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To help you navigate these decisions, Transamerica provides access to tools, resources, and experienced financial professionals to help you plan for the future you deserve.
 
You can schedule a no-cost, no-obligation appointment with a retirement planning consultant (RPC) at a time convenient for you. An RPC can review your personal retirement strategy and answer your questions.
 
Appointments available November 1 and November 2
Location:  711 E Boldt Way, Appleton WI 54911, Warch Campus Center
  
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Chasing the Hare: A Talk by Timothy X. Troy

A Fulbright adventure tale in search of an Irish Revolutionary
Tuesday, Oct. 24 | 4:30-6:30 p.m.
Main Hall 201

It began with the Stapleton family papers, including handwritten memoirs and faded photos. These led to personnel files and testimonies in the Irish Military Archives, and time mining the National Library of Ireland’s vast resources. Finally, guided by unedited audio recordings and transcripts the Irish Folklore Collection, Troy pieced together the secret (and not-so-secret) revolutionary activity of Daniel John Stapleton’s (1886-1968) contribution to the successful outcome of the Irish War of Independence (1918-1921). Secret clue: Balms by day; bombs by night.

Fall Term Play: Menaechmi (The Menaechmus Brothers)

by Plautus, translated by David Christenson

Thursday, Oct. 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct. 27 | 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, Oct. 28 | 2:30 & 7:30 p.m.
Stansbury Theatre

Directed by Kathy Privatt

A comedy set in EpiDAMnus, which is a h*ll of a place to live with some d*mn screwed up values that seem awfully familiar!  Oh, and some mistaken identity issues too.

Learn more and secure your seats

Tickets:

  • Adults – $15
  • Seniors – $8
  • ALL high school and college students (with valid ID) – FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)
  • Lawrence faculty and staff (with valid ID) – FREE (only available in-person at the Box Office)
  • Children under 3 – FREE

Tickets go on sale two weeks before the first performance date. You can purchase tickets:

  • In person! The Box Office is open 1-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday and one hour prior to performances. The Box Office accepts cash, check or credit card ($1 credit card fee).
  • Online! Visit lawrence.edu to make your purchase. ($4 handling fee)
  • Over the phone! Call the Box Office at 920-832-6749. ($4 handling fee)

Guest Recital: Leo Sussman & Teagan Faran

Wednesday, Oct. 18 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Harper Hall
FREE

As a performer, Leo Sussman loves nothing better than curating provocative programs and bringing new music to life.

Some highlights include performances at the Philharmonie de Paris, Tippet Rise Art Center, and Black Rock City; the premiere recording of Julia Wolfe’s Oxygen; and shows around NYC with groups including Alarm Will Sound, SEM Ensemble, and Metropolis Ensemble. In recent summers he has received fellowships at the Norfolk, Bowdoin, and Atlantic chamber music festivals.

As an alum of Carnegie Hall’s Ensemble Connect, Leo appeared regularly in Weill Recital Hall throughout the 2018-2020 seasons. His wind quintet, ConnectFive, received Chamber Music America’s 2021 Ensemble Forward grant and has performed across the northeast, including through an educational partnership with Quogue Chamber Music on Long Island.

A native of Buffalo, NY, Teagan Faran is a multidisciplinary musician focused on enacting social change through the arts. Faran has collaborated with the International Contemporary Ensemble, Alarm Will Sound, Palaver Strings, and the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Recent recording features include albums with Carlos Simon, La Martino Orquesta Típica, and loadbang. She has had compositions featured at the NYSSMA Conference and the Persis Vehar Competition for Excellence. Also active in the world of tango music, she has performed with Victor Lavallén and the Orquesta Escuela de Emilio Balcarce, as well as at festivals across the United States.

As a soloist, Faran has performed throughout the United States, Italy, Argentina, Germany, México, and Canada, including appearances with the Buffalo Philharmonic, the Uptown Philharmonic, the Greater Buffalo Youth Orchestra the Ann Arbor Camerata, the Williamsville East Symphonic Orchestra, and the University of Vermont Symphony. Administratively, she has held internship positions in the Marketing and Education Departments of the Buffalo Philharmonic, and Education and Concerts/Touring with Jazz at Lincoln Center. She founded Ann Arbor arts collective Red Shoe Company and worked as a teaching artist with the Kennedy Center, the University Musical Society and the Sphinx Organization.

After graduating from the University of Michigan, Faran moved to Buenos Aires on a Fulbright grant. Faran was also a Turn The Spotlight Fellow, receiving their inaugural Hedwig Holbrook Prize. Faran participated in OneBeat, a fellowship in musical diplomacy, DeeDee Bridgewater’s Woodshed Network, and recently graduated from the Manhattan School of Music, where she studied Contemporary Performance. She performs in the electroacoustic duo Persephone & the Phoenix as well as being a certified personal trainer, with a focus on career longevity for performers. Faran currently teaches violin and runs the Electronic Experimentation Lab at DePauw University.

Guest Concert: Peter Steiner & Constanze Hochwartner

Monday, Oct. 16 | 8-9:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
FREE

With his solo playing described as being “beautifully controlled with a vocal sound,” Italian Trombonist Peter Steiner is recognized across the world as “a new trombone star within his generation,” who “plays with total control.” Together with Constanze Hochwartner (piano/organ), as Duo Steiner-Hochwartner, the pair perform a guest artist recital at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music as part of their three-month world tour of the United States, Europe, Asia and South America.

At the age of 23, Peter Steiner was appointed Trombonist of the Vienna State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic for the 2016-2017 season. Steiner has since performed as guest trombonist with the Munich Philharmonic, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

Constanze Hochwartner received her first piano lessons at the young age of three, before being accepted into a class for gifted students in 2005 at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. After graduating from high school, she switched her focus from piano to organ and started her studies in concert performance for organ with Univ. Prof. Ulrich Walther. Simultaneously, she studied instrumental and vocal pedagogy with an additional focus on piano and graduated in the Fall of 2017. In October 2017 she started her Master’s degree studying with Karin Tafeit (organ) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. She has also been mentored by Univ. Prof. Gunther Rost.

Help us celebrate a decade of Giving Days!

Lawrence is celebrating its 10th annual Giving Day today, Thursday, October 12!

All gifts will be matched dollar-for-dollar, doubling the impact of your gift for current students. But if you’re in the Classes of 2007-2027, your gift will be matched with $500!

You can give a gift, offer a match or challenge, and track our progress at go.lawrence.edu/givingday.

Lawrence Loop – Added stop at Alex Gym

The Lawrence Loop, Lawrence’s free campus shuttle service, has added a stop at Alex Gym!

This route runs from 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Friday, on a continuous loop with stops at:

  • Hiett Hall
  • Wriston turnaround
  • Banta Bowl
  • Alexander Gym
  • 1025 E South River Street

The shuttle is accessible and should arrive at each stop approximately every 20 minutes.

Povolny Lecture Series begins with talk on Ukraine

Tuesday, Oct. 10 | 4:30 p.m. (reception at 4 p.m.)
Steitz Hall 102

Jon Greenwald, a former Lawrence University Scarff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Diplomacy and Foreign Policy, will discuss Ukraine in his lecture The War in Europe—the U.S. Stake in Ukraine’s Success.

This is the first talk of the 2023-24 Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies. The event is free and open to the public.

About Jon Greenwald

Greenwald is a retired senior U.S. diplomat, having spent more than 30 years focused on diplomacy between East-West, the Middle East, the European Union, and various aspects of international law. He spent the 1998-99 academic year teaching courses on the origins of war and the Cold War at Lawrence under the auspices of the Scarff Professorship.

He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree summa cum laude in history from Princeton University, spent a year as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow in Classics at Princeton, and earned a degree in international law from Harvard University Law School in 1968.

About the Povolny Lecture Series

Named in honor of Mojmir Povolny, a long-time professor of government at Lawrence, the Povolny Lecture Series in International Studies promotes interest and discussion on issues of moral significance and ethical dimensions.