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Guest recital: Slipstream, saxophone ensemble

Slipstream will perform in Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University on March 21 at 7:30 p.m. as part of a six-stop Midwest tour in support of the release of its debut EP, Northland. All ages welcome, no cover charge. Slipstream is a contemporary chamber group based in Appleton, Wisconsin.

Inspired by Louis Andriessen’s “Hout,” Slipstream is dedicated to expanding the possibilities of its unique instrumentation (saxophone, guitar, piano, and percussion) through commissioning, collaboration, and improvisation. Since the fall of 2014, Slipstream has collaborated with more than ten composers, including award-winning composers John Mayrose and David Werfelmann, to create more than a dozen new works for the ensemble. Recently, Slipstream was invited by eighth blackbird to participate in open master classes at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as part of the Grammy award-winning ensemble’s residency at the museum.

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Women’s basketball heads to MVC Tournament

Women’s Basketball
Missouri Valley Conference Tournament
March 10–13
iWireless Center (Moline, IL)
www.mvcquadcities.com

Men’s Tennis
Drake vs. Brown
March 11 @ 6 p.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center

Women’s Tennis
Drake vs. Northern Illinois
March 12 @ 10 a.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center

Women’s Tennis
Drake vs. Wisconsin-Milwaukee
March 12 @ 4 p.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center

Men’s Tennis
Drake vs. Wisconsin
March 13 @ 11 a.m.
Roger Knapp Tennis Center

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Comparison Project lecture March 3

Please join us for the second spring semester event of our 2015–2016 series on death and dying—a lecture by Christopher Chapple, Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, about the “Fast unto Death” in the Indian religion of Jainism.  The event, which is free and open to the public, will be held on March 3 at 7 p.m. in Sussman Theater (lower level of the Olmsted Center).

The Jain tradition has observed a practice known as Sallekhana or Santhara, through which one willingly foregoes food and hydration toward the end of one’s life in order to pass peacefully into a new life.  Chapple will give details about the process and the history of Sallekhana. He will also explore the correlations of this fast unto death with the hospice and “right to die” movements in contemporary America.

Chapple is a specialist in the religions of India; he has published twenty books on aspects of Yoga, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, as well as religion and ecology. He serves on the advisory boards of the Ahimsa Center, the Forum on Religion and Ecology, and the International School for Jain Studies.

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Roundtable: “Feminist Perspectives on Trigger Warnings and Academic Freedom”

What: Roundtable discussion, “Feminist Perspectives on Trigger Warnings & Academic Freedom.”
When: Friday, March 4, 1-2 p.m.
Where: Howard Hall 308

Participants will discuss how members of the Drake community can support students in learning about subjects related to trauma and/or violence, and how we navigate the risks and benefits of vulnerability in the classroom.

Open to all members of the Drake community. Facilitated by Prof. Nancy Reincke (English & WGS); Melissa Ulrickson of Crisis Intervention Services; and Taylor Donaldson, a student representative of the WGS Steering Committee.

— Submitted by Jennifer Perrine, Associate Professor of English and Director of Women’s and Gender Studies.

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Free lecture by Global Practitioner in Residence Peiqin Zhou

What: “The Invisible Curfew: Women’s Fear & Use of Public Space during China’s Urbanization,” featuring Global Practitioner-in-Residence Peiqin Zhou
When: March 1, 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center

Peiqin Zhou is associate professor and deputy chair in the Dept. of Sociology at Nanjing University in China. She is serving as visiting Global Practitioner-in-Residence in Drake’s Department for the Study of Culture and Society. Zhou studies urban women’s use of public space in China and how fear affects young women in a low-density suburb. Due to “the shadow of sexual assault,” women usually show more fear of crime, measures to avoid victimization, and negative impacts on their lives. The crucial factor triggering fear is the lack of informal social control, which is partly due to the architecture design embodied by modern functionalism and partly due to the homogeneity of social life. She argues that women’s spatial experience will improve if more informal social control is put into effect, but a more profound sociological imagination is called on to better understand this issue.

Sponsor: The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship.

— Submitted by Denise Ganpat, Center for Global Citizenship

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What is Reproductive Justice?

What is reproductive justice? Faculty and students from Law, Politics and Society and Women’s Gender Studies host Loretta Ross and Ricki Solinger. The two will have a conversation about reproductive justice, its meaning, its importance and its place at Drake. Join them March 2 at 7 p.m. on Pomerantz stage in the Olmsted Center.

Learn more about the speakers here.

—Submitted by Renee Cramer, Associate Professor Law, Politics and Society/Department Chair

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Pre-tour choir performance

The Drake Choir and Chamber Choir will perform a pre-tour concert on Tuesday, March 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Sheslow Auditorium before embarking on a tour to Minnesota, March 9–13, with evening concerts in Winona, Collegeville, and St. Louis Park. The choirs’ tour repertoire includes music by contemporary American composers, works by Handel and Bruckner, as well as a particularly enticing piece by Latvian composer Eriks Esenvalds, with whom the ensembles will work when they tour Latvia, Estonia, and Finland in May. There is no charge for the evening concerts but a freewill offering will be taken.

—Submitted by Aimee Beckmann-Collier, the Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor of Conducting

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The Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship event March 8

What: “End of the Commodities Super Cycle: Implications for the U.S. Presidential Election, the World Economy, and Beyond,” a panel discussion featuring Jim McCaughan and Bob Baur (Principal Financial Group), Paul Schickler (DuPont Pioneer), and moderator Kavilash Chawla (Bâton Global).
When: Tuesday, March 8, 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: Sussman Theater, Olmsted Center

The panel will provide an economist’s view on what is driving the end of the commodity super cycle and the implications for the broader global economy for 2016. Attendees will also learn how the decline in commodity prices is affecting a global commodity-related business like DuPont Pioneer and how some of the global, macroeconomic forces may impact strategic investments, growth, expansion, and strategy decisions. The panel may touch on what the end of the commodity super cycle means for a financial services firm, especially as it relates to pension and asset management. It will address how changes in the commodity sector are impacting portfolio flows, financial investors, and strategic investors. More information on panelists is available online.

Sponsored by The Principal Financial Group and the Principal Financial Group Center for Global Citizenship at Drake University.

— Denise Ganpat, Center for Global Citizenship