This year's participant in the New College Florida/New College Oxford exchange is David Raeburn, a scholar of Greek drama and Greek and Latin poetry who teaches at New College University of Oxford. His work includes translations of Ovid's Metamorphoses and Sophocles' Electra and other plays for Penguin Classics. Raeburn will be reading selections from his translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses at Bookstore 1, 1359 Main Street, in Sarasota, on March 20, which happens to be the 2,055th birthday of Ovid.

Two New College students will be giving presentations at the Selby Library on March 2, 6 pm. Rozalyn Cews will give the first talk, "Cultural Adaptation in a Changing Environment: Considering the Emotive Aspects of Calusa Culture," will address the difficulties the Calusa may have faced during their prolific period of community building between circa 4500 B.C. until A.D. 1600. Evan C. Giomi's presentation, "Christianity and Colonialism: An Ethiopian Example in the Rock-Hewn Churches of Lalibela," will examine how Christianity works to reinforce the fundamental dichotomy of colonialism, that is, the Western colonizer and non-Western colonized. Both students are this year's winners of the Time Sifters student paper competition. The talks are presented by the Time Sifters Archaeology Society. Students who would like a ride to the meeting should contact Gabrielle Vail at gvail@ncf.edu.    

This two-day celebration of Mayan culture will include presentations, an art exhibit, performances and cuisine. Speakers include Anthony Andrews (New College), Michael Fehily (USF), Eleanor Williams (Sarasota-Merida Sister Cities) and Gabrielle Vail (New College). This event is co-sponsored by New College of Florida and Latino Excellence of Sarasota. Click here for a complete schedule of events. 

As part of a series of lectures on Contemporary Artists and Women Artists, New College students Walter Potmesil, Rachel Robison and Irini Zervas will talk about artists Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning and Joan Mitchell, respectively. Sage was a surrealist whose constructed images invite interpretation. Tanning was also a surrealist married to painter and sculptor Max Ernst. This lecture will explore the progression of Tanning's work, culminating in her cloth sculptures of the 1970s. Mitchell's depictions of landscapes - influenced by personal memories of her homes in the Midwest, New York and her garden near Giverny - reflect a preoccupation with the scale, light and dynamism of nature. As a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, her works are fully steeped in the ideologies of her time.

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