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Week of November 26, 2012 
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Prof. Wallace's New Book
A Day at the Lab
Mary Elmendorf Tribute
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Prof. Miriam Wallace's New Book on Thomas Holcroft

Holcroft BookNew College of Florida Professor Miriam Wallace has co-edited a collection of essays titled Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft, 1745-1809: Essays on Thomas Holcroft's Works and Life, published by Ashgate.  The book focuses on Thomas Holcroft, the self-educated son of a cobbler who became a popular 18th-century playwright, influential reformist novelist and controversial political radical.

Re-Viewing Thomas Holcroft is the first essay collection devoted to the life and literary work of Holcroft. Wallace and her co-editor, A.A. Markley, have compiled essays that illustrate Holcroft's central role among London's radical reformers and intelligentsia as well as his theatrical innovations within ongoing explorations of the late 18th-century public sphere of letters and debate. Holcraft introduced "melodrama" to Britain and was known as the playwright who brought Beaumarchais's Le Mariage de Figaro to the English stage as The Follies of a Day. He was also a victim of the 1794 London Treason Trials.

 

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NCPAL Hosts Day at the Lab for Fruitville Elementary Students

The New College Public Archaeology Lab (NCPAL) will host A Day at the Lab for Fruitville Elementary School students, Saturday, December 1, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. NCPAL Director and anthropology professor Uzi Baram, with the help of New Day at the LabCollege student volunteers, will guide the Fruitville students and their family members as they learn about coastal peoples of 19th-century Sarasota Pass. The children will tour the Public Archaeology Lab, explore tools used by those living on Sarasota Bay and learn about the social uses of the Sarasota Bay watershed over the last few centuries. Fruitville students will have the opportunity to learn through a variety of hands-on activities.

 

One of the goals of NCPAL is to connect local classrooms with college-level resources and aspiring undergraduate anthropologists trained in archaeology and historic preservation, public outreach and ethnographic studies. Public archaeology at NCPAL is civic engagement--working on the past to make a difference in the present and to help individuals envision themselves as part of a larger social fabric with responsibilities for stewardship of heritage.

 

A Day at the Lab is sponsored by New College of Florida and EdExploreSRQ.com, which provides students with access to educational opportunities offered by local arts, science and history organizations.

 

Note: A Day at the Lab is not open to the general public. 

A Special Tribute to Dr. Mary Elmendorf

Elmendorf Join New College of Florida and the Gulf Coast Chapter for U.N. Women as we salute Dr. Mary Elmendorf for her years of service and devotion to both of our organizations on December 1, from 3 - 5 p.m. in the College Hall Music Room, 351 College Drive. Dr. Elmendorf was the wife of New College's second president, Dr. John Elmendorf, but her influence as a champion for human and women's rights extend far beyond marriage. She was the first woman director of CARE, led the first Peace Corps' student mission to the Dominican Republic, created the World Bank's first Women in Development post and was a founder of UNIFEM, now known as the U.S. National Committee for U.N. Women. Dr. Elmendorf recently released a memoir of her life titled From Southern Belle to Global Rebel: Memoirs of an Anthropologist and Activist. Joining New College Provost Steve Miles as a special guest speaker at this ceremony will be Dr. Sharon Burde, president of the Gulf Coast Chapter of the U.S. National Committee for U.N. Women; Dr. Carol Poteat Buchanan, president of the U.S. National Committee for U.N. Women; and Leita Kaldi Davis, coordinator of the Book Club for the U.S. National Committee for U.N. Women. This event is free and open to all members of the New College community, as well as the general public. Call 941-487-4888 for more information.
Natural Sciences Seminar: When is a Cone Not a Cone?

November 30 at 3 p.m.

Chae Auditorium, Heiser Natural Sciences Complex,
500 College Drive

Free and open to the public; no reservations necessary

New College President Donal O'Shea will provide a non-technical account of what he regards to be one of the most exciting mathematical advances of the last two decades. It has been known for over a half century that near an isolated singular point, the set of solutions of a polynomial in several variables can be complicated (it often fails to be a manifold), but not so complicated as to be inaccessible (it looks like, in the topological sense, a cone over a lower dimensional manifold, called the link of the singularity). The associated theorem, and the study of manifolds that occur as links produced a flowering of deep insights into the structure of singularities, and is closely related to some of the greatest achievements of 20th-century mathematics. Until recently, no one thought to ask whether the set of solutions looks a cone in any geometrical sense. A few years ago, two Brazilian mathematicians showed that the answer is no, once the number of variables is greater than two. Attempts to understand the phenomenon point to a beautiful new theory that is transforming our understanding of the topology and geometry of complex algebraic singularities. Dr. O'Shea will explain through two examples, accessible to undergraduate mathematics majors, what is at stake and what the excitement is about.

2012 Sarasota/Manatee AIDS Walk

December 1 at 8 a.m.

Sudakoff Conference Center,
5845 General Dougher Place

AIDS Walk LogoThe 7th Annual Sarasota/Manatee AIDS Walk is co-chaired by Trinity Charities and New College. The two-mile walk will take place on the New College campus. Teams are now being formed and over 500 walkers are expected. The walk will start at 8 am with food, raffles, music and prizes. Visit trinitycharities.org to register.
Maya Weaving Demonstration

weaving December 1 at 1:30 - 3 p.m.

Cook Library, 5800 Bay Shore Road


Learn about traditional Maya weaving with Concepci�n Poou Coy Tharin, a master weaver from the Guatemalan highlands. Refreshments will be served. Free and open to the public.  

 Voices of Fuzi�n Concert

December 1 at 7:30 p.m.

Black Box Theater (inside Hamilton Center on the Pei Campus)


The Fuzi�n Dance Artists present the 2nd annual Voices of Fuzi�n concert, a collaborative performance by dancers, musicians, visual artists and other "friends of Fuzion." The event is free for New College students, faculty and staff. A $10 donation is suggested for others.
Call 941-487-4888 for information. 

 Courting Prescription Pain Medication: For Better or Worse?

December 4 at 5:30 p.m.

Mildred Sainer Pavilion,
5313 Bay Shore Road

Tickets $15; free for New College students, faculty and staff
Reserve online at donate.ncf.edu/events or call 941-487-4888

 

RuizModern medicine offers compassionate relief for chronic pain and terminal illness. But something has gone terribly wrong. More than seven lives a day in Florida alone are lost as a result of a prescription pain pill epidemic. Hear from mental health and addiction expert and New College alumna Mary Ruiz about the medical, social, economic and political forces that are forcing patients of all ages to decide whether courting prescription pain medication is for better or worse. Ruiz has been in the field of addictions for 25 years. She currently serves on the New College Board of Trustees.

Destruction and Re-Creation of the World in Sacred Maya Texts

December 5 at 7 p.m.
South Florida Museum, 201 10th St. W., Bradenton

 

Tickets: $10; $8 for members

 

Click here to purchase tickets or call 941-746-4131 ext. 0

 

Maya calendar Join Gabriele Vail, adjunct assistant professor of anthropology at New College of Florida, in an exploration of ancient and sacred Maya texts. This event developed with the goal of addressing questions about the Maya calendar and what the December 21st date really means. Planetarium Director Jeff Rodgers will provide a scientific perspective on the astronomical/celestial events that are being hyped in the media as portending the "end of the world." Professor Vail specializes in Pre-Columbian studies, with an emphasis on the iconography and hieroglyphic texts of the screenfold manuscripts (codices) painted by the prehispanic Maya. She has done collaborative research with colleagues on the Borgia group of codices from central Mexico and postclassic murals from the Maya area, as well as ethnohistoric documents from the Maya region. These studies contribute to our understanding of the ideology and religion of Mesoamerica and of interactions among Maya and central Mexican cultures during the postclassic period.  

 

The museum is offering free admission to 10 New College students. Interested students should contact Gabrielle Vail at [email protected].

 

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In the News

A selection of recent news stories about New College, its faculty, students and alumnae/i


Liberal Arts Skills a Good Fit for Jobs
Tampa Bay Times (Nov. 25)
Written by New College President Donal O'Shea

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