Lifelong Learning

Lyon Lecture Series

The Alumnae Association and Mount Holyoke College are pleased to bring you:

THE LYON LECTURE SERIES
A meeting of the minds.

Launched in 2002, the Lyon Lecture Series has traveled to major cities throughout the United States bringing the intellectual life of the College to alumnae. Join us for one of our upcoming lectures for an afternoon or evening of refreshments and stimulating discussion with faculty, guests, and fellow alumnae. This spring, the Lyon Lecture Series is coming to Chicago, IL.

Tickets

$15 for alumnae and guests; Free for young alumnae (classes 2002-2007) and loyalty alumnae (classes 1921-1947); Free for prospective students and guests. Dress: Business casual

Online registration for this event ended April 29th, however, if you would still like to attend you may register at the event.

Chicago, IL

Thursday, May 1, 2008
6:30 pm
The Fortnightly of Chicago

120 E Bellevue Pl

Chicago, IL

The Art and Craft of Film: Inside an Online Course
Robin Blaetz, Associate Professor of Film Studies

Robin Blaetz was recently awarded the Mount Holyoke College Faculty Prize for Teaching for her outstanding achievements in teaching and film scholarship.  In this fascinating lecture/demonstration, Professor Blaetz will review an online course she taught for the New York Times in the fall of 2007, which instructed students in the basic components of film, such as cinematography and editing.  Screening short excerpts from classic films, including F.W. Murnau's Sunrise (1927) and Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951), Professor Blaetz will reveal the secrets of how meaning is created on the silver screen.

There is no ‘they.’ There are no people who are fundamentally different from us in ways that matter. There is no ‘they,’ there is only us, all of us. To divide humanity into ‘us’ and ‘them’ naturalizes injustice. — Holly Hanson, associate professor of history, baccalaureate address, 2002