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Migrations
The annual humanities theme for 2014-15, is a year-long, campus-wide initiative designed to foster interdisciplinary discussion and collaboration.
Migration Homepage - Colby Center for the Arts and Humanities
| Luigi Ballerini, What’s for Dinner? Recipes from Renaissance Last Suppers Leonardo, Veronese, Tintoretto. |
Tuesday, October 7th, 2014 |
| Brazilian Carnaval Comes to Colby! Samba New York! |
Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, 7:30 p.m. |
| Orlando ara Ruhl |
Thursday to Saturday, November 13-15 |
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Migrations: Coming To America |
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2014, 7:30 p.m. |
| Musical Migrations Colby Symphony Orchestra Preconcert Talk with Professor Natasha Zelensky (7 p.m.) |
Saturday, Nov. 22, 7:30 p.m. |
| Migrations: Between Heaven and Hell – The Human Experience Colby Chamber Choir |
Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, 7:30 p.m. |
| “Queering the Nation from the Other Side. Juan Gabriel, Performance, and the Margins of Mexicanidad” Alejandro Madrid |
Thursday, March 5, 2015 |
| Henry Louis Gates Jr. |
Thursday, March 12, 2015 |
| Migrations: From Spain to Latin America Nicolás Alberto Dosman, tenor, Yuri Lily Funahashi, piano |
Wednesday, April 8, 2015, Noon |
| Migrations: Going to America and Coming to Europe Collegium Chamber Singers and Players |
Saturday, April 25, 2015, 7:30 p.m. |
| Photography and Migration |
Friday-Saturday, April 24-25 |
| Migrations to Maine | Sunday, April 26th |
| Performance Lab Series | Thursday- Saturday, April 30-May 2, 2015. |
Migration as defined in the Oxford English Dictionary -
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a. The movement of a person or people from one country, locality, place of residence, etc., to settle in another; an instance of this.
a. The movement of an animal from one region, location, or habitat to another in order to breed, grow, or find food; an instance of this; esp. (of a bird, mammal, or fish) the periodic travel to and from a region at a particular season and along a well-established route.
5. Chem. (An instance of) movement of an atom or molecule from one region or position to another or in a particular direction; spec. (a) that of an ion, molecule, etc., towards an electrode during electrolysis or electrophoresis; (b) that of an atom or group within a molecule, as part of a rearrangement of its structure.
1898 Jrnl. Chem. Soc. 73 i. 456 One of the following initial changes may occur. (1) Migration of the OH group. (2) Migration of the O·SO3H group as a whole. (3) Migration of a hydrogen atom of the ring, in the meta-position with regard to the side group.....
1992 Analyt. Chem. 64 196/2 The small amount of salt added to the buffer did not have a significant effect on DNA migration under continuous-field electrophoresis.
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6. Computing. The process of changing from the use of one platform, environment, IT system, etc., to another
Images at top (left to right): People walk along the main road to Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo after fleeing fighting in Kibumba, October 27, 2008 : Somaliland Times Issue 404 (24-30 Oct., 2009; Eurasian Cranes migrating to Meyghan Salt Lake, Markazi Province of Iran, from a photo by Hamid Hajihusseini; Migrating wildebeest on the Masai Mara, from a photo by Christopher Michel; Salmon jumping a fall, from the Wikipedia page on "Salmon Run," photographer unknown; The Emigrants by Frederic Remington, currently housed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, image from the Google Arts Project.
