Have a long trip ahead of you? Try solving these games, which Scientific American calls “Mensa puzzlers.”
Need to Waste Time? Try These Mensa Puzzles (Scientific American)
December 28, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will
December 26, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Charlotte Brontë: An Independent Will has just a few more days to run in New York City at the Morgan Library and Museum. The exhibition, which opened at the end of September 2016, coincided with the 200th anniversary of Brontë’s birth and is a tour of her life and work.
For the first time, the original manuscript of Jane Eyre has come to America, on loan to the museum. Read more.
Visiting Artist, Filmmaker Lyès Salem Inspired by French-Algerian Roots
October 31, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Lyes Salem. Photo: Savannah Simmons-Grover
Algerian-born filmmaker and visiting artist in Francophone studies, Lyès Salem, is teaching a seminar class on creative writing and filmmaking in which he will help students produce one or two short movies, in French.
Salem’s latest movie, L’Oranais, kicks off Bowdoin’s Francophone Film Festival this coming Friday, November 4, 2016. The film takes a critical look at Algeria in the years following independence from France in 1962. Read more about Lyès Salem.
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