ON CAMPUS: APRIL FITNESS MONTH, JIM WRIGHT FACULTY RESEARCH TALK, TRI-CO FILM FORUM LECTURE

April Fitness Month Continues with Community Tennis Tourney. Faculty, staff and students are invited to participate in a tennis tournament sponsored by the Athletic Association on Sunday, April 24, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the campus tennis courts. Players of all experience levels are welcome — even a few racketless beginners can be accommodated with Athletic Department equipment, says organizer Megan Williams. To register for the tournament, contact Williams at mswillia@brynmawr.edu.

For a full calendar of April Fitness Month activities, visit the Athletics Department Web site. For an overview, see http://www.brynmawr.edu/news/2005-03-17/fitness.shtml.

Wright to Present Research on Settlement and Land-Use Patterns in Bronze Age Greece.  On Monday, April 25, Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Jim Wright will give a Faculty Research Talk in Wyndham's Ely Room. Wright will discuss advances in the collection of surface evidence of settlement and land use in prehistoric Greece. A wealth of new data, Wright says, has allowed scholars to compile evidence from different regions and compare the dynamics of human settlement over time, examining the responses of different areas to the rise and fall of centralized political economies. In his presentation, he will "compare the evidence from core areas of the Peloponnesos during the Bronze Age (ca. 3000-1200 B.C.E.), with special attention to the rise of Mycenae, and develop three models to describe the interactions of outlying regions to the emergence of a powerful urban center at Mycenae."

Tri-Co Faculty Film Forum Presents Digital-Media Theorist. On Thursday, April 28, the Mellon Tri-College Faculty Forum in Film and Visual Studies and the Film and Media Studies Program at Swarthmore College will present a lecture by philosopher D. N. Rodowick, professor of visual and environmental studies at Harvard University. His talk, "Automatism and Medium, or Remarks on Medium Specificity Arguments," will take place at 7 p.m. in LPAC Cinema at Swarthmore.

Rodowick is among the most influential contemporary theorists of film and digital media. He is the author of several field-defining books, including Reading the Figural, Or, Philosophy After the New Media (2001), Gilles Deleuze's Time Machine (1997), The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory (1991) and The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (1988). Rodowick will be speaking about arguments for the specificity of cinema and discussing the works of American philosopher Stanley Cavell.

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