Professor Hamza Zafer of the University of Washington in Seattle will discuss “Safiyya, daughter of Aaron: Muhammad’s Jewish Wife in Early Muslim Historiography” at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2019, in Rosenfield Center, Room 101.
From local poverty alleviation organizations to schools and conservation groups, the city of Grinnell and surrounding communities are filled with people who welcome the help of Grinnell College volunteers.
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Edward Larson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and legal scholar, will give the Scholars’ Convocation Lecture at 11 a.m. Thursday, April 25, in Room 101 of the Joe Rosenfield ’25 Center, and host a coffee hour from 4 to 5 p.m. in Mears Cottage.
Assistant Professors Cynthia Hansen and Celeste Miller introduced a 2-credit class last spring to help trailblaze a new theory: choreolinguistics, which explores the intersection of linguistics and dance.
Offered in both the spring and fall, BCM 262: Introduction to Biological Chemistry builds on what students have learned in their previous biology and chemistry courses to give them “a more sophisticated level of understanding."
Emily Austin, assistant professor of classics at the University of Chicago, will present “Why Classics? Reception and Receptivity” at 4:15 on April 16 in room N3118 of the Humanities and Social Studies Center.
Renee Scheltema, a Dutch documentary filmmaker and photographer, will lead a discussion about climate change after the screening of her latest documentary “Normal Is Over” at 3:30 p.m. Sunday, April 14, in Room 2022 of the Robert N. Noyce ’49 Science Center.
OPERA Iowa will perform a family friendly version of one of Mozart’s most popular operas, The Magic Flute, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 18, in Sebring-Lewis Hall, as part of the Public Events Series.
Come support more than 100 students as they present papers, posters, and performances. The symposium showcases the work of Grinnell students who have engaged in deep research or scholarly work as a means of both personal discovery and educational enhancement.
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