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Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Fall 2025:

Ross Meckfessel, Selected Works, 69 min

Thursday, October 23, 2025, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 pm, Free Admission

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Ross Meckfessel is an artist and filmmaker who works primarily in Super 8 and 16mm film. His films often emphasize materiality and poetic structures while depicting the condition of modern life through an exploration of apocalyptic obsession, contemporary ennui, and the technological landscape. He was a MacDowell Fellow in the fall of 2024 and his work has screened internationally and throughout the United States including in Toronto International Film Festival, New York Film Festival, Open City Documentary Festival, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival, Hong Kong International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, San Francisco Cinematheque’s CROSSROADS Film Festival, Pesaro International Film Festival, Shimotakaido Cinema, Media City Film Festival, Internationales Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, and Curtas Vila Do Conde among others.

Jennifer Case��is the author of��We Are Animals: On the Nature and Politics of Motherhood��and��Sawbill: A Search for Place. Her work has appeared in journals such as��Orion,��North American Review,��Prairie��Schooner, and��Michigan Quarterly Review. She is the recipient of a Bread Loaf Bakeless Scholarship and��Stone Canoe‘s 2014 Allen and Nirelle Galson Prize in Fiction. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas, serves as an assistant nonfiction editor at��Terrain.org, and is the supervising editor of��Arkana. She holds a PhD in English with a concentration in creative writing from ������ý and lives in central Arkansas with her family.

Dante Di Stefano��is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including, most recently, the book-length poem,��The Widowing Radiance��(Bordighera Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in��The American Poetry Review,��The Best American Poetry 2018,��Poem-a-Day,��Prairie Schooner,��The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. His poetry has won the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (U.K.), the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among other honors. A coeditor of the anthology��Misrepresented People, Di Stefano holds a BA, MA, MAT, and a PhD in English with a concentration in creative writing from ������ý. He lives in Endwell, NY, with his wife and two children.

Aggeliki Pelekidis��is the author of��Unlucky Mel��(Three Hills, 2024). Her writing has appeared in��The Michigan Quarterly Review,��McSweeney’s Internet Tendency,��Confrontation, and many more publications. She worked in public relations in New York City for many years, including as the Director of Public Affairs for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Manager of Communications for the New York Aquarium, and the Director of Marketing Communications for the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music. She earned an MA and PhD in English with a creative writing concentration from ������ý. She is the associate director of First-Year writing in the Writing Initiative at ������ý.

On View 10/9-11/6/2025 | M-F 9-5 p.m.

Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission

Common Ground Reading

Friday, November 7, 6pm - 7:30pm��
The Jay S. & Jeanne Benet Alumni Lounge, Old O'Connor Hall

Join the Common Ground reading series to experience live readings by undergraduate & graduate student writers.

11/7 & 11/9-��Preemptive Listening��- Aura Satz��

11/7 & 11/9-��Preemptive Listening��- Aura Satz��

Visiting Film/ Video Artists & Speakers Series Fall 2025:

Courtney Stephens, Selected Works, 69 min

Thursday, November 11, 2025, Lecture Hall 6, 7:00 pm, Free Admission

Courtney Stephens is a writer/director of non-fiction and experimental films. The��American Sector, her documentary (co-directed with Pacho Velez) about fragments of��the Berlin Wall transplanted to the U.S., was named one of the best films of 2021 in The��New Yorker. Her essay film, Terra Femme,��comprised of amateur travel footage shot by��women in the early 20th century, premiered at MoMA and has toured widely as a live��performance. Her work has been exhibited at The National Gallery of Art, The Barbican,��Walker Art Center, The Royal Geographical Society, BAMPFA, Garage Museum, and in��film festivals including the Berlinale, Hong Kong International Film Festival, South by��Southwest, and the New York Film Festival. Stephens is the recipient of a Guggenheim��Fellowship and a Fulbright Scholarship to India.

The first series willbe entitled��INVASIONS. We will watch two South American films:

1)��Bacurau��(Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazil, 2019) | Wed. 11/5| 5:00PM | Old Champlain G102

2)��El abrazo de la serpiente –Embrace of the Serpent–��(Ciro Guerra, Colombia, 2015)��| Wed. 11/12 |5:00PM | Old Champlain G102

“Surviving Carlisle: The Onondagas at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School”
Thursday, November 13, 5:00-7:00PM
Main Gallery

Michael Oberg, Distinguished Professor of History, SUNY-Geneseo, will discuss the lives and experiences of young Onondaga people who attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This is the History Department Annual Shriber Lecture. Reception to follow.

On View 11/13-12/11/2025 | M-F 9-5 p.m.

Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission

On View 11/13-12/11/2025 | M-F 9-5 p.m.

Rosefsky Gallery | Free Admission

11/14 & 11/16- The Said and the Unsaid (AEMI Touring Film Program)

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

11/14 & 11/16- The Said and the Unsaid (AEMI Touring Film Program)

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

11/21 & 11/23- Richland- Irene Lusztig

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

Now one of the most performed shows in America, Seussical is a fantastical, magical, musical extravaganza that brings to life all of our favorite Dr. Seuss characters, including Horton the Elephant, The Cat in the Hat, Gertrude McFuzz, lazy Mayzie and a little boy with a big imagination – Jojo. The colorful characters transport us from the Jungle of Nool to the Circus McGurkus to the invisible world of the Whos.

The Cat in the Hat tells the story of Horton, an elephant who discovers a speck of dust that contains the Whos, including Jojo, a Who child sent off to military school for thinking too many "thinks." Horton faces a double challenge: not only must he protect the Whos from a world of naysayers and dangers, but he must guard an abandoned egg, left in his care by the irresponsible Mayzie La Bird. Although Horton faces ridicule, danger, kidnapping, and a trial, the intrepid Gertrude McFuzz never loses faith in him. Ultimately, the powers of friendship, loyalty, family and community are challenged and emerge triumphant.

11/21 & 11/23- Richland- Irene Lusztig