GENESEO, N.Y. – Ganie DeHart, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Psychology, has been named the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York Professor of the Year.
GENESEO, N.Y. –– The Geneseo Department of Music is thrilled to present Geneseo Festival Chorus and Geneseo Symphony Orchestra in their performance of composer’s Haydn’s epic masterpiece, “The Creation” on Sunday Nov. 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.
The concert will also feature soprano soloist Amy Cochrane, adjunct lecturer in music at Geneseo; tenor soloist Matthew Valverde, lecturer in music at Nazareth College and baritone Jorell Williams, who is a critically-acclaimed opera singer and theatrical performer.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Pier Gabrielle Foreman, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English and Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, will deliver this year’s Walter Harding Lecture Nov. 16 at SUNY Geneseo.
The lecture, titled “To Speculate Darkly: Slavery, Black Visual Culture and the Promises and Problems of Print,” begins at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Doty Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.
GENESEO, N.Y. –– The Department of Theatre and Dance will present its first main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, Tina Howe’s “The Art of Dining,” from Nov. 11–15 in Brodie Hall’s Alice Austin Theatre.
Directed by Professor Randy Barbara Kaplan, the heartfelt comedy explores the interesting ways that individuals use eating not only as a means of nourishment, but as a means to satisfy both internal and external emotional goals like comfort and seduction.
GENESEO, N.Y. – William T. Cavanaugh, director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s 2015 MacVittie Lecture Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. His address, “Does Religion Cause Violence?,” is free and open to the public.
GENESEO, N.Y. – The Geneseo Wind Quintet will perform on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall, showcasing the excellent faculty musicianship at the college. The concert is free and open to the public.
Distinguished professor of music James Walker will premiere his new composition “Two Pieces for Wind Quintet and Piano: 1) Ballad on the Ground 2) Romp.”
In addition, oboe instructor Megan Kyle will be playing “Three Summer Evenings” and “Partita in A Minor.”
GENESEO, N.Y. – Sponsored by French Club, the Department of Languages & Literatures, Office of the Provost and Office of Multicultural Programs & Services, National French Week at Geneseo will feature a variety of engaging Francophone-centric events from Nov. 9-13.
Many events are free and open to the public:
Nov. 9, 5:30 p.m., Newton 204
Film screening and discussion with University of Florida professor of Jewish Studies, filmmaker Dragan Kujundzic, of Frozen Time, Liquid Memories: 1942-2012.
GENESEO, N.Y. –– Wendi Kinney, assistant dean of students for fraternal life and off-campus services, is the recipient of the 2015 Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors.
The award recognizes individuals who have exhibited “outstanding achievements in one or more of the following areas: service to AFA; programming and/or service which reaches beyond the recipient's campus/organization; development and research activities; and/or service to the college and fraternity/sorority communities.”
GENESEO, N.Y. – The Geneseo String Band will be hosting and performing at their square dance event on Nov. 7 from 7 - 10 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.
Geneseo String Band Director James Kimball noted that the event is “very much a community square dance.”
“We have been doing these dances for years and can usually expect a good mix of college and community folks of all ages,” said Kimball. He added that the traditional method of teaching and calling the dances allows beginners to pick them up easily.