Eckerd College offers myriad activities and programs as a service to the community. All events are held on the Eckerd College campus and are free and open to the public, unless otherwise stated.
Eckerd College is located at 4200 54th Avenue South in St. Petersburg. Programs and events are subject to change. For more information, email events@eckerd.edu, visit eckerd.edu/events or call 727.864.7979. To see all International Cinema Series at Eckerd College offerings, visit eckerd.edu/international-cinema.
SPEAKERS
An Evening of Civic Engagement With Jeff Weaver
Thu., Sept. 6, 7 p.m., Fox Hall
Jeff Weaver is a senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders. Weaver was the campaign manager for Bernie 2016 and is the author of How Bernie Won: Inside the Revolution That’s Taking Back Our Country—and Where We Go From Here. Weaver served as Bernie’s chief of staff in both the U.S. House and Senate. A Vermont native, he is a graduate of Vermont University and Georgetown University Law Center. He owns Victory Comics, a comic and gaming store in northern Virginia.
Sponsored by the Eckerd College Organization of Students (ECOS).
Citizen: An Evening With Claudia Rankine
Mon., Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m., Fox Hall
Claudia Rankine—the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry at Yale University, poet, playwright, essayist and author of Citizen: An American Lyric—has used her art to examine her relationship with her country and her compatriots. Her visceral collection of poetry, Citizen, won the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN Literary Award, the NAACP Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry (Citizen was the first book ever to be named a nominee in both the poetry and criticism categories). It also was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Sponsored by the Class of 1968 Distinguished Visiting Scholar Endowment in partnership with the Foundations Collegium as part of the Presidential Events Series at Eckerd College.
The World Is Wrong: Microaggressions, Poetics and the Problem of Evil in Citizen
Thu., Sept. 20, 7:30 p.m., Fox Hall
This lecture by Daniel Spoth, Ph.D., associate professor of literature at Eckerd College, places award-winning poet Claudia Rankine both within and outside of the broader traditions of American lyric poetry and critical writing about race—showing how her focus on small secondhand experiences of racism leads to a more expansive concern with the ideals of “post-racial” America and, still more broadly, the many social, political and environmental issues that afflict the world today.
Sponsored by the Burchenal Lecture Series of the Center for Spiritual Life.
Chaotic World, U.N. Response
Thu., Sept. 27, 7 p.m., Fox Hall
Eckerd College Diplomat in Residence Neal Walker ’78 will share his insights from working 28 years with the United Nations. Walker will discuss how the U.N. can respond 1) with mediation to support political solutions, 2) with peacekeeping to allow space for reconciliation and recovery, and 3) with humanitarian assistance when all else fails. He will point to key elements of sustainable solutions generating respect for human rights, engagement of female actors and transitional justice.
Sponsored by the International Relations and Global Affairs discipline.
ART
Edward S. Curtis: Reproductions of Selected Photogravures
Aug. 27–Sept. 21
Cobb Gallery
Gallery Hours Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Hodgell Sculptures: Featuring a Recent Gift to the College
Aug. 27–Oct. 19
NCVA, Frances Cady Elliott Gallery
Gallery Hours Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
Hidden Treasures and Recent Acquisitions VI: Works From the Permanent Collection
Sept. 3–Nov. 28
NCVA, Main Gallery
Gallery Hours: Mon.–Fri., 10 a.m.–5 p.m.
FILM
A Fantastic Woman
Fri., Sept. 7, 7 p.m., Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium
Directed by Sebastián Lelio (Spanish with English subtitles, 104 minutes, 2017)
The latest film from Chilean writer-director Sebastián Lelio (The Year of the Tiger, Gloria), A Fantastic Woman offers an intimate portrait of the struggles of transgender Marina (Daniela Vega), an aspiring singer who must navigate the minutiae of life after the sudden death of her boyfriend (Francisco Reyes). A smart and heartfelt study of the small humiliations and major threats that face those who don’t fit neatly into preexisting categories, A Fantastic Woman garnered the 2018 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
Close-Knit
Fri., Sept. 14, 7 p.m. Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium
Directed by Naoko Ogigami (Japanese with English subtitles, 127 minutes, 2017)
What forms the ties that bind a family? Are they hardwired, or can they be knit together later in life? Close-Knit explores the place of nature and nurture in contemporary Japanese society through the story of 11-year-old Tomo (Rin Kakihara), left on her own by a careless mother. After her uncle and his transgender partner, Rinko (Tôma Ikuta), take Tomo in, she must navigate society’s expectations about family while trying to understand her own.
Sponsored by the Japan Foundation as part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
The Mohican Comes Home
Fri., Sept. 21, 7 p.m., Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium
Directed by Shûichi Okita (Japanese with English subtitles, 125 minutes, 2016)
Director Okita’s fourth feature follows death metal band frontman Eikichi (Ryuhei Matsuda) as he returns home to his small island hometown for the first time in seven years to announce his upcoming wedding to his pregnant girlfriend. He doesn’t find exactly what he expected, however, as this gentle dramedy explores the ways that music unites generations.
Part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
Good Manners
Fri., Sept. 28, 7 p.m., Dan and Mary Miller Auditorium
Directed by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas (Portuguese with English subtitles, 135 minutes, 2018)
A strange and sympathetic exploration of the trope of the horror-film monster as ”other” to society, Good Manners follows Clara (Isabél Zuaa), a lonely nurse who takes a job looking after the wealthy and equally isolated Ana (Marjorie Estiano), awaiting her first child. The two women grow closer as the proclivities of Ana’s pregnancy mount, including sleepwalking and a voracious appetite for flesh. What ensues is a genre-busting depiction of the bloody business of raising a “different” child in a world of fantasy. Good Manners won the Special Jury Prize at the 2018 Locarno Film Festival.
Part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
MUSIC
Performance: Music for Clarinet, Viola & Piano
Sun., Sept. 23, 3 p.m., Roberts Music Center 104
Faculty pianist Brent Douglas joins Florida Orchestra Principal Clarinetist Natalie Hoe and TFO violist Jonas Benson in a program of Mozart, Bruch, Schumann and more recent works.
THEATRE
Live HD St. Pete Events
Get your tickets at livehdstpete.com—$25 for the general public and $22 for members of the Academy of Senior Professionals at Eckerd College (ASPEC) and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI).