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Victoria Malawey, Music, will present “'Women Who Kill,' or Speaking the Unspeakable."  How do you express the ineffable, the uncontainable, the unspeakable? As a musician, I try to transform the darkness surrounding us into musical energy through composing and music making. This talk presents some of the new work I wrote and recorded over my recent sabbatical leave, including excerpts from my song cycle titled “Women Who Kill,” and other recent commissions. Composed for soprano, violin, and double bass, “Women Who Kill” is a feminist response to the murder ballad tradition and inspired in part by Lizzie Seal’s Women, Murder, and Femininity, which presents a typology of five archetypes of female murderers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  All faculty are welcome.  Lunch will be provided.