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Saturday, April 12

4 p.m., Hicks Banquet Room: The Florence J. Lucasse Fellowship for excellence in Scholarship Lecture featuring the 2024-2025 award recipient, Lanny Potts.
4 p.m., Men’s Tennis vs. Adrian
7 p.m., Men’s Lacrosse vs. Hope

3:30 p.m., Light Fine Arts: Artist’s reception for Josie Checkett, Studio Art SIP.
4:15 p.m., Olmsted Room, Thompson Lecture on History: Join the Department of Religion as it welcomes guest speaker Ayesha Irani. Her talk, The Muhammad Avatara: Salvation History, Translation, and the Making of Bengali Islam, will examine the Nabivamsa of Saiyad Sultan, the first Bengla language biography of the Prophet Muhammad, revealing the power of vernacular transition in the Islamization of Bengal. Meet-and-greet reception to follow. This event is free.

4 p.m., Baseball vs. Trine
7 p.m., Recital Hall, Light Fine Arts: SIP concert, Isabella Pellegrom presents new music.

6:30 p.m., Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership: 2025 Sustainability SIP Symposium. 6:30 p.m., keynote address by Ben Brown. 7:30 p.m., Kalamazoo College seniors will present their Senior Integrated Projects (SIPs) related to the environment or sustainability. Their SIPs come from various academic departments. This event is sponsored by the Larry J. Bell ’80 Center for Environmental Stewardship and Environmental Studies Concentration.

8:30 a.m., Anthropology / Sociology Hightower SIP Symposium. Livestream available.
1 p.m., Softball vs. Alma (DH)

4 p.m., Baseball vs. Wheaton
7 p.m., Dewing 103, Kitchen Lecture: Sarah Koch of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Michigan will present the annual Kitchen Lecture titled “Spotting the Math in Spot It!” In Spot It!, each card has eight pictures and every pair of cards has one picture in common. The basic strategy is to be the first person to spot the common picture between your card and the card in play. We’ll play Spot It! and discuss the math that underlies the game.

3:30 p.m., Light Fine Arts: Artist’s reception for Mabel Bowdle, Studio Art SIP. Exhibition is on view in the FAB gallery throughout the week, May 4–10.

4:30 p.m., Dewing 305: Join us for presentations of research projects related to German Studies. Presentations will be in English.

4:15 p.m., Recital Hall, Light Fine Arts: The Art and Art History Department and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts invite you to James Denison’s talk, “Into My Blood: John Marin’s ‘Maine Soil’ and ‘Yankee Folk.’” This presentation offers a new interpretation of the artist John Marin’s (1870-1953) work in Maine. Drawing on Marin’s writings, it investigates his attempted assimilation into what he perceived to be a rustic “Yankee” community on the Maine coast. As well as relating his representations of denizens of the Maine coast to contemporaneous notions of whiteness and New England identity, it situates Marin’s fascination with Maine within the long history of ethnic and cultural tourism in the state. A native of the Washington, D.C., area and a graduate of Bowdoin College, Denison completed his Ph.D. in art history at the University of Michigan, where he wrote a thesis on the connections between the Stieglitz Circle and racism in the interwar U.S. In 2023, he joined Kalamazoo College and the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts as a postdoctoral fellow.