Student recital: Evan James, jazz
Evan James, a music education major, will perform a jazz recital.
Student Recital, trombone
Senior JT Gawron, a music education major, will perform a bass trombone recital.
Senior Alex Sell, a biochemistry major, will perform a bass trombone recital.
Senior Adi Walker, a biology major, will perform a tenor trombone recital
Student Recital: Sylvia Hughes, mezzo soprano
Senior Sylvia Hughes, a multimedia journalism and mass communications and communication studies major, will perform a vocal recital.
Student Recital: Aaron Randolph, double bass, guitar, tenor
Senior Aaron Randolph, a sociology and anthropology major, will perform a recital.
Night of Noise Drag Show
The Gender & Sexuality Alliance will host the Night of Noise Drag Show, an evening of performance, expression and celebration.
Doors open at 6:30; show begins at 7.
French for Gender Justice
All are welcome to join this interactive workshop where we’ll learn about and practice some of the ways that Francophones around the globe are making the French language more inclusive of all genders.
Workshop facilitators be junior Karla Collazo, a French education major, and Dr. Kiki Kosnick, associate professor of French.
No prior knowledge of French is required.
This is one of the events during Culture & Connection Week April 17-26.
The History of Bicycling in Illinois
Augustana alumnus Chris Sweet '01 will present for a look at the rise of bicycling in the Midwest. Based on his new book, "A History of Bicycling in Illinois: 160 Years of Booms and Busts," Sweet will explore how Illinois became a leader in bicycle innovation and culture in ways that still resonate today.
Spring Party
Best Buddies and the Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASSHA) will host a Spring Party from 1-2:30 p.m. Enjoy snacks, games, and a coin hunt while building friendships.
Hill of Dido: Constructing Memory of Carthage's Byrsa Hill
Dr. Christopher Saladin '17 will present a lecture, "Hill of Dido: Constructing Memory of Carthage's Byrsa Hill."
At the heart of ancient Carthage was the fortified citadel of Byrsa Hill. The hill was infamous as the site of two tragic deaths: First, that of the legendary queen Dido and, second, that of the unnamed wife of the Carthaginian leader Hasdrubal, who perished during the Roman siege of Carthage in 146 BCE. For Graeco-Roman authors, the violent deaths of both women served as bookends in Carthage’s own tragic history that began with the death of its founder and ended with the city's utter destruction.
Yet the Byrsa’s story did not end there. When Augustus refounded Carthage as a Roman colony in 28 BCE, the entire city was planned around the old citadel. The Byrsa was transformed into a monumental forum lined with civic buildings that served the Roman provincial administration. The old hill of Dido thus found a new life as the center of imperial power in Roman North Africa. This presentation examines how the memory of the Byrsa hill in Graeco-Roman legend shaped the real hill's redevelopment in colonial Carthage.
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