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Events this week

Sept. 12, Philosophy Colloquium, Robin James, "Monstrosity & Damage as Human Capital in 'Gaga Feminism,'" 4 p.m., CFL Recital Hall
Faculty Artist Series, Andrew Whitfield, voice, 7 p.m., Jenson-Noble Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall
SAC Cinema Film, "The Final Season," 9 p.m., Valders Hall of Science, Room 206 

Sept. 14, Science Exploration Day, Admissions Events, all day
Fall Luther/Decorah Community Day, 11 a.m., Regents Center Circle
Center Stage Series Performance, "Ring of Fire— The Music of Johnny Cash," 7:30 p.m., Center for Faith and Life Main Hall 

Sept. 15, Journey Conversations retreat, 2-5 p.m., CFL Main Hall
Faculty Artist Series, Rebecca Boehm Shaffer, horn, 4 p.m., Jenson-Noble Hall of Music, Noble Recital Hall

Sept. 16, College Night, 6:30-8 p.m., Regents Center

Chapel this week

Wednesday, Sept. 11:  David Vasquez, Anniversary of Sept. 11, Collegiate, Cathedral

Friday, Sept. 13:  Jim Martin -Schramm

Monday, Sept. 16:  David Tiede 

Photography on display through Oct. 18 

The work of Sandy Steinbrecher, Chicago photographer, will be on display through Friday, Oct. 18, in the Center for Faith and Life.

A gallery reception, artist talk and panel discussion will be held for Steinbrecher at 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, in the Center for Faith and Life. The show, titled "The Education Project: Educators as Advocates: a Look to the Future," and the reception are open to the public with no charge for admission.

Join Professor Robin James in a discussion on the philosophy of contemporary musicians Lady Gaga, Rihanna and more in her talk, "Monstrosity & Damage as Human Capital in 'Gaga Feminism,'" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, in the CFL Recital Hall. 

A reception with James will follow the lecture in the Qualley Lounge; both are open to the public with no charge for admission. For more information, visit James's blog at its-her-factory.blogspot.com.

Faculty Artist Series: Andrew Whitfield 

Audiences will have an opportunity to experience poetry in a unique way when it mixes with music during the baritone voice recital by Andrew Whitfield, Luther College associate professor of music, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12.

The performance, "Ballads, Odes, and Elegies," will be held in the Noble Recital Hall of the Jenson-Noble Hall of Music on the Luther campus and is open to the public with no charge for admission.

Celebrate Iowa's Prairie Heritage Week on Luther’s campus: 

Take a leisurely hike through the campus prairies to enjoy the wildflowers and talk about the history and management of the plantings from 5:15-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13; meet outside Sampson Hoffland Laboratories in the parking lot next to the greenhouse.

For more information about Luther's natural areas, visit:
http://www2.luther.edu/academics/biologyfacilities-natural-areas/natural/

For more Iowa Prairie Heritage events across the state, visit:
http://www.herbarium.iastate.edu/inps/index.php

Tickets still available for Center Stage Series: 'Ring of Fire'

Produced by Curt Wollan, Luther class of 1973,  “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash” begins at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14. The performance in the Center for Faith and Life Main Hall is the Season Opener of Luther College's 2013-14 Center Stage Series. The performance is sponsored by Gundersen Health System.

The performance celebrates the life and music of Johnny Cash. The musical revue includes more than 35 of his hit songs including some of his well-known duets with June Carter Cash.

Tickets are available online at www.tickets.luther.edu or at the Luther Box Office.

Interfaith contemplative conversation retreat

Listen Well, Speak Truth, Be Peace: Take part in the Journey Conversations interfaith contemplative conversation retreat with Luther students, faculty and staff from 2-5 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15, in the CFL Main Hall. The retreat is powerful as a stand alone experience. If you would like, after the retreat you will have the opportunity to join a small group for the semester. Email <interfaith> or register at http://www.luther.edu/ministries/getinvolved/journey/ by Sept. 11. Please note that attendance for the full three hours is required for participation.

FAS: Rebecca Boehm Shaffer

Rebecca Boehm Shaffer will perform a horn recital at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 15 in the Noble Recital Hall. The performance is open to the public with no charge for admission.

Boehm Shaffer's program includes "La Chasse de Saint Hubert," Opus 99 composed by Henri Busser, "le monde minuscule" by Daniel Schnyder and the Romantic Sonata for clarinet, horn and piano by Gunther Schuller. 

Assisting on the performance are Jessica Paul, piano, and Boehm Shaffer's daughter Nora Shaffer, Luther class of 2010, clarinet. 

Luther hosts Sept. 16 College Night

Northeast Iowa and southeast Minnesota high school students and their parents who are interested in information about post-high school education options will have an opportunity to talk with representatives of more than 65 higher education institutions on Monday, Sept. 16.

College Night will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. in the Sports and Recreational Center at the college's Regents Center, located on Luther College's lower campus. The event is open to the public with no charge for admission.

Religion Forum with Diane Millis Sept. 17

Forming habits that help people be more present in their surroundings and reclaim the foundational importance of conversation in life are key concepts presented in the Religion Forum featuring Diane Millis.

Her lecture, titled "The Sacred Art of Conversation: Practicing Presence in an Age of Distraction," is at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the CFL Recital Hall, and is open to the public with no charge for admission.

'Allégresse' trio guest recital Sept. 18

"Allégresse," the French word for joy, fittingly describes the Allégresse trio of flute, oboe and piano taking the stage at Luther at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 18.

The recital will be held in the Noble Recital Hall and is open to the public with no charge for admission. Prior to the performance the ensemble will give a master class for Luther students at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, in the Noble Recital Hall.

SAC Leadership lecture: Kent Stock

Kent Stock, teacher, coach, principal, banker and powerful speaker, will present a SAC Leadership lecture at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 18, in Room 206 of Valders Hall of Science.

Stock’s lecture, "How Do You Want To Be Remembered?" will focus on how to live life on a daily basis and how his experience guiding the Norway High School baseball team gave him the insight to develop leaders in organizations nationwide.

Family Weekend 2013

Family Weekend 2013 is scheduled for Sept. 20-22. Check out the online schedule at https://www.luther.edu/parents/familyweekend/ for event details. In the interest of conserving resources, a small supply of hard copies—the Family Weekend brochure—will be printed for distribution to parents and family members from 9 a.m.-noon Saturday, Sept. 21, in the Dahl Centennial Union lobby. Questions about Family Weekend can be directed to the Development Office, to Kelly Wedmann, 387-1066, or Sue Drilling, 387-1100.

SAC Concerts: Mat Kearney Sept. 20

Nationally acclaimed singer-songwriter Mat Kearney will appear at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in the Regents Center. Sponsored by SAC Concerts, Kearney’s blend of pop and hip hop promises to be an exciting addition to the upcoming Family Weekend. General admission ticket sales begin Thursday, Sept. 12. Tickets will be $22, and may be acquired online or directly from the box office. For questions regarding ticket sales, please contact the box office at <boxoffice>.

Adventure Race Sept. 21

The Adventure Race is Sept. 21 at 10 a.m. Register as a relay or individual. The race consists of three miles of canoeing or kayaking, a nine-mile bike ride, followed by a three-mile run. Register at https://www2.luther.edu/studentlife/wellness/adventure-race/. For more information or questions contact Karen Davidson <davika05> or Ashley Swanson <swansa01>.

Luther College Writers Festival

Award-winning authors Anne Lamott and Mark Salzman are the featured speakers at the 2013 Luther College Writers Festival, Sept. 27-28. Registration begins at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in the Valders concourse.

The festival kicks off at 4 p.m. Friday with a reading and book signing by Salzman and concludes on Saturday evening following a 7:30 p.m. lecture and book signing by Lamott in the CFL.

In addition, the festival will offer workshops, panel discussions on craft, and readings in poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Cost for the festival is $25 for faculty, staff and emeriti and $10 for Luther students. Some scholarship funds available. For more information, write to <English>, or go to https://www2.luther.edu/writersfestival/.

Lamott's lecture is sponsored by Luther's Distinguished Lecture Series and is open to the public with no charge for admission. Paid festival attendees will receive preferential seating at the event.

Public lecture 'Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don't be so sure'

Sarah D. Phillips, professor of anthropology, Indiana College, will present public lecture "Fukushima is not Chernobyl? Don't be so sure," at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 19, in Olin 102. Philips will also hold a brown-bag lunchtime Q&A session from 12:15-1:15 p.m. Friday, Sept. 20, in the Mott Room in Dahl Centennial Union.

Phillips will present a public lecture addressing the issues of nuclear technology in different cultural contexts. She will consider whether “peaceful” nuclear technology is possible, focusing on two nuclear disasters: recent Fukushima and famous Chernobyl. Based on post-disaster ethnographic work in both sites, she will argue that independent of the system-Japanese or Soviet, nuclear technology requires obfuscation in multiple domains-medicine, science, governance-that create heavily scientized discourses and assumptions that assure us nuclear reactors are safe neighbors, while actually disregarding public concerns.

ARTICLES, CREATIONS, HONORS, etc.

"Hours with Novian," a five-minute documentary film profiling Luther faculty member Novian Whitsitt has been chosen as an official selection for Louisville’s International Festival of Film. Thomas C. Johnson and Michael Crowe ‘13 produced the film. Seth Duin '12 composed the score.

Amy Weldon is writing review-essays for "Bloom," bloom-site.com. "Growing Into Compassion: On Anna Sewell and 'Black Beauty'" and "Diana Athill: The Sufficient Self" were published there in April and July, respectively. She also wrote review-essays for the "Los Angeles Review of Books," lareviewofbooks.org. "Angela Carter’s Strange Fruit" is forthcoming on Sept. 16 and "The Weird Sisters" is forthcoming in November.

Destiny Crider was a co-author for a June 2013 article in the "Open Journal of Archaeometry," titled "Arizona Salado turquoise: Source studies with PIXE and XRD." Crider had two articles published, "Assessing Mexican Pottery Paint Recipes Using PIXE" in the "Open Journal of Archaeometry," 2013 and "Shifting Alliances: Epiclassic and Early Postclassic Interactions at Cerro Portezuelo" in "Ancient Mesoamerica," 2013.

J. R. Christianson has been invited to be the main speaker at the recognition of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg as an historic site by the European Physical Society. The ceremony is to take place next week on the island of Hven in Sweden, where Brahe's observatory was located in the years 1576-97.

Richard G. Cole's article "Martin Luther's Use of Rhetorical Masks for Jews, Princes, Clerics, and other Enemies: The Problem of Meaning in a Post Modern Age" is available in the September 2013 paper copy of "The Journal of Religious History," Volume 37, Issue 3, pp. 309-321. The article is also available on the Wiley websit.

COMMUNITY

Notice  

Weston Noble is currently in the hospital in Korea. Weston slipped and fell, fracturing his pelvis in three places. He is doing well and is in good spirits, but will be in the hospital in Seoul for 4-6 weeks. He was in Korea to conduct the National Choir of Korea. For those who wish to send him greetings, please visit the Facebook page "Weston Noble in Korea" or write him at: 

C/O Weston Noble
Gangnam Severance Hospital
51Byung-dong (Fifth floor, room 2503)
211 Eonju-Ro
Gangnam-gu, Seoul
135-720, Republic of Korea

Sympathy

To Caleb Timp, Norse Culinary Team, on the death of his brother Jared Timp, 34, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama who died Sept. 2, in Rochester, Minn.

Book by Mira Canion '90 featured in ArtHaus class

"Agentes Secretos y el Mural de Picasso" by Luther alumna Mira Canion '90 will be the featured book in a Spanish class this fall at ArtHaus. Mira has authored a number of books with the mission to create interesting and accessible reading material for language students. Jim Tripp '04 teaches the class, "Spanish Stories and a Book," which meets for six sessions at ArtHaus, Sept. 5-Oct. 10 and is designed for students with 25 hours or more of Spanish speaking experience. For more information visit www.arthausdecorah.org.