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Elite Syncopation: Music of the Harlem Renaissance
Sunday, September 14, 2025 at 3:00pm
Crowell Concert Hall

FREE!

The quintet Elite Syncopation, an ensemble specializing in performances of early blues, ragtime, and jazz, will present a concert of classic American music from 100 years ago, focusing on key musicians of the Harlem Renaissance, including Duke Ellington, Scott Joplin, and Jelly Roll Morton.
Art History Lecture: Sonja Drimmer
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Boger Hall, Room 112, 41 Wyllys Avenue, Middletown, Connecticut

FREE!

Sonja Drimmer, Associate Professor of Medieval Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will discuss the relationship between artificial intelligence and the practice of art history in lecture “Extracting the Past: How the ‘AI’ Industry Exploits Art History and What We Can Do to Stop It.”
AFTERWORDS: entanglement - Okwui Okpokwasili, Joshua Lubin-Levy '06, and NoƩmie Solomon
Tuesday, September 16, 2025 at 4:30pm
Reading Room, South Gallery, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery

FREE!

The first event in the AFTERWORDS: entanglement series of public programs will feature Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, and writer Okwui Okpokwasili online and Center for the Arts Director Joshua Lubin-Levy '06 and writer, teacher, and curator Noémie Solomon, Director of the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance, in-person.
Music Department Colloquium: T. Ranganathan - A Centenary Celebration
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 4:30pm
Ring Family Performing Arts Hall

FREE!

Graduate music student Hansini Bhasker MA '25 and Adjunct Associate Professor of Music and Global South Asian Studies David Nelson PhD ’91 will present a panel discussion on the legacy of the late Wesleyan Artist in Residence and mrdangam (double-headed drum) player T. Ranganathan (1925-1987) in honor of his 100th birthday during the Music Department Colloquium at the start of the 49th anniversary Navaratri Festival at Wesleyan.

Fall tickets and reservations are now on sale online.

The Wesleyan University Box Office will open for walk-up and phone sales on Monday, September 8, 2025 at 10am.

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