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  • Encounters at Dartmouth With Filmmaker Werner Herzog

    September 17, 2013

    Legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog returns to Dartmouth this week for a five-day Montgomery Fellow residency. The producer, writer, and director of more than 60 films, including feature films Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu, and Rescue Dawn, and documentaries such as Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Encounters at the End of the World, previously visited Dartmouth in 1986 to accept a Dartmouth Film Society Award.

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  • Herzog, Alda, Goldstein Are Upcoming Montgomery Fellows

    August 22, 2013

    Novelist Kurt Vonnegut, choreographer Merce Cunningham, philosopher Michel Foucault, Nobel Prize winning physicist Leon Lederman—the list of luminaries the Montgomery Endowment has brought to Dartmouth over its 36 years is a long one.

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  • New Montgomery Fellow Walks a Thin Line

    June 20, 2013

    Joel Sternfeld's Montgomery Fellow lecture takes on a sharp urgency as the renowned photographer arrives in Hanover direct from the tumult of Istanbul's Taksim Square in Turkey.

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  • Distinguished Musician, Activist, Is Montgomery Fellow

    May 8, 2013

    In 1973, an a cappella group called Sweet Honey in the Rock gave its first performance in Washington, D.C. Nearly 40 years later, the decorated female African-American musical group founded by Bernice Johnson Reagon sings on.

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  • Dartmouth Professor Honors the Father of African Literature

    March 22, 2013

    Ayo Coly has taught Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart in all of her courses since she began as an associate professor of African and African American Studies at Dartmouth six years ago, and she has found that nearly every one of her students read the book in high school.

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