On Campus: Frederica de Laguna Lab Dedication, Student Ensembles Perform at Haverford, Halloween Parties, Folk Saints

Frederica de Laguna Lab Dedication. The Frederica de Laguna Laboratory of Anthropology in the newly renovated Dalton Hall will be dedicated this Saturday, Oct. 28. The program begins at noon with lunch in Erdman Hall and culminates with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. in the laboratory, Dalton 312-315. The program will feature remarks by the legendary scholar's colleagues and students as well as a screening of Reunion Under Mount Saint Elias, the 1997 documentary about her return to the remote Alaskan village of Yakatut at the invitation of the Tlingit people whose culture she had studied and documented exhaustively in her groundbreaking three-volume work Under Mount Saint Elias: The History and Culture of the Yakutat Tlingit.

Student Ensembles Perform at Haverford. Haverford's Family and Friends Weekend Concert will take place on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 8:30 p.m. in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium. This annual event features student ensembles including the Bi-College Orchestra, Chamber Singers and Chamber Music Ensembles along with the student a cappella groups Chaverim, Outskirts, Looney Tunes, Humtones, Oxford Blues and S'Chords. The performance is free and open to the public.

Haunted Hackers at Guild. A free USB drive will be awarded to the first 20 guests who show up in costume at the annual Information Services Halloween party on Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the lower level of Guild Computing Center. The IS staff promises “spooky decorations and classic Halloween treats” as well as special games for children, who are encouraged to drop by before trick-or-treating in the residence halls (see below). IS staff will also offer demonstrations of popular social networking sites and Google Earth, as well as tips about viewing e-mail, Meeting Maker and Novell files from home.

Trick or Treating in the Dorms. On Tuesday, Oct. 31, from 4:30to 6 p.m. , the undergraduate Residence Council will sponsor trick-or-treating in the residence halls. All faculty, staff, students and friends are invited to bring their children to trick-or-treat in Denbigh, Haffner, Merion, Pembroke East, Pembroke West, Radnor, Rockefeller, and Rhoads North and South. Those wishing to trick-or-treat in a group should gather at the Campus Center plaza at 4:30 p.m. After the trick-or-treating, there will be a Halloween party in Thomas Great Hall from 6 to 7 p.m., featuring games, crafts, music and light refreshments. To make a reservation, visit http://www.brynmawr.edu/residentiallife/resco/events.shtml or call the Residential Life office at x7331.

Folk Saints of Spanish America. Frank Graziano, the John D. MacArthur Professor of Hispanic Studies at Connecticut College, will present “Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America” on Wednesday, Nov. 1, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Thomas 224. Sponsored by the Department of Spanish along with the Class of 1902 Lecture Fund and the Center for Visual Culture, the lecture, like Graziano's forthcoming book of the same name, deals with figures who are popularly regarded as miraculous but are not officially recognized as saints by the Catholic Church. His book is the first overview in any language of this important phenomenon. For more information, see http://www.culturesofdevotion.com/

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