Oberlin College and Conservatory

Events

Thursday, February 6

Currency, Race, and the Circulation of an American Ideal

In this talk, Jonathan Holloway, provost and professor of history and African American studies at Nortwestern University, explores how ideas of racial...

Utagawa Kunimasa, detail of "The Actor Iwai Kumetaro as the Kamuro Tayori from the Shimbara District in Kyoto", 1796. Mary A. Ainsworth Bequest, 1950.473

Some of the museum’s most important Japanese woodblock prints are featured in a current exhibition that recently traveled to three venues in Japan. But who...

Abby Chava Stein

Abby Chava Stein is a 10th-generation descendant of the Baal Shem Tov, the founder of the Hasidic movement. In 2015, Stein came out as a woman, and she now...

Poster for Collective Rage: A Play in 5 Betties

Oberlin Theater presents Collective Rage: A Play in Five Battles, written by Jen Silverman and directed by Tlaloc Rivas. Betty is rich; Betty is lonely;...

The Future of U.S.-Cuban Government Relations

A lecture by Cuban Ambassador José Ramón Cabañas Rodríguez. In 2015, José Cabañas became Cuba’s first ambassador to the United States in more than 50 years,...

Thursday, February 6