When: Tuesday, May 20 4-5:30 p.m.
Where: Pusey Room, Warch Campus Center
Enjoy tea and conversation with members of the President’s Cabinet; Christyn Abaray, Peter Blitstein, Chris Clarke, Samir Datta, Brian Pertl, Amy Wilson and Kenny E. Yarbrough
Friday, May 17 | 4:30-9 p.m.
Warch 225-226 – Esch Hurvis & Mead Witter Rooms
Lawrentians Enhancing Diversity in the Sciences presents the second annual STEM Gala! A black tie formal event celebrating the graduating seniors from all STEM departments as well as recognizing the staff and students who made this year amazing.
Wednesday, May 15 | 3:30-5 p.m.
Steitz Atrium
Please join students who participated in Field Experience in The Gambia as they share their research and volunteer projects through poster presentations. The projects reflect the research interests of the students and cover topics related to politics, international relations, environmental studies, business, sports, food security, religion, and culture. Students who participated in a KidsGive project at a local school will present about their volunteer experience.
This even is free and open to all Lawrence community members and the public.
Friday, May 17 | 10 a.m.-7 p.m.
Warch 324 – Somerset Room
Biofest is culmination of the Biology Senior Experience at Lawrence. At this event, senior biology, biochemistry, and neuroscience students will present their self-designed Senior Experience projects to the Lawrence University community.
This is a come-and-go event where you can drop in and attend for as long as you are able. Students will be presenting posters as well as other products to display their senior experience projects.
Saturday, May 18 | 12-4 p.m.
Main Hall Green
A Lawrence tradition that celebrates warm weather and aids in campus community building. It’s an opportunity for organizations to have their own booth and promote themselves to the campus community.
Sunday, May 19 | 3-4:30 p.m.
Memorial Chapel
Three ensembles (the LU student gamelan, and the community and children’s gamelans of the Lawrence Community Music School) will be joined by Indonesian performing artists Dewa Ayu Eka Putri and I Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena. Both guests come from respective families with deep roots in Balinese performing arts and work to bridge indigenous cultural practices with contemporary global perspectives.
This concert is free and open to the public!
Putu Tangkas Adi Hiranmayena is an Indonesian artist-scholar serving as Assistant Professor of Music (Performance and Creativity), where he directs the Balinese Sound Ensemble and teaches courses on Heavy Metal Music, Electronic Music, and Noise and Activism. He also is a founding member of Balinese Experimental duo, ghOstMiSt, with dancer-anthropologist, Dewa Ayu Eka Putri; PAK Yeh (free-improvisation trio) from Denver, Colorado; and T.A.T.W.D. (improvised noise-metal trio) from Urbana, Illinois.
Hiranmayena’s academic, performance, and compositional research focuses on the intersections of Cosmology, Indigeneity, Environmental Activism, and Performativity in Balinese Gamelan, Heavy Metal, and Noise. He takes post-colonial, performance studies, and creative ethnographic approaches to looking at the state of sound in the social sciences and humanities. His work constitutes equitable forms of knowledge production in the form of public-facing academic articles and Glocal creative artistic pieces.
As a creative ethnographer, Hiranmayena has written articles, coupled with artistic compositions, that interrogate the state of performance in South-East Asian performing arts. Most notably, his articles, “If a Dragon Dies in the Forest, Do Humans Hear a Sound?” (2022); “Fix Your Face”: Performing Attitudes Between Mathcore and Beleganjur,” (2022); “ghOstMiSt’s Trails of Indigeneity,” (2021), discuss myriad of perspectives on traditional, popular, and experimental Balinese performance idioms. Hiranmayena continues to perform and compose internationally while also maintaining status as board member of Insitu Recordings and Gamelan Tunas Mekar.
Dewa Ayu Eka Putri is a Balinese artist-anthropologist and is currently a Lecturer of Dance at Grinnell College. She teaches courses on Balinese Dance and Performing Arts, specializing in traditional and contemporary dance styles. Putri also maintains her position as dance instructor at the critically acclaimed arts organization, Sanggar Cudamani, from Pengosekan, Bali, Indonesia.
She received her B.A. from Universitas Udayana in cultural anthropology and is a leading figure in women’s gamelan ensembles all around Bali. Born into a family of artists, Dewa Ayu is internationally known for her collaborations of traditional and contemporary works in theater, music, and dance while actively working as a freelance research assistant. The majority of her work advocates for the legal protection of women and children which is highlighted in various discursive artistic modalities.
Currently, Putri has international projects with organizations in Mexico, Switzerland, and Japan, as well as annual projects in Indonesia. She also organizes the performing arts shelf in the virtual library at BasaBali Wiki.
Saturday, May 18 | 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Main Hall
Celebrate and recognize over 30 outstanding student research projects.
Student presenters have been nominated by faculty sponsors and are being recognized for outstanding work in humanities or social science disciplines. Each year, one project receives the Richard A. Harrison Award.
The study abroad photo gallery will be on display in the Warch Gallery (outside Somerset) until May 12. Stop by and vote for your first and second place choices.
The votes will be tallied by May 12, and the winner will be announced May 13.
The 2024 Off-Campus Programs Photo Contest is open to any student who studied abroad Spring 2023-Winter 2024 and is a current LU student! Please complete this form and submit up to three photos.
Photos will be printed and displayed in a gallery format the week of May 6 in Warch Campus Center. Additionally, a virtual online gallery will be available. Students, faculty, staff, visitors, and the community will be able to vote on photos the entire week of May 6.
A winner and runner-up will be announced May 13. In the event of a tie, a winner and runner-up will be chosen at random.
A first prize and a runner-up will be awarded in the amount of $40 and $25 Viking Gold respectively. If you have any questions, please email OffCampusPrograms@lawrenc.edu.
Thursday, May 16 | Noon-4 p.m.
Chapman Hall | 2nd Floor
Get some help with the FAFSA from the Financial Aid Office! Drop by any time between Noon-4 p.m., bring your laptop, and get your questions answered.
You will also be entered to win a raffle for Viking Gold!
Join Lawrence’s Pan-Asian Organization in celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month! Email sharman@lawrence.edu with any questions.
Learn more about AAPI Heritage Month.
Chinatown Cultural Journey in Chicago
Saturday, May 11 | All Day
Join PAO for a trip to Chinatown Chicago on Saturday, May 11! The cost is $16 per person which will cover food. The bus will depart from the Wriston Turnaround at 9:30 a.m. and returns to campus 9 p.m. Registration is required! Email sharman@lawrence.edu with any questions.
Zoo Days
Saturday, May 18 | 12:30-5 p.m. | Main Hall Green
Pan-Asian Potluck
Sunday, May 19 | 5-7 p.m. | Diversity & Intercultural Center
Cultural Dinner
Friday, May 24 | 4:30-7:30 p.m. | Andrew Commons
Senior Celebration
Thursday, May 30 | 5-6:30 p.m. | Diversity & Intercultural Center
