The 2009 Burchard Scholars Meet Yo-Yo Ma
Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, with Moira Yip '80, event sponsor, Dean Fitzgerald, and 2009 Burchard Scholars
A Backstage Visit with Yo Yo Ma
On March 8, 2009, the 2009 Burchard Scholars, along with Dean Fitzgerald and faculty members, attended a concert by the Silk Road Ensemble at Boston's Symphony Hall. After the performance, Burchard Scholars met and talked with cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a backstage visit organized by Professor of Music Lowell Lindgren.
Previous Burchard Dinner-Seminars and Special Events
Fall 2009
Noel Jackson – Associate Professor, Literature
"The Humanities as Half-Knowledge: Two Romantic-Period Examples."
Haimanti Roy – Assistant Professor, History
"Borderline Citizens: Becoming ‘Indians’ and ‘Pakistanis’ in Post-Partition Bengal, 1947-56"
Spring 2009
Taylor Fravel – Associate Professor, Political Science
"Three Perspectives on China's Rise: Threat, Opportunity, or Menace?"
Yo Yo Ma – Multiple Grammy®-winning cellist, Special Burchard Event
Performance with the Silk Road Ensemble at Symphony Hall
Dr. Thomas Byrne – Clinical Professor of Neurology
"Mirror Neurons: Impact on Learning, Empathy and Theory of Mind"
George Ruckert – Senior Lecturer, Music and Theater Arts
"The Sarod and the Raga in North Indian Tradition"
Fall 2008
Ed Barrett- Senior Lecturer, Writing and Humanistic Studies
“What Splendor! It All (most) Coheres. Discontinuity, Imagination, and for example, Digital Poetry"
Lily Tsai- Associate Professor, Political Science
“Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China”
Elena Ruehr- Lecturer, Music
“Music, History, Movies”
William Uricchio- Professor, Comparative Media Studies
“Television as Provocation: rethinking media history”
Spring 2008
Ken Oye- Associate Professor, Political Science
“Assessing Implications of Emerging Technologies: Looking Back to Look Ahead”
Melissa Blanco- Visiting Artist, Music and Theater Arts
“Can Hips Talk? An Inquiry Into Corporeality, Cuban Mulatas, and ‘Caderas’”
David Macaulay- Author of "The Way Things Work," Special Buchard Speaker
“Let’s Eat”
Panle Jia- Rudi Dornbusch Career Development Assistant Professor, Economics
“What Can We Learn About the Real World With a Little Bit of Economics”
Fall 2007
Norvin Richards- Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
“Structured disorder:VP-ellipsis in Maliseet”
Deborah Fitzgerald- Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, Professor of the History of Technology
“Fast Planes and Fast Food: How World War II Changed the Way We Eat”
Chris Capozzola- Associate Professor, History
“Should the United States Reinstitute the Draft?: Lessons from History”
Sandy Alexandre- Class of 1948 Career Development Professor, Literature
"If Trees Could Talk: Lynching in American Literature & Culture"
Spring 2007
Henry Jenkins – Professor, Comparative Media Studies
“What Does It Mean to be Literate in the 21st Century?”
Michael Cuthbert – Assistant Professor, Music and Theater Arts
“Geek Musicology”
Mary Fuller – Associate Professor, Literature
“Before there was American Literature, who read John Smith, and why?”
Abhijit Banerjee – Ford International Professor, Economics
“The Economic Lives of the Poor”
Fall 2006
Diana Henderson – Professor, Literature
“Why Shakespeare? Why Now?
Chap Lawson – Associate Professor, Political Science
“Mexico’s Recent Elections and the Controversy that Followed Them”
Suzanne Flynn – Professor, Linguistics and Philosophy
“Multilingualism: Nature’s Standard”
Tuli Banerjee – Lecturer, Foreign Languages and Literatures
“India”
Spring 2006
Junot Diaz – Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing
"The Uses of Apocalypse"
Michael Ouellette and Charles Shadle – Senior Lecturer, Theater Arts and Senior Lecturer, Music
“A Question of Love: Opera and Collaboration”
Ed Steinfeld – Associate Professor, Political Science
“China's Real Energy Crisis”
Meg Jacobs – Associate Professor, History
“The Energy Crisis of the 1970s”
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