Nov. 18: Final fall colloquium lecture addresses art, politics in Machiavelli's Florence Monday, November 18, 2013 FREDERICK, Md.—The connections between the art of Renaissance Italy and those who had the power to commission it is the topic of the final fall colloquium lecture Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. in the Whitaker Campus Center at Hood College. Laurie Taylor-Mitchell, former associate professor of art at Hood, in a lecture entitled 'I love my native city more than my soul'; Politics and Art in … [Read more...]

Oct. 22: Colloquium hosts award-winning poet Tuesday, October 22, 2013 FREDERICK, Md.—Award-winning poet James Allen Hall will read from his debut collection of poems Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m. in the Marx Center at Hood College. The reading, which is part of Hood's annual colloquium series, is funded in part by a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge Grant. It will be followed by a question-and-answer session and a book signing. Now You’re the Enemy is a powerful collection of poems … [Read more...]

Oct. 3: Colloquium highlights music, dance of Renaissance Florence FREDERICK, Md.— Music, dance and court life during the time of Machiavelli is the focus of the first event of the 2013 fall Colloquium series at Hood College. Party Like it’s 1599! will be held Oct. 17 from 5:45 to 7 p.m. in the College's Brodbeck Music Hall. Professor Ken Pierce, director of the early dance program at the Longy School of Music at Bard College in Cambridge, Mass., will give a brief talk entitled Dance and the … [Read more...]