POSTINGS
"Study
Abroad Fair" to be held Monday
The Center for International
Studies will hold a Study Abroad Fair on Monday, Jan. 24, from 5-8 p.m.
in the Lower Campus Dining Hall Heights Room. The fair will provide information
on international study opportunities in more than 20 countries. Faculty,
staff, and students with first-hand experience abroad will be on hand to
answer questions. For further information, please call the CIS at ext.2-3827.
Hawthorne
String Quartet performs Jan. 26
The internationally acclaimed
Hawthorne String Quartet - which was named the Boston College string quartet-in-residence
in 1998 - will perform a chamber concert in Gasson 100 on Wednesday, Jan.
26 at 8 p.m.
The concert will feature the
world premiere performance of "Tantric Psalms," by Assoc. Prof. Thomas
Oboe Lee (Music) as well as works by Mozart and Erwin Schulhoff.
At 7:15 p.m., Mark Ludwig,
a Fulbright Scholar on music from the Holocaust, will discuss the music
of Schulhoff, a composer who died in the Wurzburg concentration camp in
1943. Lee also will be on hand to talk about his composition, which expresses
solidarity with the Tibetan cause for independence. For more information
on the concert, which is free and open to the public, call ext.2-4843.
Ethics
and technology conference seeking papers
The Fifth Annual Ethics and
Technology Conference, co-sponsored by Boston College Law School and Carroll
School of Management, is now accepting papers and panel proposals on any
topic concerning the relationship of ethics and technology. This year's
event, titled "Challenges of the New Millennium: Ethics and Information
Technology," will be held July 21-22 at Loyola University in Chicago. Information
is available at the conference World
Wide Web site.