Past Events

Hiroshima bombing survivor and former Vassar professor Tomiko Morimoto West standing at a lectern on a dark stage with the film title, Appreciation--the Tomiko Morimoto West Story.

Film Screening: Appreciation—The Tomiko Morimoto West Story

Oct. 13, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Director/producer Michael Dwyer made this 20-minute film featuring Tomiko Morimoto West, a survivor of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima who taught Japanese language courses at Vassar for a decade until she retired in 1994. Both will be available for a Q&A session after the screening.

a closeup of two dancers holding hands and touching their foreheads together.

SanSan Kwan, Love Dances: Loss and Mourning in Intercultural Collaboration

Sep. 30, 2022, 4:30 p.m.

Kwan, Chair of UC Berkeley’s Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, will discuss her new book, which explores intercultural duets between artists of different backgrounds. Campus community only, please.

Screening and discussion with film producer Gary Kam

Apr. 27, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Kam’s documentary Shadow Flowers will be screened. A Q&A with the producer will follow. Campus community only, please.

Portrait of Klaus Vieweg, Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany

Klaus Vieweg: The Beginning of Philosophy—Parmenides and Buddhism

Apr. 26, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Vieweg, Professor of Philosophy at Friedrich-Schiller University and a leading expert on Hegel, will discuss the systematic and logical beginning of philosophical thinking in conjunction with Hegel’s Science of Logic. Campus community only, please.

Actress Selina Jones as Medea in the Khameleon Productions film of Euripides's Medea

Uprooting Medea

Mar. 21, 2022, 5:30 p.m.

Shivaike Shah, Visiting Artist and Producer/Founder of Khameleon Productions (UK), will discuss the making of Khameleon’s upcoming short film on the figure of Medea, based on Khameleon’s stage production of Euripides’s Medea at Oxford in 2018, which reimagined the ancient Greek tragedy with an all-global majority cast and crew. Campus community only, please.