and Culture, the American
Jewish Historical Society, the Jewish Women’s Archive,
and the McMullen Museum of Art |
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October
30
Salon: Roads to Assimilation: The Irish
and Jewish Women's Experience in America
Participants: Dr. Hasia Diner, Professor of Skirball Department
of Hebrew and Judaic Studies/Dept. of History, New York University;
and Dr. Ruth Ann Harris, Professor of History, Irish Studies
Dept. Boston College.
7:00 - 9:00 pm, Devlin 101
Sponsored by the Irish Studies Department,
Boston College
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November
1
Lecture: Gertrude Stein: Woman of Faith?
Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean of the Graduate Schools of Arts
and Science, New York University
7:00 pm, Devlin 101; extended Museum open until 10:00
pm
Sponsored
by the Lowell Humanities Lecture Series at Boston College,
the Boston College Jewish Studies Program, and the McMullen
Museum of Art |
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November
1
Concert: Mendelssohn String Quartet, Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence, and Thomas Oboe Lee "Seven Steps
to Heaven." Hawthorne
String Quartet, Boston College Artists-in-Residence, with
guests from the Boston Symphony Orchestra
8:00 pm, Gasson 100
Phone: 617-552-6004
Email: concerts@bc.edu
Sponsored by the Boston College Music Department |
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November
15
Concert: Music at St. Mary's
- Cappella Clausura. La Donna, La Dame.
Music by Women Composers from the Convents and Salons of Baroque
Italy and France.
8:00 pm, St. Mary's Chapel, Boston College
Phone: 617-552-6004
Email: concerts@bc.edu
Sponsored by the Jesuit Community and the Boston College Music
Department |
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November 17
Film: Thunder in Guyana
Part of Transforming Lives: Women in Focus –
two part film series at Boston College
Discussion following screening with director, Suzanne Wasserman
7:00
pm, new location: Cushing Auditorium (moved
from Devlin 026) |
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November
17
Lecture: The Unexpected Salon: Sexuality,
Politics, and Meeting Places
A lecture on three groups that stretch the definition
of the Salon.
Rachel Freudenburg, Associate Professor, German Studies Department
7:00 pm,
Devlin 101 |
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