Oberlin Center for Languages and Cultures

Mellon-funded home for all things linguistic and cultural at Oberlin. host of ObieMAPS (obiemaps.oberlin.edu) and affiliated with the Cooper International Learning Center (languages.oberlin.edu). Our goal is to raise Oberlin's international profile by providing programming across the curriculum, as well as highlighting what it is that we're already doing.

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Opening the 2015-16 World Tour of Music concert series is Russian Duo, an international project, born out of a love of traditional music and classical elegance.  Oleg Kruglyakov, balalaika virtuoso, and Terry Boyarsky, masterful pianist, have teamed up for exuberant performances of soulful, passionate music. Their collaboration highlights the mysterious sounds of the balalaika underscored by the vast expressive range of the piano. Featuring vocals and Russian percussion, their extensive repertoire draws from Russian folk music, romances, dances, classical music, gypsy melodies and Russian songs. Don't miss this outstanding concert.

Brought to you, in part, with generous underwriting from Lorain-Medina Rural Electric People Fund, Target Foundation and Frank and Spring Festi.

    Russian Duo was selected to showcase at the Chamber Music America National Conference in NYC, January 2011.

    The Vermont Journal writes, "The audience was enthralled as the music slid from exuberance of joy and anger to whispers of love and crying so faint you could have heard a pin drop. "Beautiful." "Incredible," "Wow." and "He is making the balalaika cry," were heard as the audience listened intently."

Price: $10.00 + $1.00

Start Time: 8:00 pm End Time: 10:00 pm

Date: Saturday, November 7, 2015

Address: Black River Middle School Auditorium 257 County Road 40 Sullivan, Ohio 44880

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Join us next Saturday on Tappan Square!

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TODAY! Don’t miss this awesome event!

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Sustainable Energy & Environmental NGOs in China

Sunday, May 3 at 3:30pm to 5:30pm 

Faculty Development Seminar “Sustainable Energy and Environmental NGOs in China” Facilitator: Qiusha MA (East Asian Studies, Oberlin College) Presenters—Professor Peter Ho (Leiden University) and Wang Yongchen, Founder of Green Home (ENGO in China) Registration required. Supported by a Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) from the Henry Luce Foundation

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Saturday, April 25 to 9:00pm

in the Science Center Commons

Announcing the Japanese Student Association’s bunkasai! Go celebrate and enjoy food, yoyo tsuri, music, taiko, hands-on displays of origami, kimono, and more.

$3 at Wilder, $5 at the door

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Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales

This event is supported by a Mellon grant from the OCLC.

Conceived and performed by E. Patrick Johnson, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies, Northwestern University. This performance is based on the oral histories collected in Johnson’s book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South–An Oral History, published by the University of North Carolina Press. The oral histories are from black gay men who were born, raised and continue to live in the South, ranging in age from 19 to 93. This performance covers the following topics: coming of age in the South, religion, sex, transgenderism, love stories and coming out. Johnson embodies these and others’ stories in the show, which has toured to over 80 college campuses from 2006 to the present. This performance is part of the Performance Ethnography: Explorations in Theory and Practice Symposium, April 23-24. For a complete schedule of events, please visit the Oberlin event calendar: https://calendar.oberlin.edu/event/performance_ethnography_explorations_in_theory_and_practice

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Thursday, April 16th, 4:30pm Wilder Hall 101

The Demise of Integration: Competition, Differentiation, and Ethnographic Expertise in the Emergent Field of Higher Education, 1865-1900 Christi Smith, Postdoctoral Researcher in Sociology at Ohio State University.

Christi Smith’s primary areas of teaching include Political Sociology, Sociology of Education, Economic Sociology, Theory, and Race and Ethnicity. Her research examines how educational systems emerge and transform, and how the organization of educational systems structures political rights. In her current book project, she traces the intertwining of two important developments in higher education: the emergence of higher education as a competitive market and the production of durable segregated systems of higher education. In another project, she examines the organization and logics at work as international NGOs and military negotiate local political institutions to rebuild a system of education in Afghanistan. A graduate of Smith College and Indiana University, she has also been a research affiliate at the University of Aarhus (Denmark) and the Mannheim Center for European Social Research (University of Mannheim, Germany).

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Please join us this week for our next Tuesday Tea lecture, when Denise Birkhofer, Ellen Johnson ‘33 Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art,will give a talk titled “The Legacy of mexicanidad: Neo-Mexicanism at the AMAM.” She will focus on works by Diego Rivera, Adolfo Patiño, and Nahum Zenil on view in the exhibition Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen. The talk will begin at 2:30pm and will be followed by tea and cookies.

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Concierto de Primavera (Spring Concert)

A performance by Alberto Rojo, an Argentinian guitarist. Residents from Spanish House and Third World House will introduce Alberto Rojo. Listen to one of his songs and learn more about him.

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We are pleased to be welcoming to campus the artist Edouard Duval-Carrié this week for our AMAM First Thursday evening hours! Duval-Carrié will give a talk entitled “The North Caribbean Visual Landscape” in conjunction with Latin American and Latino Art at the Allen, an exhibition featuring his 1998 painting Justicia, on view in the AMAM’s Ellen Johnson Gallery through June 28. The lecture begins at 5:30pm at First Church of Oberlin (106 North Main Street), and will be followed by a reception in the AMAM East Gallery. Museum galleries remain open until 8pm. We hope to see you there! This talk is funded in part through the Ellen H. Johnson Endowed Fund for Contemporary Art and the Latin American studies program at Oberlin College.

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Awesome OSKA conference events starting tomorrow!

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Hear 6 Latin American Artists Who Rock In Indigenous Languages

This week, Alt.Latino plays songs sung in indigenous Latin American languages: Mapuche, Tzotzil, Guarani, Quechua and Tz'utujil from Chile, Argentina, Bolivia, Guatemala and Mexico.