By Sonya Smith
On-line Forty-Niner

Despite budget cuts, the Odyssey program will continue this spring to bring together speakers, performances and exhibits to better enhance, “The World We are Making.”
 
Student Programs Coordinator Rachel Brophy explained that the program this semester “(will) not (have) as many big names, but they are all really passionate about their topics.”
 
As part of the program, the University Art Museum is holding the exhibit “Transposing Modernism” from Jan. 21 until March 9. A performance of “Othello” will also be presented by the Royal University of Fine Arts, Phnom Penh Samritechak on Jan. 29 and 30 at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center.
 
Teaming up with the Odyssey program, the Women’s Resource Center is helping to bring the Vagina Monologues, The Guerilla Girls, Women and Disabilities, and Women’s Health and the Prison Experience.
 
Women’s Resource Center Assistant Director Lynne Coenen described the Vagina Monologues as a “play about ending violence against women and families” that “is very empowering for women.” Coenen described the Loud-R-Mouth Theatre Company that has performed the monologues for the last three years as “a dynamite group”; the play will be performed at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center Feb. 7 and 8.
 
The Guerilla Girls, Coenen said, is “known for posters and action projects that expose sexism and racism in politics, art and culture — and for wearing gorilla masks,” will perform March 3. The event is being hosted by the Women’s Studies Student Association.
 
Another program by the Women’s Resource Center is one on Women and Disabilities that will have a panel discussion among four women with disabilities, explained Coenen.
 
An annual Comparitive Literature and Classics Conference “Imagining Rome” from March 13 to 15 will explore the effects of Rome on today’s world, explained conference chairman, Douglas Domingo-Foraste. Domingo-Foraste said the program “will help students learn that Rome was not just an ancient civilization — and that it has a great effect on the world today.”
 
On March 18, Richard and Sally Price, from the College of William and Mary, will discuss “From Rebel Slaves to Endangered Cultures: Maroons in the Americas.” Richard and Sally Price described their program as focusing on “the frequent human rights problems these populations [Maroons] are suffering in the 21st century, as governments collide with deep pocket multinational timber and mining companies.”
 
Phillippe Bourgois from the University of California, San Francisco will speak on May 6 on “Heroin, Crack and Homelessness in Black and White: Photo-Ethnography from San Francisco.” The presentation, which includes photos, will present the ideas Bourgois has learned after following the daily lives of the homeless for eight years, “the universe of their world opened up to me,” Bourgois said.

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