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As a composer, Dan Román has developed a compositional style integrating elements of the folkloric music from the Caribbean, in particular that of his native Puerto Rico, with the mechanics of minimalism and the aesthetics of postmodern art. His music has been performed in Puerto Rico, South America, Spain, France, Austria, Italy, and throughout the United States, including performances in New York City. Dan Román has received commissions to write new pieces for the Alturas Duo, the New World Trio, The Irrelevants, the Connecticut Children’s Choir, the Hartford Commissions project, and others.

In recent years Dan Román has had the opportunity to teach courses in the music of the 20th century, post-colonial Latin America, and a brand new course in music technology which explores areas of electronic, MIDI, and computer music from both a practical and a theoretical approach.

His address, entitled "Music of the 21st Century - A New Common Practice," is the follow up to his TedX talk last spring: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMv8Txbua_s

Edward Peter Stringham is the Kathryn Wasserman Davis Professor of Economic Organizations and Innovation and Deputy Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Endowment. Stringham is president of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, former president of the Association of Private Enterprise Education, editor of the Journal of Private Enterprise, editor of two books, and author of more than sixty journal articles, book chapters, and policy studies. His work has been discussed on more than 100 broadcast stations, including CBS, CNBC, CNN, Fox, Headline News, NPR, and MTV. His book, Private Governance: Creating Order in Economic and Social Life, is published by Oxford University Press.

Margaret Randall is a feminist poet, writer, photographer and social activist. Born in New York City in 1936, she has lived for extended periods in Albuquerque, New York, Seville, Mexico City, Havana, and Managua. Shorter stays in Peru and North Vietnam were also formative. In the turbulent 1960s she co-founded and co-edited EL CORNO EMPLUMADO / THE PLUMED HORN, a bilingual literary journal which for eight years published some of the most dynamic and meaningful writing of an era. From 1984 through 1994 she taught at a number of U.S. universities and college, including Trinity College.

Margaret was privileged to live among New York’s abstract expressionists in the 1950s and early ’60s, participate in the Mexican student movement of 1968, share important years of the Cuban revolution (1969-1980), the first four years of Nicaragua’s Sandinista project (1980-1984), and visit North Vietnam during the heroic last months of the U.S. American war in that country (1974). Her four children—Gregory, Sarah, Ximena and Ana—have given her ten grandchildren: Lia, Martin, Daniel, Richi, Sebastian, Juan, Luis Rodrigo, Mariana, Eli, and Tolo. She has lived with her life companion, the painter and teacher Barbara Byers, for almost a quarter century.

Among Margaret’s more than 80 published books, some titles still in print are CUBAN WOMEN NOW, SANDINO’S DAUGHTERS, SANDINO’S DAUGHTER REVISITED, CHRISTIANS IN THE NICARAGUAN REVOLUTION, RISKING A SOMERSAULT IN THE AIR, THE SHAPE OF RED (with Ruth Hubbard), DANCING WITH THE DOE, THIS IS ABOUT INCEST, WALKING TO THE EDGE: ESSAYS OF RESISTANCE, HUNGER’S TABLE: WOMEN, POLITICS & FOOD, THE PRICE YOU PAY: THE HIDDEN COST OF WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIP TO MONEY, WHEN I LOOK INTO THE MIRROR AND SEE YOU: WOMEN, TERROR & RESISTANCE, NARRATIVE OF POWER: ESSAYS FOR AN ENDANGERED CENTURY, WHERE THEY LEFT YOU FOR DEAD / HALFWAY HOME, INTO ANOTHER TIME: GRAND CANYON REFLECTIONS, STONES WITNESS, TO CHANGE THE WORLD: MY YEARS IN CUBA, THEIR BACKS TO THE SEA and MY TOWN. AS IF THE EMPTY CHAIR / COMO SI LA SILLA VACIA (bilingual poetry, Wings Press) and FIRST LAUGH (essays, University of Nebraska Press) will be out in Spring 2011, RUINS (poems, University of New Mexico Press), SOMETHING’S WRONG WITH THE CORNFIELDS (poems, Skylight Press), MORE THAN THINGS (essays, University of Nebraska Press), CHE ON MY MIND (Duke University Press), THE RHIZOME AS A FIELD OF BROKEN BONES (poems, Wings Press), and DAUGHTER OF LADY JAGUAR SHARK (poem, Wings Press). Ask for them at your local bookstore, or order through Amazon.com.

In 1984, Margaret came home to the United States, only to be ordered deported when the government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, judging opinions expressed in some of her books to be "against the good order and happiness of the United States." The Center for Constitutional Rights defended her and many writers and others joined in an almost five-year battle for reinstatement of citizenship. She won her case in 1989. In 1990 she was awarded the Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett grant for writers victimized by political repression; and in 2004 was the first recipient of PEN New Mexico’s Dorothy Doyle Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing and Human Rights Activism. In 2009 two of her photographs were accepted into the Capitol Arts Foundation permanent collection of work by New Mexican artists on display at the State capitol.

For more, visit: www.margaretrandall.org

David Baker reads a selection of his poetry at the Allan K. Smith Reading Series at Trinity College. A full schedule of readings can be found at www.trincoll.edu.

David Baker is the author of 11 books of poetry, including Scavenger Loop and Never-Ending Birds, which was awarded the Theodore Roethke Memorial Poetry Prize. His five books of prose include Show Me Your Environment: Essays on Poetry, Poets, and Poems and Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry. Among his awards are prizes and grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mellon Foundation, and the Society of Midland Authors. He holds the Thomas B. Fordham Chair of Creative Writing at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and is poetry editor of The Kenyon Review.

The Center for Urban and Global Studies at Trinity College welcomed Dr. Ratoola Kundu to kick off this year's Global Vantage Point series. Dr. Kundu's talk, "Sex, Lies and Red Tape: The Story of Redevelopment in Kamathipura, Mumbai," traces the history and contested transformation of Kamathipura, Asia's largest red light district in the heart of Mumbai, India's financial centre.

To follow slides presented in the talk, visit:

http://www.slideshare.net/GiovanniQuattrochi/ratoola-on-mumbai-cugs-9-2015

Trinity President Joanne Berger-Sweeney kicked off the celebration of the 25th year of neuroscience at Trinity College with a talk entitled “Of Mice and Men and Girls and Autism: Insights from 15 years of studying the neurobiology of mouse models of autism spectrum disorders."

For more on the 25th anniversary celebration, visit:

http://www.trincoll.edu/Academics/MajorsAndMinors/Neuroscience/25/Pages/Events.aspx

The Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut and Trinity College joined together to offer survivors of brain injury a free day of relaxation, friendship and fun at the BIAC Healthy Living Retreat for People with Brain Injury. This event was held on Friday, May 29th,at Trinity College in Hartford. Survivors were able to spend the day participating in workshops in Tai Chi, Art and Music Therapy, Yoga, Massage, and Diet and Nutrition and enjoyed a musical performance by Kate Callahan.

Kate Callahan was named the Connecticut State Songwriter of the Year and was named was named one of 2014's Top 100 Unsigned Artists by Music Connection Magazine. The Boston Globe describes her as "An award-winning singer who rose from a calamitous injury to claim her creative life, Kate Callahan has garnered an appreciative audience with her easygoing vibe and inspirational, at times mystical lyrics.”

“The Mass Migrations of Italians and Jews to America: New Evidence on Who and Why”

Yannay Spitzer is studying the economics of mass migration from a historical perspective. He is mainly interested in questions such as why people migrate across borders, how they migrate, what determines the timing and the demographic and economic patterns of their migration, and what happens with them after they arrive in the new country.

His current research deals with the Jewish and the Italian migrations during the Age of Mass Migration (1880s-1924), movements of millions of people that provide unique a lens on the anatomies of migration and data that are typically unavailable for contemporary migrations. He is also interested in the economic history of the Jews and studies the economics and the demography of the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire.

His efforts are dedicated to producing research that is based on historical cases while addressing current economic issues; builds on newly produced, discovered, or complied large historical data sets; and analyzes these data sets using innovative methods of applied-microeconomics. His methodological toolkit includes both experimental and structural estimation methods, as well as GIS analysis and development of matching algorithms and other sorts of computer script work.

At the end of the current academic year, Spitzer will be joining the Department of Economics and the PEP program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as an assistant professor.

Sinéad Morrissey is the author of five collections of poetry, the last four of which have been shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Award. Her most recent, Parallax, won the coveted prize in 2013. Her work has received numerous accolades including the Patrick Kavanagh Award (of which she was the youngest ever winner), the Michael Hartnett Prize and the Irish Times/Poetry Now Award. In 2007 she took first prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Through the Square Window’, a haunting poem that contrasts an image of the dead gathering outside a window with that of a child sleeping peacefully indoors.

Morrissey was born in Northern Ireland in 1972 and grew up in Belfast. Educated at Trinity College, Dublin, she has travelled widely and lived in Japan and New Zealand before returning to her birthplace in 1999. In 2002 she was appointed Writer in Residence at Queen’s University Belfast, and she is currently Reader in Creative Writing at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at Queen’s.

Josiah Ober, Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Science at Stanford University, works on historical institutionalism and political theory, focusing on the political thought and practice of the ancient Greek world and its contemporary relevance. He is the author of a number of books mostly published by Princeton University Press, including Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (1989), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (2008), Democracy and Knowledge (2008). He has also published about 75 articles and chapters, including recent articles in American Political Science Review, Philosophical Studies, Hesperia, Polis, and Transactions of the American Philological Association.His new book on The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece will appear in Spring 2015, from Princeton UP. It documents and explains the remarkable Greek efflorescence of ca. 800-300 BCE, the Macedonian conquest of the late fourth century, and the persistence of economic flourishing into the Hellenistic era. Other work in progress includes a general theory of democracracy a study of rational cooperation and useful knowledge in Greek political thought.