Thursday, May 16, 2002Thursday Agenda(A highly subjective look at what's on campus today)"The First Year" 7 P.M., Filene Auditorium (Moore)--The actor and "community leader" Andrew Shue '89 returns to campus to introduce and discuss this PBS documentary (he is the director's brother-in-law). Sponsored by the education department--who else? "Guelwaar" (film) 7 P.M., Loew Auditorium--Ousmane Sembene's 1992 dark comedy tracking the fallout after a well-known Christian is buried in a Muslim cemetary. French with subtitles ($5 Dartmouth students, $6 gen. admission). "A Socratic Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus" 7:30 P.M., 2 Rockefeller--David Sedley, professor of classics at Cambridge, speaks. If you can tear yourself away from Andrew Shue, this one should be interesting. "Egil's Saga" 8 P.M., Moore Theater--Senior Kris Thorgeirsson presents his fellowship project, presents the works of the Viking poet Egil Skallagrimmson. Text of a translation here. Posted by Andrew Grossman at 10:45 AM Comments Post a Comment (we enforce our comments policy) |
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